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One small step for #bitcoin one Giant leap for mankind
The #BitcoinLaw has been approved by a supermajority in the Salvadoran Congress. 62 out of 84 votes! History! #Btc🇸🇻
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Jon_D retweeted
BREAKING: East Texas A&M students have built quantum-proof protection for the Bitcoin Lightning Network. Their solution adds encryption that quantum computers cannot break, protecting Lightning payments without changing Bitcoin itself.
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Amazing! I love El Niño.
#BREAKING A Sea Turtle has nested in Huntington Beach, this may be one of the first times ever that this has happened. NO ONE DISTURB THE NEST
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According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history. How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing. Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs. An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians. For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated. It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings. By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do. So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951. How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it. At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform. It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.
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Echo chambers are a deafening experience…
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m5 ultra is a CRAZY deal. 257/mo for a open-frontier model machine with 256gb ram and 4tb of storage. literally a claude code subscription for 3 years is the same price as running it at home. Local is gonna win, short openai, short anthropic
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i think AI is about to uncover an entire hidden world of animal communication and what it's already found is insane... > AI found evidence that elephants call each other by name. when researchers played one its name-like call, it approached the speaker faster and called back more, revealing a form of personal naming once thought almost uniquely human > AI analyzed 53,993 marmoset calls and found tiny monkeys may use names too. entire families use similar labels for the same monkey, suggesting they learn names and dialects from each other > AI learned to tell what Egyptian fruit bats were arguing about: food, mating, sleeping spots or personal space. it could even partly identify who was shouting at whom inside a colony of thousands > AI discovered a “phonetic alphabet” in sperm whale clicks, with rhythm, tempo and tiny timing changes combining into at least 143 recurring patterns. their communication system is nearly 10x more expressive than scientists previously believed, and we still don't know what most of it means > an AI trained on 1.5 million zebra finch calls held real-time vocal exchanges with living birds, generating calls as they spoke and getting them to respond with the same timing and flexibility they use with other birds > Google trained an AI on decades of dolphin recordings to predict what sound comes next, then paired it with an underwater device that gives objects their own synthetic whistles. the goal is for a wild dolphin to copy a whistle to ask a human for a specific object, creating a tiny shared vocabulary between species > AI combined microphones worn by wild crows with nest cameras and uncovered quiet calls that may announce when a crow is arriving at the nest and help entire families coordinate caring for their chicks > a robot bee performed the waggle dance real bees use to share the direction and distance of food, and the bees changed their flight paths based on its instructions. researchers effectively sent a destination into a hive in bee language
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Jon_D retweeted
Replying to @IRS_MEDIC
I’d like to coin a new word. Usurycracy / Usurocracy
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My boomer dad asked me last week why I'm still renting at 43. I told him a starter home in our area is $410,000. He said "so save up." I said the down payment alone is $82,000. He said "that's not so bad, break it into pieces." I said after rent, insurance, and daycare I put away maybe $400 a month. He did the math out loud. Got to seventeen years. Went quiet. Then he said something I didn't expect. "I put down $3,200 on our first place. I had it saved in eight months working at the plant." Then he just sat there for a second. "I always thought you kids were exaggerating." That's it. That's the whole conversation. He wasn't being cruel. He genuinely had no idea. Nobody ever showed him the number. Most of them aren't defending the system. They just never looked at it.
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With the rise of Bitcoin attacks, we are certainly near the ultimate bottom. Stack sats like your fucking life depends on it you filthy animals!
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lol @Ledger now better than @COLDCARDwallet? 👀
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The US stock market peaked 26 years ago. Priced in gold, the S&P 500 is still down 66% from its 2000 high. It is LOWER today than the day Nixon closed the gold window. You just don't see it — because you measure your life in dollars.
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The separation of Money and State remains the most important fight of our Age. As the #FourthTurning converges with the exponential build-out of the Digital Age, now is the time for the plebs to claim the creation and control of money, away from the over-powerful nation states. #Bitcoin is the soundest and fairest money that allows the common man and woman to exchange value for value. It is the Blue Collar Dollar. It is the only real money that is Of the People, By the People, For the People. It will incentivize humans to work with each other and build a better world, rather than fighting with each other and destroying the world. This is worth fighting for.
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Total betrayal. The House of Representatives passed the NDAA 216-212. 7 Republicans voted NO. 6 Democrats voted YES. This $1.1 trillion dollar military budget contains Sec 219 that ties our military intelligence and military industrial base to Israel. Now it goes to the Senate.
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Replying to @martianwyrdlord
I’m down
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This will be the most watched recorded vote in modern times. It will give a list of names of every Member of Congress who betrayed America, committed treason, and sold out the American people to a foreign country.
Unfortunately the Rule passed just now and no debate or vote was allowed on section 219, integration of US military technology and supply chains with Israel’s. The NDAA will receive a recorded vote tomorrow with section 219 in it. I’ll vote no.
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Jon_D retweeted
.@RepThomasMassie and I are leading the fight against military integration with Israel. Congress was denied a vote on an amendment to stop it. Now we will fight to strip this provision in the conference between the House and Senate.
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While Americans are focused on other things, like how to make ends meet in the face of a rapidly rising cost of living, tomorrow the House will vote to merge our military technology and supply chains with Israel’s. Our Founder’s would be appalled at what Congress is doing now.
NDAA Section 219 is headed for a House vote tomorrow, and it would permanently integrate U.S. military technology and supply chains with Israel’s. If passed, this wouldn’t be a temporary arrangement; it would lock in a long-term defense merger that reaches across presidential administrations and pushes America even further under Israel’s strategic control. @RepThomasMassie is the lone Republican opposing it. But the House already moved the rule forward without allowing a real debate or a separate vote on Massie’s amendment, sending the bill closer to the Senate with the most controversial part still intact. If any other country were being written into U.S. law this manner, the backlash would be massive. Even America’s oldest ally, Great Britain, does not have a provision like this. That’s what makes Section 219 such a major story and why the lack of public scrutiny is so striking.
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Love this, only if it wasn’t a blind and deaf take on reality… Wtfhappenedin1971.com
It's not fucking high school anymore. 8 billion people need to change the conversation of what "success" looks like. It's not to make a billion dollars, it's to wake up in the morning and be in a good mood.
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While this may be an uncomfortable truth, there is an underlying structure that still remains in El Salvador's economy and government... Fiat systems are still embedded in El Salvador and they must answer to them and whoever pays them... for now. El Salvador's directive with Bitcoin... to me... is a subtle plea for help to and from the bitcoin community and beyond. Great work Joe, beautifully done.
SOMEBODY HAS TO SAY IT THE BITCOIN DICTATOR
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Exposing The Ugly Truths Behind Crypto Scams 😮 (full video) #BitcoinNotCrypto #DontGetScammed
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