Thanks to nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn , I discovered Spring83. Exploring that protocol helped revive my excitement for what can happen on the internet again. Nostr has been going in directions that do not excite me as much as it did at first, with the Influencer paradigm, and tribes centered around certain clients gaining traction. This is the opposite of the sense of wide open possibility in a new robust, but understandable protocol.

https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/specifying-spring-83/

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nostr:npub1vwymuey3u7mf860ndrkw3r7dz30s0srg6tqmhtjzg7umtm6rn5eq2qzugd reviewed the cryptoanarchy site anarplex.net which i found a decade ago on the darkweb, and wasnt able to find again until he reviewed it. It went offline a while ago, but someone got permission to host it as an archive site. Some incredibly interesting writing on there.

https://anarplex.sirion.io

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Through anarplex, I found the old Cypherpunk Bitstream podcast.

The Sept 14th 2020 episode does a deep dive into the Soviet dissident idea of Parallel Polis, or parallel society contruction to undermine tyranny.

https://podcastindex.org/podcast/1196910?episode=372574213

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The small pink geraniums that grow wild on the side of our driveway are called Herb-Robert, after Robert Goodfellow a.k.a. Robin of the Hood.

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Ive been waking up every morning and standing in the sun, eating some fresh eggs from our chickens, and going after the day.

I feel amazing.

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Psalm of the day, 136.