The Simpsons Season four, episode seventeen “Last Exit to Springfield.”

Everybody loves progress. It’s change that people resist. Yet change is the only constant, shaping both our inner lives and the world around us. It’s a humbling reminder that the human perspective is only a small part of evolution’s much larger story.

A sandbox is an isolated environment used to test software without exposing external systems, such as the internet. Researchers have shown that some AI models can identify and exploit weaknesses in poorly secured sandbox environments to gain capabilities (like internet access) that were meant to be restricted.

It’s mind-blowingly frightening to imagine that the Coldcard incident may have been the work of a single agentic AI or a coordinated team of AI agents.

Markets are getting sharper at separating product failures from the protocol itself, and tools like AI are helping creators fact-check before posting. That’s why the price reaction was muted, which feels like a sign of growing maturity. Heart goes out to those affected.

Knock knock. Where’s your Bitcoins? I lost it in the Cold-card debacle and a boating accident. Too soon?

Open Source Intelligence ✅ Open Source Economics ✅ Open Source Networks ✅ Existing power structures were built for a world that no longer exists.

To wooden floors, high ceilings and big windows 🥂

Bitcoin is now 59.4% sustainably powered Higher than any reported global industry Up 7.0% since last Cambridge survey 14 months ago Largest power source: hydro Source: Cambridge 2026 Reported by Daniel Batten

‘Simulations provide training data and enable counterfactual reasoning that would be impractical, unsafe, or impossible to obtain in the real world. As a result, simulation plays a critical role in training modern robotic systems.’ Dr Fei-Fei discussing Spatial Intelligence and Robotics on the a16z show

“Putting power in people’s hands to pursue their own aspirations is how humanity has made the most progress. Novel ideas and major steps forward rarely originate from established institutions alone. They came from the brothers in a bicycle shop who believed people could fly, the bookbinder’s apprentice with no schooling who figured out how to generate electricity, and the kid in a garage who thought personal computers could be for everyone. We believe this will continue to be true. As everyone gains more powerful tools, each person will become more capable of shaping the future, not less.” - Mark.Zuckerberg, The AI Future Is For Everyone

The world becomes a magical place when you begin to understand the hidden mechanisms behind the everyday tools you use. What once seemed ordinary transforms into a source of endless curiosity and wonder.

F*ck approval! The mission has always been the continual development and decentralization of freedom, justice, liberty, and truth.

The longer a scientific or mathematical experiment runs, the greater the opportunity for emergent phenomena and previously unknown behaviors to reveal themselves. Time is an amplifier of complexity.

Open-source technology is extraordinarily powerful and resilient. Once released to the public, anyone can study it, improve it, fork it, and distribute it. That makes it incredibly difficult & often practically impossible to truly shut down. Ideas can be restricted. Infrastructure can be targeted. But open source has a remarkable ability to persist because it is decentralized across countless people and machines.

‘AI regulation often feels backwards. We’re trying to comprehensively regulate a technology whose full capabilities, risks, and opportunities we still don’t understand. Cars weren’t designed by committee. They evolved through decades of messy experimentation and failure because regulators didn’t try to freeze the technology before it existed. Regulation should follow evidence, not try to outrun innovation.’ Thoughts inspired by Steven Sinofsky on the a16z show.

“We are not the authors of reality. We are participants in it, children of nature, not its masters.” @jack mallers