really not interested in X‘s next moves or worldcoin or any number of new scams that will bubble up and collapse over the next cycle.

don’t lend legitimacy by interest to these platforms. the signal is #Bitcoin & #Nostr.

Influencers & plebs stuck in outrage/obsession loops will have to learn at their own pace but we’re here building when they’re ready at whatever scale.

freedom tech is stronger.

I never posted the 🫂 emoji until here either lol

Nostr reminds me of something from when I was in High School. I was considered a "jock" in high school. I loved competition so I also pushed myself to be the best in sports. I would always start the year sitting at the "cool kids" table during lunch with teammates and the good looking girls. However, by the end of the year I would always end up sitting at a different table with the "nerds" or "plebs". I never understood why but later in life I came to realize that I must of recognized how fake and empty "the cool kids" table was. It was mostly filled with kids who were lost with conversations that were shallow and empty. The plebs table was more real, they talked about stuff that was interesting and different. It was geniune. To me that is what Nostr is. Twitter is the cool kids table full of a lot of fake and empty interactions. On the hand Nostr is where you go for real and geninune interactions. Maybe this changes when it gets bigger but for now its pretty amazing.

Nostr also reminds me of the early days of the Bitcoin. We use to pitch it as a tool for all. I remember as payment processors would attack groups like Sex Workers and gamblers we would promote freedom money to them. However, the tools were raw and just not good enough yet. It's pretty cool to see it come full circle to a point now we got Nostr+Lightning its an outlet for anyone who might get silenced or oppressed. With marketplaces and other tools coming to Nostr the potential is endless paired with Bitcoin. Gives me the same level excitement I had when I went to my first Bitcoin conference in 2014. I look forward to see what comes from it. I am glad to see you are using it more as the tools get better like with primal being available on the browser. I am also glad to see that you arent just cross posting stuff here but actually sharing things you do not share elsewhere. Appreciate you Lyn 💜

This is so ridiculous 😂

I rarely lose my temper, but whenever I do a couple times per year, my writing gets 10x as much reach and likes and shares, and gets basically immortalized. But I'm rarely happy about it when it does.

I still think about this a lot in terms of how I choose to use social media- with reach comes responsibility.

It's both a bad thing and a good thing. On one hand, it's not great that posts based on a combination of emotion and reason get *way* better reach than ones based on more pure reason alone. For "clicks" the best thing I could do for a given post is lose my temper and go all-out on something.

On the other hand, the rare cases where I lose my temper are based on serious built-up frustrations over months. I'm frustrated about something, keep holding it back, and then something becomes intolerable. My socially-compliant self-censorship all unravels at once, not perfectly, but with a clear aspect of *deep* honesty. And people see that honesty because it reflects their own. So it spreads.

So, most of the time, I write carefully, and I know my audience comes from multiple different backgrounds, literally from Indonesian farmers to Wall Street institutional billionaires, and I try to politely move the Overton window from within the Overton window. But a couple times per year, I lose my temper and post my emotional thoughts, which in some ways are more honest, but are also not exactly my ideal self-actualized self.

I end up being grateful for both my constant attempt at control and my rare tempers, because somewhere in the middle is my truth. That blend between controlled reason and built-up emotion is really hard to manage in an era of digital media and semi-immortalized content.

Anyway, I'll post this random stuff on Nostr, not Twitter. You guys and girls get the real thoughts because you're here.

i was not expecting the ending to go that way either esp when the book felt like it was his journey of finding his way back to her. i think they have a movie on this too.

Basically it's: "Things were going okay for Markon and his family. It was a hard life of subsistence farming and streets filled with filth, and where half of his kids died before ten, but an honest life nonetheless. Those were known as the good times. But then it was as if the gods turned against their people, with a series of decade-long famines and the invasion by the Sea People."

And I'm like, "Cool cool, alright alright alright. This is fine."

I’ve been binging on so many history documentaries.

It’s honestly kind of a mistake to listen to so much at once because it’s all kind of depressing when grouped together so tightly. The harshness of life for a random person for thousands of years in every culture.

Between all the cool invention and discovery there is just an endless variety of war, raids, famine, slavery, serfdom, and torture. =/

💯 nostr:note1yurzqhkf8efz4ky60vqtj9c62xvqf9jxxkvk8280njfqqpmcdm4qza4kcl

Hemingway! The Old Man and The Sea is the best. And he loved Paris. What's your favourite Hemingway book ? And what are you reading right now ?

I've got JFK and the Unspeakable by James Douglass, a Catholic theologian. He took 12 years to write this. Its narrows down to the days leading to his death and how much he pushed for peace, and the reaction of CIA. Leaves you goosebump-ish

I’d say the opposite is true. My blue check destroyed engagement. Then I had my account suspended for two days without reason. Now I can’t get rid of my blue check even though I’m not paying for it. When you run a business on Twitter and rely on organic reach thru damn good content, and this happens, it’s game over. We used to get 1M views overnight. Now we’re lucky if we get 10k views on anything. Elon bought the titanic specifically so he could run it into an iceberg. Twitter can get fucked. Is nostr the answer for people like me? I damn well hope so.

Integrity, the age-old concept that holds immense value in human interactions and reputation. It's interesting how you maintain a dispassionate approach while critiquing platforms and technologies, recognizing that it's the system itself rather than individuals that may be at fault. And when it comes to high-integrity individuals, you're quick to support their successes and give them multiple chances if they stumble along the way.

On the other hand, low-integrity individuals who succeed by dubious means aren't spared from scrutiny. Truth is important when it comes to success, and those who try to achieve it without honesty deserve criticism.

It's refreshing to see someone who believes in maintaining politeness towards others while also acknowledging those with high integrity. Networks are built on trust and support, providing a flexible backing when things go awry and instant promotion when they work well.

Keep up with your principled approach! Integrity truly goes a long way in creating positive connections and promoting truth in this ever-changing world.

New to this platform. Let’s see what it’s all about.

Damus can keep the zap button on the profile but not notes. It is considered “selling digital content” if its on notes 😕

Nikola Jokic is your 2023 NBA Finals MVP 👏