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The work/save/retire playbook is dead. Switch from earning to owning. https://t.co/WoCwOiiuzH https://t.co/qYZrkAjsvv https://t.co/DB8tjAWFot
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@klos @BretVDB It's required reading in high school. But I see your point jjq.utulsa.edu/posts/reading-…
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Virginia Woolf’s diary entries on James Joyce’s Ulysses:
“An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me; the book of a self taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating. …
I finished ‘Ulysses’ and think it is a misfire. Genius it has, I think; but of the inferior water. The book is diffuse. It is brackish. It is pretentious. It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense. A first-rate writer, I mean, respects writing too much to be tricky; startling; doing stunts.”


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The origin of "power nap"
Wisdom@Wisdom_HQ
Power workers’ “nap time” No safety net. Just duty.
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Of course, it's bizarre. It's full of progressives.
klos@klos
@habibihashir Linkedin is a bizarre place.
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And yet , as a consumer , we see no benefit.
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
The past year has seen an explosion in coding productivity, per FT:
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@PrimeLineAI You can do both: use Deltabadger features, or use it as connector to exchanges, and do all type of things.
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MCP replacing dashboards is a pattern that keeps proving out. once you can talk to your tools directly, dedicated UIs become maintenance overhead for the common operations.
the split that worked for me: keep MCP tools focused on data retrieval and execution, let the model handle strategy and reasoning. tried bundling too much logic into MCP early on and it made debugging opaque.
does deltabadger's MCP handle the DCA strategy itself, or does Claude decide the timing/amount and the server just executes?
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@SeverusChud Have you even read the book? Fremen were inspired by nomadic Arabs in every way. Usul, fedaykin, mahdi - those are all words with Arabic origin.
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I'm sorry, but this is the most ridiculous shit ever. Race swapping Chani has killed all immersion in Dune. Arrakis and the Fremen were never written as a melting pot.
Frank Herbert gave them clear ethnic logic. Changing Chani’s heritage breaks the story, the Fremen culture, and internal world consistency.
You destroyed that world when you chose tokenism over storytelling. Dune deserved a better adaptation.


DUNE@dunemovie
Experience the epic conclusion. Dune: Part Three only in theaters and IMAX December 18. #DuneMovie #FilmedforIMAX
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@inthepixels There so many meaningful words to say on the topic, and we get a soulless AI slop instead. Guys, don't outsource your thinking.

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The Cognitive Cost of Bitcoin: Andreas Antonopoulos and the Hidden Toll of Early Crypto Evangelism
In the nascent years of Bitcoin, few figures were more instrumental in bridging the gap between esoteric code and public understanding than Andreas M. Antonopoulos. Through his seminal book Mastering Bitcoin, hundreds of global lectures, and tireless explanations of cryptography, distributed systems, and revolutionary monetary theory, he became the ecosystem’s most trusted “interpreter.” He translated dense technical concepts into accessible education for millions, helping transform Bitcoin from a niche cryptographic curiosity into a global movement.
Yet behind this intellectual legacy lies a profoundly human story of obsession, endurance, and neurological cost. Antonopoulos has described his first deep encounter with Bitcoin in vivid terms: stumbling upon it initially in mid-2011 with a dismissive “Pfft! Nerd money!” reaction, he ignored it for six months. The second time, via a mailing list discussion, he read Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper and experienced an immediate epiphany—“this isn’t money, it’s a decentralized trust network.”
What followed was a four-month fugue state of total immersion. He read, wrote, and coded for 12 or more hours a day, forgetting to eat or sleep. He lost 26 pounds in the process, later jokingly calling it “the Bitcoin diet” while cautioning others not to follow his example. This all-consuming obsession marked the beginning of his role as educator and advocate—and planted the seeds for the cognitive and physical toll that would later manifest.
In recent years, Antonopoulos has spoken candidly about suffering from debilitating migraines that have severely curtailed his ability to produce new content, update his books, or continue livestreams. He recently announced he would stop producing new material to focus on his health, having tried nearly every available treatment without full resolution. His experience illuminates a rarely discussed reality of technological revolutions: the extreme neurological pressures placed upon the pioneers who carry the vision forward.
A Perfect Storm: From Obsession to Central Sensitization
The early Bitcoin environment was an unusually potent incubator for migraine triggers. For a polymath like Antonopoulos, the risks were multiplicative. Deep mastery demanded simultaneous engagement with cryptography, economics, security, and game theory—an intensity of cognitive load that can overstimulate the trigeminal nerve system, a key pathway in migraine pathogenesis.
This mental marathon was compounded by relentless physical triggers. Early advocates lived in digital “garrisons,” auditing code and engaging in 24/7 global forums. Blue light disrupted circadian rhythms; computer vision syndrome bred neck tension; LED flicker sensitivity acted like a strobe on a vulnerable brain. Bitcoin never sleeps, and in those formative years, neither could many of its human interpreters. The result was chronic circadian destabilization—perpetual jet lag without travel—which destabilizes the hypothalamus, the brain’s command center for both sleep-wake cycles and migraine initiation.
Antonopoulos’s initial four-month obsession exemplified this pattern: total immersion at the expense of basic self-care. Over years of sustained high-stress “arousal” states, the brain can undergo central sensitization. Episodic migraines evolve into a chronic condition where the nervous system becomes hyper-reactive. Pain signals become a learned default response, such that even minor stimuli provoke debilitating attacks.
The Irony of the Human Layer
There is a poignant irony at the heart of the story. Bitcoin was designed as a decentralized system promising individual sovereignty and freedom from centralized points of failure. Yet birthing and explaining this vision relied heavily on a small number of centralized human figures who served as the vital “human layer.”

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