so you guys pay for the speakers flight and accommodation ? no wonder everyone wants to be a speaker lol - talk about free holiday. I seriously hope sponsorship and physical attendee tix covers the cost otherwise it will be a headache. I understand the allurement of exclusivity - but given this is one of the few major SEA events, use it as an opportunity to attract people to Bitcoin.

I think its great Jack joined in and lent his name but it should be used to attract more people in SEA, not generate revenue for your management to pay other speaker's free holidays.

Thanks sherry. Looking forward to watching the recording nostr:npub1ftw5mdhk9c2zcsc7fzs0vxydxtdqs8jfj2va5egz05hemsm50saqgr8wjt . happy to zap in but dont see why something that should be used to gain as much visibility for the benefit of the people is being used to leverage revenue - esp when speakers are not charging

cashu is not bitcoin. It just uses bitcoin as a starting point. zapping with cashu and using it as money will reduce the frequency and circulation of buying and selling using bitcoin - it may not be visible now but but when there are many "add fancy privacy related name" token coming in, or high usage of tokens, it will drastically impact circulation of bitcoin and its chances of becoming global currency. This is exactly how altcoin comes into bitcoin. This is not a good thing.

is it recorded or live streamed by any chance ?

goosebumish gross - can't wait to delete it - but also need it for profile verification - often time, for a women at least, it gets an oversized ego men to shut up when they go through the portfolio - or random people who think 3rd world country people still live on trees - or as simple as you carry value on what you say if you have a "dr" title. Yet at the same time i did not bother updating academic degrees nor accolades gained in recent years because i cannot handle the braggyness - not sure what's the middle ground.

The Icelandic Revolution in wanting gov't to interfere as little as possible in trade and commerce from 1809 to the pots and pans revolution in 2009 (Icelandic financial crisis)

https://thelondonmagazine.org/article/crazy-days-dog-days/

I'm sorry to see this nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszxthwden5te0dehhxarj9e4k7mrvd9jx2u3w0puh5tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7kzvpry . It would have been wonderful having you here in SEA. Sad for the org team, for those eager to meet you, and sad for you that you could not visit Bali as you hoped. But grateful to have your voice and thoughts, it would be invaluable to SEA and Indonesia regardless. SEA is an economic powerhouse with significant potential for Bitcoin growth and adoption. That and it's natural beauty. Hopefully it remains inviting in the future.

There are a lot of ways fashion is perceived – creative, critical, cash cow, tech advancement, feminism. Yet, fashion can also be an act of rebellion, with a historical role in societal uprisings.

In the 18th century, there was a ban on tartan and kilts, imposed by the British (The Dress Act 1746), to suppress Scottish clans and Jacobite followers, with religious tensions at play (Catholic vs. Protestant). And as with bans, the world retaliated along and made it famous – embraced over time by groups from lumberjacks to the queer community in the US, and even influential designers like Ralph Lauren, Burberry, Alexander McQueen, and Vivienne Westwood.

Another fashion-related but sad one is the Zoot Suit Riots in the 40s where young Mexican American, African American and Filipino Americans were beaten up if they wore Zoot Suits because the large amount of fabric was considered unpatriotic during WW2 – which eventually led to the Chicanos Movement

The Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) witnessed attacks on people wearing "bourgeois clothes" as Mao Zedong’s goal was to erase cultural and class distinctions. Today, China is a fashion powerhouse. On the contrary, probably the only thing Nazis got right was their fashion sense given Hugo Boss was their designer.

The Iranian Dress Code made it compulsory for women to wear veils/hijabs from the age of 9. The Iranian women’s revolt is rising. The French Burqa Ban doesn’t allow women to wear a Hijab (nor does it allow anyone to openly disclose their religion as to the secular nature of the state) – now I could be wrong but I believe this led to the uprise of including hijabs in fashion weeks and sportswear.

From a cultural standpoint, the flapper movement in the 20s involved women rebelling against the conformity of what is expected of a “woman” with their short dresses, bobbed hair and bold makeup. Hippies culture in the 60s with its tie and dye and symbol of peace and love and antiwar. The punk movement in the 70s rebelled against mainstream conveying a sense of anti-establishment and non-conformity. The Black Power movement of the 1960s and 70s embraced Kente designs and natural afro hair to challenge societal norms.

This is likely only a fraction of the significance of fashion movements on society. But these resistance movements have been powerful over centuries.

working on a side gig project for underserved kids mainly in the Asia, Africa and the US in helping them expand on their creative side building stuff early on rather than conforming to a stringent education standard. Interesting observation is on how similar these kids are at a young age and equally quick to adapt new skills regardless of which part of the world or the lack of the ecosystem they grow up in. But often only at this young age. While life can be a little crazy at times, these are the little things that makes it fulfilling

i think one of Nostr's untapped strengths is user-configurable viewing options. It's a state of rarity in having choice and freedom

Intellectual freedom is essential to human society — freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such a trinity of freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship. Freedom of thought is the only guarantee of the feasibility of a scientific democratic approach to politics, economics and culture.

—Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov, 1968

doggies!

i love how he politely holds his carrot stick between both his paws and munches on it gently, same goes for the beans. This sweet boy is having problems with his kidneys - and his paranoid owner, moi, went on a meal revamp , with one pot makers, and everything that smelled way nicer than my food, and a bunch of fancy dog biscuit recipes added to the mix. He wanted non of it. So now we are back on his regular chicken + liver + rice + gizzard + fish oil as main meal, and carrot sticks, beans, apples and pears as his snacks. And his daily walks. He is a happy boy. This might just be about way healthier. I'm just hoping in 2 months, when we do the next test, his kidney shows signs of improvements. In 4 months from now, this sweet boy turns 11 ❤️

catching up on local and global news shocks the living hell out of me sometimes.

Democracy is def a good way to mask authoritarianism. We recently embraced our first liberal democracy gov't. Paradoxically, beneath the surface, it also marks significant censorship, including the banning of books and movies, the suppression of dissenting voices, and extensive media surveillance compared to the last 10 years. This contradiction is often masked by the government's focus on countering extreme far-right movements, which leads to many quietly accepting a growing sense of oppression.

Every rebel, whether harmless or extreme, rise from some sorta oppression. Even Hitler and his far right party rose from a democratic government that was too polarized. Oppression has never benefited anyone except for the rulers. And perhaps these guys

This confusion in recent times over universities being right or left is quite interesting. The entire 70s movement was to liberate universities from extreme capitalism and rigid structures and induce creativity. Today, it is considered too liberal and left wing dominated.

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i think it is a reflection of the world as it is, at the moment. i hope someday that changes.

In the last 20 years, there's only one country who has gone on mass murder, bombing about 20 countries and killing millions of people around the world. This country considers itself a saviour not a terrorist.

wow, I cannot possibly imagine the ecosystem around a computer in 1949, or how slow everything could have been. Even movies were black and white and had no sound. But this was the time scientist and physicist were getting very popular I'd reckon.