It's hard to feel optimistic about even the most positive developments when you've spent the last few months watching your nation's founding document and supreme law completely fail to protect the most basic human rights of an entire state's population. For Virginians, the sacred freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights rendered null and void by nothing more than a single state election cycle, and the first thing the tyrants did after taking power is set to work to ensure that their party never loses another election. What can you do when you're too small to fight back and too poor to leave? It's not like we ignored pandemic-era warnings to flee a woke city full of subway trains and skyscrapers. We live within a mile of a cow pasture and a national forest. Wherever you go, the woke mind-virus will find you. You can run but you can't hide. A few days shy of 251 years ago, a famous Virginian asked his neighbors, "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" The 2026 response to that question is apparently a resounding "Yes!" Forbid it, Almighty God.

I swear if nostr was a car it would be Lucille LaRusso's station wagon 🤦‍♂️

You're probably familiar with the Tate-LaBianca (Manson family) murders but have you ever heard of the Hanafi Massacre, and the hostage crises that it inspired?

1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre - Wikipedia

--- Whelton summarized the general mood: "Half the people want the gunmen to come out fighting. The other half want the cops to go in shooting. Everybody wants blood." This frustrated the NYPD, especially Schlossberg, who feared the crowd and the media could negatively affect negotiations.

1973 Brooklyn hostage crisis - Wikipedia

--- Then-councilman and future four-term D.C. mayor Marion Barry walked into the hallway after hearing a commotion and was struck by a ricocheting shotgun pellet, which lodged just above his heart. L. Douglas Heck and Rudy Giuliani had organized a team within the United States Department of Justice aimed at "combating terrorism". Although they claimed that DC police would handle the attacks, they soon brought in two intelligence operatives, Steve Pieczenik and Robert Blum.

1977 Washington, D.C., attack and hostage taking - Wikipedia

He's amazed at how many people in their 50s, 60s and 70s run a Bitaxe. I guess you could call it Bingo for old nerds 😂 Plus, supporting Bitcoin is an easy lift for grouchy old farts who want to nuke a printer-backed government that's spent a half-century enshitifying every aspect of our lives. We're not all spending our second half of show RV-ing across America, choking down statins and making it rain on a Denny's server. I've watched too many of my elders ride out their final years in a recliner, shouting at some sucker in a 3 piece. Homie don't play that. I'm gonna kill their money printer or it's gonna kill me.

I like the analogy that trusting big tech to honor your privacy choices is like trusting a hungry dog not to eat the pizza next to it. Mic-jamming gadget demo at 19:00

Where's Doc and Marty?! 🤣 "The Beautiful Irony A $50 Bitaxe in 2026 has more raw SHA-256 hashing power than the entire Bitcoin network did for the first several months of its existence. The total network hashrate didn't reach 500 GH/s until sometime around mid-2011. So your tiny little Bitaxe would have been the most powerful mining operation on the planet for roughly the first two years of Bitcoin's life. 🤯"

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says the DSCNet software suite collects real-time audio and other signal-related intelligence from telephones, microphones, and fax lines – including dialed numbers, phone call content, text messages, and location data from cellular towers – pursuant to court-authorized warrants https://cybernews.com/news/fbi-cyberattack-wiretap-surveillance-network/

Diesel is $4.69 a gallon at every station in town.

Any other Starlink users notice most of their sent zaps from Primal wallet fail when VPN is off?

Atlaspool, the next big thing?

Grateful that ebook reader software doesn't function like social media apps, or else swiping back to the previous page would throw you all the way back to the beginning of the book.

Exodus - The Toxic Waltz

A long-running lawsuit claiming that a private prison contractor broke federal and Colorado law by forcing immigration detainees to work moved closer to trial Wednesday after the Supreme Court unanimously rejected a bid by the company to toss out the case. The contractor, GEO Group, asserted it was entitled to immunity and should not face a civil trial because the firm’s detainee work policies were carried out at the direction of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The class-action lawsuit, filed in 2014, focused on practices at GEO’s facility in Aurora, Colorado. Immigration detainees there were required to clean all common areas and faced possible solitary confinement for failing to comply. They were offered $1 a day for work preparing food and cleaning laundry at a time when the state’s minimum wage was $8 an hour. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/25/supreme-court-ruling-ice-detention-contractor-00797951

Is this true?

Cool trick

Stacking sats is like trying to have a sexual relationship with your spouse when you work opposite shift schedules. Got some spare dollars? ATH Bear market? Car broke down, furnace died, someone needs a root canal Every. Single. Time.

We trained and armed the Mexican cartels https://www.youtube.com/live/gbcLz6eFOSc