My friend likes to add a bit of French vanilla non-dairy creamer to her coffee and asked me to look at the ingredients to see if it’s healthy or not.

Creamer is an ounce-for-ounce contender for the worst food on the planet.

The ingredients are: sugar water, water, sugar, seed oil, isolated milk protein, and chemicals.

One of my least favorite routine things about modern society is how comically bad our food is. People look back at how bad it was having cocaine in Coca Cola and stuff like that, but when you add all processed food together in a typical person’s daily consumption, it’s arguably worse than that.

I once paid to take Jordan Peterson's more in depth personality test.

While much of it was not a surprise, one aspect in particular was...

The realm of Politeness.

The Politeness in the test is not simple niceties. At its core, it is caring about what others think.

I scored 16%. Which is unusually low.

This is probably because on a normal day, I would have to work really hard to care any less what others think.

In fact, it would have to occur to me to think about it in the first place.

Some might view this as a gift. And in some ways and situations it is.

But in others, it isn't. At all.

I have actually cultivated empathy, and have worked at it. But in a way that is probably a little different. Ive tried to take the fact that I am relatively unaffected by what others think, and have tried to turn it upside down by looking for the spark of good in the people I meet, and then relating to that good, regardless of what others think.

Its sort of a hack. But it works. Most of the time.

But many people base relationships on initial vibe. And some people can feel that I am not real susceptible to peer pressure, or shame, or control, or manipulation, and they are very intimidated by it. Their immediate response is to protect themselves, before I have said a word. Even thought my intention is to see what is valuable about them. I dont take that personally now that I understand it better. I just keep looking at the good and keep trying to relate to that regardless.

My wife, courageous woman that she is, is exactly the opposite. She scored unusually high on the Politeness scale. As you can imagine, this contrast has led to he both laughing hysterically, and being utterly horrified by what I have said to people at times. But in this relationship, I have discovered another unusual superpower associated with this defect... I can look her in the eyes, and tell her I love her and mean it, regardless if what is going on. Because I choose my emotions. No one else does.

This weird ability to laser love is one that I cherish as I have come to understand it better. I use it now, when I am out in the world. When I can sense that someone has been hearing nothing but bullshit from other people for too long, I use my sharp tongue, and lack of caring what those other people think, to send a missile of encouragement through all that bull shit. It has become one of my very favorite things in the world to do. And the response is sometimes astonishing.

Try it sometime. When you see that person struggling. Dont worry about being polite, dont worry about causing a scene, or what people might think... just SAY IT. Say the good. Say the loving thing. Give the negativity of the world a held high middle finger, and speak life to people who need it. Which is often everyone.

Give that grace like a weapon against bullshit. Besides. What you give accumulates and comes back to you. And if you have a tendency to say some of the other things that come out of my mouth sometimes, youre going to need all the grace coming back to you that you can get.

First the University was a breakthrough for western civilization. Then it was an incredible privledge, then it was an advantage. Then it was a business, then it was a scam.

Breaking noooze:

Rage Against the Machine decided the machine maybe wasnt so bad, and broke up.

Big banks embracing bitcoin is like the Feds saying “we embrace strong encryption”

All those old system croneys out there telling the people that trusting people like Jamie Dimon with your wealth is much safer than using trustless, decentralized, cryptographically signed money.

Takes a long time to see past old paradigms sometimes.

thinking about making some “No One for President” signs…

Its really starting to sink it for me, that there is a globalist force, which is as evil as the Nazi's as deceptive as the Stalinists, and as murderous as the regime of Mao.

And its centered smack dab in the United Nations, the WEF, the WHO, and the IMF.

These people are not 'misled bureaucrats' any more than high level Nazis were.

This isnt a game anymore, and these people are evil.

They fund campaigns to place their agents, they use blackmail merchants like Epstein to control the uncooperative, and use Intelligence or Drug Cartel to remove those who wont. They subvert elections, and fund local races to gain control at local levels. They have sophisticated weapons like immigration, drugs, targeted violence groups, and financial leverage. But their favorite weapon is creating a crisis, offering themselves as the only solution, and taking more of your sovereignty every time.

No nation is going to fight this effectively. Every nation will be fragmented in its desire to fight this, or just go along with it. So the primary front against this force is YOU. And me.

We have to become a peculiar generation. We are fighting in a war, the likes of which the world has never really seen before. We need to learn how to identify the pillars which this Globalist ideal needs in place to achieve its goals, and we need to so thoroughly fuck those pillars up that they keep needing to reformulate their plans and become more and more exposed every time they do.

Undermine their ability to control communication and information.

Undermine their ability to control the money.

Undermine their ability to control food, water, power, shelter, health, medicine.

Undermiine their ability to influence your relationships.

Undermine their ability to surveil and predict.

Undermine their ability to have a total monopoly on violence.

You dont have to become a revolutionary on the outside. You can go to work, pay your taxes, take vacations, and smile. But inside, you are learning, and pushing their control structures out of your own life, then the lives of others, and then...

The new cold war is the People against the Globalist.

Ok.

Do you ‘member when you thought you could trust gubment?

i hope you learnt yer lesson.

run along and play.

Goodnight 🌙

“Disagreement is not oppression. Argument is not assault. Words – even provocative or repugnant ones – are not violence. The answer to speech we do not like is more speech.”

― @DouglasKMurray, The Madness of Crowds

Nostr is very interesting today. 🤙

Bitcoin Accelerationism.

Bicoin Accelerationism embodies all that Effective Accelerationism (e/acc) represents, yet it posits that Bitcoin is crucial in ushering in this future. Let’s explore:

First, let’s break down what e/acc stands for, and why bitcoin is inevitably intertwined in this technological movement.

Effective Accelerationism posits that the universe inherently aims to optimize itself, constantly expanding and evolving. This expansion is seen as an unstoppable force, with the future always building upon and surpassing the present, and the main driver of this is ‘techno-capital’. Said more simply, ‘techno-capital’ is the force which will change/fix the world.

Now, let’s turn to bitcoin:

Similar to AI, bitcoin mining faces never ending scrutiny regarding its “energy use”. In reality, mining serves as a pivotal tool for energy grid load-balancing and waste energy mitigation. It's one of the only consumers of energy that can power off on a moments notice entirely subject to market demand.

By empowering location agnostic energy monetization while enforcing ever increasing efficiency through the difficulty adjustment, bitcoin mining doesn't waste energy, but rather consumes energy waste. With the brutal reality of continuously rising network hash rate subsequently increasing mining difficulty, inefficient operators are driven out via market forces, while the increased difficulty simultaneously reinforces the asset’s supply inelasticity and programmatically increasing marginal cost of production.

The significance? There is now a global opportunity cost for energy waste that exists anywhere found by satellite signal, thereby directly incentivizing and quantifying the chase of Moore's Law AND the ascent of the Kardashev scale.

Bitcoin adheres to e/acc principles, and metaphorically aligns with the natural order and thermodynamic laws, by adeptly transforming forms of energy into an immutable ledger of subjective value.

Its 21,000,000 capped supply mirrors the finite energy in closed systems, a nod to the conservation law. Bitcoin mining, which channels raw energy into computation, goes to securing and extending property rights to $800b of pseudonymous global wealth. The process of elegantly converting energy in any form into an immutable ledger of absolute monetary scarcity brings about order from entropy.

Do not shy away from energy production nor energy consumption. Bitcoin's Proof of Work is not a weakness, but an absolute source of strength. Lean in.

As a store of value, bitcoin epitomizes a free market for capital, underpinned by the energy securing it, SHA-256 cryptography, and a global consensus of distributed nodes, each user acting in their own self-interest. The key principle is that value is not derived by decree, but rather subjectively by self preserving individuals through economic incentives.

As a unit of account, bitcoin is the ruler against which the vast technological gains of past and future decades will be quantified and measured against most accurately, given its attributes and free market emergence.

In contrast, political currency, issued by increasingly corrupted institutions, will continue to devalue against everything we hold dear; fundamentally incompatible with a future where AI brings about abundance through the reduction in the cost of everyday services.

This contrast between two opposing forces has never been more evident, with tech advances accelerating by day while the issuance of additional political currency aims to offset said deflationary gains to keep an evermore fragile and faltering system of debt and IOUs from collapsing under its own weight.

As censorship-resistant money, bitcoin is pivotal for a future where censorship and surveillance by the state and/or techno-monopolies are more powerful and potentially oppressive than ever.

As a bearer asset, bitcoin stands out as one of the few possessions that can be truly owned in a digital native world riddled with third party custodians and counterparties. Possession can be custodied literally in one's mind, not as the liability of a captured and corrupted institution operating under the long-reach of the state.

Lastly, it is an inevitable reality that all monetary mediums compete in perpetuity, and the Darwinian process of a free market monetary medium monetizing from scratch, not by decree but by free market forces, has only occurred successfully a rare few times in human history, and never with the speed or global scale currently underway.

Bitcoin Accelerationism is an acknowledgment of this all; the growing surveillance apparatus of the state, the attempt to restrict and reduce global energy production/consumption, and the precarious position of the global political currency experiment that threatens to undermine the past and present gains brought about by technological innovation. In e/acc terms, bitcoin is THE capital in ‘techno-capital’.

In a world where the very medium in which we store our time, labor, and value is led by individuals more interested in looting the coffers than in the long-term health or vitality of our society, it’s time to lean in.

Bitcoin Accelerationism is about embracing this reality. No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

We will not apologize, reconsider, slow down, or reverse course. Instead,

ACCELERATE.

libertarianism is actually compatible with socialism, communism, capitalism, and fascism, the single restriction being that those systems are organized voluntarily. You can have communism in a libertarian society, it’s called a commune, but if it turns out that the system doesn’t scale or doesn’t produce, you can’t make the rest of the world your slaves to “make it work.”

Libertarianism isn’t a prescription about *how* to organize. It’s a framework to allow us to organize in as many ways as possible so we can endlessly discover and refine the concept of organization itself.

It *only* requires that you treat everyone around you as a free human with self ownership, and not your slave.

It’s literally the most fundamental precursor to society itself. No value actual or cooperation exists without it. It’s axiomatically required to have a conversation about sharing or trade in the first place.

The idiocy of arguing against property rights is literally arguing that society isn’t a thing and that to have a society or not have one makes no difference.

libertarianism is actually compatible with socialism, communism, capitalism, and fascism, the single restriction being that those systems are organized voluntarily. You can have communism in a libertarian society, it’s called a commune, but if it turns out that the system doesn’t scale or doesn’t produce, you can’t make the rest of the world your slaves to “make it work.”

Libertarianism isn’t a prescription about *how* to organize. It’s a framework to allow us to organize in as many ways as possible so we can endlessly discover and refine the concept of organization itself.

It *only* requires that you treat everyone around you as a free human with self ownership, and not your slave.

The Nostr experiment will teach us that:

1. Entrepreneurship is HARD. Beware survivorship bias.

2. VC money doesn't guarantee success. It just means you have more to burn through.

3. You have to cultivate a brand to rally support

4. You HAVE to charge. Free only amounts to more free. Paying = signal. That's not to say that you can't have some free, but someone has to pay and signal for desired features.

5. You HAVE to do marketing. Build it and they will come is a fallacy. Only works on rare occasions when you build something truly spectacular. Ideal marketing split is AT MINIMUM 50/50 build/hustle to get the word out.

6. People lie. They say one thing but do another. Back to payment = signal.

7. What developer values ≠ what users value

8. Building something truly unique can work against you because new concepts are harder to explain. Familiar = less selling required.

Did I miss anything?

So today I learned from hacker news:

Normies think bitcoin is a scam.

Normies expect other people to curate their feed.

Normies want a central operator to complain to.

I'm glad normies don't join nostr. I think we should not be catering to normies. Normies can go get stuffed.