Be ungovernable

Do not accept the pre-established

Have courage

Speak your mind

Don't lie

Respect

Stand up for yourself

Be wrong

Fight back

Stand up

Honor

Dignity

Peace

Think

Act

Discipline

The great deeds of a person are, in reality, the projection of their small daily actions, both for good and for bad.

Be a man and be remembered as a brave man, and above all, a good man.

Is there anyone who is *strongly* interested in being an early round beta reader for my sci fi manuscript?

Near-future sci-fi, crime/thriller/cyberpunk. A blend of action and multi-character depth, and moral analysis. The action is key and all, but alpha readers thus far cried at the character aspects; that's what hit them hard enough to care how they would engage with the action.

Strict Requirements for first-stage beta readers:

-I need to know/trust you personally, either in person or very well online with high reputation, to the point that I'd send an unfinished manuscript to you. There's no strict requirements, but if you know, you know.

-You like sci fi and/or fantasy books, and would be happy to read and offer objective (even brutal) feedback on a sci-fi action/crime thriller novel within the next month or two.

-You can comment or DM, for privacy sake.

That's a small group, but I'm putting it here on Nostr first for what I consider my pre-beta or readers. I will then expand 10x on Twitter and elsewhere for my full beta readers.

Meanwhile, I'm in the early revision stage. Manuscripts won't be sent out immediately. I'm still doing revisions and working with alpha readers, but I'm at the stage where I can start *planning* for the next step to see who might be interested to be early beta readers. Nostr folks get the exclusive early notice here.

I do tend to move pretty fast, though.

All pre-beta readers that provide meaningful input would be mentioned in the acknowledgement section, if the book were to be published, which of course I cannot guarantee will happen. I will only publish good books, one way or another.

But like, the alpha readers do like it. ;)

lol every dad knows how true this is

So Stacker News is removing Lightning from the site?

#asknostr

I told my mother about bitcoin for years and she was like “yeah, cool, nah.” She’s in her 70s.

And then I was like “The HRF eg @gladstein is doing cool shit for human rights with bitcoin.”

And once I showed her some examples, she was like “holy shit” and joined their newsletter and is like 110% onboard with their mission. She reads their newsletters more than me now, and asks me questions about them, so I have to catch up on them to answer her stuff.

She still doesn’t own Bitcoin but is like, reading every HRF email and asking me about them and totally onboard.

From my understanding they are also socializing IRL much less.

They seem to go hand in hand.

Sobriety in today’s society has a stigma of weakness. A stigma of “what happened.”

When in reality, it’s strength and I appreciate the hell out of it.

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This is a work of art plain and simple. It evoked emotion in me. I’d hang it on my wall.

There are bitcoin ladies?

Operation Drink a Ton of Wine ✅

Ya’ll want Nostr Lyn to write a sci fi novel in whatever spare time she has, or get back to finance?

I think people on the left want to feel like they are fighting for something, but they will only fight for issues once they are basically solved because they are mostly cowards. Race & homosexuality aren't actually serious issues anymore which means the most cowardly can feel safe acting like they are fighting some grand evil that they have simply imagined. And in so doing their irrationality & their effort to find or create some pushback to confirm the belief that there is actually a struggle, causes them to behave in ways that are horrible & ultimately foster a deeply unhealthy culture, which then becomes associated with all the things they claim to defend, granting legitimate reasons to oppose anyone associated with any of it. I think the "progressive" left is more destructive to gay people than any group of bigots could ever hope to be.

#Asknostr nostr:note12h56swjeu2a988usdtn743dl730sevcv0a7uty9rt6hps88lkfeqtgkyvd

nostr 🤝 AI 🤝 bitcoin

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- open permissionless interoperable protocols for money and communication will become the standard way to interact with AI

- machines need to communicate without centralized third parties - nostr is ideal

- machines need to be able to receive and send payments without centralized third parties - bitcoin is ideal

Few understand this but it will be incredibly obvious in hindsight.