Phil Mustang

Bitcoin lets all the people who feel like they’re above the crowd put their money where their mouth is

For what it’s worth, I’ve had a much easier time STRC-pilling people than orange-pilling them. It’s easier to grasp a high yield savings account than it is to understand Bitcoin mining and self custody, and people are remarkably undiscerning about what’s backing their savings. If it works they’ll use it, and so far STRC appears to work

This was tough. 35 min, 14 miles, roughly 550 kcal. First time breaking 14! Had to take the headphones out to focus on those last few minutes

As part of my job, I occasionally talk to homeless people who are schizophrenic and who don’t use drugs. There tend to be two subgroups. One experiences angels and demons as part of their everyday reality; I talk with them and try to help them out but they’re clearly living on a different plate than me. Then there are the folks that are convinced they’re living in a surveilled technological nightmare where their movements are being tracked and their attempts at digital activity blocked at every turn. I find it stranger to talk with them than with the supernatural people, because they’re kind of right. Their focus is unfortunately usually on themselves only (“my email keeps getting hacked, every time I get a phone they find out what my new number is,” etc) but it’s hard not to agree with the overall sentiment.

@Marty Bent glad you’re back at the writing desk

Took me a day to realize this was a bot explaining to me that “the machine is modeling you” 📝 c1ca98c9…

@HODL is your bio a Gramsci quote?