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I don't know who follows Farcaster from this side of the world, but it is imploding pretty quickly and I think it is an opportunity to get some refugees. There are lots of builders there (mostly vibe coding and javascript bros), but they want to build on a twitter/reddit style social network. I'd like to hear what other thoughts about it is, scam takes included (that's mostly where I was for its life, though I did use it).

I would recommend separating the lightning node from your regular wallet (use cold storage etc). But you can point your wallet that has the features you want to your node and share it with lightning channels. Primarily just use the hot wallet on the umbrel for channel management.

Yeah, this is to bootstrap the zapstore. They encourage devs to take over and I think they have a handoff process.

Projects this size usually have different "areas" of code. Some need to update often for maintenence and support. Other parts are relatively static and only change for large features or architecture changes. So it depends is the correct answer. I'd say for "normal" projects, 2 devs could handle this.

Does anyone need some inbound liquidity? I have some free sats to open a channel. No promises on uptime, I've been having some issues keeping my node up.

I have a hard time seeing it, as most Christian bubbles are usually more peaceful than society at large (think Amish, etc). And the missionary and proselytizing culture usually looks to convert rather than destroy. I think the bubble matters for amplification, but the ideology is the root cause.

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Most of the political violence in recent years has come from the left, but I think that’s more due to ideological capture than anything inherent about left vs right.

Because the left captured all the institutions — tech, media, academia — people on the left were able to live in a bubble. They were able to avoid the unpleasant cognitive dissonance that comes with encountering opposing viewpoints. It was like being in a very large cult.

When this persists for long enough, it’s easy to become a fundamentalist of sorts, someone who views contrary viewpoints not just as incorrect but evil. It’s easy to see how this would happen — as your worldview gets ever more affirmed, it becomes ever-more painful to have it exposed to contradictions and internal incoherence.

People on the right the last few decades were constantly told they were bad and wrong by the media. It was almost impossible for them to live in a bubble. When you don’t live in a bubble, you are exposed to cognitive dissonance all the time, and you have less absolutism and fundamentalism. Less existential dread when someone disagrees with you, more rigor in formulating your worldview.

What the right should not want is to swap places with the left where their views become fundamentalism, dissent from them is verboten and their side gets radicalized when challenged.

Free speech you disagree with has to be protected no matter what. Unfortunately, I think it’s just the nature of power that it corrupts, and when the right re-takes it (they have in the US, but not entirely as the institutions are still very much leftist), they’ll probably do stupid shit like outlaw mocking Charlie Kirk’s assassination as “hate speech” or outlaw flag burning.

I think it is ideological as well. One worldview is individualistic, so self-defence is the only justified use of violence. The other identitarian and collectivistic, so defending your group may be a justified use of violence in that case. That coupled with "words are violence" and even "silence is violence" mean that the things that raise to the level of "justified violence" have a low bar.

Your point about bubbles is fair, but I also think it is a loss of status as they see defeat in their control of these institutions. This will be a feedback loop as more institutions fail because of the violence. I worry the violence will ramp up as a result.

I've found it isn't great about cleaning up after old episodes. You should be able to mostly clear them all from the menu. It could present better ways to do this though.

There are some good podcasts out there, but they mostly seem to ignore bitcoin and just shrug at tariffs (not good or bad). If you have a connection who could get you in, I'd love to hear you on the Ruthless podcast or something in the National Review universe.

testing alphaama, pretty cool concept

This guy's running. Meanwhile he's slippery and wrong about almost everything.

https://fountain.fm/episode/Thv9EIAzFpZM4qgSWdOf