⚡️🐳 FYI - Whale milk is nearly 50% fat and so thick it barely mixes with water, letting calves drink straight from the ocean.

Russell Napier is one of my favorite macro analysts that I've learned a lot from over the years. Had the chance to meet him at a dinner the other day and discuss macro with him.

Him and I often have similar macro views and a focus on the topic of fiscal dominance and the financial repression that follows. But an area of historic difference is that he has viewed Bitcoin as unlikely to win. He has viewed it as something that governments will ultimately not allow to function once the gloves come off and financial repression gets real from the major powers.

So I discussed that with him, since while I acknowledge that threat as being real, I think Bitcoin is a solid foundation to push back with. But in addition, I also highlighted Nostr, and decentralized comms and social media in general.

Back in the 1930s-1940s when the US banned gold ownership and implemented yield curve control (hard core financial repression), information moved slowly. A lot of information was one-directional. It was hard for people to coordinate with each other at large scales.

But social media changes the game entirely. People can meme about it in real time. Government and central bank social media accounts can get ratio'd. Maybe one day they'll try to put a stop to that on centralized social media platforms, but that's why the decentralized protocols are so important. The tools are simply much better today, making that type of smooth and coordinated financial repression harder to do since all of their reasons can be dissected and dunked on in real time.

Gm

Unnecessary fact:

Chocolate cake will always and forever be my last choice. Some people find that very hard to compute.

I'll have a chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream or cream of some sort to balance the richness of the chocolate, but I was always a white chocolate / vanilla flavour kid and that's not changed since 😂

Cake fruit, vanilla, Victoria sponge cake, red velvet (dash of chocolate there)... 🤤

Now I want cake.

Good morning nostr, we're sitting in the dark because our power's been out since 1:30 this morning. We had a very strong storm blow in, so my huband just got the generators going and plugged the freezers in. One of the generators started sputtering and quit, but we can move the other one around if needed. He starts up the generators every couple months, and this is the first time we've had a problem with one. But we have plenty of emergency lights around the house, and if the power doesnt return soon, i have a little butane stove to make coffee. Anyway, not a great way to start the day, but it'll be ok. Yall have a great saturday, enjoy your coffee, and remember that today is a gift (even when there's no power). #coffeechain #PowerOutage

#GM #Nostr

Never give up spreading #freedom

Nunca dejes de difundir la #libertad

#grownostr #hispano #hola

GM #nostr

gm, good people. ☕ Have a great weekend.

⚡️💬 NEW - Pavel Durov (Telegram): "I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating.

Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.

What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.

Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU).

Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy.

A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away.

We’ve been fed a lie.

We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.

By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.

So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. WE are running out of time."

Gm

GM 😎

Gm

“I’m not wearing hockey pads”

As most freedom tech projects are maintained by hobbyist developers it comes with no surprise to find that the average UX sucks (Zapstore is no exception).

We need more *products* with freedom tech. More teams. More funding.