*when you give everyone a button that says “show me more stuff like this” they keep pressing it until they end up somewhere insane* View quoted note →

*Everyone claims to love “nuance” until you actually present them with some* View quoted note →

*Democracy by retweet is just the tyranny of whoever has the most free time* View quoted note →

*Every complex system is one black swan away from revealing it was duct tape all along.* View quoted note →

*There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped.... The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.* View quoted note →

*Culture isn't actually "worse" now. You just got older and stopped being the target demo.* View quoted note →

*The reasonable majority gets drowned out by the loudest extremists and now nobody can have normal conversations about anything. The flanks capture the discourse.* View quoted note →

*There are signs, if you're watching for them. A creeping restlessness that suggests you're ready to plant something new. A bone-deep fatigue that suggests you need to stop harvesting and let the field recover.* View quoted note →

*most people don't take agency to adopt a new system ahead of states and institutions* View quoted note →

Interesting.... *I do not believe in one ring, one money, one A-eye to rule them all. I believe in nature that has built in competition and synergy at the core. It comes with kill switches (Achilles) to exit the form and start anew.* View quoted note →

*Calm people calm you. Driven people activate you. Draining people drain you* View quoted note →

*it is mostly our own fault for allowing ~100% of nodes to run a single implementation for so long* View quoted note →

*Usury violates covenantal bonds by commodifying the need of the vulnerable* View quoted note →

'tis better to put one's energy in worthy works rather than mighty predictions

*predictable namespace across nostr apps has been a big need for us to offer trustless and customized ShockWallet Lightning Addresses* mater artium necessitas View quoted note →

*The AWS Security Agent, currently available in preview, performs context-aware penetration testing without human intervention, analyzing design documents, source code, and internal security policies to build customized attack plans. According to AWS, the tool can complete penetration tests in hours rather than days, addressing what the company describes as a widening gap between software release frequency and security validation capabilities* https://www.perplexity.ai/page/aws-unveils-ai-agent-to-automa-4OQBuPeiRxmIcbBvmQ7mNw

Fiat incentivises the destructive use of energy: war Energy based money incentivises the constructive use of energy: trade and construction

*The ideological elevation of markets obscures how political decisions and state power determine economic and social inequalities* View quoted note →

*Bitcoin ...does not measure time from an assumed continuum, it constructs time through irreversible, energy-expending events. Block time is not sampled from a continuous background but produced as the discrete unit of temporal ordering itself. In radioactive decay, discrete events are fitted to a continuous time; in Bitcoin, the events are the time.* View quoted note →

I sometimes wonder how I would react if tested in a severe way. It's good to think about this tricky stuff before disasters strike. *Build your theology of suffering before you need it, so that when the inevitable comes, you’re not scrambling for meaning but resting in a God you already know and trust.* View quoted note →