But in order to achieve this goal, bankers redefined the word money to mean the opposite of money: credit/debt. This is like calling a night a day or evil a good.
But in order to achieve this goal, bankers redefined the word money to mean the opposite of money: credit/debt. This is like calling a night a day or evil a good.
Bank-notes are not money. It 's currency. It’s unfair to take banks' currency as a standard for comparison.
Bank-note currency is not “lawful money”. It never could be counted as part of banks cash reserves. It would be too much like a man writing and signing his own promissory note for a million and then claiming that this made him a millionaire.
The very grave evils any currency depreciation always impose upon businesses and the people.
Alfred Owen Crozier, US Money vs Corporate currency, 1912
Bank-notes are not money. It 's currency. It’s unfair to take banks' currency as a standard for comparison.
Bank-note currency is not “lawful money”. It never could be counted as part of banks cash reserves. It would be too much like a man writing and signing his own promissory note for a million and then claiming that this made him a millionaire.
The very grave evils any currency depreciation always impose upon businesses and the people.
Alfred Owen Crozier, US Money vs Corporate currency, 1912
> Do you understand how egregiously you have to suck (at your job)/(as a developer) to write code in such a way that you accidentally bill a user $200 because they have the wrong string in their commit messages?
- Theo, Seriously, Anthropic??
“A possibilidade de os homens viverem juntos em paz e para sua mútua vantagem, sem precisar concordar sobre objetivos concretos comuns, e ligados apenas por regras abstratas de conduta, foi talvez a maior descoberta que a humanidade já fez.”
— Friedrich Hayek
Keane is gayer, but they have the better singer
Keane is gayer, but they have the better singer
As obras feitas pelos não regenerados, embora sejam, quanto à matéria, coisas que Deusordena, e úteis tanto a eles mesmos quanto aos outros, contudo, porque procedem de coraçõesnão purificados pela fé, não são feitas devidamente segundo a Palavra; nem para um fim justoa glória é de Deus; são, portanto, pecaminosas e não podem agradar a Deus, nem preparar ohomem para receber a graça de Deus; não obstante, o negligenciá-las é ainda maispecaminoso e ofensivo a Deus.
Um dos principais obstáculos está na complexidade dos meios de pagamento hoje utilizados no Brasil. A diversidade é enorme: cartões, boletos, transferências bancárias (TED, DOC), pagamentos instantâneos como o PIX, além de carteiras digitais e soluções próprias de adquirentes. Para que o Split Payment funcione de forma segura e eficaz, será necessário garantir a integração de todos esses meios com o sistema de segregação tributária, o que implica um grande esforço tecnológico e normativo, tanto por parte das empresas quanto do próprio Estado.
He runs his node in silence,
behind encrypted walls and firewalled tunnels,
but his presence is felt.
Every block he validates is a quiet, unbreakable statement:
truth requires no permission.
He runs his node in silence,
behind encrypted walls and firewalled tunnels,
but his presence is felt.
Every block he validates is a quiet, unbreakable statement:
truth requires no permission.
Not as speculation, but as infrastructure.
A last bastion of voluntary cooperation —
of value without authority.
Not as speculation, but as infrastructure.
A last bastion of voluntary cooperation —
of value without authority.
In Garching bei München planen Wissenschaftler und Unternehmen nun, bis Anfang der 2030er-Jahre für Forschungszwecke den Fusionsreaktor „Alpha“ zu bauen
In Garching bei München planen Wissenschaftler und Unternehmen nun, bis Anfang der 2030er-Jahre für Forschungszwecke den Fusionsreaktor „Alpha“ zu bauen...
Allein „Alpha“ soll zwei Milliarden Euro kosten, größtenteils finanziert mit öffentlichen Geldern...
Man setzt dafür auf einen sogenannten Stellarator. Also auf einen Reaktortyp, der an einen Donut erinnert. Das Plasma wird in einer verdrehten Röhre mit einem sehr starken Magnetfeld stabil in der Mitte gehalten, die Plasmakammer kann damit vergleichsweise klein ausgelegt werden. Auch die Turbulenzen im Plasma lassen sich damit reduzieren, weniger Energie geht verloren.
In a free society without economic planners and regulators, there would be no regulated economy and no underground. All productive activity would be free."
Sennholz was careful to draw a distinction that governments have always deliberately obscured: the underground economy is not the criminal underworld. It is comprised of otherwise law-abiding citizens seeking refuge from wrongs inflicted upon them by the state; electricians working off the books, physicians bartering services, farmers selling at flea markets without sales tax remittances, moonlighting teachers who spend their days lecturing students on the wisdom of government regulation and their evenings cheerfully ignoring it. These are not criminals. They are rational actors responding to a system that has made productive, above-board economic life increasingly costly, surveilled, and punitive. As Sennholz observed: "In a free society without economic planners and regulators, there would be no regulated economy and no underground. All productive activity would be free."
any objection to Palantir's militarized AI agenda can be dismissed as unnecessary debates and any moral question is dismissed as a luxury the nation cannot afford.
In other words any objection to Palantir's militarized AI agenda can be dismissed as unnecessary debates and any moral question is dismissed as a luxury the nation cannot afford. The logic is identical to that deployed in every consolidation of emergency power in modern history: the stakes are too high for deliberation, the enemy too implacable for restraint, and only we, the chosen ones,the competent, the technologically sophisticated, the already-positioned can be trusted to act. The civilian population is invited to participate by surrendering their agency and their souls to their Palantir overlords. They must trust the plan..
Palantir is not merely serving the government; it is quietly, algorithmically becoming it.
This is Palantir's operating environment and its aspiration. The company does not sell to markets in any meaningful sense. It sells to governments. Its core revenue base is military contracts, intelligence community agreements, and law enforcement partnerships. Its core product, data fusion and predictive analytics, is only valuable at scale, and the only actors with the data volumes and coercive authority to make it valuable at that scale are states. Palantir is not merely serving the government; it is quietly, algorithmically becoming it.
This is not a left versus right issue. It is the perennial question of whether human civilization will be organized around consent or managed through force and specifically, whether the extraordinary technical capabilities of the current moment will be deployed to liberate individuals from institutional dependence or to make that dependence invisible, and permanent.
This is not a left versus right issue. It is the perennial question of whether human civilization will be organized around consent or managed through force and specifically, whether the extraordinary technical capabilities of the current moment will be deployed to liberate individuals from institutional dependence or to make that dependence invisible, and permanent.
The Palantir manifesto is built on this same foundation and its authors know it. In fact when one looks at it objectively and in detail it’s built on the same authoritarian ideas that have been around for ages; which is that some people, by virtue of their technical capacity, their power, their patriotism, or their civilizational clarity, are entitled by birthright to govern and exert authority over everyone else.
The Palantir manifesto is built on this same foundation and its authors know it. In fact when one looks at it objectively and in detail it’s built on the same authoritarian ideas that have been around for ages; which is that some people, by virtue of their technical capacity, their power, their patriotism, or their civilizational clarity, are entitled by birthright to govern and exert authority over everyone else.
It not only is foundation for a parallel economic system but is the biggest opportunity that sovereign individuals have at conducting commerce peer to peer outside of the fiat system, which will soon be a node in the Palantir world order.
Bitcoin is the Sennholzian underground economy, operating at global scale, with a fixed monetary policy that no emergency session of any legislature can amend. It not only is foundation for a parallel economic system but is the biggest opportunity that sovereign individuals have at conducting commerce peer to peer outside of the fiat system, which will soon be a node in the Palantir world order.
"The underground economy," he wrote, "is as old as government itself. It springs from human nature that makes man choose between given alternatives. Facing the agents of government and their exactions, man will weigh the alternatives and may choose to go underground."
The Underground Economy written in 1984 , the year Orwell chose for his dystopia, not coincidentally, Sennholz documented a phenomenon that governments have always found both maddening and inexhaustible: the underground economy. His central observation deserves to be read as prophecy. "The underground economy," he wrote, "is as old as government itself. It springs from human nature that makes man choose between given alternatives. Facing the agents of government and their exactions, man will weigh the alternatives and may choose to go underground." Every tightening of the regulatory vise, every new layer of taxation and surveillance, every additional mandate layered onto productive human activity, produced the same result: a compensatory expansion of the shadow economy operating beyond the state's line of sight. The underground did not defy human nature. It expressed it.
First a crisis is identified or manufactured, a solution is proposed by the very parties who will benefit from it, the solution is framed in the language of national interest and public safety, and the resulting institution becomes a permanent extraction mechanism answerable to no democratic constituency.
First a crisis is identified or manufactured, a solution is proposed by the very parties who will benefit from it, the solution is framed in the language of national interest and public safety, and the resulting institution becomes a permanent extraction mechanism answerable to no democratic constituency. The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was passed because the panic of 1907 had demonstrated, its architects argued, that the nation required a "lender of last resort," a stabilizing institution that would protect ordinary Americans from financial ruin.
the debt crisis requiring financial repression, the security apparatus requiring data integration, the AI arms race requiring permanent militarized research infrastructure, all spiraling together into something that looks, from close enough, merely like governance.
What is conspicuously absent is any discussion of what people are for, what they are permitted to want, or how they might live outside the system's requirements. It is, to borrow Viktor Shvets' meteorological borrowing, a Fujiwara Effect; multiple hurricanes of control converging into a single, cataclysmic system: the debt crisis requiring financial repression, the security apparatus requiring data integration, the AI arms race requiring permanent militarized research infrastructure, all spiraling together into something that looks, from close enough, merely like governance.
This outcome demonstrated that public approval is unnecessary once a population has been conditioned into a state of learned helplessness through decades of propaganda regarding security tradeoffs
His gamble was that the revelation of these unconstitutional mass surveillance programs would trigger so much public outrage that they would become political hot potatoes and ultimately be shut down. He sacrificed his career and his freedom on that bet and he lost it. Following brief periods of outrage and minor legislative tweaks, the surveillance apparatus returned to its status quo, with data flows remaining uninterrupted and contractors maintaining their access. This outcome demonstrated that public approval is unnecessary once a population has been conditioned into a state of learned helplessness through decades of propaganda regarding security tradeoffs
Snowden's objective was not to embarrass the NSA, but rather a gamble on the power of an informed public to demand democratic accountability.
The 2013 revelations by Edward Snowden provided irrefutable evidence of what had long been dismissed as mere conspiracy theory; which is that the US government, alongside allied intelligence services and major tech firms, had built a global surveillance network of staggering proportions. Programs such as PRISM, XKeyscore, MUSCULAR, and Boundless Informant represented industrial-grade systems designed for the mass harvesting of email content, phone metadata, location records, and browsing histories from hundreds of millions of unsuspecting individuals who had committed no crime and attracted no specific suspicion. Snowden's objective was not to embarrass the NSA, but rather a gamble on the power of an informed public to demand democratic accountability.
It paints a dystopian vision of a technofascist society that will arise out of the complete replacement of democracy with technocracy
However, based on the principles articulated in this manifesto, and the furore it has generated online, it seems evident that the world they envision is not one where most people (myself included) would want to live in. It paints a dystopian vision of a technofascist society that will arise out of the complete replacement of democracy with technocracy. This manifesto is merely a roadmap for manufacturing consent for the permanent surveillance state they intend to build and profit from.
If we do that, we will no longer have unfair differences simply because one person has better access to the new money than others. Instead, everyone simply tries to offer value to the rest of the world and earn money by doing so
If we do that, we will no longer have unfair differences simply because one person has better access to the new money than others. Instead, everyone simply tries to offer value to the rest of the world and earn money by doing so.
If we do that, we will no longer have unfair differences simply because one person has better access to the new money than others. Instead, everyone simply tries to offer value to the rest of the world and earn money by doing so.
If we do that, we will no longer have unfair differences simply because one person has better access to the new money than others. Instead, everyone simply tries to offer value to the rest of the world and earn money by doing so.
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The Palantir state will attempt to close every exit from cash, barter, off-books employment, unlicensed enterprise by making all economic activity digitally legible and therefore taxable, freezable, and conditionally permissioned.
Forty years later, U.S. public debt sits at 122% of GDP. The financial repression needed to channel private savings into public debt at below-market rates will be systematic, and continuous. The Palantir state will attempt to close every exit from cash, barter, off-books employment, unlicensed enterprise by making all economic activity digitally legible and therefore taxable, freezable, and conditionally permissioned.
The Intercept revealed that since 2018, Palantir's Lead and Case Analytics platform has been processing IRS data including individual tax returns, bank statements, FinCEN transaction records, and cryptocurrency wallet data across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple, all for a contract worth over $130 million.
This is no longer conjecture. Almost a week ago, contract documents obtained by the watchdog group American Oversight and reported by The Intercept revealed that since 2018, Palantir's Lead and Case Analytics platform has been processing IRS data including individual tax returns, bank statements, FinCEN transaction records, and cryptocurrency wallet data across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple, all for a contract worth over $130 million. The system cross-references identified crypto wallets against dark web data harvested from exchanges including Coinbase. The surveillance layer is already here and fully operational.
The individual in this vision is not a sovereign agent. They are a data point with obligations to serve the machine without question, to comply with its every diktat, to be legible to systems they did not consent to and cannot audit or escape. A collision course of those that believe in centralized coercive power versus decentralized and distributed power.
The individual in this vision is not a sovereign agent. They are a data point with obligations to serve the machine without question, to comply with its every diktat, to be legible to systems they did not consent to and cannot audit or escape. A collision course of those that believe in centralized coercive power versus decentralized and distributed power.
what kind of human being the tech expects, and what kind of human being the tech produces.
The question is never only whether the tech just works. The more important question is what kind of human being the tech expects, and what kind of human being the tech produces.~ @npub1uzf...57h3
Women need many expressions of love in a relation- ship to feel loved. One or two expressions of love, no matter how important, will not, and cannot, fulfill her.
“financial censorship”—a form of privatized censorship where banks and payment intermediaries act as censors in ways the government couldn’t do directly without violating the First Amendment
together, wire together. To be sure, when you're ruminating, you're and check repeatedly doing something that fosters a negative connection over inking We time. But this neurological understanding shines a light on the solu- lieve the ski tion as well: If neurons that fire together, wire together (making time starting increasingly permanent connections), you need to fire them in an- of her DMI • other direction. The trick is to take advantage of the fact that the out what can DMN can jump tracks. Because if it can run to darkness, well, then,
First of all, it's not rare. It occurs in at least 5 percent of the population, though we believe that that number is much higher be- cause there are people who seem to be doing well in life (but who could be doing so much better) who do not get diagnosed. The relative paucity of professionals who know how to diagnose ADHD also skews the numbers. And because of our lightning-fast access to
Now, at this writing-more than twenty-five years after that first joint effort—things are quite different in many ways. Not only have most people heard of ADD, but almost everyone knows someone (if not themselves) who struggles with it: a schoolmate, a co-worker, a spouse. Teachers and school administrators are ever on the lookout
companies. The institution failed, regardless of who caused it. [Guilty Party #3, the Government and Intelligence Services]
6e The forcing function.
Through the 1970s and most of the 1980s, executive pay was predominantly cash salary, with modest bonuses and limited equity components. CEO-to-worker pay ratios in that period ran in the range of 20-to-1 to 40-to-1, comparable to ratios in other developed economies and consistent with the historical American norm. [But we forget, sometimes, remember?]
The shift was engineered. Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code, added by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, capped the corporate tax deductibility of executive compensation at one million dollars per executive — unless the compensation above that threshold was classified as performance-based. Stock options were specifically defined as performance-based and therefore
companies. The institution failed, regardless of who caused it. [Guilty Party #3, the Government and Intelligence Services]
6e The forcing function.
Through the 1970s and most of the 1980s, executive pay was predominantly cash salary, with modest bonuses and limited equity components. CEO-to-worker pay ratios in that period ran in the range of 20-to-1 to 40-to-1, comparable to ratios in other developed economies and consistent with the historical American norm. [But we forget, sometimes, remember?]
The shift was engineered. Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code, added by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, capped the corporate tax deductibility of executive compensation at one million dollars per executive — unless the compensation above that threshold was classified as performance-based. Stock options were specifically defined as performance-based and therefore
Under the GUARD Act, the service must verify the user’s age using more than a simple checkbox—it must rely on a “reasonable age verification” measure, which could require a government ID or a third-party age-checking system.
If this book displays a clear bias against large, centralized hierarchies, it is only because the last three hundred years have witnessed an excessive accumulation of stratified systems at the expense of meshworks.The degree of homogeneity in the world has greatly increased, while heterogeneity has has come to be seen as almost pathological, or at least as a problem that must be eliminated. Under the circumstances, a call for a more decentralized way of organizing human societies seems to recommend itself.
- A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, Manual De Landa
Shocking video shows an Indian villager carrying his sister’s corpse to his local bank — all in an effort to prove she was dead so he could access the money in her account.
...the major transitions in early history (the transitions from hunter-gatherer to agriculturalist, and from agriculturalist to city dweller) not as a linear advance up the ladder of progress but as the crossing of nonlinear critical thresholds (bifurcations). More specifically, much as a given chemical compound (water, for example) may exist in several distinct states (solid, liquid, gas) and may switch from stable state to unstablebat critical points in the intensity of temperature (called phase transitions), so a human society may be seen as a "material" capable of undergoing these changes of state as it reaches critical mass in terms of settlement, amount of energy consumed, or even intensity of interaction
- A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, Manual De Landa
about it. If you know who you are, it becomes easier to like who le with ADHD you are. "Knowledge is power" has never been a more apt cliché.
15,714 24-hour peak
Brazil has officially entered it’s Russian joke moment.
A man is on a street corner in Moscow yelling “The president is an idiot “
Police surround him and handcuff him. They say “it is illegal to insult President Putin”
He says “You don’t understand I mean the Ukrainian president, Zelensky, he is the one I was insulting “
The police captain says “you can’t fool us, everyone knows who the idiot is”
Faith is not what some people think it is. Their human dream is a delusion. Because they observe that faith is not followed by good works or a better life, they fall into error, even though they speak and hear much about faith. ''Faith is not enough,'' they say, ''You must do good works, you must be pious to be saved.'' They think that, when you hear the gospel, you start working, creating by your own strength a thankful heart which says, ''I believe.'' That is what they think true faith is. But, because this is a human idea, a dream, the heart never learns anything from it, so it does nothing and reform doesn't come from this 'faith,' either.
Instead, faith is God's work in us, that changes us and gives new birth from God. (John 1:13). It kills the Old Adam and makes us completely different people. It changes our hearts, our spirits, our thoughts and all our powers. It brings the Holy Spirit with it. Yes, it is a living, creative, active and powerful thing, this faith. Faith cannot help doing good works constantly. It doesn't stop to ask if good works ought to be done, but before anyone asks, it already has done them and continues to do them without ceasing. Anyone who does not do good works in this manner is an unbeliever. He stumbles around and looks for faith and good works, even though he does not know what faith or good works are. Yet he gossips and chatters about faith and good works with many words.
Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it. Such confidence and knowledge of God's grace makes you happy, joyful and bold in your relationship to God and all creatures. The Holy Spirit makes this happen through faith. Because of it, you freely, willingly and joyfully do good to everyone, serve everyone, suffer all kinds of things, love and praise the God who has shown you such grace. Thus, it is just as impossible to separate faith and works as it is to separate heat and light from fire! Therefore, watch out for your own false ideas and guard against good-for-nothing gossips, who think they're smart enough to define faith and works, but really are the greatest of fools. Ask God to work faith in you, or you will remain forever without faith, no matter what you wish, say or can do.
An excerpt from "An Introduction to St. Paul's Letter to the Romans," Luther's German Bible of 1522 by Martin Luther, 1483-1546
Translated by Rev. Robert E. Smith
Konzept. Dass Zeit sich „auflösen“ kann. Ich erlebte mich als Schöpfer und Schöpfung – gleichzeitig.
Seitdem glaube ich zu verstehen, was Christen mit „Dreifaltigkeit“ meinen. Was Religionslehrer, Priester und andere schlaue Menschen
Vor zwei Jahren wurde mein Verständnis von Zeit erschüttert. Während einer Magic-Mushroom-Zeremonie habe ich erlebt, dass Zeit nichts anderes ist als ein Konzept. Dass Zeit sich „auflösen“ kann. Ich erlebte mich als Schöpfer und Schöpfung – gleichzeitig.
Seitdem glaube ich zu verstehen, was Christen mit „Dreifaltigkeit“ meinen. Was Religionslehrer, Priester und andere schlaue Menschen mir in mehr als 30 Jahren nicht vermitteln konnten, hat mir ein Pilz gezeigt. Verrückt.
If consciousness creates the physical, if we are energetic co-creators rather than biological accidents, then the immense effort poured into keeping humans small, afraid, and distracted makes complete sense
If consciousness creates the physical, if we are energetic co-creators rather than biological accidents, then the immense effort poured into keeping humans small, afraid, and distracted makes complete sense
From the perspective of systems architecture, economic history, and institutional law, RWA tokenization is not just a technical fallacy: it is a tool designed to perpetuate the hyper-leverage of the fiat system and establish a model of absolute surveillance and control.
tokenization is not just a technical fallacy: it is a tool designed to perpetuate the hyper-leverage of the fiat system and establish a model of absolute surveillance and control.
From the perspective of systems architecture, economic history, and institutional law, RWA tokenization is not just a technical fallacy: it is a tool designed to perpetuate the hyper-leverage of the fiat system and establish a model of absolute surveillance and control.
tokenization is not just a technical fallacy: it is a tool designed to perpetuate the hyper-leverage of the fiat system and establish a model of absolute surveillance and control.
For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
"Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears."
Acts 20:28-31, KJV
Things are insane right now, and maybe I’m too.
Things are insane right now, and maybe I’m too. Be that as it may, I feel like I’ve been a broken record for the last 18 months. Maybe longer. Some nights I wake up at 3am, startled, sweaty, and I hear myself screaming “VERVAEKE!” before I cry myself back to sleep.
Most important, the public needs education on Al so they can pressure for an aligned future as informed citizens. To- day's decisions about how Al reflects human values and en- hances human potential will reverberate for generations. This is not a challenge that can be solved in a lab-it requires society to grapple with the technology shaping the human condition and what future we want to create. And that process needs to happen, soon.