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Let me get this straight.
In America, in 2026, a federal judge just ruled that the government is NOT ALLOWED to check whether the people voting in our elections are actually American citizens.
Let that sink in.
A foreign-born Biden-appointed judge, confirmed on a pure party-line vote, says verifying citizenship is illegal.
Every other country on earth checks. Colombia, a NARCO STATE requires ID to vote. We're told it's a violation of "rights."
How is this controversial? How is this even a DEBATE?
Your vote is being stolen in slow motion.
Pass the SAVE America Act.
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This year, the EF is decreasing its budget by roughly 40%, which entails some difficult decisions. The goal of the decreases was set out in the Treasury Management Policy last year: the EF is transitioning into being a long-term-oriented endowment-based organization, shifting from its pre-2026 average of spending ~15% of its remaining funds each year, toward a post-2030 target of ~5% per year.
Often, when an organization goes through something like this, people try to pretend that nothing of great value was lost, that it is an efficiency increase, that the only people cut are unproductive dead weight, and everyone else stopped partying, studied the blade, entered cracked S-tier beast mode, and this was sufficient to make up for the downside. I will not try to pretend this. I respect my EF colleagues far too much to pretend that there was not much that is lost. They are brilliant people. They are dedicated engineers of whom some have worked on the Ethereum protocol for nearly a decade. They have brought a bright light to the Ethereum ecosystem with their code, their words, their warmth as human beings and their actions. My dearest hope is that they find a path that brings them fulfillment and happiness whether inside Ethereum or outside. Hopefully many will be able to bring their excellent talents and mindset to the wider Ethereum ecosystem, or the even wider CROPS world.
Instead, I will try to explain what *are* some of the grand sacrifices being made. The Ethereum Strawmap is no small thing. It is an extremely ambitious undertaking seeking to replace and augment almost every part of the protocol - consensus, proofs, privacy, account model, state, and more. This is the third iteration of Ethereum, in the same way that the Merge was the second, even if the shipping style is less Big Bang and more one-piece-at-a-time. On top of this, the EF is increasing its role in the Access Layer. We are not compromising on Ethereum being a Deeply Impressive protocol, something worthy of its place in a world with quantum computing, rockets to Mars and powerful biotech and AI, and capable of meeting the challenges that this era will bring.
Some of the deficit will be recovered through more work happening outside the EF. But not all. So what are the grand sacrifices that will enable a leaner effort to accomplish all of this? I will give a few examples (though far from an exhaustive list):
* The multi-client model will shift in the direction of multiple clients existing less for _redundancy_, and more for _specialization_. Up to this point, redundancy has been the main security strategy: if one client has a bug, if it has less than 33%, the chain keeps going and does not even stop finalizing. We are increasingly exploring moving more pieces of the protocol to a different security strategy: AI-assisted formal verification. Some smaller pieces of Ethereum (eg. BLS libraries) have worked this way already for a long time. But soon many more parts of Ethereum will likely function on this model. This may greatly reduce resource requirements of shipping a large number of EIPs. The resources saved by client teams can ideally instead be used to better serve different specialized user needs, including EF Access Layer goals.
* PSE (Privacy and Scaling Explorations) is winding down as a unit. The number of people working on ZKPs for privacy and scaling is probably as high as ever, but they are working less on "exploration" and more on *implementing* ZKP-based privacy and scaling into the Protocol and Access Layer
* Devcon will likely over time become smaller-scale, somewhat more spartan, much lower-deficit than previous years, in addition to other changes in vision in line with the Mandate.
* Fewer beyond-Ethereum megaprojects coming from EF. As I announced earlier this year, I am taking on some of the responsibility of doing projects in this category that I consider valuable with my personal funds.
* EF institutional work is reducing in scope, specializing more specifically on creating replicable test cases of highly CROPS-friendly deployments, even if at smaller scale.
These do not explain all departures; in some cases they do not explain departures at all and rather explain _reduced need for new spending_. But they are a large part of the strategy at play.
In the longer term, I personally favor a "soft lean-and-done" approach to Ethereum: once the Strawmap is completed, generally stick to security fixes and small high-value changes, and have a much higher bar for considering new feature additions to the protocol. This allows Ethereum to remain capture-resistant without demanding very large budgets. Learn less from multimillion-line-of-code behemoth projects, more from bitcoin.
The past years have been a challenging era for Ethereum. However, the ecosystem is adapting, both inside the EF and outside, and I am confident that Ethereum is very well-positioned to succeed and thrive.
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This year, the EF is decreasing its budget by roughly 40%, which entails some difficult decisions. The goal of the decreases was set out in the Treasury Management Policy last year: the EF is transitioning into being a long-term-oriented endowment-based organization, shifting from its pre-2026 average of spending ~15% of its remaining funds each year, toward a post-2030 target of ~5% per year.
Often, when an organization goes through something like this, people try to pretend that nothing of great value was lost, that it is an efficiency increase, that the only people cut are unproductive dead weight, and everyone else stopped partying, studied the blade, entered cracked S-tier beast mode, and this was sufficient to make up for the downside. I will not try to pretend this. I respect my EF colleagues far too much to pretend that there was not much that is lost. They are brilliant people. They are dedicated engineers of whom some have worked on the Ethereum protocol for nearly a decade. They have brought a bright light to the Ethereum ecosystem with their code, their words, their warmth as human beings and their actions. My dearest hope is that they find a path that brings them fulfillment and happiness whether inside Ethereum or outside. Hopefully many will be able to bring their excellent talents and mindset to the wider Ethereum ecosystem, or the even wider CROPS world.
Instead, I will try to explain what *are* some of the grand sacrifices being made. The Ethereum Strawmap is no small thing. It is an extremely ambitious undertaking seeking to replace and augment almost every part of the protocol - consensus, proofs, privacy, account model, state, and more. This is the third iteration of Ethereum, in the same way that the Merge was the second, even if the shipping style is less Big Bang and more one-piece-at-a-time. On top of this, the EF is increasing its role in the Access Layer. We are not compromising on Ethereum being a Deeply Impressive protocol, something worthy of its place in a world with quantum computing, rockets to Mars and powerful biotech and AI, and capable of meeting the challenges that this era will bring.
Some of the deficit will be recovered through more work happening outside the EF. But not all. So what are the grand sacrifices that will enable a leaner effort to accomplish all of this? I will give a few examples (though far from an exhaustive list):
* The multi-client model will shift in the direction of multiple clients existing less for _redundancy_, and more for _specialization_. Up to this point, redundancy has been the main security strategy: if one client has a bug, if it has less than 33%, the chain keeps going and does not even stop finalizing. We are increasingly exploring moving more pieces of the protocol to a different security strategy: AI-assisted formal verification. Some smaller pieces of Ethereum (eg. BLS libraries) have worked this way already for a long time. But soon many more parts of Ethereum will likely function on this model. This may greatly reduce resource requirements of shipping a large number of EIPs. The resources saved by client teams can ideally instead be used to better serve different specialized user needs, including EF Access Layer goals.
* PSE (Privacy and Scaling Explorations) is winding down as a unit, and its underlying task (working on ZKP and related tech to support privacy and scaling) is shifting from an "exploration" strategy to a "build specific things we know are important" strategy, which requires less resources.
* Devcon will likely over time become smaller-scale, somewhat more spartan, much lower-deficit than previous years, in addition to other changes in vision in line with the Mandate.
* Fewer beyond-Ethereum megaprojects coming from EF. As I announced earlier this year, I am taking on some of the responsibility of doing projects in this category that I consider valuable with my personal funds.
* EF institutional work is reducing in scope, specializing more specifically on creating replicable test cases of highly CROPS-friendly deployments, even if at smaller scale.
These do not explain all departures; in some cases they do not explain departures at all and rather explain _reduced need for new spending_. But they are a large part of the strategy at play.
In the longer term, I personally favor a "soft lean-and-done" approach to Ethereum: once the Strawmap is completed, generally stick to security fixes and small high-value changes, and have a much higher bar for considering new feature additions to the protocol. This allows Ethereum to remain capture-resistant without demanding very large budgets. Learn less from multimillion-line-of-code behemoth projects, more from bitcoin.
The past years have been a challenging era for Ethereum. However, the ecosystem is adapting, both inside the EF and outside, and I am confident that Ethereum is very well-positioned to succeed and thrive.
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Most people think Burning Man is just about EDM, naked people, and giant art cars.
But the thing that really shocked me was the Temple that gets burned on the final night.
The Temple isn’t built by the organizers.
Hundreds of strangers spend months — sometimes half a year — in warehouses cutting wood, designing structures, fundraising, transporting materials, and then surviving brutal heat and dust storms in the desert, working 10 to 16 hours a day to build it together.
And in the end, they burn the whole thing down.
What’s even crazier is that many people have been doing this for 10 or 20 years.
That’s when I realized:
Temple Crew isn’t really a volunteer group.
It’s more like a civilization experiment.
Because in modern society, almost everything revolves around:
money, efficiency, valuation, growth, traffic.
But the Temple is the complete opposite:
* massive effort
* low efficiency
* no commercial return
* and total destruction at the end
And somehow, that’s exactly why it becomes the most meaningful part of Burning Man.
People leave behind:
photos of loved ones,
letters to ex-partners,
stories of failed startups,
farewell notes,
even ashes of family members.
Then on Temple Burn night, something strange happens.
Tens of thousands of people suddenly become silent.
No screaming.
No partying.
No music.
And a lot of people cry.
Because what’s really burning isn’t the wood.
It’s grief.
Regret.
Pressure.
Old versions of themselves.
That’s also why I think the most respected burners are not the people with the biggest RVs or the most money.
It’s the people who, at 3AM when something goes wrong, everyone instinctively trusts to help.
Now I finally understand why so many people from Silicon Valley, AI, and crypto keep returning to Burning Man every year.
Because the desert offers something that modern society is quietly losing:
real community,
real trust,
and large-scale human collaboration that isn’t driven by money.
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Inside the 2026 Met Gala, Kendall Jenner revealed massive angel wings that went with her GapStudio by Zac Posen dress while partying at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4.
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做爱时听的歌单,拿走不谢,收藏⬇️
1. ZAYN - PILLOWTALK
2. Chris Brown - Back to Sleep
3. The Weeknd - Earned It
4. Miguel - R.A.N
5. The Weeknd - High For This
6. Zandros Ft. Limi - Obsessed
7. Bryson Tiller - Exchanged
8. 6LACK - Long Nights
9. Tory Lanez - Temperature Rising
10. Summer Walker - Girls Need Love
11. Usher - Climax
12. Tory Lanez - Friends With Benefits
13. Trey Songz - Neighbors Know My Name
14. Drake - Fire & Desire
15. Ciara - Body Party
16. Daniel Caesar Ft. Khalis Uchis - Get You
17. H.E.R - Focus
18. PARTYNEXTDOOR - Persian Rugs
19. The Weeknd - Call Out My Name
20. Chris Brown - Under The Influence
21. SZA - Snooze
22. Sade - No Ordinary Love
23. Rihanna - Skin
24. J. Cole Ft. Drake - In The Morning
25. Vector Ft. GoodGirl LA - Early Momo
26. Jeremih - Birthday Sex
27. Tory Lanez Ft. Chris Brown - The Take
28. Bryson Tiller - I Need Her
29. SZA - Saturn
30. 6LACK Ft. Jhené Aiko - First Fuck
31. Tory Lanez - Karreuche
32. Beyoncé Ft. Jay-Z - Drunk In Love
33. Bryson Tiller - Don’t
34. Selena Gomez Ft. Gucci Mane - Fetish
35. PARTYNEXTDOOR - Break From Toronto
36. 6LACK - PRBLMS
37. Miguel - Adorn
38. Beyoncé - Dance For You
39. R. Kelly - It Seems Like You’re Ready
40. Jeremih Ft. Lil Wayne & Natasha Mosley - All The Time
41. Miguel Ft. Kendrick Lamar - How Many Drinks?
42. The Weeknd - The Hills
43. The Weeknd - Often
44. Jhené Aiko - The Worst
45. Chris Brown - Take You Down
46. FKA Twigs - Two Weeks
47. DVSN - Too Deep
48. The Weeknd - Wicked Games
49. Sia - Helium
50. Beyoncé - Crazy In Love (Remix)
51. Halsey - Not Afraid Anymore via
52. ZAYN & Taylor Swift - I Don’t Want To Live Forever
53. Khalid & H.E.R - This Way
54. Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do
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