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@TSN_Sports I’m gonna be without two game 6s tonight due to you putting them on prime video.

The Raptors will be without Brandon Ingram in Game 6 due to right heel inflammation. The 28-year-old has posted 12.0 PTS per contest through Toronto's five playoff games. #NBAPlayoffs

@NotJeffCade @toly Solzhenitsyn would probably be disgusted by Toly’s lies, crypto scams, and propaganda. In a Russian novel toly would be the arrogant land owning aristocrat who lectures the common people on how to live while being completely blind to how he exploits them.

Gm, What's your level of crazy?

@MacroCRG Dumped his dev allocation on retail investors at the top and cashed out, now spends all day preaching about the greatness of capitalism.

SOL still looks gross tbh… can the dev do something?

@Dispropoganda You make it sound like Russia was thriving in WW1 before Lenin showed up, that’s propaganda.

"Happy" birthday to Vladimir Lenin. To those who don't know, Lenin was essentially a German asset sent to Russia with German money to destabilize it and effectively remove it from World War I. He succeeded, and his Communist Russia murdered millions of people in the process, replaced a monarchy with a dictatorship, and launched countless imperialist wars and invasions on its neighbors. He was the one who established the USSR and the Soviet penal/work/death camp system, the Gulag. Yet despite all of this he still enjoys a positive image mostly in countries which never experienced Communism or the Soviet system.

Mongaku doing penace at the Nachi waterfall, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 19th century

@beffjezos @shawmakesmagic Everyone will have their own website

Lots are touting UBI and Communism as the solution post AGI. This is the wrong solution and will set us back a century. We rather need neuro-capitalism: everyone has a unique model they own / control that is an extension of their cognition / self.

@JMGreerWriter In the same way, “conservative” turns into let the rich engineer the future dystopia without restriction.

Every political movement turns into its opposite, given enough time. Since “progressive” just means “chasing whatever vision of the future is fashionable this week,” the progressive movement is even more vulnerable to that than most.

@GENIC0N In AI the slave masters realize their dream of the perfect slave and perfect overseer.

people who hate AI love human slavery

@lukeburgis Thiel is invested in Anthropic

There is a pontificate which says "dialogue, dialogue, dialogue, don't be afraid" for 12 years, and then when one of the smartest entrepreneurs and investors of the past half century comes to Rome to talk theology and technology, he is shunned—and a Gates-funded Franciscan pens an article with the word 'heretic' an allusion to burning people at the stake in the title. Meanwhile, the cult leader of Anthropic prowls throughout the world preaching "peace and safety", and the media is totally seduced by it.

@toly @MastrXYZ A capitalist would love to inflate the value of the shitcoins he minted out of thin air with as much hype and lies as possible, sell them to you at the highest possible price, and leave you holding worthless vapor.

A capitalist would love to lower the cost of building a home and delivering a steel pool and water to that home to the point that it is profitable when sold to even a painter or a poet. A socialist wants to promise affordability and jobs. But here is the conundrum, without automation that depresses wages the cost to build the home and the pool requires more labor than the value of the poem or the paintings. So best they can do is promise this and give everyone a $25k home credit or some other subsidy. They can do this because the money is free to create, it takes no effort for the government to print $25k. Without net new homes built, that just means everyone’s purchasing power is now $25k lower.

From me. Something about me. I will never reveal that much about myself again. I am sitting in a T shirt in my garden. The children are playing on the trampoline. The robotic lawn mower keeps the grass short. My partner is planting things we will eat in a few weeks. The cats are chasing butterflies, and the neighbour is washing his car. It is 1 of those moments that cuts through all the noise and reminds you what matters. 1 of those rare, quiet moments where you are simply grateful to be yourself. Grateful to be here. Proud, not in the loud and childish way this world teaches people to perform pride, but in the silent way that comes from knowing you have carried your life through storms and still managed to build something gentle inside a brutal age. It is beautiful. Life is beautiful. I do not have a Lambo. The pool is a cheap above ground steel wall pool. That is fine. I do not need more. In fact, 1 of the greatest lies modern society ever sold us is that peace must look expensive before it counts. That fulfilment must come with spectacle. That success has to be photographed, advertised, envied, and priced by strangers before it becomes real. We live in a civilisation that has confused display with substance, attention with love, money with worth, and constant stimulation with meaning. It is a sick society in many ways. Not only because of greed, but because it has turned greed into a virtue and emptiness into an aspiration. People are taught to measure a life by visible excess. By the car, the watch, the number on the screen, the status symbol, the image, the followers, the applause of people who would not care if you disappeared tomorrow. Entire generations are being raised inside a machine that tells them to want more without ever asking why they want it, or what it is doing to them. Everything has become performance. Even pain is curated. Even morality is marketed. Even rebellion is monetised and sold back as a lifestyle product. And yet none of that has anything to do with what makes a life worth living. A quiet garden can be wealth. Children laughing can be wealth. Food growing in the soil can be wealth. A body that lets you sit in the sun for 20 minutes without pain can be wealth. A partner beside you can be wealth. A normal day can be wealth. That is the kind of wealth many people are too lost to recognise, because they have been trained to chase symbols instead of substance. 7 years ago, I was not even sure whether I would still be able to walk properly. I developed an autoimmune disease, and since then my body has reminded me every single day that I cannot do everything. And yes, I mean that very seriously. It came after I had to have a tumor removed that was causing me extreme pain. It has taught me, sometimes gently and sometimes brutally, that human beings are not machines. That willpower is real, but not infinite. That ambition means nothing if the body carrying it begins to revolt. That health is not a side detail in life. It is the invisible foundation beneath almost every dream. And yes, since getting ill, I have also been struggling financially, because I never thought something like that would hit me. I was always smart. I was always early. I somehow always knew how to manage things. Everything came easily until I could no longer do what I had invested myself in. I had the luck of living in a country where you do not fall into debt the moment fate turns against you. In a country where it still matters that society can carry you when your luck runs out. That too is part of what makes life beautiful. Not only private happiness, but a society that has not completely forgotten what solidarity means. People who have never had their body betray them often speak about life as if everything is available to anyone who just wants it enough. That is another modern delusion. It is the religion of the untouched, the comfortable, the untested. The untested. It is easy to worship limitless potential when your own limits have never sat you down and looked you in the eye. Illness strips away illusions. It humiliates fantasies of control. It forces you into a conversation with reality that many spend their whole lives trying to avoid. You begin to understand that existence is not a conquest. It is a temporary permission. You are not guaranteed strength tomorrow. You are not guaranteed energy tomorrow. You are not guaranteed mobility tomorrow. And once you truly understand that, many things that society told you to worship start to look absurd. You stop admiring certain people. You stop envying certain lifestyles. You stop confusing noise for depth. You begin to see how much of modern culture is built by people who are spiritually starving while materially overfed. People with no inner ground, compensating with endless outer accumulation. People who cannot sit still, because silence would reveal the poverty inside. People who need to dominate every room because they have no real authority over themselves. People who collect things because they cannot collect peace. People who seek admiration because they do not possess self respect. That is why so much of the world feels insane now. Not because humans suddenly became evil, but because too many have been detached from reality for too long. From the body. From nature. From time. From community. From death. From genuine limits. From the simple truth that life is not an infinite marketplace of self invention, but a fragile and finite experience that can end, change, weaken, or narrow far faster than the culture of endless consumption wants to admit. There is something profoundly sane about wanting less. Not less meaning, but less illusion. Not less beauty, but less vanity. Not less ambition, but less false ambition. Not less life, but less performance. I do not need a luxury fantasy to validate my existence. I do not need my peace to impress anyone. I do not need a symbol of success that strangers were trained to clap for. I have seen enough, and endured enough, to know that being able to sit here like this, in a simple shirt, in a simple garden, watching life unfold around me, is already a privilege far greater than many of the things this civilisation worships. Because this is real. This cannot be faked. This cannot be bought in the way people think. This is what remains when the noise falls away. Maybe that is what maturity really is. Not becoming colder. Not becoming richer. Not becoming harder. But becoming less hypnotised by nonsense. And maybe true success is simply this: to have gone through enough pain to understand what matters, and still to remain soft enough to enjoy it when it appears. So yes, the pool is cheap. There is no Lambo. There is no palace. There is no theatre of luxury. And yes, I hope tomorrow will also be a good day. I hope my financial situation will recover. But I have learned that hard work in both Web2 and Web3 is rarely rewarded the way people like to pretend. I was fortunate enough to be diligent early on and to build a broad education in psychology, computer science, law, and future technologies. I was hungry. That is my insurance for my children. And that is how I keep pushing through. I always meant well. I wanted good things. I still do. But very little comes back. That is why I have to fight even harder in real life. Still, there is breath. There is sunlight. There is family. There is movement. There is food growing from the earth. There is laughter. There is a self I can still live with. For me, that is enough. More than enough, even if it is not always easy. That is a life.

@DrNickA Crypto demonstrates that capitalism rewards the most ruthless and dishonest scammers and builds a society where the most capable dedicate all their efforts to deceiving and defrauding others by selling them dreams and worthless vapor.

“The system” is at least 10X more unhinged and incompetent since crypto began. In fact, it’s positioning for max social credit dystopia. We need some animal spirit, or it’s the farm, for all of us. MOOOOOO.

@ZssBecker @RazzilDarkbrew5 Requiring the strongest and most successful members of society to contribute slightly more of their immense wealth to the general welfare, just the thought of it must be pure torment for their noble souls.

This iconic Japanese sculpture from the Heian period depicts the 5th Century AD, Chinese monk Baozhi. It is carved from a single block of wood.  The sculpture shows Baozhi with the face of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara emerging from his forehead, symbolizing his spiritual awakening.  Osaka Museum #drthehistories

@SamoBurja Worse still, the anti fraud campaign is led by a man who’s companies receive billions in government contracts, who donates 100 million to a specific candidate, and in exchange receives his own shadow govt department with power to purge anyone with oversight of his businesses.

The modern United States routinely sees measures like trillion dollar infrastructure bills where no one can point to a single bridge built. Since this theft has political cover, this makes the country at least partially, a kleptocracy.

@shagbark_hick Upstate Washington, upstate Montanta, you think they are that different?

I wonder if some of the negative views Canadians tend to have of the USA come from the fact that the first bit of America they see as they cross the border is often Upstate NY. Imagine being from a tidy suburb of Ottawa and then driving through Ogdensburg NY... You'd think that the USA was kind of raw and barbaric; like vast portions of its land area had been abandoned and left to go to seed. Couple that with the CBC bagging on Trump, acting like he's some kind of evil dictator, talking like we have daily school shootings, etc -- and I'd be a lot of Canadians shudder at what it seems like we're doing down here. It's not the genuine reality of what America is at all, it's an edge case, but I'd bet it makes a lot of Canadians do a heel turn, cross back over the border, breathe a sigh of relief.

@Outlaw_Memes @shagbark_hick Only one of these drives I haven’t done is Sask to Wyoming, every other crossing the towns immediately get more dilapidated in America. The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington is impressive but most Americans are now so brainwashed they would call building it communism.

@shagbark_hick Alberta and Montana. Saskatchewan and Wyoming. BC and Idaho. These kind of destroy your argument. The sad fact is, most Canadians, and I indeed mean most, are very stubborn communists that think they are traditional conservatives. They're so confused, it's bad.

@antoniogm High agency, they didn’t just sit around introspecting. If you don’t like something you can just do things.

The modern cutesy definition of Luddite as 'some boomer who can't figure out their laptop' forgets the original definition: early 19th-century terrorists who revolted against industrialization, and that the British had to suppress with deployed troops and executions.

I am a Web3 Ambassador at World Liberty Financial. There are 12 of us on the team page. 4 are named Trump. 3 are named Witkoff. The page calls us "the passionate minds shaping the future of finance." 600,000 wallets bought our memecoin. They lost $3.87 billion. The family collected $350 million in trading fees. It launched 3 days before the inauguration. 80% of the supply went to CIC Digital LLC and Fight Fight Fight LLC. I did not choose the names. I designed the allocation, the vesting, the timing, and the distance between the product and the President. The distance is my best work. I am the reason these events are unrelated. World Liberty Financial sends 75 cents of every dollar to DT Marks DEFI LLC. That is the family entity. Zero capital contributed. Zero liability assumed. I wrote this into the Gold Paper. Page 14. The lawyers bound it in white leather. The binding cost more than the due diligence. Justin Sun invested $75 million. He was facing SEC fraud charges. The SEC dropped the case. He is now our advisor. These events are unrelated. Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to federal money laundering violations. He received a presidential pardon. The SEC dropped its lawsuit against his exchange the same week we listed our stablecoin. Then the exchange settled a $2 billion deal entirely in that stablecoin. These events are unrelated. Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, and Samuel Reed of BitMEX pleaded guilty to Bank Secrecy Act violations. All 3 received presidential pardons. Then the company itself was pardoned. $100 million in fines. Gone. An American first. These events are unrelated. Sheikh Tahnoun of Abu Dhabi paid $500 million for a 49% stake that was never publicly disclosed. Then the administration approved semiconductor exports to his companies over national security objections. These events are unrelated. Everything is unrelated. I track the unrelatedness on a dashboard I built. The dashboard has 7 columns now. I am proud of the dashboard. On May 22nd, 220 people paid a combined $148 million to eat dinner with the America First president. Over half were foreign nationals. Justin Sun paid $18.5 million for the first seat. He visited the Executive Office Building the day before. I designed the seating chart. I put it on the Investor Confidence page. That page is doing well. The team page lists 3 Witkoffs. All 3 are Co-Founders. Steven Witkoff is the President's Middle East envoy. He testified as a character witness at the President's fraud trial. His son Zach runs the crypto operation. His son Alex is also a Co-Founder. I have not been told what Alex co-founded. The father runs the diplomacy. The sons run the platform. The family runs both. That is organizational efficiency. Barron is 19. His title is Web3 Ambassador. The same as mine. Donald Jr. called the conflicts of interest "complete nonsense." Eric launched a Bitcoin mining company called American Bitcoin. America First. The mining partner is Hut 8. Hut 8 was founded in Canada. America First means the name. On March 6th, the President signed Executive Order 14233 creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. The order directs the government to hold Bitcoin. The President's family holds billions in Bitcoin. The executive order appreciates the President's assets by presidential decree. I did not write the executive order. I made sure it looked unrelated to the portfolio. Trump Media put $2 billion of Bitcoin on its balance sheet. The ticker symbol is DJT. His initials. The press secretary said it is absurd to insinuate the President profits off the presidency. Forbes calculated his crypto holdings exceed the combined value of Mar-a-Lago and Trump Tower. I would call that absurd too. That is my job. 600,000 wallets bought in. 1 of them asked why she could not withdraw her funds. I told her the protocol was experiencing dynamic market conditions. She asked what that meant. I sent her the Gold Paper. She said she had read the Gold Paper. I muted her channel. Dynamic means the conditions change. The condition that changed was her access. A congressman called us the world's most corrupt crypto startup operation. We put it on a coffee mug. Ironic merchandise. $45. The revenue split on the mug is also 75/25. My own tokens vest on a different schedule. I wrote that schedule. That is not in the Gold Paper. The memecoin funds the family. The family funds the platform. The platform funds the stablecoin. The stablecoin funds the deals. The deals require the pardons. The pardons free the partners. The partners fund the platform. The President signs the executive orders. The executive orders inflate the assets. The assets fund the family. I am the reason these events are unrelated.

@Innerdevcrypto @KevinWSHPod Rule by globalist oligarch merchants with no loyalty whatsoever to the countries they operate in who extract as much as possible from every country and hide it in offshore accounts and crypto, and preach money worship as the highest good with them as gods.

mass illegal immigration & open borders + dumb unrealistic left wing politcians + total media indoctrination, again on the left + EU superstate imposing insane bureaucratic rules + no hard consequences for criminals + most smart people leaving + glorification of weakness through woke + erosion of family-unit as most important could go on with this list...but we all know it

Europe is awesome in summer but working a coffee shop and having to deal every 10 minute with a different thief that comes and seats down nearby to try to steal your wallet or phone is kinda messed up What happened to our beautiful continent?