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FiddleHodlHomestead
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Violinist and teacher, building a homestead on raw land in between lessons and concerts. Fascinated by how we can develop resilience in our lives, in our families, in our communities. I'm excited about freedom tech and circular economies, and am deeply grateful for the devs and advocates who are helping build tools for a better future.

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A student accuses @jk_rowling of being transphobic. This teacher dissects the claim and challenges it by asking questions.

He teaches not what to think, but how to think critically.. Epiphany in real-time.

I don't know who Jk Rowling is, but I love the way this man rationally humbled the student with real critical-thinking. Moar.

I loved this!! What an awesome teacher

I have no idea who this person is, but props for such a full apology.

I suspect there's going to be more of this. Much easier to discourage VPNs this way than to outright ban them.

Yes, totally agree. Given the dysfunctional system, I know where I'd prefer the money go. But without the dysfunctional system, we wouldn't need the subsidies (not because we'd magically have utopia, but because it would allow for a healthy economic ecosystem).

I'm actually not sure if it's open source (probably not?) but I love Obsidian. You can cross-reference notes as much as you want, so that you could - for instance - take an insight from soil biology and link it to something happening in your local community AND to a note about sheep fodder AND to a series of notes about your compost experiments AND to your 2024 pasture plans - without ever moving the individual notes into folders.

I know that you asked about segregation, and Obsidian can do that (folders, vaults) but the magic of cross-pollinating your knowledge and ideas is that you don't have to do that unless you have a particularly compelling reason to. You can avoid creating silos for ideas.

Also the notes live on your device in a simple format (I don't remember what it's called - markdown text, maybe?)

Great points about folks picking a side. I think it's been one of the main sources of complete bewilderment as I watch the last few years and it explains so much of the mess that we see around us.

Regarding farmer protests: I keep debating this question in my head. Subsidies distort the market - no doubt - but we're talking about citizen money that used to go to farming and now will go to windmills and bureaucracy. Within our current system, I'd rather that $ go to farmers, especially in Europe where most farms are much smaller than they are in the US - I think? - and where govt policies seem to have sort of worked in keeping good food available to the public.

But of course keeping the subsidies further entrenches certain powers and moves us further from free markets, small actors, and innovation. I don't know... whenever I get to this point in thinking about something it just re-affirms to me the importance of building a new system.

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For context re: Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre and why there should be no mercy.

My life changed completely on March 29th, 2019. Almost five years ago now.

I had made several tweets, warning people about Craig Wright, and making my opinion about him clear. A matter of very public interest.

I was sent a legal letter on twitter DM, where it was made clear that I either had to apologize and acknowledge Craig as Satoshi, or they would file a libel case against me in UK.

When I didn't comply, Craig and Calvin put a public $5000 bounty on my identity and then firmly doxxed me after finding out who I was.

They proceeded to put private intelligence surveillance on me, that have tried to gain access to my social circle, both online and physically. Presence in 100s of groups. Monitoring my house. Producing regular, detailed reports on all my activity. Travelled where I travelled and so on. And god knows what else. This is still going on today.

I have been continuosly smeared and lied about on social media and in Coingeek, the publication owned by Calvin.

Threatened directly/personally with bankruptcy and worse by Calvin and his followers on twitter, with my real name, on countless occasions.

Anonymous phone calls with indirect threats.

My dad was fighting against cancer when this all started. I was dealing with constant legal pressure and threats throughout his fight. When he finally died late 2020, the legal pressure was at a peak and my funding situation was uncertain.

I've had to give up tons of private communication in discovery, to prove I had not been behind "an organized and vicious campaign against Craig."

I've had to turn down professional opportunities, since a good percentage of my bandwidth has been continuously occupied with defending myself legally. The amount of legal letters, hearings, appeals, judgments etc are beyond belief.

I've lived since 2019, with the constant knowledge that my house and belongings are on the line, and Craig's stated goal of bankrupting his enemies would be reality if I lost.

All the while I've tried to, and largely managed, to shield my child and family as well as possible, but I know all of this has put stress on them as well.

No mercy for these people.

Only Welcome to Law.

Unbelievable.

I hope they feel the full force of law and karma.

Good morning, beautiful Nostr folks!

I was doing fine before coming here but am so happy to have found this community. Feels good to interact online with a group of folks whose thoughts I genuinely want to hear.

Hope you all have a great day.

#grownostr

occasionally they wrap themselves around their stake but it's not usually a big problem. The brush that they're in isn't that intense, though. It was probably bush-hogged just before we got the land about 2 years ago.

Regenerative > sustainable 🤩

I've recently realized that one of the best things I can do for the environment is eat ruminant meat from our homestead or a nearby regenerative farm.

nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe : "regulators protect the monopolies"

Using Ivan Illich’s idea of radical monopolies to extend that insight: the establishment protects not just the corporations that dominate certain industries but the arbitrary assumptions which underlie those industries.

For example, FDA protects specific pharmaceutical companies, but the entire establishment - media, politicians, schools - defends the medicalization of our health.

It goes so much deeper than the regulatory capture that we often complain about.