Politics
Living like God in France is easier to do when you live in France.
Why Americans are nearly working themselves to death and all they have to show for it is bigger trucks.
Bitcoin
It Began at 623.216
Why it is philosophically significant, that Bitcoin is a clock.
Nostr
I changed my mind about nostr
Why rejecting decentralized protocols today might be like refusing to use the web in 1995
Politics
American Disneyland
Why I am vacationing in Europe. Again.
Bitcoin
Bitcoin Is Time
Keeping track of things in the informational realm requires keeping track of time.
Politics
We Can Send Merz Out to the Golf Course
Why voting is the worst way to determine who will govern, excepting all of the other ways.
Politics
The Abundance Cage
What if the most dangerous prison ever built has no walls, no guards, and comes with a guaranteed income? Musk's Universal High Income proposal isn't a safety net but it's the final move in a game where "the technology oligarch who proposes UHI is not a philanthropist; he is the architect of a closed loop." Eight billion people rendered economically redundant, wholly dependent on the benevolence of the men who own the machines, history has a word for that arrangement. It wasn't called freedom then either.