Yes.
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I’m often reminded that Balaji Srinivasan no longer refers to countries as developed and developing (or first world / third world), but used the terms ascending and declining countries.
Guess where we are.
The scarlet letter is now blue.
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You’ll own Bitcoin, and you’ll be happy.
“The new tech sector had a libertarian ethos about it. They didn’t care about the government and its bureaucrats. They didn’t have lobbyists in Washington. They were the new technologies of freedom and didn’t care much about the old analogue world of command and control. They would usher in a new age of people power.”
I was there. It was glorious. And now…
“Here we sit a quarter-century later with documented evidence that the opposite happened. The private sector collects the data that the government buys and uses as a tool of control. What is shared and how many people see it is a matter of algorithms agreed upon by a combination of government agencies, university centers, various nonprofits, and the companies themselves. The whole thing has become an oppressive blob.”
The good news: Bitcoin gives us a way out and way back. Many just don’t know it yet.
https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-american-capitalism-mutate-into-american-corporatism/
All good stuff, but you know you can’t keep it stable in sats forever. 😉
Great work. FYI that pre-roll are two super scammy daytraders. Host on nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7 and let us support you directly. 🫱🏻🫲🏼
Note to self.
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Wild. Stock video or generated?
It's Science™.
I’d be very worried if I was in the royalty-free sync business.
Care to share?
Interesting perspective. I’d say she, as many do, mistakes merit for elitism.
“El Salvador offers a worked example of what it might look like to roll out Right-wing progressivism in a previously dysfunctional polity.”
https://unherd.com/2024/04/the-future-belongs-to-right-wing-progressives/
Wen Council of Dans? 
“Whether you think you cDan, or you think you cDan't—you're right.” —Henry Ford
gm, good people. ☕️☀️
Musicians (and non-), check this out. Backed by a16z and will.i.am, just launched and impressive. It’s not going to make my playlists, but what do you think?
