I think people do that to anon handles too because once their views get known, it’s the same. People like Catturd on Twitter, people will call him a fascist or whatever.
For smaller anon accounts you can look at their posting history or bio too.
I think basically people just want to hate on someone or something will attack the poster, and having an anon handle won’t change that much.
As for the privacy argument, why do you need privacy for your social media post? I mean you are broadcasting it to the world. You need privacy for your texts and emails, but social media is the *public* square.
To me, the desire for privacy in the public square — unless you’re breaking top secret information — is just desire to hide. And it validates the views of those from whom you are hiding that you would want to do so.
My chief complaint about NOSTR:
That’s interesting — surely the fiat monetary system has deeply affected civilization.
Yes. I wrote about how a Time Machine is the most dangerous weapon, the one you really don’t want your adversary to possess, and your post reminded me of it. Because the reason the monopoly on money printing is so dangerous is the ability to re-arrange the ledger and hence change history.
Controlling the ledger is like having a Time Machine. You can re-write the entire history of who worked for what.
Saw this reply out of context, and I knew it was about the “leader of the free world” before I even checked. Not good.
There’s no way to price in the re-setting of the fiat financial system in fiat. Nothing is priced in. Not even remotely.
Yes, but at 28K people will probably say, okay at 100 I’ll sell some. But if it’s really at 100, people will be thinking it’s going to 250.
They’ll get some, no doubt, but the psychology of hodlers will change too should there be an epic run-up. Would be hilarious if they got approval, triggered a bull-run, but couldn’t get enough to satisfy demand for their customers.
If Blackrock ETF is actually approved, now they have to go and buy the goods, right?
I mean usually it’s buy the rumor, sell the news. But if this news is real, the news is they have to buy in size. And once they start, who is going to sell it to them at 30K?
No one with a brain cell.
Everyone waiting to buy only because everyone else is waiting to buy. As soon as someone jumps, all hell breaks loose.
Thanks — we all compromise in various ways. I pay my taxes even though by doing so, I make it harder for others not to comply.
But especially when they push something new, think it’s really important to draw the line lest it become normalized.
You have framed it correctly, and you should *not* pay, and in fact, you (if you have the stomach/resources for it) should find a lawyer, take them to court, find a jounalist willing to publish something on it, etc.
No one has the time or energy, but it’s not a trivial thing:
One thing I miss about Twitter are all the normies saying dumb things to supply ideas and content for me. NOSTR has a few crazy people, but crazy doesn’t bother me because oddball cranks don’t scale. Only normies can come together to mandate injections or lock people in their homes.
So my beef is with the do-gooders and credulous normies, but they just aren’t really here.
I realize it’s twisted that I miss that, but so much of what I write about and deem important these days was informed by the unthinkable infringements on basic rights that happened over the past few years — not somewhere in Russia or the Middle East, but in the US and Western Europe where I live.
I think most people are in denial about what happened. Just because you’re not being abused this minute doesn’t mean everything’s cool when your abuser is still in power.
Don’t think it’s possible to price in the halving accurately. You know it’s coming, but it’s not clear what its effect is, so the market punts on it or is just guessing.
Enjoyed this edifying back and forth.
Better than the “GM” “good vibes” posts that clog my feed. nostr:note17ua64ynz73kpcugtxuvl29zjqgnqnf3xfvue8vlq95nyle9clcmsp9w0n5
Neoliberal Propaganda Radio nostr:note1lrmyvq0rgql464t3jvxjpze32s6yqs0yfq78c27smkwpz240j7aqp05smz
No shit. But spam filters are one thing, censorship quite another.
In fact, central banking/fiat currency types argue the same thing: if anyone could just spend their money however they liked, it’ll be used for terrorists! So we need to KYC you and know everything you do.
In an open protocol, things like spam filters will be built naturally as a response to spam. The problem with centralized platforms is this normal, necessary filtering gives way to something worse.
FWIW internet email worked fine for decades when all that were using it were well-behaved academics. But once commercial interests saw an angle, a lot of layers of protection were added. Domain verification (DKIM and SPF), inbound SPAM filters (that scan messages for unwanted content) and even blacklists (https://kb.smtp.com/article/997-the-3-most-common-email-blacklists).
The internet very quickly went from open protocols to various kinds of editorial choices. Without them the vast majority of I’ll of information is very difficult to use.
The savior here is many people at many points in the chain making editorial decisions as openly as possible, not pretending we function (at scale) without them.
Spam filters for email are necessary and yet you don’t need gmail to use the protocol nor receive email from someone using gmail.
https://chrisliss.substack.com/p/the-real-ai
I’ll leave off with a final thought. There is one type of intelligence of which I’m aware that transcends the capabilities of any individual human, does vast computation at lightning speed and can arrange entire societies more efficiently and adeptly than any presently conceivable AI. It’s called the free market.