If you still love independent, garage band rock, check out nostr:npub1mm0eraw9am3l8pjwas6t9r7fn34ge3zty5yg3n856rvds485342qlqnm32
who offers a continual stream of Amazing suggestions for Japanese artists who have taken the mantle of accomplished musicianship and are pushing it forward.
chowcollection has single handedly helped me realize that the future of Independent music has long fled the UK and America, where it was bred when I was born.
Happy White Paper Day Bitcoiners!
I got nothing special, but in a pinch, because its a special day for mask wearing, I’ll refer to the greatest mask-wearing country ever, the Bhutanese.
Who decades ago, made what were arguably the first NFT’s.
Bhutan recognized that Western people were collecting postage stamps, and since a country could create postage stamps for almost free…and people would buy them and never actually USE them…Bhutan creates the PENULTIMATE postage stamps (with masks, of course).
And they NFT’d and it was beautiful. I have some, and they’re plebian works of art.
Bhutan was thinking sats when every other country was thinking fiat $Dollars.
(in 3D, for the record) 
Context for Westerners:
“Over the past 20 years Halloween has become its own unique thing in Japan, which I believe comes down to cultural traditions and norms. For example…taking your kids to strangers homes or apartments and demanding candy? Well, that doesn't go over too well in Japan.
[…]
Japanese businesses realized that there is a lot of money to be made in Halloween. And, before the pandemic, the holiday was bringing in billions of yen. So municipal governments followed the money and positioned themselves as “Halloween friendly.” Shibuya Mayor Ken Hasebe was one of those touting Halloween but this year he's telling everyone to take the party elsewhere, not on the streets of Shibuya, where it's become a bit of a new tradition. One reason he wants people to stay away is safety. And he cites last year's Halloween crush in Seoul that killed 159 people as an example.”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/podcast/2023/10/26/deep-dive/halloween-tokyo-seoul/
Better late than never! nostr:note15xq86te0jwuelpqwdrjtrq2k0ru74cs0gvf56rwg0ps3n5xaxtcqdsha3l
Aaaand there it goes….
The Great Unraveling is in full swing now.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2023/10/31/economy/boj-policy-decision-yields/
For the first time since the 2021 peak, more ESG-themed funds closed last quarter than were launched.
On a separate note, how is the WEF still a thing?
It’s the eternal fud, isn’t it?
“Bitcoin is a scam, a ponzi, it’s not real.”
“Bitcoin will get hacked.”
“Bitcoin will get shut down by the Government.”
“Bitcoin is just fake internet money for basement-dwellers.”
I’ve certainly been there.
Still, every bull market brings exponentially greater legitimacy I suppose…
4 barely 20-somethings performed for barely 5 years and changed music forever.
Taylor Swift is an after-thought of what Cass Elliot left in history.
The term “terrorism” is whitewashed.
The 1500’s account by Cabeza de Vaca talked about how
Spaniards in early Americas would encounter an indigenous village and would immediately sic dogs on the oldest female in the village.
Imagine that for only a second or two.
They did this solely to “terrorize” people who had no idea they even existed an hour ago.
Terrorism is human psychopathy. And it’s real, it’s valid, it’s not something “other people” do, it’s an adopted mode of warfare by Sociopaths who need warfare.
Normal people don’t fight, don’t kill, don’t “terrorize” each other.
This is critical going forward.
“Killing” other people is not something any of us want to do.
It’s something we’re pushed to do by Sociopaths/Psychopaths..
Hey Bitcoiners!
I love talking about price.
But that’s all done.
Price is fiat, price is meta, price is how yellow feels if he had a good shit in the morning…
Price is wonking about technical data.
Price is delving into Central Bank bizzy bizzy.
Super A+ Wonderful!!!!
But here’s the deal.
There is everything we’ve grown up learning is money….
…and it’s all fake/illusion/rug-pull…
…and now we have Bitcoin.
Stop.
Breathe.
And know that you are all right.
The future is decided.
You can just relax, care for you and yours.
The hard work has been done, respect yourself, respect the future.
The typical “End Times” religions have seen rising demographics/adherents in the past decade or more, including major (very elderly) leaders in Congress.
“The Rapture” is a made-up storyline, no different to Harry Potter, but many old people have been captured by it. Nothing in the Bible ever spoke about it (it was made up in the late-1800’s by a fringe sect of Christianity.)
Yet many very old people very much in charge and very unaligned with modern society are very, very convinced that all that bullshit is real. They are us, believing what we were taught was real 20 years ago but was fake-news.
The 4th Turning is turning out to be a valid template for what will happen over the next 5 years.
End-Times Zealots are real, old, in charge and very focused on sacrificing young people for their imaginary cause.
If you don’t recognize them, that the point.
Bless you and your children!
Appreciate what you all have done for us!
Atlas Shrugged is a grown-ups Harry Potter.
Mid-20’th Century infantilism philosophy.
Worth reading when you’re in your 20’s, but if you’re reading Ayn Rand in your 40’s you’ve missed a ton of learning.
This.
Corporations will carry Bitcoin into what we like to call HyperBitcoinization.
Because they have to.
Whether your gramma uses Bitcoin is inconsequential.
Whether your insurance company, your electrical utility, your gas station uses Bitcoin is fundamental.
And none of them will do so if they have to be early adopters.
They’ll do so at a far, far higher dollar-value when they know it’s “allowed”.
This is the front-lines of the War on Bitcoin.
The people who control the narrative and the printer DO NOT want to let your local dry-cleaner accept Bitcoin.
So yes, this FASB ruling is game-changing, its everything minus a bit. It’s $400,000 Bitcoin today, at today’s inflation value.
The ETF is fun, but unnecessary. nostr:note1f42d0ads324mvz3s926suly7qs9xj35m289z3jdmh29n74lv56yswrwq2l
What a joke. So twitter is going to allow financial trading? No.
Twitter is going to give commercial and residential loans? No.
Twitter is going to allow cross-border payments in differing currencies? No.
This press release is laughable.
Twitter wants to be Paypal, nothing more. And we’ve all seen where that went.
Eat ze bugz isn’t just a fun meme, its coming.
“Bill Gates, who has invested in range of ‘synthetic meat’ startups including Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat, Memphis Meats and Hampton Creek Foods… says using regulation to force a shift to synthetic meat is only one of a wide range of government policies that will ultimately be needed to avoid a climate disaster.”
Tyson Foods (Arkansas) to build new ‘insect protein’ plant:
I appreciate you. Seriously.
When I first came to Nostr you were a constant feed, and I liked your posts, and was overwhelmed by how constant you were on this new platform. So I “liked” you.
And as time went on over many months, you kept being a pole-star in my timeline, and honestly, I appreciated your posts, appreciated you, so now you’ve become a very respected, very familiar favorite of mine on Nostr.
So I guess my point is: I don’t know who you are and we’ll never meet ever, but I’d like to express that I very much appreciate who you are on this platform.
I didn’t know you until I joined Nostr about a year ago, but I’ve always appreciated having “friended” you a long time back.
I’m not a perv.
I’m an artist, so I tend to be uncomfortably honest.
Anyway.
There it is.
That’s that.
I appreciate so, so much that you embraced Nostr whole-Heartedly, when I did and when very few other people did.
Whatever Nostr was/is/become you were a constant for me and many others at it’s birth.
And I want to honor that because I was there.
Good theatre is better than the greatest movie you’ve ever seen.
Most live theatre is mediocre, I get it, I walk out all the time at intermission.
But real theatre, non-musical bullshit…when it’s good, it transforms you. You are left a smiling or a blubbering mass in the audience, you live with it for days after.
I’ve been a theatrical artist my whole life, so I’m very comfortable with how much effort it takes to envision, create, embody and then let go and forget all the work it took to create artistic beauty. The whole point of live theatre is that it only changes lives when it’s live.
And so many countless unknowable moments of life-changing theatre have come and gone in history. Literally 1000’s of years.
Theatre is more life-changing and ephemeral than the secondary arts by far, yet forgotten because ‘you had to be there’.
Go see live theatre. Yes, it’s expensive. Yes, most of it is meh. We actually live in the nadir of live theatre…nothing that isn’t a famous musical, a former film or just click-bait pablum is being produced. Which is sad, because there is a tsunami of creativity in playwriting that has happened over the past 20 years that few know about or are experiencing.
When you see that one performance that eclipses everything you’ve ever experienced in a live performance. When you leave the theatre unable to shake-off what you’ve just sat through, when you want to discuss what you just experienced that evening again and again with the person you were with.
When that happens, you’re hooked. You need that again and again. “Movies” will be broken for you.
Also, tl;dr: most people who call themselves Artists don’t actually understand the fundamental need for Artists to be forgotten. ‘Ancient’ artists never signed their works. Today, all artists want to become a brand before they actually become art-worthy. The archetype of the Artist should always seek to be forgotten.
That’s a discussion for another time, I suppose.