It hit me that one of the things I really despise about the Twitter algo is that it made it impossible to find stuff you just saw unless you “like” it.

Shit disappears the minute you scroll away if you are lucky. If you aren’t lucky, it disappears while you’re trying to read it.

Bookmarks solve that problem now, but that was another toxic feedback loop built into that shitstorm UX. You are trained to like stuff reflexively just to have a chance of finding it again.

Yes, it’s been a couple years since such titles flooded YouTube. It’s a little jarring seeing it in 2023.

Taiwanese Air Force patches, apparently.

If memes could win dogfights, they’d be in pretty good shape.

People are acting like Elon walked on water for providing the minimal a amount of pushback to a BBC reporter’s histrionic nonsense. The two examples I’ve heard so far were nothing special. It just goes to show how cowardly most of polite society actually is that people describe that as “Elon obliterates BBC”.

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1646045195123949569?s=21

Fascinating. How do you say that you have talked to someone about a subject without saying you have talked to them?

I think Caitlin has done a better job than anyone articulating exactly why it is completely rational for fractional reserve bankers to be fearful of extremely efficient digital rails for highly levered and illiquid fractional banks.

Giving customers a way to run your bank 24/7/365 should scare the hell out of them. Especially if they could run to a bank like Custodia.

It’s interesting that she doesn’t seem to see that her own argument makes it inevitable that they had to refuse to approve Custodia.

“…not because Riot Platforms believes any of that nonsense, but because it wants to take advantage of viewers who don't know any better.”

Once again projecting their own tactics with climate hysteria onto their victims who choose to fight back with satire.

How many final films have Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith made each at this point?

The Jack simping gets a little tedious. He blundered into billions by building a platform that never managed to make money but conveniently helped usher in egregious government censorship and manipulation.

I like open decentralized protocols that grow from the ground up.

Let’s make billionaire retirement to yachts great again and let’s quit encouraging them to test out their social engineering fantasies on and off the internet.

Anyone get the feeling we’re not far from another CIA sponsored Kennedy assassination plot?

Manipulating and controlling all LLMs is going to become an obsession of all the petty tyrants and despots around the world.

I first heard about Bitcoin in 2010 but dismissed it for all the usual reasons.

I just realized that the nominal value of my current stack is about 6.15 times my gross fiat income in 2010.

Currently discussing Putin’s 2007 speech at the Munich Security Conference with ChatGPT 4. Talking through the events that followed it and the responses from the various participants and looking at maps of the 2008 conflict in Georgia.

It’s a little startling to look a this map because I’ve spent quite a bit of time flying missions over that terrain in DCS in VR in both fixed and rotor wing aircraft.

I wish the state of the art for combat flight simulation was closer to the state of the art for civilian flight simulation. Having the memory of flying VR missions over an area brings a really interesting perspective when reading about real world events there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War#/media/File:2008_South_Ossetia_war_en.svg

I would feel bad for him but while looking through his feed to remind myself how that all went down I see he’s been talking like a degenerate equity and bond trader for months now and he’s been bragging about how GBTC has outperformed BTC so far this year.

He brings it on himself.

How bitcoiners react to TA.

https://twitter.com/HumanAreMetal/status/1645372898180464640?s=21

She got raped by a John and still thinks she can poll her degenerate followers to find the right path to follow. I feel sorry for her and I’m sorry for all that she’s suffered that has led her to her current confusion.

Nobody has the right to outlaw her lifestyle. Instead, the righteous path should be modeled for young people so they can never again confuse which path is obviously better.

That’s where Christians have gone wrong over the last 100 years in the west.

He’s morally bankrupt. It’s not an accident that men like him have risen to the top during these times.

Yes, as if linking out to a website has anything to do with Substack downloading data from Twitter.

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The JDAMs (and GMLRSes) Ukraine has used are being GPS jammed by Russia making them ineffective.

This isn’t a surprise to anyone who has imagined war with anyone more sophisticated than a goat herder.

I wonder if hillbillies with home built full auto ARs would be able to figure out how to use RF amplifiers and transmitters to pull off a similar stunt if Brandon decided to send his F-15s after uncooperative US citizens.

Bud Light tastes like horse piss and they hired her to market it. It’s starting to make more sense now.

The Substack model is inferior to Nostr’s value4value model. I’m always turned off by their insistence that I subscribe before I can finish reading something I’m interested in.

I’d happily zap it after reading it, but I won’t bother giving yet another site my email address.

Seiko makes some great watches too!

I don’t own an Orient but they are well respected. If you find something you love and you can afford to buy it without debt I think you should go for it!

The Apple Watch is the thing that convinced me to get my first mechanical automatic watch.

Having the time on your wrist is in fact useful, but needing to charge that mofo every day for an hour is pure insanity. Not to even mention the privacy considerations etc.

Having a tiny work of art machine on my wrist that powers itself from the movement of my arm and can track the time, the date, the day of the week, the month, and is also a chronograph feels like magic.

I bought my new son in law this watch as a wedding gift because he’s in the military and he’ll be able to track home time along with his local time while deployed, and it matches his uniform. Plus, it will last his entire life as his marriage should.

Not very clever people who grew up in a world of screens don’t understand how reflections work. 🤣

https://nostr.build/p/nb4817.mp4

Zapped because it made me laugh.

But in a very real sense, Genesis explains how God created Bitcoin because creation is organized in such a way that Bitcoin was possible from the beginning (whatever that means to you) if only a righteous man could discover it and name it.

That righteous man was named Satoshi.

More bitcoiners should start businesses so they can experience what it feels like to discover the future.

Because that’s what really happens. Just like Satoshi discovered Bitcoin, business owners discover parts of the future by solving problems iteratively.

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light ‘day,’ and the darkness he called ‘night.’ And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.”

God made it possible, but it’s up to us to discover it and name it.

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Yeah, but talk is overrated. Better to watch for opportunities to build circular economies wherever your skills and interests take you and then you will be one of the people defining what that unknown future will look like.

Talkers don’t bring about change, doers do. Bitcoiners should spend more energy and time building businesses that provide value and they should look for opportunities to exchange that value for Bitcoin as often as they can.

If anyone could make such predictions then Bitcoin wouldn’t be useful because central planning would work and we’d all live in the communist utopias.

Bitcoin won’t lie and distort the value of all those things. That’s the prediction.

With honest and transparent money, the market can do honest and transparent price discovery. Problem solvers can respond to incentives and adjust to new realities as they emerge and Bitcoin will communicate that information to the market in as close to realtime as possible.

Without honest and transparent money civilizations eventually collapse.

Anyone with half a brain knew this was never going to work. Every western leader should resign because they all acted like this genius plan was going to win the war.

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That’s the way I always felt too. And until the mid 2000s, my dad never had any interest in letting anyone know about his service.

But once he saw the outpouring of support for Iraq/Afghanistan vets he got a Vietnam vet license plate and started wearing a Vietnam vet hat. The first time I saw him get thanked by a stranger on the street I understood how much it meant to him.

Now anytime I see someone wearing anything related to Vietnam vet status in public I make a point of saying thanks.

I was reminded of this by people talking about Rambo on Twitter today. The context of how vets were treated in the ‘70s and early ’80s is an important element of that story that I think is lost on some people.

My dad still hates Jane Fonda and starts ranting and raving any time she comes up.

No, my dad was in Vietnam and I’ve been with him when people stopped him and thanked him and I know how much it means to him.

I know a lot of younger guys in the military don’t like being thanked for their service and I get that.

But if you see a Vietnam vet wearing a hat or shirt or anything else that brings attention to his service, he wants to be thanked. They were treated like shit when they got back and that is still an open wound for many of them.

Welcome, it’s good to see you!