Hey @Diyana, sorry for the delay – I’ve been offline.
I would assume that the Rogan interview didn't reveal too much about Trump’s politics (that you didn’t already know); his interviews focus on making him appear personable (which he is). For real insight into his political stance, his rallies provide a clearer picture. Many of the speakers at these events are likely to form his future cabinet and administration. For example, the recent rally at Madison Square Garden would offer more context than a Rogan interview.

And I was referring to insights from Trump’s inner circle in his last administration. A quick look into what some of his highest-ranking officials have shared is concerning. For instance, just search for statements from former White House Chief of Staff, Gen. John Kelly, and former Secretaries of Defense, James Mattis and Mark Milley. Their comments on Trump in respect to a potential second term provide an important counterpoint.


Not a popular or short opinion:
When I think about this election, I think about my grandparents…

My grandmother spent five years in a Japanese concentration camp when she was 19.
My grandfather just a little older fought in the resistance in occupied Holland.
My other grandfather was a bomber pilot (and at the tail end of WWII, was part of the 15-month-long Berlin airlift to fly in food and water when they were blockaded) however the majority of his friends didn’t survive join in that mission. Meanwhile, his wife took shelter in the London bombings with their infant child.
All enduring, fighting or imprisoned for years by a dangerous political ideology that unfortunately (and for whatever reason that I cannot fathom) Trump shares and even aspires to. Look to General Kelly’s statements this week for confirmation, (and similar statements made by many of Trump’s previous administration and inner circle).

What I learnt from my elders, is that the world is more fragile than it seems.  It can turn. Quickly.
And there is a Fourth Turning due, (if you follow the theory).

For many of us, we’re extremely privileged to not have experienced these things, but sadly our generational history is fading fast from our collective memory. It has been just long enough for us to not take it seriously. To think it can’t happen.
The water simmers for quite awhile but when it boils and the bubbles rise, it happens in an instant.

If Trump is elected (but is likely a Trump/Vance Presidency which no one seems to discuss much) the inevitable will likely happen, institutions will deteriorate, freedoms and sovereignty will have to be fought for again. Freedoms our grandparents won, will instead be handed over for entertainment, bravado and brand. (Because admittedly Trump is very entertaining and brave and on brand). And then perhaps in four more generations it will all rhyme again. Unless, just maybe, ‘the people’ decide to break ‘the cycle’.

This feels very much like a question of whether we have collective free will, or are instead resigned to repeating our intergenerational political patterns.


Nicely Controlled Net. 😉


Turns out he was quietly sending the test kits to Putin instead. 🤦♀


When you ask about the Doctors posting warnings in Jan 2020, the answer is yes. They did.


Yes, sounds like maybe you also know someone with long Covid. It’s devastating, underreported, and rarely discussed. Brain inflammation, nervous system dysregulation, completely life altering. Thought you had another 30-40 years of career, inspiration and productivity? Long Covid says ‘fuck no, you’re done’.

But more importantly consider this: we’ve built up herd immunity, Covid will always kick around with us now along with influenza and other nasty AF viruses (do not google ‘dormant virus DNA’ because we all have some and it be freaky), but seriously we are all less likely to have Covid mess with our cardiovascular and parasympathetic nervous systems as much as it did, when it first stepped out of the lab (whoops…I mean wherever. Don’t ask me. I absolutely wasn’t reading Chinese doctors’ posts in Jan 2020 when they were trying to get the word out before all of it was scrubbed from the internet in March - and yes, I am way too online) *ahem*

But. To be fair everything’s a risk.
Even stepping outside your home each morning. But that’s okay. And more than that, it’s totally worth stepping out. Because all we have is the time to explore this world and live our best life and to love and be loved.
So live this life.


Sorry to interrupt your solipsism, but those jackets are not ‘findable’ on Amazon prime or handed out as swag at an international tech junket. Few know this.
Like I said. It’s a big wide world out there. Do not let that intimidate you. Instead. Travel more. It’s good for the mind. Trust me. It really is.


If you can read jackets you’d know this wasn’t in America. Not everything is.


5.
Although I may be hallucinating.


Yes. This is the anxiety I feel. Every time someone says "have fun staying poor" it makes me want to cry, because those are my extended family, your extended family. Stay humble, my friends.


Yes. But.
The chart doesn’t really capture the complexity of the overall problem - there's a lot of mental illness that's not hospitalized. In reality, many (or most) of us will experience cognitive decline if we are fortunate enough to live long lives. Toward the end, serious mental decline - often lasting 1-6 months, is more than common, but it isn’t factored into this chart or treated in the same way, as it is categorically differentiated from 'mental illness'. But it is. And it's hospitalized, but not 'categorized' as such.

The brain is annoyingly just another organ (with 'magic properties', yes, but is still limited to our physics), just like the heart or liver, subject to disease, inflammation, and aging. Yet we often overlook this because our subjective experience of reality feels so distinct. But time is the most finite resource any of us has. Subjectively speaking (subjective to our lifespan) it's even more finite than Bitcoin. So the only thing more 'hard' than hard money is hard time. See what I did there - circled back to the chart. :]


Not something you need dwell on.
And yet, most probably not about you.


Yes. The Nazis persecuted.
Like I said.
Misdirected anger and fear.
Look to history.


Why


Reflects cowardice and misplaced frustration. To those few who find affiliation and/or amusement, I ask that you take a beat to reflect and… [stretch goal] research our collective history, throughout time, and the recurring patterns of misdirected anger (and fear). It’s part of control.
And. Yes. It will feel uncomfortable.


josephinx

code + chaos appreciator | decentralisation junkie | #nostr navigator | rabbit hole adventurer  | stan of genAI tools for storytelling | hopping between ideas, one zap at a time
⚡🐇


Phil Wilson is the author of that blog website, claiming to be involved in the design of the logo.
However, the evidence, both verifiable and circumstantial, points to Bitboy taking Nakamoto’s ‘B’ design, evolving the design and crafting the official logo alone. Really, the time and place for Wilson to claim authorship was November 2010 and on Bitcointalk forum in the thread where Bitboy originally posted the logo, where it could have been ‘hashed’ out between them.


Yes, I also found this website during my research phase and thought the logo design construction animations were super impressive.

However, Bitboy refuted the author’s involvement in the logo design by stating in his signature that he designed the logo without collaborators. This seems more likely, as this website and its alternative version of the logo design surfaced much later, without evidence of the author being part of the forum or contributing to design discussions contemporaneously.

Additionally, I measured the logo angle from when it was first posted, and it is 14 degrees, as Bitboy noted, not 13.88 as the author claims. #logodetective 🕵♀


Engagement farmers.


The name just works and continues to work. Comparatively, the name “X” is pretty meta (see what I did there) as it represents the unknown, almost as if it’s asking, “What am I?”.

I’d argue it takes itself (too) seriously, “Twitter” does not.
https://m.primal.net/LLdm.jpg


Yes, much better. 🧡

Earlier this year, I delivered a prez on the evolution of the Bitcoin logo and symbol by analysing the discussions on the Bitcointalk forum during that time. Nakamoto initially designed the first ‘skeuomorphic’ BC coin and the next version based on the “B” with a double strike-through.

However, it was Bitboy the designer (not the influencer) who created the minimalist, orange, flat design that is still in use today. I believe the original colors were likely intended as a nod to gold coins.
https://m.primal.net/LLdO.jpg


Dr. Rhonda Patrick


Amazink prez Kai!! 🧡 #bitcoin


Red sky at night, sailor's delight.
Red sky in the morning, sailor's warning.


Looking forward to sharing my presentation

“the day I got hit by a bus”

including a quiz on bitcoin custodianship

@ Brisbane Bitcoin Meetup

Thursday 3 October
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GReAt. So Meta is becoming a 'post-reality' platform.
What could possibly go wrong...
I'd prefer to stick with shrimp Jesus. *sigh*


“We each need to find our own inspiration, Kiki.
Sometimes it’s not easy.”
🩶


The ‘Emoji Standard & Research Working Group’ receives the submissions, and there is a guideline they use. But noted, will look to write a little more on it. I know that there was a petition to submit Bitcoin as an emoji this year, but cannot find it in the submissions. Will look into it. 🙂


PTSD from defragging in the 90s. 😱


Watched Stewart interview Lagarde last night about “exactly what causes inflation.” Lots of talk from Lagarde about Covid, supply chains, and rising gas prices in Europe due to war.

Number of mentions of QE:
Jon: 1
Lagarde: 0

She didn’t take the bait. It’s almost like we’re meant to think that money supply has nothing to do with inflation…

https://youtu.be/bmA4z24I7Xc


Very cool. I geek out over symbols.
So much so, that I signed up to the Unicode Consortium awhile back.
So now I get a preview of the new emojis released each year.
Coming soon to your mobile keyboard: ‘face with bags under eyes’, ‘splatter’, ‘shovel’, and ‘harp’.
Seems on point for 2024. 😱


And yet, they were approved by the Unicode standard. Proving there’s always room for white and bald hair styles. 😂❤


We know what we are, but not what we may be.


The latest newsletter just went out. Get your quick summary of what has been happening around the community. https://bitcoindesign.substack.com/p/bitcoin-design-newsletter-65


But also. DYOR on any political news sources. I personally get my news from sources that [admittedly] confirm my worldview but I also seek out and respectfully read/watch that which makes me uncomfortable. Both have value. Perhaps the latter moreso.
Otherwise, we're all just living in a media bubble (aka algo).


Love the nostalgic aEstheTiCs. ♥
However. Looking into it, it's not even ironic - has kept the same 90s web look for the last 3 decades.
Perhaps our past, is our future.

Let’s reboot - simpler, fewer distractions, more focus.


Looked it up - Infowars.com could *possibly* fetch up to $30m, based on current website traffic + domain valuation calculators.
But that's just numbers, the websites' associative liabilities [DYOR] would render it relatively worthless. It's a burnt domain.
Sometimes land gets too scorched to bring back.
Nature's way.


The FOMO algo.


Not a fan of Meta generally, but they’ve been leading in open-source AI. And yes, I understand how counterintuitive that seems - perhaps Zuck is chasing his 'redemption arc'.

They released LLaMA over a year ago, which is their open-source family of large language models - considered to be best-in-class for research, efficiency, and accessibility, compared to other open-source models like GPT-3 and even proprietary models like GPT-4 [which was the leading model up until the more recent 4o + o1].


"...perfection only lives in little moments. Can't be sustained over hours; just instances, you know. Little wisps of time, and the world becomes imperfect again."


“time is the only currency we spend without knowing our balance”

do you think our inability to know how much time we have left contributes to the pursuit of things like wealth, legacy, and meaning?

if you did know your time balance, would you care less about these pursuits, or would you double down on them?


Who doesn’t love magic internet coffee?


Unless you’re both programmers + gamers, in which case they are at the top.


Fix the money.
#photostr #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/734a07d8adaaad05ef1cce83542a738e82181dfd11c95f3c1c0b67c8dd8053d5.jpg


GM
#ai #art https://image.nostr.build/79fdcbac19b0bbf7536259c328da97a02971ec5493d548220d6759e0176e3eb5.jpg


Agreed. Loved her in Blue.


GN https://image.nostr.build/6767f9e08425394afccfdc52e69fc29660a19011f08dd9f635b793e0433eae93.jpg


GM https://image.nostr.build/56b77385e42030379a931200f2913049856c4e1d6183abd4747bc1713466be4b.jpg


GM.
Happy Splatterday!
Starting this one late with an intense single-farm Colombian coffee in a kotoisa (cosy) Finnish café. Love the journeying, ✈
Love the brew. ☕ #coffeechain
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So true.
Nostr lets us reclaim our creativity by offering an alternative to centralized social media, where we waste our creative energy feeding the algos.


Hyvin se menee!


Global adoption and free speech are fundamental principles. While it’s natural to disagree and engage in intellectual debates over ideas and direction, resorting to hostility is unproductive and reminiscent of schoolyard behavior. If all we seek is a "box of screams", we might as well return to centralized systems.


GN from Helsinki my fellow Nostr plebs. Arrived today from Tallinn and stumbled into a live Haloo Hellskini live concert. Life hacks. Super grateful to be extending the Baltic Nostr Honeybadger tour with nostr:npub1xsl3h5v825m984rjskn08gulpwqpl8648t435pch9gypvxpudkwqpmcs3e  #nostr #Nostriga #nomad #pleblife
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Here it is, the final episode of What Bitcoin Did…

The McCormack Show coming soon.

Peace ✌🏻

https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/what-bitcoin-did


One of the big macro questions is when will the US banking system run into the liquidity floor, requiring the Fed to end quantitative tightening? Due to current regulations and the "ample reserve" regime, banks generally have liquidity requirements relative to their overall size, and their overall size keeps growing nominally.

-Big banks ran into the liquidity floor in September 2019 at $1.5 trillion with the repo spike, and the Fed had to end quantitative tightening and resume mild quantitative easing (which was then overshadowed by the giga-liquidity-bazooka in 2020/2021).

-Smaller banks ran into the liquidity floor in March 2023 at $3.0 trillion (the new floor) with the regional bank crisis. Both the Fed and the Treasury provided liquidity in response, although the Fed has maintained quantitative tightening. Liquidity has been maintained above that level without being greatly elevated, which is probably what would have happened post-2019 if not for the pandemic/lockdown stuff thereafter.

The New York Fed thinks the liquidity floor will be reached sometime in 2025, and that they'll go back to gradual balance sheet expansion then. Andy Constan, formerly of Bridgewater, thinks it'll be late 2025. I debate him a bit on this since both of us cover this closely, and I generally think it'll be mid 2025, although there are enough moving variables that neither early 2025 or late 2025 would surprise me, so conservatively I say "by the end of 2025."

I was talking to a large institutional investor today, and he said that his contact who is a major repo operator at an investment bank, thinks the current floor is now $3.3 trillion, which is roughly where it is currently. That basically means any further quantitative tightening has to be offset by reverse repo drainage, or they'll have a repo issue and the Fed will need to end QT. My estimate is somewhere in the $3.1-$3.2 trillion range for the liquidity floor, meaning I think there's a bit more room than that repo operator. But either way it's pretty tight.

This is all kind of rambling but generally when that liquidity floor is reached and is responded to, it tends to be good for a lot of liquidity-driven assets, including bitcoin. And it'll probably be with a whimper more than a bang, kind of like the September 2019 repo crisis that nobody other than macro nerds remember.

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Any designers interested in a reading club for the (total work-in-progress) Open Design Guide? Meet weekly, go over one page together, come up with improvements. https://opendesign.guide


Finally leaving this amazing city…over the past week, have met so many awesome #nostriches, and deep dived into this rapidly growing #nostr ecosystem.
All. Very. New.

The energy at #nostriga was electric—so many ideas + discussions on how to keep pushing the boundaries of decentralized comms with notes, and other stuff. ⚡

Massive thanks to nostr:npub1nvfgglea9zlcs58tcqlc6j26rt50ngkgdk7699wfq4txrx37aqcsz4e7zd for nudging me to present at noobday, to nostr:npub14a234n82fqsqp0wvkd9a83fp2k8p7dfhww3u4mvr59rey8pkn6sswh0dfz and nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m and their teams for making these events possible, to @nas for the awesome artwork that surrounded us all week, and to nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 for my favourite talk that inspired me to get started buidling in this space.💜

Ready to return home, find other #nostr creatives, and leverage/share ai toolkits, to bring more creative content to the space. It’s a new world. How super exciting is it, to be a part of this so early?!

#lfg #riga #BH2024 #grownostr #introductions https://image.nostr.build/a7aac9653038277f58ed54ef45c479dfa636dee177617e9140fe8a96f33de854.jpg


The ‘open’ vs ‘closed’ AI war is playing out in the AI space in parallel to this one. Plenty of open source AI tools and experiments happening that we can leverage to buidl out #nostr. Onwards.


we aren't talking about ai+nostr enough https://m.primal.net/KROt.png


It's good to see people realizing that protocols are better than platforms.


Not your keys, not your…?
Lost + found in Riga.
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This is hot 🔥

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/08/26/telegram-and-youtube-censorship-show-bitcoin-and-nostr-are-critical/


GM #nostriga
Last day of exploring Riga for this nostrich.
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Leveraging the strengths of both expert-led presentations and DIY-style unconference spaces would prolly be the best of both worlds.
At our Bitcoin meetups, we have a specialist talk followed by 'lightning talks' (soapboxes) where anyone can speak impromptu on a Bitcoin-adjacent topic for five minutes, followed by a Q&A session, which allows those who might not usually have a platform, to share their ideas. This opportunity encourages discussion and networking, which is good for community building. I’d love to see both formats at the next nostr - an un/conference.


#floordrobe

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GM #nostriga #honeybadger
I have two spare tickets to Baltic Honeybadger - pick up at Fantadroms 🔥 DM me. https://image.nostr.build/2611054b195a7131fd6f311fb2a956323acf7ac0d8ae397279b789efa8770819.jpg


GM nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6