*To de-fang Bitcoin-as-money, the Controllers oversupply substitutes that feel "hard", "digital", "innovative", or "yieldy" - but live in supervised pipes.* View quoted note →

*open dialogue in an open society is the only way to correct misinformation* View quoted note →

*value is a language, and when spoken freely, it draws people closer together, across borders, across cultures, until we remember: the network is us* View quoted note →

“Muscle is the power plant to burn calories. Building muscle helps move your joints and bones, but also there are metabolic benefits. I don’t think this is well appreciated,” Lee says. “If you build muscle, even if you’re not aerobically active, you burn more energy because you have more muscle. This also helps prevent obesity and provide long-term benefits on various health outcomes.” 1 hour of weights a week may cut heart attack risk - Futurity

Futurity

1 hour of weights a week may cut heart attack risk

You don't have to be a bodybuilder to get benefits from weightlifting; less than an hour a week can help your heart and cut your risk of diabe...

With most of the big issues we face, what we’re really discussing is, at root, our underlying worldview — essentially, secular materialism — refracted through the smaller, immediate prisms of the moment. The seeds of that underlying worldview were planted in the seventeenth century, blossomed towards the end of the nineteenth, and were harvested — often with grave consequences — in the twentieth. In other words, the ramifications of our new intellectual settlement were clear to many by the midpoint of the last century (and to some, much earlier still), leading, in the second half, to a furious period of both creativity and criticism. There is, for the most part, now precious little to add. Why we have no new ideas | Kit Wilson | The Critic Magazine

The Critic Magazine

Why we have no new ideas | Kit Wilson | The Critic Magazine

Last week, the Times columnist James Marriott tweeted what he called “one of the most prophetic paragraphs of the twentieth century” &m...

*If history is any guide, legacy media is the last place one should look for the truth about what is actually occurring behind the scenes. Political insiders routinely obfuscate, misdirect, and outright lie to journalists who are more than happy to report things they know perfectly well aren’t true. The story exists because “sources” said it, too often with little attention paid to the veracity of what is being claimed. What Trump, Putin, and Modi discussed during those limousine rides is undoubtedly historic, but years will likely pass before their true nature becomes known—if it ever does.* Doomberg

*you give AI all your precise information that serves people who don't want you to be free. You give away your way of thinking, your habits, your data, your worries and weaknesses, some even give away the ways in which you keep your money like bitcoin and properties. This is ammunition for dictators and corporations who want to guide slaves into a way of thinking and remove from society those they think are dangerous*

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AI is Polytheistic, not Monotheistic: How AI Will Change Politics, War, & Money \ stacker news

Technologist and founder Balaji Srinivasan to explore how the metaphors we use to describe AI—whether as god, swarm, tool, or oracle—reveal as ...

*Back in February, Trump said that if all of the Israeli hostages were not released within days, “all bets are off, and let hell break out.” (His threat raised the question of what, if not hell, he thought had broken out in Gaza since October 7, 2023.)* View quoted note →

*Killing negotiations by killing one of the negotiators is confirmation (hardly the first) that Israel and the United States, if it approved the hit, view mediation as a ruse. Now they will see whether negotiating with cynics was better than negotiating with no one at all.* View quoted note →

*premature optimisation… is the root of all programming evil* View quoted note →

*it's far better to focus on your proof of work than on "fixing" what others are doing* View quoted note →

*Bitcoin’s design doesn’t merely tie money to energy, it ties money directly to time itself, the one resource no one can create more of. Energy can be scaled with new technology, but time is unforgeable. By fixing issuance through [the] difficulty adjustment, Bitcoin links money to the ultimate scarce resource of the universe: time.* View quoted note →

*the culprit isn't a secret microphone. It's the data broker industry*

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No, Your iPhone Isn't Listening to You to place Ads - cnet \ stacker news

"There's no credible evidence that your phone runs a secret, always-on microphone to target ads, and there are clear technical and policy reasons w...

*America is set up so it's near impossible for the average person to leave* View quoted note →

*The best anyone can do is reduce reliance and entanglement with government* View quoted note →

*If you monetize hard assets like gold and Bitcoin, then those grow MUCH faster than your nominal debt* View quoted note →

*Basically governments monetize the asset part of their balance sheets, i.e land, gold, bitcoin, oil reserves, etc, etc, and then they do a soft or hard link between that and their fiat currency.* View quoted note →

a post-print leader, however obliquely or overtly kingly, can govern both effectively and with popular support only by working in two registers: the rational print one and the symbolic digital one. Perhaps the individual who rules most deliberately in this fashion is El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele. Depicted as a tyrant by Western liberals, reportedly popular with his own electorate, and self-described on X as “Philosopher King,” Bukele governs as a “right-wing progressive.” His approach combines strong enforcement of public order, concern for ordinary citizens, techno-optimist elitism, and indifference to proceduralism. Importantly, Bukele uses the internet as a source of legitimacy, publishing carefully crafted iconography, public announcements, and ferocious rebuttals of his critics alongside active engagement in digital discourse, all within the accessible register of “secondary orality.” In this regard, whether by instinct or by design, he mobilizes a memetic enchantment made possible by secondary orality: one that recalls the calculated pageantry of premodern monarchs, such as royal entries and triumphal processions. The King and the Swarm - First Things

First Things

The King and the Swarm - First Things

The printing press did not just change how people shared information. It changed the normative patterns of consciousness itself. After those change...

a post-print leader, however obliquely or overtly kingly, can govern both effectively and with popular support only by working in two registers: the rational print one and the symbolic digital one. Perhaps the individual who rules most deliberately in this fashion is El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele. Depicted as a tyrant by Western liberals, reportedly popular with his own electorate, and self-described on X as “Philosopher King,” Bukele governs as a “right-wing progressive.” His approach combines strong enforcement of public order, concern for ordinary citizens, techno-optimist elitism, and indifference to proceduralism. Importantly, Bukele uses the internet as a source of legitimacy, publishing carefully crafted iconography, public announcements, and ferocious rebuttals of his critics alongside active engagement in digital discourse, all within the accessible register of “secondary orality.” In this regard, whether by instinct or by design, he mobilizes a memetic enchantment made possible by secondary orality: one that recalls the calculated pageantry of premodern monarchs, such as royal entries and triumphal processions. The King and the Swarm - First Things

First Things

The King and the Swarm - First Things

The printing press did not just change how people shared information. It changed the normative patterns of consciousness itself. After those change...