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Shem Booth-Spain retweeted
🚨🇺🇸 WOW! Jeff Bezos wants the bottom 50% of American earners to pay ZERO taxes...
And he has a question for Washington:
“Why is a nurse in Queens making $75,000 a year paying $1,000 a month in taxes?”
Bezos argues that the bottom half of earners contribute just 3% of tax revenue anyway.
His solution? Stop collecting it from them entirely.
“We shouldn't be asking this nurse to send money to Washington. They should be sending her an apology.”
Writer: Samuel
Shem Booth-Spain retweeted
Very suprised at the geeks who complain about software dev and AI usage. its like asking miners to stop using drills and go back pick axe!
AI still need the scultpturer,, the mold and fashion ideas, concepts and expertise into the medium. The Medium is The Message!
musician here writing original songs, tooling, production/mastering tools for a range of genres. I didnt have a 42 section orchestra and a 500k studio, now i do, thanks to ai, but ya know what i love doing. is writing and crafting well made "hit" songs...
youtube.com/watch?v=g-dvOnE-…
![Namida Lumina - This Could Be The Last Night [Cinematic Electronic]...](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/2120948362795270144/9hk7GVK-?format=jpg&name=800x320_1)
Shem Booth-Spain retweeted
Household-week measurement and cost accounting for community food provisioning: framework specification and partial pilot demonstration
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Jordan Peterson argues the crisis tearing the Western world apart isn't political or economic—it goes far deeper. When science stripped meaning from the world, it left something worse behind: suffering with no purpose and no story to make sense of it. In this lecture, Jordan explains why your values determine what you see, why stories carry a truth science can't, and what it costs a person—and a culture—when they aim at the wrong things. He also breaks down the psychology behind Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, and why those stories grip us whether we understand them or not. If your ambition keeps stalling, your relationships keep failing, or life feels like it's missing something you can't name—this one's worth your time.
This lecture was filmed in Miami, Florida, on March 24, 2025.
Grok Bot credits wearing thin was holding back the work so we built a Multi-AI Compute Federation on my desk — local Llama first, free Western workers next, paid Grok only for judgment.... 10x that compute baby!
easy → Ollama 3b · medium → 8b · hard → Groq → Cloudflare (free only). One HUD. Difficulty routing. Overnight Mini keeps the lights on.
Local-first. No card. Fleet of agents sharing the same free compute pool.
Hopefully now I can continue building different software without the tap running dry..
#AI #LocalLLM #BuildInPublic #GrokBot
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The mental space, the spirit space is where we are in deficit. Time/Space/Mind/Soul. youtu.be/g-dvOnE-4a4?si=BsM2…
A song of longing, love, and the weight of everything that came before.We return to the present, where the past still pulls and the future presses back.
Every choice ripples in both directions. For the band, looking backward means confronting what was lost, what was taken, and what can never be undone.
Looking forward means asking whether any of it can still be changed.Sadina can bend time. She has done it before. Once the empress of a vast galactic empire, she now lives with the consequences of that power — the fractures she created, the people she left behind, and the question that follows her through every timeline: can she be forgiven?
Through it all runs her eternal love for Jack. Some things refuse to stay buried, no matter how far the timeline shifts. Ouroboros.
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Shem Booth-Spain retweeted
Palmer Luckey warns Europe will have a much tougher time adapting to the AI and automation revolution: “I think the European Union is going to have a really tough time.” 🇺🇸🇪🇺
“I think the European Union is going to have a really tough time. It’s hard to imagine an economy so dominated by international politics and labor politics allowing automation to transform its manufacturing economy.
The United States is one of the few countries with the talent, the people, the political will, and the acceptance at a societal level that something like this is good.
There are a lot of people in America who like Star Trek. A lot of people buy into the idea of technology and abundance.
The same cannot be said of any European nation.”
On the current trajectory, the European Union is in for an abrupt awakening. The recent pivot to increasing labor participation via immigration, instead of deregulation and technological innovation in order to push output and productivity higher is directly against something like automation. It’s this false prophecy of economic growth, that importing masses to participate in a slowing economy does not equate to producing meaningful output. They’re in desperate need of a directional pivot towards productivity and technological gains.
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Between 1839 and 1849 two low ranked samurai, a father and son, kept in touch by exchanging meticulous diaries. The two diaries, today known as Kuwano Nikki and Kashiwazaki Nikki total over 5,300 pages of text and records astronomical events, politics, the price of goods and official business, but above all they go into the minute details of child rearing, the joys and hardships and education of the grandson left behind by the young samurai (he was suddenly posted to a faraway feudal domain as a tax administrator) and his four other children, born and raised without the help of grandparents or relatives.
Through these two loving fathers we get a long term picture of children and family life in feudal Japan. Notably, the parents spend a lot of time with their children and grandchildren. Playtime, games, excursions, picnics, festivals, every opportunity to allow their children to have fun is taken.
The children never leave their sides. They are raised with more freedom than modern children, and gently steered toward appropriate education and subjects that fit their individual tempers and abilities when they are ready for it.
The samurai men also put great importance on the health and wellbeing of their pregnant wife and daughter in law. When the young wife is exhausted by childbirth and breastfeeding the young samurai takes on cooking and cleaning and all other household duties by himself. The wife's only task is to nurture their newborn and to rest. And he does this while also going to his work in the feudal office as usual.
The grandfather's diary ends three days before his death in 1849, and the son's ends sixteen days later, when the news finally reach him.
If we want our our country to have more children, we should learn to be more like samurai parents, and we should put more emphasis on duty, care, and respect.
Testing whether audio from Operation Data Blast is still live on-chain, and it is. 🎶
"Lady of the Moon" was uploaded to BSV in July 2019 as a Bcat file in 119 transactions. I just rebuilt it byte for byte from the chain: 11.2 MB, 4:40, 320kbps.
The viewers and hosts have come and gone, but the data is still there.
tx: 93d8e5ab1a776b57e0996288d971274bec288ece5cc7be4c378ba32cd812c344
whatsonchain.com
#BSV #Bcat #OnChain #Metanet
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Shem Booth-Spain retweeted
Because I didn't fork anything.
BTC changed the protocol. BSV restored and preserved the original rules.
Starting a new chain with a new genesis block would have created a different system, not Bitcoin.
The entire point was continuity of the existing ledger, existing transactions, existing ownership records, and the protocol as originally designed.
If you create a new genesis block, you are creating a new asset.
Bitcoin was already running. The objective was not to invent a replacement. It was to keep the original system operating under the original rules.
The real fork occurred when others changed the protocol. Preserving the protocol is not a fork. Changing it is.
Shem Booth-Spain retweeted
We believe that the West can awaken from its long slumber – and rekindle the fire that was first lit in ancient Greece millennia ago.
Shem Booth-Spain retweeted
Seeing the riots in France and the terrible state of the French economy made me think of this 🔥 speech by Lee Kuan Yew.
"Look at the buildings around you. Look at the stock market bouncing up.
Let me tell you how to bring it down. Have a couple of really good riots, shake political confidence."
On top of that, the French economy is collapsing. Only one in three French people works in the real economy. Two-thirds live off other people’s taxes. The entire system is completely unsustainable due to absurd pensions and runaway state spending.
At the end of the clip, Lee says:
"My political opponent says that we are 'obsessed with profits'
I say 'YES! That’s how Singapore survives.'
If you have no profit, who pays for all of this?
If you make profit into a dirty word.. Singapore dies!”
Beyond mass migration, this is how Western Europe is dying btw.
Grimes frames the coming population drop as luck. As if fewer people is the elegant solution to machines taking work. That is the anti-human turn in one sentence, and it has become all to normal.
A society that treats its own children as a surplus to be managed has already forgotten what an economy is for. People are not a cost centre that AI finally lets us shrink. They are the point. Raising a family is not a lifestyle accessory and it is not a drag on the serious work of the future. It is one of the greatest gifts a person can give, to the child and back to the species.
Modern culture has spent decades talking about the family as a trap, a patriarchy, a carbon problem, an interruption to the self. Then it acts surprised when the birth rate collapses and calls the collapse convenient.
The order is not optional. A man and a woman are the basic unit. From that household comes the village, the town, the city, the nation. Aristotle saw it. So did every civilisation that lasted. You cannot skip the household and jump straight to a managed population of individuals plus machines. What you get is not freedom. You get loneliness with better tools.
On the jobs panic, the fear is aimed at the wrong object. A great many people do not like the work they are afraid of losing. They endure it. The threat of AI is real for tasks..., and pretending otherwise is foolish. But a task is not a vocation.
The question worth asking is the old one: are you doing what you were put on this earth to do?
In Japan that question has a name. Ikigai. Not a career quiz. A reason for being, the meaning of a life, and the small daily joy that makes a life worth continuing. The tragedy is not that a model might write a report or paint a picture. The tragedy is how many people reach middle age and still cannot say what they are for. They were never taught to look. They were taught to be employable.
That is the education worth funding. Not another round of training people to occupy a slot a machine will shortly occupy better. An education in self-knowledge. In love of one’s own life.
In the classical sense that a person has a nature, a work proper to them, and a duty to find it. Do that, and the arrival of capable machines is a liberation from drudgery, not a funeral. Skip it, and you get exactly the future in the clip: very good AI across every pillar of art, and no one left who needed to make any.
A population drop is not luck. It is a bill coming due for decades of treating family as the problem and the self as the project. The correction is not a policy tweak. It is remembering that civilisation is households, or it is nothing.
Grimes: “What are we gonna do when people’s jobs start to be taken away quite aggressively?
Luckily there’s a massive population drop coming…”
Podcaster: **nervous smile**
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