Was the cold plunge worth it? Hard to say. It’s definitely invigorating, but it’s not a totally positive kind of invigorating. It’s more of a thank-God-that’s-over kind of invigorating, similar to how you’d feel if somebody shot an apple off your head, or threw an ax at you and just missed.
The line of differentiation between the masses and the Remnant is set invariably by quality, not by circumstance.
The mass man is one who has neither the force of intellect to apprehend the principles issuing in what we know as the humane life, nor the force of character to adhere to those principles steadily and strictly as laws of conduct; and because such people make up the great and overwhelming majority of mankind, they are called collectively *the masses*. The line of differentiation between the masses and the Remnant is set invariably by quality, not by circumstance. The Remnant are those who by force of intellect are able to apprehend these principles, and by force of character are able, at least measurably, to cleave to them.
all of this began when one man walked into the woods, sat down, and tried to end his fear by doing something purely internal: working on his mind.
I've found myself loving my wife of eighteen years more than I'd even known you could love another human being—a good thing, except that it involves a terrifying downside: the realization that there must someday come a parting.
I do lap after lap, praying for everybody I know. For me, this has been a tough year: A beloved uncle died, my parents' house was destroyed by Katrina, a kindhearted cousin shipped off to Iraq, a car accident left my teenage daughter sobbing by the side of the road on a dark, freezing night, I've found myself loving my wife of eighteen years more than I'd even known you could love another human being—a good thing, except that it involves a terrifying downside: the realization that there must someday come a parting.
happiness/rest/contentment is transient; all appearances of permanence are illusory.
Life is suffering, the Buddha said
You do not know, and will never know, who the Remnant are, nor what they are doing or will do. Two things you do know, and no more: First, that they exist; second, that they will find you.
If, say, you are a preacher, you wish to attract as large a congregation as you can, which means an appeal to the masses; and this, in turn, means adapting the terms of your message to the order of intellect and character that the masses exhibit
It necessitates an opportunist sophistication of one’s doctrine, which profoundly alters its character and reduces it to a mere placebo. If, say, you are a preacher, you wish to attract as large a congregation as you can, which means an appeal to the masses; and this, in turn, means adapting the terms of your message to the order of intellect and character that the masses exhibit. [If you are an educator, say with a college on your hands, you wish to get as many students as possible, and you whittle down your requirements accordingly.](http://mises.org/daily/2765) If a writer, you aim at getting many readers; if a publisher, many purchasers; if a philosopher, many disciples; if a reformer, many converts; if a musician, many auditors; and so on.
The mass man is one who has neither the force of intellect to apprehend the principles issuing in what we know as the humane life, nor the force of character to adhere to those principles steadily and strictly as laws of conduct
As the word _masses_ is commonly used, it suggests agglomerations of poor and underprivileged people, laboring people, proletarians, and it means nothing like that; it means simply the majority. The mass man is one who has neither the force of intellect to apprehend the principles issuing in what we know as the humane life, nor the force of character to adhere to those principles steadily and strictly as laws of conduct; and because such people make up the great and overwhelming majority of mankind, they are called collectively _the masses_. The line of differentiation between the masses and the Remnant is set invariably by quality, not by circumstance.
The number that keeps repeating: most AI spend still cannot show a defendable return.
Not "might not." Cannot.
Same question. Same answer. No shared methodology.
Capgemini, IBM, Bain, Accenture, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and McKinsey each ran their own AI ROI analysis across their client bases — thousands of companies, multiple continents, competing for the same work. Every one came back with the same gap.
Same gap. Same story.
The number that keeps repeating: most AI spend still cannot show a defendable return.
Not "might not." Cannot.
If everyone builds their own app, tailored to their liking, who else will care about it but them?
The harness has a deterministic first stage that builds a call graph to seed the hunt. It supports C#, Go, Java, JavaScript, Python and TypeScript.
Our target was Rust. That stage returned zero entry points and zero sinks, and contributed nothing at all. All 170 hunting assignments came from language-model decomposition instead.
Taste is built the slow, stupid, humiliating way: you make something bad, you are forced to live with it, it fails in front of you, and some part of you files the failure away. Then you do it again.
Taste is that. It is the compressed, wordless verdict you reach faster than you can justify.
Hannah, die Protagonistin in Jo Cheethams Roman „Love and Rent“, ist 35 Jahre alt, als sie beschließt, Oscar eine Chance zu geben. Nicht, weil sie einen Ring will oder Kinder, sondern weil sie eine Unterkunft braucht. Bei Oscar kann sie mietfrei leben
Und plötzlich regt sich ein Gedanke, eine Idee, ein gewagter Einfall: es vielleicht doch mal zu versuchen, mit dem netten, stabilen, verlässlichen Mann, der ein festes Einkommen, ein Haus und einen Oxford-Abschluss vorzuweisen hat. Zwar lässt er keine Schmetterlinge im Bauch fliegen, aber er bringt Struktur in den chaotischen Alltag und die Mutter dazu, zum ersten Mal ein Foto der Tochter im Haus aufzustellen.
Hannah, die Protagonistin in Jo Cheethams Roman „Love and Rent“, ist 35 Jahre alt, als sie beschließt, Oscar eine Chance zu geben. Nicht, weil sie einen Ring will oder Kinder, sondern weil sie eine Unterkunft braucht. Bei Oscar kann sie mietfrei leben, dafür kocht sie ihm proteinreiche Diätspeisen, bügelt seine Hemden und räumt seine Klamotten in den Schrank. Hannah und Oscar, das ist keine Hollywood-Romanze, nicht die große romantische Liebe, vielleicht ist es nicht einmal irgendeine Liebe, aber es ist ein Konzept, das funktioniert. Das Sinn ergibt. An dem ja irgendetwas dran sein muss, wenn sich so viele Menschen immer wieder dafür entscheiden: Partnerschaft als ökonomisches Arrangement.
me intriga como o leitor médio assiste filmes e lê histórias para avaliar se estão de acordo com a moral. seja woke ou red pill, a prática de leitura é idêntica a de um censor, que tem seu maior prazer em flagrar os menores delitos
terminam o filme e puxam o celular para dizer: “não tem problematização de gênero, pode assistir!” ou então “melhor não assistir, os padrões de gênero são problemáticos”.
e esses protocolos de leitura até servem pra navegar no lixão industrial da cultura contemporânea: os produtos culturais são hoje em dia fabricados para estimular essa reação. só que deixa de funcionar tão logo o objeto contemplado fuja desse gênero e se torne um pouquinho mais particular (daí o analfabetismo de nossa época diante da odisseia, por exemplo)
that the idea of Government exists is no proof of its empiricalexistence.? Few of us would be convinced by an argument such as: ''I believethe idea of God is possible, therefore God exists." Yet such is the structure ofthe argument which underlies all assumptions about the existence of Gov-ernment.
An europäischen Aktienmärkten sei das Risiko einer Kurskorrektur deutlich geringer, meint das Forschungsteam noch. Dort würden weiterhin alte Konzerne dominieren.
Konfrontation dort, wo sie gesellschaftlich weitgehend risikolos ist
Jedenfalls ist es eine absurde Prioritätensetzung, gegenüber demokratischen Konservativen demonstrative Härte zu zeigen, während man beim islamischen Extremismus auffallend zurückhaltend bleibt. Konfrontation dort, wo sie gesellschaftlich weitgehend risikolos ist, und Vorsicht dort, wo die Gegnerschaft zu sexueller Selbstbestimmung besonders fundamental ausfällt. Diese selektive Empörung ist schwer erträglich.
if language is sterile, human creativity and thinking can stall and degrade. the highly improbable and ground breaking thinking barely gets explored.
already complimented a severe blond flight attendant on Austrian Airlines' excellent service, which elicited an oddly Austrian reaction: She immediately seemed to find me reprehensible and weak.
I'm mad at myself for eating two roolz during the last Round of Roolz, roolz that seem to have instantaneously made my pants tighter. I've already read all my books and magazines, already stood looking out the little window in the flight-attendant area, already complimented a severe blond flight attendant on Austrian Airlines' excellent service, which elicited an oddly Austrian reaction: She immediately seemed to find me reprehensible and weak.
Napplets, Amethyst, Blossom, Outbox, and composable clients rhyme with the same move away from one cathedral-sized application
404 Media reports companies are planting content on Reddit to influence the answers generated by AI search, contaminating the public record from which those systems draw their summaries.
But by interposing an error-prone AI between us and an original source, Google has ensured that if an underlying page exists, it can become practically undiscoverable. Meanwhile, pollution is now moving upstream: 404 Media reports companies are planting content on Reddit to influence the answers generated by AI search, contaminating the public record from which those systems draw their summaries.
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one user reported that they asked Grok to generate a PDF, receiving a reply beginning “match it without and your they and two for planets can practical and often cheese…” (It just sort of went on from there, apparently.)
According to TechCrunch, one user reported that they asked Grok to generate a PDF, receiving a reply beginning “match it without and your they and two for planets can practical and often cheese…” (It just sort of went on from there, apparently.) Another user found that source links provided by Grok led to reinforcement learning research sites instead. Users told TechCrunch they first noticed the issues on Grok Lite, beginning on Wednesday morning.
FIPS and Nostr both make more sense as local-first systems
Musk is heavily invested in the future of AI data centers as a tech oligarch. And while he clearly has an ideological project that goes far beyond AI (this is the guy who turned Grok into MechaHitler, after all), it’s in his business interests to flip the script when it comes to public perception of data centers.
Não revise seu texto em IA nenhuma. Não, não vá colar seu texto naquilo depois de escrever, não peça para IAs “melhorarem” nada que você venha a produzir textualmente.
Aquilo não é ferramenta, é usurpação sutil. Aquilo vai transformar seu texto em código manjado sem que você saiba, vai sujar sua idéia, vai poluir um insight puramente mental e autêntico, o seu, e de mais ninguém.
Não tenha pressa em “produzir conteúdo”. Bobagem isso.
Revise o que você escreveu como um copista medieval, se for o caso. Reescreva mil vezes se precisar, mas não use o demônio artificial. Prefira “escrever mal” até achar o fio condutor dos seus pensamentos, até atingir a sua expressão mais pura.
Desafie-se a conquistar sua evolução. Vale a pena lutar e tomar posse das próprias capacidades.
On expectation, it earns effectively zero. Do not buy a Bitaxe as an income device.
For most people the answer is the Gamma. It runs the same BM1370 silicon as Bitmain's flagship S21 Pro, so it is the most efficient single-chip option, it is the best-selling model, and it hits the sweet spot on price and hashrate.
Wir können bestätigen, dass eine Überprüfung der Logik zur Wallet-Erstellung in der BitBox-Firmware gezeigt hat, dass die Implementierung wie vorgesehen und oben beschrieben funktioniert.
Wir überprüfen unseren eigenen Firmware-Code darüber hinaus fortlaufend, unter anderem auch durch Untersuchungen mit aktuellsten KI-Modellen. Wir können bestätigen, dass eine Überprüfung der Logik zur Wallet-Erstellung in der BitBox-Firmware gezeigt hat, dass die Implementierung wie vorgesehen und oben beschrieben funktioniert.
Wenn eine BitBox eine neue Wallet erstellt, kombiniert sie fünf voneinander unabhängige Entropiequellen:
Die BitBox verlässt sich nicht auf einen einzelnen Zufallszahlengenerator. Wenn eine BitBox eine neue Wallet erstellt, kombiniert sie fünf voneinander unabhängige Entropiequellen:
Am Anfang jeder Bitcoin-Wallet steht eine große Zufallszahl.
There are good people in bitcoin dropping everything out of a sense of duty to do something
"There are good people in bitcoin dropping everything out of a sense of duty to do something," to quote Rob Hamilton once more. "ANYTHING to help strangers keep their life savings."
Joint Statement from the Leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada and Norway on the E1 West Bank Settlement Plan
Joint Statement from the Leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada and Norway on the E1 West Bank Settlement Plan
The Israeli Government’s decision to publish construction tenders for the E1 settlement project is unacceptable. The international community has long opposed this settlement expansion, and has voiced their grave concerns privately and publicly. The E1 settlement will undermine the prospect of the two-state solution by driving a wedge through the West Bank and harming the territorial contiguity of the Palestinian Territories.
International Law is clear that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal. This is the position of the international community reaffirmed by the United Nations Security Council.
At a time of grave instability in the West Bank with unprecedented levels of violence by settlers against civilians, and serious restrictions on the Palestinian economy, this decision is even more concerning.
We urge the Government of Israel to retract these plans immediately and end its expansion of settlements in the West Bank. Not only will they take us further from peace, but they further undermine Israel’s international standing.
Businesses should not consider bidding for construction tenders. They should be aware of legal and reputational consequences including the risk of involving themselves in serious breaches of international law.
We reiterate our commitment to a comprehensive, just and lasting peace based on the two-state solution. We will continue to act in its interest.
Unlike X, users of Nostr clients don't have to live in a particular country, fill out paperwork, or have a particular type of ID to send and receive money.
Unlike X, users of Nostr clients don't have to live in a particular country, fill out paperwork, or have a particular type of ID to send and receive money. They could be in Iran, Cuba, or the U.S.—the system doesn't discriminate.
web of trust, zaps, spam filters, blocklists, whitelists, followlists, curated content packs, bot detection, parent filters, nsfw labelling, comment filtering options, thread ranking, etc
Censorship, moderation, user filters and Nostr.Since this is a recurring discussion here, let's clearly define terms to avoid the most frequent confusions.Strictly understood censorship is government restriction on speech. It requires enforcement and thus force. If you can be arrested by the police for writing a tweet, that is clear censorship.Moderation is restriction on speech enforced as policy on private property. It is mostly voluntary in the sense that if you enter a private space, you implicitly agree to abide by the rules set by its owner. However it is still top down. The most frequent penalty is expulsion.User filters are decentralised, individual decisions on what content you want to see and what you want to block.Nostr was built as a reaction to mass censorship on social media, sometimes enforced directly by governments and more often hidden behind heavy handed moderation by platforms that were in turn being threatened by governments.Nostr's decentralised architecture makes censorship very difficult, relay runners are many and there is no Nostr CEO to threaten with fines or arrest. However relays can still implement their moderation policies according to their preference. If a majority of relays agree, for example, to block a certain user, his messages would have a lot of trouble reaching his audience.Many people have different ideas about what Nostr should become.In my opinion Nostr's most powerful purpose, how it can be a force for good would be for it to become a free speech platform that gives voice to those suffering censorship.Centralised censorship would clearly contradict that goal. Heavy handed pervasive moderation would also pose a risk.It is true that massive spam or morally abhorrent content would also detract from Nostr's ability to become a true open, public and global forum for debate. Nobody wants to hold a debate in a depraved heap of trash. There is some content that nobody wants to even be in the same neighbourhood as. You also don't want you important information about government lies and corruption to be drowned out in a sea of spam and shouting bots.So how do you thread the needle? How do you find the balance?I would argue that relays and clients should err on the side of caution with moderation and that they should empower users by giving them the tools to decide what to block.Give users the tools: web of trust, zaps, spam filters, blocklists, whitelists, followlists, curated content packs, bot detection, parent filters, nsfw labelling, comment filtering options, thread ranking, etc.There are many technical solutions. Let's experiment with them. Let's learn from the experience of other platforms. Let's build.But don't let Nostr fall into the mistakes that made every other tech unusable as a free speech platform and useful only for propaganda, manipulation and advertising.I can see the utility of a Nostr client that just does TikTok style short videos focused only on sports. No doubt it could go viral and attract millions of users.But frankly that is not why I'm here. I'm hoping that neither are you.
Harmony's totalSupply endpoint wasn't reflecting the unauthorized issuance.
the mob doesn’t need another pitchfork-wielding, pearl-clutching, outraged asshole.
You probably don’t know the whole story, and the crowd certainly won’t know when to stop. Even if it’s all entirely justified, the mob doesn’t need another pitchfork-wielding, pearl-clutching, outraged asshole.
Refuse the pleasure of acting as judge, jury, and eager member of the crowd.
It’s your job to protect the kids in your life from the panopticon
Adults shouldn’t assemble a public identity for a child who can’t yet understand what “public” means. It’s your job to protect the kids in your life from the panopticon, not host a firesale on their privacy for your own gratification.
Instant delivery doesn’t require anyone to respond immediately
Instant delivery doesn’t require anyone to respond immediately. And it doesn’t give you the right to demand their focus and attention every single time you feel the urge to share, ask, or prod.
Don’t enroll people in small digital societies without their consent
Don’t enroll people in small digital societies without their consent. Just ask.
nobody should have to compete with a podcast for proof of their existence.
But nobody should have to compete with a podcast for proof of their existence. Same goes for phone calls, music, everything else.
The people who love you aren’t waiting for polished prose
A clumsy message from you means more than immaculate copy generated on your behalf. The people who love you aren’t waiting for polished prose. They want evidence that you were present.
We need a baseline that acknowledges a simple moral fact: that other people are actually real people
We need a baseline that acknowledges a simple moral fact: that other people are actually real people. They have inner lives you can’t and don’t get to see; they have sentience, no matter how inconvenient that might be.
Don’t publish a child’s face, personal details, school, routines, or vulnerable moments. Not your child, and not anyone else’s child either.Adults shouldn’t assemble a public identity for a child who can’t yet understand what “public” means. It’s your job to protect the kids in your life from the panopticon, not host a firesale on their privacy for your own gratification. Yes, this means the end of parenting influencers. No, nobody is going to miss ‘em.
Twenty-one rules for living among other people when every device encourages you to forget their sentience
Technology didn’t create selfishness, but it has made selfish acts extraordinarily easy and almost inconsequential. It’s easier than ever to treat a friend as an audience, use a stranger for content, present a private moment as evidence, feed a human voice into a training set, and turn somebody else’s misfortune into afternoon entertainment.
Typing a seed phrase or private key into any website, chat flow, form, or unsolicited wallet prompt is a wallet-loss event, not a support step
Typing a seed phrase or private key into any website, chat flow, form, or unsolicited wallet prompt is a wallet-loss event, not a support step. If you already did it, stop using that wallet and move funds to a fresh setup immediately.
What is yours to manage?
Epictetus focused on three things: your judgments, your desires, and your decisions; in particular, he emphasized choosing what to pursue, what to turn down, what to keep, and what to cut out completely.
Everything outside that circle is neither your circus nor your monkeys.
Everyone else’s actions, opinions, ideas, annoyances, traumas, outrages, and emotional dysregulation don’t actually need to concern you at all. Neither do the various algorithms you can’t reshape or the markets you can neither predict nor control, or the emails someone else marked urgent based on their needs and their deadlines. None of these things belong to you, and it’s not your job to try to own them.
The Stoics called this the dichotomy of control; the YouTube philosopher squad might call it a lifehack. I call it a damn good way to avoid going insane while still getting through a to-do list.