And also, I speak Spanish! Here is me giving a talk, in Spanish, in El Salvador last week!

Humans are not wired for hurting each other, we really aren’t. When something horrific happens both the victim and the perpetrator suffer long term psychological consequences. So how do we wind up with atrocities? I think there are two ways this happens. 1. Dehumanizing. Thinking of a group of people as not fully human and so not worthy of the same human rights as your group is a necessary first step. Dehumanization is a prerequisite to atrocity. You couldn’t massacre your friends, but likely it would be possible to work you into enough of a fear state and frenzy to get you to massacre ‘foreigners’. 2. Psychopathy. Some people, for a variety of reasons, are simply lacking basic human empathy. These people are rare, but they self select into the positions of the most power. Without any moral guidelines, without any care for others, they do whatever is necessary to accumulate money, power, fame, etc. Psychopaths/sociopaths are dramatically over represented in government, corporate leadership, etc. And once in positions of power they tend to make decisions that further concentrate power and allow further atrocities. The solution? 1. We need to have a strong cultural awareness of dehumanization and intense guards against it. 2. We need to have systems that combat concentrations of power. Smaller more local government, etc.

Y'all we have such an awesome @San Juan Bit Devs planned for you - 1 week from today! Soon...ish, I'll update the event description with all the deets. But I can tell you that we'll be at a great location in Viejo San Juan! Please RSVP ->

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This event directly follows the Foresight Institutes' Vision Weekend San Juan 2026 and we'll be pulling in some special guests from the event! Ins...

When you spend time with those you truly care about, those who genuinely interest you. When you get to look into the eyes of those you want to be close to, those you respect. When you are in the room you want to be in... then you just don't give a shit what some celebrity is doing. Then you can not be lured by fame and fortune. Then you are solid.

Well it's looking more and more very likely that our president is a rapist. And I could be like MAGA are fools, etc. But the truth is that nearly all presidents and prime Ministers etc. are rapists. Because rape isn't about sex, it's about power. And only those absolutely desperate to have power over others do what is necessary to become president.

Condolences to anyone who just had their faith in their heroes destroyed by the latest release of the Epstein files.

But hey, she does have pretty fabulous eyeliner!

This is the moment y'all. Make your choices.

Hierarchy causes rape. Because of course, rape is not about sex, it is about power. When you have a culture that teaches everyone, but especially men, that their value comes from being ‘above’ others, well then you’ll find that they start doing disturbing things to prove that they are above others. Women are in general more psychically vulnerable than men and is there a more brutal and dramatic way to exert physical dominance than rape? Yes of course there are complexities here, and yes of course I have data! https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232454315_The_Socio-Cultural_Context_of_Rape_A_Cross-Cultural_Study

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We've got an undated Taproot Assets protocol intro video! This one walks through minting, on-chain transfers, adding assets to Lightning channels, and introduces the concept of an Edge Node. This is what turns the Lightning Network into a multi-asset network where one can send and receive transactions using stablecoins, reward points, tokens, or other custom units and seamlessly move value between them over the same open, global, fast, and affordable payment network.

Maybe a silver lining to Trump will be that we’ll have to sit ourselves down and do some soul searching. It now seems pretty clear, we made one of the worst bullies humanity has ever seen the most powerful person on the planet. We can blame him, and we should, but he got here due to our support/lack of push back. Please understand that this is the natural outcome of a zero-sum hierarchical mindset. When you view it as a value to be “above” others, then you will rally for the bully that claims that they will help you push others down. The pedos, the grapists, the scam artists will rule us until we stop valuing being above others.

Ya know in 2026 can you please not announce your new podcast episode or conference appearance with “Breaking News:” 2026 has no chill, “Breaking News” is basically a jump-scare. Thank you for your attention to this matter.