“This week’s European Council summit is an extremely relevant milestone towards an ambitious EU response to the housing crisis — the main source of social inequality in Europe,” Collboni told POLITICO EU finally takes ownership of housing crisis – POLITICO

EU finally takes ownership of housing crisis – POLITICO

*the slop itself is already fusing with our alphabet*

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The slop is winning - Charlie Warzel \ stacker news ~AI

This is not a rewriting of history as much as a DDoS-ing of it—flooding the zone with so much synthetic crap that engaging with reality and human...

*Average UK monthly private rents increased by 5.5%, to £1,354, in the 12 months to September 2025 (provisional estimate); this annual growth rate is down from 5.7% in the 12 months to August 2025.* Private rent and house prices, UK - Office for National Statistics

Private rent and house prices, UK - Office for National Statistics

The Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR) measures private rent inflation for new and existing tenancies. The UK House Price Index measures house pri...

*Decentralization without conviction is just distributed compliance* View quoted note →

*Nowadays everyone tracks liquidity cycles, but I've never seen anyone explain why liquidity is cyclical to begin with. This is a dark rabbit hole and deserves its own post. TL;DR: You keep liquidity cyclical because cycles are the cheapest way to discipline leverage, migrate users onto programmable rails, and entrench policy-grade vendors - without risking a consent crisis. Cycles govern behavior at lower cost than constant repression. A steady state would entrench incumbents you don't choose. Cyclicity lets you re-select winners every turn.* View quoted note →

*So shocking is the one-dimensional chess Western leaders are playing that it raises serious doubts about their appraisal of China’s economic, geopolitical, and military might* 90% of the Law The Nexperia affair and the sobering incompetence of Western leaders Doomberg

*…the mission timeline isn’t defined and the enemy doesn’t follow conventional rules* View quoted note →

*Your mission as a Bitcoin operator is simple: survive long enough for the [fiat] system to exhaust itself.* View quoted note →

*In military operations, compromised communications mean mission failure. In information warfare, compromised platforms mean narrative capture.* View quoted note →

*Bitcoin retrains you as an operator: proactive, strategic, mission-focused. You start asking different questions. Not “what can I buy?” but “what can I build?” Not “what’s the price?” but “what’s the signal?” You begin measuring time in blocks, not quarters. You start thinking in decades, not news cycles. Your time preference drops like a stone through water, and suddenly you’re operating on a frequency the fiat system can’t even detect.* View quoted note →

*Superposition claims a particle can exist in multiple states simultaneously until it’s “observed.” Yet this has never been measured at the scale of Planck time, the smallest possible unit of physical change. Without discrete temporal measurement, “collapse” remains an interpretive convenience, not an observed process* View quoted note →

If it's KYC'd, it's not part of the resistance

The best note on nostr today, imo. View quoted note →

*Bitcoin rendered the bank unnecessary. Lightning rendered payments instantaneous. The next evolution must render sovereignty effortless. Only then will the architectural obsolescence of financial intermediation become irreversible* View quoted note →

*technology alone cannot guarantee sovereignty. Institutions have learned to operate within open protocols, shaping them through user experience, liquidity concentration, and compliance logic* View quoted note →

*The bank, reconstituted as a node, resumes its role not by monopolizing trust but by monopolizing liquidity and convenience* View quoted note →

*Bitcoin’s first layer resolved the problem of trust. Lightning’s second layer must now resolve the problem of convenience. If self-custody and peer operation remain labor-intensive, users will gravitate toward intermediated solutions, regardless of ideological cost. Thus, the survival of financial sovereignty depends not on theoretical purity but on practical usability. This dynamic redefines the locus of contestation. The battle is no longer between decentralization and centralization in abstract terms, but between custodial ease and sovereign simplicity. The institutions adopting Lightning are not violating its open protocol; they are exploiting its optional complexity. Their success depends on the inertia of users who prefer managed experiences over self-determination.* View quoted note →

*The trajectory of the Lightning Network illustrates a recurring phenomenon in technological history: the co-option of disruptive architectures by the very systems they were designed to displace. When sovereignty imposes operational friction, institutions monetize its reduction. The result is not a technical failure but a social inversion.* View quoted note →

*Custodial Lightning effectively reintroduces the logic of financial intermediation under a new technological guise, offering comfort and simplicity while reducing individual agency. Non-custodial Lightning embodies the radical intent of the network: to eliminate intermediaries entirely by substituting verifiable computation for trust* View quoted note →