A new AI startup, 2wai, now enables real-time conversations with digital “HoloAvatars” of deceased loved ones using as little as three minutes of video footage, joining a wave of “grief tech” ventures that include Replika’s chatbots built from old text messages. In The Free Press, Peter Savodnik warns that these tools, however comforting, risk eroding authentic memory and the transformative power of loss. “We need loss and will regret losing it,” he writes, arguing that simulating the dead will gradually replace imperfect human recollection with flawless, on-demand illusions, ultimately weakening empathy, character, and relationships with the living. Savodnik acknowledges the irresistible pull of such technology yet insists that preserving genuine grief remains essential for personal growth and human depth in the increasingly augmented future.
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In a powerful Substack essay, Noah Ryan argues that chronic overstimulation from screens, notifications, and stacked stimuli has left millions in a state of permanent sympathetic nervous system activation, producing brain fog, anhedonia, and shattered focus. “The mobile phone and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race,” Ryan declares, warning that modern abundance exploits ancient survival wiring, spiking dopamine and glutamate while crashing GABA. His practical “Overstimulation Protocol” emphasizes single-tasking, mandatory analogue hours without devices, strict morning and evening screen gates, deliberate silence with earplugs, and dimmed lighting to restore parasympathetic calm. Ryan frames recovery as a liberating act of reclaiming attention and presence, enabling deeper work, genuine joy, and human connection in an age engineered for distraction.
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In the latest Blockspace podcast, former investment bankers Harris Irfan and Allan Farrington argue that a Bitcoin standard would organically resurrect the core principles of authentic Islamic finance. They contend that riba (interest/usury) and fiat money creation through fractional-reserve lending are inseparable injustices, with developing nations now devoting up to half their GDP to debt service rather than infrastructure or healthcare. “Islamic finance naturally falls out of a Bitcoin standard – it’s just good business, it’s just ethical,” Irfan states, emphasizing risk-sharing partnerships over asymmetric borrower-lender relationships. Farrington adds that proof-of-work money forces real economic trade and profit-and-loss sharing, mirroring historic Venetian and early Islamic structures. The authors predict a healthier, lower-time-preference global economy built on asset-backed, equitable finance once Bitcoin’s hardness removes the incentive to create money from nothing.
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In a highly speculative essay, MarylandHODL portrays an escalating monetary showdown between the Trump administration and JPMorgan Chase, framing it as a clash between legacy Federal Reserve dominance and a Treasury-led digital future anchored in stablecoins and bitcoin reserves. “This is not a policy dispute. It is an existential struggle,” the author writes, alleging JPMorgan deploys short-selling pressure, custodial delays on MicroStrategy shares, and suppression tactics against bitcoin to safeguard its role in dollar creation. The piece casts MicroStrategy as a vital bridge for institutional bitcoin conversion, under assault to thwart Treasury’s pivot toward programmable settlement rails. Forward momentum hinges on reshaping Fed governance by mid-2025, potentially via strategic U.S. investment in MicroStrategy, heralding a transparent, resilient monetary era that empowers individuals through scarcity.
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