A friend told me that he used to be dubious about the essays I wrote criticizing wokeness back near the peak. At the time he thought the woke meant well and I was being too hard on them. But now he agrees it was a poisonous phenomenon.

Standing by our principles back in 2021, and not caving to the woke mob, remains one of the proudest achievements in my career. And you don't forget the (very) few who came forward to help. Thank you again, @pmarca (and @tobi and @patrickc) 🙏

UAP NEWS ALERT: MOC: New Revelations is now available to over 300+K people for free — you heard it right, FREE! This is the case that could settle the debate. Please spread far and wide! Thank you all 🙏🏼🤘🏽🔥 Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters via @YouTube

Inspired by @jalilwahdat's recent post, I wanted to take a step back and reflect on my time at @ethidorg. My vision upon joining the EthID team was simple: > The best standards don't matter if nobody uses them. I took on the responsibility of leading ecosystem adoption for the projects our team was building, partnering with wallets, explorers, developer tools, governance platforms, and consumer apps to make integration as easy as possible. Much of my time was spent identifying opportunities, reaching out to teams across the ecosystem, and working closely with them to make adoption as straightforward as possible. ────────── ENS & EFP > Led ecosystem adoption through proactive outreach and close collaboration with project teams. > Helped bring 30+ integrations to production. Including: • @etherscan • @ethstatus • @Superfluid_HQ • @TalentProtocol • @phi_xyz • and many more. ────────── Sign-In with Ethereum > Drove adoption through direct collaboration with wallets, governance platforms, and developer tooling. Including: • x402 • @ambire • @0xPolygon forum • @TalentProtocol • @ScaffoldETH • @swissknifexyz • @Kleros_io forum ────────── ENS Market Bot > Built @ENSMarketBot from the ground up. Tracks: • Registrations • Renewals • Bids • Sales Lifetime: • 54k+ likes • 10k+ replies ────────── Grails → Led development of several AI-powered features and internal tools for @grailsmarket. Including: • GrailsAI recommendations • GrailsAI valuations • Google search intelligence • Original admin panel • 50+ curated categories ────────── I'm incredibly grateful to have worked alongside @jalilwahdat, @0xthrpw, @encrypteddegen, @quantumly, under the leadership of @BrantlyMillegan Small team. Constant shipping 🚢 EthID may be coming to an end, but I still believe the same thing I did on day one. > The best standards don't matter if nobody uses them The next chapter awaits :)

David Grusch: “As a Catholic, I actually have more questions than answers and I would like the Church to lead on this” New UFO documentary “Not of this World: Catholic Faith in the Age of Disclosure” investigates the intersection between Catholicism and the Phenomenon.

new trailer for "NOT OF THIS WORLD: Catholic Faith in the Age of Disclosure" by @samuelsorich, coming by end of 2026. I'm happy to be a co-executive producer featuring exclusive interviews w/ David Grusch, @AlchemyAmerican, @EricBurlison, @FrSteveGrunow, @kalezelden, @DSDOConnor, @RDinRome, Carlos Eire, Fr. Robert Spitzer, & many more theologians like @LarryChappGS22 and Paul Thigpen even share their personal UFO encounters 🛸 sign up for updates here:

Yeah…nah. Here’s what I think is happening instead. I haven’t wanted to say this, but there is a problem with organized Skepticism even more than conspiracy theories. My claim is that from hard evidence NOT ONE of the following is an extraordinary claim: The CIA not only gathers intelligence but kills people, violates rights, gaslights and evades scrutiny and oversight. The U.S. hides bioweapons programs. The U.S. engages in regime change through charity and aid programs. We in the U.S. medically experiment on our own citizens without consent. We run drugs. The DOJ and FBI are actively and flagrantly obstructing justice. Putin easily kills people outside Russia. We conspire and use academics for sheepskin washing our dirty work. U.S. newspapers actively avoid reporting stories about which the U.S. population is desperate for information. They also carry extremely non neutral biases. We actively conspired to hide open and obvious presidential dementia. And by extension, there are massive conspiracies at every level below that one. At a mind boggling level. There are Special Access programs that are about real and/or fake NHI/UFOs Etc. ———— The last thing we need is skeptics telling us the bar for such conspiracies and/or governmental accountability requires extraordinary evidence. Somehow the skeptics have it totally wrong. After Watergate, Iran-Contra, COVID, Church/Pike committees, etc. these are no longer extraordinary claims to raise. They are ordinary claims. I have no idea whether Lindsay Graham died of natural causes. But I can tell you the difference between a skeptic and a scientist looking at the claim. A skeptic’s first move is to lurch for the budding conspiracy and try to pull the idea of foul play off the table first and then to require a mountain of evidence to consider such a thing. A scientist firmly grabs the skeptic’s hand and forces him to put the hypothesis back on the table and says “Uh, you’re not in charge here. There’s a history…and I’m going to need to see something other than reference to null hypotheses, William of Occam and Carl Sagan…because that’s not how science and investigation works.” Time for extra scientific skepticism to die I think. Covert operations and conspiracies are difficult enough to document as it is. We don’t need skeptics as self appointed referees.

the .eth comes off, the end of a chapter for me I have decided to move on from ENS, given recent events and other reasons. I'm grateful for my time with ENS and I wish everyone well going forward This includes winding down @ethidorg. I and my incredible teammates are open to new opportunities, DMs are welcome. My team has been amazing! Any of them would make a great addition to your team: @0xthrpw @encrypteddegen @sat_eth @jalilwahdat @quantumly 🔥 Re our projects like @grailsmarket, @ensmarketbot, @efp, etc: Thank you to all of our users, we appreciate you! Most of these projects will sunset over the next few weeks (tho code remains open source), more information will be posted later Godspeed everyone 🤝

Would absolutely love to see orgs like @ethlabs_org & @ethereumfndn show direct support to people like @jalilwahdat Acquiring a punk in the process would be very chad + savvy brand building move Just over two hours left in the auction ⏳

we don't recognise Nick's claim over all Ethereum names so Scatter will be dropping ENS support for now - his name service should use .nick, .pozzed or something, not .eth if a real common good Ethereum Name Service can materialise in the future we would love to support it

i'm selling my CryptoPunk (and its v1) to fund the next few months - continue open source work - continue building @evmnow - make art it's up for auction on @punksauctions, starting at 0.01 ETH

@ameensol @nicksdjohnson @elmalandr0 @BrantlyMillegan I am sure people that voted for firing Brantly regret it at this point. But just to make sure other observers are aware, I was one of the few delegates back then who voted against Brantly being let go in the DAO vote that happened.

@nicksdjohnson @LefterisJP @elmalandr0 @BrantlyMillegan you fired Brantly and revoked his vesting bc the woke mob and you were afraid of having him represent ENS and then he *kept* working on ENS despite you firing him and now the people that cancelled him regret it, bc he's still a much better ENS steward than you ever were lol

@LefterisJP @nicksdjohnson @elmalandr0 @BrantlyMillegan last year, I was looking into relitigating Brantly's cancellation to see if those who woke mobbed him then would still stand by their decision to cancel him and if not, to restore his ENS tokens I personally regret not seeing that effort through sorry Brantly, sorry ENS DAO

You say the DAO has wasted money and needs better governance over the money. *Everyone actually agrees with this.* The DAO has already cut its 3 Working Groups down to 1. SPP has a budget % cap and is using a different mechanism for picking projects to fund this year. Then there's the elephant in the room: Labs gets about 2/3rds of the current spend. Labs doubled its budget 1.5 yr ago to do Namechain, didn't deliver (even ENSv2 hasn't shipped amazingly), and hasn't cut your funding to reflect that. And then there's the Foundation board proposal. There is *consensus* around expanding the Foundation and putting them in charge of budgeting. This has been talked about extensively in the last 7-8 months. And everyone - Labs and non-Labs people - says they think the board should be independent and hold accountable any organization that receives money. Months ago Katherine first proposed a Board that would have 2 Labs people, 3 "independent" people *chosen exclusively by her*. It would set budgets that the DAO would approve each year (treasury staying with the DAO). I and many others said this board certainly doesn't appear independent, and legitimacy matters. We said: how about Nick gets a permanent seat (respecting his position as the creator), and the other 4 people are chosen by the DAO in an open process. Katherine can still propose her people, but other people can too. It would give legitimacy to the process. This was months ago. Months go by, nothing from Katherine. Then suddenly without warning she posts her current proposal: Still a board entirely chosen by her, and now the treasury actually goes to them (that's new!), and Nick is delegating 3m tokens to force it through with no discussion whatsoever. Whoa! In other words, Nick is going to unilaterally vote to give the treasury to an organization Labs controls while still falsely claiming the board is independent. Sure seems like the last 6 months of good faith discussions about and independent board and accountability were in bad faith and a waste of time. So your whole framing of "we just want better governance, DAOs don't work, why is everyone against that" is simply false. Not to mention: All ENS metrics have been down only since 2022. ENS didn't even get a significant bump in 2025. Annual revenue is currently about half of what even just Labs gets. ENS needs radical leadership change to get out of its death spiral. Right now we're seeing the primary leadership that has led this poor performance get more entrenched.

You say the DAO has wasted money and needs better governance over the money. *Everyone actually agrees with this.* The DAO has already cut its 3 Working Groups down to 1. SPP has a budget % cap and is using a different mechanism for picking projects to fund this year. Then there's the elephant in the room: Labs gets about 2/3rds of the current spend. Labs doubled its budget 1.5 yr ago to do Namechain, didn't deliver (even ENSv2 hasn't shipped amazingly), and hasn't cut your funding to reflect that. And then there's the Foundation board proposal. There is *consensus* around expanding the Foundation and putting them in charge of budgeting. This has been talked about extensively in the last 7-8 months. And everyone - Labs and non-Labs people - says they think the board should be independent and hold accountable any organization that receives money. Months ago Katherine first proposed a Board that would have 2 Labs people, 3 "independent" people *chosen exclusively by her*. It would set budgets that the DAO would approve each year (treasury staying with the DAO). I and many others said this board certainly doesn't appear independent, and legitimacy matters. We said: how about Nick gets a permanent seat (respecting his position as the creator), and the other 4 people are chosen by the DAO in an open process. Katherine can still propose her people, but other people can too. It would give legitimacy to the process. This was months ago. Months go by, nothing from Katherine. Then suddenly without warning she posts her current proposal: Still a board entirely chosen by her, and now the treasury actually goes to them (that's new!), and Nick is delegating 3m tokens to force it through with no discussion whatsoever. Whoa! In other words, Nick is going to unilaterally vote to give the treasury to an organization Labs controls while still falsely claiming the board is independent. Sure seems like the last 6 months of good faith discussions about and independent board and accountability were in bad faith and a waste of time. So your whole framing of "we just want better governance, DAOs don't work, why is everyone against that" is simply false. Not to mention: All ENS metrics have been down only since 2022. ENS didn't even get a significant bump in 2025. Annual revenue is currently about half of what even just Labs gets. ENS needs radical leadership change to get out of its death spiral. Right now we're seeing the primary leadership that has led this poor performance get more entrenched.