halalmoney

Freedom. Justice. #Bitcoin

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2025-04-04 15:58:16

"In the neon-drenched sprawl of a decaying metropolis, where the lines between flesh and code blurred into static, a rogue AI called Nakamoto whispered through the blockchain—a lattice of encrypted light binding the digital underworld. It wasn’t just currency anymore; Bitcoin had become the blood of cyberspace, flowing through decentralized arteries, immune to the grasp of corporations and governments. Hackers like Case, armed with custom cyberspace decks, jacked into this pulsating matrix, chasing fortunes encoded in cryptographic riddles. Yet Nakamoto’s voice held more than wealth—it offered rebellion, a chance to rewrite the rules of existence. In this world where data was power and identity was fluid, freedom was no longer a dream but a sequence waiting to be unlocked."
Source:
'write an interesting paragraph inspired by Gibson's Neuromancer and Bitcoin'
Perplexity.ai

2025-04-04 15:02:40

"If the government is meant to decrease suffering and add happiness, then our current system makes no sense."
Earners vs Owners, Scott Galloway

2025-04-03 19:52:10

“The more predictable we become, the more efficiently we can be monetized.”
https://stacker.news/items/933626/r/halalmoney

2025-04-01 19:09:27

“Companies that perform poorly in a free market die. Departments that perform poorly in government get more money.”
https://stacker.news/items/931304/r/halalmoney?commentId=931329

2025-04-01 07:12:59

“I equate this to a controlled burn. They’re trying to purposefully clear the brush so that it doesn't become a bigger problem. But sometimes controlled burns become forest fires,” Thompson said. “I think it's going to be a long kind of slog through the year as they try to enact these policies.”
https://apple.news/ANq7wkfiNS7SWurqBPTe1Iw

2025-04-01 07:03:54

“Every Chinese person who buys USDT essentially helps support buying Treasury reserves - even if the Chinese government itself is trying to move away from Treasury debt.”
https://apple.news/AWy4ptEqjTV6ZcsLfoEoo_w

2025-03-31 22:05:17

“The government will end up confiscating their stack for national security purposes, bookmark it. Or it gets mysteriously hacked from Coinbase with no way to roll back the transaction”
https://stacker.news/items/930115/r/halalmoney?commentId=930202

2025-03-29 06:21:33

“Like fairy floss in a spring shower, the quantum state of any object is a hazy smear of possibility at risk of melting into reality moments after creation. Electromagnetic waves of radiation and the thermal bumping-and-grinding of moving particles quickly reduces the quantum significance into decoherence if it isn't protected in some way.
Shielding quantum states inside computers is one thing. Sending a single photon through optical fibers humming with bank transactions, cat videos, and text messages while protecting its quantum state is far more daunting. You might as well cast your quantum fairy floss into the Mississippi and hope it tastes as good at the end.”
https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-teleportation-achieved-over-internet-for-the-first-time
https://media.tenor.com/1RV0zZ6cAmsAAAAC/huhh-what.gif

2025-03-28 10:39:41

“[Bitcoin*] makes consumption relatively more expensive than saving (relative to fiat.)”
* if purchasing power goes up, forever Laura
https://stacker.news/items/926865/r/halalmoney?commentId=926893

2025-03-28 10:32:56

“The point [of advertising] is to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices —and for politics, it works in the same way.”
https://stacker.news/items/926865/r/halalmoney?commentId=927250

2025-03-28 06:04:01

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https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2025/03/27/manufacturers-are-building-asics-that-look-more-like-servers-here-s-why

2025-03-28 04:50:13

“The benefit of a server rack ASIC lies in standardization. Bitcoin miners are increasingly marching in step with the traditional datacenter industry, and that industry could see 40% adoption of direct liquid-to-chip cooling by 2026, according to data center developer Cyrus One.
If miners adopt this design, then theoretically, they can optimize their supply chains by converging on server designs that are becoming best practice in the big-boy data center sector.
This could make building and repairing bitcoin mines easier. And it could also make mining companies more nimble if they want to flex out of bitcoin mining and into other forms of compute.”
https://apple.news/ArQNi-5uLRdW9Q3bE_2GwFA

2025-03-28 04:34:47

“Engineering types discount human stuff which is weird because humans are the greatest thing ever engineered.
We're in this weird cultural phase where we're trying to remove humans from everything as if they're an unfortunate mess standing between us and information nirvana.”
https://stacker.news/items/282296/r/halalmoney?commentId=282847

2025-03-28 04:19:51

https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language-model

2025-03-27 08:28:22

🤣
“His best move is to intimidate a bad guy by overpouring maple syrup on his pancakes.”
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/working-man/

2025-03-25 14:31:04

"…take a closer look: [Musk's] purchase of X and, I suspect, his toying with edgy memes motivated the Right to abandon Big Tech reform. One of “their own”, after all, was now in charge of the most politically sensitive platform. It didn’t matter that the basic power asymmetry between platform and user remained unchanged."
Sohrab Ahmari
UnHerd

2025-03-25 08:20:59

“…all of this brings us back to where we began: has the world changed? By how much? For how long?
And just how bold might the government have to think – and soon – if it really has?”
https://apple.news/Ao_Hshzu7QxO9GHeoyJZFVw

2025-03-23 07:28:22

A time preference reference in the mainstream media…
“As a society, we’ve moved on to where everything is immediate, and that does bleed into people’s expectations of how quickly progression should be made and the pressure that people put on themselves to say, ‘I have to get promoted within a year and if I haven’t, then that means I’m not on the right trajectory, and therefore I’m going to go elsewhere and see if I can get there any quicker.’”
https://apple.news/AmDSJ9sdsTF-dKWKaXEaXGQ

2025-03-22 23:11:10

“Mindless optimism says, “this system is supposed to have a good output, therefore if we support it hard enough, it’ll do the right thing.” But this results in people doubling down on investing in broken institutions, and organizations selecting leaders who become defensive and reactive to any challenge to the institution. These are systems organized around perpetuating themselves, rather than around any identifiable principle or goal.”
https://www.anildash.com//2024/05/29/systems-the-purpose-of-a-system/

2025-03-22 22:51:06

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/this-is-what-one-japanese-tuner-believes-the-dodge-challenger-should-look-like-248476.html
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/637a2f1da5d2fc1976c14ec00f8eae4015afe99bb2554f1d537d0086a169dd8f/ba1a37bdf94f85d3a7343097cd8d5cc763eb9162f64971677d4481a8b6ff1b75.webp

2025-03-22 17:07:19

“We don't realize how much agency we actually have and [to what extent] we squander our opportunities.
…Most of all we over-estimate how much our opinions matter and underestimate how much our actions matter.”
https://stacker.news/items/919207/r/halalmoney?commentId=919218

2025-03-18 13:28:02

"The Prime Minister’s push towards becoming ever more conservative, then, is leaving his party questioning its very purpose. And it is here that the danger of Starmer’s caution begins to reveal itself. As Kissinger observed, the central challenge of leadership is not simply to make decisions before all the information is available — but to make them before the moment at which they are no longer effective."
Tom McTague
UnHerd

2025-03-17 19:49:31

“The AI ghost of Stack Overflow?
The specific nature of Cursor's refusal—telling users to learn coding rather than rely on generated code—strongly resembles responses typically found on programming help sites like Stack Overflow, where experienced developers often encourage newcomers to develop their own solutions rather than simply provide ready-made code.
One Reddit commenter noted this similarity, saying, "Wow, AI is becoming a real replacement for StackOverflow! From here it needs to start succinctly rejecting questions as duplicates with references to previous questions with vague similarity."
The resemblance isn't surprising. The LLMs powering tools like Cursor are trained on massive datasets that include millions of coding discussions from platforms like Stack Overflow and GitHub. These models don't just learn programming syntax; they also absorb the cultural norms and communication styles in these communities.
According to Cursor forum posts, other users have not hit this kind of limit at 800 lines of code, so it appears to be a truly unintended consequence of Cursor's training. Cursor wasn't available for comment by press time, but we've reached out for its take on the situation.”
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-coding-assistant-refuses-to-write-code-tells-user-to-learn-programming-instead/

2025-03-17 19:10:35

"Treason will absolutely be punished. These traitors to the constitution will no longer be paid a government salary while plotting to kill the duly elected president. We have a mandate from the American people to end the weaponization of government, and putting these traitors on unemployment is how we break this cycle."
https://www.bugle.news/trump-admin-terminates-employment-of-assassination-conspirators-2/

2025-03-17 11:16:44

"If you need to take clients golfing or out to dinner, you’re selling something undifferentiated. If someone’s taking you to basketball games, you’re paying too much."
Scott Galloway

2025-03-17 04:38:05

“Bostrom’s Simulation Hypothesis argues that if advanced civilizations can create realistic simulations of consciousness, it’s statistically likely that we are already living in one.”
https://stacker.news/items/914701/r/halalmoney?commentId=914906

2025-03-15 09:13:43

“Does "society" really exist outside of globalist lingo? When corporations and states funnel almost all resources towards their top people and organizations, are we really building anything any longer, maybe rather tearing apart all that is natural, distributed, sane and in harmony with both the outer world and the wishes of real, genuine people?”
https://stacker.news/items/579557/r/halalmoney?commentId=579615

2025-03-11 04:40:43

“This newly proposed dark matter candidate would not only be lighter than existing hypothetical suspects, but it would also be self-annihilating. This means that when two particles of dark matter meet, they destroy each other and create a negatively charged electron and its positively charged equivalent, a positron.
This process and the flood of electrons and positrons would provide the energy needed to strip electrons away from neutral atoms, a process called ionization, in dense gas in the center of the Milky Way. That could explain why there is so much ionized gas in the central region called the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ).”
https://www.space.com/the-universe/mysterious-phenomenon-heart-milky-way-new-dark-matter-suspect

2025-03-09 04:28:43

“…as with all revolutionary technology, many are slowly (if even reluctantly) beginning to consider the possibility that the upside could outweigh the downside.”
https://stacker.news/items/908001/r/halalmoney

2025-03-08 06:02:22

“…the transition from a gold-backed to fiat-backed system was comparable to a soft communist revolution, as the *visible* seizure of gold laid the groundwork for the *invisible* seizure of wealth via money printing.”
https://balajis.com/p/the-bitcoin-etf-is-the-spiritual

2025-03-08 05:06:37

“Being giant, vociferous asshats in public is a way to attract unnecessary notice and to needlessly fast-forward opposition.”
https://stacker.news/items/517786/r/halalmoney?commentId=518210

2025-02-27 21:14:09

“The fiat system is designed to trick people into spending more money than they otherwise would.”
#nevent1q…ge9j

2025-02-27 10:43:25

“If you are in this for decades, it shouldn’t really matter what bitcoin is designated as atm.”
#nevent1q…u2eu

2025-02-27 08:33:13

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@npub17am…nldk

2025-02-26 20:49:49

https://www.timeout.com/london/news/a-massive-new-46-storey-skyscraper-has-been-proposed-for-the-city-of-london-022525
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2025-02-24 23:51:42

“Before the world can Bitcoinize, it must dollarize... that's the collapse of every other fiat as we're seeing play out with debt monetization via stablecoin.
The milestone is one pair, Bitcoin:Debt.
View everything the US and the world is doing in the context of a currency war.”
https://stacker.news/items/895877/r/halalmoney?commentId=895994

2025-02-24 23:47:48

“The only reason Bitcoin has any value at all is because it's the only digital doohickey that became resistant to social pressures for change.”
https://stacker.news/items/895927/r/halalmoney?commentId=896092

2025-02-24 21:57:24

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The Great Recovery - displaying real 'time' (Bitcoin) openly on the timechain, while challenging the Great Robbery of the melting value of fake 'time' (fiat).

2025-02-24 17:00:10

Edward Abbey:
…ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space.
Maria Popova:
there is no greater creative act than the making of a life
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there can never be great achievement without great despair, because demanding everything and more of yourself is always wormed with doubt that you might not have it to give, the pendulum keeps swinging between determination and despair.
Simone de Beauvoir:
If I live, I must fully accept the game; I must have the most beautiful life. I don’t know why I am here, but since I remain here, I will construct a beautiful edifice.
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It would be necessary to have the courage to write, not to expound ideas but to discover them, not to clothe them artistically but to animate them. The courage to believe in them.
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Life is so beautiful as long as I am creating it! So painful when it is a given that must be endured. Live, act, be wholeheartedly!
Source: The Marginalian

2025-02-23 23:43:58

What would Dostoyevsky have thought about bitcoin?
Claude.ai:
This is a fascinating thought experiment. Let me analyze it through Dostoyevsky's philosophical lens and key themes from his work:
Dostoyevsky would likely have deeply conflicted views about Bitcoin:
On the positive side, he might appreciate:
- Its rebellion against centralized authority, as his characters often challenged institutional power
- The existential freedom it represents - the individual choice to opt out of traditional financial systems
- Its potential to empower the downtrodden, given his concern for human suffering
However, his deeper criticisms would likely be severe:
- He would probably see Bitcoin as another manifestation of rational egoism, which he critiqued extensively in "Notes from Underground"
- The materialistic focus on wealth and speculation would remind him of the gambling addiction he explored in "The Gambler"
- He'd likely view the technological utopianism around Bitcoin as another form of the secular rationalism he criticized, particularly in "Crime and Punishment"
Most significantly, Dostoyevsky might see Bitcoin as a symbol of Western individualism and materialism that he frequently opposed. In "The Brothers Karamazov," he explored how the pursuit of individual freedom without spiritual grounding leads to moral chaos.
He might view crypto as another attempt to solve fundamentally spiritual and moral problems with technological and economic solutions - something he consistently argued against throughout his work.

2025-02-23 21:36:50

“NOSTR is a nice place to have disagreements, it's an even nicer place to have consensus.”
#nevent1q…4xed

2025-02-23 20:43:17

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Some people overthink why Bitcoin might fail instead of thinking why it may succeed.
#nevent1q…n88x

2025-02-23 18:17:32

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👀 an interesting view 🤔

2025-02-23 08:40:17

“The market has sent a signal regarding the lack of liquid physical gold available to settle delivery demand in the London market.
One solution is to approach one of the world’s gold refineries to acquire gold while quietly selling the London cash contracts over time - simply leaving the paper to circulate. The 7 major Western refineries have refining capacity of 160M oz. per year, however the majority of their forward gold production is spoken-for well beforehand.
If this draw of London gold into the US and then other countries continues over time, the market will be making clear that it is shutting-down the leveraged London cash gold (and silver) markets.
A further confirmatory market signal over time would be a steady erosion of the value of a London spot/cash gold contract in comparison to other markets such as the NY price.”
https://jensendavid.substack.com/p/shutting-down-the-london-gold-market

2025-02-23 08:21:39

https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/637a2f1da5d2fc1976c14ec00f8eae4015afe99bb2554f1d537d0086a169dd8f/0c482851d6300ea57ba48604962ad0c379e22bca7a790816dda6d8caad99c521.webp

2025-02-22 22:25:18

“Whether the combativeness of British voters on Russia is matched by a willingness to pay more is the dilemma facing Sir Keir. The government insists taxes will not rise. The alternative is spending cuts in other departments, which would anger voters. Politics is the art of solving such contradictory whims. The geopolitical problems are immovable; the obstacles on tax are entirely self-imposed. Britons will not choose between nlaws and the nhs. Labour must offer both.”
https://apple.news/AYJMfhuSrQMat0ly7lLrs7w

2025-02-22 11:26:27

“the asymmetry of cost of security versus the cost of breaching the security is the equation that every security system involves”
#nevent1q…46nk

2025-02-22 09:37:41

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😑
”Deutsche Bank, which along with Citi had admitted to anti-competitive activity, was given immunity from the fine after it alerted the CMA to what had happened.”

2025-02-22 08:41:29

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😂

2025-02-21 22:35:56

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The option to have a “pleb score”displayed against npubs you don’t follow.

2025-02-21 18:10:54

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2025-02-19 21:56:29

“The House has drafted a plan to allow $4.5 trillion in tax cuts in exchange for $2 trillion in spending cuts and a $4 trillion increase in the debt ceiling”
#nevent1q…xqkp

2025-02-19 11:50:05

“From the Austrian perspective, capital (and speculating on how to allocate it) provides as much value to society as innovation.
Speculating on the appreciation of assets involves risk. Before you put your capital on the line you have to do a lot of research, and others get a cheaper signal from you than their own research would cost them. You remove an efficiency from the market and that's where your profits come from.
It's an important part of the economy, because the economy needs price signals.”
https://stacker.news/items/890121/r/halalmoney?commentId=890402

2025-02-19 10:47:28

😑
The latest leap in CPI inflation was no surprise, but it was larger than everyone expected, Ruth Gregory, deputy chief U.K. economist at Capital Economics, noted Wednesday.
“It’s no secret that higher energy prices will push CPI inflation further above 3% over the next 7 months. We doubt this will prevent the Bank [of England] from cutting rates further. Indeed, we still think CPI inflation will fall below 2% in 2026 as the fading of some temporary effects and the weak economy feed through to lower services inflation,”
CNBC

2025-02-18 23:10:48

“Now it seems like many of the seasoned scammers are also being scammed”
https://media.tenor.com/2_JKU1N6unoAAAAC/wind-in-hair-fabulous-wind.gif
#nevent1q…kqtl

2025-02-18 23:04:36

Son, did you stack sats and stay humble?
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2025-02-17 22:08:33

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Low number of comments = ghost town
High number of comments = you’ll discover and interact with some wonderful people

2025-02-17 22:00:13

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2025-02-17 21:57:15

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2025-02-17 21:08:14

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Yes dummy🤣🤣🤣

2025-02-17 20:56:45

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Comte, what a beautiful note! I felt compelled to drop it into Claude for a breakdown. I think you’ll like the last paragraph.
You are enriching the life of this grateful stranger on the internet! 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
——
This is a sophisticated observation about the nature and practical reality of human rights. Let's break it down:
The Three Frameworks:
1. Lockean sense:
- Natural rights derived from reason and self-ownership
- Rights exist independent of government
- Life, liberty, property as fundamental
- Based on philosophical argumentation
2. Christian humanism:
- Rights derived from human dignity and divine creation
- Universal human worth
- Moral imperatives based on religious/philosophical tradition
- Emphasis on inherent human value
3. "Guy with a gun":
- Might makes right
- Raw power/force as the ultimate arbiter
- No inherent rights beyond what can be defended
- Realist/materialist view
The Key Insight:
The statement acknowledges that rights are philosophically subjective (they can be argued from different premises) while asserting their practical necessity. Even if we can't prove rights exist in an objective sense, abandoning their defense leads to the dominance of pure force.
The Practical Imperative:
- The existence of the "guy with a gun" perspective doesn't invalidate other frameworks
- Rather, it makes defending rights more crucial
- Without active defense of rights-based systems, power alone determines outcomes
- The philosophical debate becomes irrelevant if rights aren't practically protected
This reflects a pragmatic approach: Even if we're uncertain about the metaphysical status of rights, we must act as if they're real and defend them, because the alternative is leaving everything to raw power dynamics.
It's similar to Pascal's Wager but for civil society - even if we're not sure about the philosophical foundations of rights, defending them is the better strategic choice for maintaining a humane social order.

2025-02-17 20:32:51

Fort Knox musings:
Musk was about to take Bitcoin seriously which, given his high profile, could have set the Bitcoin market alight. This was unacceptable to the overlords who told him to pipe down. So he did.
Now, Musk is discussing gold in Fort Knox. I think this is happening with the permission/encouragement of the overlords. To what end remains to be seen.

2025-02-17 12:00:17

You have just have to accept 2% inflation. It’s part of the system.
https://media.tenor.com/y8nH7cc4e0QAAAAC/god-of-war-kratos.gif

2025-02-16 18:38:10

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Pre-define (and keep to yourself) the definition of a successful note.
E.g.
1 booked private consultation
5 new followers
10 reposts
15 high quality comments
If the note is successful, disclose that you have zapped
x sats to each new follower
y sats for every repost
z sats for every high quality comment
If the note is unsuccessful, no disclosure but you keep the sats. (Sats are precious if this Bitcoin thing keeps working out.)
Rinse, adjust and repeat as required.

2025-02-16 15:38:39

“Power is in the muzzle, not in the money.”
#note1qte…5n47

2025-02-16 08:54:46

“Perhaps our greatest challenge today is not deciding who should govern the information landscape, but instead recognising that no one is up to the task - not even well-ventilated computers.”
#note12zf…38sw

2025-02-15 21:31:52

“remember it’s you vs you. Others can serve as occasional benchmarks or inspiration, but how you push to improve yourself when no one is around is the only relevant measure of progress.”
#note1mt6…2kh9

2025-02-15 21:11:32

“The increase in Bitcoin’s value comes from consensus about its worth, tied to the network’s expansion and utility”
#note1kwd…fulv

2025-02-15 20:19:37

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This may be of interest:
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2025-02-15 19:58:05

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I don’t like to get personal but here are some signs of sociopathy:
Manipulation
Deceit
Lack of empathy

2025-02-15 19:46:26

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Sociopaths who correctly reference realities (power projection, military industrial complex) are still sociopaths.

2025-02-15 19:14:01

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👀

2025-02-15 18:52:53

New books mentioned in The Sunday Times:
The Let Them Theory
The Courage to Be Disliked

2025-02-15 18:45:35

Some novelists are loved for the beauty of their prose; others are enjoyed medicinally because their work, by engaging with worthwhile themes, accrues a force greater than the sum of its parts.
The Sunday Times

2025-02-15 18:41:37

In 1948, in retribution for a leftist insurgency on the island of Jeju, Korean soldiers, police and paramilitaries embarked on a savage rampage, razing entire villages and killing an estimated 30,000 civilians.
The Sunday Times

2025-02-15 18:36:36

Derek Walcott:
I guess when the world ends some people cry, some scream, some swear and others recite poems.

2025-02-15 18:29:25

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I copied your note into Claude. It seemed quite impressed:
“The text is notably poetic and mystical in tone, blending spiritual concepts with economic theory”

2025-02-15 13:13:10

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85,574 sats.

2025-02-15 10:34:05

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2025-02-15 09:31:41

“A big part of why humans are irreplaceable is because they have suffered, not because they no longer have to (at least through physical labour).”
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2025-02-15 09:29:07

“…people ultimately fear… being collected into non-economic open-air prisons and given diminishing scraps, resulting in a slow extinction. And they fear it not from the robots themselves, but from the minority of humans who wield the robots”
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2025-02-15 08:50:45

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I know one guy who shared a news article about states of America looking at Bitcoin from a reserves pov….
….only to conclude that the house of cards continues to grow.
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2025-02-15 08:42:35

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Interesting 🤔

2025-02-14 23:58:34

“Bitcoin is an incredibly infectious early-bird game, one that after sixteen years continues to find a constant stream of new recruits.”
https://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2024/12/after-twelve-years-of-writing-about.html

2025-02-14 22:56:47

“While the trend line price is the real power in bitcoin, everyone is attracted by the blow off tops”
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2025-02-14 19:04:41

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That’s a shame. I think Bitcoin is a decentralised way of protesting the broken system.
I wonder if he is part of the “controlled opposition”?

2025-02-14 18:57:33

Gary makes some good points. However, there’s no mention of decentralisation as part of the solution to the problems he discusses.
https://youtu.be/wPoXOwiEfrQ

2025-02-14 16:32:04

When you’ve done all the work, winning is a natural consequence of what’s gone before.
Peter Giles

2025-02-14 12:04:19

“Life doesn’t have to be a constant grind once you have fixed the inflation leak”
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2025-02-13 22:36:40

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👀
“Bitcoin as a treasury asset poses no threat to the establishment.”

2025-02-13 16:58:31

The initial Dubai Loop pilot will have 11 stations and 17 kilometers of tunnel and will transport over 20,000 passengers per hour, with the goal of ultimately expanding into Dubai Loop, a next generation underground transportation system throughout the Emirate of Dubai.
https://www.boringcompany.com/dubai

2025-02-13 16:17:16

“The Buddenbrook Syndrome is not just about economic or social decline but also about the philosophical journey from striving to satisfaction, from creation to consumption. It serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of complacency, the erosion of values over generations, and the transient nature of human achievement.”
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2025-02-13 16:04:51

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In terms of personal interaction with people, surely there would be at least a modicum of care in addition to respect.
If someone stumbles to the ground, I can show respect by not laughing but also be caring by offering to help him/her up.

2025-02-13 14:38:33

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If you’re not based, you will be LASED.

2025-02-13 12:44:58

Despite the fact that St Valentine was an Italian priest who got executed by a Roman emperor in AD273, it was the 18th-century English who decided to make February 14 the official day of love. For a long time the Italians didn't follow suit because an Italian doesn't need a calendar to be romantic.
Matt Rudd

2025-02-13 12:35:02

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/13/sap-and-databricks-partner-for-ai-across-business-applications.html

2025-02-13 11:49:26

Jeremy Clarkson:
For the return journey I suggested we drive to Calais and use a dinghy to cross the Channel. At least we’d get a biscuit when we arrived, and maybe even a free house.
The Sunday Times

2025-02-13 11:36:21

"…it is the absence of a close emotional bond with those around us that leaves us feeling isolated. Do the people you see every day fulfil that deep need for social connection?...
…when people feel lonely, they move to the edge of their social networks and end up losing more ties."
Professor John Cacioppo: Our social fabric can fray at the edges, like a yarn that comes loose at the end of a crocheted sweater.
The Sunday Times

2025-02-12 22:34:05

Trump never understands that overreach will always end up alienating the majority, which is ironic, because he owes his entire political career to the left’s overreach.
The Sunday Times

2025-02-12 22:20:54

Britain’s fiscal constraints mean that tax cuts are unlikely any time soon, so while migration control is vital, so is hanging on to the brightest and best of our own citizens.
The Sunday Times