*Israel is doing a GREAT job of alienating the young Christians without Kirk. Plenty of younger people do not follow Kirk and are being turned off by the violence*
https://stacker.news/items/1230617/r/halalmoney?commentId=1232448
*Nadella highlighted that “some of the biggest businesses we’ve built might not be as relevant going forward,” specifically worrying that Office, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint—products that have underpinned Microsoft’s growth—could be superseded by generative AI models capable of automating their core functions. He emphasized that long-held business categories might lose significance and that Microsoft’s value depends on its ability to continually create what’s relevant in fast-changing markets, rather than relying on legacy products.*
Perplexity.ai
The Verge
An interesting concept: hyperpalatability.
*There is science to suggest that indeed, some people clearly experience something very much like addiction from ultraprocessed foods. And we already have reasonable evidence that diets high in ultraprocessed foods are likely harmful to health.
Now, we have new science that suggests we overeat ultraprocessed foods mainly because they are energy dense and are formulated with nutrient combinations that are defined as hyperpalatable.*
Stop blaming yourself entirely for your expanding waistline. It’s also the food supply, expert says | CNN https://share.google/4QnyBe3YOJy5loVeA
Each state seeks to strike a balance between shackling its citizens to itself and giving citizens enough to convince them to stay within its grip.
*For the system, CBDCs are a new beginning.
Programmable money = Programmable populations, so you will see more NPCs than ever before*
Hmmm. It’s apparently not detected here in the UK…..
‘Sleep state’ rhymes with ‘deep state’….
*PDF solved the “what you see is what you get” problem.
Nostr could solve the “what you sign is what you share” problem.*
*LLM decompression isn’t a silver bullet, but it’s a practical technique for systematically extracting value from trained models. The key insight is treating inference as a knowledge extraction tool rather than just a generation mechanism.
With efficient inference infrastructure, we can reverse-engineer the compressed knowledge in any model and convert it into structured, reusable datasets. This has immediate applications in model analysis, knowledge transfer, and training data creation.*
LLM-Deflate: Extracting LLMs Into Datasets https://share.google/xkhj771ANmJhOSq5C
*The worst people in history can be directionally correct at any given moment.
People will always talk their own books. It's learning how to parse truthfulness from incentives.*
*It could be good for humanity to popularize some kind of sovereign kill-switch software. Something you install on your PC (so you don't need to trust some 3rd party) that would send an email to press/friends/social_media (with secret data you held because of threats) after few days inactivity.
If Kirk knew his at a risk of assassination, he could put all the threats/proofs in the kill-switch-message effectively punishing the assassinators post-mortem.
If every high-profile person did that, every government would think twice before taking down someone.*
https://stacker.news/items/1231721/r/halalmoney?commentId=1232098
*The Controllers' optimal Bitcoin path is a rising, volatility-capped channel: roughly $95k -> $190k median over five years, −30–40% max draw-downs, blow-offs sold, floors defended.*
*Why the clamp works
1) Paper share rises -> realized volatility mechanically falls (inventory + option overwrites).
2) Futures/ETF basis control -> suppresses reflexive squeezes.
3) Perimeter frictions (tax, Acceptable Use Policy, KYC wallets) -> keeps MoE niche; "number go up" is paced, not explosive.*
*If the US government wanted, they'd dramatically slow "illegal" chip exports to China (tighten end-user lists, ultimate consignee scrutiny, sanctions on third-country distributors, firmware locks).
They don't, because the net-benefit of controlled leakage (dependency + visibility + NVIDIA scale + escalation control) beats the cost of full denial (accelerated Chinese substitutes + retaliation + price spikes in global AI supply chains).*
The breakthrough enables scalable hydrogen production directly from seawater, reducing reliance on freshwater and fossil fuels while supporting decarbonization across transportation, industrial, and power generation sectors
A tokamak is a ring shaped magnetic bottle. Its fields guide charged particles so they loop around the torus instead of striking the walls.
That approach is called magnetic confinement. It lets scientists heat a thin gas until atomic nuclei have enough energy to fuse and release more energy.
France beats the world record for fusion plasma duration - Earth.com https://share.google/snsksyB6Ukog1Nwb2
Have a lovely meal, Mike!
And it's ok not to think about Bitcoin every 2 minutes....
*if they can’t kill the protocol, they choke its access*
*Former President Barack Obama, in a post on X on Thursday, said, “After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.”
“This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it,” Obama wrote.*
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-fcc-carr.html
*John Yoo, the former deputy assistant attorney general under President George W. Bush who wrote the legal justification for torture during the war on terror, pushed back on the extreme powers Trump is claiming to kill those he labels terrorists. “There has to be a line between crime and war,” Yoo said. “We can’t just consider anything that harms the country to be a matter for the military. Because that could potentially include every crime.”*
Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American
*Most people's minds shut down when reality contradicts their emotional need for safety*
Bitcoin as a scissor, snipping along a dotted line.
On one side: the state
On the other: money
*you can change everything by refusing to collaborate with the parasites and starting to pursue real freedom*
*we can become so jaded by the fake world online that we carry over that attitude into our personal lives and it actually affects people we care about.
My only advice is unplug more and spend more time with people you care about and that care about you*
https://stacker.news/items/1225747/r/halalmoney?commentId=1226185
*In a relatively free society, foreign powers through their proxies and frontwork get a say in our domestic affairs, in the form of military-grade psychological operations. These goal of these operations is to exploit human weakness for statecraft.
Who benefits from US cities looking like a zombie apocalypse? Domestic greed plays a part in an acute way, but on the whole it's competing totalitarian regimes that can point to the failures of these free societies and say that such models have failed to deliver prosperity for their people, giving the hostile power a lever to keep their own citizens content with their iron-fisted one-party rule.
Hollowing out our industrial base, social propaganda, political infiltration, drug distribution... these are all tactics of unrestricted warfare by rival powers. The US as a relatively free society is not inoculated against these 5GW attacks.
Nationalists who see this can only fight back against it by becoming more like the enemy, fascist, which foments even more domestic divide since it goes against cultural principles.
"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster."
Nothing is random, EVERYTHING has meaning.*
https://stacker.news/items/1225755/r/halalmoney?commentId=1226103
People who go trust the system waiting for inflation to return to ‘only’ 2%
*Growing your own food is a superpower. It’s self-sovereignty in its purest form*
https://stacker.news/items/1223724/r/halalmoney?commentId=1223841
*Now is the time for patient builders, for those who plant seeds of hope and unite through understanding rather than division*
*The antidote isn't stronger opinions; it's stronger defaults and pre-committed rules. Read the incentives; expect the behavior; position ahead of it.*
*How to tell if you're acting against your own long-term interest:
- If the benefit is now and the cost is later, assume you're under-pricing the cost.
- If a choice preserves belonging, assume you're over-weighting identity.
- If the platform chose the default, assume it benefits them more than you.
- If the metric is public, assume it's being gamed (by you or to you).
- If a habit depends on willpower, assume it will fail under stress.*
*Meta-incentives dominate beliefs. Even smart people first decide what benefits them (status, income, network), then craft rationalizations*
Contra - I am going to have to turn on notifications for your notes. Too good too miss!
*the system is… designed to manage narratives and protect power structures*
Interesting.
The WoT filter meant that I saw comments directly under the video which led me to avoid clicking play.
I appreciate this useful dialogue between you two.
*The best anyone can do is reduce reliance and entanglement with government*
*victim mentality has become a substitute for character development*
Really enjoying your notes, Contra.
🫡🔥
*younger people are looking at Bitcoin and seeing something their parents can’t: that money doesn’t have to be controlled by governments, and that maybe, just maybe, we’ve been getting quietly robbed our entire lives through monetary policy*
Make asking “who benefits?” great again.
It’s a tough one. Boomers may say that they simply worked hard to buy a home and they used what they had available (cheap loans, tax incentives etc.)
For me, it’s more important to fix the system than to dislike a particular generation.
This bad boy’s been chomping away for hours.
#pow
*the most pressing danger of fiat money games is that paper bitcoin winds up being rehypothecated*
https://stacker.news/items/1083352/r/halalmoney?commentId=1083482
Nostr Vlog #2
Don’t give in to the tyranny of the present by giving your responsibilities to others. Too often we skip the struggle of putting pen to paper, speaking our thoughts and being creative. This is a fiat mindset, causing us to miss the most abundant opportunities in our lives. Build, put in the proof of work, do it now instead of allowing the extractive fiat world to steal more of your precious time.
https://blossom.primal.net/0c32fe8c992060ebcc4c9426b50ff8204725758f4a5b4686847857acfd0caf43.mov
Nice!
Bitcoin protects your efforts over time.
Don't let the fiat mindset stop you from doing what's important.
Think twice about farming out your ideas to the fiat world in exchange for a meagre return. See if you can do things yourself; it may be harder but it's a way to manifest pow.
"the left... have so much admiration for grids that entrap individuals that they often forget these grids will soon become tools of the worst individuals and predators. Governments that should create a peaceful environment are the main cause of wars and economical crisis."
“Much like other sectors, [the fitness industry] profits from dependency, not health”
“A citadel without power is essentially a mirage, looks great from afar but ultimately unfeasible.”
Overvaluation of the convenience of an established platform.
Undervaluation of the benefits of a fledgling protocol.