WSJ and FT capture attention of a large % of wealthy and managerially influential people. So, of course it will be coopted to push agendas - it's readership is too valuable not to.

Is @No Bullshit Bitcoin okay?

Midwits and all mainstream media right now: "War is peace"

UK's main mistake under Chamberlain was that they didn't prepare their army and navy for a potential war. Chamberlain was right to try get peace, but it was ineffective because the UK had no leverage. Today Trump is pushing states to increase their military capacity, while pushing for peace. I think this is a crucial difference. (Also, Russia is relatively week after 3 years of fighting vs. Germany after the invasion of Poland or Sudetenland)

Had a dream that there were massive jumping seaside birds called grones, and I kept trying to ask people "would you rather wrestle with a grone, or kickbox with an ostrich?". Couldn't get anyone to answer my question because Elon Musk was there and he kept making bad bird puns.

Maybe it was the top when the POTUS launched a memecoin 🤔

Brian Armstrong does at least make the case that Bitcoin will be the important global reserve asset. But he doesn't push back at all on the FUD that it's difficult to make payments with Bitcoin. Think he just wants to custody the Bitcoin, and do partnerships with Visa. Very sad considering what Coinbase could have achieved.

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Have you ever gone on the internet and stumbled onto this combo of words, or perhaps non-words?: “Dogecoin.” “Shiba Inu.” “Hawkcoin.” �...

Jfc, Coinbase Commerce has managed to make paying with Bitcoin even worse than fiat

What's stopping a bank creating a special account with infinite fiat and just keeping the totals off book?

Cappuccino > Flat white

Government income tax bands: Nice pay increase you got there ...

Just realized I've been massively gaslit. Have been choosing western tech manufacturers for things like phones and cameras for better data security. But, isn't it better to rather purchase some of these from manufacturers in jurisdictions that won't comply with my government? Yes fine China can spy on me to some degree, but they've got much less power over me so on net it's better.

Was Elon's climate change warnings circa 2017 basically all just a grift to sell more Teslas? Not that I disagree with his current pragmatic stance, but the previous rhetoric seems to be an example of corporate lip service to a cause they think plebs care about as a way to boost marketing.

Never be embarrassed in public. No matter what you do, there's a worse image or video of you being annotated by an AI company somewhere.

It's good that people in Africa are getting HIV drugs and mosquito nets But yeah probably doesn't need to be funded by the US tax payer So many rich people looking for ways to "make an impact". Okay, here are all these supposedly amazing programmes, what are you waiting for?