War sucks. Defund the state. Study #bitcoin 🧡. F Putin. F Zelenskyy! F politicians!

In five years of going to bitcoin conferences, I’ve literally never had a truly bad experience with someone. People who fly out to be at places are almost always reasonable.

To put this in context, I’ve had thousands of brief meetups over the years and nothing truly bad happened even once. The worst outcome was I had someone be slightly awkwardly clingy a few times, but nothing worse. So this is a 99.9% social uptime situation, and even the 0.1% is still okay.

I am kind of at the top end of the gray zone of security. Super-celebs have security teams and don’t walk around on the conference floor. I do personally walk around the place by myself (which yes is a friction as I get dozens of interactions and photo requests and such), and when offered security by the conference to get out, I turn it down since I find it very hectic but manageable and worth it.

People who are negative (and usually anon) online tend to either not go to these events or don’t show their face if they are there. That seems on brand. No skin in the game.

This is a positive space, and I think we’re going to win.

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How to increase your chances of being followed on nostr:

Tldr; don’t look like a bot

- Have a filled out profile (profile image, bio that’s not fake)

- Post an intro note

- Be active, engage with other notes

- Be geniuine, no one likes fakes

- Post notes and not just boost stuff

- Have something thoughtful to say, or funny, or anything that’s not insulting.

- Stick around, takes time to get noticed

- Share things about yourself

How to decrease your odds of being followed: Exact opposite of what i just said.

It has become so weird that the US Right supports Israel’s war on Palestine while the US Left supports Ukraine’s defense against Russia.

Political sides dig in. The wars become associated with culture.

There is so little voice today from those who oppose aggression. Those who support Jews but are not onboard with Israel’s actions against Palestinians. Those who support Ukrainian independence but don’t want to commit unlimited troops for border regions that literally speak Russian amid a complicated history.

More people die in Sudan and Cambodia than Israel/Palestine, but we are all focused on Israel/Palestine because it’s a conflict of cultures. Religious cultures but also western imperialism vs the global south. The focus of it all. That occupies our attention even as bigger massacres occur elsewhere that aren’t directly across these massive fault lines.

I refuse to engage in attention whoring. I support peace in most instances globally, other than total war against someone’s existence where it becomes right to fight back. People have a right to self-defense. And those who have power over others have a responsibility to hold back on using it fully.

Keep in mind that at any moment, tons of violence is occurring globally. The media directs you to a subset of it that is geographically, economically, or culturally relevant for their purposes. You ignore or are unaware of the rest, and get emotional about what is fed to you. That’s how most people act, anyway.

Your desire for freedom is incompatible with iOS

“Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world”

As I reflect on spending three days with some of the world’s most innovative, persistent, and creative Bitcoiners, this quote from James Baldwin really resonates

Through a mix of code and action people are quite literally (to borrow a term from nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe) **bending** the world in a new direction

There is a lot of darkness, but let’s not loose track of the light. It’s there, and it’s real

Onwards! 🫡

Until election season is over, Twitter has reached rock-bottom to me.

I won’t say it’s unusable, since I am using it, but I have to navigate around its main thing to continue with the positive elements of the network effect that exists there.

And so many accounts are super biased on any given topic to a clearly irrational degree. I keep seeing things that seem like satire, but instead they are genuinely written to appeal to lower information people in a way that, from my perspective, is highly patronizing to them.

I find it so distasteful. The prior election year 2020 had a lot of polarizing elements obviously, but 2024 has more clearly conscious polarizing elements going on. Large influencer accounts whose motives are clear toward a broader audience with talking points geared toward child-level rhetoric and civic understanding. You can watch them as an observer speaking to their flock as though they were children.

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I don’t know how some of you actually watch the debate and think there’s anything meaningful to extract from it. It’s deck chairs on the titanic. Elected officials don’t even run the govt.

Case in point, we don’t have a president, and nothing’s changed.

It’s literally reality TV. It’s governance theater. Your vote doesn’t matter. If it did, you wouldn’t be allowed to do it.

Just a PSA to people out there:

There is no entitlement so deep as just insulting someone and then demanding to come on their show… then responding by saying their show sucks and don’t listen to it anyway. 🤣🤣

If you wanted fiat socialist personified, this is probably pretty close. Fastest way to get a permanent mute right here 👇🏻

BRB, gonna go angrily call Joe Rogan an idiot for some random thing he said & then tell him he’s ScAReD if he doesn’t invite me on his show to debate him immediately. nostr:note1pphtus3337fkmj967359uwjr40wx9e8yr4mz2huhh9dyftyzxecsrte2af