The enshittification of Melbourne continues with 7/11 opening it’s first staffless vending-machine-only outlet in the CBD due to rising crime. I remember seeing a Walgreens with half the stuff locked behind plexiglass in San Fran 8 years ago and thinking “wow, this is bad”, but walking the streets you understood why. Melbourne already has injecting rooms and has banned machetes - just needs some homeless encampments and a poop map now to catch-up

Just rewatched this. Released 1/1/2025 and it’s probably the video of the year. The prescience you would expect from a philosopher, delivered by a weird comedian who just fucking nails it, zeitgeist and all. If you haven’t seen this, take the time to watch it. View quoted note →

The #zcash shilling is ridiculous. I’d suggest @Super Testnet could smash them like he did the #Monerobros, but it’s all just influencoors (this is Naval’s pet @Arjun Khemani ) shilling their bags and none of them use it so couldn’t actually test anything against him.

A language is a dialect with an army and navy

Scott Bessent is asked whether Trump’s $2,000 stimmy checks would be inflationary. “Maybe we can persuade Americans to save that.” $2,000 Bitcoin stimmys?..

More people should discover Sam Hyde. Weird guy but he has a good head on his shoulders and a knack for seeing through to the heart of the thing. View quoted note →

@Stephan Livera thinks Dathon should spend his time educating people to re-download the #Bitcoin blockchain using a newer version of Core (v28>), the versions which enabled CSAM to be embedded in the chain with 100,000 byte OP_RETURN, so that the CSAM onchain enabled by the newer versions of Core, can’t be viewed on their device. Stephan has officially lost the plot. Crypto Dubai has rotted his brain.