*John Yoo, the former deputy assistant attorney general under President George W. Bush who wrote the legal justification for torture during the war on terror, pushed back on the extreme powers Trump is claiming to kill those he labels terrorists. “There has to be a line between crime and war,” Yoo said. “We can’t just consider anything that harms the country to be a matter for the military. Because that could potentially include every crime.”* Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American

*A slower pace, but a steadier step* View quoted note →

*Most people's minds shut down when reality contradicts their emotional need for safety* View quoted note →

"Even "enemies" collaborate to set the rails of global finance." View quoted note →

Defence spending is not a luxury but the first duty of the government. Vague promises of higher budgets years from now are worthless when threats are already at the gate. We must invest now, both in our armed forces and in the industry that sustains them — or face humiliation later. Britain needs to rearm quickly

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Britain needs to rearm quickly

Baroness Foster and Lt Col Stuart Crawford warn that Britain’s forces are understrength and industry neglected; without urgent investment, th...

With the UK planning multibillion-pound investments in AI data centers—such as Nvidia’s £11 billion partnership with CoreWeave and Nscale that will bring 120,000 top-end AI chips—electricity demand is expected to soar. However, lagging upgrades to the national grid have forced operators to consider on-site gas-fired generation just to get new sites up and running Perplexity.ai

*The learning never ends. Every new problem is an invitation: to read, to question, to argue, and… to be reborn, … by what you discover* View quoted note →

*Bitcoin… makes you suspicious of easy narratives and encourages the habit of testing claims against observable reality. And it changes the way you look at everything else* View quoted note →

*Bitcoin began as an idea that made sense at a single glance, then unfolded into a rabbit hole of surprising depth. Consensus stopped being an abstract political word and became a question of what reality we choose to enforce* View quoted note →

*you can change everything by refusing to collaborate with the parasites and starting to pursue real freedom* View quoted note →

*The distinction between simulation and computation is critical. Computation commits and simulation pretends. Modern mathematics and physics often fall into the same trap. By appending infinity as a placeholder, they open the door to unbounded speculation. Infinity has never been observed. It is intellectually lazy, a way to avoid the hard truth of scarcity. Worse, it is incoherent, because it allows for infinite theories without grounding in the finite reality we actually experience. It’s the infinite double spend.* View quoted note →

*we can become so jaded by the fake world online that we carry over that attitude into our personal lives and it actually affects people we care about. My only advice is unplug more and spend more time with people you care about and that care about you*

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reply on: Tor Drama \ stacker news ~Politics_And_Law

I clicked on the court docs and skimmed it. I don't know much but it sounded a bit light on details and got my BS detector up. I'm not alone. @fina...

*In a relatively free society, foreign powers through their proxies and frontwork get a say in our domestic affairs, in the form of military-grade psychological operations. These goal of these operations is to exploit human weakness for statecraft. Who benefits from US cities looking like a zombie apocalypse? Domestic greed plays a part in an acute way, but on the whole it's competing totalitarian regimes that can point to the failures of these free societies and say that such models have failed to deliver prosperity for their people, giving the hostile power a lever to keep their own citizens content with their iron-fisted one-party rule. Hollowing out our industrial base, social propaganda, political infiltration, drug distribution... these are all tactics of unrestricted warfare by rival powers. The US as a relatively free society is not inoculated against these 5GW attacks. Nationalists who see this can only fight back against it by becoming more like the enemy, fascist, which foments even more domestic divide since it goes against cultural principles. "He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster." Nothing is random, EVERYTHING has meaning.*

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Review - San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities \ stacker news ~BooksAndArticles

Ok, heard about this book a few times and finally got around to it. The title is pretty self-explanatory, and to me, as someone from the UK, it was...

People who go trust the system waiting for inflation to return to ‘only’ 2%

*Growing your own food is a superpower. It’s self-sovereignty in its purest form*

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When I Can’t Buy Bitcoin, I Grow It in the Garden 🌱🍅🥕 \ stacker news ~Photography

When I Can’t Buy Bitcoin, I Grow It in the Garden 🌱🍅🥕 Not everyone has spare cash to stack sats, so I’ve started stacking a different ...

*Now is the time for patient builders, for those who plant seeds of hope and unite through understanding rather than division* View quoted note →

*Power without truth only multiplies ruin. But when truth governs, human flourishing follows* View quoted note →

*Isn't there a weird paradox here? If we can fully understand a thing, it probably isn't intelligent. But if we can't fully understand it, we might not be able to know that it's not tricking us with advanced mimicry...*

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The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking - Gary Marcus \ stacker news ~AI

"GPT-5 is a step forward but nowhere near the A.I. revolution many had expected. That is bad news for the companies and investors who placed substa...

😂 Bitcoin fixes wrench attacks *Men also can develop their intuition more too, so perhaps the wrench attackers will also be getting into meditation and telepathy. Then bitcoiners will also start meditating, hoping to develop the skills to become invisible to the telepathic wrench attackers* View quoted note →