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I remember aping into a random discord. @DeFinalFantasy was talking about his project that would be @SanSound3 .

Never order from UnderArmour directly. They ship via DHL. Ordered stuff Monday. Sitting in VA waiting to be picked up by carrier since the 17th. Maybe we get it Weds this week. DHL sucks ass

@LSaillans I still want my copy signed.

His book has been banned by the Us governement in 2023. A US Space Force officer wrote a thesis at MIT arguing Bitcoin is a weapons system. The Pentagon ordered him to take it down. The book is called SOFTWAR, written by Major Jason Lowery. I managed to get my hands on an original, pre-takedown version. Here are the ideas that apparently made the DoD nervous: → Bitcoin is not a financial technology, it's a weapons system. It is an electro-cyber power projection system, in the same category as armies, navies, and air forces, but for the domain of cyberspace. → The "Power Projection Theory" framework Every military branch exists to secure a domain by imposing severe physical costs on anyone who threatens it. Armies secure land, navies secure sea, air forces secure the sky. Bitcoin, Lowery argues, does this for cyberspace. It imposes real physical cost (energy/watts) on attackers, which no prior cybersecurity system could do. → Every military branch secures a domain by making attacks physically costly. Bitcoin does exactly this for cyberspace, imposing real energy costs on attackers for the first time in history. → Lowery draws on 5,000 years of history to argue that any system based purely on trust and rules eventually gets captured by bad actors. Physical cost is the only reliable constraint. → He calls this new paradigm "softwar": non-lethal, machine-vs-machine energy competition in cyberspace. Tesla predicted something like it in 1900. → His most striking claim: a soft, electro-cyber WW III war may have already started. World leaders do not recognise it because they are expecting the next war to look like the last one. Five concrete policy recommendations for the US government: 1. Stop letting economists set Bitcoin policy. 2. Treat Bitcoin as a cybersecurity asset first. 3. Consider strategic Bitcoin reserves. 4. Protect proof-of-work under the Second Amendment. 5. Recognise that proof-of-stake is a centralised fraud, not a viable alternative. Because the nations that figure this out first will have an asymmetric advantage over those that do not. The book was pulled in July 2023 by DoD. Physical copies now sell for over $300. @JasonPLowery

The guy who just cracked the theoretical foundations for Zero Point Energy extraction is on this site and has ~600 followers @EagleworksSonny

I’m telling you Jane Street is just another intelligence agency front.

@AshtonForbes Be careful what you wish for

CIA gonna flashy thing me cuz I figured out their fusion propulsion technology. Just admit the truth and I'll willingly join the dark side. I'll be the best gaslighter the agency has ever seen.

@RedPandaKoala No his company had a satellite office in Stamford, CT. Those employees survived.

🚨 Howard Lutnick laughs as Donald Trump recounts how he miraculously missed dying on 9/11 "Normally he would have been in the building, but that one day his wife insisted he take his child to school. He lost 100% of the people, his whole company was there."

@CXCarroll Wife asked why I hadn’t installed it yet over the weekend, told her security is nonexistent. And then the test pwning began… Always always always think security first with new cool stuff

Just some friendly advice: unless you *actually* know what you are doing (CyberSec, NetSec) DO NOT install Open Claw. It's very nifty but it's like the Wild West of security vulnerabilities right now.

.@Jason said 10+ times that he only knew Epstein in the 90s. He was actually helping Epstein through the 2000s and 2010s, even after the child sex trafficking conviction. Man starts VR company, donates to Trump: "Total moron, no moral compass!" Man rapes children: "hey pal!"

@leadlagreport Early, not wrong. Takes awhile for everyone to catch up. Few.

SAY SOMETHING NICE TO ME ABOUT BEING RIGHT ABOUT JAPAN ALL ALONG AND I’LL FUCKING FOLLOW YOU BACK FUCK IT. ⬇️

@sungleeiq Done.

@AeccORG @nic_carter Um, we are oversupplied with oil. fitchratings.com/research/corpo… But he does exaggerate 100%

@nic_carter I agree it's gonna be an increasing problem for China. He's sometimes right directionally but exaggerates all the outcomes. He also said that oil will become a big problem because of the Russian war and here we are not with an over supply of oil and very cheap levels.

Peter Zeihan was right about everything (except Bitcoin)

@AlphaSchoolATX anything near DC soon?

@johnkonrad This is the type of stuff I long for on X. Thanks John

Back-of-the-envelope cost and schedule estimates for the Trump-Class Battleships, based on firsthand shipbuilding experience and deep industry sources. All timelines begin after full funding is appropriated and steel is cut. ⸻ Base build scenarios • Built entirely overseas at Samsung Heavy Industries with Anduril weapon systems: ≈ $4B, delivered in ~2 years • Built entirely overseas at a top-tier Japanese or South Korean yard using weapon systems from traditional U.S. defense primes: ≈ $5B, delivered in ~2.5 years • Hybrid build with Hanwha and HII modules constructed both overseas and domestically with the Army Corps of Engineers and Seabees immediately mobilized to upgrade yard infrastructure; Palantir ShipOS performing as advertised; supplemented by purchase of large floating dry dock and heavy-lift barge cranes: ≈ $6B, delivered in ~3.5 years • Major capital infusion from J.P. Morgan’s $1.5T reshoring fund to build new, modern yards (California Forever-style) using best-in-class foreign practices: ≈ $10B, delivered in ~4 years • Using existing U.S. yards and current NAVSEA processes: $39B, delivered never. ⸻ Schedule penalties Add three months and $250 million for each of the following: – Congressional staffers insert themselves into execution – 3 or 4-star admiral undermining the program through Navy infighting – Any cabinet department critical to shipbuilding and skilled labor (War, State, DOT, DHS, Commerce, Treasury, Labor, Education) is not fully aligned – Deference to lobbying pressure or NGOs (China lobby, pro- or anti-Jones Act factions, environmental groups, select unions, think tanks) - A major supply chain breakdown - A major supporter like @SecRubio @russvought Feinberg @ElbridgeColby leave office. – Large-scale liberal unrest turns violent consuming national and administration attention - @DanScavino doesn’t find (or congress doesn’t confirm) a permanent Navy Comptroller and Asst Secretary RD&A Add six months and $500 million for each of the following: – Shipyard land is not federalized under war production act to eliminate state and local permitting friction – A Houston-based construction manager with mega-project experience (e.g., Shell Prelude) is not placed in charge – @DOTMARAD and @USCG remain unable to assist because they are underfunded and overstretched – Each fundamental disagreement between the Navy, @SecWar, and the White House – Failure to appoint a visible shipbuilding czar (e.g., @brentdsadler, Erik Bethel, @MorganOrtagus, @mercoglianos) or empower a compelling public communicator within the Navy (@HungCao_VA) to maintain public interest. – Adverse federal court intervention – Supreme Court action blocking Trumps plan to use tariff revenue to expand DoW budget to $1.5T – Army refuses to reform the Corps of Engineers which is critical for dredging and harbor support – Foreign sabotage disables a critical capability - Major involvement by think tanks or consultants lime @McKinsey - Act of god (Hurricane, pandemic, etc) – @PeteHegseth leaves office ⸻ Major delays Add one year and $1-2B for each of the following: – @NAVSEA is give a seat at the table – Construction begins with an incomplete design – The Navy continues bending the knee to United Nations @IMOHQ shipyard and design rules – Another major shipyard fire occurs without adequate fireboat coverage ⸻ Structural delays Add two years and $2-4B for each of the following: – Nuclear propulsion is included – Republicans lose the midterms ⸻ Project killers • Republicans lose the White House in 2028

This is Mostly true, but I'm trying to imagine an influencer knocking at the door of the Montessori my toddler goes to. They don't even let us take photos if other kids are there, so I don't think they'd be happy about an influencer camera. Also they already have full enrollment, so it's not like they'd do more business. The Somali daycare are ofc fraud, but not sure this intuitive litmus test works for daycares

JASON LOWERY: “Blaming Bitcoin to protect your failing hegemony is not going to help you, your financial system is still going to collapse.” “Bitcoin didn’t cause a bunch of bankers to debase savers and to destroy the purchasing power of the currency.”

millennial gamers are the best prepared generation for agentic work, they've been training for 25 years

@SciGuySpace OTAs are good for speed of implementation.

I'm not seeing cost plus contracts in this list of preferred acquisition processes.

New space policy just dropped. whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…

@Michael_Hawk19 @dr_ericberg Move to espresso

@dr_ericberg What is a good replacement for coffee creamer? I wish I could do black, but I can't....

It is hard to tell which health trends actually help your body and which ones are just hype. Here is how I would rate some popular trends on a scale from 1 to 10. 1/ Cold baths: