Favorites August 11th 2022
www.tugboattoday.com
I always found it a little weird that crypto people gloss over this point. If anyone who uses the Tornado network is committing a crime, it seems like the people who are collectively operating the Tornado network—Ethereum miners—bear at least as much responsibility.
This is an excerpt from a an explainer about Treasury Department's sanctions on Tornado Cash written from a relatively pro-cryptocurrency perspective, which I found interesting, although I don't really agree with the basic framing of the situation as bad.
Is Biden the Trump that Trump couldn’t be? He was able to roll the defense establishment to withdraw from Afghanistan and pass a series of infrastructure and industrial policy bills that could lead to more high end manufacturing and extractive industry in the United States
This tweet is perfectly balanced: Say something nice about Biden but only because of a similarity with Trump.
Once you start thinking about immigration, it's hard to think about anything else — the potential benefits are just so enormous
Free trade is great, but you know what's really great? Free movement. From the Trillion-Dollar bills laying on the ground paper.
Threads
• A thread of bugs in the new System Preferences app in the MacOS beta that's theoretically close to shipping. I'm really hoping Apple admits they made a mistake here and rolls this one back, it's just so clearly not ready.