I like how I can hear Donald's voice when I read that, as if he quick typed it up himself.

Processing Twitter's information in real time could be... at first glance that seems like God-Mode, right? But no, the sheer level of bots, disinfo and sheer stupidity infecting Twitter makes its value questionable. You can poison the data set so easily there, and now that adversaries know the War Department is doing this, you can bet that they will poison it. An LLM can rapidly source and organize obscene amounts of data, but how do you efficiently verify it?

Oh well, I'm sure the Pentagon knows its business.

Notice this is the second time in as many weeks that we've seen a state shut down the internet. It'll 100% be a common tactic going forward.

The Federalist side of the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Get yourself this book — 

— and read both sides of the debates. Both sides had valid perspectives, but you'll see the Anti-Federalist criticisms (which have been de-emphasized in American textbooks ever since) have been largely vindicated by subsequent U.S. history. They were very worried about the "strong central government" and felt the critiques of the Articles of Confederation were being exaggerated to serve a centralizing agenda.

This is sadly a structural issue. They misjudged in the 1780s the influence the Executive could exercise on Congress and the willingness of people to pass the responsibility buck onto another. The Executive is incentivized to say, I'll take care of it, it's on me, and Congress is incentivized to avoid responsibility, and thus accountability to their voters, by conceding. There was meant to be a balance, but in practice it's like a Father-Son relationship, where the Son technically has the power to say "No," but—it's Dad.

(By "they" I don't mean the Anti-Federalists, who did see the centralization of Executive power and Congress's abdication of responsibility as an eventual issue. But it all sounds so abstract when you're thinking about possibilities more than a century in the future.)

I guess this is like back when they used to try to shut down PirateBay. The site's representatives (I wouldn't say "owners") already posted online that this is just a thing that happens & they'll be back soon.

For real. I actually came here just now to ask about Rumble Wallet and now I know not to even bother.

Yes

LLMs use a lot of em dashes (—) because the data they're trained on — metric fuck tons of internet writing — uses a lot of em dashes.

And many of us continue using em dashes just as always — because why the fuck should we change how we write just because of LLMs?

Right now I'm waiting for a cybersecurity catastrophe to happen caused by vibe coding. It has to be something really bad, in a really critical system, that scares the living shit out of people. That's the only way for it to stop.

It's a good idea in theory, but in practice both sides of national referendums tend to accuse the other of cheating.

Isn't this literally the same argument Argentina makes about the Falklands? "It's obviously part of South America?"

They also exaggerate the difficulty of running your own node. It's just "new"; all new things are difficult to comprehend at first thanks to unfamiliar vocabulary.

It does take a little time to learn, but there are many parts of our society that we "took a little time to learn" once upon a time. Driving, for example. Operating an automobile according to traffic laws is objectively an insanely complicated task, but we just do it like, "Oh no big deal, just listening to a podcast while driving 4,000 pounds of metal at 65 miles per hour, tumtytum..."

Having just gone through the process myself, I'd recommend for newbs that they:

1. Read guides like DC's first—thoroughly!
2. Always use small amounts. Not because you're going to lose them, but because you're going to make stupid mistakes and you'll have less anxiety this way.
3. Don't get ahead of yourself and daydream about routing payments before you've even learned how to handle your own node.

Sure, if Venezuela really has any Bitcoin, and if by "Venezuela" we mean "Maduro specifically," and if by "having Bitcoin" we mean he has the keys memorized in his head...

But other than that frenzied speculation, what reason is there to think the USA gained access to Venezuela's hypothetical hardware wallet? Large entities with Bitcoin reserves, whether corporations or governments, are almost never solely reliant on 1 guy having the keys.

I think we can listen to the voice of the people on this one, as they're surprisingly adept at adopting good metaphors. The word "Slop" itself tells us a lot. It conjures images like animal feed, or gross stews full of God-knows-what. Some unappealing gruel.

Food that's not food; food mashed up and made into a paste. "Pink slime" instead of beef.

(From the McDonald's 'pink slime' era)

It all points to something that doesn't nourish you, even if it's slapped together to look and sound like real food.

p.s. I do think slop is permissible in memes; they have always been low effort slop to begin with.

p.s. Bro's self-description doesn't exactly inspire confidence 🤣

Yep, good call. I'm skeptical too.

Not to defend El Salvador or the idea of governments "adopting" bitcoin, but this opening section:

While some embedded faults were inherited by the current government and President Bukele in 2019, a majority of the problems and mismanagement that necessitated an IMF bailout arose only after 2019.

Is just objectively not true. The presidents before Bukele were robbing the treasury blind. If you just look them up online, one after the other, they were all under investigation or being charged with huge financial crimes. El Salvador inherited a financial mess when Bukele took over. You'll seldom find a country with such a shit record of verifiable corruption from one administration to the next.

Getting that so wrong, I'm skeptical of the rest of the article and the guy who wrote it. Anyone can talk shit on Substack.