Gonna start saying data instead of data so people respect me more.

I love Nostr as much as the next ostrich, but I'm damn glad I didn't leave X right now.

Honestly, I see the appeal of left wing radicalism if you don't know wtfhappenedin1971.com

«Our greatest fear is that Trump will make peace», says Norway's former (and probably future) PM Erna Solberg.

They see what an open and global platform did to their media, but they still don't get what it will do to their money. #Bitcoin

Would anyone like a job reading all the emails from my kids' school? It's a full-time position with plenty of overtime.

Whenever I see a nocoiner now, I hear David Gilmour's voice: "I dreamed you had left my side. No warmth, not even pride remained. And even though you needed me, it was clear that I could not do a thing for you." 🥲

Getting a lot of DMs about this. To be clear, NO European country is buying #Bitcoin yet (to my knowledge). Many of them can't for self-imposed legal reasons. But some saw this coming and are moving fast. How do I know? 🤷 While I left that world behind as a career, a decade in continental politics, the European movement, and the EU left me with a broad network in many governments across Europe. If not directly among the governments and their advisers, then in the highest levels of their civil services. I also networked privately with some (now former) Presidents and PMs when they were early in town and needed a place to work in secret (they used my office to avoid recording any meetings in transparency registers 🙈, sorry) Why would they tell me anything? 🤷 Some because they hate Bitcoin and hope someone will stop this. Some because they love Bitcoin and want to overcome the hurdles. Most because they STILL underestimate Bitcoin and don't see the big deal in telling me. And some because they hold Bitcoin and want rumours to pump their bags, of course. That doesn't make the rumours untrue though: Europe is coming. Let me add that a few European countries are already indirectly exposed to #Bitcoin through $MSTR et al. E.g. Norway indirectly holds ~$27 in Bitcoin per citizen right now, but this is already public. I'll start covering these developments more closely, so drop a follow if you're interested. Ps' I say Europe, so remember: not all countries are in the EU 👀

I wrote a #Bitcoin song this summer. It didn't get much traction, but maybe this is a better time to share it with you all? 😁

"Did you know there was once a country called Germany that had over 50.000 coins?" "No way, that's impossible!" "I swear! My mom said it was back on Earth in the Dumb Age. It's actually why we call it that."

Were we really going "$8.2k! $8.3k! $8.4k!" back in the day? Call me at $0.1M 🔔

Moving this to the living room now that it's gonna be every day.

Do you think over-educating the least productive half of the population at the cost of under-educating the most productive half has any long term consequences?

- Why don't you build something like me, @Michael Saylor? 🤓 - Because you're already building it for me, Elon 😎 Very #few!

I helped an ex buy ONE Bitcoin in 2018. Apparently, I'm not "a total asshole" anymore 🥳👑

The 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month 🕯️🌹🕊️ "Each Christmas come since WWI, I learnt its lesson well. That the ones who call the shots won't be among the dead and maimed. And on each end of the rifle, we're the same." Rest in peace, lads ✝️ (SOUND ON)

Do you ever worry about 'The Spirit of 1914'? 😬 At the outbreak of war, enthusiasm ran high among many young Germans. This would be the adventure of a life time, an opportunity to shape the new century and return home with glory and honor. Their unfettered optimism is easy to understand. There hadn't been a major war engulfing the continent since Napoleon over a century earlier. No one knew how all the technological, economic, military and cultural developments since would play out in an actual conflict. But they were quite excited to find out and certain it would be over by Christmas. Does that sound eerily familiar? Fast forward four years and 40 million people had been killed or maimed in battle. By 1945, as many as 125 million were lost. Without even counting the countless victims of communism. I sometimes see ghosts of that same madness in our current zeitgeist, that same exhilarating acceleration of history leading us into utter darkness. Let's pray that I am wrong, but don't you ever worry?

I think it's time for a little walk around town.

How do we actually fix education? 🤔 Everyone seems to agree that our current model is hopelessly stuck in the industrial age, where students sit in neat rows completing mundane tasks to make them good factory workers. Yet I haven't seen many real platforms or proposals on what education should be like. Is homeschooling the only way? 🤷 I'm sure there must be other ideas out there. Enlighten me.

My highlights from the Sovereign Individual (1997). Worth your time, trust me 🤓 "The Don Quixote of the twenty-first century will not be a knight-errant struggling to revive the glories of feudalism but a bureaucrat in a brown suit, a tax collector yearning for a citizen to audit." "Every social order incorporates among its key taboos the notion that people living in it should not think about how it will end and what rules may prevail in the new system that takes its place." "The more apparent it is that a system is nearing an end, the more reluctant people will be to adhere to its laws. Any social organization will therefore tend to discourage or play down analyses that anticipate its demise." "Yet the tendency will be to downplay the inevitability of these changes, or to argue about their desirability as if it were within the fiat of industrial institutions to determine how history evolves." "Although it may not be obvious, this is equivalent to saying that feudalism might have survived if everyone had rededicated himself to chivalry. No one in a court of the late fifteenth century would have objected to such a sentiment. Indeed, it would have been heresy to do so. But it also would have been entirely misleading, an example of the snake trying to fit the future into its old skin." "Only in cases of medical problems affecting a few people do we see arbitrary fluctuations in mood that appear entirely divorced from any objective cause." "Far from being the product of human desire, decisive historic changes more often than not confound the wish of most people for stability. When change occurs, it typically causes widespread disorientation, especially among those who lose income or social status." “Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use tools, they use you." “An impoverished local priesthood seemed to offer a poor service for the money it demanded; much of what was levied effectively ‘disappeared” into enclosed monasteries or the arcane areas of higher education or administration. In spite of gifts prodigally given to some sectors of the Church, the institution as a whole managed to appear simultaneously impoverished, grasping, and extravagant.” It would be hard to deny the parallel with late-twentieth-century government." "For this reason, it is to be expected that one or more nation-states will undertake covert action to subvert the appeal of transience. Travel could be effectively discouraged by biological warfare, such as the outbreak of a deadly epidemic. 👀 This could not only discourage the desire to travel, it could also give jurisdictions throughout the globe an excuse to seal their borders and limit immigration." "If the past is a guide, the most violent of the terrorists of the early decades of the new millennium will not be homeless paupers but displaced workers who formerly enjoyed middle-class incomes and status." "The end of an era is usually a period of intense corruption. As the bonds of the old system dissolve, the social ethos dissolves with it, creating an environment in which people in high places may combine public purposes with private criminal activity." "Unfortunately, you will not be able to depend upon normal information channels to give you an accurate and timely understanding of the decay of the nation-state. “Persistent make-believe” of the kind that disguised the fall of the Roman Empire is probably a typical feature of the decomposition of large political entities. It now disguises and masks the collapse of the nation-state." "For a variety of reasons, the news media cannot always be depended upon to tell you the truth. Many are conservative in the sense that they represent the party of the past. Some are blinded by anachronistic ideological commitments to socialism and the nation-state. Some will be afraid for more tangible reasons to reveal the corruption that is likely to loom ever larger in a decaying system. Some will lack physical courage that might be required for such a task. Others will fear for their jobs or be shy of other retribution for speaking up. And, of course, there is no reason to suspect that reporters and editors are any less prone to corrupt consideration than building inspectors or Italian paving contractors." "To a larger extent than you might expect, important organs of information that appear to be keen to report anything and everything may prove to be less dependable information sources than is commonly supposed. Many will have other motivations, including shoring up support for a faltering system, that they will place ahead of honestly informing you. They will see little and explain less." Thank you for reading! Give me a zap and follow if you found it valuable 🙏