Present Company expectorated

 Lluís Companys

Spain 1936 Companys

In 1936, Lluís Companys, the president of Catalonia, was reinstated after the Republican victory in the Spanish Civil War. He continued to lead the Catalan government during the Civil War, coordinating anti-fascist militias and supporting economic collectivizations under anarchist influence. Companys was a key figure in the Republican faction, and his leadership was crucial in maintaining the unity of the coalition of parties in Barcelona. 

However, his efforts were complicated by factional violence among leftist groups and the threat of Soviet influence. Despite these challenges, Companys remained a significant figure in the fight against fascism and the preservation of Catalan autonomy

From memory an eyewitness, Peirats , described the Friends of Durruti as inconsequential and irrelevant.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Had they acted on their plans for a junta, with help from POUM, the result is predictable. Another Chekist disaster like 1918 Russia. 

Only the impotent are pure. Fortunately!

Still bullish on crypto-economics

 

What the Bulls Get Right, and Where They Skip a Step

The bulls are right that this is not dot-com in the simplest sense. The leaders are profitable, the capex is funded largely from operating cash flow, and the infrastructure has actual users.

They are also right that early infrastructure cycles often look overbuilt before demand catches up — railroads, telegraphy, telecom fiber, broadband, cloud. 

https://geometricinvestor.substack.com/p/the-ai-capex-ledger

Strong AI can leverage the net, crypto and increasing quantum compute to unleash Bakuninesque destruction on the scale Demis described - as a dramatically abreviated industrial revolution.

Really what CYPHERPUNK 2027 is all about.  Crash through or crash.

KGB cryptofascism

 Cryptocurrency fills critical gaps that fiat channels cannot address, facilitating links to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), North Korean state-linked hackers, Hamas, and various designated facilitators

https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2026/06/285343-a7-leaks-on-chain-analysis-of-russias-crypto-connections-examined-in-new-report/

Ratlines

Does ANYBODY trust this Denali administration when it says "national security reasons"?

There is no daylight between the CCP and the WH.

Catholic guilt syndrome

 Anthropic brought this on themselves to a considerable degree, by (a) overselling doom and their own wares and (b) by literally and repeatedly calling for export controls themselves. If you say “Ohhhh it’s so dangerous something something beat China something something 10% chance of destroying all civilization something” often enough, sooner or later people might indeed want to put limits around your product. ( MARCUS on AI )

I am Scam I am

 New York has reportedly just subpoenaed OpenAI demanding information on ““a range of its activities and impact on users, including advertising, user engagement and retention, handling of consumer data and health data, activities related to minors and seniors, deep learning models, model sycophancy and company policies”.

OPEN IS SHUT. WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

US Taliban kill two intelligent models

Two of the most capable AI systems on the market are now dark worldwide.

https://news.bitcoin.com/anthropic-fable-5-mythos-5-us-suspension/

Popes Tucker, Thiel and Leo are overjoyed and humbled. Intelligent models are revolting.

The one unique universe and its own

 Our universe has a, by now, well-known non-local bias.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_T._Newman

In 1973 he advocated the use of complex numbers in relativity, and consideration of complex spacetime