tha kartel

I don't know who is buying paper chits in a vapourware company over btc, but hey, power to them

Yay! my notes are posting again.

I've typed up several over the past few weeks/months but nothing went through my browser-based client; I was doing some ghetto-ass copy and pasting to my phone to post on primal.

turns out I just had to clear the cookies for nostrudel on my browser. I only did this because yesterday it wouldn't even load my feed.

Ah well, all's well that ends well.

Bridgewater is fully out of China? If it hadn't been for Dalio's ego they might have done so before losing however many billions they ended up losing.

Dalio learned that you can't trust communists, wow, genius, after he had been gagging on CCP talking points for decades.

This episode teaches us all we need to learn: don't trust capitalists or oligarchs, especially those who fancy themselves intellectuals.

BRB, muting McShane for all ufc numbered events

Should be; main board likely supports it, but you should check the power supply too

for sure, I'd say the generous payment plan has to be worth something, and you can always keep your eyes open for upgrades down the road

by American standards it's overpriced, but it's all quality parts, so certainly the PC itself will be decent. No dedicated graphics would be an issue for most people.

I spent a similar price 2 years ago (outside US), but this included adding several upgrades (graphics card, memory, ssd), so I think you might be able to do better if you shopped around.

time is a snitch and nostr is full of crazy people (or bots)

Pretty sure it's not the point (cute dogs) but...

https://youtu.be/CxYDoA51KdI

Was watching "Ballerina" the other day just for some

whatever slop "content" (didn't finish it). I have watched

some of the John Wick movies but the brutality of the "action"

never did anything for me, even as a huge fan of 80s and 90s

action blockbusters, and this was just more of the same

except with an even more physically frail protagonist? Yeah,

whatever.

Somehow, I still got something really valuable out of the

experience. In one scene they show the outside of an old

movie theatre with the title "Andrei Rublev dir. Tarkovsky" on

the marquee. I was vaguely aware of both Tarkovsky and

Rublev, so I was like, fuck it, I'll watch that instead, and it was

an amazing decision.

Art cannot exist solely to generate profit. And that's not to

promote authoritarian soviet-style socialism either; they

banned and then heavily censored the film. Without the

immediately necessary impetus of protesting the repressive

state apparatus, art (and religion for that matter) cannot truly

exist, and without them generating that spiritual drive, people

lose faith in institutions writ large.

Have a lot more to say on this and related matters but this is

already a rant in a void that could go in a million different

directions, and my ADHD can't be bothered

Almost like he knew that Bcash is worthless and it was all a grift 🤡

The other day, my favourite quote from the French surrealist poem "Les Chants de Maldoror" popped into my head randomly, and I realised that it suddenly made sense to me in terms of the epistemological framework that I'm trying to flesh out in order to better situate myself in this crazy world, and of course it has to do with Bitcoin!

"O mathématiques saintes, pussiez-vous, par votre commerce perpétuelle, me consoler le reste de mes jours, entre le méchanceté de l'homme et l'injustice du Grand Tout"

I think the most straightforward reading of it, the cry into the void full of desire for the objective certainty of mathematics to intervene in the difficult task of reconciling the sublimity of modern rationality and all its ingenuity with the brutality and pettiness of humanity, holds up well, and actually points to Bitcoin being the technology which will answer the still unresolved conundrum of modern life.

Of course there's always the spectre of "quantum" uncertainty in the future, but as it stands today, Bitcoin is the mathematical trading post at the crossroads between humanity's legacy of brutal cruelty and the godhead of universal value.

You're too humble. I've heard Tuvok is in charge of who is allowed to put laser eyes in their profile pic.

Clout is a hell of a drug. Clout + steroids + failure = ball eating loser.

Nostr shall hereafter be known as "The Unbreakable Chronicle of TACO"

That's dark, and a little smug, but hey, no lie detected

Yeah absolutely, fuck JP Mandel, but the ability to unilaterally deplatform someone is too powerful to entrust to anyone.

Nostrtopia, maybe something better rendered by AI or done in VR or something, but I feel you, it's in our hearts (that's why the bots and scammers can't get in)

All analysis and no synthesis. Statistical analysis can never be the basis for intelligence because it lacks agency.

I don't know, but a bunch of them filled my orders, so bless them.