Anyone here do meditation?

What kind?

yesterday i unfollowed everyone on twitter to reset and test the algorithm.

my experience generally stayed the same, with a pretty high quality of signal. it will only get better, towards what tiktok was able to do.

the algorithm isn’t the problem. the problem arises when the algorithm is a black box, can’t be turned off, or can’t be replaced by another one someone else wrote.

being able to choose if an algorithm is used, and which one is used, is key. no one is done this well yet. twitter is the only one that allows a choice in the first place.

"As an adjective woke was first recorded in African American usage in the late 19th century, meaning awake, not asleep. The contemporary meaning arose in the US during the 1960s, with the idea of being well informed and aware of what was going on in society. In the 21st century woke was popularized by association with the Black Lives Matter movement and by the lyrics of the 2008 song “Master Teacher” by Erykah Badu, in which the words “I stay woke” serve as a refrain. More recently the word has been used in a more derogatory way, by people who oppose progressive reforms or feel that their advocates are unrealistic or interfering."

I see all the same people everytime I startup Damus. Reply if I’m not following you.

Can you feel it?

Social media interactions are surrogates for real connection. They’re not “bad”, it’s just they suck up your attention and thereby crowd out the time you’d otherwise spent talking to people on the phone or in real life.

One habit I started is that I’ll often respond to people who text me with a recorded voice message. Voice > text. Another is just to unplug from social media. I may soon delete Nostr from my phone.

Said goodbye to my best friend today at block height 797212.

Kidney disease took him only four years after we rescued him from the streets of Mexico.

Can’t help but feel that we were robbed of time but we packed a decade of adventuring into that time period.

❤️🐾

Trying really hard not to talk about bitcoin, how to be financially sovereign, global banking system with layer one currency, understanding of government manipulation of fiat, etc.etc.etc..

Will focus on food, life, art, culture, friends, family and anything but Bitcoin.

If I talk about Bitcoin I’ll Zap you 2121 sats, promise, and this post doesn’t count 😂

Some of the most toxic maximalists are on the cap table of absolute shitcoin companies. #Bitcoin

You know she is the one, when the boat dies and the kids are oblivious and she jumps in the water and starts tugging the boat without even doing rock paper scissors. 😂🤣

Even over the last five it’s still the dominate asset class

Pour love onto others, not as an investment for returns, but as the purest expression of your soul.

The joy in giving is its own reward, painting the world in brighter hues. No expectation, just love - a potent force that transforms hearts, one beat at a time.

In developed markets, a lot of people wonder why they need bitcoin. Their payment systems work fine, inflation is usually in the single digits, etc. Instabilities are building up but they don’t see them, so they don’t perceive an immediate need for it. And because they have trouble seeing through other perspectives, they wonder why anyone would care about bitcoin.

In developing countries, at least the tech savvy ones, people get it faster. You don’t have to explain to an Argentinian why the peso is a disaster. They understand bitcoins and dollar stablecoins right away.

As today shows, the same is true for Nostr. When centralized platforms work “well enough” then Nostr is just an interesting techie protocol. Tech people see the power but most prople wonder why they need it.

But when centralized platforms make major errors, perform major censorship, or otherwise drop the ball, suddenly that open aspect becomes appreciated again. When people feel cucked by some central authority changing the rules on them, they go elsewhere.

Bitcoin and Nostr are hedges against clown world. The more problems that occur with centralized money or centralized communication, the more valuable Bitcoin and Nostr become.

Is Elon on NOSTR?