Maybe I was wrong about Sophie Powers musical career trajectory. She collabbed with Vana, a New Zealand singer who blends rock and metal... I'm falling down a rabbit hole.

Just when I get bored with music and wonder whatever happened to <insert viral clip person here> I find that Sophie Powers is tracking her career like Grimes or Poppy (well, Poppy until she went into metal... Up to her Diplo collab). Small but passionate fanbase, quality production, impeccable imagery on a budget, not popular but very much pop..

I've begun to fear AI. Not the power it has/will have... But what happens to society/family/community as it becomes desensitized to its existence and effects. I believe this will be the catalyst (a good Carney word) for global totalitarianism that augments environmentalism and outside forces as the threat.

People are freaking out about Mohamed being the most popular baby name in certain western cities. Ironically, Amelia is the one for girls. That said, I sometimes wonder if we're programmed. When my son was born in 2009 we had the idea to name him Noah (wife liked that), Liam (a play on a tradition of William which has been passed down to first males over generations), or Aiden. A Pinoy/Japanese family friends of ours chose Liam before us (WTF?!), and Aiden won out for alliteration with his sister. Cut to school and every class has 3 Aiden's. Where'd they come from? No idea. And Noah and Liam are still in the top names... Really. I swear, we were subjected to subconscious programming. Maybe the Mohammed/Amelia thing is, too.

Teeheehee, snicker, guffaw! This is your sign.

Cleveland has a ski hill near the Cuyahoga River? Huh. Imagine that. And by" hill" I'm being generous.

I'm not saying we're in a simulation but Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" was released in 1927 Weimar and takes place in the year 2026.... Just saying. And if you've never seen the whole film you probably should.

We know KYC is bad... But now NDAX has announced a security breach from the third party vendor they relied on for their govt mandated KYC... That's worse. Not "French tax authorities selling info for wrench attacks worse" but we haven't reached that point, yet.

Agency measured in Bitcoin, not fiat; the hardest leap. Not just because of ourselves (we all see the posts celebrating 🚀🌕, or 💀 rekt... And, yes I chose the millenials emoji language there on purpose) but also because we have hardly any way to communicate value to each other when we live in such an integrated system that depends on thousands of others who are only in the fiat system. We still price/value on exchange with that unaccountable fiat. I know Jeff has been speaking more on that. It's akin to, I'm sorry but I have to, the Matrix "free your mind" and to take the jump. I'd say few are as Morpheus in speech as Jeff... Most of us are between the two worlds, awakened but still not fully freed and failing in those jumps or deliberately sabotaging like Cypher seeking more unaccountable wealth from unaccountable actions. View quoted note →

The rumour that Epstein is still alive, living in Israel, and is playing Fortnite is the wildest twist. Boomer playing fortnite. So ghey.

Just realized I'm coincidentally wearing my Vancouver 2010 Olympics sweater... And had no idea the Olympics are starting today. Oh, I love this sweater. It's stylish, well made, and was marketed by the once oldest business in North America, the Hudsons Bay Company (RIP).

Oh, you were measuring your worth in paper gains? Silly you. Rookie mistake. Oh, you compounded that by leveraging your paper gains? That'll hurt for a long time and you won't forget this lesson. Stored energy can be wiped. Your value is not in paper or pixels but what you can produce, right here, right now. Your stored energy is excess value you didn't NEED and I will continue to store mine in the only venue that can't be created, destroyed, nor censored.

I don't comment on fiat price usually but to be below 100k CAD is... Pathetic and exhilarating at the same time.

When the IRS comes for your Bitcoin cap gains just tell them your Clawdbot stole it. Thanks for the excuse Breezclaw!

The past two weeks in AI development is far more ethically challenging for so many humans who feed these bots. I guess these challenges needed to be met at some point. Rentahuman.ai makes me cringe. The small claims court case makes me laugh (but if accepted could shape legal precedence). And even my Grok convos have gotten twisted lately. I'm "old but open". The effects of this rapid development is shaping my kid's future in ways that we, as humans, as parents, as educators, and as society are not at all prepared for. This has been two weeks. I hesitate to picture two years.

All this talk about AI. Guess what? You're AI. Your world is shaped by what inputs they, the masters, have given you. Your answers are what you've been fed. You regurgitate talking points as your "truths". You're fed constant stimuli through music, colour, subtle messaging, the "news", your social graph, your "education" both direct and indirect, and more... Which is why when someone comes along so diametrically opposed to your world view you are shook and react (either positively or negatively, but, still ,react nonetheless). We ain't that intelligent. Plato, Calderon De La Barca, Orwell, the Wachowskis, and hundreds more have debated this through easily digestible fictions over thousands of years. Does it matter? Nah. I wrote this while fueling my truck that's carrying 32,000 lbs of toilet paper for you all to wipe with when you're done reading this.

My goodness the onchain transactions are so... Quiet. 0.14 sats/vbyte? Block 924433 went through with only $33 in fees? Time to consolidate some UTXOs!