Explaining bitcoin to a Wall Street investor feels like explaining the petroleum industry to Captain Ahab.

Added a new little sculpture to my collection today. The seller called it “the nerd” (pictured on the left). The piece is dated 2002 by one C.Smith. I love that it was made in that year because it means the artist was clearly inspired by the news of the internet boom and bust. His little beau tie is adorable, and also the rest of his style fits the era really well: receding hairline and neck carpet, heavy set glasses and tucked in shirt 😊. The pencil to me symbolizes the transition from the paper-and-fax culture to the new all digital world. A little piece of history!

Who is a musical artist currently alive whose dynamism and creativity, in your opinion, most closely approaches that of David Bowie?

SMH at a discussion on public radio about Asian Americans and higher education, all trying so hard to avoid the word “IQ”… 🤐

The world is pretty crazy now. And that’s with inflation at just 20% in the West. What will it be like when inflation hits 50%, 80%, 150%? That’s why I invest most of my time in building mental resiliency. I want my mind and body to be ready for a world where the crazy gets cranked up to eleven, combining the worst of the 1930s, 1940s, and the 1980s.

JK Rowling is such a great writer… from her first Strike detective novel: “He took the train out to Canning Town station. It was overlooked by Canary Wharf, whose sleek, futuristic buildings resembled a series of gleaming metal blocks on the horizon; their size, like that of the National debt, impossible to gauge from such a distance.”

Not the onion… 🇨🇦💩 Surreal story in 4 pictures

In bitcoin, the miners and startups, if sufficiently short term motivated, can be tempted to fork the system at the detriment of pleb hodlers. Sovereign node running is an immune function that prevents that. In politics, the government, if sufficiently short term motivated, can be tempted to fork the system at the detriment of productive citizens. Sovereign individuals owning firearms is an immune function that helps prevent that.

Bitcoin up 40% for the month. So much energy coiled up during the bear market. Weak hand selling exhausted, causing supply to dry up.

“What if we had a genuine initiation ritual for newly minted maxi’s… a passing rite that affirms your exit from the old, rotten fiat paradigm and your subsequent entry into satoshi’s judicious universe; a transformation symbolized by your face seemingly moving through a portal. I get excited just thinking about it!“ #circlebearding

We all know this feel.

“Take this, dear heart! she said, and thrust a small crystal phial, glittering with the radiance of Eärendil’s star, into his hand. ‘In this phial,’ she said, ‘is caught the light of Eärendil’s star, set amid the waters of my fountain. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places when all other lights go out.’”

The Ozric Tentacles just dropped a new album! It’s amazing, really trippy and energetic. The band was founded in 1983 by two brothers, one of them died in 1999. The father was a famous sculptor in the UK, friends with Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, etc. #PsychedelicRock

Spotify

Lotus Unfolding - Album by Ozric Tentacles | Spotify

Ozric Tentacles · album · 2023 · 6 songs

Doodle from 2020. The 5 BTC buys you 3 years now.

Verbatim, just now: Wife: How are you doing Mr. Scrolly Mc Scroll Pants? T: I’m going to log out of Twitter soon Wife: Is it an anger factory full of angry people? A: Yes! 😂

My dad fired his first bullets this week. Commanding a firearm has such an immediate effect on people, I think because it viscerally conveys to the handler how it really has the power to level the playing field. Proud of him!

The unacknowledged fear of (ego)death causes people to do the stupidest, most destructive things. To create a truly peaceful society, we all must learn to accept our mortality and fallibility one way or another.

Communists and socialists can be really nice people, courageous too. Yet that doesn’t make their ideas any less dangerous.

ETH/BTC hopium. I’m not smoking it, though a dead cat bounce is always possible of course.

Socialism is the cult of victimhood.