Lol… #AI #deepfake #fakenews View quoted note →

The real reason for anti-Brexit propaganda… it would lead to multiple countries exiting the EU, the crumbling of NATO, and ultimately the IMF and World Bank funding.

IMO the recent AI frenzy (we’re all gonna die!) by politicians and corporate “leaders” is to normalize it in the public (and ask for more $ and regulatory moats) and they used Taylor Swift sex deep fakes as an example that would stick in the normie mind. Many of these people have ulterior motives outside of serving the people of the USA and that partially stems from blackmail via (real) damning photos and videos (also just greed). The conversation took a huge step after the Biden laptop leak. With Epstein/Maxwell working for Mossad, the assumption is that there are many in the US that are aware of the damage this could do for their legitimacy. They need to get a head of it to be able to chalk up any more leaks to AI, deep fakes, and fake news. * takes tin foil hat off *

Guy at the gym called me sir. I am officially old years old.

Exodus 33-34: We have to answer one question. Am I living distinctly? #bible #biblestr

There are no coincidences #meatstr #healthstr

Finally finished #Bitcoin is Venice. Really enjoyed it. Not your average “bitcoin” book and speaks more to capitalism, economic, and second order effects in general. Changing it up a bit for the next #bookstr

The Renaissance was enabled by the nurture, replenishment, and growth of capital, but only as a kind of technical prologue. An introduction to set the stage for the main event. A blossoming of literature, philosophy, art, and culture. Weimar was enabled by the destruction of capital. A technical prologue to absolute war and destruction.

Orange pillers are hyping it up more recently that the US gov will 6102 #bitcoin while simultaneously claiming China (WeChat communist dystopia) was unable to ban it multiple times over the past 10 years? Which one is it?

“If the American people ever allow banks to control the issue of their currency… the banks and corporations will grow around them and deprive the people of all property until their children are conquered… I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies… the issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” - Thomas Jefferson

Not to be a doomer, but wouldn’t the only logical explanation to do this be that you know radio is going to be the only way to communicate soon? I mean…. Otherwise… isn’t radio dead as a media outlet right now?

The near-miracle that #Bitcoin represents is property that can be defended without violence or even the threat of violence, given it is infinitely costly to attack.

Ownership rights to property can exist only as long as other people agree to respect them OR as long as the owner can forcefully exclude those who do not agree.

#dogstr got bows for wife’s galentines yesterday

I get 10x more traction on #nostr than Twitter. I get 0-1 likes on Twitter (no blue check + bad tweets) I get 0-10 🤙 on #nostr AND the occasional zap (no blue check + bad tweets) * this note is doin numbers #meme *

Under the dominant regime of political economy, price signals are not being allowed to communicate the compression of accurate information about economic reality. Arguably the most important feature of functioning money is to provide global signal to guide necessarily local economic decision making. This signal can be traced to money’s most important enablement - capital - and deduced the likely consequences of this overwhelming interference on capital formation, as well as how this reflexively loops back to cause even more problems for money itself. Bitcoin is inherently peaceful technology incalculably easier to defend than attack.

Knowledge and competence only flow up, and ignorance and incompetence only flow down. Global ignorance and incompetence will lead to local ignorance and incompetence, while local knowledge and competence might lead to global knowledge and competence. - The Farrington-Meyers Law of Institutional Dynamics Ex. #bitcoin beach leading to country wide adoption (grassroots)

Knowledge and competence are only ever local.

“I don’t believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government. That is, we can’t take them violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something they can’t stop.” - Friedrich Hayek

“The fiat era created a dramatic historical anomaly. For the first time in recorded history, the cost of creating new money literally was zero. This has had profound effects on political economy. While money can always buy power, power could now buy money, and without economic calculation. There is no coat too great to seizing power, and next to no incentive not to give it a shot, because any costs can be paid back later, and then some.”