David Ellis @d5e5

Devasating day. I received messages from many who have been greatly harmed by the bug in Coldcard's random number generation. I am grieving. It's a hard blow for self-custody. I am more motivated then ever to rise to the challenge and raise the bar. We must and we will succeed.

@LawrenceLepard ✋️

"Lemaître saw that the static universe Einstein had engineered was badly unstable. It looked much like the cosmological equivalent of a needle balanced on its head; give it the slightest nudge, and it starts to move." (Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time)

It's always "Iran-backed Houthis" and never "American-backed Israel"

The House is scheduled to vote this week on a National Defense Authorization that would integrate our military tech & supply chains with Israel’s. Today, the Rules Committee will decide whether my amendment to strip section 219 will get a vote. RT to support the Massie amdt.!

Canada’s boreal forest — the source of much of the wildfire smoke drifting into the U.S. — isn’t like our managed forests in the lower 48. It’s the largest intact forest ecosystem on Earth: roughly 1.3 billion acres (about 78 times larger than Alaska’s Tongass, our biggest national forest, and 7 times larger than all 154 U.S. National Forests combined). It stretches in an almost continuous belt from the Yukon to Newfoundland. Why can’t they just do controlled burns like we do here? Because most of it is remote, roadless wilderness. • Less than 9% of Canada’s population lives in the boreal region. • Less than 1% of the forest itself is developed. • Vast areas have no roads and are only accessible by aircraft or winter roads. You can’t send crews in to do prescribed burns across a billion+ acres of inaccessible terrain the way we can in populated areas near roads and communities in the U.S. Wildfire has been nature’s primary management tool in these ecosystems for thousands of years. Smoke reaching the Northeast isn’t new either. It happened in 1950, 1988, 1995, 2002, 2017, 2021, 2023, 2025, and now 2026. Weather (especially upper-level wind patterns) determines where the smoke goes, not just where the fires are burning. Blaming Canada’s government for “not controlling” these fires is political theater. The scale and inaccessibility make large-scale suppression or prevention across that wilderness fundamentally different — and in many places, practically impossible — from managing forests near U.S. population centers. Nature runs that forest. Politicians don’t. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.

Notion AI explains that "Centuries of metaphysics ('Being' with a capital B as the ultimate substance, the ground, the thing behind all things)—so it re-nominalizes even harder than 'awareness'"

'Awareness' is, of course, a noun, but Jed and others use it, or 'Consciousness' for lack of a suitable action word. At least 'Being' sounds more like a verb (…ing) but perhaps it has unwanted baggage?

Would #NLP consider the use of the word 'situation' as a nominalization—employing a static noun obscuring the dynamic awareness of appearances?

"…unlike other empirical biological sciences, there has never been a tangible viral particle that could be naturally observed, described, isolated, characterized and tested for pathogenicity." (Mark Bailey, A Farewell to Virology)

"Energy, matter, bananas, sound, water, whimsy, ethnicity, light, life, two hands clapping, anything you care to name, anything you think you know, will shimmer like a mirage and disappear as soon as you really look at it, because everything that exists within consciousness…."

"As if by harmonic entrainment, my inner space starts adapting and responding to those around me and turns into a pigsty. For this reason, I can’t listen to talk radio, I never linger within earshot of private conversations, and the last TV commercial I saw was five years ago."

"From that day an awakening from life came to Prince Andrew together with his awakening from sleep." (Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace)

"When I ask myself what overarching -ism or Grand Narrative umbrella I fall under, I don’t come up with anything. My meta-narrative, I suppose, is the dreamstate, and that really does explain everything. I have no personal belief system worthy of an -ism." –Jed Mckenna

In Europe, DAC8 has turned “Know Your Customer” into “Kill Your Customer.” Today, Bull Bitcoin is officially opening the first legal front against DAC8. We have brought a case before France’s Conseil d’État, the country’s highest administrative court, to strike down the decree implementing DAC8 in French law. Since January 1, 2026, DAC8 has required crypto-asset service providers to systematically collect user and transaction data and subsequently report it to national tax authorities. These authorities will automatically exchange this information across the European Union and with tax administrations in other participating countries around the world. The result is a massive international financial-data honeypot linking people’s legal identities, home addresses and crypto activity, including information with no relevance whatsoever to taxation. This is grossly disproportionate and poses a serious threat to the physical safety of crypto holders and their families. Until now, most customer data remained within each crypto-asset service provider unless a suspicious transaction was reported or a competent authority made a lawful request. DAC8 replaces this model with the systematic reporting and cross-border sharing of highly sensitive financial information. The more authorities, civil servants, contractors, systems and foreign jurisdictions that have access to this data, the greater the risk that it will eventually be leaked, stolen, illegally accessed or sold to criminal organizations. At the same time, kidnappings and violent attacks against crypto holders and their families are rising, with leaked personal and financial data increasingly being used to identify and target victims. France has already suffered numerous breaches of highly sensitive government and financial databases. Given enough time, a database of this scale is almost certain to be breached. When that happens, criminal organizations will gain a ready-made map of who to target and where to find them. This is not responsible financial oversight. It is a recipe for disaster. We filed our initial application before the Conseil d'État on February 24, 2026, followed by a substantive legal brief setting out the full grounds of our case. This is not a symbolic gesture. It is a serious legal action, grounded in law and handled by experienced legal professionals. We are seeking the outright annulment of the French decree implementing DAC8’s crypto-asset reporting regime, on the grounds that automated mass financial-data collection violates fundamental human rights. If necessary, we are prepared to take this fight before the Court of Justice of the European Union and the French Constitutional Council. A victory in France could establish an important judicial precedent and provide a blueprint for other European actors seeking to fight DAC8 in their own countries. Someone has to draw a line in the sand. Bull Bitcoin is willing to do it. In the video, Bull Bitcoin founder @francispouliot_ takes the stage at @BTCPrague to expose the threat DAC8 poses to the privacy and physical safety of crypto holders and explain why Bull Bitcoin has decided to lead this fight. Alongside this legal challenge, we are launching STOP DAC8: a complete, fully sourced resource for citizens, journalists and policymakers. More info 👇

"I remained unchanged, still a small part of myself pretending to be whole." (Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited)

"Hence, the strange loop of consensus reality; we all agree that the universe is really out there, those agreeing with us being themselves out there." (Jed McKenna, Jed McKenna's Theory of Everything)

That exact image of the "slope-shouldered farmhand with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth" is classic Billy…(of The John Boy & Billy Big Show).. Hearing it over the airwaves on a morning drive in Georgia is the absolute perfect setting for that bit! quora.com/profile/David-…

"Homeless Gods are the necessary precursors for the idea that there can be and should be a God of all peoples, no matter their home places. Of course, missionizing cultures don’t think of their Gods as homeless. They think of them as universal…." (Stephen Jenkinson, Die Wise)

So the MoU is intended to buy time before restarting the war? Another Minsk agreement?