*only death is free, and that costs life* (Ditto has a one-click translate option.) View quoted note →

*...like any open-source project, the development winds up being sort of "anarcho-communist" in practice. We all get together, "do as each according to our ability", and arrive at a consensus on decisions. Nobody "owns" this. It's Zucotti Park in cyberspace. Bitcoin _itself_ on the other hand is the most real manifestation of an anarcho-capitalist economic system that was ever invented. Bitcoiners who don't understand this dialectic wind up getting forced into this sort of "siege mentality", who's going to "win?" idea.* View quoted note →

*People get frustrated at the slow speed, but stable nations don't have rapidly-changing politics. That is what makes them stable. It's also taking politicians and voters a long time to understand what is going on around them. Everything changes so fast. So, voters make mistakes that look stupid, in hindsight, but they eventually self-correct.* View quoted note →

Google DeepMind and the UK govt have just signed a partnership w/ 3 pillars: 1. transforming public services 2. accelerating scientific discovery 3. advancing AI security & resilience Concrete bits that matter: - a Gemini model trained on the UK national curriculum to support teachers & students - priority access for UK scientists to tools like AI Coscientist, AlphaEvolve, AlphaGenome & WeatherNext - AI projects with the govt. to modernise public services BUT the materials lab is possibly the MOST exciting bit: a fully automated facility, integrated with Gemini, using robotics to synthesise & characterise hundreds of materials per day. Imagine what AI + robot lab team searching for new superconductors, better solar materials, more efficient semiconductors could mean for the UK. Source: x, @jujulemons