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"Every major crisis in US financial history was touched off by something that initially looked small."

nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966 on why private credit could be the thing that blows up the whole strategy.

David Sacks: "If you look at where the most inflation has occurred, it's always in those sectors of the economy that the government's most involved."

Healthcare. College. Housing. Meanwhile, prices fell in tech.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson on the US-China relationship.

"This is what I would call a period of mutually assured economic disruption, which results in a kind of stability. Not from the fact that each side trusts each other. Quite the opposite. But because the costs of escalation are so high."

"Even though it was cool to have the CEO title and what everyone thinks you should want, I wasn't happy and I wasn't doing a good job."

Chase Koch stepped down and started Koch Disruptive Technologies instead.

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We discuss: ⚡ The $40T debt endgame ⚡ A new Fed-Treasury accord ⚡ The managed dollar reset

Palmer Luckey unveils the ModRetro M64: "It's an heirloom-grade tribute to the Nintendo 64, compatible with all your Nintendo 64 games, but with a lot of really cool new features as well."

Elon Musk rejects "far right" label from reporter: "We should have secure borders, safe cities, and sensible spending. Which of those 3 are 'far right?'"

He calls the media characterization "FALSE, MISLEADING, and NONSENSE."

David Friedberg: AI job-theft narrative is "bullshit."

"I don't say it's bullshit to dismiss people's anxiety. I say it's bullshit to be truthful about the facts... Since 1963, mathematician, statistician, and accounting jobs all went up."

Axon wants to turn 60 million US streetlights into AI-powered surveillance cameras.

"Now streetlights can do more than light the street, they can protect it." They call it Lightpost. Plugs into the existing socket. License plate readers, live streaming video, edge processing.

"It's 37 lines of code, it expires in 12 months, and if some unknown unknown occurs, all of it becomes available again in September 2027."

nostr:npub1wnlu28xrq9gv77dkevck6ws4euej4v568rlvn66gf2c428tdrptqq3n3wr argues BIP-110 isn't the existential threat critics make it out to be.

A dev just rebuilt the government war room and put it on GitHub.

Live 3D globe, 500+ news feeds, military movements, shipping lanes, flight paths, 56 map layers. Runs locally with no API keys.

"$90,000 into a kid's account becomes $13 million. That's the power of compounding. It goes into the S&P 500 and it can't be sold. It's an unstoppable passive bid."

Mel Mattison breaks down how Trump accounts create a permanent bid under equities.

Flock cameras aren't just reading plates, video shows one actively scanning nearby phones via Bluetooth.

Towns in CT are ripping them out over privacy fears after massive third-party data access.

"Their whole strategy is to get people to not buy Bitcoin, but to buy their stock instead."

nostr:npub1w69ya7xs697hk3hky3gllryz8rwverfa0ylz89chf9qnhfcskc2s64zltw breaks down the broken incentive structure behind Bitcoin treasury companies.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: "AI is going to let small business compete with big business. A business that used to take 10 people to start, you can start with one or two."

Nick Shirley confronts staff at a Queens adult day care over records showing 7,899 billed members, amid $12.9M in 2024 taxpayer payments.

"It's a fork of Signal with self-custodial Bitcoin Lightning. All your chats and your entire network move along with it."

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.nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp just launched Proof of Sound, a site that turns live Bitcoin network data into music and visuals in real time.

"I've actually always seen open source as a red herring. When I see a new model come out, I don't care whether it's open source or not."

Dario Amodei dismissing open source AI.

Iranian delegation walks out of Swiss talks, declining photo with VP JD Vance and U.S. team following Trump’s threats.

Floating AI data centers are heading to the open ocean.

Portland startup Panthalassa has raised $140M in a Peter Thiel-led round at a near-$1B valuation. The wave-powered “lollipop” platforms generate electricity from ocean waves and use seawater for cooling. Commercial units targeted for 2027.

Warsh: “With respect to AI and the growth of data centers and infrastructure around it, we’re counting the demand side, and it is no doubt showing up in GDP figures. We can be less certain when we infer the timing and the extent of the supply side.”

.(APompliano) offered to bet (PeterSchiff) that bitcoin will still be around in a decade.

Fox Business: (APompliano) says he "got (PeterSchiff) to admit bitcoin is not going to zero on national television."

NASA announces the crew for Artemis III, the first crewed lunar landing mission in over 50 years, set to launch next year.

"Today represents one of the most important course-corrections in modern American medicine."

HHS Secretary Kennedy announces that 15% of the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination will now cover nutrition science across all three steps.

Sam Altman: Michigan’s massive new “The Barn” data center may become the place where cancer is cured.

The 1GW facility is part of a $16 billion OpenAI-Oracle project facing local pushback over farmland and water use.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI-generated commits to GitHub have tripled to 1.4 billion since the start of 2026.

"Are we really gonna have a $250 bill with Donald Trump's picture on it?"

Scott Bessent: "We are going to have the image of President Trump on a coin, and there is proposed legislation in the House to put President Trump on the $250 bill. President Trump should be on there."

"Are you happy with the way the Clarity Act is turning out?"

Jamie Dimon: "No. It allows them to effectively pay interest on deposits without the protection they should have. The banks will not accept it that way. The ABA, the small banks, the credit unions, not just the big guys." Then on Coinbase's Armstrong: "He's full of shit."

Sec. Scott Bessent: "Trump Accounts, I believe, are the most important benefit for young people since the GI Bill."

Trump: "We don't need oil. We don't need the strait. We don't need anything."

Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models.

What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text. "We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience." "We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease." These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours. And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve. Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large." The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.

"Bitcoin is a neutral network. People you don't like might use it. And there's nothing you can do to stop it."

Iran launched Hormuz Safe, a Bitcoin-powered maritime insurance platform for ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz, after OFAC froze millions in IRGC-linked USDT.

Mark Cuban sells most of his Bitcoin, says it "lost the plot" as a hedge during the Iran conflict.

Trump on growing fears of AI: "I'll tell you, AI has been amazing, because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far, than we ever had before."

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Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on Elon Musk's AI job warning: “We’re going to grow jobs. We’re at the beginning of a prosperous boom for America that represents the Golden Age. Maybe there are going to be job losses, but they should all be in China.”

King Charles: "My ministers will also proceed with the introduction of Digital ID."

Age verification is the Trojan horse for centralized digital ID.

"You don't have to identify yourself when you walk into Walmart. But if you go to walmart dot com, you're being identified behind the scenes." - (GeraldGlickman)

The WHO claims the recent hantavirus outbreak proves why countries around the world must be part of a global health order.

"We really need this incident, this outbreak, to show why the world needs a global entity that connects this." "We live in an interconnected world. An outbreak in one part affects everywhere."

Adam Back says he has a bet that bitcoin hits $1M before the next halving in 2028.

"The $500K to $1 million bitcoin is closer than people think."

Sell your Tesla, ditch the AirPods, stop taking NAD.

"Sell the Tesla, you're spinning your vortex the wrong way. AirPods are the fastest way to get Alzheimer's. NAD drops because your vortexes go down." - ☣️ Pleb Kruse = BTC foundationalist in exile 🟩🔆

Trump: "I settled eight wars. I'd love my legacy to be made as a great peacemaker. It doesn't seem it right now, but I think I'm a peacemaker."

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: "We will finish this, and we will honor their sacrifice with decisive action."

Joe Rogan on Mexico's cartel chaos:

"This is so bad for tourism… It's going to cost Mexico billions of dollars. It's like half the city's on fire!"

Conspiracy busted: Epstein donations didn't touch Bitcoin's code or consensus. Solid breakdown (brucefenton).

Who you're really working for...

Woman in Costa Rica selling eggs for Bitcoin.

Elon Musk to WEF: Life is "precarious & delicate," that's why we must go multi-planetary, even multi-solar, to give civilization a real shot at a great future.

Remember when Max Keiser went full “hang the bankers” on live TV and the panel just sat there stunned? 😂

Uganda’s dictator has rigged elections for 40 years using internet shutdowns.

This time opposition leader Bobby Wine is telling 2.6 million followers to download BitChat before January 15th. Marty Bent explains why this could change everything. Shared via https://pullthatupjamie.ai