an ode to my new (but old) Laserjet

laney staley

Try to convince an economist's math is bullshit when his income and pedigree depends on it

German author and ex-MP Jürgen Todenhöfer was arrested in Munich after tweeting that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu was doing to Palestinians what Nazis did to Jews. Source: The Telegraph

Luckily since the Louvre made NFTs of their jewelry, even though the crowns physically were stolen, they still own the same assets. Because the tokens still exist and are in limited supply just as before. Nothing has changed. few understand blockchain technology.

How would the media portray China if they had done the same to EU companies on Chinese soil? There would have been an outcry about the totalitarian dictatorship skirting the rule of law, juxtaposed to the unblemished liberal democracies who reign morally supreme.

I'm happy for the Louvre robbers. They inspire me.

My interview with Chris Hedges is now available. We discussed the Thielverse’s rise and the construction of the bipartisan modern surveillance state that Trump and his benefactors are deploying against dissidents and immigrants today. Link below.

We didn't need the political project of a single currency. We needed a practical, consumer-friendly Euro: a clearing house and technically sound payments solution to break the Visa/Mastercard duopoly, operating across a basket of Europe's own currencies.

Hit this, ⌘+A, ⌘+C - then paste into your LLM - much quicker than drag-selecting an article.

Milei is a one trick pony - reup foreign reserves using his access to Washington. But when those loans are repaid even more pain will be administered. What is needed, which IMF does not permit, is an iron clad currency restriction to defend the purchasing power of working class.

I am a w*ore for the builder pattern and neverthrow

Who called it White House press room and not MAGAzine

Christoph Waltz explaining Hegelian dialectics in a food YouTube show (in the context of ceviche) was not in my expectations today, but I’m all in for it

More bizarre numbers for Breakthrough News on @Youtube. 900-ish views in over 2 hours on a channel that has over 1 million subscribers. A small fraction of what this would have gotten a few months ago. It’s a popular topic, well produced, great content on the looming war

He is not a random madman. He is the Minister of National Security of a UN member-state. And yet the West continues to insist that said state is democratic and an ally. Which, of course, reflects the West's collapsing basic ethical standards.

Epstein role seems to have been to make himself useful as a cross border go between for security and intelligence agencies to get backdoor deals done that would have flown in the face of political alliances

This year’s corpse paint

We need someone documenting “beverage diplomacy”