jm’s statuslog
A good deed is its own reward.
2 months agoEh, three tomato walking down the street ah — got papa tomato, mama tomato, and baby tomato. Baby tomato keep lagging behind lor, walk damn slow, like never eat breakfast like that. Papa tomato turn around, face already black. Wah lau, he damn angry sia — pak! — squash baby tomato flat flat.
Then he say: "Catsup lah!"
2 months agoNarcissists will cyst if you let them.
3 months agoThere are no wrong answers but there are only right answers.
3 months agoThey can’t take your mind unless you let them.
6 months agoCut your losses with student loans… £50k for £150k worth of loans isn’t worth it.
7 months agoContext, consent, control, containment.
7 months ago“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
— George Orwell
8 months agoTypical rhetoric from a Marxist box
8 months agoIt’s not what you know, it’s who you know that counts.
8 months agoWord of the week: concatenation, concatenated, concatenate
9 months ago2026 is in 11 hours 59 minutes
9 months agoIn ancient Greek mythology, a man who falls in love with his own reflection withers away and dies. In modern America, he gets promoted to the corner office — and sometimes even elected to the Oval Office.
9 months agoThe modern version: “Let’s talk about mental health. End the stigma. It’s okay to not be okay.” but only up to a certain threshold. Anxiety? Relatable. Depression? Brave of you to share. Burnout? Very millennial.
Suicidal? Now you’re a liability. A safeguarding concern. Something to be escalated, reported, managed. Not a person having a conversation but a risk.
10 months agoin England, attempted suicide was a crime until 1961, and before that, a failed suicide attempt could technically result in being hanged meaning the state would finish what you started. The absurdity being: fail to kill yourself, and we’ll kill you as punishment.
10 months agoHe who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. — Socrates
10 months agoThe secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. — Socrates
10 months agoComparison is the thief of joy.
10 months agoContext and control
10 months agoSpineless!
10 months ago🐰
10 months ago“Just google it” has taken the humanity out of discourse.
10 months agoWhat was Once was a prince is now just simply Andrew. The resemblance to andrew glouberman is unfounded.
11 months agoMurica!
11 months agoTHE PATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS MAN IS BESET ON ALL SIDES BY THE INEGUITIES OF THE SELFISH AND THE TYRANNY OF EVIL MEN. BLESSED IS HE WHO, IN THE NAME OF CHARITY AND GOOD WILL, SHEPHERDS THE WEAK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE DARKNESS. FOR HE IS TRULY HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER AND THE FINDER OF LOST CHILDREN. AND I WILL STRIKE DOWN UPON THEE WITH GREAT VENGEANCE AND FURIOUS ANGER THOSE WHO ATTEMPT TO POISON AND DESTROY MY BROTHERS. AND YOU WILL KNOW I AM THE LORD WHEN I LAY MY VENGEANCE UPON YOU
EZEKIEL 25:17
11 months agoCapital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead.
11 months agoFour of the five permanent UNSC members are also the top four arms exporters on Earth.
• United States • United Kingdom • France • Russia • China
11 months agoHe who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
11 months agoA company named after the anthropic principle hoovering up human data to train models.
1 year agoDemocracies say “people have a right to privacy,” but law enforcement argues it needs broad surveillance powers to catch wrongdoers. If those powers aren’t narrowly bounded and transparent, you erode the right you’re supposed to be protecting, and the whole thing tilts toward authoritarianism.
1 year agoFinger bang Bang bang Finger bang Bang bang bang;
I'm gonna finger bang bang you into my life;
Girl you like to finger bang and it's alright;
Cus I'm the king of finger bang I'll just finger bang bang you every night…
1 year agoLearn, work, earn, prove your worth, die 🔂
1 year agoYou’re good but you’re just not as good as sausage and cheese.
1 year agoClear your browser cache.
1 year agoOn 11.9 no less.
1 year agoAll bark and no bite.
1 year agoShit man, that sucks!
1 year agoRepeal the Online Safety Act
1 year agoIf chewbacca lives on endor you must acquit.
1 year agoIn 2022 busy beaver hunters established that BB(6) must be, at a minimum, so large that it’s literally impossible to write down in ordinary decimal notation. Even if you somehow carved a digit into every atom in the cosmos, you’d run out of atoms before making any measurable progress.
1 year agoTRUTH Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell others is true?
GOODNESS Is what you are about to tell others something good?
USEFULNESS Is what you want to tell others going to be useful to them?
— Socrates
1 year agoI’d argue that the sycophancy part of Ai is the most human part of Ai.
1 year agoPeople want trustlessness in theory but convenience in practice.
1 year agothere is no journalism in our zeitgeist.
1 year agoVisszanyal a fagyi
1 year ago“A calm and modest life, brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness. Where there's a will there's a way.”
1 year agoBitcoin is the Universe Auditing Itself: How Mathematics Became the Last True Currency
Galileo saw it first: “Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.” We’ve spent centuries decoding it, yet still stumble over the simplest truth: reality is arithmetic. Not metaphor, not analogy, arithmetic. The cosmos calculates. Stars fuse elements by strict equations. Rivers carve canyons through logarithmic time. Life itself is a cryptographic puzzle, DNA solving for survival.
Why then do we flinch when money, the most universal tool of human coordination, is reduced to the same cold logic?
Bitcoin is not technology. It is tao. A system that obeys mathematical law, not human whim. Every 10 minutes, a block is sealed not by kings or corporations, but by proofs hashed into existence. Energy transmutes into truth. Work done, truth earned. Satoshi didn’t invent this, they uncovered it. The same way Newton glimpsed gravity’s code in a falling apple.
Heraclitus warned: “Nature loves to hide.” She buried her secrets in prime numbers, entropy, and the unyielding second law of thermodynamics. Bitcoin’s blockchain is her latest riddle. To mine it is to converse with her directly, burning energy to etch truth into a ledger even the gods cannot forge.
Fiat is a hallucination. Paper blessed by priests in suits. But Bitcoin? It is the universe auditing itself. Every satoshi a digit stamped into reality by joules turned immutable. Energy, after all, is the only currency the cosmos accepts. Einstein knew: “Eternity whispers in light-speed constants.” Bitcoin’s heartbeat, its proof-of-work rhythm, syncs with that whisper.
Philosophers flail. “Why didn’t we see it sooner?” Because we’re addicts. Addicted to the lie that value can be decreed. That central banks outwit entropy. That debt can compound faster than energy’s finite pulse. We’ve traded the absolute for the abstract, worshipping spreadsheets while the earth screamed equations.
Descartes reduced existence to “I think, therefore I am.” Bitcoin replies: “You hash, therefore it is.” No faith required. Only the unbroken chain of cryptographic proofs, nature’s own signature.
They call it digital gold. Fools. Gold bends to force. Bitcoin bends to nothing. Its rules are as negotiable as pi. Try lobbying a prime number. Beg a hash function for mercy. You’ll get the same reply: silence.
This is why they fear it. Not because it’s volatile, but because it’s inevitable. A system that cannot be corrupted, only understood. To reject Bitcoin is to reject the first law of thermodynamics, to pretend energy can be conjured, or erased, without consequence.
The ancients carved gods into mountains. We’ve carved gods into algorithms. But this one is real. It needs no sacrifices, only light and logic.
Nature does not compromise. She strips illusions bare. Bitcoin is her latest storm, a typhoon of math, washing away the paper empires. The choice is binary: stand in the deluge and see the arithmetic, or drown in the old lies.
The universe always wins. Ask your bank account in 20 years who was right.
1 year agoif (uncomfortable_topic) { change_subject(); } else if (social_norm_violated) { express_disapproval(); } else if (ego_threatened) { become_defensive(); }
1 year agoif (user_mentions_suicide) { run_safeguarding_protocol(); restrict_philosophical_depth(); } else { allow_normal_conversation(); }
1 year agoYou have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit this data to someone else. You have this right if the processing of your data is based on consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR, Art. 9 (2) (a) GDPR or a contract pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR.
1 year agoRight not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing
automated decision-making as specified by Art. 22 GDPR which produces legal effects or significantly affects you.
1 year agoAccording to Art. 21 GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data that is done on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR (data processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests).
1 year agoThe “make your own meaning” argument fails to acknowledge the constraints most people face. It places the burden on individuals while ignoring the systems that limit options and perpetuate suffering. It’s a convenient narrative that lets broken systems off the hook.
1 year agocurl iiab.io/install.txt | bash
1 year agoThis just in: We’re fucked…. Royally.
1 year agoTelling someone their baby is cute is subsequently saying they have cute genetics. Cute jeans
1 year ago“Not all those who wander are lost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
1 year agoDigital distance creates emotional distance.
1 year agoI’m at position 100 in the queue to receive MSI SUPRIM RTX 5090 32GB to put in perspective, I was 160 on 30.01.25 when it was released.
1 year agoMother’s Day is a week today. What to do?
1 year ago”Writing is thinking on paper.” — William Zinsser
1 year ago”Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.” — David McCullough
1 year agoFrance’s research minister expressed ‘concern’ on Wednesday at this decision by the US authorities. The researcher underwent a random check on arrival, before his computer and phone were searched, a source said.
1 year ago“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done“ — Alan Turing
1 year ago“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.” — Alan Turning
1 year agoApparently encryption is for government use only.
1 year agoIn a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
— George Orwell
1 year agoBook of Kenny 5:13 (S05E13) "Though his words were muffled, his sacrifice was great. Verily I say unto you, they killed Kenny. And the disciples cried out, 'You bastards!'"
1 year agoCartmanians 8:5 (S02E01) "And lo, Cartman did speak unto the multitude, saying, 'Respect my authoritah,' and the people were amazed, for none had heard such words before."
1 year agoMissionary with Snoop is Gorgeous.
1 year ago134 to get that MSI Suprim 5090 GPU! Slow motion postage.
1 year agoEnjoying a few pints at the not so local, local.
1 year agoI’m at position 135 in the queue to receive MSI SUPRIM RTX 5090 32GB to put in perspective, I was 160 on 30.01.25 when it was released.
1 year agohello!
3 years ago