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“Florence” may be the only word in English that actually sounds nicer than the Italian …

Bitcoin, Fiat, and Islamic Finance by Harris Irfan and me. very long in the works, finally arrived! hope you all enjoy. https://www.axiombtc.capital/islamic

do ballerinas have good job security or nah?

“saving private buyin” is a genius tagline for a p2p bitcoin exchange, I’m amazed nobody has used it yet.

fiat sucks, lightning is magic

nostr:nprofile1qqsxu35yyt0mwjjh8pcz4zprhxegz69t4wr9t74vk6zne58wzh0waycprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuer9wfnkjemf9e3k7mf0qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcjyjag0 is spamming my notification mempool. I need filters. plz help 🙏 https://blossom.primal.net/c8f53350fdcaa8071aaec9f30d09e594049dd146abefe796f7a0ce79457f95e1.mp4

imagine how advanced our civilisation would be if he had been using base 12 this whole time …

“lingua franca” is french in latin and it means english 🤔

thoughts on Charlie Kirk, debate, goodness, and hope nostr:naddr1qqxnzde48qcrxvfnxu6ngd3nqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqzyzpxa8uftwq6ksdy2g3x3vjfu6xs9j5pvzx77432fy7wud0lchr4jqcyqqq823cvh9vx3

please shill me your favourite essayists and, even better, collections of essays as books.

I have a new lingo with mrs allen: “OSA’d”. it’s when she sends me a tiktok and I can’t watch it without a tiktok account because of the Online Safety Act. I’ve been OSA’d. she sends me a lot of edgy shit so this happens pretty regularly.

very very very good video on probably my biggest academic pet peeve. well worth the 20 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH-ybecvuEo

looking more into Fermat’s Last Theorem and it’s kinda bullshit that Wiles “solved it”. Frey and Ribet did the part that is actually relevant to the classic Fermat formulation. Wiles gave a partial solution to a different problem after they proved what such a solution would imply. so I guess I’m just grumpy about that now. thoughts welcome.

very cool new math channel I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ptFnIj71SM

Vibe Coding, but, like, for everything ... a smallish essay on the economics of how this time isn’t different and p(doom)=0. with thanks to nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccpzemhxue69uhks6tnwshxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uz70uuh, nostr:nprofile1qqsxu35yyt0mwjjh8pcz4zprhxegz69t4wr9t74vk6zne58wzh0waycpzfmhxue69uhk27t9wvhxvdm69e5k7tcpr9mhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet59uz79kj2, nostr:nprofile1qqs04xzt6ldm9qhs0ctw0t58kf4z57umjzmjg6jywu0seadwtqqc75spz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszxnhwden5te0wpuhyctdd9jzuenfv96x5ctx9e3k7mf0mc8j8f, and nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0amc0kw: nostr:naddr1qqxnzde4x5erjv3e8y6nydpjqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqzyzpxa8uftwq6ksdy2g3x3vjfu6xs9j5pvzx77432fy7wud0lchr4jqcyqqq823c6afac6

if I am only now introducing you to Sofiane Pamart, you’re welcome: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kj2SFIOHB71KzbwUcJEb2XwjEdCZgJkjY

can the CEO of nostr please explain how they plan to enforce the Online Safety Act, thanks

yo nostr:nprofile1qqsxu35yyt0mwjjh8pcz4zprhxegz69t4wr9t74vk6zne58wzh0waycprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuer9wfnkjemf9e3k7mf0qyvhwumn8ghj7mtpw3exj7pwv3jhyemfva5jucm0d5hslx53n6, send me your AI doomer anthropological excursions plz 🙏