The world today is filled with people who want credit (monetary and socially) for creation, but don’t do any of the actual work to create. Financiers, MBA’s, product managers, VC’s, “tech enthusiats”, people using AI to generate images and then calling it art, and so on. From a cursory perspective, this is very disheartening. Our culture adores the managerial class and practically worships successful money managers. But, the silver lining is that the bar has literally never been lower to be a successful craftsman. Learn a craft, apply it well, create value for people, and you’ll be ahead of 80% of the population, at least. Oh, and once you create that value, make sure you #stacksats to protect yourself 😉

Welp, looks like banks are already trying to make moves to prevent you from using your money as you please. The terms included that you cannot use your funds for "firearms, ammo, cryptocurrency, child support, court ordered payments" and more. Not surprising, but disappointing it's a small credit union that generally has a good reputation. #bitcoin #notyourkeys

I was having a conversation with a family member who is an officer in the Navy at a very prominent naval base. He’s involved in some wild stuff. Most notably, he described the process of going from top secret intel to firing on a target. Because only a handful of people have a TS, usually the actual reason a ship is being ordered to fire on a target is completely concealed from the people on the ship. I can’t help but think that the entire concept of classifying information is a huge reason the war machine beats on. If you’re just a pleb on a boat that can fire missiles, you have no idea of what you’re being ordered to do is justifiable. This is how atrocities get carried out, by segregating information to the point only a few people actually know what’s happening. I found it quite unnerving, to be honest. He’s a good dude and I don’t have any judgement against him, but wow is that system absolutely terrifying. Tucker Carlson recently had a rant about classification and how unconstitutional it is. I am starting to think there’s a lot of truth in that. That whole system has been weaponized.

I keep having lightning channels force closed on #mutiny. I just opened a new channel and as soon as the on chain transaction was confirmed, the channel was force closed. Anyone else experiencing that?

I have a question as a #robosats newb - I was originally intending to buy KYC free sats with Amazon gift cards, but it doesn't seem like there is much demand for that from sellers. I see a lot of people putting up offers with Strike as a payment method. My question is, wouldn't paying via Strike (assuming I'd have to KYC w/ them) defeat the entire purpose? I'm not seeing the advantage with that...

Oh man, I really hope this data gets leaked and it causes backlash. Of course, it’ll go completely unnoticed 😭

Security Affairs

LockBit claims the hack of the US Federal Reserve

The Lockbit ransomware group announced that it had breached the US Federal Reserve and exfiltrated 33 TB of sensitive data.

This is what fucking around with shit coins gets you.

Kraken claims it is being 'extorted' as white hat hacker demands reward after $3M theft

Just got a #start9 server setup, got #noStrudel installed and using #getAlby to zap sats. SOOOO COOL!!

This was an interesting read -

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Let Tim Cook

Last week, Apple announced “Apple Intelligence,” a suite of features coming to iOS 18 (the next version of the iPhone’s software) in a presen...

The author claims that OpenAI getting into iPhones was actually a very raw deal for them and wonders how they’ll avoid becoming even more unprofitable. Here’s my guess - they’re going to turn to the tried and true Silicon Valley practice of monetizing user data. LLMs are unique in that they are an incredible way to carry out surveillance on a level that’s almost unheard of. Hence why OpenAI just added a former NSA director to its board. I’m sick of every electronic device I own spying on me. I really hope that hyper Bitcoinization happens soon and catches big tech by surprise and wipes them out. My biggest fear with AI has absolutely nothing to do with AGI. I personally think it’s impossible. But, I do think the chances of AI being used to further the regime are incredibly strong. If I ever escape the fiat game, I’m going to start a company called “Dumb Electronics”. Complete with absolutely 0 internet connectivity, hardware plugs of all types, and hardware kill switches. Maybe one day 😅

This was an insanely fascinating read. Really opened my eyes to how much sci-fi has influenced culture and just how easily we can fool ourselves into believing something is inevitable.

For over a century, telepathy has been just around the corner | Aeon Essays

For the entire 20th century, it had felt like telepathy was just around the corner. Why is that especially true now?

This is exactly why I believe it’s a huge positive that Trump is suddenly “pro Bitcoin”. It doesn’t so much matter if he actually delivers, but it’s proof of the game theory of Bitcoin. It’s now important enough in an election that politicians feel it’s beneficial to take a position on it. Bitcoin has only been around for 4 elections now! Imagine what might happen over the next 4 (assuming we have them 😅) View quoted note →