Do you have Jewish friends?

They’re very likely not feeling great today. It doesn’t matter what side of the political spectrum or the Zionist spectrum they are.

I promise you, virtually none of them are OK right now.

Reach out. Just say hello. Be a space.

If you’re right and systemic collapse is inevitable, then we are headed into a dark age of humanity or extinction. The modern Leviathan of the current global order is not something you just let spiral, and hope that bitcoin acts as a safety net which arrests the fall. Money just isn’t going to matter that much, when the power competition starts on a global scale, and the Long Peace comes to its end.

The idea that the “bad money” being used to fuel the armies and weapons will blunt the ability of states to prosecute World War III is pretty much, to me, one of the most naive hopes that I see in these conversations. It requires a real failure of imagination and ignores the real ways in which our tribal instincts cause us to close ranks around external threats. 

In World War II, the American public and most of its allies, were able to sustain extreme economic hardship, while maintaining support for war, for instance. Rationing. Soup lines. High inflation. Germany’s currency had literally completely collapsed nearly 10 years earlier, and Hitler still managed to nearly take over the world within a decade of that event.

If people really think we need to write-off the current “system” and prepare for “what’s next”, and abandon the principle of stability and trying to hold the center, then I actually think humanity is likely careening towards extinction. I don’t say that lightly.

Almost positive feedback from a funny bsky user. A good sign maybe?

#grownostr

Lol. Anonymity sets.

ten years into the future:

nostr didn't make it, no one uses it, no relays exist

what killed it?

How fucking British is it that my cabbie was running Waze on the left phone and watching cricket on the right phone? 😅

What happened to reddit? totally lost

Does anyone remember Zuck’s Threads?

it's not gonna end peacefully. it's not going to end at all.

Trying to sleep but it’s sicken me knowing that there are nation states without mandate from its citizens funding war to bomb hospitals with innocent civilians children.

Evil is real. Pray to god that this ends peacefully not in destruction 🙏🏻