Graph of Canada's population vs worker productivity from FT.

Unsurprisingly, if you rapidly expand your population by importing millions of third worlders, per-worker productivity will go down.

The fact is we're not all equal. Canada's population is significantly smarter than the world average. Importing the rest of the world en-mass will inevitably degrade that advantage.

Making IQ tests a requirement for immigration would be a good start.

Storing museum art amongst radioactive waste.

“This is, actually, a place of honor.”

Missile strike on the Tuapse oil refinery in Russia. Based on the video/sound recordings it's believed this strike was made with an extended range version of the Ukrainian built Neptune cruise missile, which normally has a 150kg warhead. Zelensky confirmed it has entered combat use, without confirming which targets.

A far more effective type of sanction than trying to apply AML/KYC to Bitcoin wallets...

A FOIA'd conversation between Clinton and Russian president Yeltsin, from 1999:

Psychopathic culture.

It's impressive how rapidly Elon Musk is fucking up his businesses with absurd Putin supporting nonsense. The rumors of him abusing drugs may very well be true. These are ridiculous fights to pick.

SMBC comics parts ways with their ad provider, leaving them without any income.

I really wish I could just pay with lightning to see content. Are there any easy to use lightning paywalls? Surely someone could write some simple JavaScript to do this. It doesn't need to be completely secure.

Neat video of Starship Flight 8 just after the upper stage exploded. It's sufficiently high and fast that we see the explosion quickly moving across the sky with no appreciable air resistance.

Interesting service: https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/fully-bootstrapping-java-from-source-in-wolfi

Second time that OpenTimestamps has been used to secure election results in the US: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/bitcoin-blockchain-used-to-secure-results-of-tennessee-countys-republican-convention-vote

“When you see that “cloud” seeming to “settle” fast, realize it isn’t a cloud and it isn’t settling. It is a supersonic sandblasting spray flying ballistically away from the camera at 2-3 kilometers per second, crossing the horizon and impacting many kilometers across the Moon.” https://x.com/DrPhiltill/status/1897043829917929838

They want to sanction your Bitcoin wallet.

Yet until today the US didn't even bother designating the Houthies as a terrorist organization.

Good time to remind people of my Ripple paper: https://github.com/petertodd/ripple-consensus-analysis-paper/blob/master/paper.pdf

They want to ban self-custody of your Bitcoin. But it's ok for the BBC to give money to a Hamas member to make a documentary so full of blatant pro-Hamas lies that the BBC had to pull it off the air.

“The offer and sale of meme coins does not involve an investment in an enterprise nor is it undertaken with a reasonable expectation of profits”

😁😁😁

One of the most interesting executive orders so far: Trump is (again) forcing hospitals to advertise accurate pricing information.

I say again because he already tried doing this in 2019 with another executive order requiring the disclosure of pricing for 300 common services. But sounds like actual compliance isow.

OpenTimestamps on a Malta government website.

Also, OpenTimestamps for telemedicine: https://smile.wien/en/securing-telehealths-future-how-virtual-patient-ai-leverages-blockchain-timestamping

One of the things I'm doing with the Simple Proof funding is working on a total re-write of the rust-opentimestamps library. I'm hoping improve the API and make it more useful, as well as implement missing functionality like actually creating timestamps.

You can see my progress here: https://github.com/petertodd/rust-opentimestamps

The most important thing I ever bought with #Bitcoin was my and my wife's time.

I don't have any debt. I own a small family home, a truck, and furnishings. I pay the bills out of my savings.

Don't overcomplicate this.

#Bitcoin

Cholesterol is the primary input, upon which #thyroid is intricately involved, in the production of sex hormones.

Low T is, generally spelling, synonymous with low thyroid. High cholesterol is a clue that thyroid is not sufficient to drive it's conversion into sex hormones.

The thyroid is delecate; toxins (seed oils, additives, heavy metals, poor light environment, nnEMF) all degrade thyroid.

Get your thyroid in order and stress under control before considering supplementing sex hormones.

#Healthstr