Pretty crazy price movement in gold just now. It was up 3% before I had breakfast and then down 3% by the time I was finished.

Depreciation costs are gonna explode for the tech sector in a few years

Two days after I post this the FT comes out with this

We were on the cusp of changing medicine forever. Curing things that had no cure. mRNA vaccines are revolutionary

Moderna CEO says Trump’s policies have so curtailed vaccine market they won’t be investing in new research. So that’s awesome. Good luck when the next pandemic hits. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fWErMy/

Electric vehicle sales overtake petrol in EU for first time reut.rs/45wzENK

I wrote up why the return of Gold may be a very bad thing for global capitalism. nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com/p/why-the-ri...

formats over apps

I wrote up why the return of Gold may be a very bad thing for global capitalism. nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com/p/why-the-ri...

Then there’s…this. This is a news article, not an op ed. I reviewed Fox’s December 2019-March 2020 COVID coverage in their online news section and it didn’t throw in shit like this, even since then they’ve deteriorated

these options suck. come build a better one dsausa.org/join

I think the backlash was stupid but lets not go crazy here thinking a PhD actually matters as a credential.

I don't think they've got a very good framework for understanding consciousness but everyone seems to just be doing a knee jerk reaction against even asking the question.

This is what going online should be like

in general, i actually suspect this means their business case is deteriorating at a rapid clip

The sudden rise of gold itself is probably becoming a drag on the economy right now. the more it becomes seen as a safe asset and portfolio growth, the more it'll threaten the real economy.

sign that a lot of legitimacy has been lost.

Decided to look into this more and weirdly it doesn't seem like investment is the mediating variable, but unemployment rates

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

What's up nerds? Who likes RSS?

X dot com the gain of cursedness interface research app photo by @abeliansoup.bsky.social

Absolutely libelous to say this of practically the only genuinely democratic organization in the country. Fukuyama's liberalism is a totalitarianism.

#drrr #デュラララ

#drrr #デュラララ

Just occurred to me watching the third indiana jones, where the hell did they get all those false grails that instantly turn you to dust.

This is the way

After all this is over, we need to pass a law that makes social media posts from official agency accounts like this subject to perjury, equivalently to testimony before Congress. It is too destructive to the country to let them keep lying and lying and lying without any possible legal remedy.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

Gideon Rachman: Decoupling from Trump’s America ft.trib.al/UHjzOSs

One thing to keep in mind, if commodities like gold or Bitcoin actually begin to replace treasuries as the global safe haven of choice (with no sovereign power having quite enough debt or credibility to replace them) this basically becomes a deathknell for global capitalism.

Damn. With the way gold is replacing treasuries as a safe haven, I think this still has a lot of upside.

Houston is sort of like a monument to the ugliness of bourgeois society

Thank you Nikita Bier, the world‘s biggest ATProto supporter

holy shit

In my dream last night, it was an anime (that I was trying to pirate) that was a sequel to Durarara where Izaya is on a cruise ship and meets another Dullahan besides Celty and dressed in 20s fashion, who portends some big catastrophe. Some big conflict breaks out on the ship.

W is a new European platform aspiring to be an alternative to X. What if we told you that it may actually be launching as an ATProto powered app? This is a W for ATProto atprotocol.dev/w-for-atproto/

Bluesky / ATmosphere reigns supreme once again

Anthropic made a very conscious decision to not do any kind of image or video generation unlike OpenAI and XAI, which 1. cuts off a potentially really ugly legal liability tail, 2. is much cheaper to train and serve, especially without video, and 3. makes the product far more enterprise-friendly.

I really hate the way its somehow become common sense on the left that there are only "political" not "economic" limits to public spending. If that was true, the crises of the Soviet bloc, of Venezuela and many others would never have happened! newleftreview.org/issues/ii156...

Id love a keyboard scanner personally.

Need to know if I'm hitting the mark here

China has the largest installed wind capacity in the world.

2030s the roboform cambrian

I've been convinced for a while that the thing that's really going to make federated social media break through both in usage and *conceptually* is a universal reader app - very excited to see progress here.

The US, UK and Japan may quickly run out of fiscal room to maneuver. And for the US and UK this is potentially even more dangerous due to the big structural trade deficits.

With AT protocol based RSS I feel like we're really entering a new era.