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“Resist much, obey little.” —Walt Whitman ✊ Marketing at nostr:npub1fmunwy3lljfyzlgyuyman79lxwm4efz6pzlgqjwc400pr9l708qquvje8w 🐚🌾 https://resolvr.io Ghost in the machine 👻⚙️ https://ghostr.org Short order vibecook 👨🏻‍🍳🍳 https://zap.cooking Sats Factory worker ⚡️🏭 https://satsfactory.com Nodestrich runner 🏃‍♂️⚡️💜♾️ https://nodestrich.com Zombie hunter 🏹🧟‍♂️ https://plebsvszombies.cc Mute button enjoyoor 🤫🔇 https://mutable.top Meetup disorganizer 🗽🧡 https://harlembitcoin.com Band namer 🤘🎸 nostr:npub12cqtmej8mutnwu0yzfmshznaxltetmn7nkzranps7v4dsxuc6mnqdf5pmv Crash test dummy wallet tester in residence. 💥⚠️ Created 2008.jpeg, the first NFT on Nostr (Sort of.) If you are a Dan, ask about membership in #OnlyDans 🫂 Follow the best dog ever 🐶💜 nostr:npub1cudap5kkjdvnv78v08m3748afshj0u3zh9h34svrf4nhn07gn4lscflujc I helped invent the Blocktron. 🧠💡 https://blocktron.io Someone once called me a Nostr “fake-fluencer” because I said his app didn’t work. (It didn’t.) Muted by the guy who thinks sats aren’t the standard. #SatsAreTheStandard ✨ Used to work at a bar, but then I grew up. 🍻 GM ☀️ PV 🖖 since: 767700

Hey, I had a press pass to Bitcoin 2025. That makes me the media!

Yes, exactly. We tried to get “professional” jounalists here, but they mostly dismissed it as a passing fad, or some fringe/cringe thing only bitcoiners care about.

This one openly admitted that mainstream editors are heavily biased towards the negative.

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If you didn’t trust the government

THEN

why would you trust it

NOW?

He just used it to refine his initial thoughts, I wouldn’t exactly call it bollocks.

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The Psyop Nobody Saw Coming

When the news broke that Charlie Kirk had been killed, the headlines wrote themselves. Cable news hosts framed it as another casualty of America’s culture war, a right-wing firebrand silenced by his enemies. Online forums erupted: the left finally crossed the line.

But one detail nagged at Michael, a retired intelligence analyst who’d seen too many “neat” narratives in his career. He had studied foreign disinformation campaigns during the Cold War and later the War on Terror. To him, the hit on Kirk didn’t look political in the way people assumed. It looked professional.

“If you want someone gone, you don’t make it a spectacle,” he muttered, scanning the crime scene reports. “You make it clean. A car crash. A sudden heart attack. This wasn’t just murder. This was theater.”

Why Theater Matters

Throughout history, public killings have been staged for maximum psychological effect. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 didn’t just remove a man—it lit the fuse of World War I because of how public and symbolic it was. Similarly, ISIS executed prisoners on camera not just to kill them, but to provoke outrage and manipulate governments into reacting rashly.

If Kirk’s death had been quick, quiet, and deniable, the country might have mourned and moved on. Instead, the gruesome display forced people to take sides. It wasn’t just about killing a man—it was about programming a population.

Who Benefits?

Michael scribbled on a whiteboard like it was 2003 again:

• The Left? Unlikely. They gain nothing from martyring Kirk. If anything, his death makes him more powerful.

• The Right? Also strange. Why kill your own rising voice unless you need a pretext for a crackdown or unity push?

• Foreign entities? Now it got interesting. Kirk was a staunch Trump ally. Weakening Trump by eliminating his surrogates benefits anyone hostile to his return—China, Russia, Iran, take your pick. But again, why so public?

Michael circled the last point: manufactured consent.

He remembered the Patriot Act after 9/11, and how COVID emergency powers rewrote daily life almost overnight. In both cases, fear and chaos were the accelerants. If a foreign adversary—or even factions within—wanted to nudge America toward more surveillance, more policing, and more division, a high-profile, grotesque assassination was the perfect spark.

The Real Game

Two days later, social media feeds were overflowing with rage. Protesters filled city streets. The FBI hinted at “domestic terror” suspects. Senators called for emergency security powers. Exactly the kind of reaction Michael feared.

He sat back and whispered to himself:

“The point was never Charlie Kirk. The point was us. They want us scared, angry, and ready to trade freedom for safety. And we’re walking right into it.”

He closed his laptop and stared out the window. He knew the truth: whoever pulled the trigger didn’t just kill a man. They had scripted Act One of something much larger.

I agree with this take, and unlike a lot of people I’ve seen, I’m not going to jump to a conclusion yet about who did this or why. There are plenty of suspects and reasons to consider them before locking in on an a definitive answer in the absence of evidence.

Did you write this post, or did you find it, and if so, what’s your source?

Thanks! I have that feature planned, and I’m working on implementing it along with NIP-46 signing, which is proving to be a bit of a monster problem to solve. 🧟‍♀️

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This is the prompt I wrote that built most of the structure of #PlebsVsZombies.

The rest has been refinement and feature calibration. It’s still a work in progress. I mainly built as a challenge to myself, and because over 20% of my 3500 follows had become Nostr zombies and I was tired of carrying all that dead weight around.

I hope you enjoy it if you try it, and find it useful. I just wanted to give something back to the network and community.

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Write a spec for a mini app called "Plebs vs. Zombies" that solves the following problem: Over time, the users I follow on Nostr become dormant zombies. Since npubs can never be deleted, it creates a burden for users to carry around all the dead weight of a growing following count that hungrily eats bandwidth (brains in our metaphor!), overwhelming relays whenever we connect to them presenting our bloated follow list filled with so many undead users that refuse to rest in peace. I need a way to safely back up my existing follow list and profile so it doesn't get erased accidentally, and identify all of the profiles that haven't posted anything in a specific amount of time. Interval presets such as 90, 120, 180, 1 year, etc. should be available. I should also only be able to purge my dormant follows in batches, because as every zombie killer understands, you can't take on an entire army of zombies all at once. You need to sneak up on them in small groups to defeat them. So with this in mind, let's set a reasonable number for an event that we can sign to unfollow users en masse that doesn't also destroy the follows we want to keep around.

https://plebs-vs-zombies.vercel.app

Soon after the 9/11 attack happened, I remember imagining what the world without be like 20 plus years afterward, and if we would have learned anything from it, and I can confidently say we have not.

This will be my only post today.

PV 🫂

Okaaaayyy…taking the rest of the day (and probably tomorrow) off social media. ✌

I didn’t want to admit it before today.

Yeah, there’s probably going to be a civil war.

Just pushed an update to hopefully patch that. Let me know if you see any issues!

Yeah, it’s not a thing of beauty but it’s a workhorse. I probably spent a good $250 on it back then. Definitely great to have lens compatibility. I’m looking to get back into film again, it’s just so expensive to process.

It’s still a work in progress. Use at your own risk! 🧟‍♀️

Testing my new custom nostr:npub1hcwcj72tlyk7thtyc8nq763vwrq5p2avnyeyrrlwxrzuvdl7j3usj4h9rq address:

onlydans@walletofsatoshi.com

#OnlyDans #zapathon

Whether you’re a bitcoiner, or a shitcoiner, or just prefer bad opsec, there’s something for everyone to be embarrassed about. Now you’ll never need to worry about making a good impression anywhere you go.

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sup nostr!

As you already know from my dad ( nostr:npub1vwymuey3u7mf860ndrkw3r7dz30s0srg6tqmhtjzg7umtm6rn5eq2qzugd ) i got my own node running using nostr:npub1aghreq2dpz3h3799hrawev5gf5zc2kt4ch9ykhp9utt0jd3gdu2qtlmhct 's software and its running pretty smooth! and yes, my alby thing is running good and strong with all the sats yall gave me :) and for that i thank yall :)

im so excited to be apart of this :D

Welcome! 🙌