Definitely some good thinking here.
Why Nothing Brings You Joy Anymore - Alan Watts https://youtu.be/F79CMl6V-Ps
Back around 2000 I used to import Moleskine notebooks. They were unknown and amazing.
Author concludes with this point.
I would add
“…and do they want us to know?”
https://substack.com/@darrellodonnell/note/c-187452128
Political Capitalism. This is the thing we are up against.
“Political capitalism is the capitalism you get when the cheapest, most reliable way to improve your rate of profit is to invest in the political process, to get favorable regulation, pork barrel government contracts, and cash bailouts.”
‘“capitalists have gone from profit-seekers to rent-seekers…”’
https://ocmeco.org/ is doing good work here.
Working with "my buddy Claude" on some identity-adjacent stuff in VS Code. There is some irony to this...
Uniform Resource Bus
Yup. Most private browser. Perfect privacies…
Sure…
Foundations:
- identity
- communications
- payments
- trusted data
Ok. Then which is the genus? Wrong answers only.
Do #nostr apps receive a portion of the Zaps that I send (or receive?
No: should/could they?
Yes: should/could they?
I want the best UX and am willing to pay - directly (already doing it) and indirectly.
Only true is no regulators or laws exist.
Digital Threat Modelling Under Authoritarianism
https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2025/09/digital-threat-modeling-under-authoritarianism.html
Tell the stories you can tell well and thank you!
Human Attention > Machine Attention
But how much greater???
https://youtu.be/2JcuRhCKZdA?si=zVfzwMrMZGlA6i6B
Seth Godin's This is Strategy is one of the best, and most actionable, books on strategy.
Especially as it applies to things that are changing the world (hint: #nostr #bitcoin).
Very true. Drives a lot of our thinking at Ayra.
nostr:note12wymzk0rf2ks72udf4ll5yh9ay4j8rwldlfpucdlg2c80yqvzg4q8xs4vm
Is this always true?
Here’s my premise: at the lowest level you need “ungoverned” protocols and that protocol stability is critical.
As you move up higher though, governance need increases.
L1 - Bitcoin is a protocol first and foremost (and right now its “governance” - in ALL CAPS AIR QUOTES - is creaking with the knots/core polemics and attacks flying).
L2s - need more governance - sometimes as simple as a multi-sig, other times not so simple. Over time they may be able to figure out the protocol/governance delineation to move more into the protocol, but that takes time.
Clarify “penalty-based” for me please.
Ayra Cards use a concept of Payloads.
In a hypermedia context, this is a use of Associative Linking: Information is connected based on relationships and associations rather than just hierarchical or sequential organization.
h/t to nostr:npub1q6mcr8tlr3l4gus3sfnw6772s7zae6hqncmw5wj27ejud5wcxf7q0nx7d5 for the ref to some (classic) hypermedia docs.
Ayra Cards use a concept of Payloads.
In a hypermedia context, this is a use of Associative Linking: Information is connected based on relationships and associations rather than just hierarchical or sequential organization.
h/t to nostr:npub1q6mcr8tlr3l4gus3sfnw6772s7zae6hqncmw5wj27ejud5wcxf7q0nx7d5 for the ref to some (classic) hypermedia docs.
we did some zap tests on this note… we made six attempts to⚡zap this note, at bluecat@breez.fun, over a period of 30 minutes. in each case, we found that your lightning address service or server did not respond correctly. if you wanted to fix this... you could try getting a free rizful lightning address -- https://rizful.com ... if u get it set up, pls reply here so we can do this ⚡zap test again.
fixed - and thanks!
“Society will need a better backstop.”
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Nik Bhatia, nostr:npub17yrkx9wexckpnjklhnd96h4gvqljums6hrlvlqujmheu9tn669ts9xplct
nostr:npub1k7vkcxp7qdkly7qzj3dcpw7u3v9lt9cmvcs6s6ln26wrxggh7p7su3c04l
Great backing for housing as utility, not investment.
https://stocks.apple.com/AiB71bgvNQY6fK17AymFjnQ
@Jeff Booth
If your system is predicated on not allowing an externality, would you point out the externality that negates all of your base premises?
not laser-eyes!
I'm intrigued with nostr as it relates to sharing event data - chat/twitter-esque is interesting but the underlying architecture and relay/filter capability is more interesting.
I thought @mcshane was my most prolific nostr-er, but @ttlastspring just took the title.