This story is getting pushed as IBM and Bitcoin. There is no mention of bitcoin in the release. When will bitcoiners stop this nonsense. If they don't mention bitcoin... its just shitcoining. It comes off as weakness when people force "bitcoin" onto these weak PRs. https://newsroom.ibm.com/ibm-digital-asset-haven

No One Knows What Bitcoin is - Here’s Proof. Joe Nakamoto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPGFN-0IhlM > Bitcoin is "mainstream" they. Everyone knows about Bitcoin, they say. > Here's 21 people who would strongly disagree. I whole heartedly agree. We are VERY early no matter how many people in your personal circle know about it. Its easy to forget how early we are. https://stacker.news/items/1266978

Which is Worse: Taxes or Fiat Money * Taxes are theft. * Fiat is manipulation of the base money in an economy by a few. If you could snap your fingers and eliminate one forever but no other which would you choose to eliminate? https://stacker.news/items/1266726

Boy Who Cried Quantum - Google Claims Quantum Leap, Bitcoin Security Concerns https://bitbo.io/news/google-quantum-bitcoin-threat/ Just carry on. Bitcoin don't care. This is fiat Silicon Valley pumping tactics intended for the tradfi crowd that doesn't understand computers. https://stacker.news/items/1263531

TheWeeklyDrop Issue 705 is out. Get up to date on what's happening in Drupal this week. https://theweeklydrop.com/archive/issue-705

Letter to a Young Person Worrying About AI https://commoncog.com/letter-to-a-young-person-worrying-about-ai/ > It is possible to act without prediction. Most good businesspeople don't attempt to predict the future. They instead design their lives and organizations for fast adaptation under uncertainty. You can safely ignore any essay that attempts to predict the future. Just look at what is happening right now - you'll have plenty of time to adapt. ~ TLDR Newsletter https://stacker.news/items/1261393

It is getting very old listening to Christians call each other out for basically differing political opinions. As someone that is opposed to the state and democracy its very tiresome. I don't do this with the MAGA Christians I know nor the middle of the road Anti-MAGA Christians I know. Most never talk about their deep seated political beliefs nor their deep seated theological beliefs which are the real issues. Not Christian Nationalism or the Woke Christians. This divide is nothing new. Mostly it seems we have under-informed Christians allowing the media and social media to spin them up into a frenzy. Its sad. I usually feel like a therapist when I speak to Christian friends these days. I guess people used to assume they agreed on much more things. Now they realize they don't and they are all throwing a fit about it. When you have heterodox views on modern politics as I do, you get used to being in the minority. Christians need to show grace to their brothers and sisters and seek to understand if they want to discuss such things. Its also fine to not enter politics.

Claude Code is unreasonably good at building MVPs | Aaron Brethorst https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2025/10/claude-code-is-unreasonably-good-at-building-mvps In my experience this has been true. LLMs have plenty of flaws but many can be overcome with skill/knowledge about how they work and how to minimize the effects. Time will tell how valuable these tools become and if they are profitable but it is promising for sure. > The counterargument I hear most often is that AI-generated code creates technical debt and quality problems. That’s absolutely true if you’re trying to ship Claude’s output directly to production. But for prototyping and validation, those concerns are premature optimization. You don’t need perfect code to validate whether people want your product. Like many things there is a desire in many of us to say it sucks. Especially if we feel threatened by it. This is even more true when people are clearly hyping something and being lose with facts and logic while doing so. Also true of the AI hype cycle. But, I have tried to push that stuff aside and see for myself if I can find use for these tools. I have access to many tools through work that I've been encouraged to evaluate. What I have seen so far does not threaten me in the slightest. One of the biggest things is that you can't trust these tools yet. I am not convinced you will ever be able to trust them. But if you have people that know what they are doing and have actual real world experience shipping software that works, on time and on budget these tools could be a massive boost to productivity. They aren't for the lazy. They aren't a replacement for devs. They seem to be an accelerant. If an engineer has experience with breaking down a project into small chunks and delegating tasks they have some of the skills to use LLMs with code generation effectively. But like working with a new junior dev, there is a learning curve. It is interesting to watch people that are clearly intimidated by the perceived threat. There's this idea that if they ignore them or refuse to use them they will go away. I really think my study of economics and economic history has helped me understand where to point my attention. I'm not gonna stop progress (if this is progress). As an economic actor my goal with work should be to make myself effective and indispensable. Its hard to do that with your head in the sand. https://stacker.news/items/1261372

Yep, adoption takes time. What I find funny is when I get notified about new people joining. Then the it happens again 4 years later. Then again 6 months later.

AWS services recover after daylong outage hits major sites https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/20/amazon-web-services-outage-takes-down-major-websites.html > The outage was first reported at 3:11 a.m. ET in AWS’ main US-East-1 region hosted in northern Virginia. A notice on AWS’ status page said it was experiencing DNS problems with DynamoDB, its database service that underpins many other AWS applications. > "There are no solutions, only trade-offs" ~ Thomas Sowell AWS and its toolchain is amazing. Its also a point of failure. https://stacker.news/items/1261362

From Resident Aliens For those Chriatians so concerned about saving "our democracy" and think the current admin is beyond the pale.

Vision Restored Using Prosthetic Retinal Implant https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/health/retinal-implant-macular-degeneration.html [Unpaywalled](https://archive.is/cu1u7) > The device could help a million people with a severe form of macular degeneration to be able to see enough to read. https://stacker.news/items/1261352

lol

Yep

Remember that terrible nationalist Teddy? Oh wait... he's on Mount Rushmore

Which president said this? No cheating. "We can have no ‘50-50’ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."

This take from him is the worst look for his case against v30. It's so over the top.

AI, Automation, and the Human Advantage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnqrtL6Obqg > This week, Bob tackles growing concerns about artificial intelligence, automation, and mass unemployment. Using the principles of marginal productivity and comparative advantage, he shows how the standard economic arguments still apply—even in the age of ChatGPT and robotics. Responding directly to viral tweets from Matt Walsh, Bob dismantles the popular belief that AI will inevitably destroy human labor markets. He explains why highly skilled labor has always coexisted with less-skilled workers and why new technologies, despite their disruptive effects, tend to improve standards of living for everyone over time. https://stacker.news/items/1256679