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Replying to Avatar 7fqx

I dream of heading to Tblisi for the 1% tax rate that I keep reading about. Should try it for a short holiday first, see if I like it.

I've got a friend who is virtually Magnus Karlsen ready to teach chess for satoshis. If anyone out there wants to dominate at chess, just ask! This is the why you go from 1200 to 2000 chess rating in a matter of months.

And I have a twin who's been teaching higher level maths all his life. He'll take Satoshis too.

Replying to Avatar Big Bad John

I shouldn't have to prove Pubky in order to criticize Nostr, right?

Anyway, Pubky is in beta, but all of it is open source.

You can learn about it in various ways, in various places, including:

https://github.com/pubky/

https://pubky.org

https://medium.com/pubky/

There are also presentations and interviews from me and my team in YouTube.

Or, you could ask for an invite to the beta app, and view the #pubky-faq tag.

The worst thing you could do is stay ignorant and assume I'm crazy just because I don't say good things about nostr.

Cheer up, John 😀 It's a gorgeous day here

Had a class with nostr:nprofile1qqspsm32gwvqkwckpcj8hm09ac3hvy2qhsuup2c4lm0p2ef45nzs9rcanvs7m today, and she seems to be wearing the nostr:nprofile1qydjqamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdeek2cmzw4hxketj9e3k7mgpr9mhxue69uhks6tkv46xzmrt9ehx7um5wgcjucm0d5qzqyllss2z5efxy3gjfsvqldf59n4pxr243lk86jyqr8ga4ea2egv2re7nre bee by sheer coincidence! Spooky

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I reckon there's no such thing as sentience without a body. It's an unpopular opinion, but I like unpopular opinions.

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I lost my sanity on YouTube long ago. The platform is just fake accounts, bots, scammers, spammers, daft thumbnails, and short violent videos. I feel really sorry for all the kids who grew up in the pandemic and now have mental problems as a direct result of incarceration + YouTube. The scum responsible must be punished.

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Replying to Avatar Gigi

Some Thoughts on Adoption (and other nonsense).

There's this old Louis C.K. clip—recorded long before he was cancelled—that summarizes our modern conundrum well: "Everything's amazing and nobody's happy."

As I was walking towards the hospital today—after a way too early 5:30 rise—it dawned on me that wide-scale nostr adoption (and "proper" wide-scale bitcoin adoption, for that matter) is probably not going to happen. The good news is that it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. The bad news is that lots of people will suffer.

"Why so bearish?" I hear you ask. If you know me just a little bit you'll know that, even though I do have many faults, being bearish isn't one of them. I'm still incredibly optimistic when it comes to the adoption and proliferation of freedom tech. Otherwise I wouldn't be doing what I do.

Here's what dawned on me, though: People aren't even interested in their own health, why would they be interested in healthy money? Yes, everyone wants to be healthy. But doing what is necessary to live a healthy lifestyle? Not interested. Not in the least. Usually something really really bad has to happen for people to change their ways. And even that doesn't move the needle in some cases, as plenty of drinkers who still drink after their liver gave up, or plenty a smoker who still smokes after being diagnosed with lung cancer can attest to.

Which brings me to bitcoin treasury companies. Are most of them interested in taking the responsibility of holding their own keys? Are they interested in providing real value while staying humble and stacking sats? No, of course not. They are interested in paper gains, not in a full-blown reorientation that leads to a healthier lifestyle. And I mean that literally: if you truly and fully adopt bitcoin, the responsibility that is entailed by that will result in a reorientation, a re-alignment of values, which will—down the line—lead to more long-term thinking, healthier business practices, more honest value generation, and so on.

To me, this is what "capital B" Bitcoin is about. Change. Real change. A ridiculous proposition to the balance sheet brain.

...which brings me to nostr.

A short stroll through the current iteration of the internet should make clear that the platforms that most people spend their time on are incredibly mis-aligned with humanity. The outrage-machine that we've built for ourselves is keeping us like rats in Skinner boxes, hitting the dopamine button with every swipe and every scroll, no matter what. We've built a machine that is parasitic on humanity, instead of synergistic. We are optimizing for engagement, which means that we are maximizing addiction by shoving a mixture of uppers (porn) and downers (rage bait) down our collective throats. The machine is catering to our lowest selves, as opposed to our highest selves. (We could also optimize for the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, you know. Is that too much to ask?)

But who is to blame for all of that? (And is it worth blaming someone in the first place?)

It is clear to me that the whole military-grade industrial advertising complex that profits from running large-scale and nonstop psychological experiments on the whole fucking population of the earth wouldn't be profitable for long if we would all get our act together. But that won't happen, of course. There won't be a magical finger snap that suddenly shakes us awake from our slumber; that stops us from sleepwalking into dystopia. Just like there won't be a magical finger snap that stops us from our bad habits and unhealthy lifestyles.

Adopting a healthy way of living is hard. It means saying no to the constant onslaught of sugary snacks, fast-food around every corner, and social pressures to indulge. It means taking responsibility for your decisions, cultivating discipline, taking care of your body, your psyche, and yes, also your soul.

A wise man once said that "he who has a 'why' can bear almost any 'how'." And that's what most of us are missing: a strong enough "why." Why go through the trouble of living healthy? It's hard! Why hold your own keys, if someone else can do it for you, and there's even the apparent safety of some insurance? Why cultivate a less destructive relationship to the internet, if you can just autoplay & chill, whether it be with Netflix, YouTube, TikTok, PornHub, or something else? Why not write the snarky comment and trigger a whole cohort of people at the click of a button?

Because it's not healthy, that's why.

"Everything's amazing and nobody's happy." That's the state of the world. Always has been. And I'm to blame too, of course. Sitting in the hospital waiting room, writing these lines, bitching and moaning about the internet, this amazing series of tubes that I so love, warts and all.

But yeah, the internet won't heal itself over night. Neither will the economy, nor the rent-seeking zombie companies that don't provide value, nor the underlying fiat system that broke it all in the first place. It will take lots of time, lots of courage, lots of faith, and lots of responsibility.

It will be hard, but it will also be worth it. And it starts with you.

You write very, very well. Love your interpretation of the Nietzsche quote

The 12 months was a long long time ago (18 or 19 years), and since then, I must admit to having been naughty quite often

Had a blast talking with Cole about the V4V movement and how artists can take back control of their work with tools like #nostr and podcasting 2.0. Share with any artists you know who are curious about giving this new tech a try.

#grownostr #intothevalueverse #v4v #music

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No bloody middlemen! No need

I am the king of the drunken not-thought-it-through zap, so if you get zapped by me, you know what's happened

Replying to Avatar Aaron of Essex

There you go everybody. Into the valueverse

https://fountain.fm/album/qEvWnWD36pvfYPMhER9V

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Get it on. Turn it up loud. Let's go.

Please note the live album with individual tracks is to come. This is the full show.

And there seems to be an issue with the full description not going over.

Will investigate tomorrow.

I hope you enjoy on second listen back as much as the first.

https://episodes.fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9oZWFkc3RhcnRzLnVrL21zcC9pbnRvLXRoZS12YWx1ZXZlcnNlLWZ1bGwtc2hvdy9pbnRvLXRoZS12YWx1ZXZlcnNlLWZ1bGwtc2hvdy54bWw?view=apps&sort=popularity

Check out nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7cnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uqzq2x2qxdh3dy5cfdfmgkkgkt44pgpcl5ekyfs9ewtuaywukflevkvug4au3 doing 'Maybe it's time' at 22:50. Better than the original.

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Found this on Wavlake, and I love it. Can't see it on Fountain, but I am a bit shit at using websites. Go to npub19ppwxjrqckwl4n2a7j960fjsvhn8vrggcd0h092nmq7zcgcskjfsywp04j for more

https://wavlake.com/track/0a5feec9-6428-437c-aa2b-867610510447

Here is one of those exercises, if anyone else wants a try

1) Having stormed out of the meeting, she _____ into tears. (burst)

2) England _____ Denmark a few days ago, but today, Italy have _____ England. (beat, beat)

3) The TV channel _____ with a lot of complaints when it _____ that controversial news report. (deal, broadcast)

4) As he precariously _____ from the edge of the cliff, he _____ on for dear life. (swing, cling)

5) The bomb _____ up at the end of the performance, and many in the audience _____ with each other to escape the ensuing chaos that had _____ them. (blow, fight, befall)

6) I ______ the kids; they had _____ under the stairs, knowing that I wouldn’t _____ them there. (find, hide, find)

7) While I _____ there, my throbbing head _____; my beating heart _____; and my sore wounds _____. (lie, spin, sink, sting)

8) Over what had been a calm countenance _____ a look of defiance and determination; our protagonist _____ the table with his fist, only now understanding that blood must be _____. (spread, strike, spill)

9) Having _____ the floor, _____ out the rubbish, _____ the lawn, _____ the fire, and _____ the table, he finally _____ down for a well-deserved rest. (sweep, take, mow, light, lay, sit)

10) A few hours later, I _____ that a badger had _____ a hole at the bottom of my garden. (learn, dig)

Many more (with answers) on interactive quizzes and in an ebook (pdf)

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Paul is an old, old mate from uni - used to put on free parties in Shropshire and Staffordshire about 100 years ago. He lived in a van in a car park at uni, which must have saved him a fortune!

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BITCOIN ESSEX nostr:nprofile1qqsg5uvaggng42f976cjhjlxkezldmyzalnyaty3mtuntlwveu0slegpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuen0w4h8gctfdchxvmgpzemhxue69uhkummnw3ezuum5w4cxcetz9e3kx6v039w @aaron