Dr. Tim Glass

#Bitcoin #Nostr: npub1eur8lygwzh3snatkq3e589an2jt82ns72dl6r84hraslaycxh3yq79t05g

[Merlin @MerlinAero]

In 2022, we built our facility in Kerikeri, New Zealand with a clear goal: to be the first company to fly a traditionally crewed, fixed-wing aircraft autonomously in commercial revenue service in 2027.

We've made meaningful progress on our certification path in the first half of this year and believe we are entering the final phases before commercial service. Pending regulatory acceptance, we intend to launch commercial operations in New Zealand with certified aircraft flown by Merlin Pilot from takeoff to touchdown, under real regulatory oversight, on real routes, in revenue-generating operations.

New Zealand has some of the most isolated communities in the world, diverse terrain, and rapidly changing weather conditions. Aviation here is essential infrastructure and the exact environment where certified autonomy needs to prove itself.

[Merlin @MerlinAero]

Merlin has completed the Critical Design Review for its C-130J autonomy program with @USSOCOM. CDR is the milestone where our government customer reviews the detailed design of the system and accepts it is mature enough to move toward the aircraft. We cleared it.

Learn more about what this milestone means in the press release. https://t.co/Gfkg4jDxqV

[Shawarma Capital @ShawarmaCapital]

The fastest path to autonomous Pacific airlift isn’t a new drone. It’s the C-130 already on the ramp.

Congress just mandated an Air Force study on autonomous cargo aircraft (FY2027 NDAA). Retrofit wins on timeline, certification, and cost.

$MRLN is building exactly that.

https://t.co/bXQD3wBtrb

[Ouster @ousterlidar]

Ouster sensors output point clouds in the form of a structured depth image: a repeatable grid of rows and columns, where every column corresponds to a repeatable azimuth angle. This 1:1 mapping between pixels and 3D points has been a foundational property of our digital lidar architecture, making perception pipelines simpler to build and maintain.

With Rev8, that structure extends to native color. Because we capture color directly on the chip in the same photon event as range, RGB joins the existing structured channels, perfectly registered, pixel-aligned, without the need for a fusion step.

[Equibase @Equibase]

With the scratch of Bottle of Rouge, @stoolpresidente’s Go Go Grey Stables’ Lovely Grey is now IN the #KyOaks!🎀

The 3yo daughter of Vekoma was runner-up in both the Cincinnati Trophy S. and Bourbonette Oaks at @TurfwayPark.

She’ll make her first start on dirt since her career debut at @HSIndyRacing last July.

Check out her horse profile on Equibase:
https://t.co/uBw9T9NtCR

📸Coady Media

[Dr. Tim Glass @DrTimGlass1]

@mc_khristina 16% over what timeframe?

[Dr. Tim Glass @DrTimGlass1]

@LynAldenContact Never mind. Got the kindle app. All good

[Dr. Tim Glass @DrTimGlass1]

@LynAldenContact Hey. Sorry if this is obvious but will the kindle version run on an iPad?

[Dr. Tim Glass @DrTimGlass1]

@HaileyLennonBTC

[Dr. Tim Glass @DrTimGlass1]

@ActuallyClimber @TBM945DM @BitPaine Grain you have said what I’ve felt for the past 12 months. I could feel it but not express it as well as you. I sold half my BTC for expenses I knew were coming and to rotate into other investments. Thanks for all of your content and honesty.

[Climb That Ladder @ActuallyClimber]

Yeah that makes sense. I started feeling bearish just after the peak in October. With all the excitement, the Bitcoin ETFs, prefs, the president and most of his staff, MSTR True North, seemingly thousands of Saylor AI pics, copy cat companies and more, many of us expected to see at least >$150k in 2025. Remember how conservative the Dec 2025 $380 strike calls on MSTR sounded late 2024?

When the universe keeps showing me that something just isn’t working the way I expected, I have no choice but to reevaluate and wonder what else I’m missing.

As to why it underperformed, I think Bitcoiners tend to believe yesterday’s non-believers will be today’s believers, that increased adoption is a train that isn’t stopping. They forget people like myself exist who used to hold a large amount of bitcoin and probably never will again, at least not directly. They seem pessimistic about humanity unless Bitcoin gets added to the equation, and then they have high hopes that the masses will learn about the virtues of Bitcoin and inevitably adopt it, giving humanity way too much credit to make “smart” choices if you ask me.

I think many people also got into MSTR or options instead of buying bitcoin (even through the ETF). If I decide to buy $1 mil of Bitcoin today, I take $1 mil of Bitcoin off the market. Zero elasticity. If instead I decide to buy $1 mil of MSTR today, maybe 1-3% of that was from the ATM and goes to buy Bitcoin while the rest just trades with proxy (Mstr) traders. To some extent it’s all a wash. Investors like myself have accepted that Bitcoin’s returns have slowed and that led to us buying a proxy with some amplification to aim for outsized returns. When that hasn’t worked out well over the past year, many have given up.

Time frame played a roll. So many of us eyed late 2025 as a potential cycle peak. If a decent portion of people believe it, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy to a large degree. When price failed to perform, many sold out and I’m not sure how many of those people will be coming back. I realize I’m just one guy, but I’m confident I’m not the only person thinking this, or the only person who feels they’ve benefited enough from Bitcoin in the past and don’t want to keep pressing their luck.

One huge selling point with Bitcoin was that it’s a black hole where, once smart people adopt it, they never revert. Every time someone does, the story is that they must not have been a real Bitcoiner. Real Bitcoiners never sell bitcoin or never turn bearish on Bitcoin. People who turn bearish are shunned especially if they attempt to justify it. This cult-like, weak sauce defense is pitiful and makes me even more skeptical. Cyber hornets? How about echo chamber.

People shouting for years about how Bitcoin can/will solve everything sound like snake oil salesmen. Can it solve some things? Maybe. Over selling it just sounds exaggerated and desperate, much how Bitcoiners perceive XRP or other altcoin holders to be.

[Dr. Tim Glass @DrTimGlass1]

@mc_khristina @jeffgoldsmith23 Thanks KH for all your teaching. Be safe

[Dr. Tim Glass @DrTimGlass1]

@mc_khristina @spacanpanman Thanks! Thanks also for the $asts posts.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jim Carrey's heartfelt message to a room of former inmates at Homeboy Industries: "This room is filled with God... You are heroes to me."

He opens up about his own challenges: Suffering leads to salvation—it's the only path. We must feel our pain and losses fully, then choose:
- The gate of resentment → vengeance → self-harm → harm to others
- Or the gate of forgiveness → grace

Just as Christ did on the cross—suffering terribly, doubting, feeling abandoned—yet choosing compassion and forgiveness for those causing the pain.
"That's what opens the gates of heaven for all of us."

Your presence shows you've already chosen grace.

2:34 clip delivering this profound reflection on forgiveness as liberation 👇

In tough times, has choosing forgiveness over resentment brought you grace? Or what's the hardest part of that choice for you?

[Beaver 🦁 @beaverd]

🚨Indiana spent $15 BILLION on social services agencies since 2022, $4 billion went to child services responsible for ~12,000 foster kids

How does a state government spend $1 billion/yr on ~12,000 foster kids? And why does the federal government pay for 90% of it? Ask Mike Pence and the Indiana GOP.

I began investigating IN at the behest of a generous contributor to https://t.co/sczmKLn7OA.

Including federal subsidy, IN spends about $110,000 per foster child, but each family/caretaker only gets ~$9k-19k/yr. The other $80,000/yr goes to consulting firms and a bloated system created by GOP lobbyists, paid by tax dollars.

Deloitte, a consulting firm that has received nearly $200m from the gov't, has profited from the waste in nearly every way. The firm's IN lobbyist is a former three term state GOP chairman, and another lobbyist at the same firm was literally the sitting GOP chair until Dec. 2024, Randy Head.

In 2015, gov Mike Pence hired Deloitte to do an "independent" analysis of DCS caseloads, and Deloitte recommended improved IT systems, which it got hired to build. As well as maintain, and $70 million later, still maintain.

Whistleblower and former DCS director Mary Beth Bonaventura warned that the system was failing children and after 36 years of child welfare was forced out of the system in 2017, right before the spending took off.

The state of IN has a terrible bloating issue perpetuated by GOP lobbyists and complicit politicians.

This is a deeply embedded and much more sophisticated kind of fraud when compared to the daycares in MN. Pence brought in executives to run childcare services, his healthcare advisor who went on to run medicare and medicaid at a federal level received $6.6 million from Indiana while she was advising the state, half of the lobbyists are connected to or are former members of the GOP, and nobody is motivated to help these foster children. Citizens in IN need to be aware that their tax dollars are being LIT ON FIRE!

Deloitte is a can of worms on its own, taking in $16 billion per year from the US from federal funding + 25 of the states. Deloitte is a consulting firm that hires ex politicians to lobby for more consulting. A revolving door of waste and most likely fraud. Half of their payments from the TN state gov't are "change orders" for fixes. They are rewarded for doing a bad job. I have a full report on Deloitte coming out this week, its about as bad as you'd expect.

read through the in progress IN report here:
https://t.co/mV7XcuzghD

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Did you know C.S. Lewis predicted the modern obsession with “being nice” would destroy the soul?

In The Abolition of Man, Lewis argues that when a society stops believing in objective virtue, it doesn’t become tolerant… it becomes manipulable.

He calls the result “men without chests.”

People with appetites and intellects, but no courage, no honor, no trained moral instincts. They can calculate everything and defend nothing.

Lewis saw that once we reject inherited moral law, we don’t become free. We become raw material… easily shaped by propaganda, pleasure, and fear.

Modern man prides himself on compassion while quietly surrendering every standard that once gave compassion meaning.

Lewis’s insight is brutal: a civilization that educates clever cowards will eventually be ruled by tyrants or technicians.

Because when nothing is worth dying for, everything becomes negotiable… including human dignity.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

In 1945, Solzhenitsyn was a decorated Soviet officer who made a small, private joke about Stalin in a letter.

The state opened it, read it, and treated it as a crime. Within weeks he was arrested and stripped of rank. He was fed into the camps, and sentenced to eight years in the Gulag.

The camps were designed to teach one lesson: say nothing, remember nothing, become nothing. He shoveled frozen concrete until his hands split and bled.

Years later, Solzhenitsyn would write, “Bless you, prison, for having been in my life.” It sounds insane until you understand what he meant. Prison showed him the truth of the regime in its purest form.

After his release, the punishment did not end. He lived under constant surveillance, moving from place to place, knowing that writing a single page could mean death. So he did not write. He memorized. Whole chapters of The Gulag Archipelago lived only in his head. Friends hid scraps of text. Wives memorized passages. For years the book existed only in human memory, as fragile and dangerous as a secret prayer.

When it was finally published, it did not argue that Soviet communism had gone too far. It showed that this was exactly where it led. Solzhenitsyn had learned that systems built on lies survive only if people agree to repeat them, and that the simplest refusal… to stop saying what you know is false… is the first and most dangerous act of resistance.

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

Keep posting these.