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The wail of alarm sirens sliced through the silence, followed by scattered screams and distant explosions. Just for a heartbeat, I couldn’t tell if this was real or just a nightmare. My eyelids fought to stay shut, still heavy with sleep, resisting the madness unfolding probably somewhere outside

A speculative short story about what lies beneath. How long can you hold your breath?

Behind every Iranian regime, proxy war, and sanctions regime is a printing press. Here's how fiat money created the modern Iranian state — and why Bitcoin breaks the cycle.

Gameplay evolving fast

Discover how passkeys work, why they beat passwords on security and usability, and when you still need a password.

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Your weekly dispatch from the nation’s capital — TSL #7

Nostria is a social network with a lot of features - probably overwhelming to a lot of new users.

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Building is not just creation—it is stewardship. It reflects how we manage time, responsibility, and what has been entrusted to us.

Inspirations, contemporaries, and successors. Including but not limited to: Langston Hughes, Skip James, Billie Holiday, Howlin' Wolf, John Coltrane, Velvet Underground, Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Muddy Waters, Son House, Blind Willie Johnson...

Inspirations, contemporaries, and successors... Including but not limited to: The Ramones, Buzzcocks, DEVO, The Ventures, The Beatles, The Replacements, Social Distortion, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag...

Concise explanations make ideas useful. Be concise.

I designed a Swiss retro dive watch. It got put into production. It sold out. Worn & Wound reviewed it. Read what they had to say.

Amazingly good paleo-friendly jerky!

Starlette 1.0 is out (https://marcelotryle.com/blog/2026/03/22/starlette-10-is-here/)! This is a really big deal. I think Starlette may be the Python framework with the most usage compared to its

Narrated Version | An interview with Kenneth Zucker

Updated with Lyn Alden's Flywheel of Chaos framework. Fed gradual print meets Iran war, Hormuz closure, energy crisis. 7 parts, fully sourced.

Fifth Sunday in Lent (Passion Sunday): A sealed tomb, dry bones, the long ache of unanswered prayer. The God who delayed for Lazarus, who spoke life into a graveyard, weeps at the grave — and still acts. The stone will not stay in place.

The nuclear industry marked a significant milestone this week with the completion of Ontario's CAD12.8 billion Darlington refurbishment project, as Unit 4 returned to full service four months ahead of schedule and CAD150 million under budget, demonstrating that large-scale nuclear construction can be delivered successfully. Meanwhile, the sector's commercial momentum continued to build, with X-energy and Talen Energy announcing plans to deploy three or more four-unit Xe-100 small modular reactor...

The 68th edition of your weekly Nostr Newsletterr.

Entropy Lab began as a simple playground for randomness analysis — a way to visualize entropy, test key generation, and explore how different sources behave. But over time, it grew into something more ambitious: a tool people rely on to generate cryptographic keys for real‑world protocols like Bitcoin and Nostr. That responsibility demanded a deeper look at how keys were generated, validated, and derived. The result was a full overhaul of Entropy Lab’s cryptographic core. Here’s a breakdown of ...

If torsion-first is going to mean anything operational, the action has to be written in variables you are actually allowed to vary. The only thing you can safely push through an Euler-Lagrange variation is a covariant field on $Y.$ That field is the augmented torsion $T.$

China's DeepSeek R1 open-source model matches frontier AI benchmarks at a fraction of the cost, forcing the West to confront open intelligence.

This is my cool summary

"Music..is it electrifying?"

Lightning's scaling bottleneck isn't throughput — it's onboarding. Bitcoin processes ~4,000 transactions per block, one block every ~10 minutes. Each Lightning channel needs at minimum two on-chain transactions over its lifetime (open + close). At 350,000 transactions per day and 3 transactions per

Most proof-of-personhood schemes claim to defend the human internet from bots. In practice, they smuggle a border regime into everyday computing, and they fail to solve the problem they were invented to solve.

How our understanding of Genesis affects our understanding of the rest of Scripture

Prompt goes in, slop comes out. Vervaeke cries.

Die sicherste und einfachste Möglichkeit Bitcoin zu verwahren, sind Hardwarewallets.