@servelan@newsie.social2026-02-02 04:09:42
"Don't say, "The most corrupt administration in American history." There is no comparison between Trump, on the one hand, and eg Grant, Harding, or Nixon on the other. Nixon's worst day in office was 100x better than Trump's best day. The relevant comparisons are to non-American Presidents in authoritarian societies with unfree media. Trump's scale of stealing and bribe-taking has never been remotely paralleled in any democratic country before."
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social2026-01-30 16:32:22
smth smth aaah I am only one person, so many cool things happening in parallel at @… 🥴
FOSDEM::attend(DevRoom::Rust, me.clone()); // compile error
Unfortunately, I am not Clone just yet.
I assume I cannot implement that in a thread-safe manner.
@pre@boing.world2025-11-23 20:40:43
The conference is over now. I likely wouldn't have come for just a bitcoin thing, but I am very interested in redecentralizing the web, so it's attachment to the nostr day pulled me in.
Everyone I met was friendly and interesting and seems much more interested in making a better money system than in making money for themselves.
Our government and bank money systems are dysfunctional in all kinds of ways which are often less visible than they should be too people using them, especially to those in Europe and America who benefit from the way those systems exploit the global south.
I'm not convinced that fixing that would end wars and fix broken government as some seem to think, but I am sure our money is the source of many problems.
There are many bright, well meaning, and intelligent people building to improve bitcoin in fascinating ways with the hope of having a parallel system to transition to. With lots of work still to be done.
Can it work?
I'm sure I don't know, and I'm sure even if it's a better system it'll come with it's own unfairness and cruelty. Money will continue to be a source of suck and worry.
I'm told that the bigger conferences are often full of shitcoin scammers and suit wearing banksters who are in fact all in it too get rich and rip people off, but I found none of that here.
Here there is a real community of people trying to make the world a better place and improve the lives of their neighbours and governance of their countries.
And in the end building community is the most radical and effective way to change the world regardless of the problems of it's money system.
I had a great time. Thanks to those organising it.
#bitfest #bitcoin
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2026-01-16 08:52:53
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Zelf heb ik de luxe gehad om ooooit, helemaal in het begin, aan te lopen tegen een heel vervelende lock-in van mn data. Daardoor ken ik al heel lang de waarde van data.
Jarenlang leefde ik dus in een parallel universum wat Windows betreft en kijk eigenlijk met stomme verbazing hoe MS kennelijk de kans kreeg om dat de facto monopolie op te bouwen.
M365 is een logische stap om verder elk tarief te kunnen gaan vragen.
En dat dan helemaal los van de toegang tot -alle data- als t zo uitkomt.
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social2025-11-10 22:42:43
Excited to see Publishers Weekly feature YDS professor Yii-Jan Lin and her book "Immigration and Apocalypse"! https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/99026-aar-sbl-2025…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-05 22:15:59
Redistricting Battles, Set Off by Trump, Have Few Parallels in U.S. History (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/us/elections/gerrymandering-redistricting-democrats-republicans.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p137#a251105p137
@krone@frawas.de2026-01-15 16:11:23
Millionen-Pleite - „Mini-Benko“ angeklagt: Luxusleben trotz Insolvenz #News #Nachrichten
@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca2026-01-10 20:31:51
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