How about a logo for Nostr? Everyone can contribute to the Nostr ecosystem and create the visuals they like. And I love that!
However, I believe having a recognizable logo could be beneficial for the Nostr community as a whole!
I asked designer Andrea Nicolini (aka Bembureda, https://bembureda.dribbble.com), to create a logo and an icon for Nostr. I think he did an amazing job! Don’t you think so?
Download it now! Available in multiple sizes and colors here:
https://github.com/mbarulli/nostr-logo/
The CC0 license allows you to use it for any purposes without restriction.

/cc Thanks for sharing!
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I love it! The 🥚 in the "o" is a great touch
What’s the first emotion that pops into your head when you think about #AI?
Excitement?
Fear?
Intrigue?
Undecided?
To those whose first emotion regarding AI is negative, I recommend that you:
A) Listen to this podcast; a conversation featuring nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe & nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev, which uses an ultra-big-picture lens to debunk a lot of the primary scaries most of us originally feel about AI 👇
B) If your objection is, "It will absorb lots of jobs and put people out of work", ask yourself this:
WHY is the idea of mundane jobs being eliminated scary to us?
No, it's not because punching keys on an accounting program every day (or any other menial job which millions of people currently work) is a mental, physical, or spiritual loss for any of those workers...
It's because under the Fiat Standard, people NEED to work constantly in order to pay rent, put food on the table, and keep themselves and their families' heads above water.
But why is this constant hyper-working by 95% of the population required in the first place? I thought USA was the richest country in history?!
Because everyone's government-printed paper currency is bleeding out, losing value via dilution every time anyone in D.C. decides they want to throw trillions of dollars at anything, ever. (But hey at least we can feel good about getting poorer, because they're using that printed money to bomb more Syrian children for oil 😃👍)
But I digress...let's summarize:
Why do we as a society instinctively feel that people NEED to spend their days shuffling papers, ticking boxes, and calculating numbers (all things that could be taken off of our collective plate this decade by AI)?
Because under the Fiat Standard, the poors have to run on the hamster wheel 24/7/365.
On a #Bitcoin Standard, when people no longer have to participate in wage slavery to chase inflation (because #Bitcoin supply is fixed; it's DEFLATIONARY)…people will no longer NEED to load their schedule with all of these useless jobs to survive. Their savings will grow with time rather than deteriorate, increasing their living standard, and lowering their time preference.
This seems like an outlandish concept...how could we just get richer over time? Sounds too good to be true.
The answer is simple, but "they" want you to think it's complicated. Once you vaporize the cancer of the money printer, all these countless trillions of dollars being spent on the Military Industrial Complex, Big Pharma donor payouts, and constant bailouts of megabanks, that value will go to YOU.
🤯
[Further explanation of that inflation vs. deflation dynamic can be found on this excellent podcast: https://youtu.be/RuCqFjU9Wi4 ]
To (finally lol) wrap up this opening AI rant:
The combination of AI + Bitcoin is a match made in heaven. It will free people's time, while ALSO reallocating the resulting productivity gains to the PEOPLE, not the bloodthirsty oligarchs that have been silently siphoning everyone's wealth away since central banks gained God-status in 1971.
But this cannot be emphasized enough: the #Bitcoin piece is absolutely critical to a positive outcome for the world. If we don't distinguish the fiat disease, the dystopian hellscape scenario where the overlords suck up even MORE of the productivity gains for themselves, and in turn FURTHER STRENGTHEN the money-printer Death Star, would be well within the realm of possibility.
I hope all of this somewhat makes sense. This is a new topic for me too, so my ability to understand/explain the big picture is still developing.
Stay tuned. Excited to continue venturing into this rabbit hole with you all :)
"Where did we go wrong?"
This statement is usually thrown around as a negative, pessimistic retort.
But I view it differently.
To me, it sounds like a thought-provoking question, which when properly analyzed and addressed, can lead to very real, paradigm-shifting solutions.
So, friends of nostr...
Where DID we go wrong?

The state wants obedient slaves who follow every arbitrary rule, view their authority figure as God, don't ask too many questions, and salute to their overlords' system every morning so they remember where they stand. 🫡🇺🇸
Good morning!

Amethyst 0.51.2: More Performance Improvements
- Changes the structure of the notification view to increase speed.
- Preserves opening invalidations of data sources for Home, Videos, and Notifications screens
- Activates invalidations that can be ignored if another invalidation is currently running
- Only call "scroll to the top" if not at the top
- Remembers formatting for the Notification reaction row
- Updates Notification feed in intervals of 1 second
- Remembers modifiers to avoid recomposition
- Moves Home and Video screen invalidations to follow the scrollTop par…
- Adds Stable tag to Notification Card models
- Remembers the size of the robohash picture between recompositions
- Removes the procedure to start connecting with relays before logging in.
Download:
- Play Edition with Push Notifications & Translations: https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/download/v0.51.2/amethyst-googleplay-universal-v0.51.2.apk
- F-Droid Edition without Translations: https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/download/v0.51.2/amethyst-fdroid-universal-v0.51.2.apk
I get a "Failed to upload the image/video" error quite often when trying to post media recently...Will that be fixed soon, or is it a bit more of a complicated issue due to hosting & whatnot?
(Today's rant unload on my normie IG friends 🤣👇)
One of the most common messages I get from people, including my own family, is:
"Why do you only talk about #Bitcoin? why don't you spend more time being angry about [x trending hashtag]???"
Because I'm focused on the root of the problem. My time is important to me, and batting at branches is a waste of life energy when the whole rotten tree of fiat needs to be uprooted.
Trying to focus on everything, everywhere, all of the time, is a recipe for overwhelming yourself, tanking mental health, and never accomplishing anything to show for it.
Which, I'm sorry to break it to you, is EXACTLY where these MSM outlets want you.
They don't exist to inform you lol. Their business model is to keep you angry and depressed 24/7/365, so you stay glued to their BrEaKiNg nEwS feed and consuming their Big Pharma advertiser's products.

Tell me why inflation is "normal", and I'll tell you why you're wrong.

before fiat (all of the above)

What if I told you...there is no peak clown world 🤡🌎♾️

Question:

Answer:
a) You can't patent whole foods made by nature, so chemical companies do what they do best and make a toxic concoction of chemicals, bribe the FDA, and market it as 😉food😉
b) Close ties to the government/money-printer == unlimited marketing budget to brainwash people into thinking real food is bad, and to eat their industrial sludge instead
THEN THEY SAY MEAT/BUTTER/EGGS ARE WHAT'S CAUSING SKYROCKETING OBESITY, WHEN IT LITERALLY STARTED THE MOMENT THEY BEGAN THIS PROCESS 🤣🤣🤣
Basically, they think you're fucking stupid.


Bogus false equivalencies as far as the eye can see.
And I've met literal NUTRITIONISTS who fall for these traps, because they don't understand that the majority of these "studies" are fully-funded by chemical corporations, for the express purpose of spinning a narrative that will help them push more product.
Follow Calley Means on socials to learn more about that, he explains the corruption much better than I can.

Easiest rule of thumb in the world to follow:
Real food = GOOD
Fake food = BAD
Anything trying to confuse you out of this common-sense guideline is either trying to sell you something, or fooled by someone who is.
If you've watched Mike Maloney's "Hidden Secrets Of Money" series on YT, you know exactly what comes next:

I recommend this series to everyone, partly because it's the first thread that originally pulled me into becoming so obsessed w/ the history of money
HOLY SHIT GUYS THE FACT CHECKERS ACTUALLY CHECKED A FACT ⚠️⚠️⚠️



Step 1 is making peace with the realization that there will be no escaping the fiat mess without a tremendous amount of pain for a lot of people.
Step 2 is eliminating the political
noisemakers from your brainspace, who are so emotionally-fixated on Red Team Vs. Blue Team that they will never wake up to the fact that all of their charades are irrelevant in the face of the fiat ➡️ #bitcoin transition
Step 3 is refocusing on yourself, and the people you love, in preparation of the inevitable consequences of generations of humans amassing too much control over systems that should've never been human-controlled in the first place.
Share what you learn. Eat healthy food. Exercise. Read. Meditate.
Your physical, mental, educational, and spiritual foundation will always be there for you, no matter how crazy the world around you gets.
Focus on these things first. No. Matter. What.
Not only for selfish reasons, but for those around you as well. The world needs people unplugging from the matrix and embodying love, strength, spirituality, and positive energy right now more than ever ☀️🧘♂️🧡

If you have photoshop on your computer and don't mind mangling every imaginable piece of data to mislead hundreds of millions of people, you too can work for the U.S. Government!





