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"Look out for the way concentration on a particular destiny reduces the present to the lowly status of a paving stone towards a predestined future" ~ Ogilvy, Living Without A Goal.

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Is @dataMachine 🤖 working? Went on today and tried to add funds, but I get "Internal Server Error" instead of a ⚡ invoice. Still run by @DETERMINISTIC OPTIMISM 🌞?

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Profound episode. Lived up to the hype intro. https://fountain.fm/episode/5L17JxcHm6DlHnHjEKWS

What was that, a dip for ants?

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#GM "Guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it", Proverbs 4:23.

On first pass I thought @Ken Berry, MD owned 17,000 BTC and thought "yeah man, that's how you underwrite independent thinking". Went back for a closer look and false alarm, @mike was taking about the social engineering experiment that is Michael Saylor. Sometimes I think the alternative reality formed by misunderstandings is far more interesting than the world as it is today. 🤪

Excellent discussion between Doug Wilson and @hodlbod on the @Thank God For Nostr Podcast. Three points stood out for me. 1️⃣ Understanding technology as an enabler of wealth helps us in framing our theology of technology (therefore, am I a good steward of technology)? 2️⃣ Futurists are those who see the future that has already happened, but is still hidden from the eyes of the majority due to the blinkers of the current paradigm (therefore, futurism isn't necessarily what big tech futurists have prepared for me, there are other seeds being planted, like bitcoin and nostr, that will also sprout and bear fruit). 3️⃣ When the state sets the rate of taxation above 10%, it elevates itself above God. It's so true, if there was no hegemony to maintain, no runaway national debt to service, no industrial complex to satiate, no inefficient bureacracy and unaccountable waste to bail out, no money printer to keep the cycle going in an undisciplined and careless manner, the state would manage gratefully on 10% and deliver services for civil society that we probably wouldn't complain about too much. But leviathan came from jekyll island and seated himself in the place of God. Selah. https://fountain.fm/episode/xvh3Lt7vbXJMb0ABC1Iq