don't think it's possible to determine if JP Morgan had a massive short on itself and was attempting
Now, I don't think it's possible to determine if JP Morgan had a massive short on itself and was attempting to intentionally screw its clients over while massively benefiting from a trade, but, at the very least, the inability to deliver a relatively small slug of shares is quite perplexing and would lead me to believe that they were, at the very least, rehypothecating MSTR shares to short sellers. Maybe there will be some public filings in the future that disclose a trade. If I were to guess, they're most likely lending them out to short sellers who are aligned with JP Morgan in their disdain for bitcoin and anything associated with it. This is all made particularly interesting when you consider the fact that Strategy started offering yield-bearing credit instruments for the first time throughout the year, which directly compete with JP Morgan's credit products.
Das russische Außenministerium spricht von Fortschritten in den Gesprächen mit den USA über den Ukraine-Krieg.
Translation: Russian foreign minister says that there is now slow, but sure, progress in the peace negotiations.
Das russische Außenministerium spricht von Fortschritten in den Gesprächen mit den USA über den Ukraine-Krieg. „Im Verhandlungsprozess zur Beilegung des Ukraine-Konflikts, ich meine damit den Verhandlungsprozess mit den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, sind langsame, aber sichere Fortschritte zu beobachten“, sagte Ministeriumssprecherin Maria Sacharowa nach Angaben der Staatsagentur Tass bei einer Pressekonferenz.
Each modern war has left a permanent legacy of increased state power. The income tax, once temporary, became permanent. Agencies created for wartime never dissolved. The emergency never quite ends. A new crisis always emerges to justify what the old crisis established.
Each modern war has left a permanent legacy of increased state power. The income tax, once temporary, became permanent. Agencies created for wartime never dissolved. The emergency never quite ends. A new crisis always emerges to justify what the old crisis established.
Aktuell gibt es aus Sicht der BA-Chefin keine Gruppe an Arbeitnehmern mehr, die vor Jobverlust gefeit ist
„Wir haben einen Indikator, der anzeigt, wie hoch die Wahrscheinlichkeit für arbeitslose Menschen ist, wieder einen Job zu finden. Der Wert liegt meist um sieben, jetzt aber bei 5,7 – so niedrig wie nie zuvor.“
Aktuell gibt es aus Sicht der BA-Chefin keine Gruppe an Arbeitnehmern mehr, die vor Jobverlust gefeit ist... „Wir haben so wenig junge Menschen in Ausbildung vermittelt bekommen wie seit 25 Jahren nicht.“
Wenn ich Kritikfähigkeit lernen möchte, dann kann ich das nur an Texten tun.
Ich sehe es an meinen Studenten. Die glauben zum Teil alles... In meinen Augen hat die sinkende Bedeutung des Lesens gravierende Folgen für die gesamte Öffentlichkeit und für das demokratische Miteinander. Die Öffentlichkeit ist ja sozusagen die große Kontrollinstanz in der Demokratie. Wenn ich Kritikfähigkeit lernen möchte, dann kann ich das nur an Texten tun. Insofern sehe ich unsere demokratische Öffentlichkeit da auf einer absolut schiefen Ebene. Wenn wir zu einer Gesellschaft von strukturellen Analphabeten werden, dann kann jeder uns mit Fake News einseifen, der das möchte.
Отче наш, Който си на небесата!
Да се свети Твоето име,
да дойде Твоето Царство,
да бъде Твоята воля,
както на небето, тъй и на земята;
насъщния ни хляб дай ни днес,
и прости нам дълговете ни,
както и ние прощаваме на нашите длъжници,
и не въведи нас в изкушение,
но избави ни от лукавия;
защото Твое е царството,
и силата, и славата вовеки.
Амин.
The conflation of state and society has intensified under democratic governance. "We are the government" becomes the refrain. But this formulation leads to absurdities. If the democratic government is simply "the people," then every act of the state is an act of the people upon themselves. Taxation becomes voluntary contribution. Imprisonment becomes self-confinement. War becomes collective suicide.
The conflation of state and society has intensified under democratic governance. "We are the government" becomes the refrain. But this formulation leads to absurdities. If the democratic government is simply "the people," then every act of the state is an act of the people upon themselves. Taxation becomes voluntary contribution. Imprisonment becomes self-confinement. War becomes collective suicide.
Nostr Connect support
Nostr Connect support
Constitution
Constitutional limits are meant to constrain the state. But who enforces these limits? The state itself. The Supreme Court decides what the Constitution means. Unsurprisingly, each generation of Court decisions has expanded the scope of permissible state action. Written parchment cannot restrain living power.
conscripted
Yet a moment's reflection reveals the absurdity. When the state taxes you, do you feel you are taxing yourself? When its agents arrest you, are you arresting yourself? When it conscripts your children for war, have you conscripted your own children?
You can spend $1000 on yourself or $10 on your friend and you might find that the $10 spent on someone else bought you more happiness
You can spend $1000 on yourself or $10 on your friend and you might find that the $10 spent on someone else bought you more happiness
1984 sagt uns daher nicht, was geschehen wird, sondern was immer geschehen kann –
und wer diese Warnung ignoriert, überlässt der Macht die Definition der Wahrheit.
und waren diese Warnung, über die Macht die Definition der Wahrheit.
und waren diese Warnung, über die Macht die Definition der Wahrheit.
Film "وادي الذئاب"الفيلم مشهور في سوريا وبه ممثلين سوريين ويتجاوز عدد الحلقات 600 حلقة
من يريد المشاهدة ويأتي للحدث عن أحداث الفيلم.
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Comparing Nostr Group Implementations This document compares different approaches to implementing group functionality in the Nostr protocol, as defined in different NIPs, as well as alternative community structures like Ditto.
مقارنة تنفيذات مجموعة Nostr
تقارن هذه الوثيقة بين الأساليب المختلفة لتنفيذ وظائف المجموعة في بروتوكول Nostr، كما هو محدد في خطط التنفيذ الوطنية المختلفة، بالإضافة إلى هياكل المجتمع البديلة مثل Ditto.
Oiréis a la gente en Nostr decir que “el algoritmo somos nosotros”. Hay algo muy poderoso en esa frase: nos hace dueños de las cosas que pasan por nuestros ojos, pero también nos convierte en el filtro curatorial de la gente que nos sigue
Oiréis a la gente en Nostr decir que “el algoritmo somos nosotros”. Hay algo muy poderoso en esa frase: nos hace dueños de las cosas que pasan por nuestros ojos, pero también nos convierte en el filtro curatorial de la gente que nos sigue
1984 sagt uns daher nicht, was geschehen wird, sondern was immer geschehen kann –und wer diese Warnung ignoriert, überlässt der Macht die Definition der Wahrheit.
1984
1984 sagt uns daher nicht, was geschehen wird, sondern was immer geschehen kann –und wer diese Warnung ignoriert, überlässt der Macht die Definition der Wahrheit.
1984
Do you ever feel like a rubber band that’s been stretched too far? Do you ever feel overworked and lazy at the same time? Do you find yourself exhausted, yet still judging yourself for not doing enough?
If so, there’s a good chance you’re a high‑conscientiousness person.
Do you ever feel like a rubber band that’s been stretched too far? Do you ever feel overworked and lazy at the same time? Do you find yourself exhausted, yet still judging yourself for not doing enough?
Do you ever feel like a rubber band that’s been stretched too far? Do you ever feel overworked and lazy at the same time? Do you find yourself exhausted, yet still judging yourself for not doing enough?
If so, there’s a good chance you’re a high‑conscientiousness person.
Do you ever feel like a rubber band that’s been stretched too far? Do you ever feel overworked and lazy at the same time? Do you find yourself exhausted, yet still judging yourself for not doing enough?
Do you ever feel like a rubber band that’s been stretched too far? Do you ever feel overworked and lazy at the same time? Do you find yourself exhausted, yet still judging yourself for not doing enough?
If so, there’s a good chance you’re a high‑conscientiousness person.
Do you ever feel like a rubber band that’s been stretched too far? Do you ever feel overworked and lazy at the same time? Do you find yourself exhausted, yet still judging yourself for not doing enough?
over platforms where your identity lives in a corporate database
over platforms where your identity lives in a corporate database
All so that they can force CBDCs-by-another-name-that-they-can-control-and-monetize on the market while simultaneously kneecapping bitcoin adoption and its proliferation as a medium of exchange. The crypto lobby is a disease that needs to be fought vigorously.
All so that they can force CBDCs-by-another-name-that-they-can-control-and-monetize on the market while simultaneously kneecapping bitcoin adoption and its proliferation as a medium of exchange. The crypto lobby is a disease that needs to be fought vigorously.
The fact that capital gains taxes exist in the first place is an abomination. They’re essentially a savings tax that punishes people who allocated their money wisely with an onerous and material clip that is handed over to the taxman. A taxman that is taking that money and literally enabling fraud on a scale that would make Bernie Madoff blush.
The fact that capital gains taxes exist in the first place is an abomination. They’re essentially a savings tax that punishes people who allocated their money wisely with an onerous and material clip that is handed over to the taxman. A taxman that is taking that money and literally enabling fraud on a scale that would make Bernie Madoff blush.
When people keep what they produce, they produce more. When they can save without fear of confiscation, they save. When they can invest knowing their capital is secure, they invest. Savings become capital. Capital increases productivity. Productivity generates wealth. Wealth compounds across generations.
When people keep what they produce, they produce more. When they can save without fear of confiscation, they save. When they can invest knowing their capital is secure, they invest. Savings become capital. Capital increases productivity. Productivity generates wealth. Wealth compounds across generations.
Ten31, the largest bitcoin-focused investor, has deployed $200M across 30+ companies through three funds. I am a Managing Partner at Ten31 and am very proud of the work we are doing. Learn more at ten31.vc/invest.
Ten31, the largest bitcoin-focused investor, has deployed $200M across 30+ companies through three funds. I am a Managing Partner at Ten31 and am very proud of the work we are doing. Learn more at ten31.vc/invest.
Instacart is ending all item price tests on our platform. Retailers will no longer be able to use Eversight technology to run item price tests on Instacart.
apparently people didnt like it
Everyone who interacts with Debian source code should be able to do so entirely in git.
imagine if your os and packages were delivered through nostr via git. whats the status of each of the github replacement projects on nostr? #asknostr
For the developer just starting out today, the landscape has shifted permanently. The protection once offered by copyright is dissolving into a sea of AI-generated syntax.
The rise of the architect means that your value no longer lives in the files you commit to GitHub. It lives in your ability to define intent, maintain direction, and master the logic of a solution.
You can no longer compete on the bricks. To survive and thrive in this new era, you have to compete on vision.
The narrative of the “solitary genius in the garage” is perhaps the most effective public relations tool of the last century.
The narrative of the “solitary genius in the garage” is perhaps the most effective public relations tool of the last century.
The taxpayers payed the for R&D of decades, while Apple privatized the rewards, packaging military technology into a sleek design to extract what Yanis Varoufakis calls “feudal rents” via the App Store. Typical parasitic behavior
The taxpayers payed the for R&D of decades, while Apple privatized the rewards, packaging military technology into a sleek design to extract what Yanis Varoufakis calls “feudal rents” via the App Store. Typical parasitic behavior
This romantic story, where pure innovation and the free market reward brilliant young college dropouts with trillion-dollar empires, serves as a perfect smoke screen.
This romantic story, where pure innovation and the free market reward brilliant young college dropouts with trillion-dollar empires, serves as a perfect smoke screen.
This romantic story, where pure innovation and the free market reward brilliant young college dropouts with trillion-dollar empires, serves as a perfect smoke screen.
The narrative of the "solitary genius in the garage" is perhaps the most effective public relations tool of the last century. This romantic story, where pure innovation and the free market reward brilliant young college dropouts with trillion-dollar empires, serves as a perfect smoke screen. By focusing attention on a supposed individual meritocracy, this myth obscures the immense state, military, and intelligence machinery that served as the foundation, financier, and protector of what we now know as "Big Tech".
This romantic story, where pure innovation and the free market reward brilliant young college dropouts with trillion-dollar empires, serves as a perfect smoke screen.
The narrative of the "solitary genius in the garage" is perhaps the most effective public relations tool of the last century. This romantic story, where pure innovation and the free market reward brilliant young college dropouts with trillion-dollar empires, serves as a perfect smoke screen. By focusing attention on a supposed individual meritocracy, this myth obscures the immense state, military, and intelligence machinery that served as the foundation, financier, and protector of what we now know as "Big Tech".
The more you learn about pricing, the less you seem to know.
I’ve been nattering on about this topic for well over 5000 words and I don’t really feel like we’re getting anywhere, you and I.
Some days it seems like it would be easier to be a taxi driver, with prices set by law. Or to be selling sugar. Plain ol’ sugar. Yep. That would be sweet.
Take my advice, offered about 20 pages back: charge $0.05 for your software. Unless it does bug tracking, in which case the correct price is $30,000,000. Thank you for your time, and I apologize for leaving you even less able to price software than you were when you started reading this.
「Nostr 面倒くさい」の一部は「WebSocket 面倒くさい」なのではないかという仮説
「Nostr 面倒くさい」の一部は「WebSocket 面倒くさい」なのではないかという仮説を示し、WebSocket アプリケーションの一般的な課題をハンドリングする部分を rx-nostr から分離して汎用ライブラリとする構想について書きました。
Wir deckeln den Anstieg von Indexmieten bei 3,5 Prozent pro Jahr.
Bundesjustizministerin Stefanie Hubig (SPD) hat eine neue Gesetzesinitiative zum Mietrecht für erschwinglicheren Wohnraum angekündigt. „Wir deckeln den Anstieg von Indexmieten bei 3,5 Prozent pro Jahr. Einen entsprechenden Gesetzentwurf habe ich vor ein paar Tagen in die regierungsinterne Abstimmung gegeben“, sagte Hubig den Partner-Zeitungen der Neuen Berliner Redaktionsgesellschaft...
„Mein Ziel ist, dass unser Mietenpaket spätestens Anfang 2027 so in Kraft tritt – und für alle Indexmietverträge gilt, egal ob neu oder alt.“
push the country towards the peace that so many crave but on terms that terrify them, and with questionable guarantees that Russia won’t simply resume its attacks in future
This winter, the fourth since Russia’s full-scale invasion, threatens to be the bleakest yet for Ukraine... as Donald Trump’s negotiators attempt to push the country towards the peace that so many crave but on terms that terrify them, and with questionable guarantees that Russia won’t simply resume its attacks in future, exhaustion and existential questions are rarely far from people’s minds...
“I think everyone would be ready to stop the war on the current contact line. But to just give away territory, how can we do that? What have we been fighting for for four years, then?”
Macron, signalled a greater willingness from Europeans to tackle vessels in its waters
The “shadow fleet” used by Russia, Iran and Venezuela to avoid western sanctions and ship cargo to customers including China and India is “exploding” in its scale and scope...
It is not only Washington that has indicated it is prepared to intercept shadow fleet tankers. In October, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, signalled a greater willingness from Europeans to tackle vessels in its waters.
One company sits in front of 20% of the web, and when it hiccups, the internet chokes.
X, Zoom, Canva, banks, and many others went down. One company sits in front of 20% of the web, and when it hiccups, the internet chokes.
What we have is geoblocking, deplatforming, and censorship. Closed systems masquerading as open ones. Infrastructure that was originally built for resilience is now optimized for control.
The best error correction is the kind you never notice. When it works, your message arrives. When it catches a mistake, you get another chance. The math protects you from yourself, quietly, reliably, one checksum at a time.
Vermeer's astronomer reached toward his celestial globe to understand the universe's patterns. The mathematicians behind BCH codes reached toward similar abstractions, patterns in finite fields that could catch errors before they cascade into disasters.
Why does this matter? Because the BCH code they selected has distance 6 for single-bit errors. By making likely human mistakes map to single-bit differences, they maximized the code's ability to catch real-world typos.
When central banks create currency out of nothing, they do not create wealth. They create claims on existing wealth, diluting every unit already in circulation. The thief is the central bank. The rising prices are the evidence of the theft.
Inflation is the increase in the money supply. Rising prices are merely the consequence, the symptom of the underlying disease. When central banks create currency out of nothing, they do not create wealth. They create claims on existing wealth, diluting every unit already in circulation. The thief is the central bank. The rising prices are the evidence of the theft.
中国在公开市场与西方过招的同时,暗地利用去中心化的比特币网络构筑自己的清算体系,将民间黑资化为“国家队”弹药,完成对资本管制和西方金融制裁的双重突围。这将是金融史上的一个里程碑式案例,意味着主权国家开始以非常规手段对冲美元霸权的影响。
中国在公开市场与西方过招的同时,暗地利用去中心化的比特币网络构筑自己的清算体系,将民间黑资化为“国家队”弹药,完成对资本管制和西方金融制裁的双重突围。这将是金融史上的一个里程碑式案例,意味着主权国家开始以非常规手段对冲美元霸权的影响。
Be humble in your claims and assumptions. It’s great that your solution is based on post-quantum crypto and the most brilliant algorithms. But are you actually solving the problems people have? Do you have concrete experience in that (work) environment?
The communications/public relations department of an organization isn’t using Mastodon — and it’s not because they don’t have their own Mastodon server. It’s because they already have to manage seven communication channels, and you’re coming in with an eighth that isn’t integrated into their social media workflow. And if they don’t already have such a workflow, they’re certainly not looking forward to 14% more manual work just to support your Mastodon hobby.
So the “pro move” is not to offer a Mastodon server, but (if needed) a Mastodon & BlueSky crossposter. And yes, that hurts ideologically. But we’re here to get people MORE open and LESS big-tech. Not to celebrate our ideals.
L’épargne souveraine : quand la monnaie devient un acte d'une autre politique
Pourquoi la France de l'Eurosystem a besoin des bitcoins ?
L’épargne souveraine : quand la monnaie devient un acte d'une autre politique
Bitcoin, une politique nationale que chacun peut exercer
Placer une épargne en bitcoins, c’est bien plus qu’un choix patrimonial. C’est un acte politique au sens noble du terme : une manière de défendre les intérêts de la Nation en protégeant son capital des errances institutionnelles et des dépendances étrangères. En choisissant de convertir une partie de son épargne dans un actif décentralisé, chaque citoyen exerce une forme de souveraineté financière, proportionnelle à ce qu’il peut supporter de volatilité, mais réelle dans son effet cumulatif.
Car l’argent déposé dans le système bancaire n’est jamais inerte. Les fonds placés sur les comptes courants, les livrets, ou les contrats d’assurance vie sont automatiquement réalloués, principalement dans des fonds américains. Ces fonds, en retour, financent l’économie des États-Unis et, de manière systémique, leur stratégie d’acquisition d’actifs étrangers, y compris européens et français.
En d’autres termes, l’épargne nationale en euro, gérée par les banques et dans produits fisaux nationaux (PEA) contribue à renforcer la puissance économique d’États concurrents, parfois au détriment des intérêts stratégiques de la France.
Le piège énergétique des monnaies-dettes
L’un des effets les plus méconnus de la monnaie fiduciaire est sa dépendance structurelle à l’énergie future. La création monétaire scripturale repose sur une promesse : celle que la croissance économique permettra de rembourser la dette émise aujourd’hui. Mais cette croissance est elle-même indexée sur l’accès à l’énergie.
Les banques, en cherchant à sécuriser leurs créances, privilégient donc les investissements les plus rapidement disponibles : les énergies fossiles.
C’est ainsi que, malgré les discours de transition, la finance française continue de soutenir massivement pétrole et gaz, verrouillant de facto la dépendance du pays à des puissances productrices souvent étrangères.
Bitcoin, au contraire, ne repose sur aucune dette ni sur aucune projection d’énergie future. Il n’absorbe pas de production énergétique à des fins spéculatives : il utilise des excédents sans demande, non stockables, souvent issus d’énergies renouvelables ou d’infrastructures excédentaires, à quasiment 0 KW de produit pour lui. Dans sa logique économique, Bitcoin ne finance rien d’autre que sa propre sécurité ; il ne détourne pas de ressources physiques au profit d’intérêts externes. C’est un système énergétique et monétaire neutre.
Une variable d’équilibre macroéconomique
Même dans une économie libellée en euros, Bitcoin peut jouer un rôle d’équilibre. Une montée de son adoption a pour effet indirect d’affaiblir la valeur de l’euro, réduisant ainsi le poids réel de la dette publique et améliorant la compétitivité à l’exportation. La France, dont l’économie reste encore largement tournée vers l’industrie et les services exportables, bénéficie d’un euro relativement faible, contrairement à l’Allemagne, dont la stratégie de désindustrialisation sur sol vers l'extérieur pour vendre en Europe et rend un euro fort plus avantageux.
Dans cette dialectique européenne, la détention de bitcoins par les citoyens français agit comme une soupape d’ajustement : moins de dépendance à la dette, plus de marge de manœuvre pour la production.
C’est un jeu d’équilibre. Plus la dette augmente, plus la monnaie se fragilise, et plus la nécessité d’actifs souverains comme Bitcoin devient évidente. À l’inverse, une économie solide, peu endettée, n’a que peu besoin de tels contrepoids. La corrélation est naturelle : Bitcoin ne menace pas la monnaie, il en révèle simplement les déséquilibres.
Bitcoin comme correcteur institutionnel
Tout système économique protégé des biais politiques et des illusions institutionnelles tend à être plus sain. Bitcoin agit comme un révélateur, un correcteur spontané des erreurs structurelles : absence de transparence, dilution des responsabilités, socialisation des pertes, et privatisation des gains. En supprimant la possibilité d’émission discrétionnaire, il restaure le lien entre valeur et effort, entre travail et épargne. Il ne prétend pas remplacer l’État, mais rappeler ses limites : aucune souveraineté ne peut s’exercer durablement sans souveraineté monétaire.
Ainsi, placer une épargne en bitcoins n’est pas un repli individualiste. C’est une participation directe à la construction d’un espace économique fondé sur la responsabilité, la transparence et la résilience. C’est un geste de résistance tranquille, mais stratégique, face à un système financier dont les logiques échappent de plus en plus à la Nation.
Si Bitcoin devait connaître une institutionnalisation autre qu'au niveau des infrastructures, ce serait alors celle-là, je n'en vois pas d'autre.
Separating each payment type into its own kind makes more sense since this list will inevitably grow and Kind 0 metadata is supposed to stay small because we need to load this everywhere.
The “Educational Industry” fulfilled its objective with terrifying efficiency. It did not create free thinkers; it created interchangeable parts for a machine most people no longer understand.
The “Educational Industry” fulfilled its objective with terrifying efficiency. It did not create free thinkers; it created interchangeable parts for a machine most people no longer understand.