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This Mother’s Day I’m grateful I’m alive. I’m grateful my unborn child is still alive. I’m grateful for my beautiful son and incredible husband for making me breakfast in bed. I’m grateful for all the support and prayers I’ve received throughout my recovery. I’m not going to lie, the last few weeks have been extremely difficult for me mentally, as I’ve encountered some additional pregnancy complications unrelated to the spleen. But all the problems have solutions, and I’m grateful for the doctors and surgeons who are all ready to take care of me and my baby, whenever the time comes. I’m grateful that I got a second chance to be a wife, mother, daughter, and friend. Most people in my position aren’t so lucky. Pregnancy is easy for some, and incredibly difficult for others, through no fault of their own. I see so many women tearing each other down on this site. I want to see less shaming and more celebrating. I mean, we literally create life! And life is so, so precious. No one knows when it’s their last day. Live like it. P.S. it’s a girl 💕 and she’s a fighter 🥹

A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit

In April, a website that has been sued, blocked, deplatformed, and chased across thirty-seven domains over fifteen years quietly launched its own AI. Sci-Hub is the largest unauthorized library of scientific papers in human history. Ninety-five million academic papers. Tens of millions of books. Built and maintained by a single Kazakhstani neuroscientist named Alexandra Elbakyan since 2011, funded by donations, hosted on whatever country's registrar will tolerate it that year, mirrored across torrents and IPFS and Telegram bots. Elsevier sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. The American Chemical Society sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. India sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. Swedish registrar Njalla cut the .se domain in January. Sci-Hub stayed up at .al, .ru, .ee, .box, and a half-dozen .onion addresses the registrars cannot reach. Now the library has built its own intelligence. Sci-Bot launched in alpha in April. You ask it a research question. It answers, and it cites real papers from inside the corpus, with links that actually open the actual papers. The bot does not hallucinate citations. It cannot, because it only draws from papers it actually holds. The same property that the venture-funded labs have spent four years and forty billion dollars trying to engineer back into their products is a free side effect of training the model on a library that contains the books. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta have all been sued in the past eighteen months for training their models on the same shadow libraries that Sci-Hub assembled. Meanwhile the corpus those scripts were pointed at, the corpus those models were trained on, the corpus the entire generative AI industry is built on, sat right there the whole time, free, with a search box on top. The pirates beat them to it. Sci-Bot was built on a corpus that was already free, by a team that asked no permission, charging no one, with the explicit position that the right to read scientific research is older than the cartel that decided to charge for it. The same arithmetic the medieval guilds used to keep the printing trade in approved hands. The same arithmetic Pope Paul IV used in 1559 to publish the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. The same arithmetic the Stationers' Company used in seventeenth-century London. Knowledge has always had a fence around it. The fence has always been guarded by men who did not write the books. The library answers. We never asked permission. We never had to.

Keonne Rodriguez wrote from prison asking for help with $2M+ in legal fees from the Samourai Wallet case. "We have to stand up for our own." Donations are being tracked on-chain. When the state comes for one of us, we show up.

The reason so many invest in real estate & price out young people is that inflation makes the dollar & savings accounts useless so everyone needs to use their home as a saving account instead. Monetary policy is the problem, but like all lefties in human history you are programmed by your banker owners to never even notice this, let alone speak about it, and instead go after actually productive people to ensure they remain ground under the heels of your owners.

@PennySaverApp @AOC The solution is to print less money.

@BillSimmons 🤣

I spent 5 hours watching both games, like always. Just brain farted. We recorded right after game and I was trying to rip through 15 things I wanted to talk about as fast as possible and just messed up. Shit happens. My bad. Really hope you can forgive me, Josh Eberley.

Dave: “Hello, caller, you are on the air.” Caller: “I don’t think billionaires create value.” Dave: “Okay. What do you mean by that?” Caller: “Nobody can earn a billion dollars ethically.” Dave: “Alright. What do you do for a living?” Caller: “Well, before this, I was a bartender.” Dave: “Nothing wrong with bartending. Honest work.” Caller: “Right.” Dave: “And now?” Caller: “I work in government.” Dave: “Okay. So let me get this straight. You're saying Elon Musk, who helped build PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink, has made innovations like online payments, electric cars, rockets, and satellite internet possible, didn't earn his way to being a billionaire?" Caller: “None of that justifies being a billionaire.” Dave: “Well, sure sounds like value got created somewhere along the line.” Caller: “I disagree.” Dave: “What exactly did you build?” Caller: “I advocate for economic justice.” Dave: “No ma’am, I mean actual products.” Caller: “…” Dave: “You’re telling me the guy catching rockets mid-air created less value than a person who used to serve mojitos and now votes on spending his tax dollars?” Caller: “That’s unfair.” Dave: “What’s unfair is pretending markets are imaginary while cashing a government paycheck funded by the businesses you claim don’t create value.” Caller: “I’m actually a congresswoman.” Dave: “Oh Lord. Of course!"

@BitcoinArchive @PunterJeff Followed @punterjeff after watching this morning. Learned a lot from the conversation . First time watching coffee too. Did not follow him 😬. Zilla may be right, but he’s not my cup of tea… or should I say… coffee?? (Sry… 😜)

I interviewed Jeff @PunterJeff a few weeks ago. Highly impressive ability to communicate Bitcoin and risk concepts clearly. Powerful combo. Hopefully this interview hits big numbers and more people follow him.

Go on @Saylor's page and scroll. Every other post now is a retweet of some degenerate DeFi yield ponzi farm on Solana, Ethereum, Base, etc. But I don't recall he's ever retweeted any bitcoin tech. Like ever. Not Cashu, lightning, hardware wallets, Liquid, Coinjoins... nothing

stack real bitcoin, not that fake shit.

Post-Hyperbitcoinization I’m buying a horse, entering it in the Kentucky Derby, and naming it Parabolic Run.

@nic_carter @TXMCtrades This is true. Really sucks to be honest.

@TXMCtrades My tweets get shown to approx 2% of my followers now. Complete waste of time

This is being reinforced with every day that passes. The site wants you to shitpost and do nothing else. I understand why so many people have started substacks in the past few years.

A minimum wage of £15 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses. I’ll explain for the economically illiterate. Staff costs are currently half our costs, a £15 minimum wage is actually more than £15 an hour for the company, because you have to add: - 12.07% holiday - Sick pay - Maternity pay if and when required - National insurance - Pension contributions These costs would mean the shop loses money because remember, energy costs are up, rates are up, regulations are up. Now you can pass these costs onto the consumer - that would mean charging a lot more for coffee, people won’t pay it. The likes of Starbucks and Costa can, because they have economies of scale. The independent doesn’t. Now the little socialist will say well this is your fault, if you can’t run a business that can afford to pay its staff properly, but the little socialist has never run a business and does not understand the dynamics. Now I could pay some staff off and fill those hours myself or reduce us to one staff member during certain periods - but this proves the point that a minimum wage costs jobs. There was a time when these jobs were done by kids, perhaps on the weekend, paid a lower wage, no holiday and no silly employment rights. Perhaps they were even paid cash. The dynamic worked and small businesses like this could operate. It was also a great first job. Sadly now it isn’t worth employing entitlement youngsters at this level of pay. So alas, I don’t need the stress, the business would close, a number of jobs would be lost. Economics is about understanding these dynamics, no vibes. The cost of living is not solved through passing on inflation to the business, it is solved by ending high inflation and creating prosperity. This is what socialists don’t understand, they can’t create prosperity, they can only destroy it.

@TheSurvivalPodc You win funniest tweet of the day 🤣

This was a perfect launch into a new Star Trek series off the final episode of Picard. Instead we got the retarded idiocy of Starfleet Academy aboard the USS Subaru-Vagina.

@davidcantu14600 @LeadingReport Prices will never come down on things we need to live. Food, housing, transportation. They all go up forever. Just a matter of how fast they go up. The Feds goal is 2%. If prices go down (deflation) the whole financial system falls apart

@LeadingReport President Trump needs to focus on getting these prices down like he campaigned on

President Trump asks NASA chief if he can join the next moon mission.

@timevalueofbtc @startupideaspod @gregisenberg @dwarkesh_sp Thank you 👍

@JRodNice1 I have been listening to a lot of @startupideaspod with @gregisenberg for intros and overviews, and @dwarkesh_sp for in-depth advanced conversations with industry leaders

I spend a LOT of time listening to podcasts on AI, LLMs, compute, agents, and GPUs. It's an all-out information binge. Most similar thing I've experienced to the bitcoin rabbit hole.

There are only about 10 Republicans in the House right now that are refusing to vote to reauthorize FISA without warrant requirements and a few other changes. The rest of them are completely fine with voting to give your tax payer funded government the ability to spy on you without having to get a warrant first. Trump said he will give up his rights for FISA and is demanding Republicans “ just pass it” even after FISA was used to secretly spy on his campaign and had been used against hundreds of thousands of Americans. The betrayals are increasingly so bad. I don’t know how they face their constituents.

BILLIONAIRE JACK DORSEY IS DOING EVERYTHING HE POSSIBLY CAN TO TAKE #BITCOIN MAINSTREAM ⚡️ URGING USA TO REMOVE BTC CAPITAL GAINS ⚡️ TURNING ON PROOF OF RESERVES ⚡️ ENABLING 4 MILLION MERCHANTS TO ACCEPT BTC WHAT AN ABSOLUTE LEGEND 🔥