The AI Copium Bubble: Toll Booth Economy, Part II

We are watching an exact repeat of the dot com crash, and the market is completely swimming in corporate copium. The stock prices of these massive tech monopolies are completely disconnected from reality...

>_Trading

DPD

19 hours ago8 min read

Substance-as-a-Service & the Crackhead Clichés

I am archiving this record as a Time Capsule. When the empire is fully established and I'm looking back on these foundational years from a much more comfortable vantage point, it'll be highly amusing to remember exactly what the terrain looked like when I was still a captain without a physical vessel, forced to navigate the asphalt archipelago of Peckham on foot. Amusement isn't the only reason I'm logging it, though. Somewhere out there is someone who hasn't learned to read

>_Captins_Logs

DPD

Jul 1531 min read

Legalize it.

Wag1, This one's a good one, so get comfortable and suspend your disbelief if you are a sceptic, as I have a point to make. A friend of mine recently got into some shit with their neighbor. Not over noise, not over parking, not over anything that actually disrupts anyone's life in a meaningful way. The neighbor started banging on their door, then followed it up with a note. The note said the smell of weed was upsetting them. And their "scared" kids. Their scared kids... I wan

>_The_System

DPD

Jun 88 min read

Collateral Damage

Wag1, today I want to share a story about somebody close to me. My niece is 14. And I'm not gonna lie, watching what's been happening to her lately has been genuinely disheartening. She's smart. Like, actually smart. But she's been completely swallowed by a K-pop rabbit hole, and the fallout in her real life is getting hard to ignore. Failing classes. Getting blanked by her peers at school. Every waking minute living inside a fandom that exists entirely on her phone. I'm not

>_The_System

DPD

Jun 64 min read

In a world where every financial decision you make is being watched, tracked, and recorded, your financial privacy isn't just something nice to have, it's something you need to protect. Cash is disappearing, banks are tightening their control, and corporations are profiting off your personal data. This is where Monero (XMR) steps in.

XMR FTW

In a world where every financial decision you make is being watched, tracked, and recorded, your financial privacy isn't just something nice to have, it's something you need to protect. Cash is disappearing, banks are tightening their control, and corporations are profiting off your personal data. This is where Monero (XMR) steps in.

>_Crypto

DPD

Feb 1711 min read