Deutschland forgetting King Knut. Can’t stop the tides dudes. There are greater powers than the state. View quoted note →

Yyyyo. View quoted note →

A funny consequence of being a Bitcoiner is that you can feel tremendously optimistic about your long term future and still be fighting it out on the short term fiat time horizon when unexpected things come up. I can’t imagine not having that long term confidence though.

This is a more nuanced take than the classic “technology is just a tool” argument. That may be true, but more true is that technologies have characteristics built into them that tilt them toward one group or another holding the reins View quoted note →

First move out of a chip range may not be THE move… I’d be glad to see us break higher, but even more glad to see people sell into this and cause a little panic View quoted note →

GM How many of you are GMing from the bathroom be honest

If political cycles are anything like market cycles, maybe we’re on the cusp of a legitimately populist cohort of Democratic politicians emerging in America. Or maybe the Dems will just keep speaking to the West Coast and New England and lose national elections over and over until I’m an old man. Both feel equally likely at this moment.

Something Bobby Kennedy said when being sworn in today: “There’s no such thing as Democrat children or Republican children”

Bobby

Matt Taibbi gave quite a statement to Congress today on the state of American journalism

My Statement to Congress

Opening remarks on John Kerry, European speech law, and USAID before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, February 12th, 2025

Gotta say it; Joy Division kinda sucks

GM Newsak? Nuzak? Neuzak? News equivalent of Muzak. Walter Kirn sure can turn a phrase

Hierarchies crumble, networks endure. Never seen it put so succinctly View quoted note →

There’s a reason it appeals to 20 year olds 😆 Source: I was one of those navel-gazing 20 y/o View quoted note →

GN awster

If Check’s hanging around more and drops some chess shitposts then Nostr has just 2x’d overnight View quoted note →

Gnawster

Nice time capsule from @Marty Bent https://medium.com/@martysbent/bitcoin-just-hit-a-new-all-time-high-now-what-2d316a708559 I think I got in when I supposed to get in. Not sure how I would have handled early cycles

Pattern recognition at the level of 6-12 months, let alone 2-4 years, would help a lot of people not get taken advantage of by politicians and our political system. I wonder if looking at longer term economic and financial charts helps train one’s mind to think and notice stuff along longer timeframes. There are no charts for politicians lying or media memory-holing or censorship, but maybe thinking about the big picture in one graphable realm helps you bring a similar lens to other, more opaque arenas like politics.

There has to be a significant number of people who, knowingly or not, pivot their investment decisions off headlines in Apple’s Stocks app