*Our experience of using the internet has made it easy to assume that advertising on the products we use is inevitable. But open a notebook, pick up a well-crafted tool, or stand in front of a clean chalkboard, and there are no ads in sight.*

Claude is a space to think | Anthropic

We’ve made a choice: Claude will remain ad-free. We explain why advertising incentives are incompatible with a genuinely helpful AI assistant, an...

FT: *Anthropic’s new legal tool — which promises to automate contract reviews, compliance workflows and legal briefings — was among those launched to automate specific tasks within a company that also covers marketing and customer support.*

*The feedback loop: yen strength → carry unwind → asset sales → volatility → more yen strength. Self-reinforcing until something breaks or BOJ reverses course. Japan isn't just raising rates. They're stress-testing the entire post-2008 monetary architecture.* View quoted note →

*Their playbook is transparent: Mock the Revelation: Frame systemic truth as "nonsense" or "conspiracy." A decoded mind is their greatest threat. Defend the Prison: Attack any framework that empowers individuals outside sanctioned institutions (church, state, mainstream finance). Protect the Profit Model: The old system runs on spiritual and intellectual rent.*

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🚨 WHY THE SYSTEM'S AGENTS ATTACK SOVEREIGNTY WORK \ stacker news

For over three years, my work has had one goal: teach people to de-code their own minds. To see the hooks of fear, scarcity, and obligation for wha...

Striking a balance between identifying a problem and working on a solution requires shifting from a passive observer of systemic failure to an active agent of creation. ### 1. Perceive Reality Without Getting Distracted A proper understanding of the problem involves **"reality correspondence,"** which is the ability to perceive incentives, constraints, and causality as they truly are, rather than how you wish they were [1]. It is necessary to recognize when institutions encourage fear and dehumanization [2] or when media is engineered to manipulate emotions [3]. However, you must avoid becoming **"distracted by the circus"** or pouring energy into distant stories you cannot control [3, 4]. Identifying the problem is only useful if it leads to **"epistemic updating"**—revising your beliefs and strategies when predictions fail—rather than staying stuck in a loop of outrage [1, 5]. ### 2. Transition from Analysis to Agency Once a problem is identified, the focus must shift to **responsibility internalization**, where outcomes are treated as feedback about your own choices rather than external blame [6]. The sources suggest that while it may feel like agency has been "stripped away" by failing systems, you must act as if you are **in charge of your own destiny** [7]. This involves a "stack" of learned frames, including **impulse modulation** and the acceptance of reality’s authority over your own grievances [1, 6]. Instead of waiting for permission or institutional change, you should prioritize **making a decision** and structuring your priorities to avoid the exhaustion of endless research [8]. ### 3. Build the "Exit" Rather Than Fighting the Cage The most effective way to balance these two states is to move from "rebellion," which burns energy on conflict, to **"exodus,"** which spends energy on creation [9]. Instead of trying to destroy the illusions of others, you should **focus on building** real alternatives; if you build a "field of dreams" that is obviously better, others will follow [10]. This involves: * **Building Independent Systems:** Engaging in systems that **do not require permission** is considered a radical and productive act [11]. * **Local Responsibility:** Coherence emerges globally when **responsibility is exercised locally** [12]. This starts with taking care of yourself, then your family, and finally being of service to your local community [7]. * **Constructing New Institutions:** Because culture is downstream of institutions, you can work on a solution by helping build **new institutions** that encourage reflection, accountability, and kindness [2, 13]. Ultimately, the goal is to **"build the exit AND kick down the door,"** ensuring that your focus on the problem directly fuels the creation of a better reality [14].

*The more paper claims exist relative to real BTC, the more fragile the system becomes. Self-custody is the mechanism that forces convergence* View quoted note →

*Democracy abhors silence as nature abhors a vacuum. Things cannot rest. They mess things up just to have something to "fix" later* View quoted note →

*“The $300 billion repricing was not random. It reflected investors accelerating their expectations around workflow substitution risk. Feature competition compresses margins.
Workflow replacement redirects spend. When workflows move, value moves with them. Customers do not need to rip out legacy systems overnight for this to matter. They consolidate. They renegotiate. They reduce usage. Cash flow weakens before logos disappear. Markets understand this dynamic instinctively. That is why companies long considered “sticky” sold off together, regardless of near-term fundamentals.”* Excerpt From “$300 Billion Evaporated. The SaaS -Pocalypse Has Begun.” Forbes

$300 Billion Evaporated. The SaaS -Pocalypse Has Begun. — Forbes

AI didn’t kill software. It broke the SaaS growth story. $300B vanished as markets repriced legacy models and shifted toward agent-driven, outcom...

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 →