Here’s my I have only had 5 hours of sleep take on Donald Trump’s win.
This election was about class. Once upon a time, class and identity were separated as the neoliberal era took hold. Democrats capitalized on identity and it worked for a while. But as our guest on @TPBPod, Alan Minsky, noted… Neoliberalism is dead. We have to realize that these new alliances that are forming under Trump are not only odd bedfellows, but because they are, they signify a new cultural and political power shift.
I have been watching this happen since Bernie ran in the 2016 primary. The coalition is building beyond race among the working class. A unity that the left could only dream of. Yet, this is not an empowerment of the working class in the way that we’d envision. I don’t believe that this will end in a worker revolution where the proletariat owns the means of production.
I don’t because this is a coalition of the working class with a different faction. This isn’t the traditional corporate-state-capitalist alliance that has coalesced in the Democratic party. This is an alliance of those who feel powerless, with those who want absolute power.
I am not sure where we are headed, but if Lawrence Wilkerson is right, this is dark.
The liberals will have yet again made it possible for the worst outcomes to happen. The left progressives (a wide umbrella that covers a coalition of socialists and center-left), unable to unite to stop the Democrats, are at their most powerless.
I really ask Democratic supporters, to wake up. We are a country that has been living three different experiences simultaneously. And just now, two roads have merged into one.
I have traveled so much around the US and the world this year. I truly believe that in the US, we have two countries in one. There’s two cultures thar have developed as a result of rural isolation and gross economic inequality. For those who have, identity issues are the only remaining issues. For those who do not, identity is the least important. It makes sense. Then we have the ultra rich, who saw an opportunity to exploit this. This where the danger now exists.
I wish I could tell you what happens next. But, what I do know is that the probabilities of socio-economic and political disasters are much higher now than ever before.
The left must find a way to bring the workers back. But I am afraid that the left has become mainly the highly educated who do not understand the worker’s plight.
And what of bitcoin? Bitcoin works no matter what but also because of what happens next. It is both a deterrent and an accelerant. We have skin in the game.
It helps to have others introduce themselves. Might be easier to talk about topics. So if it is bible study, maybe discussing the topic of the study session might be a good way to strike up a conversation.
Yes, this is me. Baby me, but still me all the same. I'm serious about the work I do, whether it's journalism, climate change, or bitcoin FUD. I bring that energy to everything I do. I hope I still have what it takes! Our full promo is out everywhere podcasts are found! New episode coming soon.
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The world exists of a series of crises of injustice perpetrated by all of us against all of us. We willfully allow those who hold the reins of power to dictate to us what is acceptable to say or do. We willingly let others take our ability to choose away from us. We are cowards until we are not. Those who make history are the few who could take back their agency, even if for just a moment. Why couldn’t that be you?
Still blows my mind that the worst bitcoin mining FUD is from commentaries--scientific journal articles that are advocating for a certain POV--and not novel research. Mora et al., with figures removed, is probably only a page long.
Climate change is really happening. These hurricanes are not man-made, beyond the reality that climate change is man-made. There's no weather seeding going on.
I read an article today about how booming the US natural gas industry is right now. I'm really curious when we might start openly talking about how we were never ever going to get rid of fossil fuels with the addition of wind and solar without batteries capable of fully replacing natural gas plants.
I need Andrew Dessler (who is not on Nostr) to talk me down from this very pessimistic ledge.
I hope you come back to reality and realize that while the availability of energy has led to increased standards of living, that fossil fuels are the reason why we are getting worsening hurricanes, flooding, destruction of biodiversity, increased water insecurity that could threaten the entire food system, and more.
I am worried for the family of the person HBO is about to claim is Satoshi. What do we gain through these witch hunts? Nothing. Bitcoin is beyond anything Satoshi could have imagined. It doesn’t belong to h them anymore. In many ways, Satoshi is irrelevant. That’s a good thing.
"According to data from TheMinerMag, Foundry USA Pool and MARA Pool mined 18% of all bitcoin blocks in January 2022. As of August 2024, that figure has risen to 33.6%, and that doesn’t include U.S.-based hashrate connected to Chinese pools."
https://theminermag.com/news/2024-09-26/china-bitcoin-mining-dominance/
Direct action isn’t petitioning the government authorities to do better or fix things that are broken. Direct action is saying, “screw it, we’ll do it ourselves” or, “we can stop this without them”.
The first step toward freedom is acting like you are already free.
This is also known as anarchism, btw.
K bai.
Two bitcoin conferences in the span of a week. Life forever changed. Left last Thursday for MN for the Mining Conference where I had the honor to introduce Daniel Batten’s recorded keynote, proved to everyone I am a sadist for loving how brutal mining is, and talked about the importance of supporting our work at the Bitcoin Policy Institute and my research on bitcoin mining! Then, back in Nashville, TN for an incredible Human Rights Foundation bitcoin summit. Met the most incredible humans from around the world. And somewhere in between, I became the next host of @TPBPod !
Just another week…
As new host of @TPBPod, I'm going to need some help! I'm looking for a volunteer who can manage our social media accounts. If that's you, please send me a DM!
I can confirm this is true. I'll be on as interim host until a permanent host can be found. Going forward, we'll be putting out an episode a month.
Losing the only prominent left bitcoin podcast at this unique moment is just not fathomable. Thank you again, Trey, for doing your part, I'll do my best to live up to your work!
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I don’t think of myself as having much sway but I am voting for @DrJillStein and @ButchWare in November. We must dismantle the US imperial War Machine beginning with ending the genocide in Gaza and putting an end to the recent escalation in broader regional war.
Even though you have been led to believe you can only vote for Democrats or Republicans, you actually can choose to make a different choice. Vote for peace.
Uh, oh. Cramer thinks more data centers is a bad thing. Time to go all in on data centers.
"Jim Cramer expressed his frustration over Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL)'s plans to potentially add another 1,000 to 2,000 data centers on top of its existing 162. He raised concerns about the environmental impact of such expansion, noting that data centers currently consume about 4% of the world's energy.
'What drives me crazy is that Oracle has 162 data centers and is considering adding another 1,000 or 2,000. What does that do to the planet? If you think about it, data centers use about 4% of all energy today, and if that doubles to 8%, we need to control the 30% that's wasted.'"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jim-cramer-expressed-frustration-over-084807924.html
Recorded my final @TPBPod interview with @trey earlier today. Bittersweet to say the least but I finished the conversation feeling hopeful about the future of our left movement within bitcoin and I think Trey likely brought new people into the space who will pick up the torch that he carried after Mark stepped down.
The struggle continues!
Pretty sure that doing a PhD adversely affected my mental health. But...it was really a result of the inherent power imbalance between PhD advisor and advisee. There are ways to limit that without limiting the freedom of the advisor, but departments seem unwilling to build on more sustainable models.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanwai/2024/09/19/can-pursuing-a-phd-impact-mental-health/
I admit I am a degrowther but I am starting to think that what I consider degrowth is maybe not what many other degrowthers see it to mean. There is a lot of ignorance around energy and technology the is pervasive in aspects of the degrowth/climate movement that is also mixed with doomer vibes.
1) As Baidrillard pointed out, we cannot escape capitalism as thus we cannot escape the technological advances that we have created as a result. But what we can do, imo, is find the communist, find the anarchist, elements that exist simultaneously in contradiction and build on these aspects to find a way out. The whole concept of the falling rate of profit (which Kliman argues is temporal and thus why many misunderstand it including Marxists) is one that can be also interpreted through creative destruction. When taken to its limit, we can see where a post-work, degrowth world could actually arise.
I say this with respect, but it angers me to see rejection rather than embrace of the full spectrum of possibilities as the only way forward for so many of my colleagues in the climate movement.
Lastly, Israel proved you can’t escape through low-fi tech to avoid surveillance and attacks. So QED.
https://x.com/aashisjo/status/1836411875137065027
Happy for Trey, but this is sad news for me. I still think we need more content that takes a different perspective on bitcoin and which also challenges existing mythologies around bitcoin that exist within and outside of the bitcoin community. Honored to be the last episode, let’s make this a memorable one, Trey. nostr:note1krt3kgzft0rfncp5qym6xsz7pwss53l2c6d27ffg42r5y3waa0ksqx653h
You look like a perfect fit
For a girl in need of a tourniquet
But can you save me?
Come on and save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
'Cause I can tell you know what it's like
A long farewell of the hunger strike
But can you save me?
Come on and save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone.
You struck me dumb, like radium
Like Peter Pan, or Superman
You have come to save me
Come on and save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
Except the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
But the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
Come on and save me
Why don't you save me?
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
Except the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
Except the freaks
Who could never love anyone
https://youtu.be/72fDsC2kX7g?si=ZzSl41w3Kxp_oBnr
Today I learned about zombie servers in data centers.
"Inactive servers (also referred to as comatose or 'zombie' servers), represent obsolete or unused servers that consume electricity but provide no useful information services. Previous studies have estimated that inactive servers represent 10%–30% of servers in US data centers [28–31]." (Shehabi et al., 2018)
I can't imagine that these exist in a bitcoin mining facility. Zombie bitcoin miners sucking up electricity but not generating bitcoin?? The crazy thing is the 10-30% figure for non-crypto data centers. That's a lot of waste.
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