This is a likely a higher probability risk to Bitcoin than Quantum:

Has Claude Mythos been used to review Bitcoin source code for exploits?

And if it found any, what's the next move?

Nobody is more materialistic and obsessed with money than people who 'hate capitalism'.

Always talking about money and how to spend other people's.

h/t @zubymusic on X

Anyone know what happened to @preston ?

He always seemed like one of the good guys.

Just disappeared from social media and Nostr in Feb with no explanation, sign off or blog post. His TIP podcasts just came to an abrupt halt.

@nat brunell , @Jeff Booth, or any other buddies of his got any info that they can share?

“Consensus ... is the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved.”
- Margaret Thatcher (former Prime Minister of UK)

UK Government is insanely complex.

This is a great app: you can search for any department and see the number of staff, budget and all the other add-on and linked departments and groups they all have.

https://machinery-of-government.vercel.app/

The more transparency and accountability people can bring to government, the more chance there might be of rationalizing and reducing it.

New York City is a great example of the system starting to eat itself.

from @TukiFromKL on X:

NYC spent $81,705 per homeless person last year.. the median American household earned $81,228.. the government spent MORE to keep someone homeless than most families earned to keep themselves housed.

that $81,705 isn't going to the homeless person.. it's going to the system around them.. shelters, administrators, case managers, contracts, overhead.. the industry that manages homelessness..

if NYC gave every homeless person that money directly.. they could afford nearly 2 years of rent.. most of them wouldn't be homeless anymore.

instead the money goes to the system.. the system keeps running.. the homelessness stays.. and every year they ask for more funding to manage the problem that the funding was supposed to solve..

the homeless are worth $81,705 a year to the system..
they're worth nothing to it solved.

UK anonymous mobile numbers for signups to services such as Telegram, Signal, Vexl, etc., have been almost impossible to get.

This new service looks great, and for once, UK numbers are the first available.

https://nadanada.me/

@nadanada.me - eSIM | - Numbers | VPN

"If you tax the rich they will leave."

"Fine we will just repossess all their stuff when they do."

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This perfectly captures the parasite's delusion: that wealth is static loot to be seized and redistributed.

Here's what actually happens when you "repossess all their stuff":

The producers will rebuild. They'll create new wealth because that's what they do. They identify opportunities, solve problems, innovate, build businesses, and generate value. Their wealth came from their minds, not magic.

The looters will consume what they stole at light speed and wind up with nothing. Because they never learned to produce. They only know how to take.

Look at every socialist revolution in history: seize the factories, the farms, the businesses. Within years, everything collapses. The factories stop producing. The farms stop yielding. The wealth evaporates. Venezuela. Cuba. Soviet Union. Zimbabwe. The pattern is identical.

Why? Because wealth isn't stuff sitting in a vault. Wealth is the ongoing process of human intelligence applied to production. Confiscate a factory and you get the building. You don't get the knowledge, vision, and competence that made it productive.

The "rich" you want to loot aren't dragons hoarding gold. They're producers creating value. Rob them and you rob everyone, including yourself.

You'll be left with ruins and still blame capitalism.

(from @theobjectivist on X)

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

- Margaret Thatcher