ECP NetHappenings Kurt Vonnegut 2006 advice to students

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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. KURT VONNEGUT (who left us 19yrs ago today) was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

228 E 48 NYC 10017 212-688-2682 November 5, 2006
Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely,
Batten, Maurer and Conglusta:
I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a
really old geezer (84) In his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.
What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice
any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s Inside you, to make your soul grow.
Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your
lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give It to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.
Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you
if you don’t do It: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed, No fair
tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell
anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even
your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?
Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely
separated trash receptacles. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.

God bless you all!
Kurt Vonnegut

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ECP NetHappenings “Software” coined by Margarat Hamilton

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Remember the Wicked Witch of the West?

Let me take you to school.
The original computers were women, and that was their job description.

Not this Margaret Hamilton

Margaret Hamilton’s Apollo Code

A brief history of the famous 1969 photo of the software that sent humans to the Moon.

 

This is Margaret Hamilton in 1969, standing next to listings of the Apollo guidance software she and her MIT team produced
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_engineer)

Margaret coined the word “software”
YES SHE DID!!!

Her areas of expertise include systems design and software development, enterprise and process modeling, development paradigm, formal systems modeling languages, system-oriented objects for systems modeling and development, automated life-cycle environments, methods for maximizing software reliability and reuse, domain analysis, correctness by built-in language properties, open-architecture techniques for robust systems, full life-cycle automation, quality assurance, seamless integration, error detection and recovery techniques, human-machine interface systems, operating systems, end-to-end testing techniques, and life-cycle management techniques.[18][20] These techniques are intended to make code more reliable because they help programmers identify and fix errors sooner in the development process.

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Good Bitcoin Reports

MICHAEL SAYLOR’S $STRC JUST SET A NEW DAILY BUYING RECORD ABOVE 4,000 #BITCOIN
AT THIS PACE: 1,000,000 BTC BY END OF 2026
NO OTHER COMPANY IS EVEN CLOSE
WE ARE WATCHING HISTORY

$10 TRILLION MORGAN STANLEY IS ABOUT TO ACCELERATE WALL STREET DEMAND FOR #BITCOIN
THEY ARE ALREADY BUYING THE ENTIRE “MINED SUPPLY” EVERY DAY
“INSTITUTIONAL BUYING HAS STILL NOT EVEN STARTED”

BLOOMBERG TV JUST REPORTED LIVE
MAJORITY OF WALL STREET ANALYSTS EXPECT MICHAEL SAYLOR’S $MSTR TO MORE THAN “DOUBLE” IN PRICE THIS YEAR
“MOST ANALYSTS” MAINTAINING BUY RATINGS
THE MOST UNDERVALUED COMPANY IN THE WORLD

INVESTING LEGEND CATHIE WOOD JUST SAID #BITCOIN WILL SURGE WHEN THE NEW FED CHAIR IS CONFIRMED
BTC IS UP “SINCE THE DAY HE WAS ANNOUNCED”
CONFIRMATION COMING THIS WEEK

HONG KONG NOW OFFERS 0% CAPITAL GAINS TAX ON #BITCOIN AND CRYPTO
GLOBAL GAME THEORY AT WORK. BEAUTIFUL

BILLIONAIRE COINBASE CEO ABSOLUTELY SCHOOLS CENTRAL BANKER ON #BITCOIN
“BTC IS DECENTRALIZED. THERE IS NO ISSUER”
“THERE IS NO ONE WHO CONTROLS IT”
RIP GLOBAL ELITES

$750 MILLION ABRA CEO JUST REVEALED HIS CANTOR-BACKED COMPANY WILL BUY UP TO $150,000,000 #BITCOIN SOON
THAT’S OVER 2,000 BTC
NEXT MASSIVE CORPORATE BUY IS LOADING

NEW LANDING PAGE ON THE “Perversion of Justice.”
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article312152427.html

BIGLY BAD

Bruce Springsteen last night in LA:
“The America I love, the America I’ve written about for 50 years that has been a beacon of hope and liberty around the world is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless, and treasonous administration”.

Air traffic controllers have to retire at 56, FBI agents at 57, and pilots at 65.
So why the f**k do we let demented 79, 84, and 90+ year-old people run the entire country??

EXACTLY HOW DID EPSTEIN TRAFFIC THESE CHILDREN?

Jeffrey Epstein was indicted by a grand jury in July 2006 for “soliciting prostitution”.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1945508406737162471.html
Two months later, the federal government (DHS) awarded him Signatory WVP Carrier status. This allowed Epstein to traffick girls from different parts of the world without anyone batting an eye.
In 2008 (under Bush), Jeffrey Epstein’s planes were listed as “Signatory VWP (Visa Waiver Program) Carries”. Meaning, through a legal agreement with the U.S. government, he was allowed to transport citizens from designated countries without them having to obtain a visa for up to 90 days.
https://2001-2009.state.gov/documents/organization/87163.pdf

In June 2006, a grand jury returned an indictment of one count of “solicitation of prostitution”. Even after being indicted, his planes were still listed under the Visa Waiver Program in 2008.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190815165036/https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article221404845.html

An AI-generated explainer of the Signatory VWP Carrier program here:
To understand “217(E) SIGNATORY TRANSPORTATION LINES,” it’s important to break down the meaning of the terms involved in relation to U.S. immigration law:
• Section 217(8 U.S.C. 1187): This refers to the Immigration and Nationality Act, which outlines the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). The VWP allows citizens or nationals of designated countries to travel to the United States for tourism or business for stays of 90 days or less without obtaining a visa.
• Subsection (e): This specific part of Section 217 addresses the requirement that air and sea carriers must enter into agreements with the U.S. government to transport VWP travelers. These are known as “carrier agreements” or “Visa Waiver Program Agreements,” according to 8 CFR $ 217.6.
• Signatory: A signatory is a party that has signed a legal agreement, indicating their consent and commitment to its terms. In this context, it refers to transportation lines (airlines and shipping companies) that have signed the agreement with the U.S. government to participate in the VWP.
• Transportation Lines: This refers to the airlines or shipping companies that transport passengers to and from the United States.
Therefore, “217(E) SIGNATORY TRANSPORTATION LINES” from the U.S.
State Department refers to the air and sea carriers that have signed a Visa
Waiver Program Agreement with the U.S. government under Section 217(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, allowing them to transport travelers participating in the Visa Waiver Program.

Project 2025 architect Paul Dans drops out of South Carolina Senate race at last possible moment and backs Lindsey Graham challenger Mark Lynch.
* Dans exits on final day to remove his name from ballot
* Immediately endorses Lynch in effort to unseat Graham
* Trump

Trump promised his top officials pardons before he leaves office, according to the WSJ.
We knew he’d do this. But telling people ahead of time provides an incentive for them to break the law—including abusing power and grifting. Crime spree!
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-promises-mass-pardons-to-staff-before-leaving-office-d7274d32

DOGE’s secret voter data deal was ‘alarming,’ court finds
A case challenging DOGE’s access to Social Security data has been sent back to a lower court after “alarming” new evidence revealed personnel of the faux-agency may have worked with an outside political group challenging election results — a fact not disclosed during earlier proceedings.

William Barr’s father Donald Barr was headmaster of New York’s Dalton School.
In 1973, he hired Jeffrey Epstein to teach math and physics.
Epstein had no college degree. He was 20 years old.
His connections to Manhattan’s wealthy elite began at Dalton.
Donald Barr wrote a SCI-fi novel titled “Space Relations” around the time he hired the 21 year old Jeffrey Epstein to teach mathematics and physics without a degree. Here is the plot overview of the book Epstein obviously lived out. He also wrote a book about child sex slaves in space.

No Justice No Peace
When Corrupt Politicians Start Going To Jail, Then We Can Start Trusting The Government Again.

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ECP NetHappenings Gen Z workers are so fearful AI will take their job

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BITCOIN 3:33 PM TODAY HITS 73,000

Mexico getting universal healthcare before America is embarrassing.
Israel has universal healthcare and America doesn’t.
Every major democracy around the world has some form of universal healthcare.
Not America.

Michael Saylor’s Strategy could surpass BlackRock’s BTC holdings in the next couple weeks

When HODLing becomes mortgage hacking
$40 BILLION STRATEGY CEO
JUST PUT HIS OWN MORTGAGE MONEY INTO $STRC
“INSTEAD OF PAYING DOWN MY MORTGAGE, I PUT IT INTO AN INSTRUMENT THAT PAYS ME 11.5%”
THAT’S 10X HIS MORTGAGE RATE
THIS IS HOW #BITCOIN EATS WALL STREET
https://x.com/pete_rizzo_/status/2042659718754091233

#BITCOIN BUYING DAY IN HISTORY 4/10/26
STRATEGY JUST BOUGHT 1,000 BTC IN 40 MINUTES HE IS BUYING 25 BTC A MINUTE NEW PARADIGM IS HERE

IRAN JUST BECAME THE BIGGEST BITCOIN BUYER ON EARTH
Iran charges $2M in Bitcoin per ship to cross Hormuz
At $72,000 per $BTC, each ship = 27.7 BTC
~130 ships cross daily

For context:
Miners produce 450 $BTC/day
Iran earns 3,601 $BTC/day
That’s 8x the entire daily mining supply
MicroStrategy took 4 years to stack 500K $BTC
Iran could do it in 5 months… with a toll booth

ESSAY BY ANONYMOUS

I was at the library using their computers when a woman sat next to me. Opened her email. Started applying for jobs. I could see her screen. She’d been sending applications for months. Hundreds of them. All rejections or no response. She kept going. Indeed. LinkedIn. Company websites. Over and over.
After an hour she put her head down. Just sat there. I leaned over. “Job hunting?” She nodded. Didn’t look up. “Six months unemployed. Savings gone. Living with my sister.
I have a master’s degree and I can’t get an interview.” Her voice cracked. “I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.”
“Can I look at your resume?” She pulled it up. I saw the problem immediately. Formatted weird. Too long. Buried her best experience. “Mind if I help?” Spent an hour reformatting it. Tightening it. Making her skills pop. “Try this version.”
She looked at it. “This is so much better. How did you” “I’m a recruiter. Was. Before I got laid off too.” She looked at me. Really looked.
“You’re unemployed?” “Four months. I get it. The rejection. The silence. It’s brutal.”
We became job hunting partners. Met at the library twice a week. Edited each other’s resumes. Practiced interviews. Kept each other sane. She got a job first. Two months later. Called me crying happy tears. “I start Monday. And I told them about you. They want to interview you.”
I got hired too. We work at the same company now. Different departments. Have lunch every week…
“Two unemployed strangers at the library,” she says. “Now we’re employed friends. Funny how that works.”

Gen Z workers are so fearful AI will take their job they’re intentionally sabotaging their company’s Al rollout By Jake Angelo
April 8, 2026, 11:44 AM ET FORTUNE
All employees should do this. Every single one. Do not comply with AI rollouts. Everything you do with AI at your job is simply to train it to replace you. It’s 100% a fact.
People really don’t understand. AI is there to replace you. It can only do it if you use it in your job. It cannot replace you if you do not use (teach) it. AI is a scourge. It’s a thinking machine that does zero thinking. We have demonstrated this several times already. Anything anyone can reasonably do to reverse course on this before our short-sighted overlords put us all out of jobs is worth it.

Bilderberg list leaked
https://x.com/DanDicksPFT/status/2041644938946081091

FYI

CFTC announces new Innovation Task Force to develop clear regulatory frameworks for crypto, AI, and prediction markets. The goal is to provide clear rules of the road for American innovators.

Lina Khan @linamkhan
Nobody should be stuck paying for a subscription they don’t want because of how absurdly difficult firms make it to cancel.
I’m thrilled that @nycmayor is carrying forward a “click to cancel” rule to protect NYC from this misconduct.
More cities and states should follow suit.

In an antitrust settlement this week with farmers, John Deere agreed to provide software and digital tools necessary to repair tractors and other ag equipment to independent repair shops and customers. The suit credits Lina Khan’s FTC case.
https://www.agri-pulse.com/ext/resources/pdfs/gov.uscourts.ilnd.415798.333.1.pdf

IF YOU INSERT A CHARGER OR CABLE INTO YOUR PHONE, YOUR PHONE RECORDS IT. Each time a phone is connected to or disconnected from a charging cable, the system records it. These logs are crucial for investigators because they provide precise timestamps of physical device interaction, helping reconstruct user activity, verify alibis, correlate movements, and establish timelines, making them reliable indicators of handling and behavior during digital forensic investigations. Another key fact: Charging logs can reveal interruptions or unusual patterns for example, frequent disconnects may indicate movement, tampering, or active device use, helping investigators detect inconsistencies in a suspect’s timeline or behavior.

Tom DiNaploi has invested nearly half a billion dollars in Palantir.
https://x.com/sunrisemvmt/status/2042613655196307564
Despite powering Trump’s deportation machine that has resulted in 33 detention facility deaths and the public deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, DiNapoli only cares if Palantir is profitable. The NYS pension fund shouldn’t depend on the people’s oppression.

J.P. Cooney @cooneycongress
I prosecuted the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, and then Donald Trump himself.
One week after he took office again, he fired me.
Now I’m running for Congress to defend our democracy and restore the rule of law.

George Conway @gtconway3d
A harebrained psychopath has control of the nuclear codes.
It has to stop.
Our country, our democracy, can’t take another 33 months of what we’ve gone through over the last 15.
We must stop it.
Join the fight here:
http://georgeconwayforcongress.com

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