The Hijacking of Bitcoin - Brownstone Institute https://brownstone.org/articles/the-hijacking-of-bitcoin/ Someone in a crypto group I'm part of sent this article yesterday. I stopped reading after this paragraph: > Lightning works like opening a tab at a bar: you and the bar settle later. It is faster and cheaper for small payments, but it relies on middlemen (called hubs) who hold your money in channels and can see what you are doing. It is not the same as handing someone cash. It adds points where someone else can interfere or shut things down. When I told him I stopped reading after this uninformed paragraph on the LN, they asked me, _what is LN_? Yet, he based his current negative sentiment on Bitcoin on this article. This resonates with the article @Darthcoin just posted (https://stacker.news/items/1452620/r/south_korea_ln). This is what we are up against. Willful and/or accidental misinformation campaigns. The LN works. People are working on making it better, but it works. https://stacker.news/items/1452632

Massacre of girls at Minab school: human error or artificial intelligence? https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/minab-school-girls-massacre-human-error-or-artificial-intelligence-behind-tomahawk-missile-AIz8iHuB I already vented about the human side of this massacre here (https://stacker.news/items/1448847/r/south\_korea\_ln), but posting this article as it turns out this could have been influenced by the heave use of AI. > The preliminary report, according to rumours in the New York Times, reveals that the school was destroyed because Central Command, the military command engaged in the Middle East, relied on outdated intelligence information, provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency (Dia), the Pentagon's intelligence service. And which, inexplicably, was not checked, a procedure that traditionally takes place at several levels and can draw on hundreds of analysts and military experts. To me, the title is misleading. If it is AI that incorrectly assigned the school to be a military target because of outdated data, then it is *very much* a human error. But then again, as with coding, people don't seem to take responsibility for the code their LLM spawns. In an ideal world, someone would take responsibility for this shitshow. Yet, this market will likely resolve with a *no*: [https://beta.predyx.com/market/pete-hegseth-out-as-secretary-of-defense-by-march-31-1765112860](https://beta.predyx.com/market/pete-hegseth-out-as-secretary-of-defense-by-march-31-1765112860) https://stacker.news/items/1452627

The Obvious Problem That No One Can Agree On - Veritasium What are you? Please answer the question before getting into the explanation part of the video (starting at 3:32). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol18JoeXlVI&t=709s This is one of the better Veritasium videos I've watched. I especially like the comments on free will, how to live your life, and rationality. > Whether we do or don't have free will, you have to live as though it exists. This resonates with me because in my mid-20s, I entered a (quasi)depressive mindset where, after reading several books touching on this topic, it made me feel like whatever I did, it didn't matter. I then, at some point, just decided to live by the idea that free will exists, as the alternative was not worth living anymore (and also, it almost alienated a few people around me when I tried to elaborate on those metaphysical ideas). https://stacker.news/items/1451423

American forces likely launched strike that hit Iran girls school https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-probe-said-to-indicate-american-forces-likely-launched-strike-that-hit-iran-girls-school/ > The girls’ school in Minab, in southern Iran, was hit on Saturday during the first day of US and Israeli attacks on the country. Iran’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Ali Bahreini, said the strike killed 150 students. Iranian authorities have been the only ones to provide a death count from what would be the deadliest strike of the US-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic. Their figures have not been independently confirmed. 150 kids. This is fucking insane. Supporting any regime that thinks this is normal or acceptable is beyond my understanding. Even if the numbers are exaggerated. @Cje95, you're the most vocal supporter here of the Trump administration. How can you reconcile your support with such blatant civilian casualties? https://stacker.news/items/1448847

The Ordinals BIP got rejected https://x.com/SomsenRuben/status/2029515060893106418 > Short summary: we weighed pros and cons, seemed to fall slightly to the con side, but nobody felt strongly enough about it so it sat in limbo. A decision had to be made, and eventually one of us did. > I'll share more of my thoughts in this thread https://stacker.news/items/1448187