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Money is the foundation of the structure of social cooperation, and you cannot straighten the upper floors of a building whose foundation is sliding.
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The money is broken, and everything else runs downstream of that.
BREAKING: The top 0.1% of Americans now hold more than six times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of the country. The top 0.1% control about $28 trillion, roughly 15% of all U.S. wealth. The bottom 50% hold about 2.5%.
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Michael Matulef retweeted
Interest on the federal debt now runs higher than the entire military budget. Not procurement, not one branch, the whole thing. @MichaelMatulef on a line item that grows whether or not anyone in Washington wants it to. soundcloud.com/misesmedia/yo…
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Issue #677 of Your Daily Bitcoin Breakdown newsletter is now live! Check out today’s top stories and a sneak peek at the latest Insights & Analysis and Tools & Projects sections. Full issue available here: btcbnews.com/677
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The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber...
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In short, he does not, in addition to robbing you, attempt to make you either his dupe or his slave.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
43 cents of every income tax dollar now goes to interest. Your labor is the collateral on loans you never took out, pledged by people who already spent the money. #NothingStopsThisTrain
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The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. - @mises
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43 cents of every income tax dollar now goes to interest. Your labor is the collateral on loans you never took out, pledged by people who already spent the money. #NothingStopsThisTrain
US govt budget data has been released for August. We will collect $3 trillion in individual and corporate income taxes for the year. Interest payments debt are going to be $1.3 trillion. 43% of income taxes going to interest payments on our $40.2 trillion in govt debt.
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Storytelling's marginal cost is falling to zero. Value migrates to judgment. Gatekeepers never guarded talent. Talent was always abundant. They guarded access. Now access is free, and the only scarce asset left is what no model can generate: knowing what moves us, and why.
humanity cannot be removed from art. it *is* the art. every thoughtful shot here is a human decision. the machine is just an execution layer. it serves the person holding it and the person watching. AI will never know what moves us better than we do. and yet, we will use AI to tell stories at a scale no generation before us could ever imagine
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The fundamental political question is why do people obey a government. The answer is that they tend to enslave themselves, to let themselves be governed by tyrants. Freedom from the refusal to serve. Tyrants fall when the people withdraw their support. - Murray Rothbard
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Michael Matulef retweeted
Huge thanks to @stephanlivera for having me on to discuss the dice rolls research & recommendations that I recently published. It's an important topic but it is NOT a hard topic. Hopefully this convo and the writeup help some people level up their knowledge and confidence.
Dice Rolls, Entropy, and SeedSigner | Keith Mukai SLP766 @keithmukai of @seedsigner joins to explain why 1.4 percent variance in cheap dice still delivers full 128-bit entropy and how to verify rolls across devices. Timestamps 03:10 — Cheap Dice Only 1.4% Unfair? 06:29 — Shake Multiple Dice in a Box 08:26 — Verify Dice Rolls Across Devices 11:02 — Verify Dice Seeds With Fake Rolls 13:50 — Multiple Test Rounds Foil Attackers 16:36 — 90% Users Choose Easy RNG Mode 19:08 — Jade's D&D Dice Method? 21:53 — Build Your Own: Avoid Mailing List Leak 24:48 — Stateless Device vs Evil Maid Attack? 26:45 — Hand-Drawn SeedQR: Skip Typing 24 Words 29:02 — SeedSigner for Long-Term Cold Storage? 31:30 — Evil Maid SD Card Swap 35:27 — Why Multisig Beats Single-Sig + Passphrase 37:14 — Scan Sparrow PDF QR to Load Multisig 42:16 — No One-Size-Fits-All Security 46:41 — Understand Dice Rolls Yourself 49:13 — Take Baby Steps to Multisig
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"Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human." — Murray N. Rothbard
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Nothing stops this train.
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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority. - Mises
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Michael Matulef retweeted
The engineering mindset must take over now.
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We must recognize that such necessary truths are not simply categories of our mind, but that our mind is one of acting persons... As categories of action, they must be mental things as much as they are characteristics of reality:
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For it is through actions that the mind and reality make contact.
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