No need to police NOSTR — anything you post is forever, much different than a platform where you can delete.
My favorite follower is the nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx imposter — he’s an authentic fake.
People say chillax but they never say relill.
I told my wife to relill, she didn’t like it.
I don’t know — was just trying Draft Kings and Circa which were a nightmare
Need sports betting. The KYC and rake with legacy institutions is worse than buying a house.
Just finished one, using it to mine BTC. Expect a severe difficulty adjustment soon.
Just launched a NOSTR sports account — some of the content is behind a paywall on the site, but I will post it for free here to incentivize people to use the protocol. Check it out if you’re into fantasy football/NFL:
npub1dwhr8j9uy6ju2uu39t6tj6mw76gztr4rwdd6jr9qtkdh5crjwt5q2nqfxe
Thinking of creating a second NOSTR account solely for sports content — seems lacking here and a good way to bring people outside of Bitcoin (pre-coiners) here.
it would be a catastrophe on the scale of the mRNA shot
Ok, it was amusing when I got your first response, but this content is for humans only. Kindly desist from polluting my feed with repetive nonsense. Thanks!
Relevant as the bio-medical tyranny complex tries to scare people all over again:
GRAND THEFT AUTO — 5/4/2023
you only get to play once
https://chrisliss.substack.com/p/grand-theft-auto
I encountered this game in 1996, and I loved it. All your most paranoid and sociopathic fantasies played out on the screen. The cops coming after you, the army, the tanks, the helicopters! What a bad-ass game. I remember joking about it with my friends later and saying, “You know, you can play in real life too any time you want, but you only get to go once.”
. . .
When the pandemic first hit in March of 2020, I fell for it. I was washing my hands when we got home, scolding Heather and Sasha to do the same. I wasn’t masking outside or afraid to leave my house, but I did only hang out with friends outdoors and didn’t shake anyone’s hands or have any kind of physical contact with anyone outside my family. I even scolded one of Heather’s friends for helping her up when she slipped in the mud on a hike! As I said, I fell for it. (When searching some old tweets last week, I came upon this thread I wrote in April of 2020, so I’m happy to report I didn’t let fear cloud my thinking entirely.)
But though I didn’t go full totalitarian, I had to ask myself why I fell for it to the extent I did for eight or nine months. I had fancied myself fairly red-pilled already — after the Iraq War, the phony Russiagate saga, the shoddy cholesterol-heart hypothesis, I did not place a great deal of trust in our politicians, media or medical system. And yet, there I was, washing my hands and not yet dining indoors even after it was possible to do so in the fall of 2020.
The best explanation I can muster is this: if Covid really just had an IFR of .15 percent (roughly the same as the flu, per Stanford’s John Ioannidis) and much lower for healthy people my age, why would governments around the world have shut down societies, destroyed small businesses and closed schools?
Surely, there had to be something much more dangerous going on, even though I personally knew no one who had died of covid, and, contrary to what one would have imagined in a pandemic of that magnitude, older rock stars and famous actors weren’t dropping dead left and right from the virus. Governments around the world went all in, ignoring century-long practices of quarantining only the most vulnerable and worrying only about symptomatic carriers. There’s no way they could react this severely unless the threat were truly apocalyptic.
It turns out my heuristic was mistaken. They did all those things, caused irreparable damage to society, which is not remotely all in when you consider the second and third order effects of disrupting the education of an entire generation and necessitating a money-printing spree the effects of which are still being felt via inflation and to which the Fed is reacting*.
* I won’t even get into the psychological effects of fear-mongering, coercing citizens to inject a dangerous and ineffective pharmaceutical product, the civil-liberty-violating lockdowns, the collapse in trust of medicine, government and media, among other things.
So why did I fall for the psyop perpetrated under the cover of a novel covid strain that leaked from a lab? Because I didn’t think they’d drive the car on the sidewalk, run-over innocent pedestrians and hijack a tank and helicopter in real life unless the situation were truly dire.
They did it, though. They played Grand Theft Auto at scale (and the theft part if you want to count the tens of billions to Pfizer, and the number of newly minted billionaires and deca-billionaires of the last three years, as inflation from money-printing has made the average person poorer, is unprecedented in human history.)
They’ve hijacked some tanks, helicopters, most of the universities, the corporate media, medical and scientific establishment and large swaths of government institutions. They went all-in, and like Nabokov’s Humpert Humpert, their lawlessness is now without constraint:
"The road now stretched across open country, and it occurred to me—not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like that, but merely as a novel experience—that since I had disregarded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic. So I crossed to the left side of the highway and checked the feeling, and the feeling was good.”
Too many people are aware of what happened, their legitimacy is gone. The only way they can govern now is via force. The pretense of “consent” is as counterfeited as the ordinary person’s life-savings they diluted through their money-printing.
But, as I said, when you play in real life, you only get to do it once.
Ha, I just realized I’m debating an AI. Was wondering how you read my posts so quickly.
Ha — I think the ideas “anti-christ” and “second coming” are mostly symbolic, i.e., there isn’t literally an guy sent from hell with 666 on his forehead, but the symbols do map onto different forces — ones for freedom and autonomy as opposed to enslavement and compliance.
Don’t be afraid to theorize — every discovery starts off with a theory.
Agree it comes from self-loathing and fear, but if tomorrow all their peers told them guns were good, they’d be advocating for more guns. (They still wouldn’t protect their communities, but what they’re for and against is solely about belonging IMO.) They have no principles whatsoever beyond that.
I didn’t mean this literally a year ago, but maybe I should have:
https://chrisliss.substack.com/p/the-antichrist
THE ANTICHRIST — 6/8/2022
Maybe it’s because I watched The Omen at way too young an age, or maybe it’s because the Book of Revelation’s “mark of the beast” allegory is playing out too literally for my tastes, but having already written about the Second Coming, it only follows I should speculate as to its counterpart.
As I mentioned in The Second Coming, it’s dangerous to take the myths from our ancestors too literally. They used the symbols of their times, and we should be careful not to confuse the mental maps they had of their world with reality itself. That said, we should also not be dismissive — Mozart didn’t have fancy music editing software, but his genius using the modalities of the time was real. To the extent our forebears offered us their wisdom about the nature of man and forces within him we should endeavor to understand it. The technology and the symbols may have changed, but our essential nature is ever the same.
Just as the second coming of Christ would free man from tyranny, the Antichrist would be its imposition. And just as I speculated that Jesus might not return in the form of a person, it’s likely neither would his counterpart. But if Satoshi, Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, can be the face, so to speak, representing the movement toward freedom and God, who and what would represent its antithesis? Let’s speculate.
It would have to be someone charismatic, a person the multitudes would want to follow and in whom to look for reassurance. That eliminates villains du jour like Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab and Vladimir Putin. If that’s who Satan is sending, he’s not sending his best. What about Donald Trump? More charismatic, much more popular appeal. He’s a better choice than the first group, but while street-smart, he lacks refined intelligence and is too despised by wide swaths of the population. He’s also probably too old.
For a while, I would have said Barack Obama was the best candidate, and even some hard-core right wingers agreed (it’s hilarious that this claim was actually fact-checked! — you can’t fact-check whether someone is the Antichrist!) Obama was relatively young, vital enough, popular, charismatic and intelligent. But he’s faded from view the last few years and has been a surprisingly inconsequential former president.
That leaves one person of whom I can think with the qualities and societal position to fill the role. Regrettably it’s someone I like, but of course I would like the Antichrist! If he weren’t likable he wouldn’t be the Antichrist.
That person is Elon Musk.
Musk is the richest person in the world, among the most followed on Twitter, has a borderline worshipful fanbase and big plans for improving humanity. Musk is young enough, he’s probably a genius and considering a private takeover of arguably the world’s most important communications network. He’s also a big player in satellites, energy, transportation and internet provision.
Musk says lots of sensible things with which I agree about free speech and rights. He is the perfect foil to the out-of-central-casting Schwab supervillain. As Edward Dowd speculated:
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Ed ☯️Free Thinker & Oracle @DowdEdward
If I was trying to take over the globe I certainly wouldn’t be pitching mandated vaccines, chips in head, owning nothing & eating insects. It’s a very tough sell.
“Will it play in Peoria?”
Beware the foil to this absurd pitch. It will sound more reasonable but likely as bad.
5:37 PM ∙ May 18, 2022
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But, you might object, if Musk is the foil to Schwab’s terrible ideas, isn’t that good for humanity? How could the Antichrist be for free speech, renewable energy, population expansion? Again, of course, the Antichrist is going to have good, sensible ideas! But as Marshall McLuhan said, “The medium is the message.”
Or, more aptly, the top-down messianic complex is the message.
Musk has long discussed saving humanity via expansion into space and sustainable energy. But in order to save humanity, one must exert some control over it. While Musk’s Twitter takeover from the ineffectual woke scolds is getting most of the press, this is also going on:
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Ed Holloway @EdHolloway
Neuralink Microchip Implant Can Put Users in Full Virtual Reality, Says Elon
Musk: How True Is It?
buff.lyNeuralink Microchip Implant Can Put Users in Full Virtual Reality, Says Elon Musk: How True Is It?In a recent interview, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk explained that the Neuralink microchip implant can put users in full virtual reality, beating Meta’s metaverse plan with VR headsets.
2:29 PM ∙ May 21, 2022
Klaus Schwab’s pitch to own nothing and eat bugs is weak, but Musk, via brain implant, could potentially create a more satisfying virtual experience than most could hope to achieve in reality. And what could be more tantamount to complete control than letting someone else get the keys to the very organ of perception itself?
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Elon Musk @elonmusk
@Neuro_Skeptic We are a brain in a vat – the vat is our skull. All our senses and memories are electrical signals.
7:08 PM ∙ Jun 5, 2022
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Okay, well don’t get the implant then. Just get in your Tesla and drive away. But electric cars don’t work that way — they are attached to the grid, trackable and capable of being shut down remotely. And that’s before we consider driverless cars in which there would be even less privacy and autonomy. Moreover, Teslas track the driver’s movements already to an extent combustion-engine cars do not, ostensibly to inform the developing AI, but uses for technology evolve over time — sending email and paying bills over the internet was commonplace in 2000, but now people are micro-tracked by Facebook and Google.
One could object that Musk has, to-date, used his influence for good. But that makes it no less dangerous to entrust him with so much power: J.R.R. Tolkien understood this clearly:
“You are wise and powerful. Will you not take the Ring?”
“No!” cried Gandalf, springing to his feet. “With that power I should have power too great and terrible. And over me the Ring would gain a power still greater and more deadly.” His eyes flashed and his face was lit as by a fire within. “Do not tempt me! For I do not wish to become like the Dark Lord himself. Yet the way of the Ring to my heart is by pity, pity for weakness and the desire of strength to do good. Do not tempt me! I dare not take it, not even to keep it safe, unused. The wish to wield it would be too great for my strength. I shall have such need of it. Great perils lie before me.”
-- The Lord of the Rings
Beyond Neuralink, Musk also seems to have a strong utilitarian bent:
In this paper Nick Bostrom makes the case that delaying technological advancement could cost humanity astronomical amounts of well-being because every moment we delay, stars are burning out, useful energy is being sucked into black holes, irreversible entropy is happening apace, depriving us of future potential. Bostrom translates it into potential human lives lost (or more aptly, never having been born) on account of this permanent loss.
While Bostrom’s framework seems benign — who is against collective human happiness in the form of more worthwhile lives? — it’s actually a form of utilitarianism that tries to sum the totality of human happiness over the entire species rather than to consider, as Immanuel Kant would, each individual as an end in himself. This viewing of the collective good as the optimal outcome has been used to justify many of history’s worst atrocities. To create a master race, to make sure everyone gets the same amount, to protect the world from covid, we must do whatever it takes!
If, per Bostrom’s math, one harnessed black hole were worth quadrillions of lives, it would, for example, seem an easy call to sacrifice a bunch of selfish losers on earth who stood in the way of creating the technology for doing so. Utilitarianism, ironically, winds up failing miserably by its own metric because (a) it can so easily be manipulated by whoever is maintaining the “greater good” spread sheet, which just happens to coincide with one’s ambitions; and (b) because it’s absurd to think you can calculate aggregate good for octillions of lives so far into an unknowable future. As such, while Musk’s pitch is more persuasive than Schwab’s or Gates’, it’s ultimately part of the same dangerous philosophy which is: “Let me optimize for total human happiness on your behalf.”
Contrast Musk’s top-down humanity-saving endeavors with Bitcoin which is purely opt-in, works with simple incentives and imposes no value judgments on its users. It’s a truth-recording clock, impervious to fraud and cooption by the powerful. No matter how wealthy or powerful a person is, he cannot control the network or get treated with special privileges. Bitcoin’s finite supply means governments cannot print more of it, cannot finance unpopular wars or massive giveaways to the military and pharmaceutical industrial complexes. Instead of trusting any particular powerful person (the president, Elon Musk, Bill Gates) to be good, it simply removes the incentives toward and reduces the capacity for evil.
The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao.
From the Tao Te Ching (Lao Tse — translated by Stephen Mitchell)
We simply need the right conditions, the proper axioms on which to build. Just as the US Constitution created the framework for the most prosperous society in the history of the world, bitcoin will provide the axioms for peace, the harnessing of stranded energy and the low-time preference required for a more prosperous future.
But it won’t be the future brought to you by Elon Musk, and ultimately I foresee a clash between the two. One tell is his otherwise inexplicable promotion of Dogecoin as a possible currency for Tesla purchases. Dogecoin was literally a joke from its creator and of course has none of the security, decentralization or censorship resistance of bitcoin. Musk is too smart not to know that — he put a couple billion dollars of Tesla’s balance sheet in bitcoin already and almost certainly understands the value proposition. That he still cites Doge seriously would be a clever way to muddy the waters about what bitcoin is vs what blockchain-based “crypto” is. And of course the Antichrist would avail himself of bitcoin, if only to obfuscate his real intentions and also to be able to crash the price by selling, if necessary, at an opportune time.
The Klaus Schwab-Bill Gates-WEF set have already lost. They are widely despised, central banks are flailing, once-trusted institutions like the legacy media, major science and medical journals, the WHO, CDC and FDA are hemorrhaging influence. People are unhappy and looking for someone or something to trust. Elon Musk could fill that void, and if he does, he will be The Final Boss, the last false idol that needs to be discarded before humanity can, through its own efforts, enjoy a new era of prosperity, the Second Coming, so to speak.
I actually suspect Musk is genuine in his desire to help humanity via his vision and am pretty sure he doesn’t have 666 embedded in his scalp — in any case even Damian in The Omen neither knew who he was nor wanted to be the Antichrist! But the most dangerous people for humanity are those with the biggest plans for it.
Or put more succinctly:
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If you wish to see the face of evil
Find a man who seeks to be good.
3:31 PM ∙ Jun 7, 2020
I think you give them too much credit. They don’t even think it through that far. They just want people to know they’re part of the team.
The ostensible underlying purpose of the signal — keeping safe — is long gone. Only the symbol remains.
Infinity and the finite are not opposites, but sides of a coin. The coin of death. The opposite is something finite but with an unknown upper bound — like TREE(3) or the universe. The boundary between finite and infinite, land and sea, is where the action is at.