if you're offended, I have succeeded

This is your unsolicited invite to Chinese diaspora politics

I didn't "join Bitcoin" because I wanted life advice I didn't "join Bitcoin" to get diet tips I didn't "join Bitcoin" to be prescribed what media to read I use Bitcoin because I want to divorce money from the state, control how I show up with the world (privacy), and I use it to be free from groupthink and coercion as much as I can - from individuals, social pressure, communities and states I use Bitcoin as a tool above all else. And if Bitcoin quits being a useful tool, I will be one of the first to stop using it

if you look up "digital euro", one of my articles is in the top five, just below the European Commission's. It is also the only one that doesn't feature glowing goobledegook reviews of the CBDC. Hi Mom!

when you spend a shitton of money and time to host your own email server

Liu Xiaobo wrote whatever he wanted and he was imprisoned multiple times for it, until his last eleven-year jail sentence (for asking for the peaceful transition of one-party rule to a multi-party democracy) led to his death. Liu Xia sought out Liu Xiaobo to get married to him. They were wedded in a labor re-education camp in 1996. "When they promptly applied for a marriage license, camp authorities, puzzled at the unusual request, felt they needed to check with her to be sure she knew what she was doing. She answered: “Right. That ‘enemy of the state’? I want to marry him!”" An unbelievably based couple

iranian internet culture is fucking wild. Iranians are single-handily responsible for like 40%+ of the most demented Telegram sticker packs

i will defend to the death your ability to shitpost about your "leaders"

"all you care about is price. this town deserves a better class of media."

‘Poets are a strange crowd. When Bitcoin price is up, the poets can say things that are discouraging. When Bitcoin price tanks, the poets can laugh and dance.’

basically

HuffPost | Death of a Freelancer

Christopher Allen reported in some of the most dangerous parts of the world. Who was looking out for him?

HuffPost | Death of a Freelancer

Christopher Allen reported in some of the most dangerous parts of the world. Who was looking out for him?

“This was a key moment in my life. I had always assumed that light carries farther than human voices and voices carry farther than body heat. But that night I realized it is not so, for when the people stand as one, their voices carry farther than light and their heat is carried farther still. That, I discovered, is what “the people” means.” - Yu Hua --- 这是我生命中的关键时刻。我一直以为光比人生的声音传播得更远，声音比体温传播得更远。但那天晚上我意识到事实并非如此，因为当人民团结一致，他们的声音比光传播得更远，他们的热量传播得还更远。从那晚开始, 我找到了人民的意思- 余华

The difference: we lived in the economic reports, and they live in history.

<< La leçon à tirer du châtiment de Dreyfus est de montrer au monde ce que nous faisons de traîtres. >> // "The lesson to take from the humiliation of Dreyfus is that we will show the world what we do to traitors."

Worth reading "Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkühn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility. In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment, he bargains away his soul - and the ability to love his fellow man. Leverkühn's life story is a brilliant allegory of the rise of the Third Reich, of Germany's renunciation of its own humanity and its embrace of ambition and its nihilism. It is also Mann's most profound meditation on the German genius - both national and individual - and the terrible responsibilities of the truly great artist."

Goodreads

Doctor Faustus

Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947…

we're still wrestling with this post-halving

read your friends, but more importantly, read your enemies

Steve Witkoff is negotiating "peace" between Israel and Hamas, and now Ukraine and Russia. His unique qualification for this access and power seems to be his shitcoin shenanigans with World Liberty Financial and Trump. Want to have access to the top negotiator for the United States government? Enrich his sons and Trump by buying large amounts of shitcoins like Justin Sun did.