*Curricula optimize for clean exams, employability, and tools — not long-horizon failure, adversarial reality, or responsibility. Reality lives in the tails. Education lives in the mean.* View quoted note →

*In a free market, cash scarcity forces decisions. In today’s market, cash scarcity gets patched.* View quoted note →

*AI is responsible for the omniscient and omnipotent "Compute"; Humanity is responsible for the "Gravity" of pain and glory. AI is responsible for maintaining rational order; Humanity is responsible for providing the spark of chaos.* Tianqiao Chen

*Absolute rationality implies absolute prediction. In the eyes of an all-knowing observer, the world is static because everything is within calculation. Without surprise, there is no time; without time, there is no meaning.*

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*1. Being a great hacker does not imbue moral or ethical characteristics. 2. Being a great coder doesn't mean you're not a crackpot. 3. Working on a great project doesn't mean you share my motivations about it.* View quoted note →

“Most people are sitting in a sympathetic state a lot of the time, in this low-level stress, and that wears you out,” Stacy says “It can impact your ability to perform at your job, and it can impact your relationships with your family, friends, and loved ones.” “[When you improve your V02 max], there's less stress on your overall system. And when there's less stress on your overall system, it's much easier for you to manage your emotions. It's much easier for you to step back and make better decisions and see things for how they are, rather than being caught up in all the day-to-day stresses.” Why Increasing Your VO2 Max Is Great for Improving Longevity—and Your Daily Life | GQ

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Why Increasing Your VO2 Max Is Great for Improving Longevity—and Your Daily Life

Experts explain why this measure of cardiovascular health isn’t just for ‘fitness people,’ and how improving your VO2 max could even help you...

*Why this obsession with time? Because marking the passage of time is something that marks us as humans. It is the lower animals, the brutes, and the outcasts who fail to mark their time on Earth. Who simply live into every hour of every day, as if it were interchangeable with every other. Like zombies. Like the lost, cursed to wander in the desert. As if there were no progression, no direction, no movement. It is both a Biblical curse and a sign of societal degeneracy to _fail to mark the time_.* View quoted note →

*What a business will declare for taxation [has] nothing to do with what they use as [a] form of money. The taxation event is on the invoicing volume, NOT on the money aspect.*

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How to Use Blink POS in Your Shop, Cafe or Restaurant \ stacker news

Blink Wallet is a great solution to start accepting bitcoin and lightning payments in a physical shop. If you have a cafe, restaurant or any other ...

*hustle works best with alignment, and simplicity ties it all together* View quoted note →

*courage has meant staying open without self-abandonment, choosing honesty over reassurance, protecting your peace, and trusting others to walk their own path* View quoted note →

*A ruler whose subjects cannot leave can afford to be predatory. A ruler whose subjects can vanish into the ether must offer value or be abandoned*

The Quiet Departure

The loudest revolutions fail; the quiet ones succeed. We do not protest or petition. We build alternatives and simply leave.

*Freedom isn't about doing what you want, it's about not needing what everyone else is addicted to.* View quoted note →

Stack sats and naps! *Sleep debt used to be a suggestion, now it’s a loan shark with brass knuckles.* View quoted note →

*When algorithms decide what we see, when monetary policy decides what we can save, when platforms decide what we can say, are we really free? Or are we operating within an illusion of choice?* View quoted note →

*Each life spared by bitcoin is worth the kilowatts it takes to secure the bitcoin network* View quoted note →

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Is it only the devs, that need contribute to the Bitcoin open source? How else? \ stacker news

New year, same goal. I've seen invitations, calling devs to contribute to the Bitcoin open source. But what if you're not a dev, and you still want...

https://www.ft.com/content/9e4afe62-b474-478e-ac88-fa1417064e5f *The EU’s landmark carbon border tax will come into force on January 1 despite fierce opposition from trading partners and warnings from European industry that it will increase costs and red tape. The carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), which covers six sectors including steel, cement, aluminium and electricity, is intended to prevent EU companies that have to pay for their emissions being undercut by cheaper, more heavily polluting competition.*

*Hardware is ahead of software, but hardware reliability severely limits software iteration speed.* @DrJimFan x.com

*If Trump is long ag, expect tariffs* Silver will see more volatility, but the market is not in a bubble - Société Générale | Kitco News

Silver will see more volatility, but the market is not in a bubble - Société Générale

(Kitco News) - The silver market continues to garner significant investor attention as prices have surged in the final days of 2025.However, this u...

*There's no good reason to have all the major apps work the same on that, it just makes nostr easier for the authorities to manipulate* View quoted note →