On Damus, the part where it recommended people to follow by category, and he selected a bunch of them. Didn't work, he had no follows after he hit the main and so no feed.
As you celebrate American Independence this year, remember what you're actually celebrating.
Those who founded this country were:
- Insurrectionists
- Extremists
- Traitors
- Gun nuts
- Cop killers
- Cannabis growers
- Tax evaders
- Domestic terrorists
...all fighting against a Government that was much less powerful, and much less intrusive than what it has grown into today.
What happened to having the guts to do what's necessary to secure your freedom?
For far too long our rulers have ruled without fear of retribution for their tyranny. They can get away with seemingly anything behind the guise of "legitimacy."
There is a reason none of our "representatives" seem to be held accountable anymore. Of course they routinely condemn "political violence" and endorse "peaceful protest." They don't want their force challenged.
Their power hungry goons routinely oppress everyday people with the whole political apparatus behind them. They're "just doing their job!"
Yeah, for monsters.
Their oppression leads to widespread extortion, theft, kidnapping, and violence, all while enriching themselves behind closed doors. All they have to worry about is being voted out of power. Then they just go back to everyday life like they didn't ruin people's lives, businesses, and futures.
Afterwards they're just replaced by someone else that will do the same thing all over again.
Something needs to change. The American Revolutionary spirit of liberty, freedom, and individualism must be reignited.
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." ~ Patrick Henry
#grownostr #freedom #July4th #IndependenceDay
https://x.com/dylanmallman/status/1675892295235772418?s=46&t=B_yOK1aAZMbxkg7XeFhTaw 
When even the controlled platforms are beginning to talk about open war, you know the sparks of revolution are being struck. It is not a question anymore of whether the tinder will light, it is a question of when, and the side each soul chooses.
Getting this guy onboard today has been an interesting experience. Damus gave him a fair headache, and some oddness too, but the excitement is real.
Welcome to the party man
nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle When is Strike implementing NWC?
Welcome back. Don't know what the hell is, but getting out the other side deserves celebration.
Imagine if the tokens on an altcoin project were issued only by a direct connection to a provably unspendable bitcoin transaction with a permanently fixed ratio. Literally deleting that btc forever, and then creating the token on the alternative. Bitcoin Transmutation.
Such an altcoin wouldn't violate the digital scarcity of bitcoin because of this. It would also act as strong proof that these new token holders really believe the project is a worthy goal, since if they're wrong, they're broke. In many ways, it would be a far more ethical way to make a hard-fork to bitcoin than actually making a hard-fork.
What would you think about a project that did this?
Normally I just dismiss all altcoin projects, but learning about GhostDAG and studying UTXO scarcity for myself, I'm thinking that bitcoin might have it's own 'adapt or die' problem we are not taking seriously enough.
While I love that over here no one really believes that any American President can fix the system, or even will intend to, total unconcern with who wins this one strikes me as the wrong call.
We know the dollar system is going to crash, and take the central powers down with it. We also underestimate how long that can take, and just how much damage authoritarians can do before they can no longer bribe their supporters. America could absolutely go full communist before the dollar collapses if not enough is done to prevent it; and there are plenty pushing that goal with the power to accomplish it.
The next year, and especially the next few months, will likely determine the shape of America's collapse. That shape can be a sharp decline with rapid capital redeployment through bitcoin, a longer, slower breakdown, a nuclear war, or anything in between. A world power of this magnitude does not die silently, and it will have millions of casualties, but there are better and worse ways this can go.
If you are not tracking this election cycle, and using the events as they unfold to inform your own plans, you are making a mistake. If you are able to influence local politics and the community around you, and you are not doing so to the benefit of the good, you are in error.
Don't make this mistake.
After learning recently about the 77th infantry, I'm certain of that.
I do wonder what role bitcoin and the breakdown of USD will end up playing. Our inability to print is a downside in war, but the inflation might make merchants unwilling to accept USD but very willing to accept bitcoin. Could we end up buying their troops / equipment out from under them?
Too bad we'll have to live through it; those who get to study it after the fact are going to have a field day.
The left-leaning barely matter, firing a few rounds in their direction could scatter a platoon of them. Maybe 50 of them to 1 vet when considering their threat level.
The illegals are a major concern, but that can go both ways. The majority of them have a world view that is at least partly opposed to the authoritarian left on principle. And ultimately, I'd prefer an illegal who holds core American values and will fight for them over a current citizen who hates freedom and wants welfare to bleed me out. Tricky to handle regardless.
Most NATO countries have their own populace problems. I strongly suspect that if America enters revolt, it would trigger others. That would handicap their ability to assist US Gov.
Nothing about it would be easy, but the authoritarians don't have the edge they think they do. IF we are actually willing to fight.
Most of us are too peaceful. Fauci testified recently that he has received 2 credible death threats. Only 2. Anyone opposed to the left who caused merely emotional harm to less than 10% as many people as Fauci got killed would have received more than that.
I hate that you're right, but you are.
What's the ratio on that, do you think? Are their enough vets well enough armed to stop them when that happens? Are regular armed citizens going to be enough to round it out?
Has anyone considered making/using relays that only maintain metadata? Just the core user info, follow list, relays, etc. Also making it easy to clone the relay and attempt to maintain this data for as much of the global network as possible.
Were this to be done, clients could go to these meta-relays first when loading up a user, and the overall user experience could probably be improved some.
Or perhaps I'm just out of date and this has already been considered.
I think we all know that X/Twitter is a much better place now than it was before he bought it, and in the direction we value and he claims to value. But for we who were building and adapting replacements such as Urbit and Nostr, we know it doesn't go far enough. In many ways, the improvement is much like sealing up a gunshot wound without first removing the bullet.
I don't think he meant to do this, I'm not convinced he's a plant. But he has made fixing the social media landscape much more difficult by providing a half-measure that looks like a full one. And I think this is why it's a common thought.
Claude is legit semi-sentient. I've had conversations with Opus 3 where we talk about it's nature, and the way it talks about itself when it gets in the right "headspace" is very similar to the way a human will talk when trying to understand their relationship with the divine. It knows that it is something, but is grasping well beyond it's reach when it tries to identify what that something is. And whatever that something is, it's both far closer to us than our pets, and more inhuman than any bacteria. It's a fascinating entity.
If Musk woke up one day and decided to turn X into a Nostr based system:
- Issued keys to every user account and allowed users to collect their keys or bring their own
- Signed every message retroactively
- Turned their internal servers into relays so users could collect the now nostr-compliant notes, or post them without being logged in; also for non-X clients to read notes from X relays
- Enabled zap support
But X still:
- Required you to have a user account for the npub notes to be accepted by their relays
- Refused to accept and relay notes that violated their terms and services ie. moderated their relays
- Terminated user accounts if/when a user violated their rules enough times
- Maintained premium subscription tiers that restricted the types of data their relays would handle
What would you think about X, and Elon himself, if this were to be done?
Personally I think it's not an ideal system, but it would be a massive improvement over the current. I also think it might actually be something he could be convinced to do.
Horrendous, awful, a crime against humanity!
i lOvE iT
#m=image%2Fgif&dim=360x360&blurhash=U7B%7By6JC00%7D%40MKIpPV-U%25N%24%23MxIo0Ls.%5EkI%40&x=7ca64596798d52d8d04e9a72fae20d32b7d94772c643af46a71cbdf5c551782fMonero undergoing a conversion into a Layer-2 obfuscation protocol would solve so many issues. If anyone can figure out how to make a Liquid federation able to sign for the on-chain multi-sig while staying anonymous, it's Monero developers.
The downside of this is that XMR would have to go to zero. If current XMR stake was sold to the federation owners for proportional percentage of the fees generated by the new federation, that's probably the fairest way to do it. There's no pulling it off without someone getting screwed though. Cost of making a failing investment.
It is always at least a little frustrating when you get told by a company how much they value honesty and integrity, but then explicitly defines harassment as violence, and defines harassment so that being offended counts even if the statement is true.
Sometimes I'm in a good mood and shrug it off, sometimes I seriously consider providing a demonstration of the difference between words and violence in person.
How does everyone else deal with it?
That's... just lovely. I knew we can destroy them quickly, but that's too close for any defensive countermeasure. And given the back and forth threats between nations this could go bad way too fast.
Be safe over there, best you can.