22 years ago today, I was an entry level help desk worker for a hotel chain. I was alone in a storage room, adding asset tags to equipment when a co-worker told me a plane had struck the World Trade Center. I walked into a meeting room where employees had a TV and saw the second plane hit.

Today, I found myself on a plane, traveling for business and the memory of that day hit different.

Never forget the tragedy of that day and also never forget those that used it as an excuse to erode freedoms and justify wars.

A Bitcoin company ultimately doesn't want to hold your funds for you, allowing you to freely move around the Bitcoin ecosystem. A Nostr company should function in similar capacity, not holding your identity, allowing you to move around from client to client as you please.

Good morning #nostr. ☀️🫂

On September 11, 2001, I was living less than 7 miles away from the site of the horrifying attacks on the World Trade Center. I didn’t see or hear it happen, and wasn’t watching TV that morning, so I was informed by a phone call. One of the two planes had flown directly over my home and I didn’t even realize it.

I spent the next month in a state of shock and confusion, glued to cable news, radio, and the internet. Real-time online news at the time barely existed, so information moved at a different speed than it does today. The 24-hour networks didn’t know how to respond, so they just kept airing the same clips over and over again with non commercial breaks. There was so much bad reporting, and people taking advantage of the situation to intentionally spread misinformation and disinformation. Our governments were complicit in this, of course. We saw it happen right before our eyes just a couple of years later with the relentless march to invade an uninvolved country with an entirely fabricated reason. And yet we somehow accepted it as a nation and as a world, because we were conditioned to out of fear. I couldn’t believe others didn’t see what I saw, and realized just how easily people around me had been manipulated.

We were constantly reminded to say, “Never forget.” to honor those who died in the attacks on our country. I won’t, and I can’t. I lived through it all. But we should also #NeverForget how 22 years ago, we gave up our privacy and civil liberties, started a generation-long war, and accepted an ever-expanding surveillance state that was once only the domain of dystopian science fiction.

Finally, in this timeline, the technologies and tools have been built and handed to us that could begin to turn the tide against all of these abuses of power. I only hope enough of us use them to matter.

reminiscing on past autumn seasons 🍁

gm, good people. ☕️☀️

I tried the Maotai Baijiu Luckin coffee today. I have to say - it’s actually pretty good. An Irish coffee with Chinese characteristics 😂

It must be insanely hard for a brand like Maotai to take a risk in doing this. Kudos for whoever pulled it off - and executed it this incredibly well.

Things are back up, all should work now! Thanks to everyone who tried! 🐶🐾🫂🙏🏻 nostr:note1dedk0yvehz0nua45rxuk7cyu934q6lx0z5vrqpq685ak9vve7szsex0k9v

I'd love to have a client or filter that doesn't show images or videos, only short text notes.

And I'd love to have a client that only shows images. And one for just videos.

按Current之前通过审核的思路，都不要绕弯，只要zap功能同时提供lightning和Apple应用内支付（提供就行，可以不用），AppStore就会通过审核了。

gn nostr 😴

终于又可以zap了，不过测试了一下大多数人都发不出去 nostr:note1dthx84rf3hevxdyp2kwqynzjd9kjtm72nmsuh68z27fum32fqtrsuz9st7

Gm

1. Renaming 'sats' to 'bitcoins'

What do you think about this idea?

What would be the benefits/downsides?

I’ve always been amazed that people go cashless, meaning they literally walk around and even travel without cash, and just rely on cards to pay.

Credit and debit cards are centralized and can be shut off or denied for all sorts of reasons, or can run into technical issues. BTC/LN is better because it’s decentralized, although it still needs power+internet and merchant acceptance. Cash as physical bearer asset money is great. Of course I wish cash was redeemable for something sound, but maybe in the future that’ll be the case again. In the meantime it’s good to have a few meals or taxis or hotel rooms worth of cash on hand.

I always have a diverse mix of digital and physical payment methods on hand, so I never get caught unable to pay.

So far in life I have only had one instance where I couldn’t pay. I was at a restaurant in Cairo a few years ago and their card machine/connection was down, and were only accepting cash. I had physical US dollars but they were part of a bigger corporate restaurant chain and so didn’t have the flexibility to accept them. My husband normally carries Egyptian currency but didn’t have any on him that day, and since he carried it, I previously did not. Neither did our friend that was with us. So we had to go on an awkward search for an ATM for a while and then come back and pay. And from that point I iterated, so I always carry Egyptian currency in Egypt as well as my other methods. And it has come in handy a bunch of times, when my husband needs some spare cash for tips or something I always have a little stockpile ready to go since I am a stickler about always having a certain amount whereas he is more flexible.

I always have a kind of “prepare for everything” type of mentality and like to be in control of my situation, and thus always have like backups for my backups in various contexts, including payment or being able to access various types of value anywhere, even when such preparation is not really needed.