And now for today's comedy installment...
https://gizmodo.com/ai-can-tell-your-political-affiliation-just-by-looking-1851430714
Hey nostr š #asknostr
For those that listen to our content nostr:npub1fpcd25q2zg09rp65fglxuhp0acws5qlphpg88un7mdcskygdvgyqfv4sld, do you find our nameā¦distracting?
Iām talking about the word āprogressiveā
Do you find itās a donāt judge a book by its cover situation for those that might not be crazy about the word progressive? Or do you love the name/word? Comment below from any of the 3 options:
1) keep the name
2) change the name
3) I donāt listen, doesnāt feel like itās for me
First reaction was to pass over it. The name already signalled the content, therefore ignore (since in my mental map that points to the 2+2=5 Math rather than the Numeris en Vires Math).
However, I've been following your npub for a while and get what *you're* about. So that makes me curious to take a look, and this asknostr moment gives me a pause for thought.
Facilitating the right kind of social justice in the world is part of Bitcoin's 'fix the money fix the world' and I can see a genre emerging with books like 'Check Your Financial Privilege' by Alex Gladstein and 'A Progressive's Case for Bitcoin' by Jason Maier... which probably sit alongside 'Thank God for Bitcoin' and 'Bitcoin and Black America'... all converging around a bigger idea that bitcoin restores a sense of justice and fairness in the world - in ways not distorted by fiat fuelled socialism.
That last part is important, as the craziness of the last few years is connected and likely caused by 'late stage fiat' thinking contaminating every institution.
So, having thought about it, I *can* get beyond judging the book by its cover and take a sneak peak inside, but yeah there's room to broaden your audience by changing the name.
Hope that helps.
The $5 wrench attack has been replaced by the 20+5 years in jail attack.
Generated my first invoice in nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg and pasted the unified link to nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm, checked the lnbc was the same and the amount was correct, pressed 'pay now'... and it's gone. Balance deducted, no transaction showing, and no funds received at the other end.
Did I mess up? Have I been rugged? Is lightning illegal now?
HELP
Samourai Wallet founders arrested and charged with money laundering and unlicensed money transmitting offences... and nobody here is talking about it? I had to hear the news through a work channel on LinkedIn while over here it's a carousel of tired old memes and self-promotion.
When I searched for the term 'samourai' I found a couple of references, at least Jack mentions it in his latest pod. I thought I had curated my follows quite well for signal. What kind of freedom tech advocating bitcoiners are you all here? Seems adding purple to orange really does lead to š©
#freesamourai
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Every sat is rare in the context of everything divided by 21m. No need for artificial scarcity when there's already genuine scarcity in the long run.
Some sats are rare in the context of lost keys and donations to the network, sats that have reached their final resting addresses.
My sats are rare in the context of nobody else getting hold of them until such time as I sign a transaction that says otherwise.
"The state is not your friend, you will not be able to reason with it, the state is your main enemy".
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The point is to stay solvent in the next few years without needing to rely on your bitcoin stash.
If you manage that, you'll emerge as a sovereign individual with generational wealth, and have a chance to integrate with or shape the new economic paradigm.
If not, then your stash will get you through, and you'll start over with zero instead of negative, which is still something I guess.
It's likely that will be a similar paradigm shift to post WWII, with widespread poverty, rationing, and other challenges. I don't think it will be a dystopian apocalypse but it will feel pretty rubbish in the western world not used to such a rapid drop in comfort levels.
I'm thinking about how sovereign individuals helped to build society in previous generations, in particular the landed gentry and the new industrialists on both sides of the atlantic in the 19th century. It's Andrew Carnegie's "gospel of wealth" and the Lord Shaftesbury types in Britain.
Bitcoiners are already getting started with these kind of projects, but it's something to think about as we enter an era where food, clothing, and shelter will be far more pressing concerns that yachts and lambos. We're having to grow up fast, the age of 69,420 memes is passing and the age of bearing responsbility for the future of humanity is almost here.
PS - Generational wealth may not mean a dragon's hoard, but simply having something in your hand to pass on to the next generation, which they in turn can build on, care for, and pass on again. Generational wealth itself implies training the next generation on the responsibilty that comes with holding, but that's a whole nother story for another time.
#Bitcoin
I hear you.
I also think that operation covid damaged our mental health far more than we like to admit.
- Individually, in testing us to near breaking point, even if we avoided the jabs and saw through the propaganda, the drama still took it's toll on us and left us drained. Which means difficulty in maintaining healthy right brain big picture thinking, difficulty in stepping outside the comfort of the overton window, difficulty in taking action needed to break out of the fear paralysis... we're doing it, but it's hard.
- Collectively, in setting up a mass formation psychosis that has never really been undone, the root fears planted in the lead up to and at the start of operation covid, never really uprooted or reversed, so people still jump in large numbers in whatever direction they're nudged, yes 'the current thing' is a test whistle, but there are many micro nudges that don't make the memes. We call them out in the hope of waking people up, but I think there's a whole critical mass of people that just see them as normal, as witty ways of expressing and reinforcing what they've been given to believe. So you show them a meme of someone with multiple needles in them, to us that's like "hey you keep jabbing yourself for nothing just to obey your government, you silly sheep" and to them it's like "hey, that's me, I'm taking those jabs and doing my part, badge of honour". Same meme, completely different impact. I wonder if people see our money printer memes, and we think 'look at that worthless inflatable fiat' and they think 'well it's good they can keep printing money because we all could do with a little more'.
We know with individual trauma that it can be years before we feel confident to confront what actually happened. I was carjacked downtown in a 'global south capital city' years back, terrifying in that I thought I was going to die alone in the car, but eventually escaped by reckless driving against traffic, on pure adrenaline. I overcame the immediate trauma in seven days, going back to the same spot, the whole 'get back on your horse' thing... and it shifted the immediate fear. However, almost fifteen years later, I realised there were still residual PTSD impacts that I hadn't fully processed. It didn't take long to address that, but I was surprised by how the residiual effects stayed hidden for so long, manifesting in ADHD like behaviours - hypervigilence, distraction, forgetfulness, exhaustion and so on.
What I'm saying is, it's not enough to dismiss the majority of people as dumb, intelligence is a distribution curve but we've got a traumatized population that is now easily manipulated, and the clown show *is* the active manipulation. Getting us out of trauma is the road to greater recovery... otherwise, it will be a painful reset, and perhaps a couple of generations until this has played out. Our generation may already be lost... the next generation may contain a seed with enough resilience... and only in the third generation do they throw off the weakness of their traumatized ancestors and forcefully take hold of their destinies again.
Well, it looks like your dark mood was contagious brother.
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You can complain about āthe growing risk of centralized Bitcoin miningā or you can do something productive about it.
Shoutout to nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m and Block for actually doing something productive about it.
More of this behavior, please.
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Yeah for once I got an update like this from my normie ai/tech newsletters before I got wind of it from notes transmitted by relays.
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Yeah my note wasn't so clear.
I mean I feel there's a bit of a marketing campaign (or psyop) to create dissatisfaction with lightning while promoting ecash as the shiny new thing. It's the first time I've felt I'm being 'managed' since I left twitter and I don't like it.
nostr:nprofile1qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejz7qgmwaehxw309ahx7um5wgh82um9d3jhxumndp5hgtnrduhsqgxvaj9zy3vru729qxszwjer5nkfz5g620fh69xzvlfnsz96u6hrpyshpczx nostr:nprofile1qyvhwumn8ghj7urjd9mxzar99eex2epwva3zumn9wshszymhwden5te0wp6hyurvv4cxzeewv4ej7qghwaehxw309a3xjarrda5kuetj9eek7cmfv9kz7qpq0jnx6stxk9h4fgtgdqv3hgwx8p4fwe3y73357wykmxm8gz3c3j3s24glvl
The peace of mind that comes with being debt free is priceless. Life isn't only about number go up.
If you spend long enough on nostr you'll be encouraged to hate lightning and to love ecash... just be aware and think for yourself... integration with nostr isn't the only success criteria.
Nice commentary on western liberal democracy but you forgot to tell us your dream bruh.
Some of them would have... there's some in every generation.
Finally got round to listening.
"You see, ciphers are a lever Archimedes could admire,
and asymmetry is a citadel the plebs can now acquire"
Duncan's got talent! If you already enjoy his writing then you won't be too surprised to learn that the lyrics tell a good story. Profound and in a creative ballad style, like the story tellers of old... and yes a bit of a Johnny Cash vibe... maybe Duncan should rebrand as Johnny Core š
Anyway, the wavlake integration is interesting, testing it for the first time. If you click on the zap symbol in the embed below, you can support Duncan directly and help him stay afloat in 'The Bitcoin Record' competition. Don't know what that is and don't care... I just channelled my appreciation of the lyrics, to the tune of 5000 sats.
#Bitcoin #EpochV
https://wavlake.com/track/6f20f4fa-fd25-49e1-aae3-fec18f73c6cd