I don't remember a time in which I didn't open discord and it spent the first minute doing this

and still they have hundreds of millions of monthly active users

Vivek vs. Kennedy 2024! Both running as independents... R's and D's not allowed

It’s hard to believe now, but less than one year ago I didn’t know that BAND-MAID existed! This one band made me reevaluate everything that I thought I knew about music over the last ~25 years of listening.

My brother Dan wrote something beautiful about our little brother Andrew.

I miss you, Dewey. 💧

The thing that made Twitter good was the character limit. Without that now it is just Facebook.

Wait was that seriously the extent of the cheapness we’re getting from Binance? That would be pretty bullshit

I just tried to send an international wire between bank accounts that I've sent between before with no problem, and got denied this time. They didn't give a reason.

People who say bitcoin is a solution in search of a problem generally don't have many international assets to deal with. International connections between fiat rails are slow, expense, ever-debasing, and at any time the rules change and block you.

Fuck them. Accelerate.

Dear Santa,

Go fuck yourself

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Freedom did.

Probably but better being safe than sorry. $4.3 Billion is a decent amount of money.

#Binance CEO CZ resigns and pleads pleading guilty to money laundering charges. The company agrees to pay $4.3 Billion in fines. Get your coins out of the Exchanges. That's the only SAFU there is. #Bitcoin

Remember that time when the biggest bitcoin mining jurisdiction in the world banned bitcoin mining, and the Bitcoin network was like, “lol, hold my beer and watch this”?

It's actually kind of shocking how polarized my Twitter/X feed has become.

So many people who were technical developers, capital allocators, thoughtful geopolitical commentators, etc are now just outright tribalists.

-Some of them are direct anti-Palestinian. Not just anti-Hamas, but outright against Muslims existing in Israel.

-Some of them are direct anti-Jew. Not just anti-Zionist in the sense of being critical of the modern state of Israel and its border rights. But instead just like, actually anti-Jew.

I hate to see this. The truth is not necessarily in the middle (ie "moderation" may itself be wrong by assuming the middle is correct), but perhaps more concerningly, many people can't even steelman their opponent's view. In the best of worlds, you should be able to explain the most intelligent version of your opponent's view, and then deconstruct it by explaining how it's wrong.

I see little of that. Hardly anyone can do it. My feed is now mostly like 90 IQ tribalist stuff, even from 120 IQ people. It's sad to see. I rarely see anyone who can steelman the Palestinian case and then explain why Israel is right, or steelman the Israeli case and explain why the Palestinians are right.

I have my own personal views, first and foremost toward the civilian children, and secondarily toward land rights, but perhaps my biggest view thirdly is to criticize the sheer polarization that has occurred. Everyone is sure, but few can particularly explain the dilemma in detail in such way that acknowledges their smartest opponents views and then builds their own case against that. Almost everyone is instead polarized and tribal now.

If it ever comes, the day that the US government goes to the mattresses on bitcoin, I will dedicate that day, that week, that month, and that year, to memes to help support the social counter-attack.

Their confiscations will have to fight amid the shade of our endless memes and civil disobedience.