What’s the funniest post you’ve seen this weekend ?

I need to Zap harder baby

Shitcoinery is harshing my vibe

Blessings for Ross tomorrow

#freerossdayone

My husband and I got like a third of the way into Shogan since it was so well-rated, but we struggled with it a bit. There were a handful of frustrating things that seemed unrealistic. I keep meaning to get back into it.

Does the Nostr bird have a name?

Just found a mashed-up version of him in my hometown!! 😁

I have a strong internal commitment to becoming the best version of myself and like everyone I’m stumbling my way there.

But the satisfaction is in the stumbling.

I haven’t quit yet and I’m not likely too.

Keep stumbling forward.

You cannot delete actions on Nostr (text, likes etc). What is your opinion on this? Let's talk about it.

Here’s an observation about shitty Twitter algorithms.

I’ve actually never blocked or muted anyone on Twitter. Never felt the need. 690k followers, countless comments, no filters.

If someone is an ass, I tend to just ignore them or akido them and move on.

I just went over to Twitter and checked my notifications. Some guy posted in an unusually negative way in one of my threads. For a brief moment, I was provoked. But then I looked: he has 8,700 posts and 6 followers. Briefly skimming his profile, it is pure negativity. Imagine this. Like actually take a moment to think about what that process feels like for him, let alone how he impacts others.

Posting eight thousand and seven hundred times, mostly negatively, and after well more than a thousand of those posts, someone elects to follow him.

The algorithm trains us to see this and get angry. When he shows up in our feed, he seems like a normal person who disagrees with us. But he’s not normal. Someone like that is literally and sadly more in the mentally ill camp, even as the algorithm presented him to us like any other normal person, saying we suck.

Imagine if we had more programmable filters and algorithms. Like, mute people with over a thousand posts but with less than one follower per five hundred posts. That filters him out, similarly to how we would visually filter out and thus physically avoid a man holding his own shit in his hand in public on a street, who needs help but not public attention and proximity.

The centralized algorithms we have normalized, are not real life.

We give people virtual access that we would not do publicly, partially because we can program our real-life algorithms with various behavior rules that we can’t do on most virtual platforms.

Aurelius was last in a line of “Five Good Emperors” because he was the one who messed up his succession plan. The prior emperors passed power not to family but to well-groomed individuals that were basically adopted children for them, whereas Aurelius’ power went to his psychopathic son.

So my hot take is that Rome might have benefited from Aurelius putting a bit more time into preparing a proper successor and a bit less time meditating on decaying meat. The legacy of Aurelius is a lot of wise words but then ultimately the fall of Rome.

For about seven months after publishing Broken Money, I was so burned out from writing. I had written that book within a year, while also writing public articles and private client reports as usual. So I was basically just absolutely dead in terms of writing, had pushed myself a bit too far, and was kind of phoning it in for articles and reports the next few months with gradual recovery.

But within the past couple months, my writing energy has fully returned. So many articles in the pipeline, in various states of development!

The answer is that it was less censored than it is now. People just blew a few high-profile instances of moderation out of proportion and misinterpreted the nature of various official communications with the platform. In the last transparency report before Elon took over, Twitter’s compliance with government takedown requests was ~50%. Since Elon’s takeover, the compliance rate has gone up to ~80%. The idea that he was going to “free” Twitter was a ruse from the start, and Jack’s support of that idea suggests a stunning lack of judgment on his part, assuming he actually believed what he said at the time. Either way, no matter how much these billionaire tech bros claim to care about freedom, they will always prioritize their own material interests over the interests of the public. That is the lesson.

there is no nostr board ✨

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All of the profits from the first thousand copies of Broken Money went to the Human Rights Foundation, since Alex Gladstein's public research was so useful for the book and I like the work they are doing worldwide.

The profits from the next four thousand copies went to making an animated half-hour video about Broken Money to reach people that haven't read the book, which we released a few days ago.

My graphics/editing team wanted to make sure that the video had good average viewer time in the first week to help with the YouTube algorithm, rather than the video be sent a ton of clicks that might watch it only briefly and hurt the early quality metrics, so they advised me to soft-launch it at first. We purposely haven't notified my email list or my Twitter feed yet, etc. But it's out there.

It's a half-hour video about the technological evolution of money, with animation. We put a lot of production value into it. And for the people who were sad that I didn't narrate the Broken Money audiobook, I did narrate this video.

In the coming weeks I will spread awareness for the video across my platforms, but for starters, it has been found here on Nostr.

Enjoy:

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Why are we being forced to use a money that is designed to steal from us?