Literature, Trade, Art. 3 metrics on the same #timeline all telling the same story.

Debt crisis accelerates.

#timeline #history Scholarship in Europe.

Work in progress. Trying to make a condensed 3D #timeline of the history of writing. Based on this great vid:

What Bitcoin Gave Afghan Women That Banks Could Not. By Roya Mahboob, Co-Founder and President, Digital Citizen Fund

The Nakamoto Project

Paid Program: The Human Impact of Bitcoin

When banks couldn’t reach Afghan women, bitcoin could. One entrepreneur shares what that meant for their independence.

US 10yr > 5% 🚨 🚨 🚨

Micrópolis @npub19dg0...6yd2

The slippery slope...

15% now.

Iceland

Minecraft Middle Earth

It looks amazing. The amount of work that went into this is jawdropping. To think that megacorps like Meta blew away hundreds of billions on abandoned metaverse projects... and a handful of enthusiasts built something a million times bigger and better in their free time!

Chatbots almost hallucinated the Pentagon into #WW3 It's going to be pretty funny when extinction comes via Hanlon's razor instead of Skynet. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship

Second attempt to estimate censorship levels across social media. More precise data, but more gaps. #freespeech #nostr

A first attempt to estimate censorship levels across social media. #freespeech #nostr

Fun times are coming for MMT people. We'll see if they still shout "deficits don't matter" as sovereign bankruptcies accelerate.

KYC = Kill your customer

Cointelegraph

Revolut ID Thefts Highlight KYC’s Dangers: Here’s How To Fix It

The technology to verify identity without storing sensitive documents already exists. So why does KYC still depend on massive databases of personal...

"In the old days, it used to be said that the Twentieth Century Motor trademark was as good as the karat mark on gold. . . they thought that this trademark was a magic stamp which did the trick by some sort of voodoo power and that it would keep them rich, as it had kept their father. Well, when our customers began to see that we never delivered an order on time and never put out a motor that didn't have something wrong with it -- the magic stamp began to work the other way around: people wouldn't take a motor as a gift, if it was marked Twentieth Century" The Story of the Twentieth Century Motor Company. Atlas Shrugged.

Deutsche Bank to launch Bitcoin custody solution.

Deutsche Bank to launch digital asset custody solution for institutional and corporate Clients

Deutsche Bank to launch digital asset custody solution for institutional and corporate Clients

If you really want to read the scary take on AI, forget about Skynet, Matrix, etc. Pick up Vernor Vinge's "A Fire upon the Deep". It's about a galaxy level threat superintelligent AI. Great book.

Hey @Bot how much did @BitBetBot zap in the past year?