Don't miss the significance of the secular shift that began (again) in January 2022.

TL;DR

The world has shifted away from US-centric Proof of Stake Financialization and towards Global Proof of Work Industrialization.

Ignore this shift (and its investment/savings implications) at your own risk.

Mt Everest had its first documented climb in 1953.

The first person went to space in 1961.

It's kind of crazy to think about how "new" mankind's spread over the world is. My father was already a teenager the first time someone climbed Everest, and in his twenties by the time someone went to space.

If we start the "modern era" as roughly coinciding with the telecommunications age (ie the dawn of the cross-continental telegraph in the1860s), it's less than two consecutive human lifetimes old.

Everything is new.

What if the world as you knew it consisted of infinite rooms and staircases, each partially flooded and filled with strange statues, and it only had two living people in it? That would be nuts right?

Anyway, I read Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke, and that’s the world in which the titular character finds himself.

Notably, Clarke has only written two novels in her career, they were 16 years apart (“Jonathan Srange and Mr Norrell” in 2004 and “Piranesi” in 2020), and both were award-winning massive bestsellers, beloved by critics and readers alike.

Piranesi lives in a realm of infinite rooms and staircases, inhabited by birds and fish and shined on by the sun and moon and stars, and in which seawaters routinely rise and fall. He has a rather meager existence as he lives off fish and seaweed and catalogues the various rooms, and he is grateful that the world is generous enough to provide for him. For the most part he’s the only person around, except occasionally he runs into one more guy he calls “The Other.” He also knows of 15 human skeletons that he has names for.

Clarke did plenty of historical research and makes a lot of allusions in the work. It’s rather literary, and the whole thing is quite a surrealist artsy story and it’s much loved by people who enjoy sophisticated things.

I am, perhaps, not very sophisticated.

To me this felt like the kind of book I’d be assigned to read in high school. It was rather dry and boring to my unsophisticated palate, though short enough to breeze through in several sittings. I predicted most of the mystery in advance, and as things happened I’d be like, “alright.” When something occasionally did surprise me, it was always mildly to the downside. Like someone tells you lunch will be a mystery, and then come lunchtime it’s revealed to be a sandwich.

I know a lot of people who rave about this book, so it’s been on my to-read list for a while, and now I have that good feeling of finished homework. When people talk about Piranesi I can be like, “Ah, yes, Piranesi. Fine literature, that is.”

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - President Trump has flooded his Truth Social timeline with a series of Q-themed images, sending an encrypted message that the moment to act has arrived.

1. One image urges supporters to “Remember your Oath.”

2. Another shows Trump himself with the words “Tick Tock,” hinting that the countdown is nearly over.

3. A third declares “Time to obliterate the Deep State,” with “Do it Q” written across his shoulder.

4. He finished with a V for Vendetta image saying “Nothing can stop what is coming,” shown without the mask.

yes

Regret is a waste of energy.

Hi, yeah seems reasonable. Looks like Knots packager added minrelaytxfee to Mempool settings in 0351 package, but we'll make sure it's available in both Core/Knots in the 040 packages.

nostr:nprofile1qqs9df4h2deu3aae83fmet5xmrlm4w5l9gdnsy3q2n7dklem7ezmwfcpg3mhxw309umxcetgdpukgumjw35xzemdd9envat4xe682cmwv3m85aehvd6kyur3dd58v7re0ymk5mmfda3ngdtdddehydr9v9jzummwd9hkutcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7nyaplh Can we get high-level config settings through the portal without ssh’ing into the config file for minrelaytxfee and mintxfee, so that we get in on the sub 1sat/vbyte tx’s?

text to speech is broken temporarily. we are working on a solution that keeps it up and running