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[YEGWAVE @yegwave]

Meanwhile in Alberta 🤯

[₿TC-GUS🧡🪢 @Scavacini777]

Make fun of me all you want

But I think Mr. Quittem will one day win the Nobel prize for this discovery

Comparing Bitcoin to Fungi

Why do I HIGHLY agree with him? Before Bitcoin I was an amateur Mycologist,

I have studied over 1,200 mushroom species, have harvested and eaten some,

He is 100% right here 👀

[Shadow Intel @TheShadowIntelX]

Elon Musk just put the entire university system on trial.

Not the curriculum. Not the professors. The premise.

Musk: “You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.”

For a thousand years, universities held one monopoly. Access. You paid the toll or you stayed ignorant.

The internet erased that in a decade.

Every lecture. Every framework. Every textbook. Free. From any screen on Earth.

The six-figure tuition is no longer buying knowledge. It is buying a signal.

Musk: “There is a value that colleges have, which is seeing whether somebody can work hard at something, including a bunch of annoying homework assignments, and still do their homework assignments.”

That is the product. Not intelligence. Not creativity. Not vision. Compliance.

You are paying $200,000 to prove you can tolerate bureaucracy on a schedule.

Musk: “Colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores. But they’re not for learning.”

The entire system is a sorting machine for corporate HR. It does not measure what you can build. It measures whether you can sit still, follow directions, and deliver on command.

Four years of obedience dressed as education.

Musk: “If you’re trying to do something exceptional, you must have evidence of exceptional ability. I don’t consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability.”

The system optimizes for average. It rewards the compliant. It certifies the patient. It quietly filters out everyone who refuses to wait for permission.

The ones who reshaped the modern world never finished the test.

Musk: “Gates is a pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Jobs is pretty smart, he dropped out. Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out.”

They did not drop out because it was too hard. They dropped out because the speed limit was too low.

The most dangerous thing a university does is convince a generational talent that finishing the syllabus is the achievement.

It is not. It is the floor.

A degree is a receipt for compliance. The future has never belonged to people who finish their homework. It belongs to the on

[Dr Suzanne Humphries @DrSuzanneH7]

I recently finished this book. I think it's very important.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je veux présenter mes excuses, au nom des Français, pour avoir enfanté la French Theory (qui a enfanté la pire des merdes idéologiques : le wokisme).

Nous avons donné au monde Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Et puis, dans les ruines intellectuelles de l'après-68, nous avons donné Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Trois hommes brillants qui ont fabriqué, dans l'élégance de notre langue, l'arme idéologique qui paralyse aujourd'hui l'Occident.

Il faut comprendre ce qu'ils ont fait. Foucault a enseigné que la vérité n'existe pas, qu'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir. Que la science, la raison, la justice, l'institution médicale, l'école, la prison, la sexualité, tout n'est qu'une mise en scène de la domination. Derrida a enseigné que les textes n'ont pas de sens stable, que tout signifiant glisse, que toute lecture est une trahison, que l'auteur est mort et que le lecteur règne. Deleuze a enseigné qu'il fallait préférer le rhizome à l'arbre, le nomade au sédentaire, le désir à la loi, le devenir à l'être, la différence à l'identité.

Pris isolément, ce sont des thèses discutables. Combinées, exportées, vulgarisées, elles forment un système. Et ce système est un poison.

Car voici ce qui s'est passé. Ces textes, illisibles en France, ont traversé l'Atlantique. Les départements de Yale, de Berkeley, de Columbia les ont absorbés dans les années 80. Ils y ont trouvé un terreau qui n'existait pas chez nous : le puritanisme américain, sa culpabilité raciale, son obsession identitaire. La French Theory s'est mariée à ce substrat, et l'enfant de ce mariage s'appelle le wokisme.

Judith Butler lit Foucault et invente le genre performatif. Edward Said lit Foucault et invente le post-colonialisme académique. Kimberlé Crenshaw hérite du cadre et invente l'intersectionnalité. À chaque étape, la matrice est française : il n'y a pas de vérité, il n'y a que du pouvoir, donc toute hiérarchie est suspecte, toute institution est oppressive, toute norme est violence, toute identité est construite donc négociable, toute majorité est coupable.

Voilà comment trois philosophes parisiens, qui n'ont probablement jamais imaginé leurs conséquences pratiques, ont fourni le logiciel d'exploitation à une génération entière d'activistes, de bureaucrates universitaires, de DRH, de journalistes, de législateurs. Voilà comment on a obtenu une civilisation qui ne sait plus dire si une femme est une femme, si sa propre histoire mérite d'être défendue, si le mérite existe, si la vérité se distingue de l'opinion.

C'est de la merde pour une raison simple, et il faut la dire calmement. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers : la croyance qu'il existe une vérité accessible à la raison, la croyance qu'il existe un bien distinct du mal, la croyance qu'il existe un héritage à transmettre. La French Theory a entrepris de dynamiter les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui les avait nourris. Mais le résultat est là. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Une génération entière sait soupçonner et ne sait plus admirer. Une génération entière voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part.

Je m'excuse parce que nous, Français, avons une responsabilité particulière. C'est notre langue, nos universités, nos éditeurs, notre prestige qui ont donné à ce nihilisme son emballage chic. Sans la légitimité de la Sorbonne et de Vincennes, ces idées n'auraient jamais traversé l'océan. Nous avons exporté le doute comme d'autres exportent des armes.

Ce qui se construit maintenant, en silicon valley, dans les labos d'IA, dans les startups, dans les ateliers, dans tous les lieux où des gens fabriquent encore des choses au lieu de les déconstruire, c'est la réponse. Une civilisation se reconstruit par les bâtisseurs, pas par les commentateurs. Par ceux qui croient que la vérité existe et qu'elle vaut qu'on s'y consacre. Par ceux qui assument une hiérarchie du beau, du vrai, du bon, et qui n'ont pas honte de la transmettre.

Alors pardon. Et au travail.

[GP Q @argosaki]

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[Catarina Senora Gatita @WyattCatarina]

Levi Schechtmann came in, sat down at that piano like a normal human, and then straight-up ascended. Fingers moving faster than my brain could process, classical runs slamming into hip-hop beats like they were always meant to be together. That boy was cooking so hard the piano definitely filed for maternity leave right after.🔥 😅🎹🎶🎵🎶

[Crypto Tice @CryptoTice_]

BREAKING:

The world's 4th richest country bought Bitcoin.

Luxembourg allocated 1% of its entire sovereign wealth fund into BTC.

Not a retail investor.
Not a hedge fund.
A government.

Putting national wealth into Bitcoin.

Norway is watching.
Singapore is watching.
Every sovereign wealth fund on the planet is watching.

When the 4th richest country in the world chooses Bitcoin. The other 190 countries just took notes.

Governments don't allocate national wealth into experiments...

They allocate into inevitabilities.

[Bitcoin Well @bitcoinwell]

The Canadian government is quietly hoarding Bitcoin exposure while aggressively trying to lock you out.

Look at the absolute, breathtaking hypocrisy of the state.

Today, AIMCo—a Crown-owned corporation managing nearly $195 billion in Alberta's pensions—just disclosed a massive $219 million stake in MicroStrategy. They are actively using corporate proxies to get exposure to the 818,000 Bitcoin sitting on Michael Saylor's balance sheet.

But what did the Canadian government announce this exact same week? A nationwide push to shut down all Bitcoin ATMs.

They are using your pension funds to secure their own exposure to absolute scarcity, while systematically destroying the physical onramps you need to achieve self-custody.

They do not hate Bitcoin. They just hate you having permissionless access to it.

The state wants the asymmetric upside of the Timechain for their balance sheet, but they want you trapped in their melting fiat casino. They are frantically buying up the lifeboats while welding the exit doors shut for the middle class.

Watch what they do, not what they say. The sovereign arms race is happening right in front of you.

Find an onramp. Take your keys off the board.

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 US SECRETARY OF WAR JUST OPENLY REVEALED THAT THEY ARE NOW RUNNING INITIATIVES TO GAIN A STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE IN BITCOIN 🤯

HE AGREED THAT BITCOIN IS NOW A MATTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE, AND EVERY COUNTRY WILL FOLLOW

[BTC Sessions 😎 @BTCsessions]

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[Bitcoin Teddy @Bitcoin_Teddy]

🇳🇱 Farm in the Netherlands uses Bitcoin mining to keep stable temperatures inside the greenhouse 👀

[Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne]

Backstory:

George Harrison wrote it.
Beatles dissed it (as usual).
So his pal Clapton came & rocked: White Album ‘68.

Rolling Stone Mag snubbed Prince, omitting him on “100 Greatest Guitarists” list.

So he snubbed THEM with this performance.

[William Barclay @WillBarclayPCBG]

'Even Alberta’s own COVID-19 Pandemic Data Review Task Force implored the Province to immediately halt the use of COVID-19 vaccines as a result of the countless deaths and injuries attributed to the vaccines.'

"Behind Canada’s Sealed COVID-19 Reports"
https://t.co/EtJtPwEQTV

[Genesis Systems @_GenesisSystems]

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This homeowner gets his drinking water straight from the air. No well. No rain. No pipes. And that's just the start — the WaterCube 100 produces 120+ gallons a day.

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[The Bitcoin Plumber @bitcoinplumber]

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[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

I want to apologize for not responding to any of the 22 thousand comments my last post inspired. I’ve been filming all week and just noticed my observations about Jimmy Kimmel and a former plumber named Markwayne Mullin have gone viral. I've also noticed that many of the comments are from people who genuinely seem to believe that Jimmy wasn’t belittling plumbers at all, but was instead, simply trying to point out that Mullin is not qualified to lead the DHS. Here's a small smattering...

Roger Bicknell...
Mikey stop. Kimmel wasn't making fun of plumbers he was making fun of Mullin.

Rebecca Piatt Gonzalez...
Dearest Mike, it's not anything to do with his being a plumber. It's him NOT being skilled in Homeland Security.

Patrick Wise...
Being a plumber qualifies you to be a plumber. Period. The issue Jimmy and the rest of us at the adult table recognize is that jobs require certain training and experience and being a plumber does not qualify you to be Sec of DHS.

Had Roger, Rebecca, Patrick and all the others who rushed to Jimmy’s Kimmel’s defense actually read what I had written, they would see that I did not suggest - even remotely - that a plumber was inherently qualified to hold a cabinet position. What I said was that being a plumber should not disqualify a person from holding such a position. Big difference. Doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, fireman, and university professors are no more or less qualified to run the DHS than plumbers, electricians, or carpenters – but should they all be dismissed as “unqualified” simply because they made a living in some other vocation?

As I wrote in my original post, credentials and diplomas are great ways to bolster a person’s credibility, especially if we’re talking about mastering a specific skill. I think we can all agree that plumbers, accountants, mechanics, and surgeons should all have to prove themselves competent before hanging out a shingle. But what do their credentials and diplomas have to do with their actual competency? Are we not already surrounded by a legion of perfectly qualified experts who don't know what the hell they're doing? Moreover, what do credentials and experience have to do with wisdom, honesty, common sense, integrity, courage, the ability to lead, or any other virtue we’d like to have in our elected officials?

There are plenty of legitimate reasons to question Mullin’s suitability for this role. But there’s no legitimate reason to disqualify him simply because he used to be a plumber. Just as there was no legitimate reason to dismiss AOC because she used to tend bar. As for the joke itself, here’s an honest question. If Senator Mullin was a retired doctor instead of a retired plumber, do you believe he would have would made the same joke?

Roger, Rebecca, Patrick...be honest. Do you really think Jimmy would have said to his audience, "So, now we have a DOCTOR in charge of protecting us from terrorism? Hey – it worked for Dr. Suess – maybe it’ll work for Markwayne!"

Personally, I don't. Not in a million years. Why? Because no one would have found it funny, that’s why. Even though doctors are no more “qualified” to protect us from terrorists than plumbers are, Jimmy knows that doctors are widely respected in society, and that plumbers are not. He knows that medical degrees and doctorates are aspirational credentials, whereas plumbing certificates are not. The entire premise of his joke was based on a personal bias that he knew his audience shared – a bias that presupposes plumbers are uneducated, one-dimensional workers who never made it to college, and are therefore "unqualified" to do anything but plumb.

Jimmy is entitled to his opinion, along with anyone else who believes that Mullin is unqualified to lead the DHS. The Constitution, however, says otherwise, and so does the Senate. Likewise, reasonable people can disagree as to what is funny and what isn’t. Frankly, I couldn’t care less. What I do care about, is the extraordinary shortage of plumbers and electricians our country is facing, and the longstanding stigmas and stereotypes that continue to discourage people from considering a lucrative career in the skilled trades. Jimmy’s joke – and his audience’s reaction to it – is proof positive that those stigmas and stereotypes are alive and well.

PS. We have a lot of money set aside to help train the next generation of plumbers. Apply for a scholarship at https://t.co/vidLSYXCf6 Who knows? Could be the first step on your road to President..