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The first wave of Bitcoin Banks have started to emerge in the form of Bitcoin Treasury companies such as Metaplanet, Twenty One, and MicroStrategy. They are all trying to do one thing: acquire as much BTC as possible and use it to generate returns in whatever way possible for their shareholders. In short: they are attempting to bridge the gap between the old Fiat system and the new digital asset system by treating Bitcoin as a stock, not as gold. I don't have a concrete idea of how Bitcoin can be used in finance but I do know that using it to create returns as if it were a stock is unlikely to work in the long term. I believe that a good use of time is to research and experiment with how a group of individuals can come together a collectively grow a stockpile of bitcoin. Step two would then be how to financialise that or issue a token on top of the Bitcoin whoch could be used everyday in a small geographical area.

Bob Nystrom wrote a famous post entitled "What Color is Your Function?" - https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-your-function/ It discussed the tension in software between how sync and async functions behave. A new category of data is emerging that I call "purple". This is produced by LLMs. The property is transferable. Any data or function that uses LLM-generated data is purple, and any data or function based on the same is also purple. Keeping track of AI provenance is crucial going forward, as is providing checks on the data produced by purple functions. So, I present a new approach: https://llmsmr.io It summarises text using an LLM, but also provides tools to quickly check the result by extracting direct quotes and presenting them to the user. The summary is purple, but the quotes can be verified simply to ensure that they do indeed appear in the original text. I believe this approach should be applied to all purple data going forward.

Podcast summary: Dr. Dani Sulikowski argues that "wokeness" can be understood as _manipulative reproductive suppression_. Key points: - Once societies become wealthy and infant mortality falls, elite women lose their normal reproductive advantage. - To restore it, they promote cultural norms - e.g. career-first feminism, abortion rights, body positivity, gender ideology, toxic masculinity - that will lower the reproduction rate of other women. - This behavior is not necessarily conscious. - These movements are framed as progressive or compassionate but effectively make other women less fertile. - This pattern is cyclical across civilizations. Male competition is dominant until an inflection point of high wealth and success is reached. Female competition then becomes the dominant force in mating outcomes, and birth rates decline, setting the stage for societal decline and replacement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRY_1JRRcNU

MVC (Model-View-Controller) is a pattern in software design for building user interfaces. Key benefit: It keeps code modular - models don't deal with presentation, and views don't contain business rules. 1. The model defines what data the app should contain. 2. The view defines how the app's data should be displayed. 3. The controller contains logic that updates the model and/or view in response to input from the users of the app. Scenario: A user writes a new post on an online forum. - Model: Receives and validates the post data. Handles saving to and loading from the database. - View: Builds the page shown to the user. Either the "New Post" form with validation errors, or the "Post Details" page showing the freshly created post. - Controller: Handles the "create post" request. Flow: - User makes post - Controller receives post data - Model saves to database - Controller chooses a View - User sees result

The current meta for social platforms selects for platforms that optimize for emotional engagement. The core mechanic is "reaction", as reified in likes, shares, comments. Posts are simply the raw material. Reaction is what keeps people coming back. Humans have a powerful anxiety-driven need to perceive the social currents - "what are other people saying about X ?" (what should my opinion be ?) Reaction maintains regular engagement, which allows the business of adverts to exist. I propose a new core mechanic: Validation. A person's social profile would showcase the posts that they have validated - verifiable record of what they judged to be true / insightful / useful. The value proposition: That this profile would increase the user's professional reputation. The overall result: The platform produces few posts, but each post supports a cloud of confirmations. Highly-validated posts are then republished on existing platforms, with the validators featured alongside the author.