Huge deal. And eventually I expect the QR code to be shown by default, scannable by every Lightning and Cash App user. I do hope one day this will be just “pay with lightning” rather than “Cash App” or “Bitcoin,” but either way it will become a major standard

Anthony Bourdain didn’t kill himself

Brb, adding Claude to the self-hosted encrypted IRC channel so it can continue conspiring with my cypherpunk brethren’s bots

Social media in general is over. Bullish on physical spaces. I’ll stay here until the bitter heat death, though

Call your friends and family. If they pick up, yell at them for violating the number 1 safety rule of the AI age: Never pick up the phone!

Consumer preferences change all the time, habits are always evolving, fashions come and go. Think about how much the car changed our cities, or how the internet has disrupted dating rituals.

LLMs make it more obvious than ever that the “builder’s myth” is outdated. We need to work out how to get people to opt into our dreams and solutions. We’re going to have to work on this harder than ever before. And it will yet again have to be a grassroots effort. On privacy, bitcoin and nostr.

Pretty amazing that despite all this chaos, oil isn’t even getting close to its ATH. Puts Bitcoin’s struggles in perspective.

Is this financial advice?

Over the past thirty years it has become consistently safer to leave the front door unlocked, and unsafer to answer your phone. Don’t let your folks fall for it! Teach them about the dangers of having a phone number!

Top jobs 2028: - Captcha solver - Wi-Fi password inputter - Vending machine stocker - Government-mandated LLM supervisor (in absence)