Erik Voorhees

One senses the efficacy of state apparatus when realizing not a single dollar of spending was cut vs prior year, yet every Republican and Democrat believe some major reduction occurred

One senses the efficacy of state apparatus when one realizes not a single dollar of spending was cut vs prior year, and yet every Republican and Democrat believe some major reduction occurred

The seething cope from Trump supporters is wild

Y'all realize he didn't cut spending *AT ALL* and that's literally all that matters.

Elon's the only one with the balls and the influence to call it out at scale.

Accusation that Trump is in Epstein files not nearly as damning as indebting a hundred million unborn American children into perpetual serfdom to the state

Dear States,

If you secede, the federal debt shall no longer enslave your citizenry.

Think about it

"The flying machine which will really fly might be evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians in from one million to ten million years."

New York Times 1903

I like Saylor, but a slide like this has no place at a Bitcoin conference... on the Nakamoto stage, no less.

God's music

https://youtu.be/jZMrS-k_kLM

Refresher on $VVV, the token of https://t.co/iUPC8ijDPN

Venice is an app for generative text and images. It's similar to ChatGPT, except private and uncensored.

Late last year Venice released its API (which uses the OpenAI standard), enabling AI agents and 3rd party app devs to access the same text and image inference that Venice's own app uses.

API users can pay like a normie with credit card/Stripe. But more interesting, they can alternatively stake $VVV.

Staking $VVV grants the staker a share of Venice's API capacity on a continual basis. If you staked half the tokens, you get half our capacity.

This changes the pricing structure from "pay per request" to "pay once and use forever"

Since the launch of the token, Venice's API has grown from <1% of Venice usage to roughly 20%. This has occurred even while Venice non-API usage grew over 100% during the same timeframe.

But why Venice when so many AI services exist? We have the world's most uncensored large language model, and all the prompts and responses are private, stored only client-side. No other provider offers private, uncensored generative AI at our scale.

If you're building an AI app or agent, try our API at https://t.co/HGUdedRZRR and consider holding $VVV to get all your inference for free.

http://Venice.ai users generated over a million images in the past 48 hrs.

Daily generation up >200% over past three months.

http://og.shapeshift.com

We believe Venice has the most uncensored LLM available anywhere.

Try it free without an account at http://venice.ai/chat

You can also use it to power your agents via http://venice.ai/api

Venice API use since VVV launch

http://venice.ai/token

Venice's partnership with Cognitive Computations has led to the most uncensored AI model anywhere:

The new Dolphin Mistral 24b Venice Edition

Fast, smart, and will answer every question.

App
http://Venice.ai/chat

API
https://venice.ai/venice-api

Sneak peak of the upcoming Enhance feature in @AskVenice Image Engine V2

We're building http://Venice.ai because this bullshit is obviously coming...

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/13/access-to-future-ai-models-in-openais-api-may-require-a-verified-id/ via @techcrunch

I would not have predicted a bunch of Bitcoiners becoming protectionists because a politician told them it would help the economy

Has anyone gotten Llama 4 Scout running on 1 H100 yet, if so, what config

Short-term tariffs to equalize trade is the new two-weeks to flatten the curve

There is a foolish conception that tariffs help the nation that implements them, and hurts the nation on which they're targetted.

Under this premise, threatening tariffs on others plausibly makes sense, because it encourages both sides to potentially "disarm".

But the premise is flawed. Tariffs hurt both the nation on which they're targetted (obviously), but also the nation that implements them (less obvious).

Yes, it may help certain special interests (uncompetitive domestic producers), but harms great numbers of less vocal victims (every consumer in the nation + any producer with constituent inputs from abroad).

The number of producers which *only* have constituent inputs from within their country is suprisingly small, especially in America where our advanced economy has moved up the value chain to produce items of increasing complexity... rarely is such accomplished from within any single jurisdiction.

But tariffs are cheered on with vigor by those uncompetitive domestic producers, and by the sycophants who would just as quickly decry them had the other team proposed the same.

America is supposed to be a capitalist, free-market nation. As such, any government price control or tax
should be viewed with disdain by principled Americans.

If other nations, being more socialist, want to hamstring themselves with the sophistry of protectionist tariffs, so be it. They can find their own way through the darkness of economic ignorance. Casting such shadows on ourselves to "teach them a lesson" is decel.

We are supposed to be leaders toward the path of liberty, not followers toward the path of ruin.