Daniel 🥋⬆️🏴

Cryptoasset Advocate. Techno-philosopher. Scientist. Seeker. Martial Artist. Hacker. Iconoclast. Voluntarist. Mostly Biological Human. #Bitcoin #BTC #Forward

[Daniel 🥋⬆️🏴 @dek8000]

#Bitcoin is the spider. Caveat Emptor. 🙏🏾

[daz @MetamateDaz]

Paying taxes should feel like contributing to a beautiful, shared community garden.

Not like funding a global demonic cult.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Solarpunk is a movement that imagines a sustainable and optimistic future where humanity thrives in harmony with nature.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

TUCKER CARLSON:

"If you work in the White House or in the US military, now is the time to say NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT or resign."

[Dr Myriam François @MyriamFrancoisC]

Full episode of The Tea with Myriam Francois featuring the one and only @AbbyMartin - out now! Watch here: https://t.co/3yBAIXlotJ

[Pascal Bornet @pascal_bornet]

Japan’s bullet trains had a problem big enough to threaten the future of high-speed rail.

At 200 mph, tunnels turned them into sonic bombs.

Noise complaints grew.
Communities suffered.
Speed restrictions became a real risk.

What stands out to me is this:

The solution did not come from more force.
It came from a bird.

Engineer Eiji Nakatsu studied the kingfisher, which moves from air into water with barely a splash, and used that insight to redesign the Shinkansen’s nose.

The result was remarkable:

↳ sonic boom dramatically reduced
↳ trains became about 10% faster
↳ electricity use dropped by around 15%

But this was never just about noise.

This is the deeper impact:

↳ 15% less energy has been framed as 200,000 fewer tons of CO2 annually
↳ 10% faster speeds can mean more people living outside expensive cities while still commuting
↳ quieter tunnels can mean families near the tracks finally sleeping through the night

That is what makes this story bigger than engineering.

One bird’s beak did not just improve a train.
It reshaped how an entire system could perform, with less friction for people and the environment.

I see a much bigger lesson here.

The best innovation does not always come from adding more power, more cost, or more complexity.

Sometimes it comes from observing better.

Nature has already solved for speed, efficiency, resilience, and adaptation.

The real question is whether we are humble enough to learn from it.

Because the future will not belong only to those who build more powerful systems.

It will belong to those who build systems that work better with reality.

What system in your industry is still being forced forward when it should be fundamentally redesigned?

#Innovation #Biomimicry #Engineering #Leadership #Technology #Transportation #Sustainability #AI #FutureOfWork #PascalBornet

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

An American man is rightfully bewildered by a small gathering of Iranian Monarchists celebrating the bombardment of Iran. "You want to kill your own people?? You're fucking sick!!"

The monarchists call him a "piece of shit" and a "coward." (??)

The American man's reaction is not only normal but honorable.

It is not normal to want your own country to be bombed while you live in the safety of Maryland or Los Angeles, nor, for that matter, to celebrate and dance to images of school girls being blown to pieces by an American Tomahawk missile. It is sick and dishonorable.

Nor should any American accept it as normal for vengeful and traumatized Diasporas to treat the US military as a mercenary army that they can deploy at their behest to settle personal scores.

All Americans should share the anger and disgust this man exhibits.

[Dystopian survival @VivetVeritate]

This is a warning sign to humanity

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Graham Platner: “Every single breath we take discussing culture war stuff is a breath we are not talking about universal healthcare. It’s a breath we are not talking about going after wealth where it’s been hoarded. Not talking about breaking up corporate monopoly power. That’s what we need to be focusing on. But we do not sell people out. A politics that is willing to sell anyone out will eventually sell everyone out”

[Keala Kelly @KealaKelly]

THIS is the best ep of @briebriejoy's show I've seen in a while, & that's saying something, given how excellent it always is. But @toneryrose & @Aaron_Good_ are so off the charts brilliant in this one that it's a must see. From JFK to the US-Israeli war on Iran, they hook it up.

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

— Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War (7 Feb 2003).

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING

Spain’s MEP Irene Montero:

“No woman has ever been freed by American bombs or illegal aggression.

Not in Syria. Not in Iraq. Not in Lebanon. Not in Afghanistan.

And it will not happen in Iran either.

They hide behind women’s rights to justify their colonial wars.”

[Predictive History @Pred_History]

Why did America go to war with Iran?

#PredictiveHistory | @BreakingPointsN

[French OG @FrenchOG3]

The older I get the more I understand this man.

[Catty @CatWomaniya]

Americans watching their tax dollars being used to bomb Iran while they set up a GoFundMe account for insulin.

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

The cover of the Lancet. It says it all.

[vitrupo @vitrupo]

Michael Pollan says the origin of consciousness is with feelings, not thoughts.

Not the cortex where reasoning happens, but the brainstem where a living body regulates itself against the world.

Consciousness may arise from friction with reality.

Today’s AI processes information. It does not regulate a vulnerable body with metabolic needs.

If feeling is foundational, computation alone may never be enough.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Woman moved to America and says our food is poison

“I grew up in Switzerland and no one believes me when I say the American food system is rigged... I used to eat pasta, pizza, everything — and I was skinny and fit and I looked great. Okay then I moved to America. Became so active, I became a runner, I started eating gluten free, I literally counted my calories and I gained 30 pounds.

It is not the European lifestyle, it is the food itself. Food in Europe is just nutritious. Like you'll eat pizza and it's actually nutritious for you because of the grains. But then you come here to America and you have flour and it's just literally bleach. You're eating bleach.”

We shouldn’t have to live like this

[Elja @Eljaboom]

WAIT WHAT🤯

THE EPSTEIN FILES ARE NOW A LIVE INTERACTIVE APP ON REPLIT.

ONE GUY TURNED THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT INTO A CLICKABLE MAP OF CONNECTIONS.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Before rock ‘n’ roll had a name, Sister Rosetta Tharpe was already playing it—‘Didn’t It Rain’ is proof.