Broke my one-day fast today by cleaning out the fridge. Boiled some eggs that had been there a couple weeks, chopped up some plums that had been there a week along with watermelon and a peach, put the baked potato from two nights ago into the bone broth my wife had made yesterday. Few slices of chorizo from the fancy cheese shop that had hidden itself in the back of the fridge. Wound up with a gourmet meal for free while assuaging the dread of having food I needed to eat before it spoiled. Even convinced my 13-YO to eat a hard-boiled egg. (She’s working out now to get in shape, and I told her you get 2x your mileage from that if you eat steak and eggs.) If you want to be rich, learn how to transform raw materials into resources. Using all the food in your fridge is a version of that.

Waiting on a friend outside the metro stop. Dude is a conspiracy theorist just like me.

Only reason to sell right now is to prevent your family’s *imminent* starvation. Lesser excuses will not age well on your conscience.

Hooked on these hard sudukos. You have to find the weakness and beat on it until it cracks, yields a clue. Then the clue becomes another weakness to exploit until it yields another clue. Eventually the entire thing breaks open. It’s like cracking a code. Would offer sats to anyone who can do this one, but too easy to use AI to cheat these days, so no reward. Usually they take me a a few hours (cumulatively) coming back to them over 1-3 days. Sometimes I spend the time, don’t realize I made an error until it’s too late.

The dip is fake.

Something going on with @primal support? They used to be really responsive to emails and now crickets for two days.

MSTR obviously has all the counterparty risk of publicly traded stocks, but ridiculous to call it a Ponzi as I’m seeing of late. A ponzi requires new money to pay off existing holders, and it seems similar because he’s taking the new proceeds in part to pay his dividends. But he COULD easily, trivially pay all his dividends if he sold a tiny portion of his assets. He would just VASTLY prefer not to deplete his balance sheet and incur capital gains, so he will always use new funds if he has a choice. I don’t know how it ends, there are all kinds of unknowns from custody questions, to regulatory to 6102 scenarios, but per Warren Buffett, in the short term the market is a voting machine, and in the long term it’s a weighing machine. And he’s stockpiling the heaviest asset in human history in unparalleled amounts.

"Due to the total pussification of my mind, body and soul I catastrophically failed to see the single most important economic development in humanity’s history. This despite decades of study and pontification on the subject of economics. There is no excuse for such abject mental, psychological and spiritual cowardice. I am hereby resigning my position and withdrawing from public life to contemplate my shortcomings. Thank you for your attention to this matter.” Fixed it. View quoted note →

Real vlog is more than an hour:

People are always posting clips of Bill Gates and Larry Fink. “Oooh Bill Gates wants you to eat his poison sludge!” “Larry Fink wants you to be his serf!” “Google is doing this, Apple is doing that.” The aim is, “pay attention to this scary thing I’m posting!” And you read that shit long enough, and eventually you start to think they’re winning, that 1984 is inevitable. The very posts that attempt to “wake you up” are in fact eroding your morale, keeping you from living your life without a constant sense of dread in your chest. What a brilliant psyop, incentivize people via the online attention economy to spread futility and despair to their peers. Real life FUD, total ownership of your consciousness, not a single shot fired.

So much of fear mongering is taking present trends and extrapolating them linearly or exponentially into the future. But every action has an equal and opposite reaction. For every totalitarian measure, there will be a new freedom tool, for every AI advancement in making deep fakes there will be ever better and more accessible methods of verification via cryptography, e.g.. It’s almost formulaic at this point: “X is happening. If this persists, we’re all in 1984!” But they always imagine nothing *else* happens in response. It’s raining! If this persists, we’ll be flooded before long!

Thoughtful post, captures a lot of what I often feel too. How are the coffee shops even open? How are people showing up to work for a debasing fiat wage? How are they getting out of bed, walking into this slaughterhouse of a society? But there has always been suffering. And there always will be. It’s not that things will get better or worse. It’s that you always have the choice to place your attention where you decide to place it. That your consciousness is inviolable, no matter what “they” are doing. Bitcoin won’t affix your consciousness for you, but it’s an instantiation in the real world of energy directed in this same uncapturable way. Tick tock next block is the energy pulled, little by little, out of the fiat prison and stored in the free world. https://highlighter.com/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq6knu235sx9320yp7jx93azw2xv70d8u3klr0qg2qqxuu0yska6qqy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qqv2ashgetj944kkef3dqesv3ltff View quoted note →

Reason billionaires love socialism is they are above the fray, protected from its reach. It’s the low millionaires they aim to destroy, the people wealthy enough not to comply with capitalism’s coercive incentives, but not wealthy enough to avoid the reach of the State. Small business owners and self-made people are dangerous to the billionaires with big agendas because they can dissent, they can speak the truth to the average person, can demand justice for their misdeeds. The ruling class wants to rule unmolested by dissent. And socialism is the way to shut people up. View quoted note →

Fear and hope sell. But resolve carries the day. Oddly, my Twitter feed, full of click bait and noise, is often less fear-mongering than my nostr follows. What the fuck happened to “tick tock, next block?”

This is the correct perspective. The Death Star just wandered into a super massive black hole. View quoted note →

Think we will discover eventually that all conceptions are only maps of reality, not the territory. Like all of history, cosmology, science, theology are just maps. That it’s all a leap of faith. This might be the meaning of the Tree Of Knowledge parable.