One of the best answers I ever heard about #Bitcoin was someone who asked a hardcore bitcoiner, “You only talk about all of these great benefits, but what is the worst thing about Bitcoin?”

His answer was, “It’s going to grant all those same freedoms and benefits to the person who you hate most in the world. And there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Ironically, that’s what most people can’t give up. They can’t let go of the statist temptation of arbitrarily punishing people they don’t like, or are afraid of. nostr:note1wxevegymwd4vscqu3urkqsx4qsuma9qphkdhk9amru3pdr77fjxsdsc0xr

What type censorship are you talking about ? there are many type of censorship . i give you example . Military censorship ( restricting information for national security such as war time communication or classified leak) , Economic censorship ( limiting speech or access due to financial pressure , like paywall or supressing content that threatens economic interest ) , Alghoritmic Censorship ( automated system or supressing content based on opaque criteria often digital platform ) , Political censorship ( suppress of dissenting political views )

now which one in Turkey you talking about ?

Went shopping at Target today and took a moment to look at the book section.

The adult fiction section was like 85% romance (including romantasy), 14% thriller, and then Wind and Truth.

a half-baked thesis on stablecoins, v0.1 for public beta:

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new fella at our meetup last night.

never used lightning and didnt have bitcoin but had Dogecoin on coinbase... lol

he converted some to bitcoin and sent it over to a lightning wallet.

we did some sending and receiving and he liked it.

I live for this kinda stuff.

LFG

With AIs creating their models of the world primarily by reading text online, there's never been a more critical time to write than it is today.

This is an idea I've heard in a recent interview with Gwern and it's been reverberating in me ever since. Think about anything you care about, anything that's good or bad, anything of value to you. If it doesn't exist online, it basically doesn't exist at all for the AIs. That also means that your writings might be part of the training data of future AIs. By publishing your thoughts, you can become a tiny part of latent space tilting the self-reflection of the world in a direction you want to.

With AIs creating their models of the world primarily by reading text online, there's never been a more critical time to write than it is today.

This is an idea I've heard in a recent interview with Gwern and it's been reverberating in me ever since. Think about anything you care about, anything that's good or bad, anything of value to you. If it doesn't exist online, it basically doesn't exist at all for the AIs. That also means that your writings might be part of the training data of future AIs. By publishing your thoughts, you can become a tiny part of latent space tilting the self-reflection of the world in a direction you want to.

i don’t care how many people use nostr.

i care that this is the one place that will always be there for me to broadcast to the world.