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@TXMCtrades Partially inflation. More accurately it is bone-deep disgust/despair/anger of trying to survive and protect one's family as omnipresent corruption, cronyism and evil win.

Literally just inflation

@naval Amazing how hard core libertarians aka @naval have zero probs w/ Orwellian ubiquitous surveillance cuz it boosts their bags. What a motherf****** shame!

Ubiquitous, streaming cameras will bring the end of privacy, petty crime, police brutality, and eventually, shame.

@NaithanJones Sincerely sorry for your loss Nait

At approximately noon central time, my mother, for those who know my best friend, passed on to be with the Lord while in my arms

@NaithanJones @mwseibel People matter. Seeing/conversing w/ the butcher + guy who spritzes the broccoli is valued. Very painful lessons about to be learned...

@mwseibel Love seeing this

These guys are doing great work:

@WhiteWhaleLabs How does a govt's ability to blacklist the wallet and/or fact the biggest BTC player by far is world's largest scam (Devasini) inform your argument?

Bitcoin was clearly invented with payments in mind. Anyone who has actually read the white paper or Satoshi’s writings can see that. Peer-to-peer electronic cash was the stated vision. A way to transact without relying on trusted third parties. And many loyal Bitcoiners still want this to be the "use case". They are missing an important truth. The market is allowed to find a better use case than the inventor originally imagined. That doesn’t make Bitcoin a failure. It makes Bitcoin one of the greatest examples in history of a product escaping its original framing. Bubble Wrap was originally invented as wallpaper. Play-Doh was originally a wallpaper cleaner. Post-it Notes came from an adhesive that was considered too weak to be useful. The microwave oven came from radar research. Some of the most successful inventions in history did not become massive because they stuck to the original vision. They became massive because the market discovered the use case it actually valued most. With Bitcoin, the market looked at peer-to-peer payments and said: “Cool. But a scarce, decentralized, seizure-resistant store of value in a world drowning in monetary debasement? That’s what we want.” Bitcoin did not lose its purpose. The market simply better defined it. Payments may still matter to some. But the dominant use case today for BTC is obvious: Bitcoin is digital scarcity. Bitcoin is monetary insurance. Bitcoin is the asset you own because you no longer trust the people holding the money printer. That is not a betrayal of Satoshi’s vision. That is the market doing what markets will always do: Finding the highest-value use case and dragging the invention there whether it was the original vision or not. 🫡 From the depths — The White Whale 🐋

If you attack another sovereign and kill their leadership on the claim that they pose an imminent threat to your people, you don't get to cry to ROW about giving peace a chance two months later while the attacked still controls a major waterway. Cuck move. Soy.

@jessegenet Loved you on jcal's pod. Sincere question: As a devoted parent how reconcile AI enthusiasm w/ horrific moral track record of the few building it?

The past 6 months of AI have certainly made me feel this way more than any other time in my adult life 💕

@FischerKing64 @naval 40 yr decline in wages, 75% welfare recipients work FULL TIME, Reagan shuttered mental health facilities. And you want more cops. Gross.

Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle could be jewels of the United States - and they were in recent memory. These cities are all beautiful in their own ways. But they’re embarrassments because of bad governance, and lax policing. These are choices.

@Jason @StephenAtHome jcal casually saying that 2.6M nightly viewers are "no one".

You lose nothing... because no one is watching late-night TV anymore. @StephenAtHome will instantly have a top 100 podcast and get 5-10x the viewership -- if he has the guts to do it he will also own 100% of his show and quickly get to 10-20m in revenue

@whynesspower distribution?

i'm doing: > aggresive sales w F50 companies > going to private night dinners with customers and pitching cold to the us govt. officials > still programming 10+ hours a day > iterations on company's vision > linkedin outreach at this point, you think i am still employable?

@TXMCtrades fyi-thx for the valuable work. you're trusted.

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.

@Jason @MartinShkreli jcal--do you remember saying on pod that u gave yammer the tc50 award/funding cuz ds's wife called you night before? i attended that conference, always thought you legit. nope!

@MartinShkreli I’ve been on a dozen of these over the decades… there are some seriously deranged individuals in the world. Proceed with caution! ⚠️

some crazy guy has been emailing schizo stuff to a large email group for a while. he the email addresses for elon, the trumps, larry page, netflix execs, ellison, zuck, gates, fink, dalio, karp, etc. i'm on this list of very important people for some reason. today, his ex-wife responded 😂😂😂

@Codie_Sanchez Have any of you used these services or missed fact that all trades have a serious zero apprentices problem? They are booked weeks out thus after 5 phone calls rate not.

One of the most overlooked AI opportunities in the next 24 months is voice agents for boring businesses. Every HVAC, plumbing, and pest control company in America is sending calls to voicemail after 5pm. One AI voice agent fixes it overnight. Most owners have never even heard of this technology, yet alone know how to implement it. The person who packages this up and sells it to 500 of them is going to be very rich...very quietly.

@tonyannett Opposite--why do you think they're all building bunkers?

This is what worries me. And the oligarchs are living in a bubble.

@TXMCtrades @BTCtreasuries con man

@BTCtreasuries His stock is down -90% who gives a shit what he has to say about Saylor lol People put this guy on a pedestal and for what

JUST IN: $XXI CEO Jack Mallers just said Saylor "ran out of people willing to give him money at 0% and now has to pay 12%." 🤯 What Mallers missed: $STRC is perpetual. The principal never gets paid back. Saylor is porting fixed income capital into Bitcoin forever. 🔶

Concerning. As I’ve said many times before, the biggest risk of AI isn’t James Cameron’s The Terminator, it’s George Orwell’s 1984.

@WestsideLAGuy lol.."elite human capital"? they are kings of corruption, insider scams etc.

If you worked at Jane Street for 10+ years, you would have made more money than most pro athletes. Absolutely stunning triumph of elite human capital.

@ZeeshanAleem Nope. Trustfunders, nepo et al. irrelevant. The papers of record in DC/NY comprised of journo's that traded integrity for "access" aka to be invited to all the cool parties.

There are of course many, many journalists from affluent family backgrounds (I would not say “trust fund kids” is commonplace). But it’s not even in the top 10 reasons the institution is struggling. The explanation for the decline of professional journalism is very clearly and causally tied to the Internet breaking media economics. And in order for this the below thesis to have explanatory power, someone would need to demonstrate that most mainstream journalism reflected broad working class interests at some point, and then it didn’t. But that’s not what happened.

@bluewmist dive bars

What is a "poor man's luxury" that you will never give up, no matter how much money you make?

@peterfenton @EricNewcomer @paulscherer Congrats Peter, you literally named 3 companies responsible for ruining the lives of millions of kids & families. This hideous digital "friend" startup right up your alley!!!

I've only felt this a handful of times in a first meeting — TheFacebook (2005), Twitter (2007), Instagram (2010), SnapChat (2011). Meeting @paulscherer hit me the same way -- wow, then inevitability