karadikid | The philosophy of money

Liberate yourself through the political philosophy of money. I will never tell you what to trade; only how. Blockchain enables Consensus without Hierarchy.

[karadikid | The philosophy of money @cryptodiaries]

Web3, Blockchain, Cybersecurity and Architecture. Former @awscloud @Microsoft @Walmart @USArmy #DOE #DOD

[Brandon Warmke @BrandonWarmke]

For years, faculty have been warned: reform and govern yourselves responsibly or others will do it for you. Instead, they responded with contempt and narcissistic confidence that they can do whatever they want. So now they'll act like shocked victims and still refuse to reform.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

This was built in 6 years, 780 years ago

[karadikid | The philosophy of money @cryptodiaries]

@WhoSweptMyMines @ChristianHeiens Amen

[karadikid | The philosophy of money @cryptodiaries]

@Linedan @ChristianHeiens I felt that; so did the two shooting victims last night.

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

Every single person who has ever been to Hampton Roads knows why it's overlooked when people talk about booming Sunbelt megaregions.

[karadikid | The philosophy of money @cryptodiaries]

@ChristianHeiens We’re rising; birthplace of America.

[The Critical Drinker @TheCriticalDri2]

The phenotype that epitomises modern culture.

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

The Chapo guys (except the one who had the stroke), AOC, Mamdani, Platner, ‘Claire Valdez,’ etc. - they all have the same bios:

They come from affluent backgrounds and have educated and/ or wealthy parents but are downwardly mobile, they fail to launch and then find a foothold in leftist politics.

[Arbitrage Andy @ArbitrageAndy1]

26 year olds today: "my anxiety is high, I am overwhelmed by my email job"

26 year olds in 1944:

[karadikid | The philosophy of money @cryptodiaries]

@AethelRoyal @Mericamemed

[Just Another Pod Guy @TMTLongShort]

Musk is Knudsen. Terrafab is cover for the U.S. govt to remove Korea’s grip on our balls via memory supply and Taiwans grip on wafer supply.

Shit is going to move much faster than you think.

[karadikid | The philosophy of money @cryptodiaries]

@ergelgru @MilesCranmer Quality scholarship up there with questing of dogs.

Source:

https://t.co/GdPXkmcQz5

@ConceptualJames

[Adeo Ressi @adeoressi]

I organized an intervention to stop Elon from starting SpaceX. Here is the story...

Twenty five years ago, Elon and I sat in a car on a dark stretch of Long Island highway, two neurodiverse geeks staring at the night sky and wondering what came next. We had both experienced substantial exits and felt the weight of possibility ahead of us.

When I joked about 'space' while gazing upward, neither of us imagined we were planting the seed for what would become the largest IPO in history. We spent the next two hours debating why space was so hard. In the end, rockets are fuel and metal. We also debated where to go, and it was crystal clear that Mars was the only real destination.

Upon returning to NYC, we embarked on a global tour of space, meeting space agencies and luminaries worldwide. This opened our eyes to an industry stuck in bureaucratic thinking. If things continued at that pace, it was clear that we would never explore space in our lifetime.

So, we launched Life to Mars to show the world that two ambitious young men (29 and 30 years old), could send life to Mars without any government backing or support. We planned to send and grow plants on Mars, though some were pushing us to send mice.

We had a $50 MM budget that rested on our purchase of two Russian ICBMs for $7 MM each. We assumed one ICBM would fail, and we would learn and fix everything before launching again. When Elon went back to actually buy the ICBMs, the Russians tripled the price, bringing out launch costs from a total of $14 MM to $42 MM.

Our ambitious Life to Mars plan was no longer viable.

As you might imagine, Elon was not pleased. So, he decided to start SpaceX and create his own Mars rockets. Now, this is a crazy idea, both now and at the time, so I organized a large panel of top space experts, and we ambushed him at the Georgian Hotel one morning. It was set up like an intervention for an alcoholic, but for space.

Elon looked me in the eye when leaving the room and said, "I am going to do this." The intervention failed. Elon was committed. The rest is history.

I am excited to see this IPO after 25 years of hard work. What SpaceX has done is a testament to human will and overcoming insurmountable obstacles. It's nothing short of amazing.

Congratulations, E. Amazing.

[Handre @Handre]

Milton Friedman's greatest regret.

The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous.

Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time.

Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude.

This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent.

Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.

[Kaelan Deese @KaelanDC]

NEW: @JudicialWatch out with a bombshell in their Thomas Crooks FOIA fight.

Records from July 17, 2024 FBI electronic communication indicate Butler Sheriff's Office exchanged 2 emails with Crooks prior to July 13 Trump assassination attempt.

Nature of the emails is redacted.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

SpaceX was less than 10 people back then. We didn’t even have office furniture.

[karadikid | The philosophy of money @cryptodiaries]

@pmarca Software Runs on Hardware.
Consciousness Runs on Reality.

The West optimized for hardware.
The East optimized for software.

Train your mind.
Train your body.
Upgrade reality.

Samanvaya Shakti Yoga.
The Science of Coherent Power.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Many people are saying.

[Ayaan 🐧 @twtayaan]

The creator of Linux just publicly called out the AI hype. Word for word.

Linus Torvalds took the stage at Open Source Summit 2026 and said this:

"When I see people saying 99% of our code is written by AI, I literally get angry. Because those same people — I can pretty much guarantee — 100% of their code is written by compilers. But they never say that."

He is not anti AI. The Linux kernel saw a 20% jump in submissions this release because of AI tools. He uses it. He gets it.

His point is something most people are too afraid to say.

AI is a productivity tool exactly like compilers were. Compilers boosted programming by 1000x. AI adds another 10x on top. Enormous. But nobody says "the compiler wrote my code." So why are we saying AI wrote it?

He also flagged something nobody is talking about.

AI is flooding small open source projects with drive-by bug reports. Someone runs a prompt, files a report and disappears when asked for a patch. Maintainers with one or two people are drowning trying to keep up.

"Sometimes AI reports a bug and when you ask for more information the person has done that drive-by and does not even answer your question. That is the real burnout issue."

And his final warning was the sharpest of all.

"People who do not understand the complexity of systems will prompt systems and write processes that will fail."

The AI hype crowd is very loud right now.

Linus has been building real systems for 35 years. When he talks, engineers listen.

Full interview here:
https://t.co/LmXJtvKc4O