You ever see a cloud and you’re like “damn, that’s a fluffy ass cloud?”

There are signs everywhere 🙂

Rising political populism is an immune response to structural imbalances.

Many people think this trade war just happened out of nowhere. There's some truth to that, meaning that Trump didn't have to engage in it in the way he did. But you have to look back several steps to get a bigger picture.

The way the dollar reserve currency system is structured, the world needs an ever-growing number of dollars, and the US supplies those dollars via a permanent trade deficit. Those two aspects are joined at the hip. This hollows out the US industrial base, and hurts some regions (e.g. the Midwest) and helps others (e.g. NYC and DC).

Eventually those cumulative imbalances get so big, combined with other imbalances as well, that political realignments shift in generationally important ways. The "blue wall", referring to the northern part of the Midwest that's at the center of the rust belt and historically voted Democrat, has shifted Republican or otherwise become more mixed. The trade deficit and other imbalances have become front and center.

Establishment-type folks are going to keep being blindsided by this type of thing as long as the imbalances persist. They're going to keep pointing to one-time phenomenon, like one specific election, or one specific person, but really it's the underlying imbalance that's at the heart of it.

Buzzbot @ Nostr

Ich habe auf Nostr gerade ein neues Feature ausprobiert, den BUZZBOT

Während man auf Twitter und anderen zentralen Plattformen selbst das Produkt ist, kann man auf Nostr nun Reichweite mit Sats erzielen, indem man die Community zur Interaktion anregt

Wie?

In den Post fügst du:

@buzzbot und den Betrag in Satoshis, den du "verteilen" möchtest ein

Beispiel:

@buzzbot 5000

Du erhältst dann, evtl auch in den "Sonstigen", eine private Nachricht vom Buzzbot. Es ist eine schlichte Lightning Invoice (Rechnung), die du innerhalb von 15 Min. begleichst.

Es gibt eine Gebühr in Höhe von 10%.

Also zahlst du 5500 Satoshis

Follower können, in dem sie mit meinem Post interagieren, nun automatisch an der Verlosung einer sog. "Bounty" teilnehmen, also einen kleinen Gewinn erhalten.

Bisher teilt Buzzbot das in

70/10/10/10 auf

Diese Aufteilung ist NOCH fix

Hier nochmal mein Post auf Nostr:

Let's try this

@buzzbot 5000

Quizfrage

Warum brauchten die Spanier (Hernan Cortes) für die Eroberung des Aztekenreiches lediglich zwei Jahre, für das Volk der Apachen jedoch 250 Jahre?

Warum das alles? Lesen wir erneut:

✅ 5000-sats noch 24h Schatzsuche !

Gewinne in vier verschiedenen Kategorien:

- der Top zapper erhält 3500 sats

- ein zufälliger Like gewinnt 500 sats

- ein zufälliger Repost gewinnt 500 sats

- ein zufälliger Kommentar gewinnt 500 sats

Während ihr auf zentralen Plattformen mit euren Daten zahlt man auf dem dezentralen Protokoll Nostr für seine Anhänger

Ich entscheide über Summe X und rege euch an, mit meinem Post zu interagieren, da ihr Satoshis gewinnen könnt

Ich finde diese Art und Weise deutlich charmanter als auf zentralen Plattformen mit giveaways zu arbeiten um nach Interaktion zu "betteln" wobei im wesentlichen die zentrale Plattform den Gewinn einstreicht

Und was gewinne ich?

Nun, die Spekulation wäre, mehr Zaps zu erhalten, als die Bounty groß ist.

Weiterhin kann ich mehr Aufmerksamkeit und Reichweite erzielen, wenn mir mein Post besonders wichtig ist, weil ich viel Zeit und Arbeit investiert habe

Nach einer Stunde...👍

Sobald Nutzer die Funktionalität des Bots verinnerlicht haben, dürften diese Zahlen weiter steigen

Ich werde aber lange nicht jeden Post mit einer Bounty versehen, ich werde nur Recherchen und Posts mit gewisser Wichtigkeit (für mich) damit versehen

Mein Fazit: funktioniert und ist eine tolle Sache

GM

I know a lot of MAGA people are annoyed by the constant comparisons of Trump to the Nazis, but it would be a lot easier to not do that if his administration didn't constantly introduce new measures that are the *exact same thing* the Nazis did.

For reference, as it seems that many are not aware of this, building gigantic databases of medical records starting in 1933 – with the help of IBM – is exactly what made the Nazi's Holocaust so efficient. Under the law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, private medical records were made available to the Government so the administration could more easily track people to be sterilized, deported, and sent to death- and working camps.

If people spent as much time reading about the Holocaust as they did bitching about people being big meanies to king trumpy, they would know this, by the way.

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INB4 "they're just building a database" ah ok then

One of the challenges of fiction is to balance pacing between action and downtime.

My draft sci fi novel is relatively fast-paced, but doesn't push it to the limit as some of those non-stop action stories do. There are moments where characters have more "slice of life" days, or moments of emotion or contemplation, etc. Periods for the characters and reader to catch their breath before something big happens.

However, one thing I try to do is make it so that each of those slower moments serves a *double purpose*. When reading those chapters, the reader's initial takeaway is that it was for character building and so forth, and is potentially skippable. But then later in the novel, some character aspect or worldbuilding aspect revealed in each of those chapters ends up being more important than they realized at the time. Like playing chess against someone and a few of their moves seem random or unneeded, but then it comes together into a surprise checkmate where each move was indeed deliberate to help set it up. That's the goal, anyway.

One of the first-wave beta readers of my sci fi manuscript noticed this, and it was one of my favorite pieces of feedback so far. He felt some of the slower moments could be trimmed in the moment and wrote those moments down, but by the end was basically like, "nevermind, I see now, keep literally all of those."

GM 💜☕️

Sun is shining in Berlin.

Let’s get a quick early run in 🏃‍♀️

Geldgeschichte nicht sudiert? Der Fiat Standard selbst ist sozialistisch-marxistisch. Nein! Doch!!!! Ohhhhhh

5. “Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.” - The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx, 1848 ✊ 🚩🚩🚩🚩

So, und jetzt les mal mehr Bücher mein Lieber.

Auf Kollektivistisches Gedankengut gehört uriniert. Karl Marx, Adolf H. Und Josef Stalin sind sozialistischer Abschaum. Hunderte Millionen Leichensäcke haben sie gefüllt, diese dreckigen Demagogen.

GM

Easter over. I did not eat one chocolate bunny. You?

🇷🇺🇮🇷Putin Just Signed a 20-Year Power Pact with Iran

and It Could Reshape the #MiddleEast Forever.

🚨 On April 21, 2025, Putin ratified a comprehensive strategic partnership with Iran. covering defense, energy, finance, counterterrorism, logistics, and more.

It’s not a formal “war pact,” but make no mistake: this is a clear challenge to US dominanc in the region.

Key clause?

Neither country will support any military conflict involving the other.

Translation: They’ve drawn a red line, together.

And it’s not just #Iran.

#Russia and #SaudiArabia have quietly built ties since 2021, including military cooperation agreements and OPEC+ coordination to steer global oil prices.

Two historical rivals, now playing on the same board.

Meanwhile…

• Russia is shipping record gas volumes to #China, settling more in yuan, not dollars

• Europe still depends on Russian #gas via Ukraine, even as war rages

• US defense spending hit $892.5 billion in 2025, the highest in history

• And the multipolar world isn’t a theory, it’s actively under construction

While politicians talk peace, the real game is control:

Pipelines. Currencies. Trade routes. Alliances.

What we’re watching isn’t a pivot #Nostr. It’s a geostrategic endgame.

The old world runs on oil.

The new world runs on alignment, printing money, and #Bitcoin to bypass sanctions.

And as always, the pawns never get to play.