*what we call "gains" are often just an optical illusion of currency debasement. High asset prices are merely the receipts for fiat printing* View quoted note →

*Bitcoin needs pervasive open computing. Hardware-based attestations do not stand against that in principle but in practice it often does. A smart phone has many chips and one of those can be - decoupled from the main functioning of the device - provide attestations but if you want it to attest to the OS being locked down then ... well ... you run a locked down OS or don't have attestations.* View quoted note →

*on balance, the organic, regenerative farm that is ...Nostr .... beats the degenerate slums of... “X”* View quoted note →

*that's why I'm so interested in building better protocol bridges, because eventually people will realize that Nostr is the "final destination."* View quoted note →

"The entire AI stack has usage-based COGS, from APIs down to the GPU infrastructure layer, which means that AI businesses often turn to usage-based pricing to keep their margins consistent," https://www.perplexity.ai/page/stripe-buys-metronome-for-1b-t-8MNNE6ZxRB6RZUXBOGoI6g

*the “merit” being tested is one’s ability to follow. It’s a test of one’s ability to pick up on what the current culture values and emulate that effectively. It’s a test of your trendiness and ability to curry favor with others* View quoted note →

*Art needs a medium that matches its intent and integrity... when the medium is aligned with the message, the message will inevitably thrive* View quoted note →

*The world needs direction from sober people who aim to improve the human condition, not the whims of a handful of billionaire princelings who absolutely, positively cannot be dissuaded from failing at unprecedented scale while chasing their own vainglory off the edge of a cliff* View quoted note →

*No empire remains immune to seismic technological shifts* View quoted note →

*Currency is the financial boundary of the empire* View quoted note →

*if you want to call bitcoin empirical evidence, you’d need an observable that changes when you artificially impose a time lattice* View quoted note →

*I think the silver lining is most people think through a consensus filter, they have no principles or understanding beyond their own survival, so run with the herd. Bitcoiners being multi-disciplinary are an intransigent herd, they don't break off into other herds even if those other herds are bigger. Their numbers are therefore a one-way-ratchet, and the size of that herd compounds on itself... eventually attracting people on scale alone.*

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I tend to feel there are three kinds of bitcoiners -- and each of them occupies a "niche of a niche." i. the technically-minded ii. the economicall...

*Purely technical people, lacking multi-disciplinary traits, are Bitcoin's greatest liability. They fail to recognize its value is from being a paragon of stability and relative simplicity, and so they're always seeking to change it... fortunately they fail more often than not due to a design meant to resist them, and end up shitcoiners.*

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I tend to feel there are three kinds of bitcoiners -- and each of them occupies a "niche of a niche." i. the technically-minded ii. the economicall...

*I think there is a paradox here that puts a fly in the ointment of mass adoption: the more money printed, the more life sucks for most people, the less time/resources/energy they have to learn about bitcoin*

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*At some point, many people begin to believe they are already smart enough and no longer need to learn. And that is the exact moment when growth stops. Ego replaces curiosity, certainty replaces exploration, and development freezes.* View quoted note →

*NOSTR isn’t just a network — it’s the largest Lightning experiment on Earth* View quoted note →

“These days staying alive is a moral compromise” takes a cliché idea about “doing what it takes to survive” and makes it ethically explicit: survival itself has become bound up with wrongdoing, complicity, or at least the erosion of personal ideals. In the world of *She Rides Shotgun*, that line reflects a setting where violence, corrupt institutions, and criminal networks are so pervasive that remaining untouched is practically impossible, so even self‑defence or protection of loved ones drags characters into morally dubious acts. [1][6][10] ### Moral compromise as default The sentence implies that the baseline conditions of life have shifted: what used to be an emergency exception (“I crossed a line because it was life or death”) is now the routine state of being. [6][8] It suggests a flattened moral landscape where clean distinctions between innocent and guilty are no longer tenable, because merely refusing to act or refusing to “get your hands dirty” can itself cost lives or enable greater harm. [1][7] ### Context in *She Rides Shotgun* In the film’s narrative, the father and daughter are hunted by a violent white‑supremacist gang, and every choice they make—fleeing, lying, stealing, using force—edges them further from conventional morality while being framed as necessary to stay alive. [3][5] The line crystallises that tension: protecting a child, preserving family, and reclaiming some kind of future now require entering a space where legal and moral norms must be bent or broken, so “being good” and “staying alive” can no longer fully coexist. [1][6] Citations: [1] She Rides Shotgun Review: A Gritty and Emotional Actioner

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*we have made it too difficult to build anything in this country. We are not building houses, we are not building business premises, we are not building infrastructure, we are not building power stations – we are not even building water reservoirs. Britain is 4 million homes short of the European average. Similar data for office buildings, retail and hospitality venues is harder to come by, but there has to be a similar gap for those. The road network is about a third below EU average. Electricity output is about a third below the EU average. Britain needlessly deprives itself of some of the key input factors of a prospering economy, much like the pot of a Bonsai tree deprives the roots of the tree the space it needs to grow. And that, ultimately, is the main problem with this obsession with wealth inequality. It is not just that it lends itself to bad policy prescriptions, like the wealth tax. The bigger problem is the opportunity cost. Every minute we spend talking about wealth taxes and wealth inequality is a minute we no longer spend talking about how to build things.*

*The primary reason people believe in “assets” that protect their purchasing power is because they have never been able to store money in money* View quoted note →

*Michelson–Morley showed we misunderstood space. Bitcoin shows we misunderstood time. They are inextricably linked since “timespace” in bitcoin is both memory (information) and time and it exposes the deeper issue: physics has no experimental evidence that time is continuous. It assumes continuity because its mathematics requires it. Bitcoin is the first demonstration of a functioning universe that closed, thermodynamic, self-measuring in which time is discrete and quantized.* View quoted note →