There are at least 5 new BTC merchants on my local BTC map since square upgraded. Slowly then suddenly.

Good morning friends 🐸

Have a great Thursday

Every day is a fun day when you have an AI 😂

So, I asked an AI what God is. It said “spirit.” Then I asked what spirit is. It said something else. I kept going, picking the one word that defined the last one. God → spirit → consciousness → unit… and eventually it stopped at “person.”

And I just sat there like… wait. So after all that cosmic unraveling, the final answer is basically us. We’re the gods? Like the whole universe is just pointing back to the guy drinking coffee across from me?

And the funny thing is, once it hit “person,” the AI just started looping. Like it was saying, “Yeah, buddy, that’s it. Don’t overthink it. Person equals God, end of story.”

It was deep, but also kind of hilarious — because the big mystery of existence basically folded back into… people. Which, honestly, feels exactly like something people would do.

"Gentlemen, I have come this morning to the inexcusable conclusion that we have fought on the wrong side [of WW2]. This entire war we should have fought with the fascists against the communists and not the other way around. I fear that perhaps in fifty years America will pay a dear price and become a land of corruption and degenerate morals."

- General George S. Patton (July 21, 1945)

He was killed shortly after making this statement.

Growth is painful.

I love the pain.

The pain is the truth.

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“Frederick Douglas, who endured actual chattel slavery, cautioned that if one man’s liberty is stolen, everyone’s freedom stands in peril” (14)

“To understand the reality of modern bondage, we must first recognize that slavery’s essence lies not in its outward trappings, but in its universal form: the coerced extraction of productive energy. Whether achieved by physical force or through convoluted financial mechanisms, the moral wrong remains the same. Again, we are not equating every method of enslavement or minimizing past atrocities; rather, we set its matter aside to highlight its form. Slavery persists wherever a person’s energy, physically, intellectually, or financially, is coercively appropriated, destroying their human dignity, and used to enrich another” (15)

“Modern slavery’s most pervasive weapon is the manipulation of the money supply. To be clear, not all price increases are immoral. Natural inflation can arise from extreme market disruptions: disasters, wars, or sudden changes in supply and demand. That is not our focus. The true menace is the deliberate expansion of the money supply: a grinding force of artificial inflation, engineered into our economic system by man’s hand. Consider that over the last forty-five years, the Federal Reserve has artificially expanded the overall money supply by a staggering 13,581%. This expansion, marketed as ‘stimulus,’ ‘growth,’ or ‘quantitative easing,’ diminished the purchasing power of every existing dollar” (23)

“Every new conjured dollar dilutes purchasing power, effectively transferring wealth from the many to those few who create and receive the money first” (23)

“Frederick Douglass famously observed the psychological divide that sustained slavery: the stratification between house slaves, those permitted relative comfort, and field slaves, those toiling under the lash. House slaves, enjoying proximity to power, better food, softer beds, and an occasional taste from the master’s table, saw themselves as separate from those working in the fields. This illusion of privilege bound them more tightly than chains ever could. It bred loyalty, not to justice or freedom, but to their masters and the system itself. Fearful of losing their fragile comforts, they resisted rebellion, preferring servitude with benefits over the uncertainty of true liberation” (25-26)