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German Dates are the best Dates!

You would appreciate ‘Black Sails’ if you haven’t seen already

Does he call any of his guests faggots or retards?

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I saw a guy at a Coffee Shop this morning.

No smartphone.

No tablet.

No charts.

He just sat there.

Drinking coffee.

Reading the #Bitcoin Standard.

Smiling.

Like a psychopath.

Part of living on a bitcoin standard is surrounding yourself with builders.

I found a new meditation practice. Looking at incense stick burning. You just sit down and your activity is to look at it slowly burn.

Last night I ended up reaching a level of clarity that felt psychedelic. Not sure if that was mindfulness, but for a minute I got myself in a moment of psychedelic clarity where "I was" everything except the object I was looking at (the tip of the burning stick). This may not be fully accurate but it's the best way I can explain right now.

Incredible experience.

You might be lying more than is healthy for you.

Most people think lying is harmless, just social grease or a shortcut through conflict.

I used to think that too.

But the real damage caused by lying isn’t moral. It’s structural. It’s what it does to your internal model of reality.

To be a convincing liar you have to believe your own stories. And the moment you start believing them, you compromise the part of your mind that knows what’s real. That internal compass, the one that helps you navigate the world and navigate yourself, begins to distort. Hannah Arendt warned that when lies replace truth, our ability to orient ourselves collapses. That’s the real danger.

Lying feels like control, but over time it becomes the opposite. You create a false world, and then that false world starts controlling you.

If you’ve been lying long enough, you’ve already split yourself in two: the part of you that knows the truth and the part of you performing the lie. Carl Jung would say the performer becomes a shadow self you start living inside. And if you inhabit that character long enough, you confuse their desires for your own. Eventually the performance becomes the identity, and your entire life bends around maintaining it.

The prescription is simple, but brutal. Tell the truth again.

But be warned. Truth is expensive. David Foster Wallace said the truth will set you free, but not until it is finished with you.

Telling the truth means killing the false self, and that death is painful because you’ve been identifying with that character for years. You’ve invested in them. You’ve protected them. You’ve let them run your life.

Worse, many of your relationships have bonded not with you, but with the liar, with the persona. And when you kill that persona, people will grieve it. Some will resent you. Some will leave. Some will tell you you’re not yourself anymore without realizing they never actually knew you in the first place.

People love the lie. It’s easier to love. Cleaner. More convenient.

When you start telling the truth, don’t expect applause. Expect resistance. Expect disappointment. Expect people to prefer the mask you wore over the face you’re finally revealing.

But if you stay the course, something else happens.

The world becomes solid again.

Your mind aligns with reality.

Your inner compass recalibrates.

And you stop living as a character in a story you never meant to write.

You come back to yourself.

Dang, NYC is cooked.

Vibecoding turned open-source software projects into a spam attack vector.

Before that you could expect high quality projects from a huge percentage of all apps, so acting on a message like "hey, I made this app, please try" was often a good use of your time.

These days there are at least 10x more of such apps, so assuming rationality the default reaction to "hey, I made this app, please try" will eventually become to not even look, or people will only look at apps from well-known creators.

Considering this it might be that rather than "democratizing" the creation of software vibecoding made it harder for a newcomer without reputation or reach to get their app in front of the eyes of others.

lot of people seem concerned about ‘quantum risk’

i dont think its a short term risk but we should probably prioritize mitigations over the next five years regardless

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wow, Strike is seeing tons of activity on the Lightning Network right now.

this is an internal dashboard of fees earned on our routing node.

incredible to see Bitcoin scale