Shailesh

Anarcho-capitalist libertarian. Govt shouldn't exist - taxes violate Non-Aggression Principle. Authoritarianism rising but innovation (Bitcoin!) will free us 🙏

[Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein]

To think clearly about "AI safety," we need to make a clear distinction between deliberate harm and accidental harm.

Minimizing deliberate harm from bad actors requires maximizing US AI capability.

Minimizing accidental harm requires a proper liability regime.

Trying to minimize accidental harm through a permission-based regulatory regime that reduces US AI capability is just about the most dangerous thing we could do.
(W/ @dbongino)

[Anukram @AnukramWrites]

A tyrant must appear deeply religious. People are less likely to fear injustice from a ruler they believe is pious. They are also less likely to rebel because they think God is on his side. ~ Aristotle

[Isabella Tres Santos @odysseusito]

Because I can't respond to Dylan's posts:

They ended weekly BTC buy reporting around October 10th 2025, without notice. What happened on Oct 10th?

One of the single largest liquidation events in bitcoin history.

I believe this was because they had large losses in their options book - put selling.

They instead aggregated the losses from the "bitcoin income generation business" into the average price of bitcoin they purchased in Q4. This is why the average price was oddly very high in Q4.

The article I just wrote explains this.

[Joy @Joydas]

The Saurav Das we knew from not so long ago. Whose brilliant investigative reporting and exposes rattled Judiciary and made the Chief Justice rant about Cockroaches. And that stray comment gave birth to CJP

[Andrew Zywiec, M.D. @AndrewZywiecMD]

"My teenager was born in the wrong body and actually has the brain and soul of the other gender. We must drug them and cut off their genitals."

Doctor: I believe you. And you are correct. The science is on your side, and I do not have to do any confirmation. This all checks out.

"My infant took the MMR vaccine, and within 45 minutes had several seizures and has not made eye contact since. They also stopped speaking and seem to be in distress."

Doctor: This is just a coincidence. Your child seems fine to me, and infantile seizures are nothing to worry about. He probably just has autism, which is not in any way related to the vaccine. The seizures are also not linked to the vaccine. I know the inserts say that both seizures and autism are linked, and common sense would dictate that a seizure right after a vaccine that resulted in neurological changes could all be related, but it's not. The inserts information is just them being cautious, for liability sake, even though they have legal immunity from liability, because the products are so safe they require federal shielding. Does all of that completely incoherent and inconsistent information make sense? Good.

[Shailesh @sarafshailesh]

@GeorgeSelgin @Lord_Keynes3 I love Rothbard and Austrian Econ but yeah my friends demonising FRB / free banking is super disappointing…

[Amit Chandra @AmitCTweets]

This is an important #School #Reform in #Delhi with long term impact on the access and quality of #Education giving voice and choice to parents and children..

[RB @market2kk]

Note to myself : Anything that Simon Gerovich or David Bailey or Dylan LeClair is involved in, do not touch it with even a barge pole.

#BitcoinScam #Metaplanet

[Julian Assange @JulianAssange]

#OctoberSurprise

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

He just keeps digging his hole. And lying too - he literally spoke out repeatedly for Ukraine and went to Ukraine.

But Gaza apparently, nope, that’s too political and bad for ‘families’. Hypocrite.

[SHREE RAM @Nehru_Jawaharla]

Let’s burst this propaganda:

Ajit Doval is “India’s James Bond.” Secret agent. Mastermind. The man who walks into Pakistan and walks out with secrets.

Here is the simpler story. In Pakistan he was not a Hollywood spy. He was posted at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, commercial section—a diplomat’s cover with all the privileges. It is not a Bond film.

Then look at the family, not the trailer. One son is in the BJP and runs India Foundation, a think tank next to the ruling party. The other was tied to a Cayman Islands hedge fund. In 2019 that made headlines. The same season, reports said a family firm had a Pakistani business partner. The blind fan club always skips that chapter.

Now the record they do not put on posters.

1999, Kandahar. He was on the negotiating team. India freed Masood Azhar to get the hostages back. Azhar later built Jaish. Doval himself later called it a diplomatic failure under Vajpayee’s leadership.

2005. A plan to hit Dawood in Dubai collapsed when Mumbai Police arrested the shooters during a briefing. Inter-agency mess. Mission over.

As NSA: Pathankot was botched and dragged for days. Pulwama killed 40 CRPF men. A former J&K governor said he flagged lapses and was told to stay quiet. No public inquiry. No heads rolled. Followed by Pahalgam and Redfort.

China changed facts on the ground after Galwan. Talks went on. Full return of the old status quo did not.

Manipur burned for years. Armories were looted. Weapons stayed missing.

Pegasus: Opposition leaders, journalists, and activists showed up on a leaked target list. The government said security. A court committee found malware on phones and said the government did not fully cooperate.

The image is Hollywood standard. The results are Bhojpuri movies.

The paper trail is a diplomat cover, a political family network, aborted ops, terror attacks that still got through, no accountability, and answers that stay classified.

Doval is not R.N. Kao and he can never be one.

Believe the films if you want. The reality is different. Media and movies will not show both sides. You calculate and decide.

[Giacomo Zucco (Bear Market Edition) @giacomozucco]

This sounds as absolute nonsense. Coins are always *spendable", unless they are sent to bad addresses, without corresponding keys or scripts. I'd personally stop using it until this weird thing is duly clarified.

[Ragnar @RoaringRagnar]

Institutions have entered the chat.

$237 billion VanEck has rated the Metaplanet compensation program as "Bad".

They recommend to cancel the 273 million shares added by the anti-dilution clause.

I can‘t agree more with them.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Welcome back to one of the most consequential and courageous human beings of this century: easily one of a small handful of pioneers for the causes of a free internet and independent journalism.

The US and UK did everything to break and destroy Julian Assange, but he prevailed:

[Julian Assange @JulianAssange]

I'm back.

[HODL15Capital 🇺🇸 @HODL15Capital]

I am a Bitcoiner first.

If I stay silent while watching this kind of extraction from common shareholders, I would have to admit that I wasted the last 10 years advocating for Bitcoin principles.

Principles matter.

Alignment also matters. Calling out a misaligned and extractive compensation structure that is effectively a direct wealth transfer from common holders to a few insiders is not a waste of time for anyone who claims to care about sound money and shareholder rights.

And by the way, scanning your comments, you appear to be spending considerable time defending management and attacking the people raising the concerns, including Larry 🤷‍♂️

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I strongly encourage everyone to read the speech that Chan Chun Sing, Singapore's Defence Minister, just gave in Beijing: it's basically the polar opposite of a Hegseth speech - immensely wise and a refreshing proof that thoughtful statecraft still exists.

You can find the speech here: https://t.co/alGUQGK7J4 Below a summary of the best parts of the speech, in my opinion.

Much of the speech addresses the crucial question of the so-called "security dilemma", a key concept in international relations theory whereby one country's efforts to make itself safer almost inevitably make others feel less safe, triggering a spiral where everyone ends up more insecure.

As Chan Chun Sing puts it in his speech: "The true test of statecraft is this: how do we strengthen our own security without weakening the security of others, or without aggravating the insecurity of others?"

He says there are "three fundamental principles worth bearing in mind" in this regard, but that, first and foremost, it raises the question of "what 'winning' means": to him, defining "winning" as "outgunning or outlasting a rival" isn't sensible, it ought to be defined as winning others through the "power of our example", rather than "the example of our power."

It's extremely wise, when you think about it: do you actually "win" if you submit others by force, or do you merely prove that, for now, they simply lack the strength to resist? You've imposed your will, yes, but the principle you've imposed is that the strongest gets his way, and strength is expensive and it wanes.

Chan Chun Sing quotes Mencius, the classic Chinese philosopher, to illustrate this: "Power may compel others to comply. But in the end, it is trust that truly wins others over" (which is a trimmed version of the true original citation: "Those who subdue others by force do not win their hearts; they submit only because their own strength falls short. Those who subdue others by virtue win hearts that are glad and sincerely submissive, as the seventy disciples submitted to Confucius," 以力服人者，非心服也，力不赡也；以德服人者，中心悦而诚服也，如七十子之服孔子也。)

This is very core to Chinese strategic thinking (yes, Chan Chun Sing, as are most Singaporean leaders, is ethnically Chinese): the notion that legitimacy, not force, is the real currency of power.

A state that has to coerce is following the "hegemonic way" (badao, 霸道) - which is brittle and unsustainable. The only sustainable long-term way to lead is the so-called "kingly way" (wangdao, 王道), where others follow you and emulate you voluntarily. Two concepts which incidentally come from Mencius too: "he who uses force while borrowing the name of benevolence is a hegemon (ba); he who practises benevolence through virtue is a true king (wang)."

Concretely, Chan Chun Sing say that states should pursue the following 3 principles to apply this in practice.

First of all, he points out that too many states "externalise domestic issues" as opposed to putting their own house in order. The idea being that a leadership confident at home doesn't need foreign enemies to hold itself together, and can therefore act in its "enlightened long-term interest" abroad. Whereby an insecure one uses foreign policy "for political gain."

No prizes for guessing what country he is referring to here...

The second principle is that "interdependence breeds stability" as opposed to being "a source of vulnerability."

Which makes sense: mutual exposure turns competitors into stakeholders in each other's stability. Cut exposure in the name of "resilience" or "de-risking" and, really, the only thing you've achieved is to make confrontation and conflict cheaper.

Lastly, and this is perhaps the most important principle: "first, do no harm."

Chan Chun Sing again quotes famous Chinese sayings: "turn big problems into small ones, and small ones into nothing" (大事化小，小事化了), which is what happens when there's trust between states, versus "turn small problems into big ones, and make trouble out of nothing" (小事化大，无事生非), which is what happens when there isn't.

The idea is that every unnecessary provocation, every "freedom of navigation" stunt, every gratuitous sanction is a withdrawal from a trust account that is very expensive to fill and, as he says, can be emptied "in a single instant."

Chan Chun Sing ends his speech on what being a “responsible major country” - a key concept in contemporary Chinese international relations - means, and how, "the more responsible major powers are, the less concerned small countries will be."

Besides the above three fundamental principles, he says that "strategic patience" is also crucial, defined as: "Not every capability needs to be advertised; not every advantage needs to be immediately pressed; and not every provocation demands an immediate response."

In other words, true confidence doesn't need to prove itself and restraint is a form of strength: a great power that feels compelled to respond to everything is, in effect, letting its rivals set its agenda. And whoever needs to constantly show force is in fact projecting its own fear that without the show, nobody would believe it.

As Margaret Thatcher once brilliantly put it (I hate to quote her but this is too good): "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

That's it, if you want the rest, I truly encourage you to read the full speech: pure undistilled wisdom, from a man who runs the defence of a country smaller than Los Angeles and obviously understands power far better than the man in charge of the largest military on earth. Which is its own form of tragedy.

[Saifedean Ammous @saifedean]

It's been years of people saying declining bond yields in China signal a coming Chinese recession, but it seems they signal that China investing in productive capital and infrastructure is better than western kleptocracies investing in welfare and warfare.

[Saifedean Ammous @saifedean]

@izzo_btc @porkedpig @GovMikeHuckabee There is no such thing as the petrodollar, this is leftist hallucination. The dollar is backed by treasuries being the most liquid market. Oil is sold in dollars because dollars are the most liquid money.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: EVERY scheduled opening act on Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour has now withdrawn after Macklemore was dropped over his pro-Palestinian remarks.

Aaron Rowe, Lukas Graham and Finneas have all pulled out, while Sheeran’s touring band Beoga has also quit. Each cited solidarity with Macklemore, Palestinians, or opposition to artists being silenced.