I have a feeling this rumor is being stirred up to get the rage flowing and its sourcing is probably being pretty strategic. It would admittedly be absolutely awful if any truth to it. nostr:note17fzwehesztw5mtttyfcfk5t3p8eh5yl5g6xn83j0fejm3kwkkh3swzn3yu

https://washingtonreporter.news/editorial/scoop-kamala-harris-likely-to-nominate-gary-gensler-as-treasury-secretary-if-elected-senate-sources/

Gm #nostr, touch grass and read poetry.

Delmore Schwartz:

I have so many thoughts on this list

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html

Gm #nostr, touch grass and read poetry.

Tennyson:

Facts nostr:note1h4sdh76rujncwatss4txxhv0v8ftqgupygv04tuw99ke6f0vrncq0t4jra

Yeah def agrees on all that. Certainly Kamala feeling no urgency right now with the polls leaning her way to take a position that would put her in open opposition with influential corners of the party. But like you say, hopefully enough Dems come around over time to make it less politically charged and more of a consensus good directional move.

Gm #nostr, touch grass and read poetry.

Neruda:

Hope you’re right. I tweeted today, making careful effort not to dox the person, about a close family friend who worked very high up in a very prominent progressive Congress person’s staff and now works for Kamala. This person is highly educated, super smart, and millennial. I’ve spoken with her about BTC and crypto multiple times, including with a close personal friend of mine who works in crypto VC, and the response every time has been polite, but slightly condescending, dismissal. Zero interest, zero knowledge, treated us like we were talking about a Pokémon card collection. Most recent convo was immediately after SAB 121 sitch. Obviously not representative of the dem party as a whole, but has kept me pretty discouraged about meaningful vibe changes on the left. I would absolutely love to be wrong and hope that I will be in due time.

In case anybody still harbors any illusions about Kamala’s economic illiteracy, her vacuity on substantive issues, or the persistent influence of Elizabeth Warren. She’s the same candidate she was in 2020, which is to say an empty vessel, a construct seeking to capture and project whatever views will get her elected in a given year, ideally without ever having to articulate anything of any detail.

Developing a body of rigorous, high-quality #bitcoin research is low-key absolutely essential to advancing the policy discourse. Anyone who paid attention to the Obama era or even to what someone like JD Vance is trying to do with the GOP right now understands the importance of research > journalism > better, richer discourse > better, more thoughtful policies. It may sound staid on the surface, but this is key. Need the research for the discourse, need the discourse for serious policy. Kudos to nostr:npub1jddnc9ma408dey575wcsqhg5jtc2n7765y4gdnnrswlwgqnnat7swe4s60, nostr:npub1n3sjlzmhpu8rl56umtptc4lua6zkretq2p82yhytnmlcuq639vlqd0te5l, nostr:npub10afr060h0g3vf2ykynr6cvw2u7ta3tzpgjczfyufp420aeeen0xszf0xj0, nostr:npub1yezu4atsdgchvlyjz5efwks8n7ze2rssq674qe04m5pp8e5y32tqfdawc7 and others for doing this work. nostr:note1jp66fvqjnlrxqsqm7kfnjfdcwnu74z8dsyydtekx70dsxf2pdpjsvt0t30

Gm #nostr, touch grass and read poetry

T.S. Eliot:

Gm #nostr, don’t forget to touch grass and read poetry

“And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.” -Shakespeare

Been thinking about “the Entertainment” in Infinite Jest as just social media

Would you recommend the book? I’d like to start teaching my daughter to read soon

“Nothing is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.”

-Viet Thanh Nguyen

Speaking of the avalanches, them remixing 8th grade for me:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6JxcXQCVdWE&pp=ygUaQXZhbGFuY2hlcyBiYWRseSBkcmF3biBib3k%3D

Haven’t listened to the new VW yet, but god do I love frontier psychiatrist