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Spot Ethereum ETFs get final sign off to begin trading Tuesday - Good news for crypto in general, my guess is that many folks will re-allocate some of their Bitcoin to Eth, so not necessarily lots of new inflows. Longer term though there might be especially is Options and staked Eth become a reality. TradFi people are really into yield generating assets. theblock.co #

Apple Reportedly Working on Foldable iPhone With Similar Design as Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip - Rumours sparked by leaks from production partners, looks like they are figuring out supply chain, parts and that sort of stuff. I always though foldables were a cool idea. They will have arrived properly if Apple release one. Code name is apparently V68. Could be a couple of years until they are in stores though. macrumors.com #

So you think you know box shadows? - This is about as far away from the type of code I write as a web developer. It’s true that I mostly do backend but still I find it pretty crazy that web development is so broad. Interesting in any case just to get a vague idea of what’s possible. dgerrells.com #

DeFi Giant dYdX Says Its v3 Platform Is Compromised – Just as It's Reportedly Up for Sale - Very scary compromise where the hacker got control of the entire domain and put up a fake site looking entirely like the old site. Users were then asked to approve a transaction that stole their funds. coindesk.com #

Open Source AI Is the Path Forward - Leaving aside for a second this crazy world we now live in where everything imaginable is tracked and monetized which Zuck helped create, I think most of his thinking about AI that he writes about in this post seems well thought out, and generally in the right direction. I still though would like to read critiques from other industry leaders. He seems to be mostly talking about inference. What about training? about.fb.com #

Spotify CEO confirms a ‘deluxe’ version with hi-fi audio is coming soon - A deluxe product for music would of course be awesome. I’m also interested in their plans for product offerings in the podcast space. I listened to several podcasts about a year ago where CEO Daniel Ek was talking about all sorts of cool new podcast features. There’s no mention of that in this article though. theverge.com #

I did eventually get the code for the reusable workflows feature I mentioned yesterday writen, but oh gosh was there push back from an angry world definitely on the war path pretending quite unsuccessfully to not be on the war path. I also managed a blog post, and that too was a slog to get through. Just so much hate and anger, disguished as 'you learn' and 'pay' harrassment incidents. Getting blamed quite literally for the things being done to me. That’s the thieves little trick, they steal from you while blaming you for stealing. It’s not always obvious because the thing they steal often isn’t a physical thing, but it equates to one because ultimately in one way or another you end up paying for it with time or money.

I listenned to a pretty wild episode of Gold Goats ’n Guns podcast, talking all about the Trump assassination attempt. It meanders on for quite a while but it sure does finish on a whopper of a conspiracy theory. I had no idea people in the US thought like this. Kind of want to hear more about these wild ideas.

Seems like I’m on the brink of another starvation cycle from the gang stalker thiefs who just want to control every single concievable aspect of my life. Makes the pro-choice issue in the US seem a bit quaint. Broadly I would describe it as pro-infiniti-slavery. It’s so extreme that people simply don’t believe it’s a real thing. Finding it hilarious like some kind of joke. Meanwhile it’s totally happening.

I have a few podcasts to review, and need to go through yesterday’s code I wrote. Let’s see how far I get, hard to do on an empty stomach.

Another day... #

Ashley Esqueda on TWIT [10:42]: "There is an interesting device though, with younger people, particularly GenZ and younger, there’s this permeating feeling of, and I’ve seen this several times with multiple research and data that’s been published, they really feel like the most important news will make it to me. They feel that they don’t need to go looking for it because the most important news is going to find me. Like the thing that is the most relevant to me…they really trust the algorithm, which is slightly terrifying, but also it’s an interesting change, an interesting shift. The first group of people that have grown up entirely in algorithms, are people that really trust them to bring them the news that they need to know, as opposed to a even younger millennial who remembers a time when there wasn’t an algorithm to contend with." #