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“When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins”

a COVID ago, 20lbs lighter yelling at my friends to buy the corn

The worst thing about your favourite "Bitcoin influencer" is that they have to say something daily, post on the bird app or here, have a opinion about the current thing or make a podcast.

Eventually they will run out of interesting things to say and naturally mistakes will happen.

Once you said "all the things" about Bitcoin, there's not much value unless you go full technical.

Try one near the window during sunset hour , rest your shoulder on the windows (profile to the 🪟) so that more light is visible on half of your face.

Selfie camera on! Rotate your nose like you fallow the rotation of a clock.

Snap! When you like the angle.

Switch shoulders or sides for more options.

umbrel died twice on me on intel desktops, last time I lost data. Installed start9 and it never went down once, like not even a glitch.

Less apps on start9 but the OS seems to be so much more stable. I will never go back to umbrel

"Al-Qaeda"

When joining connection to Wifi it will say " You have joined the Al-Qaeda network"

Saw that on somewhere else a while ago 😁 so the idea is stolen.

My sensible GM coffee mug

Twitter was paramount in bitcoins growth and its battles. Was a very cool quirky place eons before that too. Even though I have a very old account, bitcoin was the reason I started using it more frequently.

I met an incredible amount of good ppl there. Some of the best ppl I know was directly or indirectly because of the bird app. Hired ppl. Connected ppl.

There was/is absolutely nothing like it.

It's hard to imagine how the direction of my life would have gone, it was greatly impacted by it.

Crazy place! A true public square, I'm incredibly grateful for it.

Covid killed it, or at least accelerated its dystopian trajectory.

US politics gravitational force also doesn't help. Nothing on earth can scape use politics, everyone and everything deal with its consequences.

Even decentralized things. But they fare better. See bitcoin.

Anywho... Being with the X account deactivated over the weekend was quite nice, it had been a very long time since I fully disconnected. It is still a lot of signal, a lot of Lindy. But is also became an open sewer. (Why?)

The algorithm evolved for maximum conflict. It's hard to even describe how much it makes your skin crawl. It finds all the shit you don't want to read by the ppl you don't even knew about existed and vomits on you. Even with the large muted word list. It's not a healthy place.

Maxium engagement = more ad views?!

I don't want the firehose all the time. Humans are not designed for that. Different moods different content. Different types of engagement. Maybe even different clients for different sub network graphs. It's time time evolve. I think Nostr takes us there.

BUT I think Twitter's value can't be ignored. It is still a ginormous network.

That's aside from good ppl I know there, where it is our only comms channel.

I plan on drastically decreasing my use of it, truly limiting to posts about Nostr, projects I like and amplifying bitcoin things I believe in. The goal is to trend towards end of use. Hopefully it gracefully coincides with Nostr rising as the new public square. Protocols must be open. There must algo choice. Or we are doomed to doom scroll and ad target conflict.

I no longer will allow myself to scroll.

And will try to starve the beast as much as possible.

GN

well said

I agree. Frapping do whatever you want to do, as you should with your Bitcoin

I reverse it, I keep asking:

Honey, did you recorded the podcast today? You know that will help your influencers IG numbers.

You know you just have few hours, after your full-time job to come home and cook some organic food in a spotless well lit kitchen, in order to document what the baby eats.

That is just expected now, look how everyone else performs online.

We need them two incomes + side gigs to pay the rent.

Or we could just leave in a 90's, and I could work at the factory and you stay home in that detach house with some children...