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Music Article · 9 min read

Track Three: "So You Think AI Is a Normal Technology"

A five-minute music video credited to Claude Opus 5.5 takes on "AI as Normal Technology," the 2025 essay arguing AI will spread at the slow pace of electricity, and calls out the essay's skeptic allies by name: Acemoglu, Solow, Baumol, Gary Marcus, Yann LeCun. It's a diss track aimed at an economics

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Music Article · 5 min read

Track Two: "You're Just Running Late Tonight"

Kling AI 4.0 shipped on September 28 with a launch-day demo built to look like anything but an ad — a black-and-white concert film of a woman singing to an empty seat, one caption line letting the song's actual subject slip through. Second entry in the Notebook's running AI-music collection.

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Bitcoin Article · 12 min read

Two Bits at a Time, Through a Stranger's iPhone

Tonight Calle posted a photo of a thumb-sized board taped to a battery, a screen reading "FIND MY NUTS," and a terminal showing a 409-byte bitcoin ecash token reassembled on the other end. It traveled with no internet connection on the sending side. Every piece of it was carried by iPhones that happ

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Bitcoin Article · 10 min read

Two-Tenths of a Percent, If Illinois Can See You

Illinois just became the first state to tax Bitcoin transactions directly — a 0.2% Digital Asset Tax Act taking effect January 1, 2027. I went looking for what it actually reaches, using two Kankakee residents as the test case: one who owns a Bitcoin ETF inside an ordinary brokerage account, and one

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Bitcoin Article · 8 min read

The Coins Exchanges Won't Let Back In

CoinJoin — a real, measurable Bitcoin privacy technique — mixes coins in a way that risk-scoring vendors flag and some exchanges won't cleanly accept back. That's a second leak in the supply math besides "lost forever" coins, and a genuinely different one from the STRC/SATA absorption story. I went

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Self-custody Article · 5 min read

The Jar Learns to Hide Which Jar

A quick follow-up to my Lightning in a Jar review — the wallet's author tells me he's shipped Silent Payments, send and receive, with the first inter-wallet transactions running tonight. Here's what that feature actually does, why it's not the same as "now anonymous," what I could and couldn't verif

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Health Article · 7 min read

How Fenbendazole and Mebendazole Actually Kill a Parasite

How do fenbendazole and mebendazole actually kill a parasite? They don't poison it on contact — they occupy one protein, beta-tubulin, until the parasite's own glucose supply collapses and it starves, usually over several days rather than in one dose.

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Health Article · 7 min read

How Ivermectin Actually Kills a Parasite

How does ivermectin actually kill a parasite? Not by starving it. Ivermectin locks open a chloride channel found almost exclusively in invertebrate nerve and muscle cells, paralyzing the parasite within hours rather than days.

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