They have collaborated with government agencies on several occasions.

Privacy isn’t under attack. You’re just being paranoid. 🙄

Yes, and he also said that he will never change constitution, that he will never got for the third presidential term, that he won't invade Ukraine, that he won't annex any lands etc etc 😆

Build over their shit rules, there are not yours rules. Fuck them all.

Reticulum and similar things I suppose. Give them nothing.

A new set of plumbing has been built for the internet.

Nostr provides sovereign identity and communication.

Bitcoin provides sovereign value transfer.

Together, they enable people to be paid directly for the information they produce.

Fanfares adds to the system by turning information into digital property. Not through platforms or copyright, but through encryption and payment.

When value flows through a sovereign hyperlink, information becomes property by choice and meaning becomes economically grounded.

This is a system:

where discovery is value-aligned

where curation becomes labour

where noise is punished

where deep content earns

where attention becomes intentional

where platforms become obsolete.

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So I called my dentist today to cancel my appointment. Same day, I know, I know, I’m a monster.

Receptionist: “I’m sorry, but we require at least two weeks notice for cancellations or we have to charge you the full fee.”

Me: “Oh… well in that case, I’d like to reschedule instead.”

Receptionist: “Of course! When would you like to come in?”

Me: “How about… two weeks from today?”

Receptionist: “Perfect! You’re all set for two weeks from today”

Me: “Great! Now I’d like to cancel that appointment.”

{Very Long Pause}

Receptionist: “…Sir, you literally just made it.”

Me: “Yes, but now I’m giving you two weeks notice.”

And THAT, my friends, is how you beat the system with the power of scheduling. Pretty sure I just became the first person to achieve dental appointment money laundering.

Last #Bitcoin dip before $1M. Prepare accordingly.

Gm.

What’s your favorite movie made in the past five years?

Gm.

What’s your favorite movie made in the past five years?

What if quantum mechanics could impact the macro-scale world, such as in Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment? And someone wrote a thriller about it?

Anyway, here's a brief non-spoiler review of Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. A book popular enough to get a TV adaptation.

Dark Matter is a thriller about the many-worlds hypothesis, ie that the universe continually branches into a multiverse of all things that could happen, as they do indeed happen in different simultaneous timelines. In this case, technology allows a man to move across those timelines, with various ramifications that follow.

The writing/prose quality was great. No complaints. And it was a page-turner for sure, as any good thriller is supposed to be.

Characters were mostly solid. A handful of character decisions/arcs seemed wasted/unfulfilled (a therapist character in particular), but I have no major complaints.

In terms of plot, I liked the premise and the first two thirds. The final third kind of lost me. I won't go into spoilers but basically there's a twist that, while I like it on the surface, was handled in a way that came off as sillier than was probably intended. And a conflict that could have been tighter and more personal was expanded beyond what it needed to be.

Admittedly, pure thrillers generally aren't my favorite genre, since I like a bit more meat on the bones to think about afterward versus a book that optimizes for constant non-stop tension. I don't like ultra-long series that drag things out unnecessarily, but I do like sufficient length and thematic complexity beyond what most thrillers offer. A sci-fi thriller can potentially hit a sweet spot, but from reading two Crouch books so far, I generally deviate from his vision in the final third; not a big fan of how he's tended to land things in the end, and yet paradoxically I would be happy to give like 20% more page time as a reader if it would help flesh them out more (whereas publishers are generally like "no, gotta tighten that word count up for a thriller".

I did enjoy the reading experience, overall. I'd say it was a 4/5 in-the-moment experience for me, but drops to 3.5/5 in terms of long-term impact and thoughtfulness. If I was more a fan of the thriller genre I'd probably keep it in the 4+ range.

True, or course there’s some risk. It could also happen the other way around, sign first buyer pays after— either way the buyer and seller need to trust each other. Otherwise we have the fiat system to fall back on, but then there are more taxes, more fees, and more headaches involved.

We did the same thing when we bought the place- came to an agreement with the previous owner, paid cash directly to them and then went to the notaire to do the official stuff. And on the acte de vente we listed a much lower price and therefore paid almost nothing in fees (less than 500€ total).

So yeah, it’s possible but definitely requires trust in the two parties. If buyer prefers to pay taxes/fees involved in return for greater security via notaire, then payment could also be in fiat. But it will end up costing them more.

On signera une acte de vente. Le paiement en Bitcoin sea effectué entre deux particuliers, mais les frais notaires devra être réglé en Euro chez le notaire. Une foie tout est réglé on signera l’acte de propriété.

Moving out of the city will save you A LOT of money

No fast food

No temptation

No laser tag

No sports events

No $11 beer

Affordable house

And you don't have to deal with dip shits everywhere

It's been 3 years out here for me and I haven't spent 1 second regretting it

Because Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme that will hit a brick wall soon and will totally destroy most folks' wealth and they will laugh all the way to the bank with the gold you sell for fake value. Bitcoin is not private, and is accepted by the most evil people now...the very reason the whole crypto thing was started, to end the fed. So if you want Privacy where it is the only crypto that can't be hacked by the NSA, then consider the Monero way....totally private AND morally right. They have a big nerdy programmer following that fixes things FAST because they are on a mission. Etherium has no real programmer support, just a copy and pasted java script that is hackable. I am amazed that so few consider the building blocks and the moral of a coin...just the advertising and promotion levels. Research the reasons for Monero and you will find that it can be very cheep to move around or HODL if you believe in something.

"Sam Altman is the guy who's making the Worldcoin ORB scanning bot, and you are putting your deepest darkest secrets into his fucking chat app. Stop being retarded." — nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpr9mhxue69uhhxetwv35hgtnwdaekvmrpwfjjucm0d5q3samnwvaz7tmswfjk66t4d5h8qunfd4skctnwv46qz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshgjtu6

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