Everything archives for 2024/12/22

2024/12/22 #

I managed to make some progress on the refactor of the RSS feed generation code yesterday. Lots of head winds from some very sparrowy sparrow people. In fact I suspect they might have actually been tigers acting as humand acting as sparrows, which sounds kind of insane, but there you go. You can sense the tiger pounce all the way through to the sparrow layer. It’s the most deviously passive aggressive thing ever, you have to constantly be chaging your approach to things. It’s virtually impossible to make progress, but it’s possible if you code quicky but adding placeholders for the bits you don’t know yet. I say quickly, and in a sende it is, but you end up wasting much more time than you save long term, because everything ends up feeling like you are walking on egg shells. It’s very difficult to describe.

Anyhow, I got the main logic outline written. I need to go back over it and fill in the missing detail.

It’s a bit cold this morning. I’m quite hungry. The weather looks like it might be clear skies. #

Regular walkers in the park shout 'No!' at me while walking past while trying to run me off the path, followed immediately by one of the motorbike mechanics from a garage next to the internet place walking past also shouting 'No!'. Looks like worldo is angry again. What did I do? I sat quietly all morning listened to a few podcasts and posted some links. Seems like hateful aggressive harrassment to me.

It apears to have started by a woman calling me a dog as I walked a few meters away past her. I have no idea why, I didn’t even look at her, but she chuckled and said 'dog'. The food vendor woman I went to next did the same thing, and the next shop slso had a pop at me ordering me to 'up!', same at the next shop by another female staffer. Don’t try and tell me these events aren’t linked in some way. Of course they are. It’s intimidation plain and simple.

It doesn’t bother me that much, but the problem is that they always keep escallating until it gets dangerous. #

Today’s links:

Ukraine closes series F funding round worth $1.1bn in debt obligations from IMF - The war torn country punching above it’s weight is competing against the Russian Gallactic Empire for sovereignty of the region. They hope to ensure freedom to Europe. The openly anti-Bitcoin IMF has been making several geopolitical moves recently, even while politicians across the world are trying to setup strategic bitcoin reserves. Okay I’m being a bit sarcastic here in an attempt to try and highlight what a wild situation this is turning out to be. No offense to anyone involved intended. www.theguardian.com #
Outrage as Elon Musk claims ‘only AfD can save Germany’ - Read this to get an idea of the epic pot stiring that is happening. While this will no doubt get many in the UK even more worked up in fist shaking, I think many will be relieved it’s not just the UK that is being proded. I like that it’s opening up conversations that would not otherwise be occuring. It’d also somewhat amusing to see how the left leaning journos are reporting. You can almost feel them being torn between shifting tides. Saying things and not saying things in quite odd ways. Like the whole system is creeking and bending, with many contorsions becoming exposed. www.theguardian.com #
Greece’s former royal family seeks to regain citizenship 50 years after end of monarchy - I bet it’s horrible to go though this sort of thing, to have your foundations ripped out, to fight for your own existence, even if you are from a priviledged background. There seems to be all these fights between 'the individual' and 'the group' at the minute. We see these high profile cases but I bet, and to some extent I know, this is happening at every level, all over the place. www.theguardian.com #
Tether expects over $10 billion in net profits for 2024, plans major AI investments - Since these stablecoin companies are making so much money from buying treasuries, it’s interesting to see what they are buying with the money they are making. Presumably they aren’t just going to buy more treasuries, though I guess why not, that kind of play is working out for some. They are investing in companies that align with their vision of the future, trying to grow the whole pie rather than just carving it up, giving themselves the biggest piece. www.cryptopolitan.com #
El Salvador makes Bitcoin payments voluntary in $1.4B IMF loan deal - Apparently it’s always been voluntary, and their Bitcoin adoption hasn’t changed. But I think it’s noteworthy because it shows that these big financial institutions are anti-bitcoin. And they say they are doing you a favour, making things safe for you, but is that really the case when they have so much invested in their system? cointelegraph.com #