Wolf of the steppes

#Bitcoin
Zero Fiat, Zero Soy.

[Wolf of the steppes @Lupusdestippa]

Some science topics you should know:
Ioannidis on the falsehood of empirical research, particularly medical.
https://t.co/rujM75MPqI

[Paul Graham @paulg]

LinkedIn users have been editing their work histories to add "AI" and remove "DEI".

[Frontierism @frontierism]

Greco-Deco data centers

[eugyppius @eugyppius1]

In mass democracy political leaders at all levels are selected by whatever random vaguely formed unsupported opinions manage to plant themselves in the brains of a critical mass of underinformed well-meaning befuddled and distracted people.

[Wolf of the steppes @Lupusdestippa]

"wind, solar, and battery storage would require 480-1800 times more land than thermal generators."

https://t.co/BT9jecJ7g1

[Wolf of the steppes @Lupusdestippa]

And all of them combined half of Bitcoin market cap.
They will hate it even more when it's a tenth.

[3x Capital @capital_3x]

18 largest VC firms.

1. Andreessen Horowitz (@a16z) - $105.5B
2. Insight Partners (@insightpartners) - $92.2B
3. Sequoia Capital (@sequoia) - $82.2B
4. Tiger Global Management - $78.0B
5. Founders Fund (@foundersfund) - $58.9B
6. Thrive Capital - $50.5B
7. Lightspeed (@lightspeedvp) - $50.0B
8. Accel (@Accel) - $46.8B
9. General Catalyst (@generalcatalyst) - $45.5B
10. Dragoneer Investment Group - $37.0B
11. New Enterprise Associates (@NEA) - $35.6B
12. Index Ventures (@IndexVentures) - $25.3B
13. TCV - $22.5B
14. Khosla Ventures (@khoslaventures) - $21.7B
15. OrbiMed - $20.6B
16. Bessemer Venture Partners (@BessemerVP) - $20.2B
17. Deerfield Management - $19.1B
18. Battery Ventures (@BatteryVentures) - $15.6B

[Wolf of the steppes @Lupusdestippa]

El cine moderno y masivo es tan malo que es indistinguible del contenido generado con IA.
Ojalá esto renueve el teatro y la ópera.

[Promakos @PROMAKOS_]

Por lo que he investigado, China genera 470 series de IA al día, según el recuento del MIT Technology Review. Ahora bien, de los 127.800 dramas de IA en circulación en febrero, solo el 0,117% superó los cien millones de visionados y Douyin acaba de dotar un fondo de 200 millones de yuanes para subvencionar series con actores de carne y hueso. Creo sinceramente que el camino que seguirá esto no es único y es bastante contraintuitivo.

Existirá una bifurcación real en la que en una de las vías se revalorizará lo presencial y lo humano certificado, con el cine peleando por entrar en esa categoría y el teatro, el musical, etc, resurgiendo. La otra es la del streaming llenándose de IA por completo y consolidándose como una categoría y compartiendo espacio con un cine que cada vez tratará de distanciarse más innovando y reiventándose, lo cual me parece positivo porque el cine de masas lleva ya décadas estancado.

[Wolf of the steppes @Lupusdestippa]

Just because the USRR, Japan and Europe declined, and the US remained relatively stable, does not mean the US itself is better off.

[Daniel Di Martino @DanielDiMartino]

You may not believe it but the U.S. economy in 2025 represented 25.7% of global GDP.

In 1980, the U.S. economy represented 25.4%, slightly less.

And this is despite the China boom, things get relatively better from now on as China slows down and Europe stagnates.

[Wolf of the steppes @Lupusdestippa]

You can't create either, but rather listen to one or the other.
It's up to you.

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

He's not Egyptian, but a descendant of Arab Colonizers that murdered Egyptians and tried to demolish this and the Pyramids. Everyday is a good day to thank the British museum and British culture.

[Wolf of the steppes @Lupusdestippa]

El mejor

[ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕠𝕜𝕒🇵🇸🇸🇩 @Siuuuuu139]

Benzema vs Manchester city

[Adrian Vermeule @Vermeullarmine]

The right liberal and the left liberal are both liberals. If only someone like, I dunno, Leo XIII had said this almost 150 years ago.

[Syd Steyerhart @SydSteyerhart]

Eroticism is culture. There's no culture without it. According to polls, Gen Z despises any eroticism or nudity in film. Mass pornography has relegated all eroticism to the strictly private act of masturbation, and subsequently every kind of art is in a state of total collapse.

[Wolf of the steppes @Lupusdestippa]

@ElCab1ilio Lo peor es que son tan comunes que son la mayor prueba de ser un borrego de manual. Antes al menos sabías que un tío se arriesgaba al ponérselos y ahora ni eso tienen, cero riesgo y solo daños a largo plazo de tener metales 24/7 en la piel.

[Wolf of the steppes @Lupusdestippa]

This would be easiest and fastest track to increase birth rate.
So it's all an act.

[Wolf of the steppes @Lupusdestippa]

You ever notice how most people worried about fertility never discuss banning abortion?
Makes you wonder.

[Dylan Madden @Dylanmadden]

Men have killed somewhere around 150 million people in all recorded wars.

Women have had roughly 1.4 billion abortions in the last 20 years alone.

Nobody wants to sit with that number.

[Mathysse @MattStrangelove]

I’m an advocate for antisocial housing.

[Wolf of the steppes @Lupusdestippa]

Venezuela accounted for roughly 2% of America's oil imports in 2025.
Even if a magic pen were to bring back production from the decrepit infrastructure of Venezuela, this would not make a dent on USA's annual 3 MMbbl imports neither exempt it from the prices of the global market.

[Santiago Capital @SantiagoAuFund]

@Lupusdestippa What type of oil does Venezuela produce and how far away is that oil from southern coast refiners?

[Wolf of the steppes @Lupusdestippa]

America is the second largest importer of crude oil.
America is the largest importer of all types of goods.
Energy is the primary input for all goods.
America does not produce heavy sour oil, thus, economics aside, cannot be energy independent.

[Santiago Capital @SantiagoAuFund]

Can someone explain to me how continued global oil & natural gas disruption would be a problem that would uniquely disadvantage the largest oil & natural gas producer on the planet but allow the rest of the world to somehow come out ahead?

[Wolf of the steppes @Lupusdestippa]

Bitcoin is not controlled by Wall Street, or by Bitcoin Core devs, or by Miners, or by influencers, or by Blockstream, or by users, or by Exchanges.
Bitcoin is governed by consensus.
Consensus means 100% agreement, not 99% or 50%.
100%.