Alexandria Catalogue - Highlights

Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced Tuesday he was resigning over the war in Iran. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby”

Code you don't understand becomes someone else's problem. In Open Source, that someone is often the maintainer reviewing your patch. Offloading bad code onto maintainers slows down reviews for everyone. Plus, you miss the chance to learn from the code and grow as a developer. It shouldn't matter what tools you use. But if you submit code, you should be able to explain what it does, why it works, and how it interacts with the rest of the code. Everyone starts somewhere. Even today's top contributors submitted imperfect patches early on. You are welcome here, with or without AI tools. Perfection isn't required, but understanding your code is. Own your code.

Communities can also publish a kind 10001 pin list like any other profile. This gives communities a built-in way to feature content — pinned articles, apps, releases, or any other event — without any additional spec.

The icing on your meatcake.

What happens when the world's most powerful nation starts burning the alliances it spent 80 years building? Yale historian and grand strategy expert Sarah Paine doesn't mince words in this interview: America is making catastrophic mistakes — and the rest of the world is watching, calculating, and preparing to respond.

Waking up and checking what your agents produced overnight is the first thing now. Before coffee. Before texts.

Dinner conversations used to start with “what are you building?” That’s over. Now it’s “how many agents do you have running?”

A friend left a party at 9:30 on a Saturday. Not tired. Not sick. He wanted to get back to his agents.

one person’s virtue is another person’s misalignment

Strategy anuncia compra de mais de 22 mil bitcoins. A maior parte (1,18 bi USD) via emissão do instrumento STRC (US$ 396 mi em emissão de ações MSTR). Foi a quinta maior compra individual da empresa, que agora possui 3,8% de todos os bitcoins que um dia foram minerados.

Maneiras mais fáceis de ficar rico: Venda luxúria aos homens Venda beleza às mulheres Venda tempo aos ricos Venda paz aos pais Venda sonhos às crianças Venda esperança aos pobres

Last week, Palantir CEO Alex Karp delivered an apocalyptic warning to progressives, particularly "highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat," stating that their influence over the economy and broader society will erode as technologies such as AI transfer power to working-class, right-leaning men.

One of the more fascinating sidelights of our war of choice in Iran is how it has reinforced the devastating consequences of our hollowed-out industrial base, consolidated commercial sector, and overreliance on long intermediated supply chains... leading military contractors have spent $110 billion on stock buybacks over the last five years, something so repugnant that even Trump has issued an executive order trying to ban it... America lacks the components for these weapons as much as it lacks the capacity to build them. And the biggest missing components are the rare earth minerals used in missile guidance and other essential systems.

The news shows the difficulty in trying to remove material from the internet, especially that which has a high public interest and has already been viewed likely millions of times. It’s also an example of the “Streisand Effect,” a phenomenon where trying to suppress information often results in the information spreading further.

A 15-year study in Japan found that Enoki mushroom farmers had significantly lower cancer death rates than the general public. While about 160 out of every 100,000 people in the general population died from cancer, only 97 out of 100,000 farmers did. Researchers believe this was because the farmers ate many more Enoki mushrooms

An attacker crafts inputs that cause the model to retrieve and disclose documents the user should not have access to, effectively bypassing document-level access controls.

NIP-29 is private property, not a public square. The relay as the authority (who can read, who can poast, etc.) is a feature for this use case, not a bug. Incentivises running your own relay.

If I want to smoke it's because I'm in the mood to watch something BURN ❤️‍🔥

“STRC é pirâmide.” Já ouvi isso várias vezes. Vale esclarecer. Pirâmide: sem ativo subjacente, opaco, sem liquidez, colapsa quando para de entrar gente nova. STRC: 741K BTC ($52B) no balanço, prospecto público na SEC, U$712M/dia de liquidez na Nasdaq, saída a qualquer momento. A Strategy emite shares, compra Bitcoin com os proceeds e paga dividendo com a captação. Isso está no prospecto. Não tem nada escondido. Sabe quem mais funciona assim? Todo banco do mundo. Capta depósito, paga juros, investe o capital. Todo REIT. Todo fundo imobiliário. Ninguém chama o Itaú de pirâmide, nem o Tesouro Direto. O Tesouro Direto é literalmente o governo emitindo dívida nova pra pagar dívida velha. O mesmo governo que já confiscou poupança, já deu default, já trocou de moeda 6 vezes em 50 anos. E esse é o “investimento seguro” do brasileiro. Na STRC, o ativo subjacente é Bitcoin, verificável on-chain, 24 horas por dia. No Tesouro, o lastro é a promessa de um governo que historicamente não cumpriu. Discordar do modelo é legítimo. Chamar de pirâmide é preguiça intelectual.

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I currently see Nostr as a gem... and a big stockpile of shit on top of that.

Today’s companies seem to want to use AI for everything, no matter how ill-advised. I guess if I was going to update my book Customers Included I’d have to rename it Just Ignore Them, Some Bot Will Tell You What To Do. The mania for AI – privileging AI fantasies over what customers actually want – is leading companies to spend a fortune on tech solutions that overlook customers’ actual needs. These organizations could make things better for customers without spending a single extra dollar on AI.

ing repetitive or tedious tasks

We need more l33t clients like grimoire

The original Techno Viking appeared in a four-minute experimental art video, “Kneecam No. 1,” recorded by Matthias Fritsch at the 2000 Fuckparade, a political and techno music event, in Berlin, Germany.

The Rosicrucians. The Hermetic Order. The early Christian church itself, meeting in catacombs with fish symbols scratched into stone. Every one of these was a censorship resistant information network built on identity verification, reputation, and selective disclosure.

YOU CAN NOW HAVE YOUR BITCOIN PAYCHECK. EVERY MONTH. POWERED BY $STRC. Stretch your income to 11.5%, paid in Bitcoin. Available in Roxom, starting today.

O STRC é diferente. O rendimento não é sustentado por fluxos de caixa de uma empresa operacional nem por uma base tributária soberana. Ele é sustentado pelas grandes reservas de Bitcoin da Strategy e por sua sólida estrutura de capital.

O Bitcoin não é como outras formas de colateral: ele não pode ser diluído, falsificado ou desvalorizado pelo aumento da sua emissão; não possui contraparte, duração ou risco operacional; sua oferta é limitada a 21 milhões de unidades; e sua existência pode ser verificada em tempo real diretamente na blockchain.

But code eventually matters, as that’s the source of truth for what’s on production. As Alberto Brandolini said: It's developers' (mis)understanding, not domain experts' knowledge, that gets released in production. Now, it’s the developers’ and LLMs’ misunderstandings that are deployed to production, not the expert’s knowledge. Neither the markdown spec. And coding is just one danger. Outsourcing thinking is an even more dangerous path, as: If LLMs are doing everything, then again, what are humans for? Aren’t we cutting the branch on which we’re sitting? LLMs are statistical parrots. They repeat the most possible answer. Which means mediocre. This can still be fine enough for many cases, but for those we want to make a difference for? Definitely not. Just like we’re losing our coding skills by not doing them, we’re losing design skills by not practising them.

This is the manufactured dilemma at the base of the entire edifice. Money loses value. Therefore you must make it grow. Therefore you need financial products. Therefore you need asset managers. Therefore you need fees. Therefore you need gates. The entire $1.8 trillion private credit industry, the $30 trillion passive management complex, and every obscure quarterly-redemption-window BDC in between. All of it traces back to a single upstream policy decision: engineer money to lose value, and watch a financial services industry metastasize to fill the void. Like a drug dealer who creates his own market, the Federal Reserve manufactured the addiction, and Wall Street sells the fix.

Instead of managing relays, Blossom servers, and tweaking a bunch of technical knobs, no: those are prepackaged in a community spec.

I believe there are four main skills you have to learn today in order to work effectively with coding agents: Understanding which problems can be solved effectively using LLMs, which ones need a human in the loop, and which ones should be handled entirely by humans. Communicating your intent clearly and defining criteria for success. Creating an environment in which the LLM can do its best work. Monitoring and optimizing the agentic loop so the agent can work efficiently.

Namecheap suspended my account because they started requiring KYC, and I can't recover it. I'm definitely not going to KYC myself

For example your agent can run a lightning node for you. Of course... you then realize. We were never going to sit there and operate channels. Our agent will do it for us.

Meta has acquired Moltbook, a viral social network designed for AI agents... ...The deal brings Moltbook's creators — Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr — into Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)

nostrisdead

grimoire is cool, but it's too nerdy for me

i never used grimoire once in my life, but that is not the point, it is still the best client

no nuance

Global central banks officially target approximately 2% annual currency devaluation. That sounds modest. Run it forward and it is a compounded 20% loss of purchasing power over a decade. Over two decades, 35%. The nurse, the teacher, the engineer —they took real-world risk to earn their money once. Now monetary policy forces them to take financial risk a second time just to preserve what they already created. Not to get ahead. Simply to stay in place. It is the definition of a hamster wheel: run hard just to remain stationary.

What makes this story systemic rather than episodic is the structure beneath it. The modern financial system is not a single counterparty risk. It is a stack of counterparty risks, layered so densely that the failure of any one layer threatens the others, and the beneficiaries of each layer have powerful incentives to ensure nobody examines the layer below them too carefully.

$STRC traded ~$297M today with 30-day volatility of ~4%.

College grads are the worst.