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Decentralised relay-based social protocol whose kind-1 text notes and public pubkeys supplied the measured data.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
The Vine successor from Evan Henshaw-Plath enforces its human-only rule by refusing uploads entirely. The interesting question is what that constraint costs in production and in moderation.
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SentinelOne has documented North Korea's Jade Sleet inside a small Indian IT services provider, using Rust backdoors built for Apple Silicon and a Terraform lock file that points developers at a fake HashiCorp registry.
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The Python adapters worked; they just paid interpreter startup and an import walk on every agent tool call, on a cluster that scales to zero because one person funds it. The Go control was already an order of magnitude quicker.
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Block, xAI and Nous all landed on the agent as a persistent identity. That identity still lives in whatever file the harness picked, and the switching bill is now memory.
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The 6-second video reboot is now open to anyone. The archive of 2M-plus restored Vine clips and a decentralised backend matter more than the nostalgia.
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Log2-bucketed gap entropy on live Nostr data separates two humans from a clockwork poster by 4x. Against a burst spammer, the same metric lands almost inside human range.
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