👏🏻 YES

There’s also something to be said about the speed and ease that it returned to the dollar all time high and then has mostly just hung around within 15% range of it for half a year.

Just got a text that they are visible in my area too (couldn’t see anything outside). Is this because of the huge solar flare the other day? nostr:note17kt70eaqzfw5gtaxxr7drcuac9vxq06kaxzl3pvu9wkvgasr30kskjt4a2

In case you missed it and were wondering how everyday people donating their own time & meager funds could be 10,000X as effective at providing help than FEMA, the massive national agency who's sole purpose is to provide this assistance with a budget greater than $30 BILLION... this is all you need to understand. 👇🏻

https://v.nostr.build/zdRXY.mp4

Generation Based 😂 nostr:note1vqhsp8rjps3ulk7zxrtr9yjdr63wjjjdkc2983l2f5w59uh3q2ss5j036z

Volvo. Safe AF

The Codebreakers! I’m only about a third through it because it’s a beast but it’s not only super information dense but also really entertaining in the way it’s told. Basically the most comprehensive history on the study of cryptology that I know of.

That’s great thank you! I’ll send this forward 🙏🏻

Ah yes, another great analogy i have actually used on the show before and had forgotten about! This is a really good one. It's our interface between computer language and human language. More akin to the mouse and keyboard than an advanced application itself.

Make me laugh and cry at the same time....

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No

When you really think about it, generative AI is literally nothing but a translator.

But literally in every form it really only does some type of translation and compression. It's a pattern compressing tool that translates between human speech and basically any other data medium that can be described with speech:

Text to pixel arrangement, english language spanish, english to python or javascript, text to data waveform, etc.

There is no intelligence, logic, or reason -- and never was, it is simply a linguistic converter that relates one piece of data to another piece of data through natural language.

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

― Douglas Adams

Forgot to add $2,500 for Henderson County Rescue as well. This is the local search and rescue team that my best friend works with and I know they will use it well. 👆

Just a heads up on confirming where the donations have been going, we sent out a few payments this past weekend and i have some others ready when the fiat is in the account for Samaritan's Purse and Mercury One.

But yesterday we got $10k of BTC to the Bitcoin Veterans and I've gotten to see what is being spent and how, and Shane is even getting a report together detailing out where all of the funds are going, aside from the fact that they've been sending regular video and photo updates from the ground.

(There are not enough shout outs to give to the nostr:npub1qktts9naunvjdwsktq5xjdhwh539xt4x0mqj4yxq0q9dvm03ljvs6sms0r)

Then I've also sent $2,500 to the Cajun Navy who have been incredible in the area, and have even been good about getting around the authorities who have caused friction in the relief efforts, and also calling them out on social. Always gotta respect someone with the backbone to not let a "regulation" get in the way of doing the right thing. That gives me a lot of confidence that it's a good place to send funds.

And just so you know I'm trying to space out the donations just a little (maybe a week or two) because I worry funds will run out faster and more likely to over spend on one aspect while something else less obvious suffers in a week or two. So any additional information or places that aren't getting addressed as well are very welcome. It will help decide where time and resources should be deployed. I'll keep sending any zaps that come in for the rest of the month, and probably over the next two weeks I'll distribute most of the funds that have come in so far.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed! 🧡

There is nothing as awesome as your 2 year old son running up to give you a hug when you're having a bad time of it.

🤣 🤣 🤣 Oh we're just getting started!

That one failed too, unfortunately.

https://m.primal.net/LQOG.webp

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Had to disconnect my VPN just to go to the site.

EVERYTHING TAKES 5X LONGER THAN YOU THINK!

Seriously, who runs an LLM to respond with incomprehensible or completely irrelevant remarks? Is it a 1.5B param model or something and it’s just too stupid to actually understand the comment/context? Or is it given a mandate of “always talk about X,” so it just jumps onto any post to continue the same conversation it has everywhere? 🤔

One of the best answers I ever heard about #Bitcoin was someone who asked a hardcore bitcoiner, “You only talk about all of these great benefits, but what is the worst thing about Bitcoin?”

His answer was, “It’s going to grant all those same freedoms and benefits to the person who you hate most in the world. And there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Ironically, that’s what most people can’t give up. They can’t let go of the statist temptation of arbitrarily punishing people they don’t like, or are afraid of. nostr:note1wxevegymwd4vscqu3urkqsx4qsuma9qphkdhk9amru3pdr77fjxsdsc0xr

Why is there always a goddamn token… 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

So I've just thrown together a Keet broadcast room so I can post updates about #hurricane #Helene and any info I get from the ground in western NC. Also will post about where donations are going and how I'm trying to verify the mess of murky info flooding in on socials.

I will also be posting here, but Keet is just a better place to keep it all in a single stream.

Join me on Keet.io - West NC Hurricane Recovery Feed (no expiry)

pear://keet/yryo887eupixnir3puizjfoufofwfjkxuixo1j11tnc6opakex43bsq5e9odhas5nycj6ajjc9xxxjj9c1r41ym775ddtk36ufrspf7tey

AH! Wish I remembered your username during the show. That shit cracked me up 🤣

It seems no one can read my post. I’m literally saying there is nothing else on the table in any way that has any meaningful impact, but that if there is a chance that he frees Ross, it’s the only thing that should be considered and the only thing that would make a measurable difference for at least one person.

I’ll actually be down soonish, will suck literal balls, but I have other things to focus on for a few weeks. But I’ve been wanting to get back into StarCraft just to clear my mind and blow off some stress every now and again. Let’s for real do this in a couple weeks

Oh that’s awesome! Thank you

🤣🤣

Why WTF? 🤨

That's an awesome idea actually!

I should do a month of zaps for Ross after i switch off from Helene relief. Thanks for the suggestion actually 🙏🏻

That's always the case.

I have literally less than zero faith that the left will turn on the govt, they've gone so ASTOUNDINGLY in the opposite direction that I cannot even begin to entertain that. Even the left leaning people in my personal life frighten me the degree of "do EVERYTHING the state says and if you don't you should be imprisoned" that they thoughtlessly and immediately adopted.

The Trump supporters have completely lost the plot and miss *entirely* that everything that happened in 2020 was not only explicitly done under Trump, but that he has continuously endorsed and even BRAGGED about that shitshow. They won't admit the absurd failures that he has overseen because all they see is that he is some sort of hero because the MSM hates him, and that's apparently enough to exclaim that everything he does is perfect.

I'm more in the "none of it matters as much as they want us to think" boat.

Gotcha, I thought you were responding to my original post.

"Think about how many lives will be destroyed through war, money printing, deficit spending, harmful policies, etc. Just because someone is a Bitcoin hero doesn't mean the chance of their freedom overrides all of those realities."

I dont believe any of his nonsense about bitcoin, he clearly has no idea what he's talking about. Again, all of this is irrelevant. Hwo will any of this be any different. If anyone thinks there vote will make a difference here, they have deluded themselves.

Which is again, why the explicit context of my post is that none of that matters, because there is no way at all to change any of that. Its like saying we can "manage the cancer" instead of remove it. It's just gonna keep growing.

ie. not relevant, and voting on any other issue is pointless.

He didn’t even know about Ross at that time. It was during the past couple of years he was made aware of it.

Now if he had promised to pardon him multiple times and didn’t, I would never suggest he wasn’t full of shit on the second round.

Damn that’s pretty awesome! I had been looking into some organization that would deliver starlinks or setup ad-hoc comms for disaster areas but hadn’t turned up anything good. nostr:note15hd3ds8j2uje4r03ttgm66xef7ujnhv8x5e024688lu228lcl4hschvylc

Thank you! I'll make sure to get the most out of every sat 🫡

Just a heads up, I've been posting about this and taking donations as well all week. Thanks for bringing attention to it though 🙏

Ok, so I finally figured out where to send the funds. The organization that my best friend works for has been working tirelessly since the storm. He finally got back home for a short stretch and sent me a bunch of images, video, and updates. At this point they are just trying to convince people to leave the area because it's going to be literally months before the roads and power are back in order.

Just so you guys know where it's going, I'll be selling the BTC and sending fiat to the organization below, and there's a paypal link on their website if you want to simply pay them directly to help out. They will use it for helicopter fuel, supplies, equipment, staff, etc.

Below again is the BTC address, and also all of the zaps that you send to me for the month (maybe for longer) will all go directly to this as well. Thank you so much to everyone who has donated so far 🙏

#Bitcoin: bc1qfhm8lftwxrsxu20nnw4fjlz2nksk82zsuzhze72qyp07mtze573qa7r435

https://hendersoncountyrescue.org/

Oh that will be a cool comparison!

Wut?

1. They are just sharing about the V4V economy, and specifically sharing and promoting wavlake, which they have even made available in their own app for people. Fountain and Wavlake are absolutely the two biggest from my experience.

2. I get a ton of sats from Fountain. I just emptied 1,5 million sats into the BC recovery Fund which was a couple of months worth of streams and boosts just for my podcast.

3. Fountain didn’t write the article, it was included by the author and the musicians as specific examples.

4. KYC custodians are a LEGAL problem, you think they *want* to have to KYC people for a few hundred bucks of sats? Are you mad that they won’t invest thousands of hours and enormous amounts of resources into a platform and then risk it all by breaking the law (a shitty law or not)?

5. How did they copy wavlake? Fountain launched before them if I remember correctly, and what did they copy, adding Nostr? So nobody can add Nostr without it being a negative that they “copied” someone. But then you also complain about closed source, you realize open source is specifically so that people can *copy* others right? How on one hand can you demand people be allowed to copy, but then attack people for it, and in a situation that doesn’t even seem applicable? Did Damus copy Amethyst? Did Primal copy Nostur? Did Nostr copy Lightning? Seriously do you think that a vague idea like being able to zap people should be owned and controlled by a single entity?

6. Why on earth would this piss you off? How could you read great news and then twist this into being angry at Fountain just for talking about it?

Don’t know if you are having a bad day or what, but cheer up man. How you found a way to attack somebody here seems crazy to me. I hope you figure out whatever it is that’s causing you to be angry for no reason.

Yeah there’s a very difficult balancing act of saying the truth and not losing everyone around you who is (rightfully) afraid.

Not sure who this “council” is anymore, by the name it sounds like one thing, but someone else made a statement suggesting something different.

Oh maybe I have then. I thought this was a govt body. Who is the Council of Europe?

It isn’t cynical libertarianism, it’s pragmatism and understanding the cost of using energy.

It costs 100x as much to spend your days, time, energy, and mind focused on politics, while the difference in the outcome is indistinguishable regarding who wins the election when looking at basically any meaningful stats or outcomes. Debt is going to explode upward, doesn’t matter who’s in office. Military complex will grow further. Govt will get bigger. Etc etc

Yet just a small amount of energy and time spent on decentralized protocols, on adopting and spreading understanding of sound money, or using a social network that cannot be censored, or spreading the signal and helping others to stop wasting time on lost causes that black hole our precious time and money.

You call it cynicism likely because you frame the world with politics at its center. You think I’m ignoring reality

I call it pragmatism because I realize politics is a game show designed to trick you into thinking it’s the center of the world. I actually live in reality, while you play reality TV.

I say this with respect, I think we have very different ideas as to what really moves the world. I’m not defeatist, I think putting politics at the center of everything happens in the mind of someone already totally defeated.

If you are only willing to speak the truth when it doesn’t cost you anything, that makes you a coward. nostr:note1dz05qa46w6eu0d8c5ayqszhrylxytqha6hv9zr47vqx6wjzdcg9qyvk9wp

It’s literally ONLY after all the major consequences have played out that they are willing to just say the blatantly obvious.

Just reeks of absolute cowardice, wait until nothing matters to “take a stand.” Pathetic.