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Director of Government Affairs, Bitcoin Policy Institute

From Poetic Outlaws this AM:

All My Life I've Been Waiting - Harold Norse

All my life I've been waiting

for something unusual to happen.

I may yet come into a windfall,

National Endowment of the Hearts.

All my life I've been expecting

a grand finale, an awakening,

love erupting in the streets,

in the bars, in classrooms,

everyone dropping their guard,

their pants, their skirts,

cops weeping tenderly

as they snap off your cuffs,

bankers giving away their money,

politicians telling the truth,

literary critics confessing

that they know nothing

about writing or life.

All my life I've been waiting

for something unusual to happen.

The snow seems to have stopped. Time to get shoveling!

Replying to Avatar Guy Swann

GM

GM to you, Mr. Swann!

Costco in Pentagon City, on a Sunday, day before a major snow storm…..

Really bad call🥺

Just turned the last page of the first volume of Iain McGilchrist’s “The Matter With Things.” 750-something pages is a lot to take in, but I have to say, I’m itching to start volume two. As much time as it takes, it repays you infinitely more.

I’ve spent more time in Aroostook County than I’d care to admit or remember. Although the people were great. But not much going on in Limestone.

There are only so many red pills I can scarf down before I start to believe that might be true. Nevertheless, hope springs eternal.

I’m increasingly feeling like it’s time to move back to America. The DC area is grinding on me. When you live and work in DC, it almost doesn’t matter who is in the White House, or who controls Congress. There’s a rhythm to it that invariably funnels you toward a certain way of living. Not to mention it’s too crowded, too expensive, and everyone is really important - just ask them!

Where to go, #AskNostr? I grew up in NY, not going back there. I like the idea of the west, a place like Boise? Or there’s always the Nashville area. I dig the vibe there.

Replying to Avatar The Bird

TLDR: no more smart watch data harvesting back to basics this year. nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqpr9mhxue69uhhxetwv35hgtnwdaekvmrpwfjjucm0d5klqft7 is right smart watches are just another tracker and data collector harvesting your info to sell.

So for Christmas my present was the new version of a Casio protrek watch. I had tried a Garmin the previous year. While the functionality is great it just isn't my thing.

I've been working on improving my privacy practices and it was just another tracking beacon with an account tied to it. I didn't put all the demographic information into the account correctly or at all. Still it collected data on me for a year.

Needless to say back to an analog/digital dumb watch for me. Main thing I wanted it for was the barometer and compass function. I can just estimate the rest of the information I got from it.

https://believeintherun.com/gps-run-tracking-privacy-policies/

Remember a few years back when a basic Fitbit app doxed the locations of US soldiers in Syria. Now your Apple Watch has a barometer, altimeter, gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, temperature sensor, and who knows what else. And not to mention your biometric data.