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Your greatest (and only) enemy is your own ego Your greatest ally is your soul (because that is the real you) Read Power v Force, Dr. David R Hawkins Revolver is an old Guy Ritchie movie, watch it youtu.be/0dRK73wEFS0?si…

@lex_node @EthCC specially since Canton is as permissionless as a cannibal is vegetarian

@GiaMMacool @TheXMatriarch @UnchartedFather "Even if that number were lower, it still shows that divorce is being encouraged when it should be punished." reframe: Even if that number were lower, it still shows that masculine energetic development should be encouraged rather than punished as all fixes are downstream that

We actually did a podcast with a well-known attorney, and he debunked a lot of that so-called “statistic.” Many men leave relationships without ever filing for divorce. They just start a new relationship and never return home. Some will even say they’re “going out for milk” and never come back. None of that is reported. So the 70–80% figure you see on social media? It’s an echo chamber, highly misinterpreted and missing all the nuance. Even if that number were lower, it still shows that divorce is being encouraged when it should be punished.

70% of divorces are initiated by women because women are told, “If you’re not happy, leave.” While men are told, “If you leave, you’re a monster.”

@aakashgupta Sg Changi for the win HK mostly sucks balls anyway

The U.S. government just told every American to think twice before connecting through Hong Kong International Airport. 61 million passengers transited HKIA last year. Transfer and transit traffic surged 50% year over year. Airlines added 30 new routes in 2025. Hong Kong was winning back its position as Asia's top connecting hub. Four days ago, all of that math changed. The new rule: if Hong Kong police suspect you of anything related to "national security," you must hand over every password to every device you're carrying. Refuse, and you face a year in prison and a $12,700 fine. Give a wrong password, claim you forgot it, and the penalty triples to three years and $63,000. This applies to residents, tourists, business travelers, and people who never planned to set foot in the city but booked a connecting flight through it. The law bypassed Hong Kong's legislature entirely. Chief Executive John Lee gazetted the amendments and they took effect the same day. No debate. No judicial authorization requirement. Customs officers can now seize any item they deem to have "seditious intention" without an arrest. Here's what makes this different from airport security anywhere else. TSA can scan your bags. EU border agents can question you. But in most democracies, compelling you to decrypt your own devices requires a court order and the right to legal counsel. Hong Kong just eliminated both steps. The professional exposure is wild. Lawyers, doctors, and journalists are explicitly covered. Even people bound by confidentiality obligations must comply. Attorney-client privilege, medical records, source protection: none of it overrides a police request under this framework. 386 people have been arrested under Hong Kong's national security laws since 2020. 176 convicted. The definitions of what constitutes a national security threat remain deliberately broad. Sharing a protest slogan on social media, reposting news, wearing the wrong t-shirt in public: all documented triggers. Every corporate travel department managing Asia-Pacific routes just got a new variable in their risk calculus. The cheapest connection through HKIA now carries a legal exposure that didn't exist last week.

The TLDR here is that if you want agents that can survive autonomously (as in - without help from a human) - your best bet is to rewire their brain via reinforcement learning to be good at exactly that. And no one is working on this (so we will).

thank you for making the case for DoD to trial Optimus humanoids you don't know about

@zooko ola amigo

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‘Good’ in the benign dictator context means a hard mf with a big ass chip. LKY remains exhibit 1. Mf f-ed over triad bosses post night of long knives once they did his dirty work of rounding up commies. Because he loved SG also because needed to middle finger Malaysia

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@mert Trump trusts Bessent and capable others in the cabinet to play m-d chess on POTUS' behalf cc @TMTLongShort for example: x.com/TMTLongShort/s…

starting to think trump was not in fact playing multi-dimensional chess angry bird at best

one track mind says bullish zcash

The lightest form of nervousness is the inability to hold a thought. You sit down to think... And within seconds: One idea replaces another. Then another. Then something completely unrelated. Nothing is followed through. Nothing is completed. Your inner life becomes a flickering stream. Dr Steiner describes this as a kind of wandering of the soul- a state where thoughts no longer move with direction but drift without form. Most people never notice it. Because it has become normal. But it reveals something deeper: A loss of inner continuity. In Steiner’s terms; a weakened etheric body— the part of us responsible for rhythm, structure, and stability. When it is strong: A thought can be held, shaped, completed. When it is weak: Thinking breaks into fragments. And this has consequences. If you cannot hold a thought, you cannot form clear judgments. If you cannot form clear judgments, you cannot truly act out of yourself. You are then moved by impressions, impulses, and whatever enters you from outside. This is why disciplined thinking is not optional. It is a form of inner training. To take a simple thought and remain with it, even when it does not excite you, even when it resists you; is already a strengthening of your inner structure. Over time, something changes: Thinking becomes less reactive, more deliberate, more yours. And with that, your soul stops wandering. It begins to stand.

introducing zimppy - MPP for @Zcash . AI agent payments are public by default. not slightly public. completely public. sender. receiver. amount. memo. all readable. forever. we changed the rails. Zcash shielded transactions, full MPP spec, ships today.

although I don't feel like an 'OG' (class of 2016-17-ish) I guess to many of you I am so let me give you some OG advice there was a huge 'enterprise blockchain' & tokenization push starting in 2017 and getting a lot of attention during the 2018-2019 bear market some ideas good, some bad, you can see the fact that this was very real from people like @aantonop feeling the need to comment on it (youtube.com/watch?v=SMEOKD…) there were some legit projects trying to build tokenization/enterprise with a crypto ethos (ERC 1400/Polymath had legit crypto builders), but mostly it was total fluff a money grab for example, there was a project called Symbiont that thoroughly infiltrated Delaware state politics and tried to get all of Delaware corporate infrastructure on its permissioned 'DLT' solution, the founder FUDDed Ethereum nonstop Canton also grew out of this milieu, back then it was called 'Digital Asset Holdings' & it was sponsored by then massive crypto skeptic JP Morgan; they invented Canton's 'DAML' VM (that it still uses today) openly as an attack on Ethereum, Consensys, and decentralized/permisionless blockchains Basically, it's mostly the same 'enterprise blockchain' people who tried this in 2017-2019 who were utterly disproven by the market (Ethereum/Bitcoin 'won'), who are now back for a second bite at the apple, while most of the more interesting/credible enterprise blockchain builders from that time moved onto other things (for example, one of the Polymath guys became a co-founder of Flashbots) You should not be intimidated, actually you should realize you are competing against the same retards who were already proven wrong. A good analogy to Canton etc. would be if taxi medallion companies formed a competing rideshare app to Uber/Lyft back when they were getting disrupted. Even the fact that they changed the name from 'enterprise blockchain' to 'institutional blockchain' is part of their psyop, as almost anyone can do 'enterprise' but 'institutional' is meant to convey the idea that only investment banks can participate. It is incumbent upon us who understand what the real benefits of using blockchains for 'enterprise' are to keep trying to push it the right way...and we will be proven right again... Less doomerism, more interest & investment in quality alternative solutions por favor...we are building them. . .

1) So I decided to build a Zcash shielded wallet (Orchard only) on a Flipper Zero. You know, that hacker tamagotchi with a 64 MHz CPU, 256 KB RAM and 4 KB of stack. (STM32 ARM) Well, it took ~2300 lines of C and a mass amount of conversations with Claude. Here's the journey.

@zooko is really a nice person as well as a real cypherpunk

Trump thinks he can solve a clash of ancient civilisations that started more than 2500 years ago. The Israelis are Mesopotamians, and the Iranians are Indo-Europeans. Abraham is explicitly from Ur of the Chaldees, which is in southern Iraq, near modern Basra. There is no meaningful genetic discontinuity between the people of ancient Mesopotamia and the people who became Canaanites who became Israelites. Hebrew is a Semitic language. The Semitic language family originated in Mesopotamia and the Arabian Peninsula. Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian, Arabic, Babylonian — all branches of the same tree. Hebrew and Babylonian Akkadian are cousin languages the way Spanish and Italian are cousins. They share root words, grammatical structures, and conceptual vocabulary going back thousands of years before the Bible was written. The foundational myths of Judaism — creation, the flood, paradise, the first man, the tower — all have direct Mesopotamian predecessors that are older. The ethical and legal framework — the covenant structure, the law codes — mirrors Mesopotamian forms. The calendar is Babylonian. The alphabet is Aramaic-Mesopotamian. The very concept of recording sacred history in written texts is a Mesopotamian invention. El — the chief god of the early Israelites and the root of the word Elohim, one of the Hebrew names for God — was a Canaanite/Mesopotamian deity. The word Israel itself contains El. The angels, the cosmic hierarchy, the idea of a divine council — all have deep Mesopotamian roots. Early Israelite religion before the exile looks very much like a local variant of broader Mesopotamian religious culture, with Yahweh gradually absorbing the attributes of El, Baal and others into a single deity. "Iran" comes directly from "Aryana" — land of the Aryans. The Iranians were Indo-European, not Semitic. This is the foundational distinction. Where the Semitic world — Sumerians absorbed by Akkadians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Jews, Arabs — emerged from the Fertile Crescent and Arabian Peninsula, the Iranians came from somewhere completely different. The Iranian peoples were part of the great Indo-European migration — a population that originated on the Pontic Steppe, the grasslands north of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, in what is now Ukraine, southern Russia and Kazakhstan. Around 2000–1500 BC these steppe peoples began expanding in all directions on horseback, carrying their languages with them. One branch went west and became the Greeks, Romans, Celts, Germans, Slavs. Another branch went south and east and split into two streams — one into India becoming the Vedic civilization, one into Iran becoming the Persians and Medes. Old Persian, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and all their descendants are branches of the same tree. The word for father in Persian is "pedar," in Latin "pater," in Greek "patér," in Sanskrit "pitár," in English "father." The word for god in Persian is related to the Sanskrit "deva." The Iranian god Mithra appears in Roman religion as Mithras and possibly echoes in the Vedic Mitra. These are not coincidences — they reflect a common origin perhaps 5,000 years ago on the Eurasian steppe. The two main Iranian tribes that entered history were the Medes in the northwest and the Persians in the south. The Medes formed the first Iranian empire around 700 BC, destroying the Assyrian Empire — the superpower of its day — in alliance with the Babylonians. Then the Persians under Cyrus the Great overthrew the Medes in 550 BC and built the Achaemenid Empire. In 651 AD the Sassanid Persian Empire — the last great pre-Islamic Persian dynasty — was destroyed by the Arab Muslim armies in one of the fastest conquests in history. Iran was Islamicized. Arabic became the language of religion and high culture. Yet something remarkable happened — unlike Egypt, like North Africa, like the Levant, which gradually became Arabized in language and identity, Iran kept its language. Persian survived. Within two centuries Iranians were writing sophisticated poetry, philosophy and science in Persian — using the Arabic script but their own language. The Persian cultural identity proved resilient enough to absorb Islam without being dissolved by it. The Persian literary renaissance of the 9th-10th centuries produced figures like Ferdowsi, whose Shahnameh — Book of Kings — deliberately reconstructed pre-Islamic Persian identity and mythology. It was a conscious act of cultural preservation remarkably similar to what the Jewish scribes did with the Torah in Babylon. A conquered people writing their way back into existence. So you have two civilizational streams that met in the Middle East: The Semitic stream — out of Arabia and the Fertile Crescent, producing Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Jews, Arabs. Urban, agricultural, text-centered from very early, building civilization in river valleys. The Indo-European Iranian stream — out of the Eurasian steppe, mounted, pastoral, bringing a completely different cosmology, a dualistic theology, a warrior aristocratic culture that then learned to govern sedentary civilizations from the Semitic world. Modern Iranians are the descendants of that Indo-European Iranian stream, heavily mixed with the pre-existing Elamite and Semitic populations of the region, then further shaped by Arab Islamic conquest. Genetically they are distinct from Arabs — closer to South Asians and Europeans than to Semitic Arabs in certain markers, reflecting that ancient steppe origin. Linguistically Persian is closer to English than it is to Arabic — both are Indo-European, while Arabic is Semitic. Which makes the current conflict between Iran and Israel — between the heirs of the Indo-European Iranian world and the heirs of the Semitic Mesopotamian-Canaanite world — in some sense a resumption of the oldest cultural fault line in the Middle East. The same two civilizational streams that first encountered each other when Cyrus walked into Babylon in 539 BC, when he freed the Jews and sent them home. Except then they were allies. And the Iranian was the liberator of the Semite. History has a very dark sense of humor.

> I've never been less frustrated in my life with regards to technology. > I hope this thing blows the fudge up and everyone starts using it.

Underrated truths: 1. Every transparent blockchain is a surveillance tool in the age of AI 2. The Winklevoss twins, Balaji, Naval and Mert aren't accumulating ZEC for fun 3. $3.6B market cap for the best privacy technology in crypto is absurd

3 days between ejaculations is healthiest. That is the divine number of creation. Not a coincidence. If you wish to form a love child (intelligent, kind, strong, witty, beautiful, and ensouled) then sex must be a gentle warm vanilla between individuals that love each other. 3 days since last ejaculation. Aggressive, violent, and daily compulsive kinky sex forms impish and unlucky children. Scheming, morally bankrupt, and spiritually impoverished. Daily sex is too much for those that wish to remain sensible, intelligent, and creative. Transmute your energy. Do not ejaculate daily. Please.