Really good video summarizing the main points of Peter Turchin's End Times which is unfortunately one of the best books to describe our current moment. The concepts of Elite Overproduction, The Wealth Pump and Popular Immiseration are all blaring signals in the US pointing to us now being in a Revolutionary Moment. Very important book. #bookstr #history

A Video Illustrating Ideas in "End Times"

"Peter Turchin's End Times Dissected" by Bernard Tannett

This is a good breakdown of where we are right now. Volatility incoming.

Did Bank of Japan crash the dollar?

The consequences of 26 years of free money policy and aggressive Quantitative Easing (read: money printing) are coming due. The United States is am...

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It's time to switch to Linux.

CyberInsider

Signal president warns AI agents are making encryption irrelevant

Signal president Meredith Whittaker said AI agents embedded within operating systems are eroding the practical security guarantees of E2EE.

The state of the Dollar Index is really something to behold rn with the monthly close in 4 days. Big volatility incoming. Let's see what happens. #DXY View quoted note →

Nextcloud self-hosted on a Start 9 is so awesome to work with. Highly recommend. Tons of apps available for it. #privacy

Oscar Peterson was a Boss.

Tfw you just did your first Norwegian 4x4. 🏃 🚶‍♂️ 🏃 🚶‍♂️ 🏃 🚶‍♂️ 🏃 🚶‍♂️

"Half the women in this country look like they could be harpooneers on the whaler Pequod." lmao, Kunstler is pretty great.

Permission Granted: Go Kill Yourself

"A macrosocial cluster B crisis is ripping this nation apart because Leftism has hijacked the minds of progressive females who then LARP out danger...

Interesting comparison chart of the different #degoogle phone OS options #privacy

Comparison of Android-based Operating Systems

Comparison of Android-based Operating Systems

I'm not so sure about Graphene OS tbh. Sometimes, seemingly randomly, I just don't receive texts until I open the messaging app. Thats not good and the setting for that app was set to unrestricted battery use so no fix there. Gonna spend some time with Lineage I think. #privacy #graphene #degoogle

I heard a latina lady talking about "el presidente" today and asked if she was venezuelan. She was and I asked what she thought about what was happening and she drew a smile on her face with her fingers, and said, "26 years of dictatorship... the whole time"

The warmth of collectivism

Happy New Years!

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Downloaded all the photos I had on Google and then deleted what was there. Then reorganized it all self-hosted on Nextcloud on my Start 9, synced to my Graphene phone. Feels good. Look up "Google Photos Takeout Helper" for how to rework the metadata properly. #Degoogle #privacy

All my frens they die

Victor Davis Hanson on the similarities now between the current Democrats and the Southern Democrat Confederacy.

American Greatness

The Left is ‘Bleeding Kansas’ › American Greatness

In the late 1850s, “Bleeding Kansas” was the term used to describe the escalating cycle of violence, when surrogates for the Union and soon-to-...

This was the best recent interview of Simon Dixon I have seen so far. His perspective on the current geopolitical trajectory is really different and seems likely to be the most accurate. His solo videos are hard to follow imo but this interview condenses everything into a more digestible form. It makes more sense then the world war 3 narrative.

This book, Daemon, was AWE-SOME. Highly recommend it especially for Bitcoiners or people into tech stuff. From 2008 about a genius video game company founder who, when he died, his Daemon, that was running and scanning news, was waiting for that info so it could initiate a process that began wreaking havoc thru the internet, automation and these AI-enabled logic structures. It began cementing this kind of immortal influence of the founder that ruthlessly changes the world. Really interesting for Bitcoiners because Bitcoin is also a Daemon that was set loose in the world and has the potential of changing it significantly, but thru incentives of course, so it makes for some really thought provoking moments about the nature of a Daemon as a new type of organizing structure in society. It's actually like the fiction version of The Sovereign Individual in a way, which is wild. Highly recommend. #bookstr

The best nap I ever took in my entire life happened between 4:55pm and 6:45pm 10/10/25. lol