Ian Fox @ianfox___

Introducing Baseball’s Most Valuable Teams 2026 Already champions on the field, the Dodgers are now threatening to claim the Yankees’ financial crown, with #MLB clubs worth $2.9 billion on average. SEE LIST: forbes.com/sites/justinte… (📸: Al Bello via Getty Images)

I feel like at every level we've implicitly made this decision that running a node is this oh so scary devops task that it is ok to leave to professionals. IT IS NOT. We need to reverse this. Running your own Ethereum infrastructure should be the basic right of every individual and household. "The hardware requirement is high, therefore it's okay for the devops skill and time requirements to also be high" is not an excuse. Even people who can afford high-end hardware, dedicated staking boxes, etc often do not have a lot of free time. Nodes should be easy.

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you go deep, we'll go broad I respect and appreciate the EF clarifying its focus and mandate so that others know what gaps to fill and which alternative threads to follow so we make maximal impact as a collective At @Etherealize_io we'll stay the course and focus on rearchitecting institutional finance from the inside out We are one piece of the diverse machine that will make the deepest and broadest impact possible

Ethereum Foundation @ethereumfndn

4 months ago

Today, the Foundation’s Board released the EF Mandate. This document, which was first intended for EF members, reaffirms the promise of Ethereum, and the role of EF within this ecosystem.

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Rounding off our weekend at Albert park 🇦🇺📸

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I like the sound of that @USAFootball - DM me and we’ll get it set up. Just know there’s no turning back

USA Football @USAFootball

5 months ago

@RapSheet 👀 @TomBrady if this is official, we want in! Team USA Football is ready, let's see who really runs football. 🏈

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How I think about "security": The goal is to minimize the divergence between the user's intent, and the actual behavior of the system. "User experience" can also be defined in this way. Thus, "user experience" and "security" are thus not separate fields. However, "security" focuses on tail risk situations (where downside of divergence is large), and specifically tail risk situations that come about as a result of adversarial behavior. One thing that becomes immediately obvious from the above definition, is that "perfect security" is impossible. Not because machines are "flawed", or even because humans designing the machines are "flawed", but because "the user's intent" is fundamentally an extremely complex object that the user themselves does not have easy access to. Suppose the user's intent is "I want to send 1 ETH to Bob". But "Bob" is itself a complicated meatspace entity that cannot be easily mathematically defined. You could "represent" Bob with some public key or hash, but then the possibility that the public key or hash is not actually Bob becomes part of the threat model. The possibility that there is a contentious hard fork, and so the question of which chain represents "ETH" is subjective. In reality, the user has a well-formed picture about these topics, which gets summarized by the umbrella term "common sense", but these things are not easily mathematically defined. Once you get into more complicated user goals - take, for example, the goal of "preserving the user's privacy" - it becomes even more complicated. Many people intuitively think that encrypting messages is enough, but the reality is that the metadata pattern of who talks to whom, and the timing pattern between messages, etc, can leak a huge amount of information. What is a "trivial" privacy loss, versus a "catastrophic" loss? If you're familiar with early Yudkowskian thinking about AI safety, and how simply specifying goals robustly is one of the hardest parts of the problem, you will recognize that this is the same problem. Now, what do "good security solutions" look like? This applies for: * Ethereum wallets * Operating systems * Formal verification of smart contracts or clients or any computer programs * Hardware * ... The fundamental constraint is: anything that the user can input into the system is fundamentally far too low-complexity to fully encode their intent. I would argue that the common trait of a good solution is: the user is specifying their intention in multiple, overlapping ways, and the system only acts when these specifications are aligned with each other. Examples: * Type systems in programming: the programmer first specifies *what the program does* (the code itself), but then also specifies *what "shape" each data structure has at every step of the computation*. If the two diverge, the program fails to compile. * Formal verification: the programmer specifies what the program does (the code itself), and then also specifies mathematical properties that the program satisfies * Transaction simulations: the user specifies first what action they want to take, and then clicks "OK" or "Cancel" after seeing a simulation of the onchain consequences of that action * Post-assertions in transactions: the transaction specifies both the action and its expected effects, and both have to match for the transaction to take effect * Multisig / social recovery: the user specifies multiple keys that represent their authority * Spending limits, new-address confirmations, etc: the user specifies first what action they want to take, and then, if that action is "unusual" or "high-risk" in some sense, the user has to re-specify "yes, I know I am doing something unusual / high-risk" In all cases, the pattern is the same: there is no perfection, there is only risk reduction through redundancy. And you want the different redundant specifications to "approach the user's intent" from different "angles": eg. action, and expected consequences, expected level of significance, economic bound on downside, etc This way of thinking also hints at the right way to use LLMs. LLMs done right are themselves a simulation of intent. A generic LLM is (among other things) like a "shadow" of the concept of human common sense. A user-fine-tuned LLM is like a "shadow" of that user themselves, and can identify in a more fine-grained way what is normal vs unusual. LLMs should under no circumstances be relied on as a sole determiner of intent. But they are one "angle" from which a user's intent can be approximated. It's an angle very different from traditional, explicit, ways of encoding intent, and that difference itself maximizes the likelihood that the redundancy will prove useful. One other corollary is that "security" does NOT mean "make the user do more clicks for everything". Rather, security should mean: it should be easy (if not automated) to do low-risk things, and hard to do dangerous things. Getting this balance right is the challenge.

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Throws of the year video just dropped on YT! youtu.be/onXK_T0fzm8

Happy #EarthDay! My skincare brand #KindScience is doing something I really love! To celebrate Earth Day - they’re planting trees! For every purchase made they’ll plant a tree in partnership with @onetreeplanted, and if you ask nicely, I’ll even name it after you.

1️⃣ year ago today we launched our first-ever campaign, Nothing Happens in Isolation, calling for urgent Government action to address record numbers of school exclusions and build a more inclusive education system. Campaign highlights from the past 12 months include: ✅ Securing three government policy commitments after a roundtable at @10DowningStreet with the Prime Minister and our Founder @LewisHamilton 🏆 Working with @Coram on a historic legal aid victory for families challenging unfair school exclusions 📚 Launching 'Ambitious About Inclusion' events nationwide with @CfYoungLives, bringing together educators, policymakers and young people 🗣️ Leading a sector-wide call for inclusive education reform with over 25 organisations including @TeachFirst, @OasisAcademies, @CharteredColl and @childrensociety 📈 Published new research with Public First and new reports on the issue of lost learning with @TheDifferenceEd, @ImpetusUK and @IPPR We’re now working with the UK Government to build a national framework for inclusive practice in schools, amplify the voices of young people and support teachers from underrepresented backgrounds into the classroom. We know there is much more to do. Our dedication to advocating for a truly inclusive education system continues - and we won’t stop until every young learner is supported to thrive. Find out more about our Nothing Happens in Isolation campaign and get involved at: preventingexclusions.com

Let's get into it....

FOX Sports: NFL @NFLonFOX

8 months ago

Is this @TomBrady’s most controversial Power Rankings to date? He thinks it might be 👀⬇️

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I back my team. I back myself. I will not give up. Not now, not then, not ever. Thank you, Brazil, always 🇧🇷

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Don’t ever forget your power. Don’t ever forget your purpose. Don’t ever forget that I’m rooting for you.

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