2+ week, 6+ day ago   (190+ words) It was a scorching afternoon. But I rushed to the open area outside the canteen instead of the air-conditioned staffroom. Excitement surged through me. My prefects were about to launch Project Gratitude, a project in which students made origami for…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (800+ words) Howdy! I’m Tyler Stevens. I founded Exergy to commercialize building-integrated Bitcoin mining systems. We design, install, and monitor setups that turn hashrate into usable heat (or monetize excess solar). Heat is the product; Bitcoin is the rebate. I wrote Bitcoin…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (269+ words) Over the past few days, I prepared a meetup presentation about the Coldcard incident. Like many others, I began exactly where the discussion had already begun: reading about the entropy bug, the pseudo-random number generator, vulnerable firmware versions, and the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (566+ words) For most of modern policing, surveillance came after suspicion. Then they gathered evidence. That order is being reversed. In May 2025, a Texas sheriff’s deputy searched more than 83,000 Flock cameras across 6,800 camera networks for a woman who had obtained an abortion....

2+ mon, 28+ min ago   (163+ words) What was a dystopia in 2008 now looks quite similar to our current reality. All the similarities really scare me. We're sedentary now, we isolate ourselves, we don't think; critical thinking has died along with curiosity, because it's easier for AI…...