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#bitcoin DOESN’T have a CEO or marketing department.
How do folks that support Bitcoin organize?
Bitcoin Policy Institute
A Think Tank Studying the Future of Money
To ensure sound policy, we provide research that moves past hype and cynicism alike.
Can Trump Order a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve?
What is the Exchange Stabilization Fund? And does it allow the Treasury Department to create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve?
There is a legal mechanism for the Treasury Department to purchase bitcoin
A practical method for the Treasury to acquire bitcoin through the ESF involves utilizing convertible instruments of credit. Under 31 U.S.C. § 5302(b), the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to “deal in gold, foreign exchange, and other instruments of credit and securities the Secretary considers necessary.” While bitcoin itself is not an instrument of credit, the Treasury can engage in transactions where bitcoin is acquired through such instruments.
Trump nominates crypto-friendly Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary
Bessent has been a major donor to Trump, giving $1 million to the Republican candidate for his 2016 inauguration.
PlanB “Yes indeed, 2021 was clipped off by China, Luna, FTX, Celsius etc. And despite the clip off, 2021 still had 5 RSI 80+ months that pushed bitcoin from 20k to 60k. Imagine 3x from today’s 90k … and imagine no clip off in 2025″
“you can’t make this stuff up” department
Steven Lubka
“How are you so productive while tweeting bangers all day”
Wrong question, impossible to be this productive without tweeting bangers Bangers are the release value for a brain operating at high levels, you need to vent off heat in the form of bangers.
@DzambhalaHODL
If you aren’t tweeting, doing your job, and cracking jokes in the group chat at the same time every day you need to step up and do better!
While spacewalking I realized something: I used to think I was scared of heights but now I know I was just scared of gravity»
— NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman
When you look for crypto investors, find the man who bought the duct taped banana. RECENT: Tron founder Justin Sun paid $6M for a banana taped to a wall This is not just an artwork; it represents a cultural phenomenon that bridges the worlds of art, memes, and the cryptocurrency community. He calls it a “cultural phenomenon” that bridges art, memes, and crypto.
DOJ has officially brought both its cases against Trump to an end, despite ample evidence of Trump’s guilt and multiple grand jury indictments for crimes including espionage, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice. Garland is a disgrace to the rule of law.
Bob Lefsetz Rationalization
“I’m sick and f*cking tired of the Democrats trying to put a positive spin on the election of Donald Trump. Saying he didn’t win by a majority, didn’t win by that much, pointing to minor victories in Congress and the states… The Democrats got their ass SPANKED! And this spin is just further evidence how out of touch the DNC, elected officials and left wing commentators are. If you can’t admit your faults, if you can’t analyze your loss, how in the hell are you going to adjust for changing conditions and succeed the next time around?
Yes, when it comes down to the issues, most people are aligned with the left. They want abortion rights. They want the protection of the rights of minorities. But those weren’t the foremost issues in the election.
Have you ever been broke? I have, and when that’s the case money is all you can think about, 24/7. Anyone who romanticizes the life of a starving artist has never been one. You can’t even create, you’re so freaked out. And my worst times were when the economy was considered to be raging. But not for me!”
Bob Lefsetz She died. Who’s that? Alice Brock from “Alice’s Restaurant”!
Bob Lefsetz Celebrity Endorsements I guess music can’t change the world.
Or to put it another way, we haven’t had that spirit here since 1969.
Yes, in the sixties, there was a youthquake, and who did you look to for answers? MUSICIANS! Even the Beatles sang about revolution, and the Jefferson Airplane asked for volunteers and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young sang about Ohio (although that was 1970…) In other words, music doesn’t hold the same place in society. Doesn’t have the same meaning, the same power.
@UnrealBluegrass Re Musk:
In his present form he is wealthy, whispers like WormTongue into the ear of the president elect.
Two of his goals but I missed one earlier.
Elon wants “celebrity”.
He bought Twitter so he can constantly write about himself and then “like” them all.
So celebrity above all else.
Celebrity is the real ultimate enticement .
Celebrity and a welcome mat across all media.
Musk wants to be a “star”.
For a teetering ego like Elon’s he’ll never obtain it or won’t know when he has.
Wealth, political influence and an out of control ego, not a good combination.
Musk buying twitter – a means to an end
MEANS
– Systematic Disinformation
– devaluing objective information (media, journalism)
END
Unaccountable power
– protecting untold wealth
– stopping regulation, no taxes, no criminal charges, keeping govt contracts
Trump will be remembered for in 2020 a weak pandemic response and insurrection, and in 2027 for a second Great Depression…
Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey
We are living through a historical period where a tiny network of billionaires has teamed up across USA/Russia/Europe/Middle East to absolutely destroy the futures of everyday people and our planet, all to further enrich themselves.
Just like Karl Marx predicted, actually.
Timothy Snyder: Trump’s Plan to Destroy Our Government
Timothy Snyder, professor of history at Yale University, is the author of On Tyranny. He writes and speaks frequently on television about the importance of defending our institutions against authoritarianism and resisting Putin’s quest to reclaim the Soviet Union.
Zorka Milin @ZorkaMilin
Big Oil is not invincible. I know because I was a part of the fight to get them to publish what they pay
@PWYPUSA. We took on this powerful industry that sued and lobbied hard against the law. But now, at long last, some of those secrets are out.
@ICIJorg Nov 25
READ MORE For a decade, the Western oil industry fought bitterly against a basic anti-corruption rule. ICIJ’s #CaspianCabals shows the lengths to which some U.S. oil companies and their allies were willing to go to thwart greater transparency.
White House appointments for sale.
Video: Fmr White House Aide Boris Epshteyn on Russian tv speaking fluent Russian-he was born there & worked there before too. #TrumpRussia
https://x.com/funder/status/871910229956587520
https://x.com/FurrieChief/status/1736081024696860936
the press is still up to their relentless fuckery
the malpractice just keeps coming
hey, remember all the journalistic ass-clownery that the worthless scribblers of the corporate-controlled press inflicted on us during the run-up to the election? remember the sanewashing and the wishcasting?
Robert F. Kennedy is supposedly coming to Romania to support his fascist friend Calin Georgescu in the 2nd round of presidential elections. They have been friends for 15 years.
@HackingButLegal
The Kremlin just stole the first round of the Romanian election with an unknown fascist pro-Russian candidate.
RFK may be showing up to… lend his support to all that.
So RFK Jr. refuses to get jabbed for a vaccine — but he’ll jab himself to shoot up heroin?
Are you getting the picture?
We Tracked Every Visitor to Epstein Island | WIRED
Even in death, the secrets of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and his infamous private island remain tightly guarded. But in 2024 WIRED conducted an investigation uncovering the data of mobile devices belonging to almost 200 of his visitors. How strong was the data? So precise that we followed visitor’s movements to and from Epstein Island to within centimeters—tracking their countries, neighborhoods, and even buildings of origin. This is Epstein Island’s Secret Data: On The Grid.
#EDUCATION
David Pepper
“Eliminated from the bill was a provision that would have required private schools to submit an annual report to the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce showing how state funds received from voucher scholarship programs are being used.”
They know. Provisions removed from Ohio bill that would add accountability to private schools, voucher program
U.S. Department of Labor @USDOL
The Wage and Hour Division fights for the underdog. Read how these workers got their tips restored from the Indiana restaurant where they worked:
Federation of American Scientists @scientistsorg
The federal government transfers approximately $1.1 TRILLION dollars every year to state and local governments.
But no one is really evaluating whether the programs deploying these funds are functioning, let alone increasing community well-being.
Challenge
Advocates of abundance have identified as an increasingly significant barrier to economic growth and community flourishing. Of particular concern are state and local policies and programs, including those powered by federal funds, that do not effectively deliver critically important public goods and services like health. education. safety. clean air and water.
and growth-oriented infrastructure.
Part of the challenge is that state and local governments lack capacity to conduct rigorous evaluations of the efficacy of their policies and programs. For example, the American Rescue Plan. the largest one-time federal investment in State and governments in the last century, provided $350 billion in State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds to State. territorial. local. and Tribal governments to accelerate post-pandemic economic recovery. Yet of those investments are being evaluated for efficacy. in a recent SURVEY 59% of those surveyed cited “lack of time for rigorous evaluations- as a key obstacle to innovation. State and governments also typically lack the time, resources, and technical capacity to canvass whether a program proven to improve outcomes elsewhere might also improve outcomes locally.
Finally, state and local governments often don’t adopt more effective programs that these programs are more effective than the Status quo, because implementing new programs disrupts existing workflows.
ChatGPT Exposes Its Instructions, Knowledge & OS Files
According to Mozilla, users have a lot more power to manipulate ChatGPT than they might realize. OpenAI hopes those manipulations remain within a clearly delineated sandbox. With https://0din.ai/blog/prompt-injecting-your-way-to-shell-openai-s-containerized-chatgpt-environment some specific prompt engineering they would in an operating system, and access the inner workings of the large language model (LLM) it runs on: the data, instructions, and configurations that influence its outputs.
@dieworkwear
THREAD This month marks the final, definitive closure of the Garland Shirt Factory.
If you’re interested in American manufacturing, I want tell you its story.
I asked: “How is it possible that the company that invented the oxford cloth button-down, one of the most iconic American designs, is not be able to charge a premium over stuff found on Amazon?” The person agreed and said “that’s the million dollar question.”
The final chapter of the Garland Shirt Factory proved one thing: even without the Brooks Brothers behind it (a company that had its own problems), it could not find enough orders to sustain operations. The simple reason is because at $10-14/ hour wages, a shirt is expensive.
At such prices, a company might buy a shirt from Garland at $40, sell it to a store for $80, and then the store sells it you for about $150. This distribution model is necessary for scale (and scale is important for jobs). But people don’t want to pay $150 for a shirt.
Ultimately, consumers want cheap clothes. I’m sad to see yet another American clothing factory shutter. The Garland Shirt Factory lasted for about 70 years, much of that time producing one of America’s most iconic styles.
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Nikola Tesla describing a cell phone in an interview conducted by journalist John B. Kennedy and published in a Jan. 30, 1926, article in Collier’s magazine.