all these new startups with ".ai" in their name are more than a little reminiscent of the ".com" bubble

"Don't you find it interesting that we're there in Afghanistan for all these years, and don't ask anyone what the objective was after year 2 or 3 because you won't find an answer, other than spend money and line the pockets of defense contractors. When we look at when it stopped, and they're pulling out, and there's people falling off planes—the abomination of how they got out of there—wasn't it interesting that the Ukraine War kicks off within months after this is over. And now the firehose of fiat printing is just pointed at a different location in the world, but it's still pouring into the pockets of all these elected officials of these regions that develop these weapons systems. Isn't that kind of interesting? Isn't that interesting that the Speaker of the House just left because the funding in Ukraine was being hotly debated and we were going to go into a government shutdown. The House Speaker is removed from the Republicans because he went against what they were trying to promote, which was to not allow more funding to go into the Ukraine. And within a couple days, now all of a sudden there's another hotbed location that's popping off that now we're going to point the fiat defense spigot at to make more weapons. Isn't that interesting?" — @preston in convo with @jimmysong

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i have thoughts and opinions about the current thing but you will absolutely not see them written out in detail here on the internet

Crowdhealth gave me a surprise birthday gift 😭

i need another note-taking app like i need a hole in the head i'm old enough to see the pattern now: - use a physical notebook and extol the virtues of simplicity - switch to basic notes app on phone - find New, Fancy, Power-User Notes App for optimized productivity and idea mapping which has a cult following and is a game-changer with monthly subscription pro features - go back to a physical notebook and extol the virtues of simplicity

is the argument that yes the climate changes and has always changed and sea levels rise and have always risen and people with prehistoric technology learned to adapt BUT when there's a lot more plant food in the atmosphere put there by today's tool-making creatures then the climate changes... more? differently? and we with our more modern technology will not adapt this time? there's now evidence of ancient peoples living far off the coast of florida *a millennium* earlier than scientists "previously assumed" people arrived in the Americas—14,500 years ago—and they were building offshore mammoth bone walls to protect themselves from sea level rise. why are people gluing themselves to museum paintings?

people go on about the USA being young but "Italy" was not a country until 1861, nearly a century after the signing of the Declaration of Independence the story is fascinating

Unification of Italy - Wikipedia

some people get snippy when you tell them to cheer up, so i avoid it but when someone tells me to cheer up i say "good idea"

all my best ideas arrive when i'm outside walking pv fam 🤙🌅

"I think part of the sadness looking back at this 'covid fever' that we went through is the trust that was decimated in the world of medicine, unfortunately. Because doctors went from being the people to inform you about the choice you were about to make to the person that was basically coercing you to do something, even if it didn't feel good. Like we said at the start, the less you know about something the more vulnerable you are to having someone else tell you what you should do. And even if that's a good person, if they're working in a shitty system or they're under duress because their salary depends on them telling you a certain thing... if these people are being coerced, then by de facto you are collateral damage." —NobodyCaribou in convo with @johnkvallis

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Health has been central to my life for more than 20 years, so it's been fascinating (and surprising) to observe the impact which learning about and...

Saif has a way with words 👌 "The idea of not killing animals sounds nice but it's completely baseless because eating plants kills far far more animals than eating animals. One cow is enough to feed the average person for an entire year. But to feed that same person on crops requires a genocide of rodents, rabbits, birds, and insects to transform a rich ecosystem into monocrop land. Cows graze in lush diverse ecosystems with plenty of species thriving. Plants are grown in monocrop fields where everything has to be killed to ensure the plants can be harvested for humans and not eaten by other animals. But of course the real inhumanity of a plant based diet is that it harms the humans and destroys their health. So you're killing many more animals in order to kill yourself slowly."

the phrase 'hot take' is so annoying a hot take is just an opinion marketed for engagement "hot take: this current thing is actually overrrated, change my mind" ooo so spicy wow damn

Rishi Sunak is prime minister of the UK, but before that he was chancellor i.e. head of the treasury, and before that he was partner at a hedge fund (Theleme) that invested £380 million in Moderna. The UK government under his leadership later bought five million doses of the Moderna vaccine in Nov 2020 alone. Theleme gained after Moderna’s value soared from £4.7 billion to £32 billion fascinating

i have to admit that the Freedom of Information Act is a rare bright spot in an otherwise dystopian shadowscape of deceit, misdirection, and obfuscation i can't believe it exists at all, let alone that its requests are consistently honored. at least it's something.

Plato made a distinction between philia sophia (love of wisdom) and philia nikia (love of victory) as the two basic motivations for dialogue are you engaging in an argument to learn something or to win?

what do we have here 👀 https://bitvm.org/bitvm.pdf #bitcoin

good questions are worth a lot more than good answers value is subjective, but hard questions are more difficult to generate and therefore more scarce

about as bullish on bitcoin miniscript as i can get

i'm halfway through this 800-page tome and it is tremendous. accessible, cohesive, fascinating... everything my in school history classes were not

"I wouldn't let the government sleep on my couch, let alone lend them money" @ODELL on buying treasuries 😅