Gn yegor 🌝

Gn utxo 🌝

2.5 weeks until block 800000.

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Unless it pops up somewhere, looks like my post on kiwi didn't post. Assume this to be some kind if issue with nsecbunker auth. I don't think a reaction actually posted either.

Also kiwi is using a follows list that appears to be a week old, possibly older. Could be an issue with which relays it is pulling from, don't think it is actually using my list.

Lists did seem to work. Haven't been able to interact with anything, so for now, it is working as a view-only client for me.

nostr:npub1alpha9l6f7kk08jxfdaxrpqqnd7vwcz6e6cvtattgexjhxr2vrcqk86dsn nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft

nostr.kiwi pwa (out of Brave on GrapheneOS)

Marco Polo.

I can't say for certain whether I understand my own thought correctly, so I won't judge your understanding.

"my truth is inside" - this is important! but how well do you understand that truth, and how much of it was influenced by others?

I think I may be headed somewhere with all of this. But how far am I willing to go?

How much would it change my daily life if I truly believed that everything I heard, watched, or read was being presented to me by a third party for their own interests?

And how close is this to the truth?

I don't wish to support or promote anything that refers to people as plebs, plebians, or the like. Just me, not liking something. I've never liked the term, and while it may give some a sense of belonging, I think it does more to alienate or at least isolate from others, like normies, no-coiners, or whatever you all are calling people that seem unlike yourselves.

Woke up today feeling a sense of unease. Not quite choosing violence, but definitely not in the sunniest of moods either. Making my way through the J&J interview, and it is striking me that mostly what I am seeing are problems with a system viewed from inside the system. Like we're all not thinking broadly enough, taking a long enough time horizon, seeing the bigger picture.

nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe says that we can't fix a system from within a system. I tend to agree with this, although I've spent most of my life acting like it wasn't true.

I think more and more, I just want to ignore all the noise. Maybe go back to first principles, whatever those are. I liked reading nostr:npub1jt97tpsul3fp8hvf7zn0vzzysmu9umcrel4hpgflg4vnsytyxwuqt8la9y 's book on Praxeology, as it discusses logical truth, things that must be true, because if they were not true, they could not exist. (not my best explanation, granted).

What this is mostly boiling down to is all the stuff that goes by my observation in my world every day that I simply don't give a fuck about, and how I can expand on those things to realize how much I should probably be ignoring. Let's take Threads and RFK. I know I don't care about them. Well, expand that, how about Meta and US Government. Nope, and maybe for entertainment purposes, or if they actually do something that improves or detracts from my daily life. Go out another step - Corporations. Geopolitics. Again, pretty much the same levels of not giving fucks. Maybe another step out - World Economics, and Power/Control Dynamics. Kind of the same thing, or getting closer to it. Maybe I find this stuff interesting, but do I really give a fuck about it?

Not unless it improves or detracts from my daily life.

nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m said something earlier today - the only improvement is zaps (again, paraphrasing poorly, because it is very hard to fact check).

And he's right. This has improved or detracted from my daily life. I hadn't been an active social network user in years. my social graph is a fucking joke. Nobody knows why I have no friends (in meat space, or really online), but it's not because I'm not likeable. I get along just fine with people. It's because I think I'm, at heart, an isolationist. I don't trust, and I haven't even bothered verifying. I'm a voyeur that likes thinking I am looking at a big picture, when I don't have any grasp on the small picture, and haven't really even solved for that.

But zaps. taking what could be generational wealth, the things I am able to pass on to my children when I am gone, and freely giving them away to people who I've never met, will never do much for me beyond giving me something to look at, smile at, or think about for a few seconds or more. They could be bots. They could be governments or corporations. But I am giving my children's wealth to them just the same. I am spending time again, literally, as I believe sats are what we measure our time in. Before, social media was a time sink. Zaps are causing me to rethink that. I think there is something here - an appreciation of time.

Maybe I don't give a fuck in the long run. Maybe the big picture isn't big enough. But the small picture is telling me that perhaps zapping some sats is the most important thing I can do for my daily life, a way to reconnect, or begin to connect, and come out of my isolationist shell, and actually give a fuck. At least for now. For the mere seconds I spend reading or looking at something that brings me value in the form of entertainment, smiles, whatever - and showing appreciation a few sats at a time.

This is the only new thing. It is what may save us from becoming pod people. It may allow us to conquer space and time. But today, it brings us a smile, one meme or non-sequitur at a time.

#zapathon

(a little early, but this is when I had time to write; may boost later)

Gn kini 🌝

Gn #nostr.

Today I tried to get nsecbunker working. There were lots of issues. I wrote a lot about them. Then I copied that post somewhere else, because I wasnt going to be able to post it using that client.

So I got back into my normal client (#onyx) which doesn't apparently support nsecbunker. But I'd logged completely out to figure that out.

Copied my notes from somewhere else, added some stuff to them, tagged some devs.

Posted it. Or so I thought. Went to go interact with another note, and Onyx says I'm not fully logged in. I'd given it my bloody nsec, I swear. So, log out again. Restart. Log in (with nsec again). Restart. Go interact with notes, make a couple gn replies. Working. Re-setup alby wallet connect. Done.

Come back to post my notes on using nsecbunker and nostr.kiwi. fucked. Had already cleared it from the somewhere else after I thought it posted in Onyx. FML. Sorry devs, maybe Ill try to type it all out tomorrow. There's at least as much detail as in this bloody gn post.

And this is how tech works, kiddos! Works us all into high blood pressure and an early grave.

(All this is nobody's fault. We're doing it live, and doing it wonderfully)

Gn boho 🌜

Gn Christina 🌜

fix this #bitkini - also enter nostr:npub14aeuctmsc3zqm8n7p3f3ssxgwwlqvw06t9j2r0zk3c572g4lg5fs434afw's contest to win a bitkini!

Primal could do better at rendering habla.news links.

OK, tried another long-form post on habla.news. Worked well. Now maybe I can play with some other tools some more (highlighter, flycat) and further explore the long-form options. Also curious about communities. My instinct is to avoid them for now, but my instincts are sometimes flawed - or at least not forward-thinking enough.

https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxnzd3c8q6ryvenxsensve5qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq3wamnwvaz7tmjwdekccte9ehx7um5wghx6mm99uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmny9uq3kamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2a30qythwumn8ghj7ct5d3shxtnwdaehgu3wd3skuep0qgs9dnzu4uwa6vfpskgsax7qwvd554gev3fmg0l629g5msatladnasgrqsqqqa288l63dm

We're actually on the same page - I am not referring to all blue collar, or low income, or socioeconomically disadvantaged (lol) "poor" people.

I am really just referring to the very small subset of people (who actually may not even be considered "poor") who make a living out of qualifying for public assistance. These are the people who will not work a full time job, even if they have the ability to do so, because it would disqualify them from benefits. Sometimes these are 2nd generation welfare beneficiaries, who watched their parents sit around, eat their government cheese, maybe do some odd job on the side to make some extra money that wouldn't be reported anywhere, but usually just sit around and wait for the next government check.

This is a VERY small subset of people. I don't want to imagine it as any larger than that, although some may assume it is larger than I do - and it is an extreme. I have benefitted from public assistance in my past, and you could make a case that I still do, even though I have worked for my needs for 30 years.

My point is that they do not want doors open. They are not looking for opportunities to work hard and improve themselves.. They have learned their existence is subsistence at the mercy of others.

You may want to believe that all anybody needs is a chance - and you're wrong. People blow their big chance all the time, or never even take it, or see it.

This absolute bullshit about equal talent, equal opportunity, equal anything - is crap. We are not equal. Period. Some people are just built different - scrap that, all people are built different. Some will see a chance to improve, and jump on it, and use it to improve. Others will not, even when presented the same chance.

My argument about "poor" people actually extends perfectly to those who live off their trust funds and family money and never need to work at anything. In my opinion, these people are just as "poor", because they never learn to work for (or on) themselves.

People do NOT have equal talent. Some are just better at things, others are not. For some, learning comes easy. For others, it is a struggle. Some will just never learn.

I would tell you to fuck off with your opinions on what my bias may be. I have one, and I won't deny it, but telling you to fuck off isn't helpful at the moment, so I'll give you the chance to understand.

WORK. DO THE FUCKING WORK.

Get good at it. Let other people see you doing it. Maybe they will catch on that you end your day exhausted, but feeling great. Maybe they'll see that no matter how busy you are, how sweaty and hot and dirty, if they ask you for help, you will help. Not to give them anything, but because, quite selfishly, it feels GOOD to WORK to HELP someone.

This isn't something you can give someone by opening a door, or dropping some change in a cup, or even knocking the silver spoon out of their mouth. It is something learned (in my opinion) by example, and the person would likely need to WANT to change (after finding something lacking in themselves) before following the example.

Work - like Voltaire imagined it. We can always be in the best possible world, because it is the only world we will ever know, and we can always be WORKING to improve it.

So no, this wasn't me taking a shit on the poor, or on academia. This is me pitying them, and wishing they would eventually find the contentment, the inner peace, the personal pride that only comes from WORK, not from being given things.

Today's thought:

I keep thinking it would be nice to fall asleep for a few years, because everything is new and shiny and changing every day and not yet settling down into something concrete.

What will Nostr look like in 5 years? 10 years? Will I still even use an npub?

It's not just Nostr, or the money system. It's geopolitics, family dynamics, social graph (liking that term from today).

I'm kind of getting some TK vibes on myself, like it might not be a horrible idea to spend a few years in a cabin somewhere way off-grid.

And I'm optimistic - I think things will get much better, over time.

eez.

I lost everything in a boating accident. 🚤