*remain vigilant, call out the darkness, stand in the light* View quoted note →

*Consumer culture trains us to believe happiness is always one purchase away* View quoted note →

One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. 'Tis the set of the sails, And Not the gales, That tell us the way to go. Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate; As we voyage along through life, 'Tis the set of a soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife. The Winds of Fate, Ella Wheeler Wilcox

*Compared to traditional onshore wind power, high-altitude wind energy can save 95 percent of land use, reduce steel consumption by 90 percent, and cut electricity generation costs by around 30 percent. A 10-megawatt kite-based system could generate approximately 20 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually—enough to power about 10,000 homes* https://www.perplexity.ai/page/china-tests-world-s-largest-po-WvPGqTarQjGfLxYmx8uPXw

*To understand is to be accountable. Computer science fundamentals still matter.* View quoted note →

*AI huckster-cum-revolutionary and ChatGPT front man Sam Altman says, “A kid born today will never be smarter than AI, ever.” His intention is to attract more investment into his company by the illusory promise of “PhD-level” AI, but he may be right despite himself: it is not that AI is reaching “general intelligence” but that children are not attaining it.* We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack

The Baffler

We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack

Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.

*I love the First Amendment and abhor censorship, and yet I have reluctantly come to believe that the Great Firewall of China will be a long-term benefit to that country. What China shows us is that, contra the whole line of technology-first scholarship following McLuhan, it’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters. China is not a utopia, but its citizens have a brighter future than ours, and they will be able to read about it, thanks to a sociopolitical system that still sees literacy as necessary and retains primacy over private capital.* We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack

The Baffler

We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack

Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.

It was the worst of times, it was the best of times *bear markets are the best time to grow your Bitcoin stack* View quoted note →

*the jaw needs strain to properly develop, otherwise it doesn't grow as much as the rest of the face* View quoted note →

*Focus is scarce, and I want mine aimed at what matters* View quoted note →

*Freedom starts with choosing your own colors on the canvas while others debate their chains* View quoted note →

*money enables us to manage temporal uncertainty. Human action is oriented towards the future, but limited by immediate needs. By storing value in the form of money (savings), individuals can secure their subsistence in the short term and plan long-term actions, thereby reinforcing intertemporal coordination and economic stability* View quoted note →

Stacker News

“Reading the Room > Reading the Chart” \ stacker news ~Memes

😂 Every time I see someone drawing 47 lines on a chart, arguing about which triangle the candles ‘respect,’ I’m just over here like: ‘Br...

*personalized WoT turns the legacy monetization model on its head. No longer will you give your data away to big tech for free. You can give it away if you want, OR you can sell it for micropayments* View quoted note →

*The more we can pay bitcoin for the goods and services of our daily lives, the less likely the kyc regime matters*

Stacker News

I executed my most recent bitcoin trade at a coffee shop register \ stacker news ~bitcoin

Can I pay in bitcoin? I bought a coffee with sats yesterday. It was impressive how unimpressive it was. I ordered an espresso for myself and a hot ...

*you can't beat them inside the game they run. you have to step outside it, so that you can have the time and space in your MIND to invent the thing that destroys their most critical hooks in the population* View quoted note →

*The obsession with fiat price is the old world's ghost, haunting the new world's architecture. It's the addiction to the applause of the very crowd we're walking away from* View quoted note →

*being remembered < actually mattering* View quoted note →

*Bitcoin's non-capture story rests on client plurality + rough consensus + time* View quoted note →