think of real books as full nodes. if you value access to them without a record of it going in a database, recording how long you spent on which page, or having it yanked off your device after the next current thing, you need the full node edition.
"The Sovereign Individual" full node edition. kindle is a shitcoin
ludwig von mises on social engineering:
"It is customary nowadays to speak of "social engineering." Like planning, this term is a synonym for dictatorship and totalitarian tyranny. The idea is to treat human beings in the same way in which the engineer treats the stuff out of which he builds bridges, roads, and machines. The social engineer's will is to be substituted for the will of the various people he plans to use for the construction of his utopia. Mankind is to be divided into two classes: the almighty dictator, on the one hand, and the underlings who are to be reduced to the status of mere pawns in his plans and cogs in his machinery, on the other. If this were feasible, then of course the social engineer would not have to bother about understanding other people's actions. He would be free to deal with them as technology deals with lumber and iron."
#[0]
thirteen ways of looking at disinformation:
by Jacob Siegel
> If the underlying philosophy of the war against disinformation can be expressed in a single claim, it is this: You cannot be trusted with your own mind.
important reading to understand why #nostr, why now.
#pleblibrary
there's also the question of bandwidth. right now the miner only needs to send a single number over the wire, the nonce, and only when it actually finds a block. the rest of the results are ignored. if you instead wanted to transmit those, you'd be sending trillions of numbers per second, and that will add up fast.
no, those computations are not useful for anything else. capturing the heat is really the best you can do.
it's android only, I believe
yes, there's no limit. you can make any number of keys.
there's a drive for authenticity. those are the first stops off the highway on that path.
there's no fewer than 500,000 unique public keys, but probably a lot more.
you can't derive an "ought" from an "is"
but building things is creating an "is" from an "ought"
depends on which client you are using. I'm using amethyst on android, and I can click the three dots next to a note and select "request deletion".
good to know, not all relays support deletion.
"the others" reminds me of the "The Remnant"
"There is a Remnant there that you know nothing about. They are obscure, unorganized, inarticulate, each one rubbing along as best he can. They need to be encouraged and braced up because when everything has gone completely to the dogs, they are the ones who will come back and build up a new society; and meanwhile, your preaching will reassure them and keep them hanging on. Your job is to take care of the Remnant, so be off now and set about it.
As the word masses is commonly used, it suggests agglomerations of poor and underprivileged people, laboring people, proletarians, and it means nothing like that; it means simply the majority. The mass man is one who has neither the force of intellect to apprehend the principles issuing in what we know as the humane life, nor the force of character to adhere to those principles steadily and strictly as laws of conduct; and because such people make up the great and overwhelming majority of mankind, they are called collectively the masses. The line of differentiation between the masses and the Remnant is set invariably by quality, not by circumstance. The Remnant are those who by force of intellect are able to apprehend these principles, and by force of character are able, at least measurably, to cleave to them. The masses are those who are unable to do either.
Isaiah, on the other hand, worked under no such disabilities. He preached to the masses only in the sense that he preached publicly. Anyone who liked might listen; anyone who liked might pass by. He knew that the Remnant would listen; and knowing also that nothing was to be expected of the masses under any circumstances, he made no specific appeal to them, did not accommodate his message to their measure in any way, and did not care two straws whether they heeded it or not. As a modern publisher might put it, he was not worrying about circulation or about advertising. Hence, with all such obsessions quite out of the way, he was in a position to do his level best, without fear or favor, and answerable only to his august Boss.
An assignment that you can really put your back into, and do your best without thinking about results, is a real job; whereas serving the masses is at best only half a job, considering the inexorable conditions that the masses impose upon their servants. They ask you to give them what they want, they insist upon it, and will take nothing else; and following their whims, their irrational changes of fancy, their hot and cold fits, is a tedious business, to say nothing of the fact that what they want at any time makes very little call on one’s resources of prophesy. The Remnant, on the other hand, want only the best you have, whatever that may be. Give them that, and they are satisfied; you have nothing more to worry about. The prophet of the American masses must aim consciously at the lowest common denominator of intellect, taste, and character among 120,000,000 people; and this is a distressing task. The prophet of the Remnant, on the contrary, is in the enviable position of Papa Haydn in the household of Prince Esterhazy. All Haydn had to do was keep forking out the very best music he knew how to produce, knowing it would be understood and appreciated by those for whom he produced it, and caring not a button what anyone else thought of it — and that makes a good job."
yeah, something went sideways there.. trying again: @nevent1qqs0yyahm8cg82sv9s5vc4xsce707zl2deqkljesd3c0racqa99xjhspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdumpqdqw
absolutely: https://stats.nostr.band/
I'm only collecting kind 0,2, and 3, and not even all of those (for instance, paid relays are an issue here).
I think the main value proposition of twitter was always that it allowed us to ignore social connections. I remember feeling like I was getting away with something when I could find all the most interesting people maintaining open source projects and follow them on twitter, and actually interact with them. it was the opposite of facebook at the time, where you had to know them in real life. I think the innovation cycle has moved on, but the value of connecting flows of information beyond people's social circles is still incredible important, but I want to see more long-form content there. I think blogs and podcasts are the right media for this, with the npub being the new equivalent of a domain name. I want to follow someone's blog (NIP23 posts), and be able to reply to their posts from my npub, and see any other similar content they put out. and be able to browse who they follow, etc. but have less exposure to the fast moving, twitter like message threads. this is information annealing, let things cool slowly to form big crystals.
/rant