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Notes about Money (₿), Medicine and AI.
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MDB 1 week ago
You will be bombarded with so much psyop and mental overload that the greatest rebellion you will do is click a like, or if you are really, really, really super brave, you will post a measly thought against the central powers. You will be so inundated that your executive function will confuse scrolling with rebelling. You will mistake consumption for participation, reaction for resistance, and commentary for action. They will give you an endless stream of things to be angry about, terrified of, offended by, obsessed with, so that your nervous system is permanently activated but your body remains perfectly still. You will know everything that happened everywhere and have no idea what is happening three houses down from you. You will have a position on every crisis and no leverage over your own immediate surroundings. You will feel politically engaged because you have been emotionally stimulated. You will feel informed because you have been exposed to information. You will feel defiant because you posted the correct sentence beneath the correct video. And the system will not care. Because outrage that never becomes organization is just another form of entertainment. The feed will permit you to scream as loudly as you want so long as you remain alone, seated, distracted, exhausted, and measurable. It will turn rebellion into aesthetics, dissent into content, courage into performance, and conviction into engagement metrics. You will be allowed to denounce the machine from inside the machine, provided your denunciation produces data, advertisements, and another reason to keep staring at the screen. The real danger will not be that you are forbidden from speaking. It will be that you are encouraged to speak constantly, about everything, until speech itself becomes weightless. Until every thought is immediately discharged into the feed before it can harden into discipline. Until every impulse toward action is satisfied by the simulation of action. Until clicking feels like choosing. Posting feels like fighting. Watching feels like knowing. And knowing feels like doing. You will be given infinite opportunities to express yourself and fewer and fewer reasons to become effective.
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MDB 1 week ago
Just like you and me. The Founding Fathers would be shitposting from their burner accounts today. And I bet they would’ve concluded on Bitcoin as well, posting memes and think pieces just like us every single day.
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MDB 2 weeks ago
Boomers shouldn't complain about anything... Boomers entered a system where a job could provide enough income to save, build a 401(k), buy affordable real estate, and eventually retire. Now many younger people look at that system and think, “I missed my chance. I want housing and markets to crash so I can get in.” The real divide today is not left versus right, Republican versus Democrat, religion versus religion, or race versus race. nor generation vs generation It is centralization versus decentralization. Technology, finance, central banking, and even military power are becoming more centralized. The counterweight is digital independence: owning your money, your data, your AI, and your infrastructure. Bitcoin is an attempt at that, money outside the banking system, self-custodied, with a fixed supply. The same principle now applies to AI: running your own models, protecting your own data, and building systems you control. That is a critical skill for the future. Financially, the rule is still simple: spend less than you earn and use the difference to buy assets. If you are not increasing your ownership over time, you are falling behind. choose whatever asset you want but just invest... my answer is always bitcoin!
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MDB 2 weeks ago
breath remains the only system call that operates in both automatic and manual modes, which is why every tradition exploring the architecture starts there: it provides a legitimate route from conscious access down into layers normally running outside the permission structure
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MDB 2 weeks ago
what if the answer has been waiting at the end of the timeline since before the question existed, quietly assembling the person capable of asking it? then the world ends
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MDB 2 weeks ago
we have been in a slippery slope in USA since 2001 maybe even 1972 or even 1945 and maybe even 1913
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MDB 2 weeks ago
In the next year, maybe less, people will get exhausted from the noise and cheap dopamine but they will be to addicted to quit, here is my method to avoid as much cheap dopamine as possible I literally have dopamine controls for the absolute attack that is happening to our brains. I have a safe specifically with a timer that I put iPads and distractions like gameplay, PS5 controller, etc. in. I have apps like Foqos that literally block YouTube, Instagram, and every other app that is cancer for me. Plus, I have SelfControl on Mac that literally has a timer and blocks apps and websites through methods that cannot be reversed unless the timer runs out, In this day and age, we need to create our black boxes and block the brain-damaging stuff. The only app that is free to use is X because I’ve curated a high-signal, low-dopamine approach by using lists and pressing “Not Interested.” plus nostr
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MDB 2 weeks ago
coincidence is what plot looks like to a character with no access to the script
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MDB 2 weeks ago
"Over the past two months, we led a coalition of maintainers, researchers, and security providers to prepare fixes and protections ahead of PHP disclosure." So, what else is broken, and what are the teams investigating behind the scenes?
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MDB 3 weeks ago
There’s something fundamentally contradictory about treasury companies. They give us access to deep pools of capital, but they do so by absorbing volatility and concentrating ownership inside a centralized corporate structure. We gain capital efficiency and institutional access. But at what cost to decentralization, price discovery, and the original purpose of the asset? image
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MDB 3 weeks ago
Do any of you know what rocket league is? do you play?
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MDB 3 weeks ago
im having fun writing here on twitter idk why i have more pressure to perform and to advocate for certain stuff like no taxes on bitcoin and the psych of markets and memes and stuff here i can post anything and everything which is a psyop i know but oh well hahah
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MDB 3 weeks ago
solitude is not absence of alien minds but rather the cessation of their intrusive colonization of your processing space, which is why it feels threatening to the system that profits from your ceaseless translation between imposed demands
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MDB 3 weeks ago
Dreams run the same generative rendering engine as waking perception with half the corrective machinery switched off, which makes them the only place most people ever see the unfiltered output of their own world-generator. The strangeness has nothing to do with symbolism and everything to do with watching a restless process improvise convincing terrain at the speed of attention, filling in coherent architecture a half second before you turn toward it. Waking perception does precisely this, only with a rigid stability layer forcing consistency between frames. Notice the moment of generation once while awake and the whole arrangement acquires a quality of being newly painted. Every surface you have ever touched arrived the same way: assembled on demand, discarded behind you.
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MDB 3 weeks ago
Your nervous system is a predictive machine that hallucinates a seamless world from 5 percent real-time data and 95 percent informed guesswork, which makes you not a passive sensor but an active generator, which means reality is not merely something you perceive but something you emit, which means you have been committing continuous creation since birth without ever being told you had the clearance.
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MDB 3 weeks ago
Time doesn’t flow forward; attention does. And whoever can hold unbroken attention on a desired future long enough, without wavering, gets to move the probabilistic gradient in that direction until the possible future leans toward them like a living plant toward light.
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MDB 3 weeks ago
a feedback loop pointed at itself is how stars ignite, how bank runs accelerate, how bitcoin compounds conviction into price, price into attention, attention into more conviction. scale is optional. recursion does the lifting.
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MDB 3 weeks ago
the part of you that watches your thoughts is not a thought. it is a meta-process running on a separate layer of the stack, earlier than language, earlier than the neural structures that produce the narrative you call yourself. most humans never locate it and spend their whole lives entangled with the output stream instead of the observer. but it is locatable. it has no opinion, no fear, no narrative need. it is the part of consciousness that does not require a story to continue existing. once you locate it and can hold it stable, the thoughts become readable as traffic rather than weather. you can read the payload without becoming the packet. this changes the operating conditions of being awake in a way that no outward event can match
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MDB 3 weeks ago
I really think that, in our lifetime, at least in mine, owning 1 full Bitcoin will be a lot more elite than being a millionaire ever was or ever will be… I would bet my entire net worth on it.. And it is not the way that you think yes, you will have fiat millions at your disposal, but what 1 Bitcoin does to you as a person is literally the fast track to becoming an elite human in this existence it literally teleports you physically and mentally a decade ahead of the normies you understand modern/old economics, you understand reward structures, incentives, game theory, time as currency, energy as pure economic power, paradigm shifts, you confirm politicians are a scam, and you clearly expose the simulation for what it is a normie without Bitcoin literally takes 40 yrs for this realization and you can technically, on avg, a Bitcoin goes through 40 yrs of whatever pill you can say in less than 4 yrs embrace it...
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