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Writing about money, tech, AI, science, physics, politics & the messy world we live in. Bitcoin included. Just trying to understand reality a bit better.
Sep 22 6 tweets 2 min read
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The hippocampus is not a filing cabinet. It is the engine that builds your internal map of reality. It tells you where you are, who you were, and who you can become. New work shows hidden circuits can trigger brain wide storms that change those maps. 2/6
Labs already bias memories in animals using targeted stimulation. That tech is moving fast. Replace the word memory with map and you see the real implication. Edit the map and you change perception, learning, decision making, even identity.
Sep 3 12 tweets 5 min read
🧵 SIGIRIYA: THE HYDRAULIC ENIGMA

1/ The “Lion Rock,” Sri Lanka.
UNESCO says 5th century CE, built by King Kashyapa (477–495).
But the fountains still work today.
No pumps. No electricity. Just gravity, geometry, and genius.
A hydraulic system that mocks modern “smart cities.”Image
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2/ The shock
While Europe stumbled in the Dark Ages, engineers at Sigiriya cut limestone plates with pinhole jets, buried terracotta pipes sealed in lime, and built fountains that leap to life every monsoon.
Hydraulics that last 1,500 years.
Or maybe far longer. Image
Aug 28 12 tweets 2 min read
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They never taught you what money is for a reason.
If you understood it, you’d never play the game their way again.

Let’s break it. 2/
Money is not “wealth.”
Money is a ledger of human energy.

• Before money: barter, slow and clumsy.

• With money: abstracted energy, transferable across time and space.

• With fiat: rulers hijacked the ledger, replacing energy stored with debt owed.
Aug 6 20 tweets 3 min read
🧬 THE GOD EQUATION — Why Math = Mind = Reality

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There is an equation behind the universe.
It is not metaphor.
It is not religion.
It is pure structure.
And that structure is mathematical.
Math is not a language we invented — it’s the source code of reality itself. 2/
Every law of physics…
Every particle interaction…
Every quantum fluctuation…
Every black hole spin…
All reducible to pattern.
All expressible as math.