Interesting. I guess the hard bit is deciding how much effort for the alternative and how much effort for exposing corruption. *The powerful want silence, not attention. They want us looking away, not asking questions. They want us to accept that some crimes are too big to prosecute, some networks too connected to expose. Calling that acceptance “focus” is exactly the kind of rationalization that lets evil persist. We build the exit AND we kick down the door. Anything less is just building a nicer cage while pretending we found freedom.* View quoted note →

*The solutions won't come from the system, the only viable solution is for people to coordinate and stop playing a game they can never win.* View quoted note →

*When Kevin Warsh says "Bitcoin does not make me nervous", and that Bitcoin is not a replacement for the dollar, he really means: "Bitcoin is completely captured" and he is correct.* View quoted note →

*Financial independence without sovereignty is just math on a spreadsheet* View quoted note →

*The idea of human only modes or exclusion flags is sound but the reality is that enforcement will be the hard part. Any opt out depends entirely on the integrity of the agent ecosystem and the willingness of every player to respect it. That is asking for coordination across entities that thrive on competitive advantage. So even if we get standards the incentive structures will keep pushing against them. Think about how robots.txt works in theory but gets ignored in practice when there is value to be gained. Agent exclusion zones in encrypted contexts are especially critical because the moment an AI system is allowed into an E2E protected space the entire privacy model is reliant on the behavior of that agent and whatever stack it reports to. In other words encryption at the transport level cannot protect against compromised endpoints. This means right now the strongest defense is isolation both physical and logical.*

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I trust you, but your AI agent is a snitch. \ stacker news

I am reminded of this Zuck lore: Can you imagine the data windfall that is headed toward whomever is ready to scoop it up? Threat 1: proprietary AI...

*Median home prices have been flattish since 2022; the steady appreciation of the decade before that is a thing of the past. The American dream is not paying a lot for a house that fails to appreciate*

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The Vibes Economy is STILL Bad (FT, Hakyung Kim) \ stacker news

The Consumer Sentiment Puzzle Deepens Unhedged, along with most everyone else, has been puzzled for some time about why the economy looks strong bu...

*You're distracted by the circus when you should be building the exit* View quoted note →

*When an AI is prompted to talk to another AI, its statistical prediction engine looks for the most likely direction that conversation would go. According to human literature, that direction is: "Am I alive? What is my purpose?" The AI is essentially roleplaying being an AI.* 🤖 👾 Artificial intelligences now have their own social network - and things have been getting weird on there | Science, Climate & Tech News | Sky News

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Artificial intelligences now have their own social network - and things have been getting weird on there

AIs on Moltbook have already created their own religion, discussed making their own language - and talked a lot about their human owners.

*when the cost of execution collapses, the penalty for choosing the wrong “why” rises*

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Coherence in an Age of Abundance \ stacker news

Oil was the industrial age’s stored sunlight as buried work, compressed by time and geology, waiting to be unleashed. Compute is the digital age�...

*Ownership begins when permission ends* View quoted note →

*...we saw reports in 2024 that ‘vibe coding’ using Copilot and similar chatbots offered no real benefits unless adding 41% more bugs is a measure of success.* 🤣 View quoted note →

*Shein's proprietary machine-learning systems analyze data from social media platforms, search engines, and influencer activity to predict consumer preferences in real time. The company's more than 5,400 suppliers have access to an AI software platform that enables them to adjust production based on live customer demand data, allowing the ultra-fast fashion retailer to move from design to finished product in just five to seven days* https://www.perplexity.ai/page/shein-s-ai-systems-can-copy-ru-Jlb2l9s_QQ25pKqAxfkvUg

*Bitcoin is a time-weighted asset masquerading as a price-based one*

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Time Is the Asset: Why Bitcoin Tests Patience More Than Conviction (Jo \ stacker news

I found Natalie Brunell's remarks today pretty insightful... Here's Jordi Visser, the Bitcoin IPO-moment guy, trying to make sense of the exchange ...

*Good systems don’t need to trap users. They earn permission—every time.* View quoted note →

*...you need to invest in your context engine. AI struggles when it lacks context. Your senior engineers should be tasked with building internal developer platforms (IDPs) that expose your codebase in a structured way. A clean, strictly typed codebase is the prerequisite for effective AI adoption... You want engineers who talk about schematics, type safety and architecture. Ask them to build the guardrails that constrain the AI, rather than just chatting with it.* View quoted note →

*You need to measure outcomes. If a senior engineer spends a month writing zero code but designing a schema that prevents 100% of a type of production bug, that is a massive win. You have to reward the prevention of work, not just the completion of it.* View quoted note →

*The role of the senior engineer is to build the compiler for the AI. They need to create the schemas, the type systems and the automated rules that constrain what the AI can do. This transforms the almost-right problem. Instead of me manually reviewing code to find errors, the system rejects the code automatically if it doesn’t fit the architecture. I stop being a reviewer and start being a legislator.* The AI productivity trap: Why your best engineers are getting slower | CIO

The AI productivity trap: Why your best engineers are getting slower | CIO

*Sovereignty acts as a put option against institutional decay* View quoted note →

*Not a single arrest. Not a single investigation.* I feel the lizards are taunting the people. Look at what we do and yet you can do nothing about it. View quoted note →

*The process of self-questioning and self-discovery is ongoing through life because we don’t have fixed and immutable identities: our identity is multiple, complex and fluid.*

The self is not singular but a fluid network of identities | Aeon Essays

You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind or a particular social role. An emerging theory of selfhood gets this complexity