OmniEdge - Free humanity 🌞₿🛡️☘️🌋🔑⚡

On a personal journey to expand wealth, health, sovereignism, consciousness & empower individuals. #Bitcoin, #Cryptoanarchy, Permaculture & love.

[Syrian Girl @Partisangirl]

BREAKING 🚨 video re-surfaced of AlQaeda syrian “president” Jolani talking about kidnapping women and using them as sex slaves.

Since his rise hundreds of Syrian women from minority religions have gone missing, some have turned up married off to AlQaeda linked foreign fighters.

This is who Trump and Israel decided should rule Syria.

[Walker⚡️ @WalkerAmerica]

Kind reminder that JB Pritzker (net worth $3.7 billion) is the same guy that bought a second multi-million dollar mansion next to his existing one, then had a contractor remove all the toilets / kitchen fixtures so the home could be classified as “uninhabitable” or “vacant” for property tax purposes.

A 2018 Cook County Inspector General report called it a “scheme to defraud” taxpayers. It noted the toilets were removed shortly before affidavits were submitted claiming the property had no functioning bathrooms or kitchen.

The irony of this privileged tax cheat creating a "privilege tax" on Bitcoin is truly incredible.

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

A reminder that the Constitution was not written to restrain the citizens' behavior.

It was written to restrain the government's behavior.

[Anastasios Nikolas Angelopoulos @ml_angelopoulos]

Just to be clear, if you remove Fable which is unavaialble, GLM-5.2 (Max) is the #1 model in the world for frontend coding.

This is a huge moment. OSS has caught up with proprietary, and China has caught up with the US, in this very important domain.

[F. A. Hayek Quotes @FAHayekSays]

“Nazism was just a peculiar form of socialism.”

— Friedrich Hayek

[Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡ @gladstein]

18 months ago, we began filming a mini-doc about @HRF's AI program

Today it goes live

We're still at the start of the journey, but the progress so far has been crazy

From idea (AI should help freedom) to reality, where we are helping dissidents superscale their work

Onwards!

[OmniEdge - Free humanity 🌞₿🛡️☘️🌋🔑⚡ @CryptoHolon]

@lusquaa @sseraphini @jgcmarins @ThiagoMot_ Minetest is open source. Any servers there?

[Murray 🇺🇸 @Rothbard1776]

You are being robbed blind by an international cabal of central bankers, corporate oligarchs and their puppets who occupy positions in both the government and the private sector.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.

In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.

https://t.co/pLMD0krc69

[OutspokenSamantha @Outspoken_Sam]

Elon Musk is not stealing from you.

Gavin Newsom is stealing from you.
Karen Bass is stealing from you.
Tim Walz is stealing from you.
Elizabeth Warren is stealing from you.
AOC is stealing from you.

Becoming wealthy does not make you evil.

The people who take from you, promising to fix problems and then enriching themselves while trying to get you to hate those they're taking the money from... are evil.

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

There were secret biolabs in Ukraine (and elsewhere)…

https://t.co/ZpNE0aP1VD

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Tom Bombadil is the most mysterious character in The Lord of the Rings.

He's the oldest being in Middle-earth and completely immune to the Ring's power — but why?

Bombadil is the key to the underlying ethics of the entire story, and to resisting evil yourself...

Tom Bombadil is an enigmatic, merry hermit of the countryside, known as "oldest and fatherless" by the Elves. He is truly ancient, and claims he was "here before the river and the trees." He's so confounding that Peter Jackson left him out of the films entirely.

This is understandable, since he's unimportant to the development of the plot. Tolkien, however, saw fit to include him anyway, because Tom reveals a lot about the underlying ethics of Middle-earth, and how to shield yourself from evil.

The hobbits meet Bombadil early on in their quest, before they reach Bree and the Prancing Pony Inn. He rescues Merry and Pippin from Old Man Willow, and invites the hobbits to stay at his house in the Old Forest.

There, the hobbits realize something strange about him: the Ring has no power over Bombadil whatsoever.

When he wears it, he remains visible. He treats it as a plaything, making it disappear with a magic trick. Indeed, at the Council of Elrond, Gandalf rejects the idea of giving the Ring to Tom, for he would likely misplace it or forget about it entirely.

So just who is he, exactly?

When Frodo asks this very question to Tom's wife Goldberry, she simply responds "He is." It's a cryptic answer that echoes God's famous answer to Moses in the Book of Exodus: "I am who I am."

Thus, many theorize that Bombadil is God, some kind of angelic being, or even the spirit of the Music of the Ainur (due to the fact that he is constantly singing). But Tolkien's letters reveal something considerably more interesting…

In April 1954, Tolkien wrote:

"The story is cast in terms of a good side, and a bad side, beauty against ruthless ugliness, tyranny against kingship… but both sides in some degree, conservative or destructive, want a measure of control.But if you have, as it were, taken a 'vow of poverty', renounced control, and take your delight in things for themselves without reference to yourself… then the questions of the rights and wrongs of power and control might become utterly meaningless to you, and the means of power quite valueless…"

So, Bombadil is a representation of what it means to take pure delight in the world around you — to experience people and things simply as they are, without any thought for what they could be or how you could use them. And this is why the Ring has no power over him.

To Bombadil, the One Ring is simply a ring, and the possibilities of what can be achieved through its power are of no importance. He is able to resist its evil precisely because he is entirely content with the world around him.

At the end of the story, having accomplished what he set out to do in Middle-earth, Gandalf pays Tom a visit before returning to the Undying Lands:

"I am going to have a long talk with Bombadil: such a talk as I have not had in all my time."

If Bombadil is the epitome of simply enjoying life and being, Gandalf is the epitome of doing. He guides the hobbits, fights the Balrog, and runs up and down Middle-earth to help destroy the One Ring.

But now that he's finally liberated from doing, he immediately heads to Bombadil's. He does so with a sense of relief, as if he's at last able to access a purer and higher mode of being — a sort of innocence that cannot be fully experienced by those consumed by doing.

Of course, by this Tolkien doesn't disparage the value of action. The entirety of LOTR displays the importance of rising up against evil, even in the face of all odds. But with the inclusion of Bombadil, he does remind readers that fighting isn't all there is.

Bombadil reminds us that while it's important to strive and *do*, it is just as important to occasionally step back and *be*. Indeed, your ability to do so plays a crucial role in helping you resist the allure of evil…

Read the full piece here:

https://t.co/aqK2daehIL

The unsung hero of The Lord of the Rings...

[OmniEdge - Free humanity 🌞₿🛡️☘️🌋🔑⚡ @CryptoHolon]

@elonmusk When will you let us choose our own algo on social media?

[OmniEdge - Free humanity 🌞₿🛡️☘️🌋🔑⚡ @CryptoHolon]

@DeryaTR_ @AnthropicAI https://t.co/2tSjydx0bm offers options to utilize both anthropic models and, if necessary, uncensored models. Users retain control over the models they employ, ensuring both privacy and choice.

[OmniEdge - Free humanity 🌞₿🛡️☘️🌋🔑⚡ @CryptoHolon]

@MittRomney The priority is open source !

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[cozy @cozymaximalist]

The concern around the recently patched Orchard bug are warranted but what is clear to me as well is—

- Zcash has the top cryptographers & white hats in the world
- AI acceleration trends toward defensive advantages for developers over offensive hacks
- Zcash, Zodl, Shielded Labs, et al are world-class tech and teams and are learning the right lessons from this fix amidst flawless and non-centralized execution
- Privacy is still essential for freedom

[OmniEdge - Free humanity 🌞₿🛡️☘️🌋🔑⚡ @CryptoHolon]

I oppose the Olympia Treasury proposal for Ethereum Classic.

Sign the petition at https://t.co/9lbYa3D4et.

#Nolympia #EthereumClassic #ETC

[OmniEdge - Free humanity 🌞₿🛡️☘️🌋🔑⚡ @CryptoHolon]

Time to close a chapter. X has been fun & with good signal-over-noise ratio in the past, but it's not adding value to me anymore. 2 many distractions. Giving but receiving little back.

I've been thinking about this for two years now and here is my last post & engagement on X.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

The EU today: "A genocide is ok but we draw the line at buying grain from Russia"