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Oct 1, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Ugh not good. Google goes into the news business. As if it weren’t already bad enough.
What we really need is a good, privacy-respecting, widespread micropayment/tipping system. Something blockchain no doubt.
But would have to be (a) dead simple and (b) not manipulable/actually honest. Most blockchain projects fail both.
What I want is a payment service that I register and create with a simple credit card deposit, and to request money, all I have to do is post my public key. Apps take care of the actual transfer.

Problem is the app must be really trustworthy. No blockchain app is...

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Larry Sanger Profile picture
Feb 11
Was Epstein eating people, and calling it "jerky"?

If so, we need to come to grips with this as a society, immediately. (And if not, we need to spread the appropriate corrections.)
To be perfectly serious: We need more evidence. Or, if we have the evidence, we need it assembled and clear reasoning from it.
But well, are these real emails?
x.com/WallStreetApes…
So it appears. And maybe he's just really, really into beef jerky. But...come on, guys, this is weird.

"hope you are feeeling better,, did we analyze the jerky?"
justice.gov/epstein/files/…

Maybe bad jerky made him feel sick, and that's why they had to analyze it?

"why didn't we get jerky, this week, ______ said you could not do it. until friday, please explain"
justice.gov/epstein/files/…

Apparently he loves jerky so much that he needs a weekly shipment, and gets upset if the shipment is delayed until Friday.

"Jojo is here and will walk the jerky over to Jeffrey..."
justice.gov/epstein/files/…

Maybe it just needs to be hand-delivered. Or maybe it gets up on its own two feet and is led over?

"There is one bag of of beef jerky in the fridge"
"A small insulated bag would be just fine - I wouldn't recommend =hecking it. No need for crazy amounts of ice - one should do :)"
justice.gov/epstein/files/…

Who refrigerates jerky? Maybe it hasn't been dried yet?

"JE said he was gonna start eating regular food again so he might be eating less jerky. That said he has 6 bags of it in the downstairs freezer for his next trip. I believe that should be enough to get him through."
justice.gov/epstein/files/…

Well, maybe he's just weird—really likes jerky. And we can agree that, if that's your main source of protein, it isn't "regular food," exactly. And, I mean, we already know he was (or is) a very weird guy, so maybe it's not so surprising if he keeps it in the freezer. Even though it's usually made to keep for months and months.

"Steve needs a 6-8oz portion of jerky. I gave you all the jerky we had(roughly 2 pounds) and it lasted only half the amount of time it was meant to."
justice.gov/epstein/files/…

I mean, maybe he's just a jerky fiend, and needs "portions" of jerky as large as regular steaks. Except this is no longer Epstein we're talking about, but Steve, who also really really likes jerky. Maybe it's a, you know, culinary trend in the pedophile jet set.

"Steve Hanson is sending jerky to your attention overnight"
justice.gov/epstein/files/…

Let's be reasonable now. If you're super-rich and weird and you REALLY like jerky, then maybe a fellow jerky-eater will overnight some jerky "to your attention."

"Is there-a time I could come by- say hi and drop off the beef jerky? :)"
justice.gov/epstein/files/…

Epstein wrote that—he was a jerky pusher.

In the jerky set, there's another player:
"Francis has time to come tomorrow and show me how to make it!!! Jerky class anyone? He will also bring you a taste of his new jerky recipe from the restaurant. And he sends a warm hello. He is working at a restaurant called Cannibal and cooks... wait for it... Beef Jerky and Steak! He has time at 3pm tomorrow if this is okay with you."

justice.gov/epstein/files/…

Francis, a jerky cook at Cannibal and Cooks [not found on Google], offers to teach Epstein himself his latest jerky recipes, including one for "Beef Jerky and Steak." I'm telling you, maybe he was just really, really into beef jerky.Image
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Dec 26, 2025
As more people claim Christmas as a kind of ecumenical holiday—most not believing that Jesus is God—the actual significance of the Advent and Incarnation are (of course) lost.

It is now a teachable moment for most. Christmas means... 👇
God, the one and only creator of the universe who first revealed himself to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, determined that to save and perfect humanity, he had to appear as a man himself.
A rough explanation of the Trinity, which many non-Christians do not understand—
Think of the Father as timeless; while the Son is also eternal, he acted in time, among us; and after he returned to the Father, they sent their Holy Spirit to us. These three are one in essence.
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Oct 29, 2025
Grokipedia v0.1 launched 24 hours ago with nearly 900,000 articles. I ran a test comparing it to Wikipedia on ten controversial topics. The results were striking, and suggest Grokipedia might actually have a shot. 👇
My review of Grokipedia has dropped, @ElonMusk 👀 larrysanger.org/2025/10/grokip…
Grokipedia has the opportunity to be much better than Wikipedia. Let's see if they can pull it off. Image
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Oct 28, 2025
Well, it’s here. Let’s have a look! Image
I guess I’ll begin by looking at the article on the one subject about which I am the world’s greatest and most authoritative expert:

grokipedia.com/page/Larry_San…
I can correct some errors out right out the gate. I'll start there:

"He resigned in 2002, citing unsustainable funding, dilution of editorial standards, and failure to maintain neutrality as anonymous editing allowed ideological influences to undermine the project's original vision of impartial knowledge dissemination."

I resigned because I was laid off, because Bomis couldn't pay me (or any of the other new hires). I *did not* (it is factually incorrect) leave because I cited dilution of editorial standards, or failure to maintain neutrality. That's just not the case.
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Oct 23, 2025
I've been talking with investor and finance commentator @PeterSchiff. Oh, boy.

He's yet another famous person with a beef against the Wikipedia article about himself. This article in question is the first result that comes up when you Google "Peter Schiff":



And it's a doozy. 🧵 👇en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sch…
As Schiff tells it, a government investigation against his bank turned up nothing; but the investigation resulted in the liquidation of the bank (as you might imagine). But the Wikipedia article simply says, "regulators liquidated the bank, and Schiff paid $300,000 in fines," yet the investigation turned up nothing—and the Wikipedia leaves this crucial detail out. How can he have been fined if he was not guilty? Strange. The article does make him look guilty. What gives?
Schiff claims, to the contrary, that:

(1) *He* did not pay anything. The bank did.
(2) The $300,000 that the bank paid was essentially an administrative fee, paid out of its liquidation estate. It seems the bank's annual license renewal application had been rejected by regulators, so the bank was operating without a license—unknowingly, because the regulators never informed the bank of this rejection.
(3) The liquidation of the bank was necessary due to the investigation and the subsequent, misleading reporting. This destroyed trust in the bank, naturally.
(4) The liquidation of the bank was not a punishment for wrongdoing; Schiff maintains that government action plus bad reporting about it destroyed the bank.
(5) The government investigation found *no* evidence of tax evasion or money laundering. There had been mere groundless suspicions, as far as the government uncovered.
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Oct 16, 2025
Historic news for global Anglicanism today!

- The majority of Anglicans worldwide are, as of today, officially disaffiliated from the Church of England.
- GAFCON (Global Anglican Future Conference) has declared itself the Global Anglican Communion.
- The Global Anglican Communion (GAC) will have its own Council of Primates, which will elect a chairman, a *primus inter pares* (first among equals)—whose role will supersede that of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
- There is "only one foundation of communion, namely the Holy Bible"—there is now no official, institutional inclusion of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lambeth Conference (of Anglican bishops in communion with the Church of England), etc., which have "failed to uphold the doctrine and discipline of the Anglican Communion."Image
Of particular historical interest:

"As has been the case from the very beginning, we have not left the Anglican Communion; we are the Anglican Communion."

In other words, the GAC bishops are essentially stating that, because the Church of England and allied provinces (such as the Episcopal Church in the United States) have abandoned "the doctrine and discipline of the Anglican Communion," they have abandoned Anglicanism—the "Anglican Communion"—itself.

Those provinces that *have not* abandoned historic Anglicanism—the GAFCON provinces, including the ACNA—are the only genuine Anglican Communion.
The Church of England may claim to be the institutional successor/inheritor of the mantle of the Anglican Church, but in point of fact, quite regardless of such institutional relationship, it has in fact *abandoned* the far more important mantle, namely, that of "doctrine and discipline."

The Global Anglican Communion now represents global, legitimate Anglicanism.
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