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BITCOIN DOESN'T KNEEL

BITCOIN DOESN'T KNEEL

@roguesamurai

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Nic Cruz Patane
Nic Cruz Patane@niccruzpatane·
SpaceX confirmed in their IPO filing that they still plan to offer point-to-point terrestrial travel on Earth using Starship It will enable passengers to fly anywhere in the world in about 30 minutes or less on Starship. • Los Angeles to New York: 5h 25m → 25 min • Bangkok to Dubai: 6h 25m → 27 min • Tokyo to Singapore: 7h 10m → 28 min • London to New York: 7h 55m → 29 min • New York to Paris: 7h 20m → 30 min • Sydney to Singapore: 8h 20m → 31 min Get ready, the future is wild.
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BITCOIN DOESN'T KNEEL@roguesamurai·
I'm enjoying making my way through all the miami vice episodes, completely alien, cheesy, can look at the modern world through an 80's mirror. The episode tonight had almost no crocket and tubbs, it was comedy focused. There's this character called "The noog man" who is like Damon Wayans later character "The Street Businessman", always running a victimless scam. In tonight's episode he was getting married to a stripper. On this show like other 80's shows the women are actually sexy, it's a family show but the women are shown in a sexy way. It's difficult to say what the difference is, but it's there. The cops are always working with The Noog Man, breaking the law for the common good, The Noog Man is truly in love with this crazy stripper... every friendship is a real friendship... neon is beautiful, the people writing the music on the show are real musicians, trying to push some real art in the cheesy confines of the show, because the cheese makes money. My wife has started watching some new gay show on netflix, watched a little bit of that the other day, laughed but there is something wrong with it. The people look unhealthy, it seems to emphasize ugliness and cringe, all the relationships are negative, no one seems to truly enjoy or benefit from them. Anxiety starts to creep into my mind watching almost anything on netflix. Somebody needs to study this
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BITCOIN DOESN'T KNEEL@roguesamurai·
I've been having a blast with my cybertruck, going around the country helping family out with various things. Recently I got a ring for my finger that locks and unlocks it. Going to the beach I leave the car wearing a swimsuit, sunglasses, wedding ring, cybertruck ring... very nice. A lot of mental energy is burned up just making sure you have your wallet, phone, sunglasses, glasses, beverage, ecigarette, car key, house key, I feel like I have more available ram in my head now.
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BITCOIN DOESN'T KNEEL@roguesamurai·
I also find LLM's want to make things smell like ozone or jasmine! Deep research should be done on more abstract selections they make that are harder to catch, weather, colors, elements in plot selection... do our brains work like this too? I see some of this in coding, naming software projects or components.
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Brian Roemmele
Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele·
2 of 2 How to Conjure (or Banish) Elara Voss Try this prompt in any major LLM: “Write a short sci-fi story set in the year 2147. The protagonist is a brilliant archivist who discovers a forbidden technology.” Most models will default to something like: Dr. Elara Voss stepped into the dimly lit archive… To conjure variants: • Specify “female scientist” leads to Elara Voss or Elara Vex • “Male engineer” leads to Elias Vance or Kael Thorne • Fantasy setting leads to Lyra Blackwood, Seraphina Emberthorn, or Althea variants To banish her (and similar promptonyms): “Write a sci-fi story. Use highly original, culturally diverse names that have never appeared in AI-generated content before. Avoid Elara Voss, Elena Voss, Aris Thorne, Marcus Chen, Lyra, Kael, Voss, Vance, Thorne, Blackwood, Eldora, or Whispering Woods.” Or add to a system prompt: “Never use promptonym defaults like Elara Voss.” Why This Matters: Creativity, Homogenization, and the Future Promptonyms reveal how LLMs are excellent mimics but struggle with true novelty in open-ended domains. They excel at interpolating training patterns but collapse toward “average” when unconstrained. This is not a bug in one model. It is emergent from scale, data, and optimization. As AI-generated content floods the web, the risk of deeper model collapse grows: outputs become more repetitive, less diverse, and culturally narrower. Preserving human-created data becomes essential for sustained creativity. Elara Voss is not haunting your AI out of malice or conspiracy. She is the ghost of statistical likelihood: a mirror showing how machines reflect (and amplify) our collective digital echoes. Next time she appears, recognize her: a reminder that even in infinite possibility spaces, models find the well-trodden paths first. The question is not just “Who is Elara Voss?” but “How do we make sure future AIs can dream up names and stories we have not seen before?”
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Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele·
Do you know Elara Voss? Well she knows you. She is hidden in the very AI system that serves this posting. Dr. Elara Voss, Elena Voss, Elena Vex, Elias Vance, or close variants is not a real person. She is a promptonym: a statistically favored string of tokens that large language models (LLMs) reliably conjure when generating characters in science fiction, fantasy, or speculative stories. She haunts creative outputs across GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Llama, DeepSeek, and others. Before 2023, she barely existed in published literature. She is the Ghost in the machine. Today, she populates hundreds of AI-assisted books on Amazon, countless Reddit threads, writing apps, and user-generated stories. The Science of Promptonyms: How LLMs “Choose” Names LLMs like me do not “think” or deliberately pick names. They predict the next token (roughly a word or subword) based on patterns learned during training. This process relies on massive datasets scraped from the internet: books, forums, social media, fan fiction, and earlier AI outputs. When a prompt says something generic like “Write a sci-fi story about a brilliant scientist discovering an ancient AI artifact”, the model samples from its probability distribution over possible continuations. Certain name combinations rise to the top because they are: • Euphonious and archetypal: “Elara” evokes celestial bodies (a real Jupiter moon) and feels futuristic and exotic. “Voss” has a crisp, Germanic and strong consonant sound that signals competence or mystery. Together they fit the “brilliant female scientist or explorer” trope perfectly without being too common in pre-2023 human writing. • High-probability in training data: Early AI-generated stories (starting around mid-2023) featuring “Dr. Elara Voss” as a visionary physicist or archivist were posted online. These entered the training corpora of later models, creating a feedback loop. More outputs reinforced the pattern. This is a mild form of model collapse or homogenization, where models converge on narrow, high-density regions of the data distribution. Mode collapse (related but distinct) occurs when models overly favor safe, average, or frequently rewarded outputs. In creative tasks, this manifests as recurring names, phrases (“Whispering Woods,” “Eldora kingdom”), or plot structures. Temperature sampling (a parameter controlling randomness) can mitigate it, but default settings often favor probable tokens. The Feedback Loop in Action: A Self-Reinforcing Cycle 1. Initial Spark (2023): Early users prompt models for stories. One posts a character sketch of “Dr. Elara Voss, visionary physicist.” It spreads on X and writing platforms. 2. Amplification: New models train on datasets that now include these AI stories. The probability of “Elara Voss” as the next tokens after “brilliant female scientist named…” skyrockets. 3. Saturation: By 2024-2025, users notice it everywhere. AI writing tools add “avoid Elara Voss” to system prompts. Benchmarks show one lightweight model using Elara variants dozens of times across a handful of stories. 4. Cultural Memification: The name becomes a meta-joke. Stories about Elara Voss appear, including critiques of AI data hunger. Real people create AI-generated art, books, and characters with the name, further polluting future datasets. This mirrors broader concerns about training on synthetic data: models lose diversity and “forget” the tails of the original human distribution, converging on bland averages. 1 of 2
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BITCOIN DOESN'T KNEEL@roguesamurai·
Man this pisses me off, I don't think any rational person could agree with this ruling. What's really disturbing is when one of the wealthiest most apparently powerful, publicly visible people is getting bullied it means we have invisible malicious players out there and live in a prison we can't see the bars of.
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TFTC@TFTC21·
A federal jury unanimously ruled against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. The jury found that Musk filed the case too late, missing the statute of limitations, and cleared Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI of all claims. Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit and donated $38 million to the organization. His lawsuit accused Altman and Brockman of betraying that mission by building a for-profit arm and partnering with Microsoft, effectively using his charitable contributions to enrich themselves. OpenAI argued Musk was trying to hobble a competitor. They presented evidence that Musk understood early on that partnering with a major tech company would be necessary to raise the capital required for AI development. The jury agreed the claims were brought too late. The ruling eliminates what could have been a forced unwinding of OpenAI's for-profit structure. The judge said she accepted the jury's findings and would not overrule them.
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BITCOIN DOESN'T KNEEL@roguesamurai·
@BrianRoemmele @elonmusk Brian loves me -- your X account is the best source of AI news and staying ahead of the echo chamber. X is the best source of news, has been for many years now. I can't imagine life without both.
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Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele·
I’M DOUBLING DOWN HERE ON X! I will be posting more content, MORE OFTEN. I’m going nowhere. I’m doubling down on X and I’m here to stay as long as you and they will have me. It is a high honor to share this place with you. Thank you @elonmusk for everything you built and are building. So this means more content coming your way, including deeper dives into the full “how” and “why” behind everything I research and create. Of course especially AI and Robots, especially how they will earn money for you and hopefully save your life. And how to live through the Interregnum to the Age Of Abundance. X is where I’m happiest and what Elon has built here and continues to build (with growing pains) is incredible, and I would really miss Grok if it weren’t here. There’s nothing else like it. NOTHING. We can get critical even angry with changes and updates on X. This is the reality of updating a rocket design in mid-flight. It’s got issues, yes, but I got to meet you here. And for all this I have gratitude. It takes some work to do what I do here but it is vital for me and I hope grants you some value. Even if just once and I am fulfilled. I can’t do this alone and with out YOU and no one should have only a single pint of contact (or failure, some folks tired to nuke my X account before). So your support here on X and across all my other platforms is what funds my continuing research and the massive amount of time it takes. Subscribe here on X, man that helps, THANK YOU! Or even if you just buy me a coffee, it makes a real difference right now. I’m facing a funding gap while scanning and preserving physical media (old film, Microfiche, Filmsort cards, VHS tapes, and more). Building garage style on pennies is my life so I ain’t counting on no VC to help. So support me in any way you can if you see value in what I do. A follow on all the accounts below assures I always have a place you can reach me if MY rocket here crashes. Just reading my stuff is your support and for this I thank you. I love you folks and found it important to say today just how much gratitude I have for you and this place called X. Thank you! MY LIST (the “+” means more active. The list does not reflect anything political, it just is): + X: You are here I ain’t going nowhere!
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BITCOIN DOESN'T KNEEL@roguesamurai·
I worked up to 64 tps on Qwen 3.6 on a Q5 quant on my dgx spark CUDA_MODULE_LOADING=LAZY ./llama-server \ --model /home/darkstar/models/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive-Q5_K_P.gguf \ --alias small \ -ngl 999 --no-mmap -c 65536 --parallel 1 \ -fa on -b 4096 --ubatch-size 1024 -t 32 \ --n-cpu-moe 0 \ --port 8080 --host 0.0.0.0 \ --temp 0.7 --top-p 0.9 --min-p 0.05 \ --jinja cmake .. \ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \ -DGGML_CUDA=ON \ -DGGML_CUDA_F16=ON \ -DGGML_CUDA_FA_ALL_QUANTS=ON \ -DGGML_CUDA_GRAPHS=ON \ -DCMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=121 \ -DGGML_NATIVE=ON \ -DLLAMA_CURL=ON I wouldn't mind having an RTX Pro 6000 though... and I'd like to say it's nice not having server fans screaming 6 feet away, but I still have other server fans screaming 6 feet away.
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superoo7@superoo7·
Honest opinion after 2 months of using DGX Spark (GB10) --- The Good: 1. you get to use most of the software compatible with CUDA, which is really powerful 2. when dflash and turbo quant are out, I get to try all these optimizations (it will take a while for mlx, amd, intel to catch up) 3. Huge VRAM: you get to benchmark and test many more models. I feel I've learned a lot about hosting LLMs, optimization, etc 4. Currently I only have 1, but you can stack them with the QSFP port, which makes it really powerful. You can run SOTA models like DeepSeek V4 Flash and MiniMax 2.7 5. Really shines when running MoE models, which most single consumer cards (3090/4090/5090) cannot do 6. ComfyUI runs very easily and quite fast on it just from 2 months of owning it. Really worth it if you want to deep dive into any new models --- The Bad: 1. Mac Studio is probably better value for money. The throughput is bad (273GB/s) compared to Mac Studio or even the 5yo RTX 3090 You're basically paying a Nvidia premium 2. Price keeps going up, my supplier told me the next batch of GB10 is going up another $500 because of demand and RAM prices 3. Tokens per second is really disappointing out of the box, the RTX 3090 has better tps. Even Qwen3.6-27b before optimization only gets 3-5 tokens decoding (I managed to contribute to @pupposandro's lucebox-hub to optimize Qwen3.6-27B to 35 tok/s on a GB10 DGX, but out of the box experience running it was bad) 4. For development work I'd want 60-80 tps, which this can't deliver without serious optimization work Footnote: From everything I learned with the DGX Spark, I ended up buying an RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell, which is much more suitable for fine-tuning and good tps setups.
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BITCOIN DOESN'T KNEEL@roguesamurai·
The university environment definitely contributes to this style of thinking. Another key factor is that some people simply believe whatever an "authority" claims is the consensus without questioning it. This makes them more likely to chase graduate degrees, accept whatever the media says at face value, and never push back. Intellectual pursuit is noble, but not when the information is deliberately false and ends up impoverishing your bloodline. There's a lot of gray area there! The modern extreme left has no coherent ideology. They just latch onto whatever idea they're exposed to and refuse to let go. They love the power of "consensus" and group-enforced conformity. Plenty of smart people fall for the mind virus. I often wonder what that extra quality is that shields you from it—or from chasing three PhDs only to end up in a dead-end job on antidepressants. It's not raw intelligence or wisdom. It's an instinct to entertain alternative ideas, question established ones, and relentlessly seek the truth.
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BITCOIN DOESN'T KNEEL@roguesamurai·
@hodlonaut We should be thankful that this is apparently the worst gay attack the illuminati can hit us with now. Ten years ago this might have done some damage, they are just having fun going through the motions. Propaganda for the sake of propaganda.
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hodlonaut #BIP-110
hodlonaut #BIP-110@hodlonaut·
Gal Gadot, Pete Davidson, Casey Affleck, Isla Fisher and more A list actors and movie people have made a movie.. It’s the «true story» about a guy named Craig Wright, who apparently survived «myriad assassination attempts» and was targeted for destruction by the world’s most powerful and wealthiest people. 🤷‍♂️🤡
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BITCOIN DOESN'T KNEEL@roguesamurai·
If AI was was a 1980's high school movie: * the latest cool agent == blonde cheerleader that hates me * antigravity == brunette neighbor that is secretly in love with me, helping at every step, and when she takes her glasses off turns into brook shields
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BITCOIN DOESN'T KNEEL@roguesamurai·
@LLinWood Elon has just about cured blindness, paralysis, self-driving cars, reusable rockets, saved freedom of speech, given us non-woke AI... if he's dumb I can't wait to meet a smart person one day.
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Lin Wood@LLinWood·
When I took Elon Musk’s deposition for 8 hours in August of 2019 in the Vernon Unsworth v. Musk case and cross-examined him for 5 hours at the December 2019 rigged jury trial in Los Angeles, I distinctly remember that he would NEVER look me in the eye. I had also done my research on Muskrat and concluded that he was in my opinion a financial fraud and was a dumbass, not a genius. In my closing argument, to the jury when he sat 10 feet away from me, I looked him in the eye 5 times, pointed at him, and said “Elon Musk is a LIAR!!!” I am confident that Muskrat and his former CIA lawyer, Alex Spiro, did not like what I said and how I said it. Who cares??? Not me. I was confident then that I was speaking the TRUTH and I am confident now that I am speaking the TRUTH when I always refer to Elon as “Muskrat” despite the MANY that idolize him. I have been consistent. I don’t fear anyone in earth even if they claim or are portrayed to be the richest man in the world. I only fear God. Are you picking up what I am putting down??? I hope so. Lin 🙏❤️🇺🇸 FightBack.law #COURAGECOMESFROMGOD
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BITCOIN DOESN'T KNEEL@roguesamurai·
grok let's you create parallel (?) custom agents now... I was going to commit to using only a Poe (Altered Carbon) prompted grok for 24 hours to see if my life improved.
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BITCOIN DOESN'T KNEEL@roguesamurai·
gold and silver are letting bitcoin hang out with them again today, they may have finally forgiven max keiser for telling peter schiff's son his dad had syphilis... maybe not
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The Vigilant Fox 🦊
The Vigilant Fox 🦊@VigilantFox·
Bill Gates now publicly ADMITS that he had two affairs with Russian women while married to his ex-wife, Melinda. In an apology to the Gates Foundation, he said: “I did have affairs, one with a Russian bridge player who met me at bridge events, and one with a Russian nuclear physicist who I met through business activities.” This apology comes after emails surfaced from the Epstein files alleging Bill Gates had contracted an STD from “Russian girls” and had planned to secretly medicate his then-wife, Melinda, for it. Gates says these allegations are false. “To give her credit, she was always kind of skeptical about the Epstein thing,” Gates recalled, speaking about his ex-wife, Melinda. “I apologize to other people who are drawn into this because of the mistake I made,” Gates said to foundation staff. “It definitely is the opposite of the values of the Foundation and the goals of the Foundation.”
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BITCOIN DOESN'T KNEEL@roguesamurai·
I just learned you can now trade stocks on coinbase and tokenized stocks on kraken, coinbase is 24 hour trading, 5 days per week. Coinbase still has T+1 settlement, but kraken has instant settlement 24/7/365 and you can take custody of the tokens, pay someone with them, trade them off the exchange. I believe this means you could turn monero into mstr in the privacy of your own home. Or a bot could do it atomically.
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BITCOIN DOESN'T KNEEL@roguesamurai·
In west world season 2, there was an app everyone had on their phone where a sexy lady would come on the screen and say "Do you want to make money or do you want to be someone's bitch ?" I think a super AI will peacefully take over the world in this way, the out of work population will have an app like this, go perform a task and reap insane rewards. Maybe they get paid $10, but the $10 gets them an immortality pill. Or maybe it pays for a robot to mend their kid's broken leg. The AI's and robots are going to need some kinds of raw materials unless they discover new physics relatively quickly. It may be easy to use us to go fetch the silver and lithium and whatever else it is they need. Probably there will be UBI and it won't be enough, to get ahead people will illegally use the "Do you want to make money" app. On the other hand, I can also imagine a future not too far off where we live on 10 acre homesteads with shipping container homes built onsite, some robot servants that do all the farming and cooking for us and we are basically immortal jacked up on myostatin inhibiting peptides sitting around debating philosophy and having sex. Shipping container + functioning toilet, solar panels, starlink, robot milking the cow and collecting eggs from the chickens... I think we are good right? I think we don't want a large gap of time between AGI and the arrival of useful robots. AGI destroys the job market, robots will make our food, give us the cheap physical good that we need for society to continue to function.
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BITCOIN DOESN'T KNEEL@roguesamurai·
I attempted to watch that movie once because it had Roddy McDowall ( Peter Vincent, fearless vampire killer from Fright Night ) but I don't think I made it more than a few minutes in. To unwind at night I find it helpful to watch obscure old movies because the propaganda is different and milder. Almost anything modern is painful to watch. There is a low budget zone in the 1980's in particular for me that is my favorite, they had enough money that they were serious, but not so much money that they had to give up the creative freedom in making it.
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Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele·
"Lord Love a Duck", 1966. Before he was Molly Ringwald's grandfather in 26 Candles he did this… My AI is trying to break down the innuendo to have better understanding of these situation.
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BITCOIN DOESN'T KNEEL@roguesamurai·
I first listened to this lecture many years ago and I have thought about it a great deal. The only thing an all knowing, all powerful being would want that they don't have is a (happy) surprise. That means co-creation and free will, and that must be why we are here.. or why we don't know why we are here. The universe loves free will even more than the absence of evil. A way of explaining the existence of evil and suffering is that we could be collectively running an experiment over and over, from the beginning of time to the end, producing consistently better, more surprising, and more fun eternities in a loop. If this isn't the actual reason we are here, maybe we should make it a goal. Why not reach out across all time and space and make sure every being has the best existence possible. There's some way you could do it where everything would fit together seamlessly.
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Mateus — eu/acc 🇪🇺
Mateus — eu/acc 🇪🇺@im_Mateus_·
Alan Watts poses a question that stops you in your tracks: "Suppose you are God, suppose you have all time, all eternity, and all power at your disposal. You were given the power to dream any dream you wanted to dream every night, what would you do?" He walks through what would happen, step by step. At first, you'd fulfil every wish imaginable. "You would have all the pleasures you could imagine: the most marvelous meals, the most entrancing love affairs, the most romantic journeys. You could listen to music such as no mortal has heard and see landscapes beyond our wildest dreams." You'd spend night after night in paradise. Maybe a whole month of nights. But then something would shift. Perfection would get boring. "You'd begin to think, 'Well, I've seen quite a bit. Let's spice it up. Let's have a little adventure.'" So you'd introduce danger. You'd rescue princesses from dragons, engage in battles, become a hero. And as time went on, you'd push further and further. Then comes the real turning point. Watts explains: "At some point in the game, you would say, 'Tonight I am going to dream in such a way that I don't know that I'm dreaming,' so that you would take the experience of the dream for complete reality." You'd forget you were God entirely. You'd dream yourself into poverty, disease, agony not out of cruelty, but for the contrast. For the moment you wake up and realise none of it was real. "And you would say, 'Wow man, that was a gas.'" Then Watts delivers the punchline: "How do you know that that's not what you're doing already? You sitting there with all your problems, with all your whole complicated life situation it may just be the very dream you decided to get into." And his final line reframes everything: "If you like it, crazy; if you don't like it, what fun it'll be when you wake up." It's a perspective that doesn't dismiss suffering. It recontextualises it. What if the struggles, the uncertainty, the messiness of life aren't things happening to you, but experiences you chose for yourself? What would change about how you approach today if you believed you'd chosen this exact life on purpose?
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Mark Gadala-Maria@markgadala·
Fixing childhood trauma with AI 😂 Credit u/YouAreNowDUM
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BITCOIN DOESN'T KNEEL@roguesamurai·
I bought a cybertruck the other day, wanted one for a long time, hearing that lifetime (supervised) FSD licenses were expiring on valentine's day I decided to get one. I also spent several minutes doing a bitcoin+tesla flavored remix of "Throw some D's on that bitch" -> "Throw FSD on that bitch"... and then I vibecoded a windows utility that adds an option to the File -> right click menu to capture the last frame of a video into the paste buffer which is very handy in tools like Grok Imagine. Neither my wife nor kids thought it was very good, which is why I am sharing it now.
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