JD Vance!

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People who are security-minded have a natural instinct to prepare for the worst case scenario. This leads them to imagine their enemies to be highly capable, murderous, colluding, nameless and faceless cabals. This is a good and correct instinct for preparing your defenses - you want to be able to defend even against this worst case scenario.

However, too many people use this same rubric wrongly when trying to assess actual events. The odds that an actual adversary is the worst case scenerio, is highly capable and in collusion with others who are highly capable, in any given actual event is very low. Incompetence is far more widespread than people realize. And parallel action (similar minds acting similarly) explains the vast majority of things that appear to be conspiracies.

To believe that Trump was shot as a false flag you have to believe that there was a shooter so perfect that he could perfectly clip Trump's ear even while Trump was gesticulating and rotating his head back and forth. You have to presume that they are murdering, willing to kill members of the audience to make it appear more real.

Just because that case is possible doesn't mean you should default to it. People who default to the belief that this was a false flag to garner sympathy for Trump, based entirely on the fact that an ear-clip is quite a lucky circumstance for Trump, do not have IMHO very good judgement. But they all probably make very good security-minded people because they are defaulting to the worst case scenario which is the right way for a security-minded person to think.

BITCOIN AND NOSTR ARE THE FUTURE.

PEOPLE WILL VIEW BOTH AS BACKUPS TO CORRUPT ANTIQUATED LEGACY SYSTEMS UNTIL THEY BECOME THE STANDARD.

GOOD MORNING. 🫡

Felony conviction, check.

Shot in the face, check.

When does this guy get a face tattoo?

Seems overdue.

You take things you don't control and define them as "good" or "bad". And so of course when the "bad" things happen, or the "good" ones don't, you blame the gods and feel hatred for the people responsible – or those you decide to make responsible. much of our bad behavior stems from trying to apply those criteria. If we limited "good" or "bad" to our own actions, we'd have no call to challenge God, or to treat other people as enemies.

– Marcus Aurelius

That was hard to watch.

Long term, we need private money or it just gets traced / taxed / seized by the state anyway.

But truly private money makes for a bad store of value. You can’t audit the ledger, so a bug could create unlimited inflation that would be hard to detect.

So privacy is how you move money, not necessarily store it.

Divine intervention?

Pure luck?

Saw some boobs and turned his head?

Whatever it was. It will go down as one of the most symbolic moments in modern history.

Programming... and life. Simplify first, then add the fancy stuff.

Whenever in doubt and running into frictions, simplify.

It sounds like a truism, but it works most of the time for both writing and engineering.

Bitcoin vs ethereum

Nostr should not be the "back up" for when X is censored, wtf. It should be the main thing people use.

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Man I really don’t want the Spanish whiners to win another championship.

The battery life on my new M3 MacBook Air is insane.

The wisdom of responsibility

Inspired by the Nietzsche quote I posted a few days ago: