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pahuegThis is the most compelling case for adopting Bitcoin as a treasury asset in light of the coming AI disruption that I’ve heard.<br><br>YT: <a href="https://youtu.be/Exuwj8Aaoho?si=esWuf7SrYKAQ6R1V" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/Exuwj8Aaoho?si=esWuf7SrYKAQ6R1V</a><br><br>Thanks to Matt Cole for coming on LNMS!<br><br><a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/Bitcoin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span>Bitcoin</a> <a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/CorporateAdoption" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span>CorporateAdoption</a> <a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/HurdleRate" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span>HurdleRate</a> <a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/ESG" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span>ESG</a> <a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/InvestmentStrategies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span>InvestmentStrategies</a> <a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/Strive" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span>Strive</a> <a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/FinancialMarkets" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span>FinancialMarkets</a> <a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/LongTermThinking" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span>LongTermThinking</a> <a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/ZombieCompanies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span>ZombieCompanies</a> <a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/EconomicTrends" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span>EconomicTrends</a> <a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/CSuite" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span>CSuite</a> <a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/AI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span>AI</a> <a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/GameStop" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span>GameStop</a> <a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/CorporateStrategy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span>CorporateStrategy</a> <a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/InvestmentRisks" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span>InvestmentRisks</a> <a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/CapitalScarcity" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span>CapitalScarcity</a> <a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/EasyMoney" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span>EasyMoney</a> <a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/BitcoinInvestorWeek" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span>BitcoinInvestorWeek</a><br><br><a href="https://m.primal.net/QbpE.mp4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://m.primal.net/QbpE.mp4</a>
Andrew Shields<p>"20 more years of contempt for truth and democracy, of racism and sexism and homophobia and hatred for anyone who isn’t a rich white man or a wife who serves him? Or 20 more years of the tone that Harris presents: respect for others, mutual aid, and a belief in opportunity for all, not just those who have historically owned and run the U.S?” </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/USPresidentialElection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPresidentialElection</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MarkWallace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarkWallace</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LongTermThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LongTermThinking</span></a> </p><p><a href="http://wallacethinksagain.blogspot.com/2024/08/what-do-you-want-us-and-us-president-to.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">wallacethinksagain.blogspot.co</span><span class="invisible">m/2024/08/what-do-you-want-us-and-us-president-to.html</span></a></p>
Albert Cardona<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@polka" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>polka</span></a></span> Short-term profit and academia seem at odds? Companies come and go but science needs persistence over time. Academic libraries seem ideally posed for that—any repository of curated protocols in an academic library would outlive even the university that hosts it.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/LongTermThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LongTermThinking</span></a></p>
Albert Cardona<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://genomic.social/@iain_bancarz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>iain_bancarz</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@ElleGray" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ElleGray</span></a></span></p><p>Like someone said, in a memorable display of black humour: in the long run, we are all dead.</p><p>Human nature hasn't changed in 30 years. Or in ~2,500–hence Euripides' theatre plays remain as poignant and relevant today as they were when premiered in the theatre of Dionysus in Athens. Calvin and Hobbes have that atemporal nature, yet the cartoons are deeply framed within the decadent suburban lifestyle of the 80's and 90's in the USA, just like Euripides are framed in Classical Greece.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/CalvinAndHobbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CalvinAndHobbes</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Euripides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Euripides</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/LongTermThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LongTermThinking</span></a></p>
Museum of Portable Sound<p>Fairphone – the company whose easily repairable, eco-friendly phone we really wish we could afford – has just created easily repairable, eco-friendly wireless over-ear <a href="https://toot.community/tags/headphones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>headphones</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://gizmodo.com/fairphone-wireless-headphones-right-repair-eco-friendly-1850414328" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gizmodo.com/fairphone-wireless</span><span class="invisible">-headphones-right-repair-eco-friendly-1850414328</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/RightToRepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightToRepair</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/EcoFriendly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EcoFriendly</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sustainability</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/EWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EWaste</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Fairphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fairphone</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/LongTermThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LongTermThinking</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/LongTerm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LongTerm</span></a></p>
🟡Michael Clifford Carter<p>Sacrifice Instant Gratification for Future Gains. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DelayedGratification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DelayedGratification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InvestInYourFuture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InvestInYourFuture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PatienceIsAVirtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PatienceIsAVirtue</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LongTermThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LongTermThinking</span></a></p>
Philip Theus (prev. Mueller)<p>"A sign that the software engineering profession has matured will be that we lose our preoccupation with the first release and focus on the long-term health of our products."</p><p>-- David L. Parnas, "Software Aging", 1994</p><p><a href="https://layer8.space/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> <a href="https://layer8.space/tags/code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>code</span></a> <a href="https://layer8.space/tags/maintenance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maintenance</span></a> <a href="https://layer8.space/tags/longtermthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>longtermthinking</span></a></p>
PitmiSchmi<p>Mind you… we can also prognosticate on what GOOD federated networks could do for the world too! Like… could <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Mastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastadon</span></a> platform a global movement like <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MeToo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MeToo</span></a> or serve democratic agency for citizens in Iran, Palestine, Hong Kong? I am inclined to think the fediverse will be ruined by capricious capitalism but y’know… we *could* try being kind &amp; minimalist for a few thousand generations for a change? </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/LongTermThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LongTermThinking</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ScenarioPlanning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScenarioPlanning</span></a></p>
PitmiSchmi<p>Recalling Twitter’s halcyon days - when it was the delight of microblogging nerdy types: and seeing the giddy shroom highs that people seem to be experiencing in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Mastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastadon</span></a> right now (Likening it to the early days of socials). Where you think it could “go wrong” for the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> across the next two decades? Money, power, greed, politics, capricious humanity? <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AllTheDumbThings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AllTheDumbThings</span></a></p><p>If we can see any problems now, we can prepare for &amp; minimise them, right? </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/LongTermThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LongTermThinking</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ScenarioPlanning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScenarioPlanning</span></a></p>