Alexandria Catalogue - Highlights

Now comes fresh news from Microsoft and Nvidia, attempting to revive the AI hype with yet another round of circle-jerking.  Bloomberg reports Microsoft and Nvidia will invest up to $15 billion in Anthropic. As part of the agreement, Anthropic will purchase $30 billion of compute from Microsoft's Azure, which only confirms more circle-jerking. 

In short, the consistency strength of the existence of an inaccessible cardinal is greater than that of ZFC alone. At first glance, then, the logical status of the existence of even the smallest of the large cardinals is a bit startling: we can’t prove they exist; it is consistent that they don’t exist; and we can prove that we cannot prove that their existence is relatively consistent. What, then, is the point of them?

Stand at any coastline and ask yourself: what exactly are you looking at? The conventional answer seems obvious - the boundary between land and sea, the place where two different things meet. But look closer, and the certainty dissolves.

if you send a message to a relay saying hello mr relay please send me the messages you have it will not understand that message and will probably ignore you.

Nostr is not any specific set of relays, and relays are not meant to be public or free. Remember from the first paragraph above: Nostr is just a description of an interface.

The trial at the Regional Court of Aachen echoes Pelicot's ordeal, where she was drugged and abused by her husband and dozens of other men for almost a decade.

In simple terms, a dollar bill’s value relies on two elements: that people believe it will be accepted in exchange for goods and services, and how much demand for the currency there is.

The site is estimated to yield roughly 1,444 tonnes of gold, worth about $193B at current prices.

the fact that nostr's an archaepelago and not a continent is extremely beneficial to censorship resistance, just as the WoT based consensus of FIND is beneficial to central control attacks. if everyone is stubbornly subjective and refuses to move in lockstep with each other, then any social attack you can launch can only control a fragment of the network

I just had the wildest bitcoin experience. I saw a local restaurant called Manakish Oven & Grill on the Cash App Bitcoin map was supporting lightning payments. When I arrived and said I wanted to pay with bitcoin, the cashier didn't think they supported it, but then the owner came out stoked to hear someone was paying with it! He said he just turned it on last night and didn't think much of it. I had never been before and now he has a repeat customer for 2 reasons: Great food and accepts Bitcoin! Such an incredible experience.

At this edge, knowledge finally escapes the tyranny of finalization and embraces its essential nature as process, as flow, as collaborative becoming. The anarchistic dream realizes itself not through the destruction of existing systems but through the creation of new forms of collective intelligence that make the old constraints simply irrelevant. This is what anarchistic knowledge ultimately offers: not just freedom from institutional control, but freedom to participate in the endless creativity of minds thinking together, streams of consciousness merging and diverging in patterns too complex and beautiful for any single authority to contain or control.

What we lack isn’t technology but imagination - the willingness to let knowledge behave like the living system it wants to be

What happens when we push anarchistic knowledge to its absolute limit? We arrive at something that feels almost scandalous to our document-obsessed culture: ideas that refuse to solidify, streams of thought that flow faster than any institution can capture, knowledge that exists only in the spaces between minds thinking together.

we discover new forms of collective intelligence emerging. Not the artificial intelligence of machines, but the enhanced intelligence of communities thinking together in ways that amplify rather than diminish the creative capacity of individual minds. This requires designing systems and practices that support emergence rather than control. Structures loose enough to allow unexpected connections but coherent enough to maintain continuity

The creation of knowledge commons represents a specific political strategy - one that works through construction rather than destruction. Instead of fighting existing power structures directly, it builds alternative structures that gradually make the old ones obsolete

What happens when we push anarchistic knowledge to its absolute limit? We arrive at something that feels almost scandalous to our document-obsessed culture: ideas that refuse to solidify, streams of thought that flow faster than any institution can capture, knowledge that exists only in the spaces between minds thinking together. Form and process in a continuous superpositioned weave, form and flow. Snapshot photos of a visibly changing permanence.

This isn’t about abandoning the academy or traditional scholarship. It’s about creating parallel systems that demonstrate additional ways of organizing collective intelligence. These alternatives don’t need to supersede existing institutions - they can work alongside them, attract diverse participation, and generate different kinds of insights.

This is where projects like Nostr become important - not just as technical solutions but as experiments in organizing knowledge commons that can’t be enclosed or controlled by any single entity

The tools that best support anarchistic knowledge are those that make thinking processes visible and shareable

The digital realm offers new possibilities for anarchistic knowledge to flourish. Version control systems that track the evolution of ideas rather than just final products. Wikis that make collaboration visible and preserve the history of collective thinking. Networks that allow concepts to flow across traditional boundaries without losing their coherence or becoming diluted.

The knowledge that emerges belongs to the conversation itself, to the temporary assemblage of minds thinking together

These marginal positions aren’t disadvantages - they’re sources of creative potential

These underground networks of understanding operate everywhere

The institutional response is always the same: capture, categorize, credential. Build departments to contain the overflow. Create journals to channel the flow into manageable streams. Establish peer review to filter out the unauthorized connections. And slowly, gradually, the living system of understanding gets carved up into discrete, ownable pieces, each with its proper place and authorized interpreters

When we declare an idea "complete," we face an inherent tension with its natural state of evolution. We take something dynamic, breathing, evolving, and attempt to capture it in a fixed form. The academic paper, the final draft, the published article - these represent moments in time where living thought has been crystallized for preservation and sharing. Yet ideas resist this crystallization. They continue to evolve in the minds of readers, generating new connections and possibilities that the original author never imagined. The most powerful texts are those that maintain generative potential, that continue to provoke new interpretations and applications long after their publication. These works preserve their dynamic potential despite institutional attempts to formalize them.

I get asked how Bitcoin changed me. It didn’t. I changed me, and that change led me to Bitcoin.

If we are to secure wealth for generations, our solutions must eliminate ALL single points of failure. They must be designed to outlive us.

Suter did not say which stablecoins or which blockchains Cash App intends to support. “Our principles are to be chain and coin-agnostic right now, and to go where customers lead,” he said. “We’re not going to support 100 coins and 100 chains.” He did add that each user will get a blockchain address associated with their account. Any stablecoins sent to that address will be converted into dollars within Cash App, and dollars sent out of the platform to a blockchain address will be converted back into stablecoins.

Among all adults ages 18 to 34, 20% say being married is extremely or very important for people to live a fulfilling life, and 22% say having children is extremely or very important. For comparison, 68% say the same about having a job or career they enjoy, and 62% say this about having close friends. There are no gender differences in young adults’ views of the importance of getting married or having children.

"Der dramatische Einbruch der Zustimmungswerte von Schwarz-Rot zeigt, dass diese Regierung keinen Rückhalt mehr hat - und zu einem schnelleren Ende kommt als die Ampel."— Alice Weidel (@Alice_Weidel) Nov 12, 2025

Those who have experienced this feeling know how addictive it is. Number two, no generational company has ever been started in the AI era, and I think Cursor has a shot at becoming one. It was immediately obvious to me that the company’s leaders are enthusiastic about establishing a new playbook for company-building.

We are surrounded by music more than any individuals from all previous ages combined. It is a hallmark of our century: excess, the endless regurgitation of unnecessary information. As children, we hear music through media that have changed over the decades — first the gramophone, then the radio, television, and now the internet.

Let us not only call him Lord, for that will not save us. Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will be saved, he warns, but only the man who does what is right. So then, brothers, let us show our faith in him by our deeds, by loving one another, by not committing adultery, by not finding fault with one another, or being envious. Instead, let us be chaste, merciful and kind. We should also have compassion for one another, and not be covetous. We have to prove that we believe in him by performing such actions as these and by avoiding whatever is contrary to them, since we fear God rather than men. Should we fail to do so, we have the Lord’s warning: If you do not keep my commandments, even though I had pressed you to my heart, I will thrust you away from me and say to you: Out of my sight, you whose deeds are evil; you are complete strangers to me.

Nostr devs as a whole won’t come together anywhere regardless; each will insist on their own NIP-29 or NIP-29ish approach and mostly just refuse to collaborate.

Think the problem is too many people (white and non-white) are falling for the leftist racist paradigm in which foreigners, some of whom are not suited to open western societies, are admitted out of pity or guilt. Pity for a group is also racism. When instead prospective immigrants should be vetted carefully, on the individual merits, and to the extent there are not enough resources to do so, then we should just have less immigration until that changes.

WHY HOMESCHOOL? Neither my wife nor I are teachers by profession or training, so at first we were intimidated by the idea of homeschool. We didn’t know if we were cut out for it, didn’t know what to expect, what materials to use, what was required by our local jurisdiction, etc. Would we be able to teach our kids what they need to know so they keep up with their peers? Would they be able to socialize with other kids their age? Would they become the stereotypical “weird homeschool kids?” We both went to traditional schools all the way through college, and never had any experience with homeschool ourselves, so we felt a bit like fish out of water.

But here’s the kicker: You’re already losing. You’re losing the compounding returns of a healthy creator ecosystem. You’re losing the trust and reciprocity that makes Nostr different. You’re losing the moral high ground to criticize Web2 extractive platforms while being extractive yourself.

Hey guys I‘d like to post long-form reads on nostr using highlighter. I run into the following problems: I cannot create my highlighter because publishing the event always fail. Can anyone help me🔥? Thanks

I’ve tried to use highlighter in a real meaningful way with no luck.

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Imagine a future where $5 a year gets you access to blazingly fast, incredibly private, and feature rich Nostr interactions. Your apps are always updated. Your data syncs instantly. There's never spam or ads in your feed. A new social game comes out every week that you play with your friends and family. You can switch accounts whenever you want. You can't be banned or targeted.

The United States has been a socialist country LARPing as a capitalist republic for many decades now. You can't have a truly capitalist society if the lifeblood of your economy is centrally planned. And our money is more centrally planned than any reserve currency system that has come before it.

It is becoming clearer by the day that the two options moving forward that are being framed, predominately outside of the mainstream media and instead within social media in its many forms, are strong man socialism or strong man fascism. The means of production need to be taken by force and capital redistributed evenly amongst the working class or the would-be socialists need to be forcefully put in their place before they attempt to repeat atrocities that are guaranteed to come along with socialism.

In a lengthy doctrinal note titled "Mater Populi Fidelis" ("Mother of the Faithful People of God"), the dicastery said the title co-redemptrix or co-redeemer "carries the risk of eclipsing the exclusive role of Jesus Christ" in salvation. And, regarding the title co-mediatrix or co-mediator, it said that Mary, "the first redeemed, could not have been the mediatrix of the grace that she herself received." However, it said, the title may be used when it does not cast doubt on "the unique mediation of Jesus Christ, true God and true man." Pope Leo XIV approved the text Oct. 7 and ordered its publication, said the note, which was released Nov. 4.

Until a free fix is ready, the automaker says that owners of 2020 to 2025 Jeep Wrangler 4xe and 2022 to 2026 Grand Cherokee 4xe models should park outside and away from structures and not plug their vehicles in to charge.