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[PlasmaBitcoin @plasmabitcoin]

Verifying my account on nostr

My Public Key: npub1ew7kh0uqe6prs3vp0j55daf40kknrse4hqnnh87s8jea3pnj25qqnzp7xm

Find others at https://t.co/iqAoUc2wU6 @nostrdirectory #nostr

[calle @callebtc]

Huge milestone for Cashu.

After 3 years of work, we finally have unruggable mints.

I'm testing the first on-chain Cashu mint running inside a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), where the mint keys are generated entirely within the enclave and remain unknown to the operator.

That means the operator cannot inflate the ecash supply and cannot access the Bitcoin reserves backing it.

We've moved from trusting operators to relying on hardware-enforced cryptographic guarantees.

There's still work to do, but the path forward is clear. This is an incredibly exciting step toward trust-minimized ecash.

[PlasmaBitcoin @plasmabitcoin]

@MrHodl https://t.co/ezLho73ekf

[Eric Voskuil @evoskuil]

I lost track of how many times going back many years that were were told that bitcoind was maximally optimized and utterly flawless - not an exaggeration. It was only when libbitcoin v4 started showing performance numbers that any real effort went into IBD.

It directly spawned "swift sync" and related projects, forced maintainers to start reviewing optimization PRs, and resulted in funding for both. Good thing there is some actual competition, as otherwise they would have already abandoned validation.

[PlasmaBitcoin @plasmabitcoin]

@isabellasg3 https://t.co/oRv9jEaWJM

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

One of the ugliest traits that I most despise in people is when they exhibit astounding hubris when interacting with you. I tried to explain to someone what my book Suicidal Empathy is about, and I could hardly get in a word. She kept interrupting me, and talking past me. She was the expert and I was some simpleton who had to listen to her brilliant and erudite pontification.

[FOUNDATION @FOUNDATIONdvcs]

🎊Passport Prime is shipping.

We set out to build something that didn’t exist.

Made in the USA. Built on open-source principles.

New hardware. New OS. New communication layer. New software. Let’s dive in 👇

[Tonica @MetabolicTonic]

@BigolWave The first time I took 225 mg lithium carbonate I felt acutely that I "have time" and that life isn't running away from me or is something that I have to chase.
Felt like being a kid the first day of summer break.

[Jesper Bylund -- just/acc @JesperBylund]

Seligman then spent the rest of his life trying to explain to people the it’s not “learned helplessness” it’s “learned agency”.

We all start out helpless, if we’ve learned something wetry the things we’ve learned, then run out of ideas.

This means we can all internalise control

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

Julian Rotter ran a study in 1960s that accidentally explained why most people never build a life they actually chose.

He called it locus of control.

People with an external locus believe their outcomes are governed by forces outside themselves: luck, authority, circumstance, other people’s decisions. People with an internal locus believe their actions are the primary driver of what happens to them.

Decades of follow-up research produced a finding so consistent it borders on uncomfortable. Internal locus of control is one of the strongest predictors of income, health, relationship satisfaction, and psychological wellbeing ever measured across cultures.

The school system, almost by design, trains external locus into children from the earliest age. You don’t choose what to learn. You don’t choose when to learn it. You don’t choose how to demonstrate understanding.

Someone else sets the standards, grades your performance, and tells you whether you were adequate. Do this for sixteen years straight and you don’t just learn math and literature. You learn, at a neurological level, that external authorities define what counts as success and whether you’ve achieved it.

Psychologists call the long term result of this “learned helplessness,” a term Martin Seligman developed after watching dogs stop trying to escape electric shocks even when escape became possible. The shocks had been uncontrollable for long enough that the animals stopped registering their own agency as a real variable. The cage door opened and they stayed inside because their nervous system had stopped believing that moving would change anything.

The overlap between Seligman’s dogs and adults who cannot imagine building income outside a employer’s permission structure is not metaphorical. It is mechanistic. The brain that was never allowed to direct its own learning, never allowed to fail on its own terms and recover, never rewarded for autonomous decision making, genuinely loses resolution on its own capacity for self direction. The capability atrophies the way a muscle does when it goes unused.

Reclaiming internal locus of control as an adult is rehabilitation work. And the research shows it compounds exactly the way the damage did, slowly, then faster than you expected.

[Max @minordissent]

I spent my teens in and out of psychiatrists offices and mental hospitals, thrown on every anti depressant in the book and no one ever once tested my thyroid.

I didn’t learn until over a decade later, just by happenstance, that my thyroid was cooked. While i had already dug myself out of the worst of it through a decade of grueling life and health overhaul, fixing my thyroid was the final piece that made depression a thing of the past.

If i’d been treated for hypothyroidism as a teen instead of thrown on psychiatric meds, I probably would have avoided the vast majority of suffering i experienced over the time period (as getting out of the lowest pit into basic function is the hardest part).

It really is incredible how much harm these Molochian coordination problems cause.

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

John Taylor Gatto was named New York State Teacher of the Year. Upon receiving the award, he quit and spent the rest of his life writing devastating critiques of the educational system he had mastered.

Gatto argued that regardless of the official curriculum, schools actually teach seven hidden lessons. The first is confusion. Students learn disconnected facts across dozens of subjects with no integration or meaning. The second is class position. Students learn their place in the social hierarchy. The third is indifference. Students learn that nothing is worth finishing because the bell always rings. The fourth is emotional dependency. Students learn to surrender their will to a chain of command. The fifth is intellectual dependency. Students learn to wait for experts to tell them what to think. The sixth is provisional self-esteem. Students learn that their worth depends on expert evaluation. The seventh is that they are always being watched and have no privacy.

These lessons, Gatto argued, are the actual function of schooling. The explicit curriculum of reading, writing, and arithmetic is almost incidental. The real purpose is to produce passive, dependent, compliant citizens who wait for authorities to tell them what to do and think.

Trad schooling amounts to thirteen years of training in being passive and dependent.

I have seen this play out with hundreds of students. When I created Montessori middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, about half the students came up through Montessori elementary and about half came from public schools. When we opened, the Montessori kids immediately began doing their work, taking initiative, choosing what to tackle first. The public school students were lost. They would stare at their desks until we walked over and helped them plan their morning. It took at least a semester, sometimes a full year, before they could function in an environment that asked them to direct their own learning.

These were not less intelligent children. They had simply been trained differently. For years, someone else had made all the decisions about what they would do, when they would do it, and how they would do it. When that structure was removed, they did not know how to operate.

Agency is natural to children unless we train it out of them.

When I coach parents on evaluating their children's education, I tell them to ignore grades entirely. The question is whether their children are taking initiative, being responsible, and becoming empowered moral beings. If a child is getting straight A's but has no initiative and no sense of personal responsibility, that child is being damaged by their education regardless of how it looks on paper.

[Stacker News @stacker_news]

AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet

by co574 in ~AI
421 sats and 1 comment so far

https://t.co/y8BdDMGFEB

[PlasmaBitcoin @plasmabitcoin]

@DonalDevine If its not transparent, it doesnt exist.

[PlasmaBitcoin @plasmabitcoin]

@ChrisLXXXVI NOSTR

[PlasmaBitcoin @plasmabitcoin]

@IterIntellectus Arent tires made of rubber, not plastic? Since the distribution system is so good already, can we make tires out of something that is beneficial for the environment?

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@EthicalSkeptic https://t.co/3eVPx4fkva

@MarioBuildreps

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[Francynancy @FranMooMoo]

Farmers are blocking Jacinta Allan's Transmission Company Victoria (TCV) personnel from entering properties earmarked for compulsory access under the VNI-West project, saying the process is unfair and unjust. Farmers are operating on a roster system so they can continue to protect each other's properties and look after their own farming businesses and their personal well-being. Spread the word to help support our farmers 🙏

[PlasmaBitcoin @plasmabitcoin]

@GhostBRAJ @SunWeatherMan Just more dooming.

[Stephen J Shaw @StephenJShaw]

Just hit 200K views of the full Birthgap feature documentary in its first month 🎬

Even more amazing - over 15k people watched right through to the very end of the end credits!

Discover why birthrates are falling — a journey through 24 countries:
👉 https://t.co/kSqW7D64yM

[PlasmaBitcoin @plasmabitcoin]

@AHC_Channel @history_rev Interesting. I though you were making fun of me.

They appear where the blocks would be lifted from. Maybe it was some kind of glue residue that over time expanded/inflated the stone?

Like the mercury aluminum effect but more bread loaf like?