*Bitcoin and Nostr are the Swiss Army knife of financial expression and free speech.* View quoted note →

*Maybe the real shift is this: seeing the start of the year not as a race, but as the first ten minutes of a long flight. The plane doesn’t reach cruising altitude in a panic. It climbs steadily, systems checked, fuel measured, course confirmed. Early January is when you decide whether you want to fly like that, or flap your wings like a frantic bird until you drop.* Why rest is more productive than effort at the start of the year

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Why rest is more productive than effort at the start of the year

Fluorescent lights, loud playlists, a row of people in brand‑new leggings running like they’re late for a life they don’t quite want. Phones ...

*crypto doesn’t eliminate trust problems, it often just concentrates them in new ways*

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For years, Maduro and his inner circle systematically looted Venezuela—billions in oil revenue, gold reserves, and state assets—and, according ...

*anyone that threatens the USD will be targeted, dictator or not* View quoted note →

*The most important thing for the United States is not oil but the petrodollar, that energy be paid for in dollars, maintaining the hegemony of the dollar, which allows it to finance its trade deficit by exporting inflation to the rest of the world* View quoted note →

*This, I think, is the real promise of vibe coding tools—that you can learn how to code without a CS degree. There is no one in the world who would say my friend isn’t intelligent enough to code, but the issue was that he had no experience. And after five years in the Stanford physics department, there was no way he was going back for another degree. Vibe coding tools were giving him the support and knowledge he needed, so he could learn these skills himself. Like anything in the wild west that is this age of AI, it all depends on how you use it.* A new worst coder has entered the chat: vibe coding without code knowledge - Stack Overflow

A new worst coder has entered the chat: vibe coding without code knowledge - Stack Overflow

*the bond market is hanging by a thread. They cannot catch the market by surprise or they risk catastrophe* View quoted note →

🤔😑 *A vaccine designed to prevent fentanyl overdoses by blocking the drug from reaching the brain has begun enrolling participants for human clinical trials in early 2026, marking a potential shift from reactive overdose treatments to proactive prevention... Sharon Levy, an addiction medicine expert at Boston Children's Hospital and ARMR scientific adviser, noted the vaccine could benefit teenagers and young adults who might accidentally encounter fentanyl mixed with other street drugs, as well as people in addiction recovery programs.* https://www.perplexity.ai/page/fentanyl-vaccine-begins-human-hCbyKZclQGWFUAIFbGJFiA

*The state only believes in borders when they’re used to tax you; they ignore them the second they want to flex.... There’s no legitimate authority. Just raw power.* View quoted note →