Kelsey Hightower

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson

I can only imagine the bailout package they are drawing up for themselves.

As the saying goes, privatize the profits, and socialize the losses.

What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.

I remember watching Star Wars as a kid and asking myself, who would voluntarily join the dark side? I understood Darth Vader's motivation, but not the stormtrooper's.

Social security is a set of trust funds with a balance of about $2.7 trillion as of December 2024. We are the source of these funds. It belongs to us. These funds should be protected so we can protect each other. www.ssa.gov/oact/progdat...

Buried in the tax bill: "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act."

Reason number 223.06 on why not to privatize social security.

I've got only one resolution. Stay focused.

Twitter became overrun with hate, and while I believe in free speech, I'm not looking to attend a Klan rally.

Angertainment is a great way to describe the emotional experience most social media platforms are optimizing for.

When I hear people talk about deregulation, what I'm really hearing them say is: "any limitation on harming people is a limitation on profits".

I haven't been posting because I'm literally lost for words.

Most of what we call "tech" is about getting the right information into a database and trying to prevent the wrong person from reading or updating it.

I've done an unusual number of mentoring calls this week, and one thing I'd like to remind everyone is, you are enough, and you can't forget how far you've come. You're most likely in the best position you've ever been in to build on top of everything you've done until this point.

This is the "stock prices can be manipulated" part.

A rising tide lifts all boats, which is great for those who have one.

We've reduced intelligence to what people can do with computers, which is fueling the current hype cycle.

What a shame. Now we have US tax payers propping up cryptocurrencies. This is one of the biggest grifts of all time.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru....

Trump names cryptocurrencies in strategic reserve; prices spike

Analysts say the crypto market needs a reason to move higher, such as indications that the Federal Reserve plans to cut interest rates or a clear pro-crypto regulatory framework from the Trump administration.

Now that DeepSeek is having an impact on the US stock market, I expect a huge negative press cycle designed to discredit their advancement is on the way.

Bluesky is proof that cryptocurrency isn't a core tenant of decentralization. The team demonstrated extreme levels of pragmatism by leveraging new and existing technologies to produce something people actually use.

No matter what DeepSeek cost, the important part is, they could afford to give it away.

They want to turn our social security fund into their exit liquidity. Instead of saving for the future they want us to gamble for it.

Create a new asset class. Give it to politicians. Force their citizens to buy it.

Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com

What a shame. Now we have US tax payers propping up cryptocurrencies. This is one of the biggest grifts of all time. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru....

Trump names cryptocurrencies in strategic reserve; prices spike

Analysts say the crypto market needs a reason to move higher, such as indications that the Federal Reserve plans to cut interest rates or a clear pro-crypto regulatory framework from the Trump administration.

I really want Bluesky to succeed, but I also want to see a healthy ecosystem spring up around the AT Protocol, and that includes Bluesky alternatives. If we want to avoid a repeat of what happened with Twitter then a healthy ecosystem is a requirement.