lol. yes i had one of those: " what would you like for dinner tonight" kinda freaked me out

i agree. i keep hearing echos from this Jeff Walton fellow about "highest up, farthest out". i don't even know if he said that. but if this is all it dropped today, it seems like every risk has been squeezed out of the stock. or else i'm just permanent pollyanna.

what do you think of the idea of "Farthest out, highest up" MSTR call options at this point?

OODA -- observation, orientation, decision, action Acronym coined by air force pilot John Boyd for maneuvering into the tail position in a aircraft dog fight. The pilot that could complete his OODA loop quicker had the advantage and could take the first shot (The New Face of War, Berkowitz, 42).

2013, that's incredible. it sounds like you were very early on the scene. to be aware of other individuals like Luke Dashjr (with a name like that, i would expect escapades). i had a gander at your apathy.tv pages... to pass some time while waiting for 4pm. i love this quote by (Prozac?) ""flesh and pheromone" from "love is what makes us human and defines what humanity is in my eyes, those that are unable to understand that are just experiencing technical difficulties or were malformed to begin with, but they're still human and part of the whole. if technology advances to the point where we are no longer flesh and pheromone, or even metal and plastic." with so much time in bitcoin space, how have your personal hopes or vision for what Bitcoin could do—for you or the world—shifted over the years?

probably just some time traveling kids from the 90s pulling pranks. there were some pretty scary pranks that friends did back then. even just hiding behind doors and saying "boo". pranking people has kinda gone bye.

i'm impressed how you find these things. i do remember the "the chancellor on brink of second bailout" headline.

I hope it's wrong. I'm about to have my favorite obsession and hobby wrenched out of my hands by either a misunderstanding of how the whole thing worked in the first place or by some change.

Reading this book on how information tech changed warfare is giving me some thought provoking ideas. i feel like the author could extend the whole work with some chapters about the bitcoin ecosystem. specifically, the idea of using information to guide bombs (costing 2 million apiece in the case of Tomahawk missiles) is dematerializing in the age of AI into guidance systems for the AIs. the guidance systems for humans overlaps messily into the realm of religious creeds, beliefs. Nostr is a battlefield for ideas. so no longer do wars get fought with information guidance systems just going to rudders of torpedoes. the info guidance systems are guiding thought, which persuades and convinces other humans which leverages scarce energy money and AI.

GM Bird

---information technology for torpedoes--- "The movement of the linkage between the gyroscope and the rudder contained information. The gyroscope was "telling" the rudder how many degrees to move to correct the course of the torpedo. Unintentionally, Whitehead had designed the equivalent of a simple, highly specialized mechanical analog computer. The linkage was doing multiplication. If, say, one degree of gyro movement produced two degrees(The New Face of War, Berkowitz,83)." Excerpt from "The New Face of War" by Bruce Berkowitz Soon after Howell introduced his torpedo, Whitehead came up with an even better solution. Instead of using a big flywheel to keep the entire torpedo properly aligned, Whitehead used a small flywheel mounted in a swiveling cage to detect when the torpedo strayed off course. That is, he used a gyroscope. Gyroscopes had been around for almost a century, but they were mainly curiosities-scientific toys for demonstrating the laws of physics. Spin the wheel of a gyroscope on a tabletop, and inertia keeps it in a constant plane, even if the table is tilted, which is why guidance systems that use this principle are called inertial measurement units. Whitehead connected his gyro to a rudder at the tail of the torpedo with a mechanism that was a masterpiece of Victorian design. The gyroscope connected to a lever, which connected to a valve that con-trolled a gas line from a tank of compressed oxygen. So whenever the torpedo began to stray off course, the gyroscope swiveled left or right, moving the lever, which activated the valve, which allowed the com-pressed gas to fill a small piston-and-cylinder device that operated a crank controlling the torpedo's rudder. Whitehead needed this Rube Goldberg arrangement because a gyroscope produces only a tiny amount of force as it rights itself. It takes several pounds of torque to move the rudder of a torpedo moving through the water at twenty or thirty knots. The compressed air pow-ering the rudder mechanism was able to overcome the force of water as the torpedo raced to its target. An engineer would say the linkage produced a "mechanical advantage." But this step was significant for an even more important reason. The movement of the linkage between the gyroscope and the rudder contained information. The gyroscope was "telling" the rudder how many degrees to move to correct the course of the torpedo. Unintentionally, Whitehead had designed the equivalent of a simple, highly specialized mechanical analog computer. The linkage was doing multiplication. If, say, one degree of gyro movement produced two degrees(The New Face of War) .

it would make sense to me that S&P include it due to pressure from Vanguard+Blackrock + US gov since it would be an easy way for all of those actors to get more influence over the space. blackrock would get more fees on IBIT as price pumps, Vanguard would have more bitcoin thru MSTR, and US Gov would have more sitting in one place. just fun speculation. Grok is now saying it won't be included.

he poosted a screenshot that Jeff Walton was no longer receiving his messages. maybe he just feels isolated in this age of friends ghosting over social media and he's taking to burning the whole thing down..

Pierre's answer starts at minute 36: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8k78JMhQ6k

i took the 60 seconds to switch to bitcoin knots on Start9. super easy. this is how voting should be done in the future. "two roads diverged in a yellow wood" ---Frost? "hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand, 'ere the doom from his worn sandles shakes the dust against our land?" lowell https://youtu.be/UxhSelzMcAs

Oh. I've decided it will after hearing Pierre Rochard steel-manning the S&P board trying to exclude it. From the sound of it, they have more reputational risk by excluding it at this point. Pierre started with "it's a coin toss" and ended with "more likely than not". Even a coin toss chance is mind boggling. I will finally stop urging friends and family to buy Bitcoin as they will already have exposure.

Taking advantage of cold weather and shut windows (so as not to scare neighbors)to try this: "BYA BYA BYA Bya BYA" https://youtu.be/8XEH3A1rYHI

awww that's sad. maybe all the data logging of all of our "beliefs and preferences" keeps a permanence to our character when we are supposedly a bunch of new cells every couple years. it keeps too many records and sometimes it's good to just forgive & forget things. it might also be a way for some people to simplify their lives to remove some ambiguity/uncertainty. are you still friends with the old friend? i have someone who hung up the phone on me last year over politics and I haven't called him back. somedays i debate whether i should, but then i'm also enjoying my freedom from someone else's worries. and what an idiot I am for deleting LinkedIn. i'm probably going to have to reconstruct a profile now that my "boating accident" happened a.k.a. Strategy call options that I pinned on S&P inclusion swung so low that I don't think they will carry me home.

thanks, bro

actuallly, i just deleted FB, LinkedIn a couple weeks ago.