The Overton window has been moved Bloomberg column by Tyler Cowen: "Trump Likes the Idea of a Federal Bitcoin Reserve. Don’t Laugh." https://archive.ph/hAnnL

Sad how much I'm incentivised at work to look competent, as opposed to achieve our product goals. The more I get engineers to do analysis and help me make slides for the "ETeam", or get everyone to commit to highly uncertain estimates, the more competent I look as a product manager. I actively resist this incentive structure, but it just makes me seem antagonistic and not willing to "operate on an executive level". This, even though by avoiding this middle management bullshit trap I'm helping the business far more.

Listening to bbc radio 2 news and literally every story was propaganda

Tenderstem broccoli is a shitcoin

*statist* quo bias

New NPC chip update: "Joe Biden is a good man, but he needs to step aside"

In our British "democracy" the Labour party wins by a "landslide" with less than 34% of the vote 🙃

If the US needs all oil sales to be in USD, and they will start wars to ensure this, why are politicians so keen to promote green energy? A theory: The only viable green energy is nuclear and that has been blocked. Wind and solar isn't able to truly replace oil for most uses, but it gives an excuse to use green policy to threaten and control domestic oil production - this ensures that there is still sufficient US demand for oil which helps maintain USD settlement for it. Perhaps this is why the EU is so rabid about green energy, and why China subsidises production of solar/wind even if they don't use it much themselves.

I'd respect your vegetarianism/veganism more if you admitted that you were actually sacrificing your health for your cause

Reminder that the state NEEDS inflation

Democratic Bitcoinism

Probably going to have to vote for Reform UK after reading this in their manifesto: "We are better to adapt to warming, rather than pretend we can stop it." Only party not virtue signalling about "Net Zero". https://www.reformparty.uk/energy-and-environment

I really enjoy reading ACX (Scott Alexander) - fairly orthoganal perspective to most others I follow.

Failure To Replicate Anti-Vaccine Poll

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Chain analysis techniques work so well that they have to KYC you harder and criminalise coinjoins

It hits hard when @Marty Bent says "stop working on that B2B SaaS product" 😅

Nice short piece about FATF by @L0la L33tz

The Rage

Meet FATF: The Financial Bullies Memberclub Trying To KYC The Planet

There's assholes, and then there's FATF. The Financial Action Task Force is an intergovernmental body created in 1989 to "combat money laundering ...

This is one of the most undemocratic imperial forces in the world. I'm hopeful that one day a group of countries decide to defy them and render their influence irrelevant, but that seems too optimistic. In the meantime, best to just mock them and contribute to and use open source tools that cannot be controlled or surveiled.

We need more of this in the world: brands openly mocking the government as part of their advertising. South Africa has been ahead of the curve on many things like power cuts, failing currency, corruption etc. The silver lining is that the people widely enjoy shared mockery of the state.