This year feels like it's all kayfabe.
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The more financially unstable a place is, the more altcoins appeal. And they're appealing to a lot of people almost everywhere.
App development is definitely not just for programmers anymore.
Cypherpunks (vibe) code.
Jane Street has Willy Bot vibes.
I can hardly remember a time before cell phones.
That's what it's going to feel like in a few years but with AI agents.
Turns out AI personalization may be the catalyst for all the decentralized tools we need to get off the big tech platforms.
Of course, we'll need private AIs to get much better, but we're not that far away.
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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #489
Bitcoin Tech Talk #489
Californication, SEC Schools, Agency, Canada and Bad Psych
I spent a large chunk of yesterday iterating on a browser based coop tower defense game with my sons. Kinda amazed that it's pretty fun.
How many projects can I juggle on claude at one time? I'm gonna find out.
What useful tools would you like to see here on Nostr that hasn't been made yet?
I ask so I have more projects to make on Claude.
I'm about to cross the Rubicon to a Claude Max subscription.
Announcing that you're unfollowing someone is about the most cringe way of announcing your narcissism.
So of course Boomers are doing this constantly.
Insurance is such a fiat scam. All the middle men it creates are rent-seeking by nature and the quality of the service not only becomes more expensive but worse. Direct payment, or value-for-value is the far more honest thing.
I swear the plan for the normie is "Load up on debt and die before you have to pay it off."
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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #488
Bitcoin Tech Talk #488
Efficiency Maxxing, High v. Low Trust, Fermi Paradox, Fiat Pastors, Elder Fraud
We have outrage fatigue. The last 30 years have been a constant barrage of media that demanded that we be outraged by something or other, that when truly outrageous things happen, we don't have the energy to be properly outraged.
This is why the responses COVID lockdowns and the Epstein stuff are relatively tepid.
It's not just strawberries, but pretty much every fruit and vegetable that has undergone significant changes after being farmed.
Cows, though, they're mostly the same.
There's always drama.
Gambling is what people turn to when the hope of real value-adding work is dashed.