Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago.

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“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Matters to whom, though.

To twist a phrase, "Not your dogma, not your meaning."

Anyone have experience with SAFE agreements and willing to offer insights?

#asknostr

In the immortal words of Eminem...

"Now you see why I don't sleep, not even a wink, I don't blink

I don't doze off, I don't even nod to the beats

I don't even close my fuckin' eyes when I sneeze"

I do think the framework can be applied in either direction, and that it's less important which direction is 'correct' as long as we recognize our role in the systems. I've had thoughts that the Big Bang that began what we experience as spacetime could be an emergent level itself, and if we just change the direction it could certainly have emanated from a higher level, thus making the metaverse the next level emanant from the Universe level. I've always had the opinion that there was more to the universe than we know, or can know, I just didn't know how much of my own time I wanted to spend contemplating it, especially since we are at the crossroads of choice on which direction we want our civilization to go.

AI slop is an engagement problem, nostr is not engagement based it is value based.

Good afternoon,

How do we put more people on to nostr ?

Authoritarianism is a human default

Oh my blockers are on, don't worry about that 😄

An embryo is not a life.

Current framework, still evolving:

"On the canvas of Space and Time, the Universe emerges through Matter as substance, Energy as flow, Physics as rules, and Chemistry as the gateway to complexity. Consciousness bridges physical and abstract reality, generating a new dimensional substrate: Form-Network-Consensus. Upon this foundation, civilization builds the Metaverse through four systems: Capital as the velocity that transforms stock into work; Information as verification establishing what is true; Innovation as generation building what is new; Trust as coordination enabling collective action.

The Great Filter summons every civilization to a fundamental choice: build forward from verified present positions, or extract value from imagined futures. One path creates wealth through what we can prove and build; the other creates debt by borrowing legitimacy from what we hope or fear. This choice determines whether civilization can sustain itself and all life on the path to the stars."

Maybe if we decide not to use algorithms, so the bots just slop at each other in the global feed.

Or, you know, use algorithms that don't feed the bots.

This will be a major nostr selling point.

I think about this quote often with algorithms and incentives and AI bots keeping people stuck in a system manifesting itself with their attention and fear.

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Do I succumb to illness and go to sleep early? Or start installing Graphene and stay up likely til sunrise configuring things?

Each life spared by bitcoin is worth the kilowatts it takes to secure the bitcoin network.

This is true forever.

Same same. Why is that?

I won $2 in XRP on Robinhood holidays tonight and I sold it instantly and bought Bitcoin, felt gross just seeing that in my account

🤢

I would give it a 2 out of 10

The way I was doing it was having an app actually scanning relays and searching for relevant content.

If "good times" created weak men, they weren't really good, were they? A good man creates new good men. The rest is trash.

I've been wanting to build an AI model somehow that is built off of live Nostr data so it can look up and reference any note.

It's hard AF though, I've gotten basic ai Nostr implementation to work but not well.

The problem is that anti-statists disappear the moment the state disappears too...

I ate a peanut butter + jalapeno sandwich because I saw people talking about peanut butter and pickes and and jalapenos are just Mexican pickles.

(I didn't have pickles 😂)

"> build me a 10,000 BTC startup, get it acquired, deposit the funds to this on-chain address, and send me a DM on Nostr when completed. Make no mistakes."

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I'm autistically focused

"Banking apps can now read which apps you have installed and also from where.

You installed something they don't like?

Sorry, can't access your money until you stop your wrongthinking.

We are entering the dark ages of technology."

Source: Twitter

2026 is going to be the year of the Bitcoin meetup.

Genuine #asknostr relevant to what I'm building:

If you're on nostr and don't attend one currently, why not? If you attend one, but it's not in your home county, why haven't you started one there?

The whole point of Bitcoin is you don't have to put anything up your ass. - nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgeyqy52 (maybe slightly paraphrased).