War is quickly becoming Enders Game. I don’t know how I feel about it.

Nobody monitors the situation like a toad monitors the situation.

Went through the airport for the first time in a long while. Haven’t experienced the facial recognition in practice until now. Fuck that shit. Gives me the creeps. TSA is now the Travel Surveillance Agency.

What becomes of us after the death of all virtue?

Any productivity benefits to society from AI is void by the sheer depravity these tools will unleash. Go look up “Tilly Norwood” and you’ll see why damn near every sci-fi/fantasy novel is set in a time post thinking-machine Armageddon. We must not blur the lines between the real and the non real. The war about transgender pronouns is going to appear minuscule compared to the war on reality that’s about to be waged. The more I see AI develop the more I believe these tools are straight from the pits of hell. I used to think there was a balanced argument between the pros and cons and we could walk the tightrope. I no longer believe it’s possible. “The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned”

Tilly Norwood - Wikipedia

One unsolicited marriage tip. You must never talk bad or complain about your spouse to anyone. Ever. If you have a problem with your spouse you talk to her (or him). When you complain outside of your marriage you weaken yourself and damage your spouse. Don’t do it.

A civilization has died when its citizens start having to put their own furniture together. We used to have artisans and guilds for these kinds of things.

Socialism is the last stage of democracy What say you?

My favorite part about this is seeing the random dudes on boats in the middle of absolute nowhere.

Bitmap - Bitchat Heat Map

Real-time monitoring and visualization of ephemeral Nostr events with geospatial analysis and hacker-style interface.

RSS is based

At my company I routinely work with a contractor in Costa Rica. It pains me every time I see our CFO release the international wire transfer to pay invoices. Problem is he’s 61 and will never understand the utility even as it stares him in the face. Sometimes generations must pass.

How long until we can break the digital gold wrapper?

European Central Bank continues its climate war on industries it ideologically despises while EU countries face deadly electricity shortages by introducing a “Climate Factor” to non financial marketable securities: “The climate factor could reduce the effective collateral value of these assets..” https://www.ecb.europa.eu//pub/pdf/other/ecb.mepletter250815_Eickhout_Gerbrandy_Pietikainen_Saramo_Wolters~25dd21fe84.en.pdf

People are refusing to be a boomers exit liquidity. It’s a paper equity summer.