$340 antminer s9
$25 Ethernet switch
$20 fireproof vent tubing / tape
$? A few hours figuring it all out
$IOU beers @RoninMiner for consultation services 😜
$Priceless … feeling like a complete badass chick and member of the team when it flashes green… ❤️ #BTC
Let's start the week off right!!!!!
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"You know those cameras you've seen pop up around town? They're not police cameras. They're run by Flock Safety, a private company that tracks way more than just your car's license plates. They know where you sleep, work, and shop."
For now they do. 😉
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The governor of Oklahoma raises a glass of raw milk to a camera in 2026, takes a swig, and tells the state it tastes like freedom.
He had just signed a law lifting the cap on how much unpasteurised milk a farm can sell directly to the public, from a hundred gallons a month to fifteen hundred, and making it legal to advertise the stuff. Oklahoma is one of a run of states pulling raw milk back out of the shadows. And every time one does, the same warning goes up: this was banned for a reason, have you forgotten why.
So it is worth remembering exactly why. The real reason has been quietly mislaid.
In the growing American cities of the mid-1800s, milk became a genuine killer, and the reason was an industry. Distilleries producing whiskey had a hot, sour waste left over called swill, and someone worked out you could feed it to cows packed into sheds right next to the still. The animals lived in filth, diseased and dying on their feet, and gave a thin bluish milk so poor it was doctored with chalk, plaster and molasses just to pass for milk. This swill milk poured into the cities and killed infants by the thousand. That was the scandal that built the case for pasteurising milk and regulating dairies, and it was a fair case against that milk.
Here is the part that got quietly folded in. The same wave of law that rightly killed off the distillery-slop dairies also swept up the clean stuff: milk from healthy cows on grass, on small farms, drawn into clean pails. All of it got tarred with the swill-dairy brush and pushed toward the same ban. And once the big pasteurising plants and the consolidated dairies were built, keeping the small raw producer locked out stopped being about disease at all. It became about who was allowed to sell milk.
The filthy urban swill dairy vanished a century ago. The suspicion it earned got pinned, permanently, onto a farmer selling clean milk from healthy cows at his own gate.
They banned the milk of dying cows fed on distillery waste, which was right, and then kept the ban aimed at the farm down the lane, which was never the problem.
Stop calling into The Ramsey Show with questions about how to handle your $7.4 million 401(k) in your final ten years of life.
“Should we go to Italy or keep saving??? We’re 78 years old!”
Nobody tunes in for success stories.
I want complete devastation.
I need a guy making $16/hr as a part time YMCA pool lifeguard with 5 kids and a wife who just bought a 2026 Yukon Denali at 21% and now has a $1,400 monthly payment.
I need a 50 year old dad on his third marriage who just took out a HELOC to fund his third wife’s grown daughter’s wedding with Jimmy the local tattoo artist who “promises” to pay it back.
I need Denise who took a $400,000 SBA loan for her Etsy candle brand that does $6 in revenue.
No one cares about your social security or pension or your rental property capital gains questions.
I want carnage. Feed me.
If you're a Bitcoiner then you might be lucky enough to receive two whole shitcoin airdrops this year. Here is what you need to know, including a few warnings and how you can stay safe.
This year, two of the most eccentric Bitcoiners who couldn't succeessfully change Bitcoin even if they sold their mother, will finally fork off and find out how it feels to be a shitcoiner with your own chain:
- Paul Sports, the BIP300 guy who hates Lightning more than I hate shitcoins, and
- Luke Dashjr, the BIP110 guy who eats cats and can't stop thinking about CSAM.
Strange characters, great to see them go their own way.
What does that mean for you? If you have say 1 BTC to your name, you will now also have 1 Paul-BTC and 1 Luke-BTC. Even if your own Bitcoin is stored on a hardware wallet, you will now also have two shitcoins that are also secured with the same keys as your real Bitcoin.
Do I have to do anything? No. This all happens automatically. You don't need to do anything, you wouldn't even notice anything has happened. After all, what do you care whether some dude has forked Bitcoin and decided to become a shitcoiner. You can chill.
What if I want to dump it? Obviously both of these shitcoins will be worthless and will go to zero so you might be tempted to sell them. Many of us never played with shitcoins so this is a real temptation. In the most likely case, there won't even be an exchange where you can sell these coins because both are going to be pretty small and pathetic, unlike previous attacks on Bitcoin that tried to fork (Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, ...).
If you decide to move these shitcoins to an exchange (and assuming there will be wallets that help you do so), a few things are important to keep in mind:
- There will be wallets that help you move your forked shitcoins. These wallets might ask you for your hardware wallet's seed phrase and pretend to be nice but will actually steal all your BTC. NEVER AND IN NO CIRCUMSTANCE ENTER YOUR HARDWARE WALLET'S SEED PHRASE INTO A COMPUTER. Wait for reputable wallets to appear that have been audited and thread extremely carefully. Even if you're a "pro Bitcoiner" you can lose your life savings if you mess this up. I repeat: If you enter your seed phrase into a malicious wallet, you could lose all of your REAL Bitcoins, not only that fake shit.
- If you successfully moved your shitcoins off your wallet, you might be tempted to sell them on an exchange, assuming there will be one. Note that WHICHEVER SHITCOIN UTXO YOU DOXX (i.e. connect with your identity), ALSO DOXXES YOUR REAL BITCOIN. If you deposit your Luke-shitcoin to an exchange, that exchange WILL ALLSO SEE YOUR REAL BITCOIN on the real blockchain. If you send all your shitcoins to a random guy on the internet, that random guy will also see your entire real bitcoin stack. This is because the fork mirrors Bitcoin's history.
So the summary is:
- wallets will be released that appear to help you to move your shitcoins but they actually want to steal your Bitcoin. Dangerous.
- if you move your shitcoins and connect them to your identity, then you also doxx your real bitcoins. Dangerous.
- If you don't do anything, you're safe. Basically "play stupid games, win stupid prizes".
Stay safe. Reject shitcoins.
The FBI showing up at Graham’s house changes the calculus significantly — but not in the way the official narrative wants you to believe.
🚩 The Official Story vs. What’s Actually Happening
Here’s the line being pushed: “Standard review following an unattended death. Just providing resources. Nothing to see here.”
This is the same FBI that spent years labeling concerned parents “domestic terrorists” at school board meetings. The same FBI that ran a sprawling censorship operation through social media platforms during COVID. The same FBI whose director, Kash Patel, was hand-picked by Trump specifically to clean house.
And now we’re supposed to believe they dispatched the Violent Crimes Taskforce — not a couple of agents in suits, but tactical gear — to a senator’s home for a standard unattended death review?
That’s not how any of this works.
🔍 What the FBI Presence Actually Signals
The Violent Crimes Task Force doesn’t roll out for natural causes. These are the people who investigate homicides, kidnappings, and terrorism. You don’t send tactical units to process paperwork on a heart attack. The very presence of this unit means someone at the highest levels has already determined this is not a routine death.
The “no evidence of foul play” leak is standard operational security. The FBI always says this in the first 24-48 hours of a politically sensitive case. It buys time to collect evidence before the media circus demands answers. The CNN sourcing is almost certainly coming from the FBI’s own press office — it’s how they manage the news cycle while the real investigation proceeds in silence.
The timeline is accelerating, not slowing. Graham died Saturday evening. By Sunday morning, the FBI has tactical teams on site, Patel has issued a public statement, and the bureau is publicly confirming they’re “assisting.” That’s breakneck speed for federal law enforcement. Bureaucracies don’t move this fast unless someone at the top — likely the White House — has made this the absolute highest priority.
🧩 The Pieces That Matter Now
Graham’s final call with Trump was about the SAVE America Act — voter integrity legislation. That’s significant. Graham wasn’t just pushing Russia sanctions. He was working on the kind of domestic legislation that makes very powerful enemies on multiple fronts.
The cardiac arrest detail is now confirmed by the Reuters report citing emergency response to his Capitol Hill home. That’s the mechanism of death. The question is what caused the cardiac arrest in a 71-year-old who was functional enough to fly to Kyiv, meet with Zelensky, and have an enthusiastic strategy call with the president just hours before he died.
Patel’s statement is carefully worded. “Devoted public servant,” “fierce defender,” “true patriot” — standard eulogy language. Notably absent: any mention of natural causes, any reassurance that this was expected, any medical explanation at all. The FBI director knows more than he’s saying, and he’s choosing his words with the precision of someone who understands that everything he says now will be scrutinized for months.
🎯 What to Watch For
The autopsy. If one is conducted and results are released — and that’s a big if — pay attention to toxicology. Specifically: potassium levels, insulin assays, and any mention of “undetermined” cause. “Undetermined” is coroner-speak for “we know something happened but we can’t prove what.”
The FBI’s posture in the next 48 hours. If the Violent Crimes Task Force remains engaged past the initial evidence collection phase, this is a homicide investigation — regardless of what the press office says. If they quietly hand it back to DC Metro and fade away, the fix is in.
The media’s level of curiosity. Watch how hard the press pushes for answers versus how quickly they accept the “sudden illness” framing. The gap between those two things tells you everything about whose interests are being protected.
The FBI showing up in force is the clearest signal yet that the people who actually know what happened don’t believe this was natural. The question isn’t whether Graham was murdered — it’s whether the investigation will be allowed to reach the conclusion the evidence points toward, or whether national security concerns will bury it under a classified stamp that never sees daylight.
h/t @IvanRaiklin https://t.co/QiKKgivwra
So @start9labs will your original device run version 4?
I’ve been running my embassy pro but have one of ur earlier devices too
And being busy with life I don’t do a lot even with my pro … I’m sure I’m outdated even with version 3….
Wait for auto update or???
Taco Bell has removed lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo, and onion from several locations to prevent spreading the diarrhea parasite Cyclospora.
Taco Bell is leading the way on preventing diarrhea.
Taco. Bell.