“Money is a matter of functions four: a medium, a measure, a standard, a store. But money is not all these functions equally well, and therein lies the problem.” — William Stanley Jevons, Money and the Mechanism of Exchange (1875) #quotestr

Saturday morning #runstr

It’s great that have a bitcoiner making such great interviews! And Emad Mostaque has such interesting views

Fountain: Podcasts & Music

The Peter McCormack Show • #206 - Emad Mostaque - "Your Job's Economic Life Expectancy Ends In 2 Years" • Listen on Fountain

Emad Mostaque founded Stability AI, built Stable Diffusion, and helped kick off the open-source generative AI explosion - before stepping down to b...

Hearing Dr. Roman Yampolskiy is really refreshing! https://fountain.fm/episode/nhS0oUgehQWQkNm5rP2O

Evening #runstr

Morning #runstr

It’s time for Africa! Finally, the true size of #Africa will be shown in maps, 400 years after the Mercator projection created the illusion of smallness of the continent!

UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size

The Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - with the US as the only nation to vote against it.

Great short video on Kilian Jornet

In the mood! Chariots of Fire by Vangelis

My wife got her entry for the 100th Comrades Race! Celebrations all around!🎉🥳🎈

Good morning all! Let’s make this a great day! #grownostr #plebchain #coffeechain

“Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."— Arnold J. Toynbee #quotestr

Top 3 at UTMB CCC have arrived: Cristian Minoggio from Italy won, Miguel Arsénio from Portugal was second and Hans Troyer from the U.S. came third (still to be confirmed has he was caught on camera littering on the course)

Watching UTMB CCC race 100km (actually close to 108km) across the Alps! Great so see a Portuguese on a podium place fighting Hans Troyer (Young and Fit)! https://www.youtube.com/live/YKvTXlAaNEg

For a marathon it ended up feeling easy! Tusker Lite Mt. Rwenzori marathon in Kasese, Uganda Started at the Equator line! #runstr

Comrades Marathon Centenary race was presented today! Here’s the main takeaways: 1/ The Comrades Marathon Centenary Race is on Sunday 13 June 2027, and entries open on Tuesday 25 August. 28 000 places, 4 entry windows and a general entry ballot. Here's how it actually works. 2/ Tuesday 25 August, 10:00 am SAST: Green Number and Yellow Number entries open, first come first served, entry caps apply. They close on Monday 31 August at 16:30 pm SAST, or sooner if caps are reached. Amabeadibeadi charity entries open the same morning. 3/ Wednesday 2 September, 10:00 am SAST: CMA Member entries open for 72 hours or until the entry cap is reached. First come first served. 4/ Wednesday 9 September, 10:00 am SAST: general entries open by ballot application. Ballot applications close on Tuesday 22 September at 16:30 pm SAST. The draw happens on Wednesday 23 September and you'll know the outcome the same day. 5/ You still need a qualifier. A 42.2km marathon in under 5 hours. Qualify any time between 15 June 2026 and 3 May 2027. No qualifier, no start line. 6/ Big news - no increase in race entry fees for 2027 (the last time entry fees were increased was in 2022) South Africa R1 200 Rest of Africa R2 000 International R4 500 And if you've earned 25+ Comrades finishes, you don't pay a cent. 7/ Part payment option: 50% when you enter, the balance payable by 31 January 2027. 8/ The Comrades Marathon Runners’ Relief Fund assists 1500 South African runners who are unemployed or earn under R30 000 a year by offering a reduced entry fee of up to 50%. T’s and C’s apply. 10/ Entries are online only, on comrades.com or the Comrades Marathon app. #runstr

Good morning all! Let’s make this a great week! #grownostr #plebchain #coffeechain

This morning #runstr

Just received the news that a cyclist died during a stage of Volta a Portugal (Tour of Portugal) after being hit by a car! 🤦 😔

Just finished the book Lost City by Clive Cussler! Entertaining as always although probably went a bit to Mission Impossible grounds! On to Accelerando by Charles Stross! #bookstr