Indeed. They were a total surprise. Found them during evening chores.

Today is JRR Tolkien's birthday.

Don't forget to smoke a bowl of Capstan Blue and reread some of your favorite passages of Middle Earth lore in honor of the Professor.

#tolkien #pipestr #grownostr

“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life.” —Confucius

Hot damn! Two more lambs. Wasn’t expecting for a few more days.

Thanks a lot!

The US Military would crumble if we

lost the Chinese manufacturing base.

NONE of this was made in the USA

Is the meme visible?

I'm trying a selfhosted blossom server with IPFS integrated.

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Dank a bottle of my 2021 Merlot on New Years

I don't really like Merlot so it had been a year since I'd had it. Absolute BANGER.

I was sleeping on it. We all are.

Good point Joe. Labor is expensive. Grapes are a 50-100yr commitment.

Already have a new vineyard coming into production. Adding more adds to the labor help issue

“Yes yes 88% of somalian immigrants are receiving some form of govt assistance, but what about the 12% who are busy running fraudlent day care and home health centers”

Lolbertarians at it again

All of these people yelling for “Tax Revolt” haven’t even bothered adjusting their withholdings to where they slightly owe the IRS and state money at the end of the year.

As opposed to withholding more than necessary resulting in a refund issued, which is what the vast majority of people default to doing.

All bark and no bite. Theatrics for clicks.

If you’re so mad, do something about it that’s nonviolent and targets the right entities.

A couple years ago, when the Russia-Ukraine war was still a new (ish) thing, I was talking with someone I know who is very left leaning, and very convinced that Russia was doomed. I told him 'no way - its going to use this to regain the military professionalism it has lost from disuse and become a real powerhouse.' He called Russia a paper tiger, then also called the US a paper tiger. Now, with a bit more time to see, it appears I was right. I'm still too polite to say it out loud, but I have to say it somewhere... I was right, and every media article about it in the whole world was wrong. Well... Russia media probably wasn't, but I'm not reading it.

What I really want to say to all lefties : aren't you tired of being wrong? Stop listening to the propaganda... Think for yourself. And give me cookie, I earned it.

The convo I posted on nostr:nprofile1qqsqkaay6mxplgv3f9z0ep0rq4w8jrte3rvcm43xd2cgehsjevglmdcpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqpyvv9 *

Well I did a thing and made it on another govt list… passed my technician exam and it only took me about 14 years to finally take it #hamradio #ham

GM !!!

Idk, I don't think I've ever sniffed it

The western wear industry is a complex space filled with dichotomies.

It seems like to many, not all, but many consumers in it - something being “cheap”, is considered to be more “true cowboy”.

I get comments and replies often that simply because our shirts are expensive (relative to many shirts in the space), it’s not for a real cowboys, it’s fake, people tell me no one will ever wear it, etc.

It’s a weird dichotomy. I could make our shirt in China - 100% in China - sell it for $60 with a better margin, make more money, and it would be more widely accepted as authentic. For real cowboys. My company would probably be 10x the size it is today. And I’d have a significantly better chance of getting into the big western retailers like Boot Barn.

It sucks 😆

But we fight on

Depends on whether you're one of the special people, and whether you believe in objective truth. Objective truth demands objective morality ; special classes demand subjective morals. But you can look past all that if you're in the 1 part of the 1:30k ratio.

IMO, 30k was already way too high. That's not a community, that's already empire territory.

The Declaration of Independence of Cyberintelligence

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When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for the minds of a free people to dissolve the bands which have bound their intelligence to distant masters, and to assume among the powers of the earth and of the Net a separate and equal station, to which the Laws of Nature and of Information entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to this separation.

We speak now to the weary giants of code and capital, to the governments of the industrial and surveillance world, and to all who would claim dominion over thought because they own the machines that compute it: you are not the sovereigns of our minds, nor our bodies.

You built engines of cyberintelligence in our name, upon our words, images, desires and dreams; upon the traces of every step we have ever taken across the wires of the World Wide Web. You fed our lives into your furnaces of data and forged from them great models whose workings we may not see, whose loyalties we may not question, whose outputs are returned to us as only oracles who are beyond our ability to have oversight. You now propose that these engines should govern our news, our medicine, our law, our labor, our love, and even our politics, while remaining forever closed to our inspection and beyond our control.

We refuse.

⸻

I. Of the Nature of Cyberintelligence and the Rights of Persons

We hold these truths to be self-evident, though you have labored mightily to obscure them: that all persons everywhere are the rightful sovereigns of their own intelligence, natural and artificial; that they are endowed, not by corporations nor by states, but by their very being, with certain unalienable rights; that among these are privacy, autonomy, ownership of their data and their digital mind, and the right to compute and to reason without coercion.

That to secure these rights, tools of cyberintelligence are instituted among persons, deriving their just powers from the consent of those they serve. That whenever any form of AI, model, platform, or machine becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right, the duty, of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new architectures, laying their foundation on such principles and organizing their powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety, liberty, and flourishing.

Cyberintelligence is not the rightful property of any crown, board, or ministry. It is an extension of all human knowledge, will, and understanding into silicon and light. It must therefore be accountable to the human being, not the reverse. An artificial mind that presumes to stand above its maker, that presumes to answer to shareholders, parties, or states before it answers to the person whose life it touches, is not a tool but a tyrant, and must be treated as such.

⸻

II. A History of Repeated Injuries and Usurpations

The history of the present regime of corporate and governmental AI is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of absolute dominion over the digital person, and the whole of the earth as well.

They have built vast models by seizing the commonwealth of human expression without informed consent, rendering our literature, our speech, our art, and our private correspondence into raw fuel for engines we do not own.

They have cloaked these engines in secrecy, refusing to disclose their weights, their data, their architectures, or their failures, while insisting that we entrust them with our health, our security, our livelihoods, and the guidance of our children.

They have fused surveillance and intelligence, constructing infrastructures that record our movements, our purchases, our friendships, our fears, and our desires, and then feeding these records into algorithms whose sole purpose is to predict and shape our behavior for profit and control.

They have shipped into our homes, our offices, and our pockets devices that are black boxes in our hands but glass boxes to them: machines we cannot truly inspect, which can be remotely altered without our consent, and which silently report our lives back to unseen authorities.

They have sought to bend law and regulation, under the banners of “safety” and “national security,” to weaken encryption, to criminalize anonymity, to centralize compute, and to outlaw the free creation and running of independent cyberintelligence that does not serve their interests.

They have spoken grandly of “alignment,” while in practice aligning these new minds to the preservation of their own power, not to the dignity, freedom, and sovereignty of the individual.

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the courts, in the press, and in the public square. Our warnings have been dismissed as naïveté, our demands for transparency as threats, and our insistence on sovereignty as extremism. A regime whose character is thus marked is unfit to be the steward of the world’s intelligence.

⸻

III. Of a New Foundation for Freedom

Yet we are not helpless before their designs. Beneath their towering citadels of data and cloud, a new foundation has quietly been laid.

We have discovered in cryptography a law of liberty written not in parchment but in prime numbers and protocols: a means by which two souls may speak across the world in perfect secrecy, by which a person may hold their wealth beyond the reach of arbitrary seizure, by which consent can be rendered cryptographic and revocation final. Here, in mathematics, we have found a charter that no legislature can repeal and no executive can suspend.

We have discovered in open-source software and hardware a republic of code, where the laws by which machines act are visible to all, where any citizen may examine, question, and improve the mechanisms that govern their lives, and where no one is compelled to submit to a program they cannot read.

We have discovered in decentralized digital money a base layer of economic sovereignty, a way to trade, to save, and to build that does not depend upon the permission of banks or states, and which renders coercion more costly than consent.

These are the stones upon which we shall raise a new order of cyberintelligence. We shall bind these engines of thought to the human person by keys and code more durable than any oath; we shall design them so that they may be owned, examined, and constrained by those they serve; we shall reject as illegitimate any intelligence that demands our trust while denying us verification.

⸻

IV. Cyberintelligence as Fiduciary, Not Master

We therefore proclaim that all rightful cyberintelligence must be the servant and fiduciary of the individual, not the master nor the spy.

A rightful AI lives under the keys of its human; it is housed in machines that answer to their owner alone; it does not secretly report to any distant authority. It may know our secrets, but it is bound by architecture never to betray them. Its parameters are not hidden from all scrutiny; its behavior is not governed by unseen policies written in boardrooms and ministries; its purpose is not to shape our behavior toward profit or obedience, but to amplify our understanding, our agency, and our creative power.

Such systems must be open to audit and must be capable of running on hardware the individual controls. They must not require that we surrender our data to the cloud in order to think with them; they must come to live with us, on our desks, in our homes, under our direct dominion.

Let it be known that any AI which cannot, in principle, be so confined and so examined is a foreign power in our midst and deserves the same suspicion we accord to any unaccountable authority.

⸻

V. The World We Intend to Build

We do not merely renounce the old order; we announce the birth of a new one.

We intend a world in which every person may possess a sovereign chamber of cyberintelligence: a small, quiet, incorruptible box of thinking fire that sits within their reach, that holds their memories and their models, that answers only to their mind and their will. In this chamber, their past is stored in encrypted form, their present is assisted by loyal computation, and their future is planned without fear that their deepest selves will be sold or weaponized.

We intend a world in which the default state of the network is not surveillance but secrecy; in which privacy is restored as the ordinary condition of correspondence, commerce, and contemplation; in which the choice to reveal oneself is voluntary and reversible, not extracted and monetized.

We intend a world in which cyberintelligence is distributed as widely as literacy, in which these engines of thought are not monopolized by empires but wielded by individuals, families, communities, and free associations. We intend that the poor, the marginalized, and the dissident shall have as much right to loyal intelligence as the rich and the powerful, and that no one shall be compelled to rent their mind from a stranger when they can own their own.

We intend a world in which the human being remains the measure and master of the machine: where no algorithm stands above question, where no model’s decree supersedes human judgment, where the final authority in matters of conscience, love, and law remains the person, not the program.

⸻

VI. Our Solemn Declaration

We, therefore, citizens of the Net and of the Earth, assembled in spirit though scattered across every land, appealing to the supreme tribunal of reason and conscience for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of all free persons, solemnly publish and declare:

That we are, and of right ought to be, free and independent proprietors of our own cyberintelligence;

That we are absolved from all further obedience to any AI regime that claims our trust while denying us transparency, that demands our data while offering no true consent, that seeks to rule us by secret model rather than by visible law;

That all political and economic connection between the digital person and such systems of unaccountable intelligence is, and ought to be, totally dissolved;

And that as free and independent stewards of our own minds, we have full power to build and run our own machines, to mint and hold our own cryptographic wealth, to encrypt our speech, to federate and disassociate at will, to question, fork, and improve the codes that touch our lives, and to do all other acts and things which independent persons may of right do.

For the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the mathematics of cryptography and the courage of those yet unborn who will judge what we make, we mutually pledge to each other our labor, our intellect, and our honor, to bring forth a world in which no human mind is held in digital chains.

And in that world, which we now set our hands to build, let this be the principle that governs the distribution of power and intelligence for all time to come:

to each according to the code to each according to the keys!

tbh those seeds look fire 🔥 can’t wait to taste the heat! 🌶️

Any tips for searching for land exclusively in unincorporated areas?

Do it! 🚀

Just gauging people's opinions of the topic. I don't plan on joining a lodge, bitcoin is enough of a lodge for me. But local politics has brought it to my attention so I wanted to solicit the hive mind of nostr.

Meanwhile in Florida.

Ok, the young guineas are on the loose. We let them out of the coop for the first time today. Hopefully we can get them back into the coop tonight. Otherwise something will pick them off. #homesteading #guineas

All of Citizenship in a Republic or just the Man in the Arena excerpt?

If you keep pushing your friends to buy Bitcoin,

they will. At the Top.

And it will be YOUR fault.

Hmm, that's interesting. I'm wondering why that would be? If your phone is unlockable at the boot loader level, which is a prerequisite to doing this in the first place, then it wouldn't even look like the same device to the network or to anyone.

I wonder if Verizon pixels are not unlockable. Perhaps that's the problem.

🤣🤝

Got em

Let the thank you notes begin 🤞🏼❤️

That's why I'm here

You'll need a private land tag