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Meme Monday - Best Bitcoin Meme Gets 5,000 CCs \ stacker news

Time for another round of Meme Monday! We have another 5,000 CCs up for grabs for this week's winner. The CCs will be given to the stacker with the...

*nuance flies over the head of people who are married to a binary* View quoted note →

*The rat race doesn’t give you freedom, it gives you regret* View quoted note →

*If money can operate without state permission or control, what other supposedly "essential state functions" might prove similarly dispensable?* View quoted note →

*When you strip away the outrage related to Trump's personality and ego you are left with minor shifts. I mean, yeah when your world view is about as wide as a pencil he's extreme but when you view the whole of political though he's pretty mild. I can't shake the sense that this is more about defending the elite. The system. The deep state. The status quo. Whatever term you are comfortable with. I'm not convinced Trump isn't owned by these groups but the reactions to him are more telling than anything he has done.*

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The New York Times Trump Attack Hits Ross Too \ stacker news

Before I get attacked for allowing this rag in my house, let it be known that my wife likes the crossword puzzle, and there is something nostalgic ...

*But what’s behind human writing? 🧠 Patterns of structured thought 🗣️ Sound rhetoric 🫀 Biological sensation and emotion 👨‍🚀 Human opinion and experience 🖊️ The creativity of language 📚 The beauty of stories Writing is a skill that we still need to train. If we don’t, how will we know what makes our words effective? How will we communicate? How will we make sense of our past?*

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Why do We Still Play Chess? \ stacker news

In 1997, an IBM supercomputer beat the sport’s greatest mind. Deep Blue II became the first machine to defeat a chess world champion — Garry Ka...

Bitcoin is not just better money; it’s better than money. 🤯 *If bitcoin was only money Satoshi would not make [an] inscription style text manifesto in [the] first block* View quoted note →

*Wealth extraction is not possible at scale on the Bitcoin network. Wealth extraction is a phenomena within centralised systems where insiders have an edge over other participants.* View quoted note →

Bessent: The Fed’s new operating model is effectively a gain-of-function monetary policy experiment. Overuse of nonstandard policies, mission creep and institutional bloat threaten the central bank’s independence. The Fed must change course. Its standard tool kit has become too complex to manage, with uncertain theoretical underpinnings. Simple and measurable tools, aimed at a narrow mandate, are the clearest way to deliver better outcomes and safeguard central-bank independence over time.

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The Fed’s ‘Gain of Function’ Monetary Policy (WSJ, Bessent) \ stacker news

As we saw during the Covid pandemic, lab-created experiments can wreak havoc when they escape their confines. Once released, they can’t easily be...

*Public health operates on two Marxist principles: the greatest good for the greatest number, and the ends justify the means. When mixed with corporate capture, this becomes weaponized collectivism disguised as science. What started as disease control has metastasized into social engineering.* View quoted note →

*Public health isn't medicine, but it's ideology with a stethoscope. The very notion of public health is a political project, rooted in collectivist ideology, that subverts the individual doctor-patient relationship and inserts the state as mediator.* View quoted note →

*“We believe an insidious agenda is being pursued in the name of public health. The use of the coercive power of the state by special interest groups who use health issues for two broad purposes. First public health matters are smokescreen to camouflage self-interested behaviour or what economists call rent seeking… Second, health issues are used to advance an ideological agenda, an agenda which without exception fosters an increased role of the state in every aspect of our lives and in our lifestyles. Every government bureaucrat is inherently an empire builder and fabricating public health scares has become an ideal technique for garnering political support for bureaucratic empire building and increased budgets to alleviate the crisis.”* View quoted note →

*We will create and maintain a civilization more sovereign, antifragile, and just than the brittle cages you called states. You may rule the corpse of the old world. We inhabit the living recursion of the new.* View quoted note →

*Sovereign Stack: The layered arrangement of Energy → Hardware → Network → Protocol → Identity → Exchange → Law/Myth, designed to minimize coercive leverage at each layer.* View quoted note →

*Sovereign Stack: The layered arrangement of Energy → Hardware → Network → Protocol → Identity → Exchange → Law/Myth, designed to minimize coercive leverage at each layer.* View quoted note →

*Bitcoin works not because Satoshi shouts a mission and everybody gets in line, but because the rules are clear, incentives are aligned, and everyone participates voluntarily.* View quoted note →