White Sox Infamy Update: In order to dodge the title of worst team in history, the Sox must finish the season with a record of 12-12. They won four games in the month of August. What we’re witnessing is unfathomable to the baseball stat junkie.

Yet another test message. Hello in there.

Kind of frustrating, really. Bluesky will Mastadon if it remains the "enemies of Elon" refuge, just as Nostr will if it's "that network for bitcoiners." It's easy to lose focus on what matters (easy, stable decentralization) when your market remains niche.

Now that every Social Security Number in the U.S. has been stolen, can we just agree that perhaps this isn't the best system and come up with something new?

No disputing that evil acts can have tangentially good consequences.

There we go, White Sox. Back on track with that L. 29-89.

Still getting over the disappointment of that White Sox victory last night. Today's a new day, though, and the 3:1 loss ratio still holds.

To be clear: I'm critical not of the vision or BTC in general, but rather what it's morphed in to, which is essentially a really volatile commodity. It can never become anything *in itself* as long as it's traded alongside soybeans and corn down at the Merc. It's forever pegged to the USD, and forever susceptible to all the fluctuations that hit other commodities.

...struggling with the disappoint befalling most would-be revolutionaries, as his noble ideal for a better future morphed, in practice, to a commodity valued by volume trading.