LOL, this post was only about a day too soon. When the Warsh announcement happened, PMs started cratering...

Never mind; I'd like to strangle the media dickheads who hyped Rick Rieder up. I should know by now not to listen to any of the fake news. The choice, obviously, was Kevin Warsh instead, long suspected. Still not good. But at least plausible because of his previous experience at the Fed.

Well that is certainly the state of things today. There was someone on X who basically said it openly: "click and rage bait is what gets all the views so that is what I will optimize for." Nothing organic about it, but other than that I agree. Oh, and he also said "if you tell too much truth you get demonetized."

The dollar is stronger than it was for much of the last 50 years (apart from a big spike a few decades ago when the dollar was very strong). Gold and other PMs are going through a speculative mania like they have every couple of decades and some trading it make a lot of money. I predict it will burst again, just like it did the last time.

I knew I had missed something and that's it. It is almost impossible to get new followers now unless you already had an account with some reach - say 1000+ followers. Even then, probably only 3-5 % of your followers will see any given post at best. You can still network but it is a laborious process because it might take quite a long time before your posts even surface if you reply guy a bigger account, and it is hard to find quality small accounts although many of the better accounts are smaller. Even though the network is smaller here, the network will see my posts and I can post long form without paying[1]. Also I took X off of my phone because it is too addictive, so Nostr was all I had when I was on vacation. I would like to see it grow organically but I am unsure how best to promote it to others. Maybe I'll just dm interesting accounts on various platforms and see if I get any hits. [1]- not that paying is bad, but you have already addressed why paying Elon might be a bad idea.

Well, Twitter made some very bad choices about how they ran the place and drove a bunch of people away. It is their fault, not Nostr's. Nostr was founded as a refuge so that we never have to go through social media censorship like what happened between 2017 and 2022 again.

I didn't realize until today Kevin Warsh - soon to be Fed chairman - is Ron Lauder's son in law (President of the World Jewish Congress & one of Trump's biggest donors). Apparently they are also the masterminds behind the proposed Greenland takeover. Trump always does the bidding of his paymasters.

Reminder that Trump wants to put a BlackRock executive who wants to return to Bernanke-era QE policies in as Federal Reserve Chairman. Does this even need further comment?

I have heard enough horror stories about Windows 11 that I thought about buying a Mac laptop for the first time since the 2000s. But I am a dev so I will just install Linux. This is why you don't have Hindoos vibe code your OS, kids.

Rise and fall of civilizations is just part of human history. We are in an age of decline predicted more than a century ago by such people as Oswald Spengler.