The greatest psyop the military industrial complex has ever performed is the recent shift in the minds of Americans that to be anti-war is to be anti-democrat(ic). Criticizing the escalation of conflict is apolitical.

‘Sup lil’ Ewok?

How often do you suppose the wicked ends of clandestine organizations are thwarted by a motley crew of misfits?

Just realized that social network bios are modern tombstone statements.

Every single person you meet in this world is a protagonist. There are no NPCs.

It's easy to think that just because the world has worked a certain way for the whole of your lifetime that it will continue to work this way. In reality, there is no evidence to support this idea, and much evidence to counter it. Read more on my latest substack:

Every Generation is a Monetary Experiment

Just because money worked this way for most of your life...

I really hope that someone in my network is at burning man, safe, comes back changed but undamaged, and publishes a best selling coffee table book called Drowning Man, which documents an objective review of the human condition in the context of climate change, art, and the pursuit of the unusual. Be sure to capture the poetry of the climate activists who were protesting Jets and plastic bottles by blocking traffic coming in, the ineffectiveness of that gesture, and the reality on the ground.

In Bitcoin astrology for finance nerds news: this might just be a horizontal channel for a bit. TBD if it manages to break below 25K. I would think Blackrock could force it to $20K if they really wanted to. There's a lot of back and forth pressure on the long/short contracts and the players with the most money get to decide these short-term swings.

Added both Cathie Wood's 625K-1.48M prediction to my own prediction about Blackrock ETF, fork, and propaganda campaign:

Blackrock will succeed in the Bitcoin ETF, then they will twist the ESG narrative again and release a proof-of-stake Bitcoin hard-fork and spread a smear campaign to make it look like they are going all in on the PoS version while they use that PoS fork dividend in the pump to acquire more BTC from people who don't understand it. Then they will release a big media blitz that a new breakthrough in PoW is going to solve all the climate and social justice issues.

running bitcoin. running nostr. running wild.

Just listened to @ODELL on @Peter McCormack and remembered what it was like 20+ years ago when everything I did on the internet was GPG encrypted, linux, decentralized... time to go back to the root. Thanks for the reminder.