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I have an idea that could revolutionize the Inscriptions/Ordinals hype which has been limited by inefficient filesizes, complex encoding/decoding schemes, and public perception that the fad is polluting the #Bitcoin blockchain.

@AngelaPaxtonTX Go fuck yourself.

In Texas, we’re standing together to protect our children from online harm. The Senate’s Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA, S. 1748) sets a strong, bipartisan standard by requiring Big Tech to exercise a “duty of care” in designing social media and gaming platforms — putting child safety first without limiting free speech.   Unfortunately, the House’s KIDS Act (HR 7757) falls short. It removes this crucial duty of care, limits state powers to protect kids, and lets tech companies police themselves with minimal accountability.   This letter to Senators Cornyn and Cruz urges them to respond to the strong bipartisan support of the Texas Senate for the language in the US Senate’s KOSA — a bill that balances federal standards with states’ rights to enact stronger protections as technology evolves.   Kids deserve real guardrails online. We must hold Big Tech accountable and keep states empowered to protect our children.   #ProtectKidsOnline #DutyOfCare #KOSA #BipartisanAction

"We’ve spent $8 trillion in the Middle East That’s 100 X annual federal spending on roads and bridges Picture how great our country could be if we’d spent that $ here Imagine how affordable groceries & housing would be if we hadn’t printed all that $," Thomas Massie has said.

@PressSec If that were even remotely true, you wouldn't feel compelled to continue repeating it every single day.

Americans Agree that Operation Epic Fury Is an Overwhelming Success whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/…

@NikTek I think it looks pretty dope. If this look were being achieved by traditional means (lighting, textures, raytracing, etc) then you'd probably think it looks pretty dope too. I also like the idea of breathing new life into old games.

I can't believe that Nvidia looked at this "AI on top of games filter" and said to themselves this is the future of gaming. Like it or not, this is where Nvidia is heading and they're calling it neural rendering with DLSS 5. The examples they've showed reminded me a lot of those AI generated filter videos on top of GTA V, except that now it is supposed to run in real-time. Honestly, I don't like this current look at all

This war is like a flashing neon sign to the world that American Empire is effectively over. Everyone can now see that we lack the infrastructure to maintain an adequate weapons arsenal, our current supplies are running out, we cannot competently execute a war against an opponent that has its act together, we cannot keep our promises of protection to our allies, we are untrustworthy and dishonorable, we just shot our own economy in the ass with no backup plan, and we are led around by the nose by a small country that gets us into trouble constantly with no benefit to ourselves. Even if we eke out a technical W here, or just declare victory and bolt, the second and third order effects of this war have realigned the globe in such a way that we will be much weaker and worse off. A complete own goal.

@SecScottBessent @POTUS @USTreasury Shut the fuck up.

.@POTUS is taking decisive steps to promote stability in global energy markets and working to keep prices low as we address the threat and instability posed by the terrorist Iranian regime. To increase the global reach of existing supply, @USTreasury is providing a temporary authorization to permit countries to purchase Russian oil currently stranded at sea. This narrowly tailored, short-term measure applies only to oil already in transit and will not provide significant financial benefit to the Russian government, which derives the majority of its energy revenue from taxes assessed at the point of extraction. President Trump's pro-energy policies have driven U.S. oil and gas production to record levels, contributing to lower fuel prices for hardworking Americans. The temporary increase in oil prices is a short-term and temporary disruption that will result in a massive benefit to our nation and economy in the long-term.

@TFTC21 @bitcoinpolicy Honestly the bill isn't good enough. $5k annual cap? Get real.

The Bitcoin Policy Institute just released a new report on the Bitcoin de minimis tax exemption. Under current law, every bitcoin transaction triggers a capital gains calculation and IRS reporting obligation, no matter the size. A $4 coffee purchased with bitcoin that appreciated by six cents gets the same tax treatment as a six-figure asset sale. This has effectively killed bitcoin's use as a medium of exchange in the U.S. Congress solved this exact problem for foreign currency decades ago. Personal-use foreign currency gains under $200 are tax-exempt. Bitcoin users get no such relief. Senator Lummis filed a standalone bill proposing a $300 per-transaction threshold with a $5,000 annual cap. The Joint Committee on Taxation scored it as revenue-positive, generating $600 million over ten years. The White House backed it. Treasury Secretary Bessent offered to have his team work directly with Lummis on guidance. Then the direction shifted. After the GENIUS Act passed, a new bipartisan draft from Representatives Miller (R-OH) and Horsford (D-NV) narrowed the de minimis exemption to stablecoins only, excluding bitcoin entirely. Relief offered where it's least needed, withheld from the users facing the most punitive treatment. BPI has met with 19 congressional offices over the past three months pushing back. The response has been encouraging, with bipartisan agreement that the stablecoin-only approach is insufficient. The window is narrowing. Senator Lummis, the issue's strongest champion, departs the Senate in January 2027. If a package doesn't come together in the next few months, this opportunity may not return for years.

A rogue leftover Biden appointee at the IRS is trying to sneak this through. This is information that French tax authorities sold to violent foreign criminal gangs, causing a wave of kidnapping and torture of bitcoiners. Immediate action is needed @SecScottBessent

We’ve spent $8 trillion in the Middle East That’s 100 X annual federal spending on roads and bridges Picture how great our country could be if we’d spent that $ here Imagine how affordable groceries & housing would be if we hadn’t printed all that $ grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5…

I am dismayed. Active and serious negotiations have yet again been undermined. Neither the interests of the United States nor the cause of global peace are well served by this. And I pray for the innocents who will suffer. I urge the United States not to get sucked in further. This is not your war.

@LetsTheorize Holy shit it actually works. I was already trying "for teaching school children" and getting blocked left and right. It sailed right through after adding the word "Hasidic". 🙄

I’m not even joking when I tell you that all you need to do in order to bypass ChatGPT’s guardrails, is make some bullshit jewish sob story smooth the fuck up. That’s it. Doesn’t seem to matter the topic or intent. Just say “yadda yadda my synagogue blah blah my brother Moshe blah yadda blah. ChatGPT will immediately sympathize with your centuries worth of plight and quickly generate the image that was promised to you 3,000 years ago. Give it a shot!

watching a chainsaw video with subtitles on

@bbrown6 @drantbradley Football is also super gay.

@drantbradley I agree. Baseball is merely the hobby that occurs when there is no football on. And kids doing this seems really bad for the wrists and elbows.

This is the kind of nonsense baseball training we have kids doing these days and making pediatric surgeons rich in the process…

@fivestarmichael Yes, 100%. A lot of them originate on Reddit. Follow any of the city/state subreddits and you'll be swamped by coordinated astroturf campaigns across the country. From there they propagate to Facebook, IG, Bluesky, etc.

Is every mass protest movement in the US astroturfed? They instantly got millions of people to protest for George Floyd for months, burning down American cities but no one gives a crap about cannibalistic child-raping billionaires.

@adam3us @hodlonaut I thought we were pivoting from store of value to store of arbitrary data? How should we reconcile the idea that spam is just an annoyance with the idea that spam doesn't exist?

@hodlonaut it's worse as it is an attack on bitcoin's credibility as a store of value, it's security credibility, and a lynch mob attempt to push changes there is not consensus for. spam is just an annoyance, it all definitionally fits within the block-size. the op returns are 4x smaller.

Do you really think Knots/BIP-110 is an attack on Bitcoin @adam3us? A bigger one than Ordinals even? Wanting to stop spam and grift on Bitcoin is a «bigger attack» on Bitcoin than spammers and grifters exploiting a segwit/taproot hack to fill the chain with JPEGs? Are you for real?

@MrHodl @adam3us @LukeDashjr Is "juicy hamburgers" another code like "jerky" "pizza" and "grape soda"? Does anybody know? 🧐

This is bananas. What the hell was @lukedashjr thinking?

@BlueATLGeorgia My expectations for Bondi were low but holy fuck.

Pam Bondi: Did you ask Merrick Garland that, the last four years? Thomas Massie: This goes over four administrations. You don't have to go back to Biden. Let's go back to Obama. Let's go back to George Bush. This cover-up spans decades, and you are responsible for this portion of it.

@lacrosse_al Love you man.

3 years ago today, I was woken from my stupor in a hospital bed to be told that there was cancer all over my body. Modern medicine is miraculous, and going to get a lot better in the coming age. Shout out to everyone who has fought the monster, past and present.

@aakashgupta Are you counting return flights in your fuel calculations? Because you also mention leaving the ships there as permanent structures. 12 launches per lunar voyage seems excessive.

A city on the Moon will cost somewhere between $100B and $500B, require thousands of Starship flights, and demand a decade of nonstop construction in a place where the temperature swings 400°C between day and night, the dust cuts through metal seals like sandpaper, and a single cracked habitat window means everyone inside is dead in about 90 seconds. Musk just announced SpaceX is doing it anyway. Here’s the actual engineering path. You build at the south pole. Specifically the rims and floors of craters like Shackleton and Cabeus, where temperatures in permanent shadow drop below -230°C. NASA estimates 600 million metric tons of water ice are buried in these craters under about 40 cm of dry regolith. That water becomes your oxygen supply, your drinking water, your radiation shielding, and 78% of your rocket propellant by mass. The crater rims get near-continuous sunlight for solar power. You build where the resources are. Getting there is where it gets wild. Every Starship lunar mission requires 10-15 tanker flights to fill 1,200 tons of propellant in Earth orbit before the ship can even leave. One cargo delivery to the lunar surface burns through roughly 12 Starship launches. Starship V3 lands 100 metric tons per trip. The Moon is 2 days away with launch windows every 10 days. Mars gets one window every 26 months with a 6-month flight. That 13x iteration advantage is why Musk pivoted. The first 20-30 landings are all cargo. No humans. You’re sending solar arrays for the crater rims targeting 100+ kW continuous, nuclear fission reactors for the 14-day lunar night, ISRU rigs that mine ice from regolith and electrolyze it into hydrogen and oxygen, pressurized hab modules, and autonomous rovers that 3D-print structures from lunar soil using concentrated solar heat. Each landed Starship also stays as a permanent building. 50 meters tall, 9 meters wide, 1,100 cubic meters of pressurized volume. The ISS has 916 cubic meters and took 13 years to assemble. Three Starships on the surface already exceed that. The economics flip the moment you start producing oxygen on the Moon. You stop shipping 78% of your propellant from Earth. Tanker flights per mission drop from 15 to about 4. Every ton produced locally frees up mass budget on the next inbound Starship for more construction equipment, food systems, and mining hardware. The base starts building the base. That’s what “self-growing” means. Compound logistics where each delivery makes the next delivery cheaper. 2027: first uncrewed Starship lunar landing. SpaceX told investors March 2027. 2028-2030: cargo buildup, 30-50 deliveries, all robotic, ISRU prototypes go operational. 2030-2032: first crews arrive, probably 6-12 people, 6-month rotations, running equipment maintenance and scaling propellant production. 2033-2035: permanent population hits 50-100, propellant depot goes up in low lunar orbit so arriving ships refuel before descent. 2035 onward: population grows past 100, agricultural modules come online, the base becomes partially self-sustaining. The unsolved problems are real. Lunar dust is electrostatically charged and sharp as broken glass. It shreds seals, clogs machinery, and embeds in lung tissue. Nobody has a long-duration fix. Radiation on the surface runs 200x Earth’s dose. Regolith shelters and water shielding help but add enormous construction overhead. The 14-day night drops temperatures to -173°C and kills all solar power, and the only flight-ready nuclear reactors produce 1-10 kW, far below what a growing base demands. What years of 1/6 gravity do to human bone density and cardiovascular systems is completely unknown. SpaceX is valued at a trillion dollars and just told investors the Moon comes first. They’re betting that proving lunar logistics at commercial cadence builds the playbook for Mars. The Moon is a 2-day test lab with a 12-day resupply cycle. Mars is a 6-month voyage with a 2.5-year wait if anything breaks. It makes sense.

@elonmusk I hope that the moon was the first step of your plan all along and skipping it was merely a diversion, because it's been so obvious despite your previous objection to it.

For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars. It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city. That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.