I'm getting ready to launch my podcast, revolution.social, kicking off with an interview with nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyehwumn8ghj7mnhvvh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7ctewe4xcetfd3khsvrpdsmk5vnsw96rydr3v4jrz73hvyu8xqpqsg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q8dzj6n were we talk about Nostr, Cashu, and the importance of permissionless protocols.

I'm using my youtube account which i setup 19 years ago and didn't really use yet. In order to enable a few things regarding a youtube channel, it helps if i've got over 100 subscribers. So i figured, who best to help than the Nostr community.

So, please subscribe and in a couple weeks, you'll be able to see a fantastic conversation Jack and I had about where we're going and where we came from in building social media.

Gm.

The attempt to cut the fiscal deficit was largely performative.

The 2024 GOP platform explicitly said they wouldn’t cut Social Security or Medicare. They also said they wanted to modernize the military, so that makes cuts there unlikely (and every Congress person will fight for DoD pork in their district). Veterans benefits are not easy to cut (should have thought of that before sending so many of them abroad for frivolous reasons; now we owe them). High interest expense is the result of accumulated debt. Those are the big spending areas. All hard to cut.

That leaves the little areas. The small slices on the pie chart. Those areas were where DOGE was digging around in when the Big Beautiful Bill came and began slowly running them over. Even before the bill, federal spending has been higher here in the first half of 2025 than the first half of 2024.

Nothing stops this train. Most of the debates are just about whether to toggle it 10% faster or slower, basically.