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2026-04-10 18:27:32 UTC

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Hard disagree. Doesn’t do it justice. In reality, we started with GW in the 1770s (voluntarily gave up power and was pretty decent)— every subsequent one started getting worse until we finally hit idiocracy in the 2000s.

2026-03-30 19:04:47 UTC

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But those 25 will be one hell of a group

2026-03-26 19:08:23 UTC

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I suspect the only true fix is denying the ‘misery harvesters’ the attention they so desperately need to survive. And this is done not by government, but by individuals—striving daily to avoid any contact with these platforms. It’s called a “feed” for a reason.
Similar to food. Only individuals can decide to have a healthy diet, or consume processed and addictive poison.

2026-03-26 18:48:53 UTC

Any student of history can tell you the greatest imperial errors are not those that fail outright, but those that succeed tactically while undermining the foundations of power and influence. By igniting a conflict that is hard to win, costly to sustain and disruptive to the global system it depends upon, the United States has done precisely that. They may have just committed the greatest geopolitical and economic blunder in the nation’s history. It may take years for this to cement in people’s minds, yet I suspect it will eventually be impossible to deny. Not because it is unwinnable in a narrow military sense, but because it has entangled the United States in a conflict whose costs compound across every domain of power: strategic, economic and diplomatic.
Instead of stabilizing its the system in a time of peak global fragility from supply chain instability, energy tensions, and a multipolar power shift, the U.S. injected maximum chaos into a fragile global order. Furthermore, it interrupted an enemy while they were already making big mistakes. Iran was at its weakest in recent memory prior to the start of this war. They were experiencing rampant inflation, mass internal protests against the regime, as well as economic and political problems of every sort. In effect, prior to February 2026, Iran was regionally constrained, economically weakened, and
internally unstable.
Wisdom often manifests itself in the real world as restraint. That is, the art of not doing something you could do. Western leadership is almost completely and entirely without wisdom. There are no wise, elder statesmen in any positions of power or influence. I wonder, are we past a point where their council could even be effective? I’m certain we intend to “find out.”
https://blossom.primal.net/a2b2135867da015249a06848ad59895859397e7a279d6dbb0d505ea06a093942.png

2026-03-24 02:35:20 UTC

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Upper‑class/wealthier parents, on average, use more reasoning, explanation, and back‑and‑forth discussion with children, which builds skills related to negotiation, self‑advocacy, and agency. It takes more time, energy and patience as a parent to do this, but our children learn to continuously negotiate better outcomes for themselves throughout their lives. It leads to higher educational attainment, better networking, and higher level leadership roles. They also pass this mentality/skillset on to their children, and it perpetuates on down the line.
Lower‑income parents, on average, place emphasis on obedience, respect for authority, and following directives.

2026-03-22 02:15:02 UTC

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I posted this as a joke 21 days ago. Turns out, this appears to be exactly what they did.
#nevent1q…g95w

2026-03-22 02:07:32 UTC

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One is an amazing device. The other is a stupid user. If they install doom apps, they can’t blame the push notifications.

2026-03-20 20:32:52 UTC

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He’s like Elvis. He’ll never truly die.

2026-03-20 20:26:23 UTC

Legend
https://blossom.primal.net/9bce1f5dc22efa913ed82b726cdd13cdda40609906491c8a5eec17969379644b.jpg

2026-03-02 12:30:51 UTC

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You mean MSTR right. Right?

2026-02-28 03:10:59 UTC

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What are the chances they trained their AI on 20 years of data from the failure of the Vietnam War + the 20 years of data from the failure of the Afghanistan War?
It might be fully optimized for failure and hallucination.

2026-02-26 17:34:04 UTC

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It is a margin loan in a hoodie, nothing more.

2026-02-26 00:01:47 UTC

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Also, it’s ugly.
On the plus side, you could almost fit a human between that house and the neighbor’s. Only an idiot would buy in a neighborhood this packed. Your neighbor’s foundation problem becomes your foundation problem. Your sewage problem becomes your neighbors sewage problem. All kinds of stupid going on in these new “packed-in” neighborhoods.

2026-02-25 23:51:47 UTC

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It’s even worse than that. It’s paying someone interest while you post your bitcoin as collateral for fiat.

2026-02-25 19:11:27 UTC

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Like giving root access to a raccoon and saying “don’t do anything while I’m gone”

2026-02-25 19:08:28 UTC

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Yet more proof of culture!

2026-02-25 19:04:12 UTC

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Went from “no banks” and “not your keys, not your coins” to…
nothing says freedom and sovereignty like lines of credit from a centralized platform
Bitcoin-backed lines of credit = margin loans in a hoodie, no matter what influencers or CEOs tell you. Nobody has status in bitcoin.

2026-02-25 18:52:31 UTC

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It does.

2026-02-25 18:26:42 UTC

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It was a fumble, no doubt. But I suspect Apple will still win the long game, and in a blowout.
Siri is awful today, and yet it will handle billions of requests today alone! Why?
1. Billions of active devices
2. Deep integration with daily workflows (messages, photos, email, OS-level actions)
3. Hardware + software ecosystem
The winning experience won’t be:
“Ask a smarter chatbot”
It’ll be:
“My iPhone just does things for me without asking”
I would also add that the real monetization favors Apple, because unlike Anthropic or ChatGPT, AI doesn’t need to be a standalone profit center for Apple. Moreover, as there AI offering gets better, it actually increases retention in there hardware + software ecosystem.
Finally, I’ll say this: the bar for “good enough” for the average user is MUCH lower than Nostr or Twitter thinks.

2026-02-25 14:57:02 UTC

What is an AI data center?
It’s parallelizable and instantly deployable “cognitive labor” that can be metered/billed down to the micro-unit (tokens).
And if that is true, then this capex buildout is the foundation of a new economic layer.
What’s that worth? A pre-AI economic stack was:
1. Natural resources (extraction)
2. Infrastructure (energy, internet)
3. Compute / industrial production
4. Platforms
5. Applications
6. Human labor
AI doesn’t just sit inside one layer, it collapses and rewrites multiple layers of this stack.

2026-02-25 12:14:33 UTC

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No seed oils used, I hope…

2026-02-25 12:12:49 UTC

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lol. I wonder if this is the more immediate “alignment problem.” Meaning, who does the AI truly work for, the end user or the company it collects money for?

2026-02-25 12:09:30 UTC

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My argument is not in favor of “spam” and in fact I think that shit is dumb. But introducing censorship is far far worse.
Clearly, the genesis block is proof that bitcoin has ALWAYS been more than just money.

2026-02-24 22:56:12 UTC

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Let me spoon feed it.
BIP110 undermines Bitcoin’s neutrality and risks a contentious chain split, in exchange for only modest relief from “spam.”
More precisely…
It turns Bitcoin from a neutral protocol into a curated ledger. Once consensus rules start classifying some valid transactions as “spam” and banning them, you’ve crossed from “any valid script is allowed” to “only socially approved uses are allowed,” which is fundamentally anti‑Bitcoin, and critically stupid.
It weakens censorship resistance. If node software encodes policy views about which data types are acceptable, this opens the door to future content‑based restrictions driven by politics, regulation, and powerful actors.
It introduces material chain‑split risk for a non‑critical reason. Because BIP‑110 tightens consensus rules that a minority of nodes enforce, blocks that include now‑forbidden data could be accepted by old nodes and rejected by upgraded ones, causing a minority fork over an aesthetic/ideological preference, not a security reason. In fact it creates greater external security risks I’ve already highlighted above.
It sets a precedent that “content moderation at the consensus layer” is acceptable. And thus, it attacks “Bitcoin is hard money” and the “blockchain as immutable.” That’s why it gets a hard ‘fuck off!’
Furthermore, reviewing transaction types in consensus is far more dangerous than the spam itself, because it normalizes rule changes justified by subjective judgments about what counts as legitimate use.
All of these fold into one overarching takeaway: that BIP110 is stupid, and those pushing it are very stupid.

2026-02-24 21:44:29 UTC

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Bitcoin either maintains censorship resistance, or it doesn’t.
You cannot be a little bit pregnant. Bitcoin cannot be a little bit neutral. It is our money, AND the money of our adversaries.
BIP110 is stupid. Its supporters are very stupid, and they are “here to fix spam.” Think about how big a person’s ego must be in order for them to believe they know how to roll back the chain and pick an alternate outcome based on a censorship campaign they created.

2026-02-24 21:42:59 UTC

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2026-02-06 19:43:00 UTC

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Nvidia didn’t pivot, they paid attention!
They originally designed GPU products to render pixels fast. But they were smart enough to watch what customers were actually doing with their products. The two weirdest groups of customers were crypto miners using GPUs to brute-force hashes, and researchers using GPUs for linear algebra and neural nets.
The lesson is study what customers actually do with your product, not just what you designed it to do.
There are many examples like this. YouTube started as a video dating site, but people uploaded everything except dating videos. Slack was originally a chat tool for a video game they were building, until they realized users liked the using the chat tool more than the actual game being developed.

2026-01-14 15:58:28 UTC

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“something something at the price you deserve”

2026-01-03 00:54:30 UTC

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Cartoon Network

2025-12-03 20:14:03 UTC

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Yes, but… counterparties are on the other end of this trade, selling metals and buying the BTC dip.
Bitcoin always returns to its rightful holders over time.

2025-11-25 12:54:59 UTC

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“In bear markets, bitcoin returns to its rightful owners.” – J.P. Morgan, 1912

2025-03-05 18:01:28 UTC

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Roughly 70% of economists predicted a recession in 2023. They have ZERO predictive power. Most of the time, tomorrow looks similar to today and yesterday, that is truly the extent of the predictive power they have. When something changes, all their models break. This is borne out of the data.

2025-03-04 16:22:39 UTC

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The GDPNow model incorporates the balance of trade (imports vs exports) in its model. Some companies front-loaded imports recently to try to combat immediate effects of potential tariffs (a hedge of sorts), which drastically changed the recent balance of trade, and likely impacted the GDPNow model predictions.
That said, predicting the economy in the short term is a loser’s game in general. Most (all?) economic models break completely when something changes direction.
“More heat than light” by Philip Mirowski is a great primer on the fallacies of neoclassical economics, and how they try to emulate the sciences and create physics-like models and equations which fail to actually model or forecast the ‘real’ economic world. Modern economics is not a science, but is envious of science.

2025-02-18 21:16:15 UTC

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Agree. I’ve lived in multiple places around the world (including Ireland—magical) but the Sierra Nevada foothills in northern California was the most beautiful place out of all of them. Every single day there felt special, even after living there for a few years.

2025-01-27 20:41:35 UTC

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TLDR: if you’re developing AI services for every industry, and the cost of developing/training your AI models is going to suddenly be 30X cheaper, you are winning.
Big tech makes MOUNTAINS of money. If AI training just got cheaper (via models like Deepseek) that is very bullish for AI (cheaper equals faster industry adoption and scaling) and bullish for big tech (even if they overspent on chips in the last few years).

2025-01-27 20:26:44 UTC

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Bingo

2024-04-24 23:53:11 UTC

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The only way to get rid of bad tech…is to stop using bad tech.

2024-04-24 00:39:54 UTC

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Number go up

2024-02-15 17:50:17 UTC

Remember: Bitcoin still doesn’t care. It doesn’t care about Elizabeth Warren, or Larry Fink, or the Fed, or the SEC, or ETFs…
Ticktock, another block.

2023-03-13 23:16:26 UTC

“The problems in the subprime market seems likely to be contained”
-Bernanke, March 17, 2008

2023-03-13 21:58:25 UTC

Today’s bailouts showed which money is the “magic money”
FDIC limit: $250,000, wait no, just kidding, it’s now unlimited

2023-03-11 04:59:58 UTC

#[0] the Star Wars trash compactor analogy may be going live this weekend!!!