*[Nostr] is, in effect, an attempt to decentralize the [attention] loops of civilization, making them less fragile, less hijacked, and more open to emergent wisdom.*

*The shift is not gradual coordination, but a cascading equilibrium: when one major player moves, all must follow to stay competitive.*

*With our fiat being debt the whole concept of borrowing and saving becomes quite fuzzy. Saving pieces of paper, or digital, that are a debt to an undefined person, is strange. Just like borrowing those pieces of paper, or digital, is strange. The whole concept is rather strange. Just because some law says those pieces of paper must be accepted to settle any debt.... How they pulled it off, and where able to keep the system alive for so long will be one for the history books*

*a subprime paper bitcoin sector📉is starting to emerge where choppy seas are making it hard for investors to have fun*

*Central planning, by suppressing the spontaneity of social order, also suffocates the virtues that sustain civilization: effort, frugality, honesty*

*Bitcoin… doesn’t promise miracles, but it offers a present built on clear rules: 21 million, self-custody, sovereignty. It’s not about blind faith, but about understanding. And when you see it, you realize blind patience is just another form of obedience. …Bitcoin… proposes a different kind of patience: not passive or resigned, but informed and active. A patience based on immutable rules, not institutional promises.* https://stacker.news/items/1086280/r/halalmoney

*Bitcoin is a tool for building a better world. But the world won’t be rebuilt with hope and memes alone. It will be rebuilt by high-agency people, running high-integrity businesses, on top of sound money using principles that have stood the test of time.*

*It’s useful to keep in mind that there is never a real lack of anything. All of it exists, somewhere, sometime.*

*Blackrock is gearing up to tell the world what Bitcoin is and is not. We achieve NOTHING from this project if our money is allowed to remain untethered to Bitcoin as the base layer*

*the most pressing danger of fiat money games is that paper bitcoin winds up being rehypothecated* https://stacker.news/items/1083352/r/halalmoney?commentId=1083482

*Bitcoin… restores that childlike wonder, the awe of seeing the world as if for the first time, while also demanding the discipline to grow into the man I was meant to become.*

The backing from blue-chip investors such as GV and Cherry Ventures underlines the level of interest in AI-powered software remediation businesses. Roni Hiranand, an executive at GV, said: "AI has transformed how code is written, but software reliability has not kept pace. "Phoebe is building a missing layer of contextual intelligence that can help both human and AI engineers avoid software failures. "We love the boldness of the team's vision for a software immune system that pre-emptively fixes problems." AI 'immune system' Phoebe lands backing from Google arm | Money News | Sky News https://share.google/s9UIx1F3EWuTLottf

Thank you. Time to read a book.

Schrödinger’s sat

Inflation adds a premium to all established stores of value. A house in a desirable neighbourhood has extra premium.

Do yourself a favour and follow Kepford on Stacker News. “I remember learning more about FDRs actions during the war and how he "nationalized" some many aspects. His youth groups seemed very similar to Hitler's (though noble to Americans?). He altered the economy with massive abuses of presidential power. But the people seem to have supported him as the Germans did of their leader. Fascism as an idea was pretty popular in the US prior to the war and honestly I think the US was probably a major influence on the rise of Fascism in Europe. I'm of the opinion that the US adopted many of the same approaches to public / private partnerships that were in place in Germany too. We just don't call it that nasty name. I used to wrestle with this and then I just realized that there isn't really clear and uniform agreement on what fascism even is. It’s kind of a useless term. Today it even seems to be losing its shock value as WW2 becomes a more distant memory. I think the weakest argument against it is the racial one. You can remove the racism and its still rotten. And we've seen many different systems use racism to justify terrible things.” https://stacker.news/items/1071351/r/halalmoney?commentId=1071393

I resorted to Perplexity to better understand your note. Fascinating stuff! Thanks for enlightening me! :::: The trade-off between compression and timely information is a well-recognized principle emerging from information theory and observed across natural and artificial systems. The more one compresses information—by reducing redundancy or using shorter codes—the greater the risk of losing detail or making it harder to access or reconstruct the data quickly, especially in time-sensitive contexts[2][4][9]. In communication systems (including human language, animal signaling, and technology), compression aims to minimize resource use (like energy, bandwidth, or memory) but may reduce the immediacy or fidelity of information delivery. For example, in human language, more frequent words are shorter (Zipf’s law of brevity), reflecting efficient coding, but highly compressed codes require both sender and receiver to share knowledge of the coding scheme, which can increase delay or error under uncertainty[2][10]. Formally, rate-distortion theory quantifies the balance: as compression increases (reducing the 'rate'), the allowable distortion (i.e., information loss or delay) also increases[4][6]. Systems—biological or artificial—must negotiate this trade-off to optimize for their context: minimizing resource use while retaining as much actionable, timely information as needed[4][6][9]. This principle is sometimes called a law of nature in that it arises from universal constraints imposed by physical limits, information theory, and evolutionary pressures. It is not unique to one field: analogs appear in animal cognition, neural processing, language, atmospheric data analysis, and more[2][3][4][10]. In summary, compression seeks efficiency, but at the cost of losing or delaying information—a ubiquitous, natural trade-off governed by information theory and observed in biological and technological contexts[2][4][9]. Citations: [1] Constraining the Compression: Thermodynamic Depth and ... https://academic.oup.com/pq/article/75/2/396/7612581 [2] Compression as a Universal Principle of Animal Behavior https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.12061 [3] Compressing atmospheric data into its real information content https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-021-00156-2 [4] The evolution of lossy compression - Journals https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2017.0166 [5] Navigating the informativeness-compression trade-off in XAI https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43681-025-00733-5 [6] How rate-distortion trade-offs distort the latent representations of ... https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1012952 [7] [PDF] The compression-error trade-off for large gridded datasets - GMD https://gmd.copernicus.org/preprints/gmd-2016-177/gmd-2016-177-manuscript-version3.pdf [8] [PDF] The Physical Nature of Information - Weizmann Institute of Science https://www.weizmann.ac.il/complex/falkovich/sites/complex.falkovich/files/uploads/Lecture%20Notes.pdf [9] Data compression - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression [10] Linguistic law-like compression strategies emerge to maximize ... https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10523061/

“there's a real risk of hiring people who can prompt but can’t debug” https://stacker.news/items/1066028/r/halalmoney?commentId=1066045

Cities flourish more than the doomers expect. Monoculture farms are replaced by rewilded land.

Welcome!

Overvaluation of the convenience of an established platform. Undervaluation of the benefits of a fledgling protocol.

You either die young enough as a well-intentioned Bitcoiner, or live long enough to become a Bitcoin baron.

>>"experts warn of crisis if the market collapses" Wow, it must be hard being an expert<< https://stacker.news/items/1072421/r/halalmoney?commentId=1072914

You inspired some debt jubilee reading! —— "It wasn’t necessarily out of kindness that rulers did this (although a significant subset of them aged well in history and were wise); it was basically just a solution to a societal math problem. It’s like if you run a computer long enough, eventually it starts to work less efficiently, as memory leaks and other issues build up. it starts to freeze and slowdown, frustratingly. It’s a mildly unstable system in other words. Refreshing the power and rebooting the system gets the computer running smoothly again. Debt jubilees generally served that purpose; an occasional reset to wipe out some of the growing instabilities from prior generations, and begin with a cleaner slate and a renewed social contract. Otherwise these societal imbalances tend to cleanse themselves with more violent revolutions, with the many poor vs the few rich." "Fiat currency is a game of confidence. It’s not backed by anything other than legal force and guardrails that create firm rules for how it can be issued and by whom. To break those rules is to risk breaking the currency. Everything is backed by something else and if you remove the backing, then there is nothing. In practice, during government debt crises, this independence between the government and central bank weakens. The Federal Reserve was basically “captured” by the Treasury Department from 1942-1951 in order to fund the war and peg Treasury bonds below the inflation rate, for example." "if the central bank has trillions of dollars in negative capital, it is no longer independent, because it is no longer solvent. It has no real authority to do anything independently at that point, all illusions of independence are gone, and it is entirely reliant on the government for its solvency. The whole idea of how money works in the modern fiat currency system ceases to make sense at that point." "We can’t just remove one piece of it, like government debt from the central bank balance sheet. The monetary base is collateralized by government debt, and government debt is supported by expanding the monetary base when needed. It’s basically an ouroboros." https://www.lynalden.com/debt-jubilee/

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" (Sir Walter Scott, 1808) "Abu Dhabi has not officially taken a side on the Russia-Ukraine war, instead calling for peace and an end to the fighting. It has also refused to partake in Western sanctions against Russia, providing a safe haven for Russian oligarchs and expatriates fleeing both sanctions and mandatory conscription. Some 4,000 Russian businesses operate in the UAE, according to reports, and foreign direct investment between the two has steadily increased." "The UAE is also buffered by its mammoth business ties to the U.S. beyond just defense: Abu Dhabi is a rapidly growing hub for, and investor in, America’s largest AI and tech companies. Trump’s highly feted visit to the Gulf region in May saw a number of major deals signed with the UAE across sectors, while Abu Dhabi in March committed to a 10-year, $1.4 trillion investment framework in the U.S." CNBC