After leaving the Army in 2017, I thought about following friends into the world of defense contracting. Could have made beaucoup bucks. But then I figured out true wealth requires having a soul.

Is all the UAP hubbub simply a speculatory hype cycle and a way to fade the US government? Like, could the dollar system ever get so bad that it pushes people to the risk curve's final frontier? #uapstr #ufostr

👀 The BTC-e guy is walking in a prisoner swap

Trump agreed to release Russian bitcoin fraud suspect Alexander Vinnik for Marc Fogel

It seems as though nostr is bootstrapping on its utility for censorship resistance or immutability. Whereas Facebook bootstrapped itself through exclusivity. But both only scale(d) by ease of use. There's a lesson in that somewhere.

Feeling bullish on #econstr. Really hoping to disrupt Steve Liesman's market share.

If you ever need a good laugh, go back and read FOMC dot plots from around 2019-2022. #econstr

I like earning an analog future by saving digital money. #econstr

Nebraska growers, dealers, and processors held 630 million pounds of potatoes in storage on 12/1 according to USDA. #econstr

GM to everyone waiting to buy at $12k

Russia surely distributed a lot of Assad's captagon trade at some point. I'm wondering if any group(s) will try reviving that network to get paid and gain power in Syria?

This was a high signal discussion of many actors in Syria and their incentives. Would recommend. I'm now wondering if the US government views its military effort there as a counter-terror, monitoring, deterrence, humanitarian, or peacekeeping one and how it thinks we're doing. If we're on the up and up, surely we'd go out of our way to broadcast wins and build trust with the citizenry sending taxes and children to this war. It would also be nice to know where we think this lands on the spectrum of conflict and what winning looks like. Does silence say things are going poorly, however they may be defined? In Afghanistan, it always pissed me off to see Presidents, SECDEFs, and GOs utterly fail at PR (and strategy and focus and commitment and accountability and basic leadership skills etc). Secrecy makes it hard for plebeians and legionaries to embrace wars of empire, because no news isn't always good news.

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