What’s the best open archive of academic research papers for the lay person? Getting tired of the paywalls and creditialism cartel.

YouTube tv requires device location services in order to serve local news stations. What degree of legacy predictive programming requires regional containment measures? Or am I being irrational..

Another day at the fiat mines, extracting decaying time-value into an incorruptible magic internet money with no intrinsic value

Thinking of writing a short series on baby boomers’ epistemological vulnerabilities in the digital age. “Deep Fried Boomerisms” Coming soon. Inspired by some of the most frustrating talks regarding something found on the internet by anyone over the age of 61.

So what’s the project that’s creating the Bitcoin native Amazon?

My hot take is that the explosion in sports gambling is going to ruin a vast swath of lower to lower middle class 18-35 year olds.

Nycticorax “Night Raven” Black Crowned Night Heron

One of the best moves I’ve made in years has been to delete all social media and go Nostr only. My generation came to adolescence at the time the major social medias reached their greatest adoption, there has been no adult life without the pervasive influence of these corps. I’ve seen the lifecycle play out. They are mind killers. Many will never escape their grasp. Without freedom of thought, there is no freedom at all.

Anybody else tired of hearing the “no intrinsic value” argument

A nation will not be strong because its government holds a vast sum of seized bitcoin.

Many such cases.

Alright who flipped the switch on all the digital privacy rulings and laws recently? What happened and why now?

One problem with property taxes is that it assumes the monetary value of a property exists objectively and can be measured by formula and adjacency at any given time. When in reality the monetary value of a property is and can only ever be determined at the exact point of exchange between two parties. It takes form when measured, and can only be measured when exchanged. All other valuations are extortion.

Is it just my observation or has the mode functional IQ of the general population become untenable for civilized society? Gork is this true?

If you have kids and receive a child tax credit, start using that to buy Bitcoin. By the time they’re 18 they’ll have a stack to start their life with. No investment vehicle strings attached.

In the prewar 1800’s there was an incessant desire for paper currency due to limitations in the divisibility and portability of gold and silver. What the people were looking for was an instrument of exchange to escape from the limitations of barter. Especially on the frontier. What the people got was shitcoins and fraud. Bitcoin is not digital gold.