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Oh man... I am really struggling... I am in paralysis... I don't know what action to take... I know I have to go through the process of resetting my grapheneos but feels like a really daunting and many hours task for whatever reason. 😭 Help me!!!!!

What's the biggest Nostr competitor out there? Is there anything else that's out there right now that solves the multitude of problems that Nostr could potentially eventually solve? #asknostr

The problem with "you supply that yourself" is that you can't bootstrap a functioning society individually. Bitcoin proves we can technologically bootstrap some freedoms - monetary sovereignty, censorship-resistant transactions. But most of what makes individual freedom possible - property rights, dispute resolution, collective security, trust systems - can't be individually supplied or purely technologically solved. They require collective coordination frameworks.

Example: Two Bitcoin businesses have a contract dispute. Market can provide many arbitration services, but if they can't agree which one's decision is binding, the market doesn't solve that. They need prior agreement on legitimate dispute resolution - that's coordination, not optimization.

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Speaking of which, I've been wanting to learn more about scale dependence wrt social networks and institutions. Do you have any recommended reading on the topic? Is it possible to restrain growth in a principled way while maintaining liberty? Ellul's point (echoed by others) is that the internal logic of modernity is immune to restraint, and so growth and acceleration are necessary consequences of mechanization. The Malthusians on the other hand would artificially limit growth through top-down control (which is its own kind of mechanism). But is there a third option, in which culture regulates growth — directing it toward human flourishing rather than cancerous colonization and consolidation?

Yes, it's all about scale — Illich strikes again

guilds until they became licensing bodies, universities until they became degree mills, hospitals until they became medical monopolies, hackerspaces until they professionalize... basically, all institutions started out this way

I think to fix society we first have to fix our social (networks).

Nostr is for everyone, right?

Institutions aren't inherently bad. What's bad is when they outgrow human scale and begin demanding that people serve them, rather than the reverse.

Modern Indoor Lighting Has Created a Public Health Crisis - Here’s Why Incandescent Bulbs Can Help 👇

Your indoor lighting environment has a tremendous impact on your health. Each wavelength (or color) of light plays a specific role in regulating your biology. Most people have no idea how dramatically modern lighting—and I mean just since the early 2000s—has altered the biological signals their bodies evolved to depend on.

➡️ Our Historical Light Environment (until very recently)

Over the course of billions of years, life on Earth evolved under the full electromagnetic spectrum of natural sunlight — from invisible long-wavelength infrared, through the visible spectrum, to invisible short-wavelength ultraviolet.

For most of human history, we effectively brought the outdoor light spectrum indoors.

Fire, candlelight, and incandescent light bulbs are all thermal sources of light. When measured with a spectrometer, they emit a wide, balanced spectrum that is relatively low in short-wavelength light (such as blue) and smoothly increases into longer wavelengths (such as red), with abundant invisible infrared—which we experience as heat.

This balance matters.

Shorter-wavelength light carries more energy and is inherently stimulatory. In isolation, that stimulation can become stressful and damaging. In nature, however, short-wavelength light is always balanced by abundant long-wavelength light that is restorative.

For reference, natural sunlight contains roughly (depending on location and time of year):

~8% ultraviolet (shorter wavelength)

~42% visible light (ROYGBIV)

~50% infrared (longer wavelength)

If we were exposed only to long-wavelength light (red and infrared), we’d lack the stimulation needed to initiate steroid hormone production and mobilize energy for the day. If we were exposed only to short-wavelength light, energy production would suffer and aging would accelerate — our mitochondria would struggle to function.

➡️ The Evolutionary Shock of LED Lighting

Everything changed abruptly in the early 2000s, when light-emitting diodes (LEDs) rapidly replaced incandescent bulbs.

Unlike fire or the Sun, LEDs are not thermal light sources. They emit very narrow bands of visible light while removing infrared entirely. This was framed as an efficiency win — LEDs produce visible light without “wasting” energy as heat.

But that so-called waste heat is biologically meaningful.

Infrared light plays a critical role in:

- Building exclusion-zone water inside and around our cells

- Supporting mitochondrial energy production

- Penetrating tissues to support repair processes

Removing long-wavelength light while isolating high-energy short-wavelength light creates a signal that does not exist in nature — and one we are not adapted to.

Chronic exposure to blue-enriched light without balancing red and infrared has been linked to:

- Sleep and circadian disruption

- Diabetes and metabolic dysfunction

- Attention, focus, and cognitive issues

- Myopia and macular degeneration

- Systemic energy loss tied to mitochondrial stress

➡️ Infrared Light is an Essential Nutrient for Our Mitochondria

Long-wavelength light penetrates deeply through tissues in a way short-wavelength light does not. Inside the body, infrared light interacts directly with mitochondria to support energy production.

One mechanism involves water inside and around mitochondria. Long-wavelength light alters the viscosity of this water, allowing ATP synthase—the molecular turbine at the end of the electron transport chain—to spin more efficiently and generate more ATP.

Additionally, cytochrome c oxidase (Complex IV of the electron transport chain inside the mitochondria) absorbs light in the near-infrared range, supporting metabolic water production. This metabolic water becomes charge-separated exclusion-zone water, which is critical for cellular energy production, cell membrane integrity, detoxification, and more.

Infrared light also stimulates localized melatonin production inside mitochondria, where melatonin acts as a potent antioxidant—neutralizing excess reactive oxygen species that are a normal (and healthy) byproduct of oxidative phosphorylation.

In short: long-wavelength light is an essential nutrient for mitochondrial function.

And mitochondrial function determines the overall state of health.

Modern indoor lighting has removed this nutrient almost entirely—while simultaneously increasing exposure to isolated short-wavelength light that promotes inflammatory and hypoxic conditions inside the body.

➡️ It’s Not Just LEDs — It’s Indoor Living

Even without artificial lighting, modern windows are designed to block heat transfer — which means they filter out much of the red, infrared, and UV light while allowing proportionally more blue light to pass through.

The result is an indoor environment that is blue-shifted by default.

Combined with screens and LED lighting, we’ve created living spaces that bear little resemblance to the conditions under which human biology evolved. These alien light environments are affecting us, our children, our pets, our mental health, our physical health, and our future.

➡️ So What Can You Do?

There is a widespread lack of physics education when it comes to light and its biological effects, and economic incentives often (usually) override public health considerations. As consumers, we need to drive the market and make our voices heard.

Incandescent bulbs, while largely phased out, are still available for “decorative” use and remain the most biologically reliable indoor lighting option.

As awareness grows, “circadian-friendly” or “full-spectrum” LEDs are entering the market. These can be useful tools, but it’s important to understand their limitations. LEDs still emit narrow wavelength spikes and generally lack infrared. They do not replicate the smooth, full spectrum emitted by natural thermal light sources.

We’ve studied isolated wavelengths—but we know far less about how the full spectrum works together as an integrated biological signal.

This is why the simplest, most affordable, and most reliable option remains the incandescent bulb (and a fireplace, if you have one).

➡️ Balancing Your Indoor Light Spectrum

Incandescent bulbs can help you replicate a natural spectrum of outdoor light that your biology expects. Think of this as spectrum balancing. Indoors — between screens, LED light fixtures, and window-filtered daylight — you are exposed to a very blue-enriched environment lacking red and infrared. Your goal is to add those missing wavelengths back in.

- During the day, incandescent bulbs can help counter overly blue indoor environments. Placing one near your workspace can provide supportive ambient long-wavelength light.

- At night, red incandescent bulbs are preferable to red-only LEDs (because they contain infrared) for protecting circadian rhythms and preventing melatonin suppression.

- Non-toxic beeswax candles and fireplaces are also excellent low-blue, long-wavelength light sources.

- Circadian-friendly LEDs can be useful when incandescents aren’t an option — just remember they are still a compromise, not a replacement for thermal light.

➡️ A Seasonal Reminder

As we move deeper into winter and the holiday season, people spend more time indoors under artificial lighting. That lighting can either be stress-inducing — subtly affecting mood, sleep, and behavior — or it can support calm, connection, and restoration.

This season, consider your light environment and how it’s shaping the experience of everyone exposed to it.

Use what we now understand. Reclaim your space. Support your biology. And bring a bit more of nature’s balance back into your home. ☀️

Google’s mea culpa on censorship pressure reveals what we already knew: when speech depends on corporate permission, it’s not really free. Cryptographic proof > corporate promises.

The state’s “charity” is counterproductive. Welfare policies subsidize dependency, whereas private aid focuses on rehabilitation and self-sufficiency.

because the old system was based on the Gold standard which is sound money.

and Bitcoin is a sound money system. So the world will run on sound money again.

The fiat system which is not sound money will die.

Loans have always existed, but they were never widely available to the average person buying everyday items. For example, loans became more accessible after the USA decoupled from the gold standard, which allowed more people to buy things like cars.

Before that, how did people buy a car? Well, they had to walk to work, ride a bike, or take the bus for YEARS, saving up for a purchase.

Once we transition to a Bitcoin standard, we’ll be returning to this system. The days of easily buying cars, houses, pizza, and clothes on credit will be behind us. I’m in Canada, and life here is much easier compared to other countries because we can access credit for things like cars or clothes. But many countries still don't have that option.

It’s hard to imagine having to walk to work or ride a bike for years just to save up for a car in Western countries, but I believe this will happen no matter how hard companies try to keep the loan system going.

Credit has made many people in the West selfish and less mindful about saving. The culture here isn’t about saving—it's about spending on credit.

You know those grandpas who say they had to walk miles to school or work? Well, we might be heading back to that.

Loans will still exist, but they will be reserved for big purchases or companies, not for the average person.

The "good days" of easy credit are over, and I support this shift. That’s why I believe in Bitcoin: it will push people to work harder, lose weight, and learn to value money.

Yes. Absolutely. They will do everything possible to make money, after all they are a public corporation so they will do all the normal moves that public corporations make.

As the global financial system callopses Strategy will might have to sell some of their physical assets and even some of their Bitcoin but they will come out ahead of the other corporations who never accumulated Bitcoin.

The thing is as Bitcoin becomes the dominant global system loans will slowly become a thing of the past. Bitcoin makes loans and debt obsolete.

But that doesn't matter Strategy will just adapt as Bitcoin takes over the world.

I think eventually they will just become a Bitcoin custodian for corporations, business, government and maybe countries. The world will need companies to custody Bitcoin for them and taking custody of Bitcoin of your own Bitcoin is risky and you have to know what you are doing.