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Soft launching my new product: Assay
If you have a strategic decision that you're trying to make at work, instead of spending $500k+ on consultants, let your own employees invest or divest stock based on the decision. Skin in the game triggers honesty that bypasses politics and chain of command.
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Very interesting lawsuit. How free are users to choose browsers that show them different things? How free are browser to interpret and use websites?
The New York Times just sued Brave Software, and called it a burglar… literally.
"Brave acts both like a burglar that misappropriates the content of publishers, and an AI 'fence' that sells stolen content to third parties."
The Daily News filed the same day.
Here's the theory:
→ Brave scraped 30B+ webpages into its search index, using a crawler it "has never disclosed," so sites can't block it
→ It then sells that index through its API to AI companies. The complaint names Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere
→ It offers a "News" feed for AI apps built from "trusted outlets," NYT included
→ Brave's browser has a "Paywall blocker" setting, marketed as "Bypass Paywalls"
→ Its ad blocker removes NYT's ads and serves Brave's own instead
The Times says Brave has made $100M+ reselling publishers' work. Publishers got nothing.
This is the next front in the AI copyright war. It's not "you trained on our articles" anymore. It's going after the middleman selling the data pipe to the AI labs.
And the paywall-bypass feature turns it into a DMCA anti-circumvention case, which is a lot harder to defend with "fair use."
Be careful in Europe. Things could get bad quickly. Make sure your passport is up to date and you have a go bag with clothes, cash and Bitcoin. This is doubly true if you're Ukrainian or Jewish
BREAKING: Poland holds emergency meeting following possible assassination attempts on Prime Minister and defence minister
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Somebody at the @WhiteHouse needs to get involved here. This is not what Americans voted for and it's not the policy of the administration. Maybe a pardon makes sense.
October 5, 2026
A new letter was filed today by SDNY:
storage.courtlistener.com/re…
The DOJ is still coming after me with everything it has. They really want to see me convicted.
It has been 1,139 days since my nightmare began.
They arrested me when my daughter was just 3 years old, and escorted her out of our home.
She is 6 now, and I don't know how I would ever explain to her that I'm being sent to prison for decades - for writing code.
Meanwhile, today the Department of the Treasury has admitted it was wrong about the mixer rules, citing a "chilling effect on legitimate activity."
Source: public-inspection.federalreg…
Yet in my case, the DOJ argued at the April 9, 2026 hearing:
"...even the legitimate transactions that went through Tornado Cash became illegitimate because they also facilitated the criminal ends of the money transmitting of the money laundering and of the sanctions evasion..."
(Docket 290, p.43 storage.courtlistener.com/re…)
The non-criminal branch of the U.S. government says: it's bad policy.
The criminal branch says: every transaction is a crime.
The Crypto War is still being waged against developers and open source, cementing an extremely dangerous precedent in the United States of America.
The Death of Superman is what got me into DC when I was a kid. Kyle Raynor was my Green Lantern. Lanterns S01 was probably the best super hero cinema I've ever seen. I feel like the acting for Hal and John gave me a new appreciation for those characters. Bravo. @JamesGunn is doing something very right.
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1/ Every CEO has had this experience: Imagine a meeting. You propose a strategic decision. You want to hear what your people think, but instead your employees try to figure out what you want to hear. Someone in that room knows whether it would work but they're not telling you.
Grant with the best take.
Translation: our gross margins are getting competed down to 0 by open source models and our capex burn rate is too high.
Let’s maintain our margins with regulatory capture, ban open source models, and slow down the capex arms race. All with a virtue signaling cherry on top.
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Obscura.com is now available on ios and android. Imagine if there was a paid for that was faster
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Heroes amongst us!
I am incredibly grateful to have worked with the @unchained team on rescue mission @MARA Slipstream over the past week.
So far, ~9000 Bitcoin have moved out of Cold Card multisigs ($500M+) using our private mempool service — with the majority coming through Unchained’s wallet integration tool.
More details on this story + thoughts on the future of Bitcoin security with @dhruvbansal on this special episode of MFTV.
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