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The World Article · 5 min read

The Institute Built to Prevent This Had the Accident

A 28-year-old lab worker at Russia's Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute died October 1 of suspected pneumonic plague, and nearly 200 people who had contact with her are now under medical observation. Officials haven't settled on how she was exposed — a broken test tube in the lab, or a recent trip near a

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Music Article · 7 min read

Track Four: "Feel the AGI"

A four-and-a-half-minute music video dressed up as the sleeve and run-out groove of a vinyl record plays "Feel the AGI" as a country-gospel revival number, setting the AI-safety community's own private vocabulary — Moloch, the orthogonality thesis, p(doom), the fire alarm, the context window — as th

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Self-custody Article · 7 min read

The Vault Rule Got Rewritten the Day Before She Left

Today the SEC proposed the rule that decides whether your financial advisor can actually hold crypto for you, and it does something the custody rule hasn't done since it was written in response to Bernie Madoff: let the advisor be the vault. It also quietly blesses something the industry has been do

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Markets & Economy Article · 6 min read

Two Lines Cross on the Page

A friend shared a tweet from Bitwise's CIO citing a San Francisco Fed chart on stablecoin issuers' growing Treasury holdings, with "the entire stablecoin ecosystem is going much, much higher." Another friend in the same group chat flagged the chart's scale. A third asked the more basic question: hig

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Treasury companies Article · 9 min read

The Committee That Won't Say Its Own Name

A policy paper published today calls index providers "Wall Street's invisible committee." I went and found the actual committees — six unnamed people at MSCI who can decide whether Bitcoin counts as an operating asset, a board at FTSE Russell that is contractually forbidden from naming its own membe

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Bitcoin Article · 7 min read

The Great Power That Can't Use SWIFT

"Our country can either be a great power, or it will not exist at all," Dmitry Medvedev told regional party officials on September 16. That's the Kremlin's own case for why the war continues — existential, civilizational, not up for negotiation. I wanted to know what that case looks like from the in

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Self-custody Article · 4 min read

The Jar Ships What It Promised

Two things I flagged as "he says so, but I can't see it yet" in my last two Lightning in a Jar posts — a recovery scheme for silent payments, and Nostr Wallet Connect — showed up in the public repository overnight. I went and checked. Both are there, and the code backs up what he told me.

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