AI responds to the questions you ask. Not the questions you should have asked.

“…there are now (broadly speaking) two successor coalitions with utterly irreconcilable visions: The Custodians Global corporations, Wall Street, Big Tech C-suites, the national-security establishment, most of the Ivy League Universities, the legacy media, and the permanent bureaucracy from Washington to Brussels all want to preserve as much as possible of the post-WWII world. They double down by restricting freedom of speech and actions and punishing those who do not comply with the consensus. The Populists Their project is to manage the future through hard power and national industrial policy. They are willing to burn sacred promises, including NATO commitments, Big Tech’s censorship monopoly, and replace the USD hegemony with bitcoin and crypto, and whatever else it takes to build a world in which America remains a sovereign nation.”

The Hyper-Structure of War and Interstitial Conflicts

We think that Ukraine is a specific war in a specific geographic location. But the real war is inside America and what we see internationally is ju...

If cost and speed aren’t constraints, you’re not designing… you’re daydreaming.

Sober analysis. I’d add: Nostr doesn’t have to ONLY be a backup/ripcord option. Paid subs for valuable content and/or services can exist here too. Heck, ads (sans deceptive design patterns) can even exist here too in certain contexts.

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RIP Frank Gehry Although your projects were barely profitable to work on and your visions strained relationships… the world became more beautiful and interesting through these journeys. I’m grateful you were here.

We might be in a bubble (One of those people who use that “LinkedIn” boomer networking app sent this to me)

It’s an honor to welcome Cristiano Ronaldo as a partner and investor to Perplexity. Cristiano is the 🐐for a reason: He’s relentless and curious and always asks how to get better and push the… | Aravind Srinivas | 575 comments

It’s an honor to welcome Cristiano Ronaldo as a partner and investor to Perplexity. Cristiano is the 🐐for a reason: He’s relentless and curi...

GM PV good free nostr people

"...if you measured income inadequacy today the way Orshansky measured it in 1963, the threshold for a family of four wouldn’t be $31,200. It would be somewhere between $130,000 and $150,000. And remember: Orshansky was only trying to define “too little.” She was identifying crisis, not sufficiency. If the crisis threshold—the floor below which families cannot function—is honestly updated to current spending patterns, it lands at $140,000. What does that tell you about the $31,200 line we still use? It tells you we are measuring starvation."

Part 1: My Life Is a Lie

How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America