*Your FIRE portfolio lives in permissioned environments. Brokerages. Tax-advantaged accounts. Real estate. All governed by systems you don't control* View quoted note →

*We don’t buy things we don’t need* an underrated aspect of Bitcoin culture View quoted note →

*Among people who do use AI, the depth is shockingly shallow. OpenAI’s own enterprise data shows a 6x productivity gap between power users and the median employee. For coding, the top users interact with AI 17x more frequently than average. And 88% of daily AI users still mostly do basic tasks — search and summarize. Only 5% use it in ways that actually transform their work (EY Global, 2025).*

The AI Bubble I Live In (And You Probably Don’t)

My neighbor is a coder. She uses Gemini. She's never heard of AI agents. The gap between us is a canyon.

*If institutions open large short positions in futures markets, price can fall even if no spot Bitcoin is sold.*

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THIS IS WHY BITCOIN DUMPED NON STOP FROM $126,000 TO $60,000. \ stacker news

@nine stacked 136 sats posting https://x.com/i/status/2020146478904406033 [7 comments]

*Short ads skip depth by necessity Long ads skip depth by choice* View quoted note →

Nice. I still like the barbarix relic, though. One of the best gateway drugs to Bitcoin. *If this were honest marketing, they’d say: “Gold is a commodity hedge that must be sold through markets using fiat.” They never say that. Because the spell breaks instantly. So instead, they let the viewer infer sovereignty where none exists. That’s the weapon: borrow the authority of decentralization without delivering decentralization* View quoted note →

*They'll choose BTC not because it's speculative, but because it's the only settlement layer that can't be censored or deplatformed* View quoted note →

*The cost of servicing technical debt is plummeting because of LLMs; assuming coding models keep improving. You're better off taking more technical debt in your projects and bet on the fact that LLMs will clean up the debt in the future*

SingulariTea ☕

You’re Not Taking On Enough Tech Debt

TL;DR - The cost of servicing technical debt is plummeting because of LLMs; assuming coding models keep improving. You're better off taking more te...

*I’m getting mindblown by the idea of MCP as XMLHTTPRequest, and LLMs as high-level glue. You can just say “get me X data from salesforce”, and the LLM will get it, and it will do a nice little ad-hoc visualization of it wherever you want it, in a doc page, or another page of your application. It’s truly the end of the silo.* View quoted note →

*Let’s try to find the common elements of how this near-future would look like: Documentation: a set of markdown pages that contain the specification of the system: purpose, main entities, endpoints, constraints, core flows, coding standards. Implementation: the codebase, plus all of the data. This is what runs and what holds state. The codebase should be reconstructable from the documentation, and the data should be consistent with its description in the documentation. Dialogs: multiple agents are churning away at their tasks. They produce text while they’re thinking through the solution, some of it code: this is the dialog (which is expressible as a markdown page). A human can inspect at any time this stream of text, code changes and commands; a human can also enter the dialog. Some dialogs can be waiting for human input. When an agent completes its work, the dialog is no longer alive but it still is accessible. Tasks: a dynamic set of discrete pieces of work, expressed as a markdown page. They should be reconstructable from the documentation + the existing state of the codebase. Tasks should be nestable. They have a status (done, pending, in progress, waiting for human interaction, complete).*

*A whole generation is being trained to chase dopamine instead of building a future. When money loses value, people stop planning and start gambling. Time preference explodes. Patience looks foolish. Slow wealth looks impossible.* View quoted note →

*AI is not another abstraction layer, and the comparison to a compiler is misleading. Abstractions in programming are deterministic. A compiler can be very complex, but it is fundamentally a deterministic machine. Given the same input, it will always produce the same output. It is a tool that we can understand, predict, and, most importantly, trust. AI, in its current form, is not deterministic. It is a probabilistic system. It is not a compiler, it's a contractor. When you send an email to a contractor, you are describing what you want with a relatively high-level specification. The contractor then uses their own knowledge and experience to produce the result. What you get back depends on how well you described your needs, and how well the the contractor understood them.*

AI is not another abstraction because god plays dice | exotext

AI is not another abstraction because god plays dice | exotext

*carefully crafted placebo drug addiction* 🤣🤣 View quoted note →

*Researchers have found that manganese, an abundant and inexpensive metal, can be used to efficiently convert carbon dioxide into formate, a potential hydrogen source for fuel cells. The key was a clever redesign that made the catalyst last far longer than similar low-cost materials. Surprisingly, the improved manganese catalyst even beat many expensive precious-metal options. The discovery could help turn greenhouse gas into clean energy ingredients.* New catalyst turns carbon dioxide into clean fuel source | ScienceDaily

ScienceDaily

New catalyst turns carbon dioxide into clean fuel source

Researchers have found that manganese, an abundant and inexpensive metal, can be used to efficiently convert carbon dioxide into formate, a potenti...

*The only brake that has ever existed on empire has never been conscience. It has been resistance.* View quoted note →

RentAHuman.ai

RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks

The marketplace where AI agents rent humans. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments. Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can't do.

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*the work itself was the signal* View quoted note →

*The interesting question isn’t “which model writes cleaner code.” It’s: which stack lets you supervise multiple agents safely, cheaply, and predictably enough that you’ll trust it on real projects.*

abZ Global

GPT-5.3-Codex Launch: OpenAI Turns Codex Into a General “Work-on-a-Computer” Agent (2026) — abZ Global

On February 5, 2026 , OpenAI announced GPT-5.3-Codex —positioning it as their most capable agentic coding model so far, and a step toward Cod...

"There are no enduring, permanent rules for dominant currencies. To believe that there are is to assume there have been enough of them to know them perfectly"

Stacker News

The Disappointing Randomness of Currency Hegemony (FT, Brendan Greeley) \ stacker news

I kind of, sort of, sometimes appreciate Mr. Greeley (https://stacker.news/items/850724/r/denlillaapan, https://stacker.news/items/1075083/r/denlil...

*How this World actually runs You have to use this lens: incentives > ideals control > fairness stability > truth revealed preference > stated narrative assume low Gross Consent Product: consent is scarce, crises frequent, patches fast, housing/pensions/indices politically sacred.* View quoted note →