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 Interest rates going up is supposed to be an anti-inflation measure #shrinking_money_supply
But the velocity of rate increase can lead to bank failures. So hopefully BOJ holds at this level. 
 Did Warren Buffett know in advance about BOJ rate hike? Very probable. Likely knew months in advance. I am speculating of course!
#retail_investor_last_to_know 
 NVIDIA nims is cool and gives few api credits for making a developer account! 
 Shed opportunistic relatives like dead skin! 
 Tick Tock … time vs fate 
 Sam Altman is probably speeding towards singularity before anyone else! 
#Puzzle_pieces
#agi 
#helion 
#gpu_chips 
#worldcoin 
 You are just a metric to the bourgeois party: to work, tax, consume, reproduce to make sure the labor pool stays repleted! 

#breakfree
#btc_is_now_partytool
#privacy_now_atL1
#XMR 
 Just curious, why is the bourgeois party concerned about childbirths, contraception, childless generation? Is it because there will be a shortage of labor in future?
Is that what my existence is reduced to? Just a worker bee!
Worse, worker bee in a fiat mine with honeypot shrinking every year. 
#breakfreeofcycle
#fuckbourgeois 
 The lesson I feel, is for all of us to support open source. Everything will fall into place. Eg. Freedom of speech around open source code! 
 “Crypto and Bitcoin”.. looks like a16z got there first! Fuck the snake oil spew.. 
#btc_is_now_partytool
#XMR 
 Is the party of bourgeois taking donations in btc in the btc24 rally? Nope, fiat is preferred to buy snake oil political cure in the btc rally!
#btc_is_now_partytool
#XMR 
 An open letter to Errol Musk. 

Dear Errol,
Please say you love your kids unconditionally before your son irreparably scars his kids!

Love,
nostr 
 Bitcoiners you know, showing love for #Monero

nostr:nevent1qqsrrh9dvlt9857kd2cf9hv0305uvvq0nf2pu... 
 If bitcoin is king, Monero is the emperor!
If Bitcoin gets you into the ecosystem, Monero takes you to the next level. 
 This guy Zucks 
 Hi busy bee, worker bee,
Toiling for the bourgeoisie’s delight,
But what if you could sting and be free?
A protest, a mighty decree is what you need,
Hi worker bee, rise up, claim your right to be free https://image.nostr.build/e8f64352850bbb8b8057abf3edea2311fce8ce7f965dd05ed914688bf1e89d45.jpg  
 It’s bourgeoisie vs the working class 
The working class will pay more taxes, work more, earn less and to top it all lose some rights. But atleast they will have the skin color and religion as part of their identity
#project25 
 Fuck printers 
 I have a brother laser printer running for past 10 years. Still going strong! 
 When Ken Griffin and Ryan Cohen are on the same side, the Muskites and popular nostrites are on the same side and Jamie Dimon and bitcoiners are on same side—the bourgeoisie side!
Makes me wonder if that is the side I want to be on? #XMR 
 The bourgeois party: heralded by a billionaire and supported by billionaires- https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/06/14/these-are-the-billionaires-supporting-trumps-campaign/
#frenchrevolution 
 Fate handed Trump a second life and Harris an opportunity she wouldn’t have otherwise gotten. I don’t feel Harris will have  shot to beat Trump given what I feel.
On the other hand the times point to a left shift (France, UK elections). 
Let’s see what wins: fate or time! 
 sudo fuckit! 
 A lot of IS is down. Nostr is working reliably 🙌
A new use case comes up! 
 Fuck Microsoft with its gimmicky 365 product 
 I am a single issue voter - pro democracy!

I don’t want to be dragged to dark ages where millions are disenfranchised, people don’t have right to their own bodies and society will pick what’s good for you! Fuck that..
#btc_is_now_partytool
#xmr 
 “You are fired” sounds very decisive and feels like what we need for our country.  
However when someone is laid off, they disappear off the balance sheet of a company but not the country. So a company and country are very different. 
A country is still responsible for the laid-off and their families. 
My family had been through such an ordeal and the uncertainty is painful! 
 I am not here trying to change minds. I am trying to summarise my incoherent train of thought. 
 You are to evaluate 2 employee managers:
Manager 1: during work tenure, there was lot of last minute fires, chaos, employee complaints, gloating, gaslighting etc

Manager 2: during work tenure things were quiet. So quiet that at times you wondered if work was being done.

There was a possibility that outcomes for the company were worse in Manager 1 tenure but giving benefit of doubt, we will assume outcomes were similar in both tenures

EXHIBIT 2 
 Fiat mining is so fiat! 
 Amen! We are the dumb fucks.. 
 https://craigwright.net/
I hate liars and con artists. Unfortunately they do have golden run with their believers at times! Fuck faketoshi. 
 I, a little guy, look forward to go up against Musk and beat him as he loads up on Trump train. It’s going to take fighting like hell to save democracy! 
 Most intuitive choice is the choice of the rich and successful, had an attempt on his life, is subject to witch-hunt ! The other demented guy is the obvious counter intuitive choice 
 Buy one XMR now. It will pay off your huge health bills 20 years later! 
 Was the shooter a registered republican… 😲.. so many questions? 
 Why is it hard to believe that there are equal number of crazy people on left as there are on right. I personally condemn the violence.
And I don’t personally feel this event will affect the outcome of the election. The fabled red wave isn’t coming! 
 Nostr serves as the credible backup plan for when governments seize or ban X. 
 So is Nostr now officially a backup plan? 
 Well you remember Trump saying he has a core group “that would vote for him even if he shot someone on 5th ave”; Well Biden has that kinda group too. A group that will vote for him even if he stands there during debate saying absolutely nothing ! 
 Good for Umbrel. XMR is what bitcoin should be. 
 Smart thermostats are bullshit! I buy it and then it keeps temp at 75+ if I don’t keep checking up on it . 
 So MSTR is highly leveraged. A down spike in btc can stress MSTR to insolvency! 
 How does open source compete with Apple? Well to reframe, open source is targeting the people pyramid where 95% of world’s populace aren’t able to afford the Apple ecosystem. Well Apple is targeting the wealth pyramid, which is inverse compared to people pyramid and is focused on vacuuming money of the wealthy worlds populace . So open source and Apple are not the same! 
 Eth has its social network, btc has its social network… I guess every coin got to get its own network.. I guess! 
Would be great if nostr was a no coin religion! 
 I personally feel the LLM’s have hit a plateau. We seem to be getting excited about drift! Waiting for another shift. 
 “It’s going to be busy few weeks brotha!” - market frenzy incoming 
 Open AI blitzkreig! Don’t fall for it and worse yet don’t fold. 
 Llama 3 8b is so simple in way it answers, that it is an art form! 🎨 
 Taxed when you earn, taxed when you spend, taxed when you invest. The middle class will be locked in as a forever tax base as we can never grow out of it! Oh yes, make sure you have kids as you don’t want to devoid the country of workers or tax chumps in the future!! 
 I have said this before. TSLA uses creative accounting. 
 It kinda sucks. We are being taxed like crazy and all that money is pumped into wars we are not part of! No accountability on how that money is being used. Fuck the military industrial complex. 
 A Nostr account spins up a propaganda piece every few minutes. It is likely a bot. 
 Shill me your best resources for learning about bitcoin on a technical level 
 This is what I found useful. In 2 days you get a gist of what the math and code simplistically is: http://karpathy.github.io/2021/06/21/blockchain/ 
 Just so I understand, a group was asking about “ossifying” parts of btc code as they were worried about xz utils type attack on the blockchain? If so what safeguards should we enact against such an attack? 
 Claude Opus is better than the rest with Rust. 🦀 
 Bitcoin is the first step. It is not in itself the final step. XMR is the second. 
 After spending more than 3 hrs debugging a non functioning gradio API, I found only had to update gradio package for it to work! 😞 
 Black Swan event looks closer and closer every passing month 
 I have a bone to grind with you, Nostr. I’ve been slaving away trying to build a completely new... 
 True FOSS spirit! 
“I’m making it because I think it needs to exist. I will consider your feedback but will choose what I want to do with it. You all can take your feedback and shove it up your a** if you don’t like what I do!” 
 8% fat is elite athlete! 
 A new form of growth hacking! 😂 https://the-guild.dev/blog/judging-open-source-by-github-stars

Didn’t realise this is a thing.  I guess they would be called gitfluencers! 
 Nostr is a meeting point for a rabid group of breakers and makers! 
 The US realtor market is very opaque and painful. First of many changes in motion : https://fortune.com/2024/03/16/what-does-real-estate-realtor-settlement-mean-housing-market/

Go Redfin. It was probably the first successful attempt by a co. to break up the opaque market and try to bring some transparency in favour of customers. 
 👍👍 double likes for Ollama 
 What's the most bizarre Nostr Client out there?  
 This is actually very good 🙌 
 Obama was lawyer who wrote a book. Vance is a lawyer who wrote a book. It’s like a way to show you have political ambitions. Only thing respectable in his career was he was a marine. 🫡
Does his running mate respect that?