This is the most important transcript I’ve done 😂
Deater: I don’t give a fuck what he does. I don’t give a fuck. I don’t care. It doesn’t matter.
AH: What value have you ever provided to this space, Deater?
Deater: What the fuck have you done, dude?
AH: Nothing. Nothing. But what have you done?
Deater: Right — nothing. Yeah, nothing! I’ve done nothing.
Saifedean Ammous [2:05:00]: I think you’re more likely to be taking the leap in the unknown when you have a little bit of gold in the mattress than when you don’t — I think this is the thing. Like, if you look at the late 19th century — and I discussed this in The Bitcoin Standard — that was arguably the most innovative period in human history. There’s qualitative evidence: look at the world around you today — pretty much everything that we use was invented in that period — the car, the airplane, the telegraph, the telephone, the camera. Pretty much modern life, the late 19th century, the period between 1870–1914, because the whole world was practically on a gold standard, the whole world was using the same money, and the whole world could save in the same currency. That meant that two bicycle shop owning brothers in North Carolina could go and try and fly, even as all the scientific experts in 1903 were confirming that the possibility of flight has been debunked as unscientific. Thomas Edison said, Not in a million years we’re going to be flying. Lord Kelvin also said it’s never going to happen. The New York Times said it’s never going to happen the same month in which the Wright brothers did it, and they continued to deny that it was going to happen, even two years after they did it. But why could they do that? Because they had savings in gold. They had the security with something that you know is going to be there, and then you can take a risk with the stuff that is extra. I have, say, three years expenditures in gold under my mattress, and I know that I could take a risk with everything else because whatever bad things happen with all of my dreams like even flying — think about how insane that is — I still can go back to the three years of gold that I have saved.
"Anybody sitting in the middle of that, controlling the software application networks that have all the asset value in them, those companies are going to benefit in a marvelous fashion."
— Michael Saylor, 2012
Wow, clearing the desktop of icons actually did make a computer faster 😂
If there’s an important lecture or discussion about #Bitcoin or Nostr (or anything else, just ask) that you want to be able to read and search through cleanly without needing to refer back to the recording, that’s what I do best!
I watched it when it was broadcast on American TV. Google says that was 1998, but I’m not sure if that date only applied to Japan.
"The arts are not self-supporting and indeed never have been. The public has been given a fictitious picture of the earnings, honors, and rewards enjoyed by artists and musicians, a picture that cannot afford to reveal what goes on backstage. Not that more should be spent on the arts; only that less should be misspent."
-- Ernst Bacon, Notes on the piano p. 136
This is one of my favorite new music discoveries:
A lovely lady and awesome Iconographer who used to be my neighbor, is a Russian artist who is extremely talented. I was watching her sketch one of her works and she was explaining to me that the one of the most difficult parts of iconography is following the placement of all things in the image. Every bit of anything in an Holy image needs to meet a certain criteria of the Holy geometry in order to me the rigorous standards to obtain the blessing of the Orthodox Church.
She also creates amazing non-iconic art. Masterful still life pieces. My dear, dear mother in law (may she rest in peace) discovered her and was her patron in so many ways until her passing this last 4th of July.
I haven't been fortunate to spend any time with Tatiana since my mother in law's funeral. I miss her. But I do know she's still actively working. She now lives in Northern California Lake County with her husband who is an abstract artist. I would love to consider myself an artist. I am very creative and artistic, but her skill level is at a whole other dimension.
Hopefully, if my health improves and I can muster the energy, I will then be able to work more on my own artwork and hopefully be able to stop working and my super-stressful day job.
Meanwhile, her website doesn't show her vast amount of work, but just in case u get curious to see some of the pieces she's done.
http://www.timcwethy.com/tm12.html
https://www.artrenewal.org/artworks/tatiana-mcwethy/thanksgiving/64382
Sorry...I started crying in the middle of this.
I just discovered she used some of Michelle's ceramics in one of her still life pieces called "Thanksgiving."
Oh...how I miss my dear mother in law...
Thanks so much for sharing your story! My interest in iconography started because I also stumbled on to a neighbor from Russia that makes icons. It’s one of the best things that has happened in my life that I can just walk over and chat and hear what’s on his mind, what he wants to be doing, his struggles, successes, dreams. He travels to Poland a lot because his teachings are apparently in very high demand there! http://anthonygunin.com
I’m not sure if he was following those rules but we planned for it to fit on a single sheet of plywood, and thankfully it did fit 😂