“A viler evil than to murder a man is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.”

What about an LLM I can feed my chess games (failures) into that will analyze them and provide me with a personalized coach?

Sometimes when someone makes a comment about how expensive things are, I try to casually drop the phrase “a dollar just doesn’t go as far as it used to” or “the dollar ain’t what it used to be,” but no one ever bites. I think most people don’t think to look behind the inflation door, or don’t even think you can look behind it at all. They don’t know that if you go far enough through that door you end up here on Nostr zapping freedom money around, certain of Valhalla

Fiat egregore very grown, confiscating people’s energy and time and entrusting it to only a chosen few viceroys Bitcoin egregore is a small thing, but it’s freeing people. Someday they’re gonna face off

Watched Volver, the Almodovar movie tonight. Not even sure how you come up with an idea for a film like that

I was there when @npub1qh5s...eh9r died of a tragic @Peter McCormack wifi accident on @TFTC

Ten year don’t care GM

Shoggadoo shoggadoo

A decent sized obstacle to Bitcoin adoption is that so many people have no concept of money they’re saving for more than a week or two, let alone years or decades

I guess the word “tariff” hasn’t been bandied about as much as right now for about 100 years. I hope it’s causing at least some of us to try to learn how the global economy works and has (not) worked vis-a-vis Americans during that time. I’m just amazed at the levels of subconscious “that’s just the way it is” I encounter out there and in myself, and I think Bitcoin has made me more aware of it

Watched Dog Day Afternoon What a tangible movie Kind of funny Never seen anything like it It’s damn near a stage play

RIP Val Kilmer GM Quite the rough stretch we’re in

The covid pandemic doesn’t seem worthy of being at the bottom of this bounce toward higher lows. All the American history that came prior to that seems more significant to me. It likely would have bounced regardless though; the response to the pandemic was just the match that lit the bonfire

@walker the April Fool’s joke is that the $58k meme has become $85k

GM. Happy birthday to my uncle Mikey. Conceived on the 4th of July, born on April Fool’s Day, and passed away last week. We miss you.

Also GN

Once Hollywood gets their hands on it, it’s dead, at least right now. Silver screens have at various points been able to bring American culture to life; at the moment they fossilize it, pin it to the wall like a trophy or something. Not too optimistic about the upcoming biopic about the making of Springsteen’s Nebraska album.

Started out #nostronly as a New Year’s resolution, but it’s pretty clear after three months it’s gonna be all I got indefinitely

I’m sure there are plenty of well thought out criticisms of Alcoholics Anonymous, but the decentralized, somewhat anonymous structure shouldn’t be one. I went to see a coworker and friend speak at a meeting last night, and besides her inspiring testimony, I was most struck by how this idea of alcoholics helping alcoholics has persisted in a voluntary, loosely affiliated form for so long.

GM Actually knowing something for oneself is really rare. Most of the time we’re just trading opinions back and forth.