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@pre@boing.world
2025-11-22 10:39:50
Content warning: bitcoin conference report

Despite much opinion to the contrary, the government money we use is crappy.
I'm at bitfest in Manchester to find out if Bitcoin could be a better money.
It could hardly be worse.
The mood is still good, people are joking about recent devaluation rather than crying. Those who aren't all in are trying to buy more at the discount.
After an introduction by Mad Bitcoins, Joe Bryan explains the problem with government money.
He imagines an island on which two types of money are tried, with a dividing wall between them.
When economic problems hit, government can just print more money on the fiat side. Everyone now using money which is worth less. Distorting prices, inflating asset prices, making the rich (who hold assets) richer and the poor (who have to pay inflated prices) poorer. Driving wealth inequality.
On the hard money side, government must tax properly. Take in more from the rich rather than inflating to take it from the poor. Reducing wealth inequality.
On the government money side, the wealthy monitize houses, stocks, resources. Saving in money is impossible, its inflated away. So they save in assets and hording resources. Capital is misallocated. The youth can't afford houses. Poverty traps are caused. The only way out is printing more for benefits. Making it all worse. More economic crises, more printing. More government debt.
Eventually, the wall is broken. Government money people can save in the hard money instead. It reduces the value of government money further. More printing. More inflation.
Eventually, war. Funded by printed money.
The dollar is the best of a bad bunch all other government money is falling in value even faster.
I wonder, is bitcoin really this better money though? It's limited, hard, and can't be printed without energy investment.
I'm still unsure that fixing money fixes the world.
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Note: "crypto" is mostly more like government money than bitcoin. It can be printed indefinitely by it's makers, does not cost it's makers to print. Crypto is usually just a scam people to get more bitcoin. Bitcoin is not crypto.
#bitfest #bitcoin

@wraithe@mastodon.social
2025-11-23 15:10:54

Yea I can’t imagine why anyone thought this dipshit was defending rape…I mean aside from the over half a dozen posts where he defended rape as “not immoral”, literally said “No. In fact, the word "rape"…didn't even exist until the 1800s.” and arguing that being “owned”* wasn’t “horrific”
Complete mystery why people went after him, must be some weird BlueSky thing. 😂
JFC

Bluesky screenshot: The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social horrible day to be literate i Possible Bluesky screenshot with an "i"@liawithani.bsky.social • 1h child rape was also horrific in 1776, hope this helps ••• Mugsy's RapSheet @mugsysrapsheet.bsky.social Follow Actually, no. There were no laws against having sex with child slaves in 1776. "Horrific" or no, it wasn't "immoral" in Jefferson's time. Would he have any less of a chance of being elected president in 2024? #PedoDon Nov…
Bluesky screenshot Mugsy's RapSheet @mugsysrapsheet.bs... • 17h Simply being "owned" isn't "horrific" (all wives were "owned"), or do you not believe providing "safe haven" was a form of protection? By that standard, the Van Daan family that hid the family of Anne Frank were subjecting them to "horrific mistreatment."
BlueSky Screenshot Mugsy's RapSheet @mugsysrapsheet.bs... • 17h Simply being "owned" isn't "horrific" (all wives were "owned"), or do you not believe providing "safe haven" was a form of protection? By that standard, the Van Daan family that hid the family of Anne Frank were subjecting them to "horrific mistreatment."
lol he blocked me so here he is crying on Mastodon: joined "BlueSky" (against my better judgement) last week so I could contact people/services that aren't on Masto. I made the mistake of responding to a post attacking Thomas Jefferson for failing to live up to a moral standard we clearly haven't even achieved in 2025, and the knives came out. Every self-important child misrepresented my claim, accused me of defending slavery & child rape , and bombed me with 400 posts in one hour. BlueSky = R…
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-23 15:22:24

President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/finance/currencies/tru

@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-23 10:42:51

How Large Language Models are Designed to Hallucinate
Richard Ackermann, Simeon Emanuilov
arxiv.org/abs/2509.16297 arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16297…

How Large Language Models are Designed to Hallucinate
Large language models (LLMs) achieve remarkable fluency across linguistic and reasoning tasks but remain systematically prone to hallucination. Prevailing accounts attribute hallucinations to data gaps, limited context, or optimization errors. We argue instead that hallucination is a structural outcome of the transformer architecture. As coherence engines, transformers are compelled to produce fluent continuations, with self-attention simulating the relational structure of meaning but lacking t…

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-10-21 02:57:37

Turns out that what hit flight #UA1093 was most likely a balloon from windbornesystems.com - this was brought up first in the thread x.com/vk5qi/status/19803865814 and now the company confirms that it's a very strong possibility: x.com/johndeanl/status/1980462. See also youtube.com/watch?v=YZzbS30xdjM for a short video about the company and how it's filling the atmosphere with long-duration balloons carrying weather sensors. They had just been hailed as one of the best inventions of 2025: time.com/collections/best-inve ...

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-20 19:35:45

OpenAI says it will work with SAG-AFTRA, CAA, UTA, and others to crack down on Sora 2 deepfakes, following concerns from actor Bryan Cranston and SAG-AFTRA (Jaures Yip/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/10/20/open-ai-so
…

OpenAI cracks down on Sora 2 deepfakes after pressure from Bryan Cranston, SAG-AFTRA
OpenAI will also collaborate with United Talent Agency, Creative Artists Agency and Association of Talent Agents to ensure voice and likeness protections.

@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
2025-10-10 00:30:07

Moody Urbanity - UP ⬆️
情绪化城市 - 上面 ⬆️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Ilford HP5 Plus 400 (FF) English Alt Text: A black-and-white photo of a wide city street flanked by buildings on both sides. On the left, a modern multi-story building features curved, layered architecture. On the right, a tall rectangular building has a more traditional design. The street includes crosswalks, traffic lanes, and a few vehicles, including a car and motorcycles. Trees line the road, and the top of the image is framed by silhouetted branches and leaves. Streetlights and traffic s…
Ilford HP5 Plus 400 (FF) English Alt Text: A black-and-white image of a large industrial building with corrugated metal siding. Several flags mounted on poles flutter in the wind in front of the building. Chinese characters are visible on the upper facade and above the entrance, though partially obscured. The sky is clear, and the lighting suggests daytime. The image has a documentary feel, emphasizing the structure’s utilitarian design and the presence of national or institutional identity th…
Ilford HP5 Plus 400 (FF) English Alt Text: A black-and-white photograph capturing a dramatic sky filled with textured clouds. On the left, partially hidden by dense tree foliage, are several multi-story buildings with rectangular windows—likely residential. Trees frame both sides of the image, creating a natural border. The sky dominates the scene with varying shades of gray, suggesting depth and movement. The grainy texture and lighting evoke a vintage, film-like aesthetic. The image feels int…
Ilford HP5 Plus 400 (FF) English Alt Text: A black-and-white photo of a high-rise building under construction. The structure is mostly complete, with its framework and exterior visible. Multiple tower cranes surround the building, indicating active construction. The sky is partly cloudy, and the image has a grainy texture that adds to its industrial and dramatic tone. The scene conveys the scale and complexity of urban development, with towering machinery and architectural ambition. 中文替代文字： 这…
@cdarwin@c.im
2025-11-29 22:01:57

On Friday, Judge Boasberg ordered the administration to submit declarations by December 5
from all officials involved in the decision not to return the flights to the U.S.
He said he will then decide whether to seek testimony from witnesses.
The declarations should detail the officials’ roles in the decision, the judge said in the brief order.
Justice Department attorneys had urged him to abandon the probe,
but Boasberg said he must determine whether Homeland S…

Trump officials face contempt probe over migrant flights
A federal judge in Washington has relaunched his contempt probe of the Trump administration for failing to turn around two planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Friday ordered the administration to submit written statements by December 5 from all officials involved in the decision not to return the planes to the U.S. Boasberg wants to determine whether the Republican administration flouted his order to turn the flights around. The sta…

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-11-18 05:07:05

Did you know Trump repeatedly lied lied LIED & bankrupted an entire sports league all because the NFL hurt his feelings?
▶️ One Man’s Ego vs. the NFL: Donald Trump and the demise of the USFL - Press Box Chronicles
youtube.com/watch?v=lCjWo9A_51

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-07 22:57:17

Albany Georgia isn’t the only place where the poorest among us are also the sickest.
The United States is blessed with one of the most scientifically and technologically advanced health care systems in the world,
a sprawling industry so vast and lucrative that it is now one of the largest drivers of the economy,
accounting for more jobs and revenue than manufacturing.
But for all the money flowing in and out,
Americans have more chronic illnesses and shorte…

Sick in a Hospital Town
Welcome to Albany, Georgia, where one hospital dominates the political and economic landscape. The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.