There is a reason why we are not building cathedrals anymore.

Never underestimate the ability of the plebs to absorb available #Bitcoin supply on the market. A few million small stacks can have a huge impact.

In art school it was said that “art is whatever the artist says it’s art”.

Only recently remembering this and realizing how much of a fiat statement this is.

Of course the statist scholars of these educational institutions love this because they are the ones who get to decide who is and is not an artist.

Currently negotiating with a plumber and electrician concurrently. They’ve been here over an hour and they keep going out to the car to “call the boss” for like 20 minute at a time.

This fucking electrical engineering degree is worthless I should’ve been a plumber

Ask not what your country can do for you.

Ask what you can do to fuck The Man.

#meme #memes

Anyone working on integrating nostr into existing apps that are already awesome but would be more awesome with some nostr sauce added?

For example, I'd love to have my NewPipe database and history "nostrfied" meaning that I can login with my nostr identity and everything is just there.

Have we've always been like that?

A family member asked if I had my photo taken with Trump like how my grandfather (who was very active in the Republican Party) had his photo taken with Ronald Reagan.

He was taken aback when I informed him that Trump required a $60,000 donation for the privilege.

yes we need more governments creating social media platforms

Today I was listening to one of my favorite macro podcasts talk about the Fed's meeting from yesterday. One of the best interviewers in the space, and one of his top interviewees.

And I couldn't finish it. So boring.

They were literally noting the tiniest details. The Fed's prepared statement didn't mention a rate cut in September. And then Fed chairman Powell's prepared press talk also didn't mention it. However, when asked about a September rate cut, he flipped to a page where he had a prepared statement indicating that yeah they're kind of leaning toward a September rate cut, and read it.

So they were like, "Huh! I wonder what the significance of that is. He had a prepared written statement about September, but only when asked!"

People literally judge the Fed chair's body language, facial movements, details like whether he has a prepared statement for a given question, etc. Omg.

For my work I need to note the basics of what the Fed said and all that, like the 3-minute summary of all that stuff. But the sheer excitement that these people had when discussing details like that for an hour was so banal. It seemed like satire.

Zoom out.

Instagram is such an evil and horrible hack into our brains.

They get you by being a great way to share moments with family, specially when you live from family and have small kids.

But then they add a bunch of random brain sticky things, lots of great botty and stuff to one click buy. Ppl get stuck on the scrolling and waste their lives on it, just like they use to on the shopping channel.

A statement on my absence:

Lol maybe. But I was thinking people building their own clients (some more ramshackle than others), wanting to be away from (a lot of) regulation, also building community.

There's probably a lot of ex-white collar workers in slab city, academics, and otherwise accomplished people who have burnt out or escaped for various reasons. Drugs and mental health issues mostly, probably.