energy generating assets are greatly outperforming bitcoin this cycle if those assets can be used to power reliable data centers.
it is only time before people begin to sweep their profits from building those energy assets into energy backed money
we are on track to Kardashev type 1 civilization
One day I hope to be able to buy a phone as user friendly as iOS or Android and just sign in with my nsec and pull down all my apps with @Zapstore and log into my messengers as well seamlessly
when it comes to trade, china holds all the cards
when it comes to financial rails, the US holds the cards.
The problem is that you can only use the financial rails card once but the trade cards can be used over and over again.
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Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks
A tiny 7 Million parameter model just beat DeepSeek-R1, Gemini 2.5 pro, and o3-mini at reasoning on both ARG-AGI 1 and ARC-AGI 2.
It's called Tiny Recursive Model (TRM) from Samsung.
to train your personal AI, start saving copies of everything that has made you who you are.
I save a copy of every excellent podcast.
All of my books have ebook archives
Every scholarly article I have read is categorized.
We need to be archiving our lives and knowledge. No one knows if it will be available in the future.
never understood why we are racing china for "AI supremacy" seems like everyone wins as these models flow everywhere.
no one can keep this mathematical model to themselves
digital id seems overt and dystopian but all of us if we have ever logged into a microsoft, apple, google, or meta service even while on a vpn has a digital id.
walked into my local gold/silver shop and asked his ratio of buyers to sellers. he said 99% sellers. people trading in old coins and jewelry.
he says occasionally, somebody might buy a couple silver coins, but no one's buying gold 
hopefully in a year when "spam" on bitcoin is either more, less or the same, someone admits they were wrong and acknowledges that someone else was correct.
then we can all learn the truth in practice through observation
the US dollar is just a debt extinguisher for USD denominated debt.
you don't need to worry about when the dollar dies all you need to worry about is when you will become debt free