*Fiat rewards proximity to power* View quoted note →

*1. Sovereignty is a discipline, not just a feature. 2. Complexity is the price of true choice. 3. A network's culture is its adolescence, not its destiny.* View quoted note →

*This is not a system designed for passive consumption; it is a toolkit for active and conscious digital citizenship, with all the power and danger that entails.* View quoted note →

*Understanding that "where" you post is subjective and fluid, while "who" you are is absolute, requires a mental model shift. Finding content, and shaping one's experience are functions of the client software. The separation of substance from form is powerful but abstract. It creates a steep learning curve that will make mainstream adoption complicated.* View quoted note →

*Leverage in the system incentivises liquidity hunting* View quoted note →

*Date July 26, 1941 The United States issued a series of economic sanctions against Japan between 1938 and 1941, as a reaction to Japan’s expansion into East and Southeast Asia. A freeze of all Japanese assets in the United States was one of these sanctions. Although the intent was to gain a form of control over Japan without military conflict, this economic act was unsuccessful in preventing the outbreak of war in the Pacific.* Freezing of Japanese assets | Military History and Science | Research Starters | EBSCO Research

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Freezing of Japanese assets | Military History and Science | Research Starters | EBSCO Research

<p>The freezing of Japanese assets refers to a significant economic measure taken by the United States and its allies in July 1941, aimed at impedi...

*scarcity still exists on-chain … but it no longer exists where price is discovered* View quoted note →

*A salary is a single point of failure* View quoted note →

1 btc = 1 bt.... omg bear market!

*We're going to go down until every reasonably accessible bitcoin being held as collateral is freed up and sold to someone that ain't one of us! If you avoided taking out a loan, congrats! If somehow you have some dry powder now, amazing, you deserve these cheap sats.* View quoted note →

It seems apt that today I found about Mainländer: Core philosophical ideas Mainländer starts from Schopenhauer’s metaphysics of the will but pushes it in a darker, more final direction. From one will to many wills: Schopenhauer posits one, timeless, unitary Will “behind” all phenomena; Mainländer instead claims the original unity has shattered into countless individual wills, each finite and separate. Will-to-die instead of will-to-live: He keeps the notion that will is the inner essence of reality but argues that, at the deepest level, this will aims at self-extinction; the will-to-live is only the strategy by which the world moves toward the will-to-die. Redemption as nothingness: For him, “redemption” or “salvation” does not mean union with a higher being but absolute annihilation; death is good because it is the end of willing and of existence, not a transition to another state. One influential summary of his “gospel” is: redemption comes only with death, and death consists in complete nothingness, with no remainder. ... Ethics and politics He thinks life has “no value” in itself; the more lucid we become, the more we see that non-being is preferable to being. The “enlightened” person aligns with the will-to-die: humility, asceticism, renunciation, and a softening of the will-to-live become central virtues, because they reduce the intensity of willing and hasten the approach to nothingness. He criticizes purely quietist or purely individual inward paths (in Schopenhauer or some forms of Buddhism) for being too private; if the world is misery, we also owe each other social and political changes that alleviate suffering and make genuine insight possible for everyone. This leads him to surprisingly activist stances for such a dark philosopher: he supports egalitarian reform, communism, and “free love,” on the view that a just society is one where people are not kept in ignorance and can consciously participate in the world’s movement toward redemption (i.e., extinction). So you get the odd combination: metaphysical nihilism with a certain kind of ethical and political compassion. Style, reception, and influence Stylistically, he mixes dense metaphysical argument with poetic and religious language; the tone is simultaneously systematic and apocalyptic. Theodor Lessing famously described The Philosophy of Redemption as perhaps the most radical pessimistic system in the history of philosophy. He stayed relatively obscure compared with Schopenhauer or Nietzsche, but contemporary interest has grown, especially in discussions of philosophical pessimism, “death of God” theology, and speculative cosmology.

*The deeper point about compromise is that it can rarely be proved but is always happening to some degree* View quoted note →

*Completely scripted, we were introduced to Walz in the fake Presidential election for a reason.*

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One thing I do enjoy is watching the Democratic party get twisted up by Trump's wild swings. The Democrats should favor nationizing elections. They...

*Having a "pro Bitcoin" Fed chairman is part of the plan to usher in a CBDC via stables, while relegating BTC to be a wall st controlled asset.* View quoted note →

*Covenants are inherently shitcoinery because what they enable is delegation to a 3rd party run application. Delegation is non-monetary, it's application-level logic, which turns Bitcoin into an application-stack like Ethereum rather than money. You can split keys with shamir, but someone still has to generate the secrets or do computation. You can't remove the someone from the equation which is what all these scams purport to do, until you read between the lines. Application logic can only be an application that uses Bitcoin as money, Bitcoin as money cannot be an application. They are mutually exclusive.Covenants are inherently shitcoinery because what they enable is delegation to a 3rd party run application. Delegation is non-monetary, it's application-level logic, which turns Bitcoin into an application-stack like Ethereum rather than money. You can split keys with shamir, but someone still has to generate the secrets or do computation. You can't remove the someone from the equation which is what all these scams purport to do, until you read between the lines. Application logic can only be an application that uses Bitcoin as money, Bitcoin as money cannot be an application. They are mutually exclusive.*

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This looks really cool: https://stacker.news/items/1427029/r/Scoresby [10 comments]

*Maybe it’s not volatility people fear… maybe it’s unfamiliarity.* View quoted note →

*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.*

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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 →