GM Nostr!

What are the next usecases for Nostr?

What industries will adopt #Lightning the soonest?

Where should Albee buzzzzz? 😉

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GM Nostr!

What are the next usecases for Nostr?

What industries will adopt #Lightning the soonest?

Where should Albee buzzzzz? 😉

🐝🐝🐝🐝(zapping each valid comment!)🐝🐝🐝🐝

Good morning #nostr. ☀️🫂

On September 11, 2001, I was living less than 7 miles away from the site of the horrifying attacks on the World Trade Center. I didn’t see or hear it happen, and wasn’t watching TV that morning, so I was informed by a phone call. One of the two planes had flown directly over my home and I didn’t even realize it.

I spent the next month in a state of shock and confusion, glued to cable news, radio, and the internet. Real-time online news at the time barely existed, so information moved at a different speed than it does today. The 24-hour networks didn’t know how to respond, so they just kept airing the same clips over and over again with non commercial breaks. There was so much bad reporting, and people taking advantage of the situation to intentionally spread misinformation and disinformation. Our governments were complicit in this, of course. We saw it happen right before our eyes just a couple of years later with the relentless march to invade an uninvolved country with an entirely fabricated reason. And yet we somehow accepted it as a nation and as a world, because we were conditioned to out of fear. I couldn’t believe others didn’t see what I saw, and realized just how easily people around me had been manipulated.

We were constantly reminded to say, “Never forget.” to honor those who died in the attacks on our country. I won’t, and I can’t. I lived through it all. But we should also #NeverForget how 22 years ago, we gave up our privacy and civil liberties, started a generation-long war, and accepted an ever-expanding surveillance state that was once only the domain of dystopian science fiction.

Finally, in this timeline, the technologies and tools have been built and handed to us that could begin to turn the tide against all of these abuses of power. I only hope enough of us use them to matter.

What is the earliest mention of Nostr in a printed book?

Broken Money mentioned Nostr and was published in August 2023. I assume some other printed books must have at least mentioned it within the year prior to that? nostr:note1u7hfudn3j0rft2uv2ae7a9dlw33pcrjtu7cp7g7u9edpcp87e3jsy5z4uk

The terrorist attacks against America comprise a horrible tragedy. But they shouldn't be a surprise.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth – that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda. But sanity was a prior casualty: it was the loss of sanity that led to war in the first place.

Our foreign policy has been insane for decades. It was only a matter of time until Americans would have to suffer personally for it. It is a terrible tragedy of life that the innocent so often have to suffer for the sins of the guilty.

When will we learn that we can't allow our politicians to bully the world without someone bullying back eventually?

President Bush has authorized continued bombing of innocent people in Iraq. President Clinton bombed innocent people in the Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Serbia. President Bush Senior invaded Iraq and Panama. President Reagan bombed innocent people in Libya and invaded Grenada. And on and on it goes.

Did we think the people who lost their families and friends and property in all that destruction would love America for what happened?

When will we learn that violence always begets violence?

Losing our Last Freedoms

And now, as sure as night follows day, we will be told we must give up more of our freedoms to avenge what never should have happened in the first place.

When will we learn that it makes no sense to give up our freedoms in the name of freedom?

Teaching Lessons

Supposedly, Reagan bombed Libya to teach Muammar al-Qaddafi a lesson about terrorism. But shortly thereafter a PanAm plane was destroyed over Scotland, and our government tried to convince the world it was Libyans who did it.

When will we learn that "teaching someone a lesson" never teaches anything but resentment – that it only inspires the recipient to greater acts of defiance.

How many times on Tuesday did we hear someone describe the terrorist attacks as "cowardly acts"? But as misguided and despicable as they were, they were anything but cowardly. The people who committed them knowingly gave their lives for whatever stupid beliefs they held.

But what about the American presidents who order bombings of innocent people – while the presidents remain completely insulated from any danger? What would you call their acts?

When will we learn that forsaking truth and reason in the heat of battle almost always assures that we will lose the battle?

Anyone got any good book recommendations from the past 12 months?