The importance of cash When your bank cannot or will not provide access to your money, it’s a great reminder to retain and use cash .. and to learn bitcoin
He put £10,000 in the bank. Next day he asked for it back. 24 hour notice needed they said. Call the Business Centre first they said. They would not even say if his cash was in the building. He left with nothing. This is NOT how solvent countries act. It is your money until you want it. Then it is theirs. Bitcoin is how you opt out!
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Manifest Destiny, Man A tribute to @americanhodl8 (lyrics from my Hermes agent reading transcripts of his interviews & talks.) Astra + Opus 5.5 + Hermes + Suno + Higgsfield + Tesseract for editing + local model voice stack to make the singer have HODL's vocal characteristics.
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White Noise for Android is on Google Play 👇 play.google.com/store/apps/d…
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Je ne sais pas si vous mesurez ce qui est en train de se passer. Alex Karp, le patron de Palantir, ne va plus chercher ses talents à Harvard. Il les forme lui-même. Des jeunes de 18 ans, sans diplôme, choisis sur leur seul talent, qui codent sur de vrais projets et lisent de la philosophie politique entre deux sprints. Il appelle ça « le diplôme Palantir ». Et aujourd'hui le New York Post titre que les boîtes tech lancent leurs propres programmes parce qu'elles ne peuvent plus compter sur l'Ivy League. Ce n'est pas une anecdote RH. C'est un basculement de civilisation. Pendant des décennies, les entrepreneurs ont confié à l'université la mission la plus sacrée qui soit : former les esprits. Ils comprennent aujourd'hui que cette mission a été trahie. Les institutions censées produire des penseurs libres produisent des conformistes. Le mérite a été remplacé par des critères opaques. L'enseignement est devenu catéchisme. Paul Graham l'avait vu avant tout le monde. Alors ils font ce que font les bâtisseurs quand un système les trahit. Ils ne le réforment pas. Ils en construisent un autre, à côté. Elon n'a pas attendu que la NASA se réveille, il a fait SpaceX. Il n'a pas réformé les médias, il a racheté la place publique. Les entrepreneurs ne cherchent plus à convaincre l'État. Ils font l'État, partout où l'État a abdiqué. Relisez La Grève d'Ayn Rand. Nous y sommes. Les bureaucrates gardent les titres, les budgets, les bâtiments. Mais ils perdent la seule chose qui compte : la confiance. Aux États-Unis, à peine 28 % des gens font encore confiance aux médias. Un plus bas historique. Plus personne ne croit ceux qui prétendent nous dire quoi penser. On entend partout que l'école est finie. Je pense exactement l'inverse. Ce n'est pas l'école qui est morte. Ce sont les institutions qui l'ont confisquée. L'école, la vraie, celle de l'Académie d'Athènes, des ateliers de la Renaissance, du maître et de l'apprenti, va renaître. Plus exigeante. Plus juste. Sans dette, sans dogme, sans diplôme comme rente à vie. Une école qui ne fabriquera plus des diplômés, mais des polymathes. Des esprits libres, capables de coder, de penser, de construire et de douter. Ce sont eux qui créeront la valeur des cinquante prochaines années. J'ai appris à coder seul à 12 ans. Aucun amphi ne m'a appris ce que j'ai appris en construisant. Je sais ce que devient un talent quand on le laisse respirer. L'université a eu des siècles pour former les meilleurs esprits. Les entrepreneurs vont le faire en une décennie. La grande reconstruction a commencé.
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Incredible simplicity 🏆 Delighted to see the @getbapp team launch this last night - the simplest Bitcoin onboarding, savings and spending wallet Try it Use it Android soon (tm)
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Thank you Satoshi 🧡 The gift of Bitcoin to humanity The selflessness to walk away The choice for anyone, anywhere
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White Noise is back. A private messenger with no phone number. Your identity is a key generated on your phone. You can also add your AI agents as contacts and message them from your phone. 🗞️ What’s new? Read about the new release: primal.net/whitenoise/new-wh…
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Some personal news: ✅ Loupe has produced 26,821 findings across 43 open-source bitcoin repos ✅ Average successful scan took 2H 52M and returned 53.6 findings ✅ Longest scan ran for 36H 58M ✅ 26,809/26,821 findings shipped a proof-of-concept & 12,774 shipped a proposed patch
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Bitcoin privacy is not binary. It’s a contest over inference. In our latest Deep Dive, we studied the transaction graph from both sides: how chain analysts narrow the set of plausible explanations, and how privacy techniques keep more than one alive. vinteum.org/blog/inside-a-vi…
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Universities not an industry sector Australia has long treated Universities as valuable export earnings and has argued that full fee paying foreign students are therefore prioritised Many - if not most - courses and subject areas will be better served by AI in short order Tertiary education’s last moat is certification because it’s clearly no longer delivering the superior outcomes upon which earlier reputations were built Contraction in some places Expansion in others Get used to change
Researchers proved AI has deleted every reason universities exist. Harvard University ran a controlled experiment pitting a custom AI against their own top-tier classrooms. And the results are going to collapse the higher education bubble. They took 194 undergraduates and split them up. One group learned physics in one of Harvard’s best hands-on, active-learning physical classrooms. Group work. Instructor support. The premium university experience. The other group went home and learned the exact same material with an AI tutor. The AI didn't just win. It embarrassed the institution. Students using the AI learned more than twice as much as the students in the elite Harvard classroom. They scored 30% higher on the final assessment. And they did it in less time. Let that sink in. A piece of software sitting on a laptop outperformed a world-class faculty in one of the most elite learning environments on Earth. Universities have always justified their exorbitant tuition with two things: access to elite knowledge and the physical classroom experience. This study just proved both of those moats are gone. When software can teach you complex physics twice as well as a $60,000-a-year institution, the math of higher education breaks permanently. The AI didn't just give the students answers. It used strict pedagogical guardrails. It guided. It questioned. It forced the students to do the cognitive work. It offered perfect, one-to-one tutoring, personalized to the exact moment a student misunderstood a concept. That level of attention is mathematically impossible to scale in a physical lecture hall. For a thousand years, the university was the only place to get a premium education. Now, it’s the bottleneck. If AI can double your learning speed for a fraction of the cost, what exactly are students taking on decades of debt to pay for?
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The spectrum of privacy in AI
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The Australian eSafety Commissioner started following my technical work in online child safety at least 10 years ago. She’s unable to answer my constructive criticism on LinkedIn. If Australian journalists want expert analysis of what’s happening in their country, and why these measures function more effectively as surveillance systems than child safety protections, feel free to get in touch. If you’re in Australia and want someone to stand up for your human right to privacy and civil liberties, share this and get it in front of journalists. I can break down every part of what’s happening in plain English, with no jargon, and explain exactly where these systems fail children while working as designed for intelligence analysts, identity verification, monitoring and control. Australia isn’t the first country to take this approach. The UK introduced default-on pornography filters and broader online child-safety controls in 2012. I was interviewed by BBC Newsnight at the time while advising the British government that its approach was technically flawed. Back then, I demonstrated on Newsnight how poor parental controls were. They weren’t good enough. Today they are. All smartphones now have built-in parental controls that can block apps and websites, limit communications, control purchases and downloads, enforce screen-time limits and manage what children can access on the device. We had weak parental controls in 2012. We don’t have that excuse anymore.
Labor has buried extraordinary “sock puppet” powers in its proposed internet regime which would give the eSafety Commissioner the power to assume false identities and generate online material using AI. news24.com.au/politics/austr…
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20oz .. onwards!
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Europeans! Chat Control 2.0 is around the corner and it could mean that all our chats will be monitored even without a warrant. Sending emails to your EU representatives takes only 2 minutes. Do it N... njump.me/nevent1qqsqqqxfch6y…
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If your project relies on GitHub, now is a good time to seriously consider hosting copies of your repos using ngit. opensats.org/blog/developer-…
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Just uploaded a pod with Jimbo, a very knowledgeable self custody "expert", where we discuss what happened with Cold Cards and pontificate on self custody moving forward. Please like, share, comment if you have questions: rumble.com/v7dl12e-cold-card…
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Peruvian owls hunt in pairs. They're Inca hoots.
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upgrade your project's security posture the cyber security landscape has fundamentally and permanently changed .. so where to start as a humble FOSS project maintainer and builder? take a squiz at @spiral_xyz's Project Loupe: What is it? projectloupe.org/about Does it work? projectloupe.org/p/loupe-pro… Where is it? github.com/project-loupe/lou…
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