Adam Back, Michael Saylor, Tom Lee and a ton of people more intelligente and rich than you think is a good thing

😂

15 days, 2025 close red, the 4 year cycle is officially broken

FINALLY

The Pentagon’s latest report confirms that China’s Chengdu J-36 and Shenyang J-50 sixth-generation fighter prototypes are undergoing active flight testing and feature tailless stealth designs.

With multiple prototypes flying since late 2024 and rapid design iterations continuing in 2025, the report indicates that China is accelerating development of its next-generation airpower, potentially reaching visible milestones ahead of the U.S. Boeing F-47, which is scheduled for its first flight in 2028.

Happy Festivus. GFY.

thoughts?

She doesn't know that she's sitting on a bitcoin miner heater, but she's enjoying the warmth.

mars isn't a physical planet you can land on btw

🚨Russia has started evacuating the families of its diplomats from Venezuela, an official told the Associated Press.

winter vibes 🍻

Imagine if you won the lottery, but were in another state, and now had to get back to that state with the lottery ticket. If you were to somehow lose the ticket, you’d lose it all. Like carrying a single private key to a few thousand bitcoin in your pocket or something.

Anyway, here’s a review of Night Moves by Jared Dillian. It’s a collection of 16 short stories about situations like that, and although they are drastically different from each other, I’d say the overall theme is “dark comedy slice-of-life”. Most are about some variation of death, addiction, sex, temptation, or compulsion.

I’m primarily familiar with Dillian’s financial work- he’s a former Wall Street trader and a current financial newsletter writer. He’s also a DJ and fiction writer, which is the side of his work I’m less familiar with, until now.

I usually read full novels rather than collections of short stories. And the majority of the novels I read tend to be fantasy or sci fi; basically stories about the past or the future. This one consists of short stories that are mostly set near the present day.

The characters in the stories range from grungy teenagers to aging dentists, from up-and-coming weather forecasters to divorced ladies, from working professionals to homeless alcoholics, and everything in between.

More than half could be classified as tragedies in the sense that you’re basically reading a slow-motion trainwreck happening. But tragedy is not the theme of the collection per se; some of them are quite constructive and happy. Others are kind of neutral and comical. And that keeps you guessing as you read- any given story might end happily or sadly, or somewhere in between.

I found the writing to be clear and smooth, and was always happy to get to another story. I’d spend 10 minutes reading one between periods of work or exercise or something, as a mental reset. My mind would get to enter this other character’s weird life for a moment to see what problem or situation they’re dealing with.

If I have to critique what was otherwise a great read, I’d say some of the stories ended rather abruptly or anti-climactically. In those cases I’d find myself wanting a few more pages of resolution. But that seems quite intentional, and basically the best critique an author could receive is that the reader wanted a bit more of what they were reading. If I were reading a 300+ page book that ended anti-climatically I’d be annoyed, but weird slice-of-life short stories ending anti-climactically is indeed like real life, and feels like the correct writing choice in these cases.

Since this one was quite enjoyable, I’ll look to pick up one of his essay collections such as “Those Bastards” or “Rule 62” at some point.

What's the point being raised here?

Higher Kelvins are bad for health?

2025-12-20, 23:59 UTC

610 days after halving

Current: $88,292.45

2012 scaled: $3,009,188.83

2016 scaled: $930,463.33

2020 scaled: $326,255.12

1) What