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So was Obama at war every time he dropped a bomb? This is juvenile logic. We get it - you are outraged simply because the president isn't a Democrat. That's the sophistication of the thinking.

This is the kind of content the world needs. Bringing cultures together to appreciate our similarities and respect our differences. A homogeneous global culture would be boring as fuck.

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Also what have you invented here. Like a digital safety deposit box that might have digital valuables along side a copy of a will - all encrypted in the one place?

It's not about going back to "basics".

There is a morality and set of ethics that we somehow forgot amongst the hysteria of fiat.

When you drop your wallet on the street do you back for it or do just continue on and tell yourself 'oh that's all in the past now'.

If something is essential to us we go back for it.

Bitcoin is a new system but we owe it to ourselves and our future generations to recapture our morality, ethics, pride, self determination and accountability.

So in my opinion there is some time travel backwards we must do - a collective remembering of a better inner self.

Cheers.

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Without question my favourite graphical representation of the Bitcoin origin story. Satoshi was brilliant but ultimately the final 'compiler' of the solution born from many struggles and victories. Breaking centrally banked fiat was never going to be easy. We still have work to do but my goodness we owe a debt of gratitude to so many along the way. 👏👏👏👏

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You don't understand. Bitcoiners are part of Bitcoin's immune system. They play an important role during the incubation phase (0-50 years). There are those who farm organic eggs and those who strive to understand and protect Bitcoin. Both are valid journeys right now. When Bitcoin is entrenched as the global unit of account then all humanity will have the capacity to forge new skills and provide value to the world in a way that is fair and maximises personal freedom. Critical we do not allow fiat to subvert Bitcoin in these early years. Vigilance has value.

This may be the case. However the closer proximity I have to deployed AI the more I realise my thinking far outweighs it. The ease with which I can exploit its blind spots is verging on comical at this point. I'm sure the trend is against me but I feel like there will long be a valid attack vector against AI.

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The argument is about a countries capacity to export violence on a sustained basis. A debt based monetary system facilitates this far more effectively than a monetary system grounded by a hard money. It's an entirely rational position to take - whether it plays out that way I guess time will tell.

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Blame AI for loss of students' basic skills

JACOB LOPEZ CONTRIBUTOR JACOB LOPEZ IS A HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEACHER PASSIONATE ABOUT RESTORING CRITICAL THINKING IN THE CLASSROOM.

Toronto Star

May 26, 2025

It's my first year as a high school teacher — and something is amiss. In my Grade 11 English class, students were tasked with submitting an essay focused on “The Great Gatsby.” As I am reading them, I quickly realize one student pasted their entire conversation with ChatGPT — a text tool powered by artificial intelligence that can generate essays, summaries, and arguments based on user instructions — into the paper, including all their prompts and responses received. One of these prompts given to ChatGPT by the student was, “OK, now make it sound more dumb like I wrote it.”

This is incredibly alarming. Students are not only cheating, they are also perfectly fine with missing out on learning. There is a real risk here that we are producing a generation of students who will not be able to reason effectively or think for themselves.

English class, after all, is not simply about reading and writing. English is where students are meant to learn fundamental skills that help them think, speak and exist in the world with purpose. When students stop writing, they stop engaging in the thinking processes that support everything else: reading comprehension, critical literacy, critical thinking and confidence.

I have seen it first hand: Students stand at the front of the room, holding their phone, reading a ChatGPT response word for word. The evidence is clear as day: They mispronounce or skip over words that they should know if they had written them; they use slightly altered quotations (due to ChatGPT's copyright rules); and they do not modify the responses they receive in the slightest — submitting and reading work that is very far from what they have handed in previously. These students are not presenting ideas, they are relaying data and seemingly losing the ability to communicate efficiently.

The risk here is clear: Students are increasingly disengaged from critical literacy. When conferences are set up to discuss their brainstorming, rough drafts, and papers, many students are unable to defend and have a discussion about their ideas freely.

This is not a new phenomenon, as students in the past also struggled with doing so. However, what is more concerning today is the scale and reason for this issue. Unlike in the past, where struggles in these areas came from lack of preparation or confidence, students now are unprepared because they completely bypass the thinking process. The ease of access to AI tools like ChatGPT make it incredibly easy for even strong students to succumb to its ability to do the work for them.

If what we wanted was students who could simply produce work, then this wouldn't be a problem; we could simply train them to use AI rather than train them to read critically. But that's not what education is. One's formative adolescent years are where we're meant to take what exists in the world and develop our own thoughts, ideas, and convictions about them. But students are no longer developing their own thoughts and thinking critically. Instead, they are now copying and pasting text so that they do not have to do the work.

This is a dangerous precedent to set and can have grave implications when they are thrust into the real world to engage with the process and work. They will not have the confidence to do so, because they have not done it.

The world is evolving. Educators and students need to evolve with it. But we should never let mere convenience undermine the importance of the process. Artificial intelligence is not just a shortcut, it's changing how students engage with knowledge. If we ignore this shift, we are not just undermining the classroom. We are also quickly dismantling foundations of critical thinking in our society.

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Sorry but you are ENTIRELY missing the point here. Taking a bat shit boring text by Fitzgerald and applying it unilaterally to all kids in an attempt to 'develop reasoning skills'. That process literally IS THE FUCKING PROBLEM why we can't develop children to their full potential.