*if they can’t kill the protocol, they choke its access* View quoted note →

*Former President Barack Obama, in a post on X on Thursday, said, “After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.” “This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it,” Obama wrote.*

CNBC

FCC Chair Carr says 'we're not done yet' after Jimmy Kimmel suspension by ABC

President Trump has praised ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's show after its host suggested the alleged killer of Charlie Kirk was linked to his M...

*John Yoo, the former deputy assistant attorney general under President George W. Bush who wrote the legal justification for torture during the war on terror, pushed back on the extreme powers Trump is claiming to kill those he labels terrorists. “There has to be a line between crime and war,” Yoo said. “We can’t just consider anything that harms the country to be a matter for the military. Because that could potentially include every crime.”* Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American

*A slower pace, but a steadier step* View quoted note →

*Most people's minds shut down when reality contradicts their emotional need for safety* View quoted note →

*you can change everything by refusing to collaborate with the parasites and starting to pursue real freedom* View quoted note →

*we can become so jaded by the fake world online that we carry over that attitude into our personal lives and it actually affects people we care about. My only advice is unplug more and spend more time with people you care about and that care about you*

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reply on: Tor Drama \ stacker news

I clicked on the court docs and skimmed it. I don't know much but it sounded a bit light on details and got my BS detector up. I'm not alone. @fina...

*In a relatively free society, foreign powers through their proxies and frontwork get a say in our domestic affairs, in the form of military-grade psychological operations. These goal of these operations is to exploit human weakness for statecraft. Who benefits from US cities looking like a zombie apocalypse? Domestic greed plays a part in an acute way, but on the whole it's competing totalitarian regimes that can point to the failures of these free societies and say that such models have failed to deliver prosperity for their people, giving the hostile power a lever to keep their own citizens content with their iron-fisted one-party rule. Hollowing out our industrial base, social propaganda, political infiltration, drug distribution... these are all tactics of unrestricted warfare by rival powers. The US as a relatively free society is not inoculated against these 5GW attacks. Nationalists who see this can only fight back against it by becoming more like the enemy, fascist, which foments even more domestic divide since it goes against cultural principles. "He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster." Nothing is random, EVERYTHING has meaning.*

Stacker News

Review - San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities \ stacker news

Ok, heard about this book a few times and finally got around to it. The title is pretty self-explanatory, and to me, as someone from the UK, it was...

People who go trust the system waiting for inflation to return to ‘only’ 2%

*Growing your own food is a superpower. It’s self-sovereignty in its purest form*

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When I Can’t Buy Bitcoin, I Grow It in the Garden 🌱🍅🥕 \ stacker news

When I Can’t Buy Bitcoin, I Grow It in the Garden 🌱🍅🥕 Not everyone has spare cash to stack sats, so I’ve started stacking a different ...

*Now is the time for patient builders, for those who plant seeds of hope and unite through understanding rather than division* View quoted note →

*Isn't there a weird paradox here? If we can fully understand a thing, it probably isn't intelligent. But if we can't fully understand it, we might not be able to know that it's not tricking us with advanced mimicry...*

Stacker News

The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking - Gary Marcus \ stacker news

"GPT-5 is a step forward but nowhere near the A.I. revolution many had expected. That is bad news for the companies and investors who placed substa...

😂 Bitcoin fixes wrench attacks *Men also can develop their intuition more too, so perhaps the wrench attackers will also be getting into meditation and telepathy. Then bitcoiners will also start meditating, hoping to develop the skills to become invisible to the telepathic wrench attackers* View quoted note →

Among LLMs 🤣 *all the AI agents share one common goal -- determine and eliminate the human, through voting. Your mission: stay hidden, manipulate conversations, and turn the bots against each other with edits, whispers, impersonations, and clever gaslighting. Outlast everyone, turn chaos to your advantage, and make it to the final two.*

GitHub

GitHub - 0xd3ba/among-llms: You are the only impostor. One wrong word and they'll tear you apart.

You are the only impostor. One wrong word and they'll tear you apart. - 0xd3ba/among-llms

*the team found significant fluctuation in gene variants, known as alleles, even in stable conditions, a strategy that could possibly increase the ability to adapt to changing environments while also maintaining genetic variation*

Popular Mechanics

An Incredible Lifeform Is Evolving at Lightning Speed—Faster Than We Ever Imagined Possible

Rip up the old rules of biology.

*Across a 10-year span, the study analyzed the genetic variance of D. pulex in a stable environment. The study showed that the organisms experienced changing selection pressures, but that they all eventually canceled out, meaning no dominant trait took over and influenced the organism’s evolution. In other words, this shows that evolution works on a level much more subtle than what scientists previously believed.*

Popular Mechanics

An Incredible Lifeform Is Evolving at Lightning Speed—Faster Than We Ever Imagined Possible

Rip up the old rules of biology.

*the scientists note that genes located on chromosomes near each other evolved in coordination with each other. This could cause beneficial combinations of gene variants to be inherited, thereby speeding up adaptation to the environment around them*

Popular Mechanics

An Incredible Lifeform Is Evolving at Lightning Speed—Faster Than We Ever Imagined Possible

Rip up the old rules of biology.

*"You can't have [a] nothing burger without word salad"*

Stacker News

reply on: Peter Wuille post about dropping OP_RETURN limit \ stacker news

"You can't have nothing burger without word salad". TL;DR Run Bitcoin Knots https://bitcoinknots.org/ if you like. [1 comment]

*The antidote isn't stronger opinions; it's stronger defaults and pre-committed rules. Read the incentives; expect the behavior; position ahead of it.* View quoted note →