gm!
I don't trust the Sunday Times,
or these dollar bills that turn into dimes.
When paper turns to dust I still say
ooo in you I trust.
The book really is great. I've always felt that, between the two of them, Huxley and Orwell got it right. The dystopian future that were living in is like a remix of both.
Haven't seen the crap show, but I assume that's what the soma is for.
There's certainly a sense in which this is true: attempting to enforce equality of outcomes certainly does kill liberty.
But not all the inequality we see in the world today is the result of free choices: much inequality is created by state privilege. The example that should be obvious to any Bitcoiner is the way banks benefit from being close to the proverbial money printer, as well as bailouts and government-enforced restrictions on competition.
I think it's an open question whether we'd see more or less inequality in a truly free world.
Simplicity? Or authenticity?
For starters, Twitter can't afford to get banned from Apple's app store. If Twitter had done it, it would have been some kind of emasculated custodial bullshit that took a big cut off every transaction. So maybe it's just as well.
The notes are still there. If I had to bet, I'd guess that the PRC's disinformation army is busy voting them down on Community Notes.
gm & a blessed x-day to you
No need to use the subjunctive mood here.
I suspect we would do well to go back and take a look at WAIS, which was the road not taken for Internet content when centralized search engines and directories won out. Just as nostr is a lot like a better Usenet, maybe we can steal some ideas for creating decentralized search?
Agreed. If 1 sat is ever valuable enough that we'd care, no one is going to be doing small transactions on-chain anyway. Millisats working just fine on Lightning already.
Can it also let me read Snow Crash for the first time again?
