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Phil Mustang
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“Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves, man?”

I remember reading about Ross after his arrest in 2013. I was living an entirely different life then, but still interested in him and his story. It’s wild he’s been locked up all this time. I’m glad he’s out and looking forward to what he does from here when the time comes.

Learning things from James Webb’s book Born Fighting:

“Intellectual analyses of national policy are subject to constant reevaluation by historians as the decades roll by, but duty is a constant, frozen in the context of the moment it is performed.”

I feel like this is a sentiment that guides Darryl Cooper’s work with the Martyrmade podcast

Said it best nostr:note1h6x5asqyvxswv586z97453es32xqtcgzsaps88de7afsx4al9tjqucvysm

Sur les paves, le plage

Doing a little frost grounding

Replying to Avatar walker

Back by popular demand, nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs and nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf are joining me on nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8 tomorrow for a post-inauguration rip.

The conversation will be streamed LIVE for #NostrOnly on zap.stream at 2PM PST/4PM CST/5PM EST.

It’s been a pretty quiet weekend but let us know if you have any topics you want us to get into…

For those that can’t make the live stream, it’ll be available on the usual channels later: https://bitcoinpodcast.net/podcast

The only takes I’ll be listening to tomorrow

If you’re looking to set up a wallet and send/receive zaps, Primal makes it pretty easy. Not anonymous, but worth checking out.

Other than that I’d just look around, comment and like stuff. Looks like you’re following quite a number of people already so your feed should be popping

Also welcome

In case you needed something other than Trumpcoin to think about

Consider Mike Reid

6’3”

255 lbs

Played for the Cincinnati Bengals for 5 seasons and got a couple trips to the Pro Bowl in the 70s

Quit and became a country music songwriter and wrote Bonnie Raitt’s hit “I Can’t Make You Love Me”

That song starts out with the following couplet:

“Turn down the lights/turn down the bed/turn down these voices inside my head”

Big man, very smooth

GM

Nice to look at Solana up whatever 15% in a day, think “huh, I wonder what that’s about,” then just go on ignoring shitcoins again

Also, the Fed buying Treasuries directly is the macroeconomic equivalent of autofellatio. Very grotesque

A couple highlights for me from the Sam Callahan (couldn’t find his npub for some reason) and nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a piece “Full Steam Ahead”

“…these deficits are no longer a matter of choice but a byproduct of systemic obligations” I’m always looking for easy ways to encapsulate the spending issues the US faces so I can talk with people like my mom about it; this is great for that

“Higher rates strain government finances and worsen deficits, while lower rates invite inflationary pressures and fiscal complacency” just a succinct description of the rock and the hard place American finances are in

Just glad I found Bitcoin, man

Being situated at a slight remove from the news gives you as useful of a perspective as you would have if you were 100% jacked into the news, mainlining info all day long. It lets you see the gestalts. And being at a slight remove is more attainable and healthier for most people.

Replying to Avatar HoloKat

To create the iPhone, Apple took existing technologies like touch displays and improved on the user experience with multi-touch gestures. This effectively forced all keyboard based phones to change their approach or go extinct.

Steve Jobs quoted Wayne Gretzky in the iPhone reveal - “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been”

Where is the puck going for social?

Is it the same old firehose of information that aims to maximize time on screen and ad revenue?

Is it control by a corporation that bends knee to the current administration and decides who and when they can deplatform someone for arbitrary reasons?

Is it more of the same walled garden, do anything possible to keep you on our platform?

Me thinks not. Nostr and some variation / improvement we have yet to discover is where the puck is going. We’re kind of already there. We have portable identities, a decentralized network, flexible development, no censorship, personalized feeds / algorithms, value based metrics and less emphasis on vanity metrics.

What also made the iPhone powerful is the fusion of hardware and software created specifically for that hardware. The App Store set a new path that didn’t involve pre-installed software. Nostr doesn’t have dedicated hardware yet, but it may get somewhat of a dedicated “os” with nostrdb. What new UX might that unlock? I’m excited to see.

Where else might the puck end up? VR? AR? Dedicated hardware? A totally new UX and UI? We already have interesting designs in the process for zapping people. What might new value-driven interactions look like? I’m certain we have the beginnings of something amazing, and that no other tech comes close. We have a massive first mover advantage now and I’m excited to see how things unfold.

Thank you for utilizing the oft-neglected “methinks”