In this issue we're communing with a long-dead anarchist philosopher by way of modern technology.

My latest piece in Canary Media.

We've been talking a lot about autonomous vehicles, and in particular Waymo, on this blog. In my opinion, the safety records — which Waymo has published after driving more than 100 million driverless miles — already suggest that none of us should be driving cars anymore. Some or many of you will disagree with this statement, but there's a reason why car crashes are the number two cause of death for children and young adults in the US. So not only is this a tech breakthrough and a profound cit...

The conversion of humans into tradable assets did not begin with blockchain. It is older than any technology we might blame. Whenever a system needs to allocate resources, predict behavior, or extract value, it develops methods to render persons as comparable units. The mechanisms vary—ledgers, algorithms, scores, tokens—but the operation remains constant: reduce a human to a legible instrument whose worth can be calculated by others.

The Base–Solana bridge, secured by Chainlink CCIP and supported by Coinbase, is now live…

The BizarreBeasts universe is leveling up in a majorly BIZARRE way. Last month, we were honored to take 1st Place in the DCP Award for Base Creators. That success proved the potential of BizarreBeasts art, our BIZARRE community, and our commitment to building onchain.DCP Spotlights BizarreBeasts IP: Behind the Scenes of the Base Creators AwardBizarreBeasts ($BB)Dec 4, 2025The BizarreBeasts universe is getting its close-up! I'm incredibly honored and going BIZARRE to share that Decentralized P...

This year's Breakpoint will have over 6000 attendees from 100+ countries coming together as one to represent solana After you pick up your badge on December 10, stick around from 16:00-19:00 to celebrate Solana's global community and show your national pride at the National Dress Welcome Mixer. You can wear anything from a flag pin to full traditional garb. It's not about formality, it's about expression.

The ENB ecosystem has been on a powerful run this season and the latest collaboration with SaigeWorld is already turning into one of the most exciting partnerships yet. It’s been just two days since the collab went live, and the results are already showing what happens when storytelling, distribution, and gamified engagement come together. Here’s everything that has happened so far, and what’s coming next. Why This Collaboration MattersSaigeWorld is one of the fastest-growing creative ecosyst...

People feel that modern money is stealing from them, even if they can't articulate the mechanics. Bitcoin is that system.

The BizarreBeasts universe is fundamentally about co-ownership, and today, we're extending that principle to one of the most BIZARRE forms of media: the written word. I am going BIZARRE to announce the launch of our official Paragraph Writer Coin: $BBBLOG. This coin supports the $BB project and distribution of BIZARRE blog posts on Paragraph (now over 85 with 600+ subscribers), but more importantly, it is a Signal of Early Support and a mechanism for adding utility to the project/community th...

The widespread use of digital technologies has given law enforcement brand new opportunities to use sophisticated tools for detecting crimes. That said, simply because technology has opened up new pathways for investigation does not mean that we should use them in ways that violate personal privacy.

Fintech loves to pretend the world is running on modern infrastructure. Founders talk about APIs, real time rails, cloud cores, and digital transformation as if the old world politely powered down before the new one came online. Meanwhile, a huge portion of emerging market money still moves through systems shaped by FoxPro, a 1990s database language that Microsoft buried while half this industry was still in diapers. People do not like admitting this because it ruins the aesthetic. But the re...

In a devastating turn of events, several provinces across Sumatra, Padang, Medan and Aceh Indonesia, are grappling with the aftermath of severe flash floods and exceptionally high rainfall over the past few days. The natural disaster has led to a significant loss of life, widespread displacement, and extensive infrastructure damage. Rising Toll and Current Casualties The latest reports from disaster mitigation agencies indicate a grim and rising toll. As of the time of this report, the confir...

Week 49 was relatively quiet with just Deepseek-3.2 being the big model announcement. Rumors are strong that Week 50 might have GPT-5.2 from OpenAI and Grok-4.20 from xAI released Below is my personal website which aggregates links to many of my socials as well as content and community that I curate. Feel free to share this link to others who you think may find this content/community useful to themgoolamabbas | Instagram, TikTok | LinktreeChief Knowledge Officer @ Animoca Brands. Also assists...

In the fall of 1998, just a few weeks after I closed on my first apartment in Brooklyn Heights, I met a crew of Ethiopian guys who affectionately called me Somalia. They were at a party on Great Jones Street hosted by a young investment banker I met the summer before on Martha's Vineyard. The young investment banker was part of a rowdy, amazing group of friends brought together by one of the most charming and gracious people I've ever known. Let's call this charming person, "Charming".

This week I’m focusing on the reward function, and figuring out the best way AI can optimize for it.

On December 3, 2025, the Ethereum network activated the Fusaka Upgrade, a structural hard fork that analysts widely regard as the network's most consequential scaling enhancement since the introduction of blobs in Dencun. Named for the coordinated Fulu (Consensus Layer) and Osaka (Execution Layer), it fundamentally rewrites the data availability logic, directly empowering Layer 2 (L2) rollups and paving the road for the next phase of mass adoption. The upgrade’s impact is designed to be felt ...