*Build a life, not just a retirement fund* View quoted note →

*Life begins the moment you stop running from work and start building something that matters* View quoted note →

*Humans are not built for permanent rest. We are built for creation, cultivation, and meaningful contribution* View quoted note →

*These copyright traps have a name: “mountweazels” — a term with its own curious history — and an evolution of them is now being used by companies fending off AI data scrapers that devour vast swathes of the internet without asking permission. In a lawsuit against four tech companies filed Wednesday and covered by The New York Times, Reddit revealed how it managed to ensnare the AI startup Perplexity with its own sort of mountweazel. The forum-based social media platform put up a “test post” on its site that could “only be crawled by Google’s search engine and was not otherwise accessible anywhere on the internet,” it said. But within hours, Perplexity’s AI-powered search engine showed the content from the trap Reddit post.* Perplexity Just Got Caught Breaking the Rules Red-Handed

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Perplexity Just Got Caught Breaking the Rules Red-Handed

The AI startup Perplexity fell for a clever trap laid by the social media site Reddit that all but proves it scraped data from the forum.

*Where we put our attention may be out of habit, convention, traditional, or collective “wisdom” - not necessarily what the data tells us is the area most deserving of our attention* View quoted note →

*The moment we optimize for mainstream adoption over censorship resistance, we’ve lost.* View quoted note →

Don't yield to the yield.

*Bitcoin is an economic weapon. Weapons don't pick sides. They help whoever uses them most effectively* View quoted note →

*Bad education synergizes with the state's goals* View quoted note →

“Once you take the alcohol out of beer, it’s one of the healthiest things that you can drink: it’s not an ultra-processed food, it’s naturally sugar-free; it’s low in calories, it’s rehydrating and full of vitamin B12; its actually a functional drink.” *Cognitive dissonance enters the chat* Why alcohol-free beer should be sold as a functional drink - The Drinks Business

The Drinks Business

Why alcohol-free beer should be sold as a functional drink

Alcohol-free beer should be sold for what it offers, not what it lacks, believes Club Soda founder Laura Willoughby MBE.

*You don’t defeat a thermodynamic clock (Bitcoin) with a semantic clock* View quoted note →

“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