It was an excellent lesson. Everyone found out exactly who everyone really was.

When the masks went on, the masks came off.
And I for one cannot unsee what I saw.

When things get seriously authoritarian, which they will, you can be 100% assured that the same people will behave exactly the same as they did during covid.

Your next-door neighbor will be your worst enemy even as they smile and make small talk.

There is a Polish cultural thing where you do not smile in public. Because it will tell others that you have something to smile about. Something they do not have. And if they do not have it, then you shouldn't have it either.
Smiling in public is asking for trouble.

Make no mistake. The people who live around you will rat you out for anything and everything if they think for a second it might in some way profit them. Even if it's for a dopamine hit and a feeling of power.

Fuck that!
Learn your lesson from France, where people who filled that out are now getting hit at home by criminals and tortured until they hand over their wallets.

This is an intelligence test. Don't fail it.

Oh I am mildly surprised. Care to share your thoughts?

Martin Armstrong's AI model (Socrates) predicts a major transition in how the USA is structured going into 2032.

It has a track record of accurate geopolitical forecasts going back to the mid 1980's.
Yes. Actual AI in production in the 1980's.

What you're talking about here is shielding / getting yourself out of the way as this phase state change unfolds.

There are other options that Armstrong recommends, and I'll leave folks to explore that rabbit hole themselves.

Because rabbit holes are fun :-)

I hear income taxes are entirely voluntary in the USA. Anyone here actually investigate this?

Pay close attention to what Matt Hill from Start9 has to say about Agentic AI and privacy.

You grant these personal agents high level access to your systems out of necessity, and everything these agents can access get sent back to whatever cloud platform you have subscribed to.

That company now has everything you digitally owned.

For example, I have a number of apps, algorithms, and platforms I built when I was a software dev that are still ground breaking today.

If I use AI agents to port all these systems into modern tech stacks, all that IP now sits with the likes of anthropic.

Just like Google has everything you ever typed into its search engine, these AI companies will have everything you ever express, build, keep, and do.

Been listening to your talk all afternoon. It's an excellent take on a lot of things.

One thing is the importance of the precious metals markets. Not as a financial vehicle per se, but as an important tool for learning how these markets are manipulated.

A lot of crypto folks are anti Gold and Silver for some reason. And they miss the hard learned lessons by the gold bugs. these lessons will become more important going forward as Bitcoin rotates further into institutional hands.

Finally, I have a question... what do you think the chances are that Jane Street is some kind of tentacle belonging to Vanguard?

Voting harder never results in meaningful change.
Neither does protesting.

Both are constructs of a system designed to channel and control opposition to the system's agendas.

The most effective way to facilitate change is to exercise your right to walk away from the king.

And the most dangerous thing you can do is to position yourself so that you can actually exercise that right.

The biggest threat to the system is not your non-compliance. It is your non-reliance.

Most people can't do that in our modern society. I
t's a major reason why contestants on the reality TV show "Alone" end up quitting.

I don't often shitpost on nostr, but when I do, it's usually when I'm halfway through my morning coffee.

Alright. I can do with another wallet :-)

No Way!
Slash was part of the club too?
Is there actually anyone who legit broke into the industry?