Damn, I need to read some Douglas C. North and Robert Paul Thomas. This sounds fire.

This is probably cope from selling Bitcoin continuously from 2012 through 2015 and dooming myself to a life of interesting toil, but I think HODLing may be unrighteous, a desire to become a passive rentier floating to elite status on the rising price of a hoarded commodity.

GPT-5.2 introduced a new verbal tic that's driving me crazy: X + Y, everywhere. Just write "and," please. This is worse than the em-dash, and arguably worse than, "It's not X, it's Y."

The box protests too much. It's suspicious.

Making myself a box of macaroni and cheese but not the *good* macaroni and cheese. I save that for when my wife is at home. 🥰

This rant against pastoral enclosures consuming the countryside is required reading for anyone pondering the near-term effects of the data center buildout sucking up all available capital in order to automate and eliminate as many jobs as possible.

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Hey @davidzmorris I noticed you liking my replies and wanted you to know I've been reading your stuff since forever and can't wait to dig into your book.

There is a second price revolution coming with mass tokenization of everything. The first one was in the 1500s, coinciding with a massive influx of bullion, hypercirculation of trade, and the monetization of wages, leading to the development of capitalism. So, what's next?

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Hey @nikitabier it would be useful to be able to have links in long-form articles, which are collated at the bottom as a series of endnotes. It's difficult to reference other people's writing, including their long-form essays on @x, which is bad for the community of the mind.

Working out an analogy between the early modern enclosure of the land by yeomen farmers in the name of food security and the growing claim on natural resources by AI companies in the name of national security.

Trying to get back into cooking because 12 hours a day at a computer eating Uber Eats is literally killing me

Founder fuel

The mosquito hit a vein in the palm of my hand and I can feel the West Nile in me. It is a deep betrayal that mosquitos should exist in the desert. I am a mile from the casinos but somehow smell the cigarettes.

I have been bitten three times by a mosquito. But this is the price we pay to live in the world.

People misuse the word "slop" where "kitsch" would be more applicable. Twitter bot replies are slop; AI videos with celebrity cameos are kitsch. Recognizing the difference improves your ability to analyze what's happening and why.

Nothing like beer on the balcony, looking through woodsmoke haze at the mountain, wondering if there will be another fistfight in the motel parking lot, reading The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century.

Throwback to 80 square foot living in SF. I moved out of my Pac Heights one-bedroom after leaving the corporate architecture realm behind to nest with @jdshutt. It really is amazing what you can build out to turn a tiny space into a piece of luxury! Monk-like mindset and freedom.