The Land Run Monument in Oklahoma City is super impressive. All the more so since it was inaugurated as recently as 2006. Fascinating piece of history, too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rush_of_1889 
Restaurant “Chez Fiat” 
Study the history of toll roads in Great Britain 💪
It sure is. In which case they are not educated (or dishonest) about the historical track record of entrepreneurs building the roads (e.g. the UK) and railroad infrastructure with nothing but private funds until the government swooped in to monopolize the business.
The tucker - milei interview from 2 weeks ago on X
Like how feeding grain to pigs makes them fat and immobile, the fiat faucet leads to morbid obesity in governments. Via the fiat mechanism they leech energy from their host (the productive class) until it eventually succumbs.
Bitcoin is life saving medicine because it thwarts fiat parasitism, thereby pushing out of control government gigantism into remission until it shrinks back to the equivalent of a survivable cancerous growth.
My wife has been a libertarian from before we ever met. We just watched the Milei interview together. She was very moved to see someone who is running for President of Argentina articulate these important ideas so clearly (as if explaining it to a child) and sincerely.
She especially appreciated the part where he explained how the Social Justice ideology violates equality before the law — which highlights the irony that in order to achieve its faux social equality it destroys actual judicial equality.
Statists and central planners take for granted that 99% of the internet is privately funded, yet cannot fathom how highway ands railroad networks could ever function without government largesse.
Eureka Springs, AK
#OliverAnthony 
He goes on:
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.
You'll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you're doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you'll hear about them.
“Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you're really buying into someone else's system of values, rules and rewards.” — Bill Watterson (of Calvin and Hobbes fame)
Oklahoma City, at this property in particular. https://www.paradeofhomesok.com/builders/building-culture-design-build-llc Really amazing to see a newly built home where the walls are solid brick. Marriage of Utility, Durability, and Beauty.
Close! It’s his pupil, Austin Tunnell, who runs Building Culture out of OK City
Guess where I was today ☺️
#structuralmasonry 
If there’s an app that would allow me to easily publish on both I’d be happy to do it. I’m currently on Twitter hiatus, not posting anything there.
As obsessively we listen to music and watch movies today, before 1930 people read poetry and read novels.
Seeking to learn what was in people’s hearts and heads in times’ past, on my last Belgium trip I bought more poetry bundles and writings by and about novelists.
Self Sovereign Identity: There Is No Free Lunch?
It seems that any kind of self sovereign identity (SSI) verification mechanism must involve effort on the part of the user— because the lower the effort required, the easier it is to game. This effort—inherent friction—will be a challenge to adoption.
SSI’s necessary verification effort can be compensated for by making it worthwhile for the user; by making the SSI, once acquired, powerful and multifunctional. However, that in turn makes identity theft more profitable.
Unless I’m missing something, there seems to be no escape here.
Social recovery is often mentioned as a way to harden SSI. But if not done in the meatspace this can be subject to man-in-the-middle attacks. And eventually, as people’s bodies get more integrated with digital hardware (a la neuralink), the advantage of meatspace verification will diminish.
I’m not saying Self Sovereign Identity isn’t a worthy goal to pursue, just trying to identify what fundamental challenges we will be facing as this technology is rolled out.
Thoughts?