That's cool! Jay is a great person and his music is evocative, pulling you into his melodic story. I hope you will have opportunity to continue with your music.🙂

I made another video with Jay's music plus my wife's art. She is nostr:nprofile1qqs8gfmlmdf7lm2jevwa7ynft85nmnvkl5y0k0kygmuu9vl4xnpadvcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvuhsycpxuh on here.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aaVlXVVF64o

Thanks!🙏

The video below is a meditative journey I created using the piano music of Nostr user and composer nostr:nprofile1qqsf8dgkhjtzdlpskceavdulqc35tu00gvcs0nk350rs62v2rvceskcpzfmhxue69uhkummnw3ezua3sdshxjmcpr9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezu7n9vfjkget99e3kcmm4vsq3jamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwdskuerhd93kstnxv9ex6g973jl together with my art.

I made the artwork during covid when borders were closed in Norway and I longed for a vacation from work and the authoritarian measures.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ptSmpBownz4

Well said. Eaerned a follow!

Gallery update.

Citadel Islands X, 2021.

No AI.

Gallery update.

Citadel Islands IX, 2021.

No AI.

Citadel Islands IX - X, 2021.

Seasteading liberty art. No AI.

My portfolio:

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Yes, it certainly helps the process of free speech and error correction, which in turn help fixing misinformation!

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Me and my wife lived in Norway in 2020 and we saw how the social climate changed. I'm Swedish and she is Polish by the way.

When I talked to union representatives at my workplace, they showed no concerns about masking regulations or experimental vaccines. I was not a member of the union but they absolutely were not able to sell me the idea of joining them. Most colleagues would give me a skeptical look when they learned that I had not taken the mRNA injection.

One colleage was sent to hospital after he had heart arrhythmia, which culminated 2 weeks after his second Covid shot. He had never been sick from work in his life before this. At the hospital they restarted his heart and told him it was a normal procedure. He said to me afterward that he would not have any more injections.

I also learned that the Norwegian military had knocked on cabin houses (hytter) in the mountains and forced/coerced the residents to move back to the cities during Covid. This made zero sense and it was apparent that the authorities were not afraid of Covid at all. It was a spectacle with deeper, authoritarian motives.

Even worse, the authorities had abolished individual property rights with this pointless exercise. The authorities claimed that the local infrastructure in the mountains could not support people getting sick, while ignoring the rights of citizens to use their property as they deem fit when they needed it. They were voluntarily social distancing in the bloody mountains! Norwegians know very well how to fish, hunt and hike in the mountains.

If you can't access your own mountain cabin in a situation where you believe you and your family are in danger, then what is the point of calling it private property in the first place. Of course Covid was not particularly dangerous, but the citizens had all the right in the world to use their own damn cabins. It made me furious to debate this with colleagues at work who sheepishly supported the government overreach.

Then by autumn of 2021, several cities in Norway announced Corona Passports. My wife knew the spouse of a bus-driver and the drivers had been asked to demand corona passports on busses, but the bus-drivers had flatly rejected this suggestion, honorably. When Corona Passports were announced we were worried that we would be shut out of society as unvaccinated. I would rather lose my job than to inject the harmful spike protein. My wife's brother in Poland were told to either take the mRNA injection or lose his job. He took two shots iirc. Luckily he has been fine so far.

As soon as the Norwegian borders opened up, me and my wife left Norway, only to hear that Russia and Ukraine were suddenly at war just as we were leaving. Now there is a risk of Poland going to war in the coming years and we might end up with closed borders again.

When the war started my immediate reaction was that this was a continuation of the Covid authoritarianism, under a new excuse and banner. Several individuals in Poland who have questioned the war with Russia have been imprisoned. In Sweden, people working in critical infrastructure are disallowed from leaving Sweden or switching jobs, since last year, due to war preparedness plans. There have been motions from the EU to classify individuals as dangerous anti-European traitors based on their opinion of wanting to end the war with Russia.

Owning Bitcoin and having access to Nostr has been a great source of security during these times. I hope that Europe can recover over time and pull itself out of authoritarianism, yet the risks of war escalation are present. Borders can be shut at any time.

Interesting question.

Disinformation is most dangerous in the hands of political institutions, with a power motive as well as ideological motives.

Totalitarian systems degenerate toward misinformation because the mechanisms of error-correction are hindered and even dismantled. If the chances for error-correction and control groups are eliminated, we can expect group think and extremism (imbalance) in some direction or other.

If I want a robust information system with a chance to self-correct, I would always opt for millions of sovereign individuals pursuing their own conclusions to the best of their ability, with a right to speak up and criticize injustices, problems or concerns.

They can individually be wrong but they have no power to force a bad idea upon other people.

Since we can't know the future or access all relevant data points, or even always agree on interpretation, the safest system to promote error-correction is via a free exchange of ideas.

Our conclusions are based on attempts at judging probability. Just as our probability assumptions can be incorrect, a fact checker is no less impacted by both ideological bias, funding bias and errors.

I think there is no alternative but to embrace individual liberties, both because it is morally wrong to prevent individuals from voicing concerns and also because we benefit from having all possibilities examined.

I view for example groups like the Amish as a valuable control group that we can compare ourselves with and evaluate how our lives differ from theirs and what the reasons may be. Control groups that follow beliefs that we don't share can end up being right on some matter that we have misunderstood.

I was following Vance but don't know much about the man. I found at least a couple of positive statements from him on Twitter, but didn't find much related to Bitcoin. At least he was/is against the vaccine mandates.

🙏 Twitter was helping against my verbosity for a while and now I am slipping back to longwinded posts.😄

Thank you, and fair enough. I will always welcome dark money solutions, both on Bitcoin L2-L3 and in other forms such as Monero. I don't use Monero personally but I oppose any government attacks against it.

In a free market everyone must be free to use dark money as their money of choice. Cash is historically dark money and I support people using any tools of preference in order to preserve their property rights.

Bitcoin functioning as a neutral, global store of value that cannot be controlled by nation states will benefit Monero indirectly, as Monero cannot be exchanged for CBDCs but can be traded for Bitcoin. There is a potential for mutual benefit.

I wrote a text on the game theory of AML regulatioms + tainted coins, and why AML and taint regulations will fail.

Ironically, they will fail *quicker* the more coins are tainted, due to market dynamics:

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I think the main risk of authoritarianism in Trump is in considering the result of 8 years of demonization of him as well as the false litigations.

I hope that he will be able to overcome the totalitarianism of the political left and not stoop down to their bottomless pit.

He needs a strong libertarian VP that forces him to focus on liberty for all, justice, property rights and individual liberties. With the right VP, who is willing to critique Trump when he is in the wrong, I thjnk we can avoid worst case scenarios.

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First we need to define what a free market means. John Locke laid the foundation in 1690 in his Two Treatises of Government, by deducing that every person is born free, own themselves and the fruits of their labor.

This effectively renders slavery impossible - when we agree that in order to protect our own property rights, we also cannot own another person and the fruits of their labor.

Following first principles, we can then deduce from Locke's groundwork that coercion is wrong, theft is a crime and that abuse and exploitation are abominable, since every person owns themselves and must be engaged with informed consent.

A few principles that would characterize a genuine free market:

1. No central banks

2. No government moneyprinting

3. Competition in money

4. Full property rights for all

5. Free speech

6. No AML/KYC regulations

A free market is the emergent process of adult free agency and voluntary exchange where the use of force and coercion is absent.

A free market is a process of decentralized decisionmaking, where free agents interact and must convince one another toward interactions that leave both parties better off. As Aristotle noted, a trade will only occur when both parties are in agreement. We can deduce from this that if there is no consent there is no free market.

Back to John Locke, who laid the philosophical foundation for the anti-slavery movement in 1690.

Since you own yourself, your mind, body and the fruits of your labor, you must also own the monetary reward for your work.

If you own the income from your work, then you must be free to spend and transact as you deem fit, without needing a permission. I.e. - a free market.

A third party permission can be withdrawn and render your money unusable, which is why it is incompatible with the principle of owning the fruits of your labor. We can deduce from this that AML regulations are, ipso facto, an abolition of property rights.

For a free market to work there must be competition in money, so that individuals can choose the form of money and that their income cannot be stolen via moneyprinting/inflation. As we have already established, theft is a violation of property rights which leaves us with the conclusion that moneyprinting is incompatible with a free market.

Since owning yourself also means the liberty to express yourself - without harming the individual rights of others - speech must be free. Boundaries to free speech involve for example incitement toward physically harming other individuals, i.e. abolishing their individual rights.

A free market also depends on free speech since consumers must be able to boycot bad products and services as well as report and warn the public of incompetence, lacking service or quality, harmful practices, poor management and mistreatment of staff. Only via free communication can a market be free and individual decisionmaking can be informed by facts of reality and the ethical judgement of individuals voting with their wallets and feet.

Without free speech there can be no error-correction. From a programming perspective this is a deep can of worms: when errors compound without fixing, a complex code will inevitably spiral out of hand.

Not only does this lead to harmful outcomes but it also leads to completely unpredictable results that will undermine any attempt to objectively analyze data and draw informed conclusions. As the effects of un-fixed errors snowball, a system becomes increasingly unstable and destructive, ripe for the risks of a deepening dictatorship.

Overview of the logical outcomes of central planning, central banks and moneyprinting:

1. Governments + central banks create money from nothing.

2. The newly created money enters the economy via government spending, as well as from fractional reserve lending, and flow into real estate, assets, commodities, etc causing bubbles exploited by insiders and cantillionaires.

3. Price inflation, costs of living and house prices continuously go up as a result of moneyprintin, taxes, regulatioms and subsidies, while government debt increase.

4. Workers need higher wages due to the increasing costs of living.

5. Small businesses can't afford to pay higher wages plus increased costs of rent and must either close down, sell their business or move further away from city centers, thus losing revenue and allowing large corporations to eat up their market share.

6. Large corporations are incentivized to merge with government and acclimatize their protocols toward government ideology in order to access subsidies, tax reductions and to escape costly regulations. The more the regulations, the more government and corporations can be expected to become entangled and merged. This is how the process of corporatism is worsened, year by year.

7. The government uses major corporations for surveillance and ideological indoctrination against its employees and may pressure corporations to demand unsolicited medical treatment and/or injections for its staff.

We saw this during Covid when, in many workplaces, an experimental mRNA was announced to be required in order to keep your job. This was an effect of government regulations and threats of costs and fines imposed for non-compliance.

As the free market competition is strangled by the government rigging the markets, employees have increasing difficulties finding jobs that don't involve government surveillance, ideological conformity and mandatory medical procedures.

8. Workers are replaced by robots as inflation escalates and the costs of living drive up wages, while companies are incentivized to invest in machinery and robots rather than costly human staff. Unions threatening with strikes makes unionized employees less reliable and more risky for production and expanded regulations impose additonal costs for workers. The government can basically increase costly regulations to infinity in order to corporatise the market and centrally plan it via regulatory nudges.

9. As workers are replaced by robots, large segments of the population become dependent on government tax money redistribution + moneyprinting. We can expect that the conditions involved for receiving a UBI check will involve unpaid labor and/or compliance with government ideology.

As a result of ideological obedience, error-correction is undermined and without critical voices opposing the regulations the complex fabric of societal code spirals downward toward unrestricted central planning.

This is the 1984 dystopia we want to avoid, plagued by central planning tools such as CBDCs, carbon allowances, ESG, DEI, energy rationing, censorship, surveillance and social credit scores.

Bitcoin is necessary to empower individual liberties, property rights, competition, free speech and enable the process of free markets and decentralized decisionmaking (individual sovereign judgement) to restore liberties and counteract the increasing centralization of power.

Bitcoin is anti-1984 technology.

Yup.

I've been saying for some time that Trump needs a libertarian, anti-globalist VP.

If his vice president is *more* libertarian than he is, then the deep state has nothing to win by assassinating him.

Any politician who takes a stand against CBDCs will be a target for the deep state.

It usually takes a few weeks until the information emerges so I tend to keep that in mind.

There is always the risk of deep state misinformation to spread false leads.

Might be him, might not be him.

So you are a sexual predator?

If I can type it, it must be true in your book.

The old Left vs the modern Left.

#Meme #Memes

Fight tyranny.

Liberty for all.

CBDCs belong in Hell.

UN Agenda 21 is an operative system for tyranny.

Trump has been vocal about abolishing CBDCs and recently even turning around to support Bitcoin.

The deep state in most western countries are 100% against Trump since 8 years back, which has been demonstrated by the constant demonization, lies and gaslighting. Having observed this propaganda in Swedish and Norwegian media has demonstrated how global and coordinated this deep state operation has been.

CBDCs are essential for the totalitarian UN Agenda 21 and its next milestone Agenda 2030.

ESG, DEI, carbon allowances, Net Zero, energy rationing and social credit scores will all be easier to implement when CBDCs are in place.

Tyranny requires CBDCs, which is why tyrants hate Bitcoin. The deep state is in absolute conflict with any candidate that opposes CBDCs.