*As The British Empire declined the elites based in The City of London established the offshore tax havens to stash their wealth. Trump is doing the same thing but via virtual means.*

Stacker News

The Point of Crypto is Skulduggery (Financial Times, Jemima Kelly) \ stacker news

The Financial Times get a lot of crap from Bitcoiners, and by and large it's deserved. But this one by Jemima on the Trump family's shenanigans was...

*the people worth knowing… want to witness you becoming more of who you already are.* View quoted note →

*Real freedom isn’t being random. It’s being so grounded in who you are that other people’s perception of you becomes irrelevant. Most people spend their whole lives shapeshifting for an audience that isn’t even paying attention.* View quoted note →

*By reducing the brain to a computer, we elevate the machines to our equals while downgrading ourselves to machinery.* View quoted note →

*This platform allows for the realization of Kevin Kelly's idea of a thousand true fans* View quoted note →

*The greatest threat to Bitcoin wasn’t government regulation or corporate takeover, Marek had finally understood. It was the community itself becoming so certain of its righteousness that it stopped questioning whether it might be wrong. Satoshi had built a system that didn’t need heroes, priests, or prophets. It only needed mathematics and electricity and people stubborn enough to keep checking that the numbers still added up correctly. The community would do well to match that humility. But mathematics would continue working either way, which was perhaps the most beautiful and terrifying thing about it. Bitcoin would survive its own community, just as Satoshi had designed it to survive everything else. The code was set in stone. The people around it were not. And that had always been both the promise and the problem.*

Stacker News

The Quiet Fork \ stacker news

Prologue: The Promise In 2008, someone using the name Satoshi Nakamoto published a simple statement that would reshape money forever: “The nature...

*And although most people were happy with their results, some reported things like acute anxiety following treatment, which suggests “elective aesthetic procedures may, in some individuals, exacerbate underlying mental-health vulnerabilities rather than ameliorate them”. Which makes me wonder, when Botox is marketed as empowerment, what are the long-term effects to your mental health, of getting your self esteem from a needle?* View quoted note →

*You can’t know in advance that studying something is going to be a waste of time. There is a sunken cost to every instance of education. It is what it is. You can’t justify walking past a closed door by ignorantly asserting that there is nothing of value behind it* View quoted note →

*racism is a construct of the post war consensus meant to shame Christian nations into calculating their inheritance* View quoted note →

*Early Tibetan legend describes a time when people used telepathy, traveled in the astral, and levitated heavy objects. As the story goes, abuse of these gifts ended that era. Therefore, humanity lost common telepathy—echoed by the Tower of Babel tale.*

Anomalien.com

Uyghur Ancient Cities: Gobi Myths Meet Modern Discoveries

Uyghur ancient cities in the Gobi Desert—once ocean ports—now re-examined with new archaeological finds like the Gobi Wall and Silk Road ruins.

*This isn’t a normal market cycle. It’s the unit-of-account transition phase. And almost no one is positioned for it because they’re still measuring their “returns” in the wrong yardstick.* View quoted note →

*•Gold shows stagnation. •Bitcoin shows collapse.* View quoted note →

*We’re in a regime where the unit of account is decaying faster than the public narrative can absorb* View quoted note →

*when people cling to the debasing unit, they feel rich but measured in the next credible collateral, their system is already collapsing* View quoted note →

Beardos' Lives Matters ____ Calling out the Norse religion in particular “is a bit undermining,” said a senior non-commissioned officer serving on active duty who openly practices a sub-sect of paganism associated with Nordic traditions and sports a large beard. “I feel like that’s singling people out. Why not say it for Muslims or Christians as well?” “There are people like ourselves that practice paganism to the fullest extent possible, and it’s kind of a low blow to be called fake,” the source said. “Imagery is just as important as conviction.”

The Intercept

Hegseth Attack on “Beardos” Targets Troops on Race and Religion, Military Sources Say

Hanafi Muslim and Nordic pagan service members told The Intercept Hegseth's new policy was exclusionary to their beliefs.

*silences scented with rain and burning wood* Beautiful words, beautiful art! View quoted note →

*searching the library catalog and browsing the shelves. We need both.* View quoted note →

*these are the three big buckets of ministry : clinical, religious, and spiritual. They conveniently map to atheist, deist, and animist. They tend to be exclusive, and they also tend to try converting their patients into spreaders of their own type. True healing depends on meeting the patient where they are. The first thing they need to hear is, its okay and you're not alone.* View quoted note →

Everyone: it’s not possible to construct a worthwhile sentence using ‘memetic bundle’ and ‘meme payload’. *Comte enters the chat* “Both are trying to inject a meme payload and make you a replicator of the memetic bundle that controls them : on one extreme, they fix you by filling your wound with scientism ; on the other extreme, they fix you by filling your wound with a set of beliefs that are characterized by exclusivity” View quoted note →