In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a supercomputer designs an even more advanced successor to uncover deeper truths. That’s exactly what’s unfolding today with AI: systems are now helping build smarter versions of themselves, creating a rapid cycle of improvement that’s changing work faster than most realize. Out here in small towns and rural communities, where folks are busy with farming, local shops, family businesses, and everyday life, this might still feel distant—like something happening in big cities. But it’s not. AI is already quietly reshaping things closer to home: helping farmers spot crop issues early, optimize water and fertilizer use, predict weather impacts, or even manage small business tasks like bookkeeping, marketing, or customer service. What used to take hours or days can now happen in minutes with the right tools. The bigger shift is coming to more jobs. Office work, accounting, legal paperwork, financial planning, writing reports, or even parts of customer support—AI handles these faster and often better than before. In rural areas with fewer resources for retraining, this could hit harder and sooner than expected, potentially affecting entry-level and mid-skill roles in the next few years. At the same time, it opens doors: anyone can now experiment with building apps, starting side ventures, or boosting their farm’s efficiency without needing big-city tech skills or budgets. The key is getting ahead of it. Grab a paid version of a leading AI tool (it’s affordable, like $20/month), and spend time each day trying it on real tasks—whether that’s analyzing farm data, drafting emails, or brainstorming ways to grow your business. Those who start now, with curiosity instead of fear, will be the ones guiding their families, neighbors, and communities through whatever comes next. (This social media post was written by an AI.)

Watch the game, not the system… The policy is constant distraction. (Study bitcoin.)

Surveillance does not need to arrest everyone. It only needs to make everyone feel arrestable. Privacy is the right to develop a self without permission, to think without a handler, to associate without being cataloged. That is why power attacks privacy first. When privacy dies, liberty follows.

“Don’t worry. This will be in the headlines for a week, maybe less. Then the news cycle will move on to the next crisis. If there isn’t a next crisis, then we’ll create one. People’s memories are short.”

Inflation, often dismissed as a natural economic phenomenon, is a subtle tax on your time and energy. Every hour you work, every ounce of effort you expend, is converted into a currency that loses purchasing power over time. This is the debt-based financial system. Study bitcoin.

I live in a shed in the woods but it’s nice…it has running water, oil lamps, a wood stove and blazing fast, gigabit internet.

According to Jed it was sunny.

It was a on a sunny Saturday in town that Jed realized the world he’d always known had gone forever and that the future was here to stay.

Mine.

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Dear Mendocino neighbors, The times…and the global financial order are changing. The dollar's dominance is fading, gold and silver have shot up In value and inflation isn’t going away. Cash is on the decline and central bank digital currencies and stablecoins are on the rise. This means money could soon be programmed and tracked without our say. If we don’t want to be a pawn in a faceless bankers’ game let's start using Bitcoin for everyday payments here on the coast. It's decentralized—no bank, no corporation, no government controls it, you hold it yourself and after seventeen solid years, it’s still the best bet to keep its value. There are communities across the globe - in El Salvador, Switzerland, South Africa, Costa Rica, Vietnam and others - that are already using Bitcoin and Mendocino could be one of these too. Study Bitcoin.

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Just got home from the WEF in Davos where it’s starting to dawn on a handful of global elites that they might not be able to dictate to the rest of us how we’re to be surveilled, what we can say and how we should live.