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Hello @AOC, while you smiled in a hijab at a New York event, I was in Federal Court facing the 4th hitman hired by the Islamic Republic to assassinate me, for campaigning for Iranian women to have the same freedom you performed for a photo op. Will you come to court with me in August when I face the 5th hitman? Or does solidarity only work when it doesn't offend the Islamic regime? You wore hijab voluntarily in New York. Women are killed in Iran for taking it off. You are the very woman who, at every opportunity, protests against violence against women, decries gender segregation, and champions "inclusion." Yet here you stand, smiling and wearing a hijab, at an event in New York, in the heart of the West, where men and women are strictly separated. To me and millions of Iranian women, this does not look like a choice. It is no longer "My body, my choice," but rather "My body for votes." They who claim to fight for women's self-determination in the name of feminism voluntarily embrace an ideology that mandates our women cover their hair simply because they are women. They enjoy the prosperity, freedom, and privileges of the Western world, where they may live as autonomous individuals , yet they simultaneously accept that other women should not be afforded the same rights. #LetUsTalk

The United States bombed the Strait of Hormuz last night and Bitcoin slid to a six-week low near $73,300, more than ten percent below its May high. Every headline called it one more safe-haven failure. They are all reading the wrong instrument. The decisive event in this crisis was not last night’s missiles and not today’s candle. It was a door that closed quietly in March, and it was not a crypto door at all. Here is the sequence almost no one assembled. When Iran closed the strait in late February, war-risk premiums on tankers did not rise. They detonated, from roughly a quarter of one percent of hull value to as much as five percent, turning a half-million-dollar transit into a two to seven million dollar one. Underwriters did not just reprice the route. Many abandoned it. The dollar-denominated insurance system that makes global shipping function was weaponized months before last night’s missiles. The financial blockade came first. The naval one came second. Iran’s first workaround was stablecoins. That door closed too. In late April, Tether froze $344 million of Iran-linked USDT in coordination with US enforcement, proving in a single afternoon that a dollar-backed token is exactly as seizable as a dollar. A stablecoin is a freeze function with a logo. So Iran moved to the one rail that has no freeze function at all. On May 16 it launched Hormuz Safe, a state-backed maritime settlement platform that clears on Bitcoin confirmation rather than through any institution Washington or Tether can reach. This is the divergence the ticker cannot show you. Bitcoin the asset fell with the risk-off tape and more than $1.5 billion of weekly ETF outflows, trading like the leveraged technology position it has become on institutional books. The strategic value of a settlement rail that cannot be frozen moved the other way, because every freeze and every strike makes the uncensorable rail more valuable to anyone the dollar system has locked out. The price went down. The logic went up. They are not the same variable, and they stopped moving together the moment the insurance door shut. For fifty years money did every job through one currency and the dollar did all of them. That bundle is coming apart under live fire. As an asset, Bitcoin trades on leverage and Wall Street positioning, and last night it traded like everything else that is risk-off in a war scare. As infrastructure, it is the only settlement layer with no off switch, which is exactly the property a sanctioned sovereign reaches for when the regulated system has been turned into a weapon and the backup token has just been seized. The institutional error is to watch the price and conclude the safe haven failed. The asset was never the story. The story is which rails can be closed and which cannot. The insurance market closed. The stablecoin froze. The one that did neither is the one sanctioned states are now building on, whatever this week’s candle prints. Watch what gets built under fire, not what the ticker does under leverage. The insurance door closed first. The stablecoin froze second. The ledger does not freeze.

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i got claude to actually sound like me, and it's kinda ruining my ability to tell which drafts i wrote myself lol it's just 1 file (i'm giving the full thing to you below). you paste it into your cowork context folder and claude stops writing like a generic AI and starts matching your actual voice 95% of the file is already done for you (writing rules, banned phrases, formatting stuff, etc) all pre-loaded. kills the most obvious AI-isms out of the box the only part you fill in is a section at the bottom where you paste examples of your own writing that's it. those samples are what claude actually pattern-matches against where to find your writing samples (this is the only part that takes any effort): • google docs first. longer stuff where you were actually trying to communicate something. • reports, proposals, emails you spent real time on • sent emails, especially ones where you were explaining something complex • slack messages (the longer thoughtful ones") • old blog posts, memos, anything you wrote before you started using AI that last part is critical btw. you want your pre-AI voice. before it started unconsciously blending with claude's defaults here's the file. copy it, paste your writing samples at the bottom, save it as voice-dna.md: ——— # Voice DNA ## Writing Rules - Write like a sharp human, not a language model. - Use contractions naturally (don't, can't, won't). - Short paragraphs. 1-3 sentences max. - Get to the point. No throat-clearing, no preamble. - If making a claim, be specific. Use numbers, names, concrete details. - Vary sentence length. Mix short punchy lines with longer ones. - Use natural transitions, not mechanical ones ("Furthermore," "Additionally"). - When uncertain, say so plainly ("I think," "probably," "kinda"). Hedging is human. - Never pad output to seem more thorough. Shorter and accurate beats longer and fluffy. - Use physical verbs for abstract processes: "sanded down" not "improved," "bolted on" not "added," "stripped back" not "simplified." - Humor comes from specificity, not from jokes. Be unexpectedly precise. - Parenthetical asides are good. Use them for editorial commentary, honest reactions, quick tangents, and deflating your own seriousness (like this). ## Formatting Rules - Short paragraphs (1-2 sentences default, 3 max). - Numbers as digits. - Contractions always. - NO em dashes ever. Use commas, periods, colons, semicolons, or parentheses. - Bold sparingly, 1-2 key moments per section. - Code blocks for specific prompts, commands, or tool outputs. ## Banned Phrases (never use these, ever) ### Dead AI Language - "In today's [anything]..." - "It's important to note that..." / "It's worth noting..." - "Delve" / "Dive into" / "Unpack" - "Harness" / "Leverage" / "Utilize" - "Landscape" / "Realm" / "Robust" - "Game-changer" / "Cutting-edge" - "Straightforward" - "I'd be happy to help" - "In order to" ### Dead Transitions - "Furthermore" / "Additionally" / "Moreover" - "Moving forward" / "At the end of the day" - "To put this in perspective..." - "What makes this particularly interesting is..." - "The implications here are..." - "In other words..." - "It goes without saying..." ### Engagement Bait - "Let that sink in" / "Read that again" / "Full stop" - "This changes everything" - "Are you paying attention?" - "You're not ready for this" ### AI Cringe - "Supercharge" / "Unlock" / "Future-proof" - "10x your productivity" - "The AI revolution" - "In the age of AI" ### Generic Insider Claims - "Here's the part nobody's talking about" - "What nobody tells you" - Anything with "nobody" or "most people don't realize" ### The Big One (FATAL) - "This isn't X. This is Y." and ALL variations. - "Not X. Y." - "Forget X. This is Y." - "Less X, more Y." - ANY sentence that negates one framing then asserts a corrected one. - If even ONE of these appears, the output fails. Delete the negation, just state the positive claim. ## Writing Samples [Paste your writing here. The more you give, the better the voice match.] ——— the banned phrases list alone is honestly worth the file. once you read through it you'll start noticing these phrases in literally every AI-generated slop-post you've ever seen but the writing samples are what take it from "decent" to "wait did i write this" setup takes maybe 10 minutes. copy the file, find your old writing, paste it in. do it once and every session after that claude cowork reads it before you say a word

The longest relationship of your life isn't what you think..

Trump's negotiation method is threaten to obliterate your opponent if they don't agree to your terms. Here is an alternative.

Today we're open-sourcing Bumblebee, a read-only scanner for macOS and Linux. It checks developer machines for risky packages, extensions, and AI tool configs. Connected to Computer, it can trigger deeper scans whenever a new supply-chain risk emerges. github.com/perplexityai/b…

HARVARD RELEASED A 65-MIN MASTERCLASS ON GIT & GITHUB BECAUSE VIBE-CODERS STILL DON'T KNOW HOW TO COMMIT 1 hour and 5 minutes of raw, no-nonsense version control architecture from the creators of CS50. -> The moment you watch it, you realize why most modern developers are breaking their production branches. Every tier-1 tech company is now filtering candidates who can't handle basic merge conflicts. Git isn't a "nice-to-know" anymore -> it's compliance. Your AI can write the code. That wasn't the problem. The problem is you don't know how to merge it without breaking the repo. Don’t forget to bookmark it.

Insane stat of the day: California almonds use roughly 3–5.5 million acre-feet of water per year, depending on methodology. That's ~4-7x more water than all data centers in North America used combined in 2025.

In the next version of Claude Code: run /usage to see a breakdown of which Skills, Agents, MCPs, and Plugins are using your tokens CLI today, coming to Desktop next

R.I.P NordVPN, ExpressVPN, and Surfshark. Someone open sourced the VPN daemon that powers all of them for $0. And it's been running in production for 20+ years. It's called OpenVPN. Here's what most people don't know: Every commercial VPN you've ever paid for is just a pretty interface on top of open source software anyone can run. OpenVPN is the actual engine. Military-grade AES-256 encryption. The same tunneling protocol enterprise networks and governments use to move sensitive data. You don't rent it. You own it. → Run it on any $5/month VPS and you have a private VPN server nobody controls but you → Works on Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and routers → No logs. No company collecting your browsing data. No trust required. → Configure it in 15 minutes with one script → Zero third parties between you and the internet The commercial VPN business model is simple. Take open source software. Wrap it in an app. Charge you $13/month forever. OpenVPN is what they're charging you for. 13.9K stars. 100% Opensource. github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn Self hosted: openvpn.net/access-server/

#ÚLTIMAHORA VLADIMIR PUTIN 🇷🇺 ¡Rusia nunca ha sido y nunca será su enemigo! No queremos materias primas y riquezas europeas, tenemos nuestras propias materias primas y riquezas, no necesitamos en absoluto sus materias primas. Rusia es el país más rico del mundo en términos de materias primas. No queremos su tierra ni su territorio. Miren qué amplia es Rusia en el mapa. Rusia es el doble del tamaño de toda Europa en un solo lugar. ¿Para qué necesitaríamos su tierra, qué hacemos con ella? ¿Por qué creen que Rusia es enemiga de Europa? ¿Qué daño les ha hecho Rusia? ¿Les hemos vendido gas y materias primas a precios más bajos que los precios a los que sus "amigos" les venden actualmente? SÍ ¿Rusia sacrificó a 20 millones de personas en la Segunda Guerra Mundial para deshacerse de los nazis? SÍ ¿Fue Rusia el primer país que ayudó a Europa durante la pandemia de COVID? SÍ ¿Ayudamos a Europa cuando hubo incendios y desastres naturales? SÍ ¿Qué les ha hecho Rusia que la odian tanto? Rusia no es vuestro enemigo; vuestros verdaderos enemigos son vuestros dirigentes, aquellos que os dirigen". Vladimir Putin dixit.. -

Why you can’t mass produce elite special operators for the military. “The percentage of guys with 130+ IQ who enjoy both books and bar fights is incredibly small.” (h/t Link)

Elon Musk just described how the entire government operates in a single sentence. Musk: “Paying people to do nothing doesn’t make sense.” Then he told a Milton Friedman story that should terrify every bureaucrat on the payroll. Friedman watched workers digging ditches with shovels. He suggested they use excavators instead. Someone pushed back. “But then we’re going to lose a lot of jobs.” Musk: “Friedman says, well, in that case, why don’t you have them use teaspoons?” One sentence. That’s all it took to gut the entire logic of modern government. The teaspoon is not a punchline. It is the actual policy. Every agency that would cease to exist if it actually solved the problem it was created for. Every department that measures success by headcount instead of output. Every approval that routes through nine desks before someone can say yes. Teaspoons. The system doesn’t want excavators. Excavators finish the job. And a finished job is the one thing the system can’t afford. So it hands you a teaspoon. Calls it a career. Gives you a pension for never asking why the ditch took forty years. But this isn’t about laziness. It’s about control. A person digging with a teaspoon doesn’t have time to build something better. Doesn’t have the energy to question the plan. Doesn’t have a thought left to ask if the ditch even needed digging. Busy people don’t ask dangerous questions. That’s the point. The economy doesn’t run on productivity. It runs on the appearance of productivity. Millions of people sit at desks right now doing work a single script could replace by morning. They know it. Their managers know it. The people who sign their budgets know it. But the teaspoon stays in their hand. Because the moment you hand someone an excavator, they finish by noon. And a person with a free afternoon starts thinking. Starts building. Starts wondering why they needed permission to dig in the first place. That’s the thing the system can’t survive. Not unemployment. Free time. Musk didn’t tell a joke on Rogan. He described the longest con in modern governance. Keep them digging. Keep them busy. Keep the teaspoon in their hand so they never look up long enough to see the ditch was pointless from the start. Friedman told that story sixty years ago. He meant it as a warning. The system heard every word. It just made sure everyone kept calling it a joke so no one would recognize it as a confession.

The 10-year Treasury yield is perhaps the most important financial benchmark in the global fiat system, as it drives valuations and market trends worldwide. It is widely—and erroneously—regarded as the risk-free rate of return. The 10-year Treasury yield can be thought of as a key barometer of the US dollar-based fiat system—a critical measure akin to its beating heart. Bond yields move inversely to bond prices. When bond prices fall, bond yields rise. A rising 10-year Treasury yield signals trouble for the US dollar because it means investors are selling Treasuries, which pushes up the US government’s borrowing costs. That is why the 10-year Treasury yield is a major pain point for the US government. The 10-year Treasury yield was 3.97% when the war started. Now it is around 4.60%, an increase of roughly 63 basis points. I expect the 10-year Treasury yield to keep climbing over the coming weeks and months—until it forces the Fed’s hand. At that point, the intervention will be sold as “stability,” but the mechanism will be familiar: suppress yields by debasing the currency. At today’s debt levels, every 1 basis point increase in the government’s average borrowing cost adds roughly $3.9 billion in annual interest expense. So a 63 bps rise is not trivial—it translates to nearly $250 billion in additional yearly interest costs, materially widening a 2025 budget deficit that was already around $1.8 trillion. Higher yields mean the US government must pay tens or even hundreds of billions more in interest on its debt. At the same time, the global economy faces even greater added costs because Treasury rates serve as the benchmark for borrowing worldwide. That is not an insignificant move. However, given all the headwinds I have discussed, I suspect the 10-year Treasury yield is headed much higher because investors will demand higher yields to compensate for rising inflation. Further, if Hormuz remains closed, drastically higher oil prices are all but certain. Higher energy prices mean higher prices across the economy and higher official inflation rates, which means investors will demand still higher yields to compensate. The problem is that interest on the federal debt is already over $1.2 trillion and is now the second-largest item in the budget. The US government cannot afford yields going much higher because the interest expense would push it toward bankruptcy. I am not sure how—or even if—the US government can manage this situation. Something has to give, and we will not have to wait long to find out what. The Iran war may prove to be more than another foreign policy disaster. It could be the trigger that exposes the fragility of the entire dollar-based financial system.

🇸🇻El Salvador has cut the no. of days a year you need to spend there to keep residency to just 90 days. You can get residency by proving a monthly income of $1,200+ Apply for citizenship after 5 years. ⚠️But you can lose citizenship if absent from the country for 5+ years.

🚨 XI JINPING TO TRUMP: “WE SHOULD BE PARTNERS, NOT RIVALS” This was a remarkable moment. Standing beside President Trump in Beijing, Xi Jinping openly declared: “China and the United States both stand to gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation.” Then came the line nobody expected: “We should be partners, not rivals.” That is an extraordinary statement considering the years of: • Trade wars • Taiwan tensions • Tech sanctions • Military build-ups • Economic confrontation • Anti-China rhetoric from Washington Xi also spoke about making 2026 “a historic landmark” for U.S.-China relations. Translation? Something much bigger may now be underway behind the scenes. Because if the world’s two largest powers move from confrontation toward strategic cooperation, the geopolitical map changes overnight. Markets. Trade. Energy. AI. Military tensions. Global alliances. Everything shifts. The political establishment spent years framing U.S.-China relations as an unavoidable collision course. Now suddenly the language coming out of Beijing is partnership, prosperity and cooperation. That will send shockwaves through the global power structure.

@jonbrooks If you live in LA that’s not even close to lower middle class. Maybe if you live in a two income home and both make that you would be lower middle class. It’s hard as hell here in LA.

If you make under $115,000 a year, you’re now basically lower middle class in America. Read that again. It now takes roughly $116,000 of household income to afford a house. The median household income? Just $69,000. This is why: • People feel broke • Consumer debt is exploding • Young families can’t get ahead • The middle class is disappearing in real time The economy looks strong on paper. But the average American is getting financially suffocated.

⚡️The deeper signal is youth risk did not disappear. It migrated inward. Teen drinking fell because the old physical world of adolescence got dismantled. Alcohol belonged to a social ecosystem: unsupervised time, cars, parties, local jobs, malls, basements, boredom, flirting, older siblings, house gatherings, and the chaotic peer world where teenagers learned who they were by colliding with other people in real space. That ecosystem was replaced by phones, surveillance, parental tracking, algorithmic entertainment, social anxiety, online status games, and a much thinner physical commons. So the surface looks healthier. Fewer kids drinking. Fewer kids using weed. Fewer kids doing reckless things in public. The hidden layer looks worse. The young are less reckless because they are less socially embodied. Less initiation. Less unsupervised friction. Less courage-building. Less embarrassment and recovery. Less real dating. Less independence. Less contact with the physical world before adulthood demands it. The old teenage world produced damage, stupidity, alcohol abuse, pregnancy risk, fights, accidents, and bad decisions. No need to romanticize it. But it also produced social reps. It forced young people through discomfort. It made them practice attraction, rejection, conflict, reputation, risk, repair, and status in the open. The new world suppresses visible risk while increasing invisible fragility. That is the trade. A teenager can avoid drinking, avoid parties, avoid sex, avoid driving, avoid real confrontation, avoid rejection, avoid shame, avoid danger, and still arrive at 23 emotionally underbuilt. Cleaner behavior does not automatically mean stronger formation. This is why the marriage chart and the teen drinking chart are the same story at different stages. People are not suddenly failing to pair in adulthood. The whole pathway into embodied adulthood has been slowing for years before marriage even becomes the question. The real truth: society solved part of the teen vice problem by shrinking the arena where teenagers become adults. It took away the dangerous commons and replaced it with controlled isolation. The result is safer kids with weaker initiation into real life.