“It is sort of backward to say that it has become too expensive to live in Los Angeles. Los Angeles made itself illegal.”

Are we underestimating who is poor?

Michael Green has caused a bit of a dust-up with a piece that was picked up by the Free Press, and which he followed up on at his substack newsletter.

Just gonna start randomly posting products and brands that I’d pay in Bitcoin for if they accepted it #paywithbitcoin

“Roll your face on the keyboard and make an app” 😂😂

Fountain

Soapbox Sessions • Mo Users Mo Problems • Listen on Fountain

Plus: Heather’s hill to die on is that Nostr needs to accommodate social media teams with better tools. Derek’s predictions for Nostr growth ...

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GM PV Demographics are destiny: we need more Gen Z Bitcoiners and Nostriches or else we end up with a demographic problem not dissimilar to Japan. Our cultural vitality is not age-agnostic.

“Describe the problem you’re trying to solve”

GM 💜🤙🏼 Staying on the orange pills with IRL Square merchants. Took a few tries but think I got the local coffee spot to pull the trigger. Consistency is key.

Sober analysis. I’d add: Nostr doesn’t have to ONLY be a backup/ripcord option. Paid subs for valuable content and/or services can exist here too. Heck, ads (sans deceptive design patterns) can even exist here too in certain contexts.

Trust Revolution • S02E14 Why Ads Keep Winning • Watch on Fountain

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RIP Frank Gehry Although your projects were barely profitable to work on and your visions strained relationships… the world became more beautiful and interesting through these journeys. I’m grateful you were here.

We might be in a bubble (One of those people who use that “LinkedIn” boomer networking app sent this to me)

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It’s an honor to welcome Cristiano Ronaldo as a partner and investor to Perplexity. Cristiano is the 🐐for a reason: He’s relentless and curi...

“The irony, of course, is that the “libertarian” think tanks delivering these defenses are no longer libertarian in any meaningful sense. Libertarianism once meant freeing markets and empowering individuals. Today, these institutions function as aristocratic libertarianism: freedom for capital, discipline for labor, abundance for the donor class, austerity for everyone else. This purpose is served regardless of the researcher’s political history (Winship was a Democratic strategist) because of the institutional necessity of defending the financial status quo that funds the think tank. The left and the right elite have come together to defend themselves against the deplorables whose dubious moral character is the source of their failings.”

Part 2: The Door Has Opened

A discussion on the real word has begun. It's about time