All across our country, there are good people who every day step up, step forward, and step into the breach to help others. Our algorithms too often amplify outrage and division. Our media too often elevates the cruel, the demeaning, and the degrading. But the truth is, our nation is filled with humble heroes. Everyday people who see someone in need and act. Who don’t hesitate to help. Who don’t ask what religion someone practices, what race they are, or what political party they belong to. They act because they recognize our common humanity, because they see the dignity and worth in others, because kindness and decency are stronger than the divisions that too often dominate our attention. This woman and the nurses she rallied remind us that heroes are all around us. And that when we come together, we can literally save lives. May we see more of this. May we be more of this. Op: @championsoftheheart1

On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Palantir honors the nearly 3,000 lives lost, the families who carry their memory, and the heroes who ran toward danger. These heroes answered the call that day—and continue answering it by keeping America safe and strong today. We are grateful to all those who have defended our country and protected our freedoms, both then and now. We will never forget.

Some of my perspective on where the @ethereumfndn is going. First of all, this is only my own view. The board is not just me, and I have no extra special powers on the board that the other board members do not. @aerugoettinea is the one executing much of this transition. My input has been largely on technical questions. The board is in the process of expanding, and my own power within the org will continue to decrease, which is honestly what I want. The 2025 era brought many important improvements to EF and its ability to execute. Many issues were resolved, and EF continues to benefit from its improved efficiency and greater focus on concrete goals to this day. And so with those problems resolved, early this year, the largest remaining hole that I perceived was something different nagging at me: I would regularly spot people saying things like "vitalik says these beautiful things about ethereum needing to be decentralized, and have privacy, and be a sanctuary technology, but why do the EF's actions not reflect that?" Now, you may have been hearing something different. You may not have been sensing a feeling of crisis at all, and maybe were hearing people saying that finally we were taking execution and BD seriously and the main task for us is to keep going that way and be even better and faster. Then probably there is genuine difference between you and me, in what kinds of criticism I take most seriously, and what kinds of critics through their criticism are most able to make me feel pain. As an analogy, let's briefly switch over to a different domain. One belief you can have about Google is that it is a success story, and has brought a lot of good to humanity in organizing the world's information. Another belief you can have about Google is that they had a beautiful idealistic beginning, but at some point the corruption of mainstream corporate attitudes seeped in, and they slowly bit by bit completely abandoned the "don't be evil" slogan. My belief on Google specifically is probably somewhere between the two. BUT, if you had taken me back in time to ~2008, and offered me a button to press to make Google one or two standard deviations more "dogmatic", eg. give Richard Stallman permanent veto power over some key policies, I would immediately press it. Why? Because a choice for one company is not a choice for the world, or even one country. Google existed and exists in the context of a technology industry generally drifting away from early idealistic don't-be-evil roots and toward greed for financial gain, totalizing visions of accelerated superintelligence, infiltration by sociopaths, and craven capitulation to (or worse, active participation in) government pressure for ideological control, surveillance and war. And so *one company* doing something different, positioning itself to be what George Bernard Shaw calls the Unreasonable Man, resisting the trend of the times, would have been better for freedom, balance of power and stability of society as a whole, than *all* large companies bending to dominant trends. This is a part of my version of pluralism. This line of thinking is not just mine, but I also is not too far off from what Aya and others had in mind with the Mandate. Now how does this all get to the role of the EF? EF is not a "center of Ethereum", rather EF is "one node, with a defined purpose, alongside other nodes". We've always said that the EF should be the latter, but many in the Ethereum ecosystem (and even within the EF) wanted us to be the former. Now, we are taking action to ensure that we will be the latter. This is particularly important because EF is a limited organization, with limited resources and limited organizational capacity. The EF has only ~0.16% of all ETH (less than many other individual ETH holders), whereas among other blockchains it's common for "the central foundation" to have 10-50%. Fiscally, the EF was originally designed to fulfill a limited work scope defined in the token sale docs and other pre-launch materials (building the chain software; getting through Frontier, Homestead, Metropolis, Serenity), which was fully completed in 2022; it was not designed to be an eternal steward. And so today, the EF is choosing to use its remaining resources to pursue longevity over breadth (yes, this means we sell less ETH). The EF focuses *specifically* on those activities critical to the success of ethereum as a censorship/capture-resistant, open, private and secure system, that would not happen otherwise. This means making hard choices, and in some cases even activities that we highly approve of and people that we highly respect becoming outside of the EF. People of great technical talent, public respect and even alignment with the mission and CROPS being outside of the EF is in fact necessary if we want important tasks to be able to attract outside capital. This also means the EF taking opinionated stands culturally. This is all intended in cooperation with all other parts of ethereum. We recognize that many other parts of the ethereum world highly respect CROPS and related values. But highly respecting is not the same as choosing to specialize and totally dedicate to a domain (Compare in a different domain: I think reducing animal cruelty is important, and I like vegan food, but am not full unconditional vegan myself) EF is still in a transition period, and we expect its new long-term form to stabilize over the next few months. What are the guiding principles of this new form? Again, I am only one person, but I can give my answer from a technical perspective (there are also critical non-technical aspects). At the core, *Ethereum must be impressive*. We are living in an age of highly intelligent AI and all kinds of other technological acceleration. "Status quo EVM, with a hard fork or two a year to optimize for short-term needs of users" is not interesting. To some, "impressive" means: 250ms latency and 1M TPS. I think Ethereum trying to go that route is a mistake. Being as fast and as scalable as possible, and only a small epsilon more decentralized than the others, is a route to mediocrity, and if we try it we will lose. I think Ethereum should scale. But I think Ethereum should strive the hardest to be deeply impressive in a different dimension: the CROPS dimension. This means things like: * Provably bug-free Ethereum. This is a goal that all cybersecurity researchers would have thought is absurd and impossible, up until roughly 6 months ago. Now, it's on the cusp of being possible, thanks to AI-assisted formal verification. So we should be frontrunners in doing this. * Available chain consensus. Ethereum is, and with lean consensus will cotninue to be, the ONLY chain that has both (i) traditional-BFT style properties that it's safe under asynchrony up to a high level of fault tolerance, and (ii) the bitcoin PoW-style property that under synchrony it's safe up to 49% attackers. As far as I can tell, literally no other chain has this or is planning for it; bitcoin goes for (ii) only and most other chains go for (i) only. Some will remember I fought hard for this, Unreasonably insisting that it is not OK for ethereum to rely on social consensus and hard forks to rescue ethereum from 34% of nodes going offline. It's OK for chains like hyperledger, bnb, solana, tempo, etc. It's not OK for bitcoin or ethereum or eg. zcash. * Intermediary minimization. The fact that smart contract wallets, protocols like railgun, etc have to send transactions through intermediaries to get included onchain is honestly embarrassing, and it's a constant point of fragility. Hence the work on FOCIL and EIP-8141 (and 7701 and years of work before) to make transaction sending intermediary-minimized with public mempool and strong inclusion properties, in a truly general-purpose way, that covers not just eg. secp256r1, but also privacy protocols and much more. Kohaku is pushing intermediary minimization at the user layer, pulling Ethereum away from the dystopian status quo world where our wallets don't even verify the chain, send our private data out to a dozen third-party servers, and toward a brighter CROPS future. Some of these goals are Unreasonable - maybe Ethereum would be "fine" getting only 50% of the way - what if we depend on intermediaries, but make it easy to switch? But going 50% of the way would not make Ethereum Deeply Impressive in the CROPS way. So we push for 100%. Fortunately all these goals are compatible with high TPS, this is a major focus of research (esp. on scaling the state). Well-designed L2s can also help, especially L2s optimized for specific applications (eg. high-volume trading, privacy...). These goals are even compatible with significantly lower slot times, thanks to Raul's work on erasure-coded P2P, and many other optimizations. The most high-value "product" of the ethereum blockchain, financially speaking, is ETH the asset. Ethereum secures $250 billion of ETH. The types of properties of Ethereum that I mentioned above are very good for ETH the asset. Nearly 90% of my net worth is in ETH, and most of the remainder is ~$40m of onchain fiat of which every dollar has already been allocated for some open-source biotech or software or hardware initiative. That said, there are aspects of supporting ETH the asset - *necessary* aspects even - that are outside the scope of the EF. This is where we need other heroes (some of whom hold more ETH than the EF does) to step in and help. EF has been recently thinking more about how it will relate to other such organizations, and give them needed initial support. EF will be a smaller ship than in previous years, a more opinionated one - in some cases more opinionated in ways that might be difficult to comprehend - but a longer-lasting one, and one suited to making sure that ethereum brings something meaningful to the world. We are grateful to all those inside and outside the EF who are helping to make this happen.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "This morning, there was a serious security incident on a flight from Dubai to Israel. Almost all the passengers on the flight were Israelis. During the flight, as they approached the country, one of the pilots stabbed the second pilot, and apparently tried to crash the plane with everyone on board. I spoke with one of the Israeli passengers. He told me that the plane went into a spin and began to dive. He told me that, somehow or other, he managed to break into the cockpit with one of the crew members, and that together they neutralized the stabbing pilot while he was trying to sabotage the plane's systems. Another flight crew on board entered the cockpit and managed to stabilize the plane. I salute these heroes, who displayed exceptional resourcefulness and courage. They saved many lives. They prevented a huge disaster. The plane landed safely at Tabuk Airport in Saudi Arabia. All passengers are out of danger. The stabbing pilot was arrested and is currently being interrogated by the Saudi authorities. We are maintaining constant communication with the relevant authorities to ensure the ongoing well-being of the passengers and their safe return home. I have instructed the security services to prepare for additional potential threats. We are holding ongoing situation assessments, and we will update you as the situation develops."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the start of the Government meeting today: "On the eve of October 7th, we remember with grief and pain our heroes who fell in the War of Redemption and our brothers and sisters who fell in the terrible massacre in the Gaza border communities: Women, men, children, babies who were murdered and burned by the Hamas monsters. Over the past three years, we have eliminated 4,000 out of 6,000 of these monsters. None of them have immunity. We will reach all of them, and Hamas rule in Gaza will be eradicated. Over these past three years, two things have happened: First – we have turned the tables. The State of Israel is the strongest country in the Middle East, and our enemies are weaker than ever. Second, during these three years, the Tekuma region has been revived. 90 percent of the residents have returned to their homes, joined by many others. There is tremendous momentum in construction and rehabilitation in the Western Negev – in the cities, kibbutzim, and moshavim. Young couples are coming there to start new lives. This is the victory of the spirit over evil, the victory of Israel over its enemies. The exact same thing is happening in the north as well. Precisely because Hamas is so weak, it will try to challenge us with the remainder of its forces ahead of the elections to try to influence them. We are prepared for this; first and foremost, we will thwart such attempts, and in any case, we will respond with overwhelming force if they make this mistake. I say to all our enemies: Look at what we did to you across seven fronts in the War of Redemption. Do not mess with us."

Right before the Cybercab launch event started, two guys from the @Tesla_AI came up to me and introduced themselves. One was @pduan, the legend who brought us the "raw photon count" tech that allows FSD to see so much more than what is visible in the image. The other was the guy who called me 6 years ago when Tesla was about to send FSD Beta 1 to my car (best phone call of my life). They have worked at Tesla for nine years and twelve years respectively, pouring their blood sweat and tears into making what we experienced tonight a reality. Believe me, it was not as easy as they make it look. These guys are heroes to me, and I told them that. They worked for years and years on something that everyone thought was impossible, but has now changed our lives and will change and save countless more lives in the future. They've given a gift to the world that the world hasn't fully yet wrapped their head around or appreciated. Look at the recent story where a toddler fell down in the middle of a crosswalk, and a Waymo stopped 13 feet away. By all accounts that toddler may be alive today only because it was a Waymo approaching and not a distracted teenager on their phone. But did the parent appreciate their child's life being protected? No, they actually complained to the city, complained to the state, complained to the federal government, complained to the media. They complained that their child *wasn't* run over, and this was a news story. But if a human had run their child over, the sad thing is it wouldn't even be a news story. It would just be Thursday. It would blend into the abyss of the tens of thousands of Americans and millions of humans who lose their lives in car crashes every year. I can't imagine the persistence, courage, and brilliance it took to dedicate a decade of your life to such a thankless task, where you've done something truly beautiful for the world but most are afraid of the technology, trying to stop it to enrich themselves, or simply too stupid to understand it. But they did it anyway, and all of us get to enjoy the convenience and safety that results. Thank you, thank you, thank you Tesla team. Thank you to the AI team that trained the models, thank you to the drivers that evaluated them. Thank you to the Charging team building out the charging network for these Robotaxis. Thank you to the manufacturing team that pioneered new technologies that will bring these low cost product to the masses. We've come so far, but this is just the beginning. One day pure vision end to end self-driving won't be a secret little niche technology. It will be as ubiquitous as the iPhone or the internet. When that day comes, many will sing the praises of the brave men and women who built this future out of nothing but a vision and their own talents. But until then, know that there are people out there who see the beautiful thing you've done. That all the late nights and stressful days added up to something that's changed the way we live. You are all legends in our eyes, and this weekend is dedicated to you. Thank you ❤️

For the past year, we have done a lot of work with clients. We have worked with everyone from small startups to large enterprises. It is a tough job, finding the right person to talk to, convincing the budget holders, proving value, and making sure that, in their custom environment, the product works as they expect it to. When the job is done, we leave, and we don't ask for much. We ask for a quote. And sometimes you don't even get that. You just learn that the communications department is refusing to answer emails. The irony. This is to all the silent heroes of the year. There are a few. You won't be known on Twitter or LinkedIn, but Veljko Kovac and I will know.

My friend Shingo has worked for a moving company in Tokyo for twenty-four years. His specialty is the hardest kind of move: Japanese families coming home after years in America. He's unpacked more than two thousand of them. He says he can tell exactly where in America a family lived by one thing. What they refuse to let him throw away. Kansas. A rescue dog named Daisy. Every afternoon at 3:10, she sits by the front door and waits for a yellow school bus. There are no yellow school buses in Tokyo. The family hasn't told her. Georgia. A spiral-bound church cookbook. 212 recipes, every one with the name of the woman who made it. Nine of them are for the same casserole. All nine are slightly different. All nine are signed like legal documents. Alabama. A piece of plywood the neighborhood kids painted for the family's last day: "WE'LL MISS Y'ALL, MIZUNOS!" It hangs in their kitchen now. The paint is peeling. Nobody is allowed to touch it. Oklahoma. A full-size American flag. The family's ten-year-old folds it every night on their little balcony in Kawasaki, exactly the way the retired Marine next door taught him. Thirteen folds. He does not let anyone help. Then there's the family from Kentucky, in 2017. At the bottom of their very last box, under the bubble wrap, Shingo found an envelope. It was addressed in thick black marker: "TO THE MOVERS IN JAPAN" Inside, on a piece of notebook paper: "To whoever unpacks this on the other side of the world. Take care of this family. They were good neighbors. The little one cried when we took her bike apart, so please put it back together first. — Darnell, Boone & the boys, Bowling Green, KY P.S. The red dresser is heavier than it looks. Don't be a hero." Shingo doesn't read much English. He read it with a dictionary on the floor of an empty apartment, and then he put the bike together first. That letter has been taped inside his locker for nine years. And since then, every box his crew packs for a family moving to America has a note at the bottom. In English he had to learn for it. "To the movers in America. Take care of this family. They are good neighbors. — Shingo & the boys, Tokyo." Last spring, a reply came back. From Indiana. "Got your note. Family's doing great. The dresser was heavy. We were not heroes. — Skeeter & the guys" People keep telling me America isn't the country it used to be. Maybe. But for a long time now, Americans have been leaving notes at the bottom of the box for people they'll never meet. We're still finding them.

A Tribute to the Heroes of September 11, 2001 #911# #WTC911# Courtesy of @JackMedia7 Friends, fellow Americans, and all who still feel that morning in their bones: We gather not to argue the past, but to remember the people who met it with courage. On September 11, 2001, ordinary men and women became the measure of a nation. Firefighters climbed into smoke while others ran out. Police officers held stairwells, directed the lost, and stayed until the buildings came down. EMS crews treated the wounded in the street. Civilians carried strangers down flight after flight of stairs. At the Pentagon, men and women pulled colleagues from fire and wreckage. We honor the nearly three thousand who died. We honor the first responders who never came home. We honor the recovery workers who labored in the pit for months. We honor the families who have carried an empty chair for twenty-five years. Their names are not a slogan. They are a debt. Courage that day was not complicated. It was a hand on a shoulder in a dark stairwell. It was a radio call into dust. It was a decision, in a few seconds, to put someone else’s life ahead of your own. As we remember, we also thank those who keep the record of that day in view so it is not reduced to a date on a calendar. Among them is Jack on X at @JackMedia7, and the 17PLUS WORLDWIDE TRUTH NETWORK at who continue to circulate footage, testimony, and remembrance of September 11 for people who refuse to look away. Let the tribute be simple and true: We will not forget the dead. We will not diminish the living who ran toward the fire. We will teach our children that heroism is not a speech. It is a choice made under falling steel. May God bless the heroes of September 11. May God comfort the families they left behind. And may we be worthy of the example they set. Forever grateful, Thank you. @JackMedia7 ~ DREAM MORE 9/11 TRUTH AT THE WORLD'S CONNECTION TO UNSTOPPABLE TRUTH AT 17PLUS WORLDWIDE TRUTH NETWORK AT