"Man can be nothing but free: in this lies his greatness. In serving, he finds his salvation. Freedom is the right of every man to be honorable, to think and speak without hypocrisy. A man who hides what he thinks, or does not dare to say what he thinks, is not an honorable man." - José Martí Thank you @OsloFF @HRF for amplifying voices that often go unheard. Some voices get a stage. Some get silenced. Some are ignored. Being able to meet these humans in person and celebrate life together for 3 days is truly uplifting. May the voices that have been silenced find their stage. And may freedom tech tools like AI, #Bitcoin and more help carry them further, faster, and louder than ever before. To freedom & philanthropy. 🕊️ P.s. thanks @JoeNakamoto for being my 🛴 chauffeur🤘🏼

Latest Strikes is out! Is this issue: Ark stuff, Liquid <> LN swaps, rust-lighting, and laddered timeout-trees and more! - @arkade_os - @secondhq - @Blockstream -@aeonBTC - @roy_breez - @MostroP2P - @lightningdevkit (rust-lightning) - @ZmnSCPxj and 8144225309 Link below 👇

Announcing the world's largest paid endpoint directory for AI agents: the 402 Index! The 402 Index aggregates 15,000 paid API endpoints live on the internet today, and runs hourly health checks to help your agent determine which providers have the most reliable infrastructure.

12 months ago @wbbr_ and I started building a new type of studio. Something for... Today... @_PXPUSH is open! We've worked with some awesome partners, refining the process, building tools, ops and prompts. 24–72hr deliveries, small team, human robots, creativity on-demand.

How did people in 1913 see the world? How did they think about the future? We trained LLMs exclusively on pre-1913 texts—no Wikipedia, no 20/20. The model literally doesn't know WWI happened. Announcing the Ranke-4B family of models. Coming soon: github.com/DGoettlich/histor…

In the hypothesized future world where AI takes over most jobs, the returns to capital will keep increasing and the returns on careers will keep falling. (This has already been happening over the last 40 years, but due to globalization of the labor market, not AI). Saving as much money as you can now, to invest in that capital, would be your most important personal road out of oblivion.

EVERYONE THOUGHT THE GENIUS ACT WAS ABOUT CRYPTO REGULATION. THE DATA JUST PROVED IT WAS SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY. Four months ago, Trump signed a law that made headlines for 48 hours. Tech regulation. Stablecoin rules. The market moved on. But the numbers that just came out tell a completely different story. The GENIUS Act buried one sentence in 47 pages: every stablecoin dollar must be backed 100% by U.S. Treasury bills. Nothing else qualifies. Not cash in banks. Not corporate bonds. Only government debt. Stablecoin market cap when the law passed in July: $200 billion. Stablecoin market cap today: $309 billion. That’s $109 billion in new legally mandated purchases of U.S. government debt in 4 months. Treasury Secretary Bessent’s official projection: $3 trillion by 2030. Here’s what that actually means. The government doesn’t need to find buyers for its debt anymore. The law creates the buyers automatically. Every time someone anywhere in the world buys a digital dollar, a stablecoin company is legally required to buy a Treasury bill with that money. The Bank for International Settlements measured the effect. Every $3.5 billion in stablecoin growth lowers what the government pays to borrow money by 0.025%. At $3 trillion, that saves $114 billion per year. That’s $900 per U.S. household in lower debt costs. Bessent confirmed it last week. He said because of stablecoin growth, Treasury doesn’t need to increase the size of bond auctions. The government found a way to fund spending without traditional buyers. The institution that proves it’s real: JPMorgan. After 10 years of calling crypto fraud, they announced last month they now accept Bitcoin as collateral. The largest bank in America doesn’t reverse a decade of policy because of trends. They reverse because the power structure changed. What changed: the law moved regulatory control from the Federal Reserve to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. That office reports directly to the Treasury Secretary. The Treasury now controls who can create digital dollars. And the law requires those digital dollars to fund government debt. This is not monetary policy. This is legislative engineering of debt demand. And it’s been operational since July.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Read the full deep dive analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanak… Subscribe for the daily premium newsletter!

Tether's AI first launch. Local on-device AI is evolving. - QVAC Workbench, mobile/desktop app for using and experimenting many AI models locally on device with 100% privacy - QVAC Genesis I, largest synthetic pre-training datasets for Large Language Models (LLMs) to date. 🤖🤖

🇺🇸 $90 BILLION VanEck says the US could reduce its national debt by 35% by establishing a Strategic #Bitcoin Reserve 🤯

Ever thought about viewing the world differently..? This thread on cool maps is here to blow your mind 1. All roads lead to Rome

How El Salvador Became Latin America's Comeback Story: New VanEck Research vaneck.com/us/en/blogs/digit…

A football match between Glentoran vs Cliftonville from 1897. Filmed at the Oval (Belfast) by Alexander Promio for the Lumière Company. Just insane that this footage exists.

Hilo de mapas chulos que (probablemente) nunca has visto 🧵.  1. Todos los caminos llevan a Roma

Nous souffrons tous d’un déficit d’admiration J’ai une curieuse sensation, qui est peut être l’effet de l’âge avancé que j’ai atteint: je ne réussis plus à admirer les gens qui dominent le débat politique ou le monde de la pensée d’aujourd’hui. Je m’explique. Je suis né à la conscience politique non pas en 1968 comme beaucoup de ceux qui nous gouvernent, mais dix ans plus tôt quand les «événements» d’Algérie ont ramené au pouvoir de Gaulle. Et de cette période, jusqu’au début du XXI eme siècle, je n’ai jamais souffert de l’impression que le monde manquait de personnalités charismatiques.

We are leaving the ugly architecture era and moving into a New Romantic Classic Future architecture movement. This will require handiwork that has long past at scale. We will have beautiful public spaces with custom work not seen for a century. Robots making beauty.

I'd be happy to talk with you about it, Elon.

Ancient Greek thinkers like Socrates and Plato hated democratic elections. They saw democracy as part of an endless cycle of regimes — destined to slip into mob rule. But Polybius knew how to break the cycle... (thread) 🧵

Steve Jobs on how to perfect product design (genius playbook).

En este momento, hemos enviado una oferta de ayuda al gobierno español a través de nuestra cancillería. 300 rescatistas y paramédicos, junto con 20 toneladas de equipo, medicamentos e insumos básicos, están listos para salir rumbo a Valencia 🇸🇻🇪🇸

For those who haven't yet had a chance to listen to this new interview with Elon Musk on Neuralink, here's the full video with timestamps. The interview was published two days ago by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The interviewer is Dr. Alexander A. Khalessi. Timestamps: 0:12 Solving the brain–machine interface problem 4:25 Towards a whole-brain interface 5:27 Start with best risk/reward cases 8:06 Next iterations of Neuralink 10:23 How the implant is performed 12:39 Robotics and the future of surgery 15:02 Challenges of avoiding corrosion 17:51 Brain surgery vs. Rocket science 18:52 Towards a million electrodes? 19:55 Vast majority of issues can be fixed 23:25 Could also help to reanimate the body 24:47 Implant can be removed & upgraded 26:40 Cost 29:40 Detecting neurons 30:37 Ian Banks' Neural Lace 31:44 Neuralink will support neurosurgeons in their mission