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Mamdani on why he decided to run for office: "We have to contest the state at every which point and every which place... By becoming a member of the political class, you are compromised, because you're legitimizing it in many ways. But if I didn't see the ability to claim victories from the inside, I wouldn't be doing this." x.com/mazemoore/stat…

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"It's like a tiny little sliver of the Bitcoin community wants BIP 110. Everyone else thinks it's a terrible idea, including miners. So it's just going to die on the vine... It's really not contentious. It's just everyone disagrees with you." - @SuperTestnet x.com/isabelfoxenduk…

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Japanese retail investors bought $5.9 billion in equities last week, the largest weekly total on record. Meanwhile, foreign funds dumped $7.7 billion, the biggest outflow since March. h/t @KobeissiLetter

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The Clarity Act just got its first law enforcement endorsement. NOBLE backing the bill undercuts the "crypto helps criminals" narrative right as Lummis and Scott push for a Senate vote before August recess.

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The Bitcoin community is fighting about BIP 110 and whether "digital credit" is the future. Meanwhile, the infrastructure for a fully digital, fully surveilled dollar is being built in real time and it's moving faster than most people realize. In the last 30 days alone: 140+ companies including Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, Google, and Stripe announced a shared stablecoin. JPMorgan, Citi, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo started building a tokenized deposit network to keep money from ever leaving the banking system. Nine European banks are developing a euro stablecoin. The Fed dropped its first rulemaking under the GENIUS Act requiring full KYC/AML for all stablecoin issuers. They don't need a CBDC. They're building something more effective. A system where every dollar is digital, every transaction is traceable, every participant is identified, and the infrastructure is run by the same corporations that already control payments, search, and asset management. It's a CBDC without calling it one. The playbook is clear. Make it free. Make it fast. Make it easy. Get everyone on the rails. Then close the gates. Once all dollar-denominated value flows through consortium-governed tokens with built-in compliance, opting out stops being a choice. The fiat system is not waiting for Bitcoiners to finish their internal debates. It's building the cage in the open and labeling it "modernization." Bitcoin remains the only monetary network with no consortium, no governance board, no KYC layer, and no one to subpoena. That's not a feature list. It's the whole point.

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AI agents paying over Lightning with a single prompt.

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Brad Gerstner: "If you're in the data infrastructure layer, token consumption is driving a lot more consumption of your basic services. The closer you are to a single use app built on top of AI, that feels like you're on the front of the conveyor belt heading toward the guillotine."

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Google DeepMind employees in London voted to unionize and this week held their first negotiation session with the company. It didn't go smoothly. Union representatives from CWU and Unite met Wednesday with DeepMind HR representatives and a third-party arbitrator. No senior DeepMind leadership attended. The union side called it a sign the company isn't engaging in good faith. DeepMind says the "appropriate representatives" were there and that both sides agreed on next steps. A DeepMind employee read a prepared letter during the session alleging the company has shut down internal chat channels, blocked staff from responding to company-wide messages about unionization, and reprimanded employees who found workarounds. DeepMind says it offers employees "a variety of other channels and opportunities to discuss their views." The unionization push started when Alphabet removed its pledge not to use AI for weapons and surveillance from its ethics guidelines in February 2025. For some researchers, those principles were central to why they joined. Then in April, Google entered a deal allowing the Pentagon to use its AI for "any lawful government purpose." 600 US employees signed a protest letter. A Google director resigned. Google has defended the military contracts, saying it's "proud to be part of a broad consortium" supporting national security and remains committed to human oversight on autonomous weapons. The company views the government partnerships as legitimate business aligned with responsible AI use. The employees organizing see it differently. They want a formal voice in decisions about how the technology they build gets deployed, particularly in military applications. If negotiations stall, the unions say they'll ask a UK arbitration committee to force Google to recognize them.

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Building a Bitcoin miner by hand during the bear market.

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This is what AI videos looked like just three years ago.

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"Software is a form of speech. I don't believe there's ever a reason for prior restraint of speech, and that is what you see the government engaging in with its efforts to control software." - @porterstansb

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Molecular geneticist Dr. Michael Nehls says he predicted mRNA injections would increase Alzheimer's rates. "The spike protein activates neuroinflammation in the brain. If it's chronic, it shuts down the hippocampus. The consequences are depression, anxiety, and in the long run, Alzheimer's."

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Mamdani on why he decided to run for office: "We have to contest the state at every which point and every which place... By becoming a member of the political class, you are compromised, because you're legitimizing it in many ways. But if I didn't see the ability to claim victories from the inside, I wouldn't be doing this." x.com/mazemoore/stat…

@TFTC21

"It's like a tiny little sliver of the Bitcoin community wants BIP 110. Everyone else thinks it's a terrible idea, including miners. So it's just going to die on the vine... It's really not contentious. It's just everyone disagrees with you." - @SuperTestnet x.com/isabelfoxenduk…

@TFTC21

Japanese retail investors bought $5.9 billion in equities last week, the largest weekly total on record. Meanwhile, foreign funds dumped $7.7 billion, the biggest outflow since March. h/t @KobeissiLetter

@TFTC21

The Clarity Act just got its first law enforcement endorsement. NOBLE backing the bill undercuts the "crypto helps criminals" narrative right as Lummis and Scott push for a Senate vote before August recess.

@TFTC21

The Bitcoin community is fighting about BIP 110 and whether "digital credit" is the future. Meanwhile, the infrastructure for a fully digital, fully surveilled dollar is being built in real time and it's moving faster than most people realize. In the last 30 days alone: 140+ companies including Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, Google, and Stripe announced a shared stablecoin. JPMorgan, Citi, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo started building a tokenized deposit network to keep money from ever leaving the banking system. Nine European banks are developing a euro stablecoin. The Fed dropped its first rulemaking under the GENIUS Act requiring full KYC/AML for all stablecoin issuers. They don't need a CBDC. They're building something more effective. A system where every dollar is digital, every transaction is traceable, every participant is identified, and the infrastructure is run by the same corporations that already control payments, search, and asset management. It's a CBDC without calling it one. The playbook is clear. Make it free. Make it fast. Make it easy. Get everyone on the rails. Then close the gates. Once all dollar-denominated value flows through consortium-governed tokens with built-in compliance, opting out stops being a choice. The fiat system is not waiting for Bitcoiners to finish their internal debates. It's building the cage in the open and labeling it "modernization." Bitcoin remains the only monetary network with no consortium, no governance board, no KYC layer, and no one to subpoena. That's not a feature list. It's the whole point.

@TFTC21

AI agents paying over Lightning with a single prompt.

@TFTC21

Brad Gerstner: "If you're in the data infrastructure layer, token consumption is driving a lot more consumption of your basic services. The closer you are to a single use app built on top of AI, that feels like you're on the front of the conveyor belt heading toward the guillotine."

@TFTC21

Google DeepMind employees in London voted to unionize and this week held their first negotiation session with the company. It didn't go smoothly. Union representatives from CWU and Unite met Wednesday with DeepMind HR representatives and a third-party arbitrator. No senior DeepMind leadership attended. The union side called it a sign the company isn't engaging in good faith. DeepMind says the "appropriate representatives" were there and that both sides agreed on next steps. A DeepMind employee read a prepared letter during the session alleging the company has shut down internal chat channels, blocked staff from responding to company-wide messages about unionization, and reprimanded employees who found workarounds. DeepMind says it offers employees "a variety of other channels and opportunities to discuss their views." The unionization push started when Alphabet removed its pledge not to use AI for weapons and surveillance from its ethics guidelines in February 2025. For some researchers, those principles were central to why they joined. Then in April, Google entered a deal allowing the Pentagon to use its AI for "any lawful government purpose." 600 US employees signed a protest letter. A Google director resigned. Google has defended the military contracts, saying it's "proud to be part of a broad consortium" supporting national security and remains committed to human oversight on autonomous weapons. The company views the government partnerships as legitimate business aligned with responsible AI use. The employees organizing see it differently. They want a formal voice in decisions about how the technology they build gets deployed, particularly in military applications. If negotiations stall, the unions say they'll ask a UK arbitration committee to force Google to recognize them.

@TFTC21

Building a Bitcoin miner by hand during the bear market.

@TFTC21

This is what AI videos looked like just three years ago.

@TFTC21

"Software is a form of speech. I don't believe there's ever a reason for prior restraint of speech, and that is what you see the government engaging in with its efforts to control software." - @porterstansb

@TFTC21

Molecular geneticist Dr. Michael Nehls says he predicted mRNA injections would increase Alzheimer's rates. "The spike protein activates neuroinflammation in the brain. If it's chronic, it shuts down the hippocampus. The consequences are depression, anxiety, and in the long run, Alzheimer's."