If you’re comfortable, you’re falling behind.
AI won’t save you, it’s a mirror, not a miracle.
Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a bedtime story by elites for a system built on controlling and preparing us to be the permanent underclass.
Only the radical, the restless, and the awake will matter next.
Vigilance delayed becomes catastrophe.
I enjoy a good debate Ben. Polaris HASN'T been stationary, that's the flaw in your premise.
3000 BCE: Thuban was the pole star, not Polaris (Egyptian records prove this). Polaris is currently 0.7° off true north. In 12,000 years, Vega takes over.
It's called axial precession, which is a 26,000 year cycle we can measure. Check ancient navigation records yourself.
Yay! Taiwan holds stolen Bitcoin ✋️ Woo hoo!
nostr:nprofile1qqs9n7lwwd5a7acnmwl6nw7mpzfvvt46j2fryc2udle8sldrsn9hwrcpp4mhxue69uhkyunz9e5k7tcpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz76aksf4 What are you really celebrating? If we do not have Bitcoin due to nation state seizures, its game over.
This quote is with the context of AI making most jobs obsolete and Universal Basic Income becoming an effective behavioral control mechanism for the state/large corporations.
We will need better solutions to help the masses escape slavery.
"If a man continues long in direct and absolute dependence on the government for the necessities of life, he ceases to be a citizen and becomes a slave."
Wendell Phillips
first person to name the song and short film gets 5,000 sats https://blossom.primal.net/3ba189154bfd3047ee718cab2451c962781bef6f4898876ea721b08874f865ec.3gp
I think the song is Married Life & the movie is Up
Hey Nostr,
I need your help. Divine.video as you might have seen is a new video nostr app that i've been working on for the last 3 months.
It got MUCH more attention than I was expecting. Hundreds of millions of people viewed, liked, or shared videos about it. I've got some of the biggest original Viners in my DM's begging to get back on it. The TestFlight hit it's 10k limit in a few hours.
I'm excited but also really stessed out. We've had lots of bugs and Apple and google have been their usual black boxes when it comes to app review.
A bunch of folks have stepped up to help, nostr:nprofile1qqsr7acdvhf6we9fch94qwhpy0nza36e3tgrtkpku25ppuu80f69kfq9q9kky got the android build working for example.
Lots of things have broken, nobody really knows how survive a flash flood. I'm sharing this because I need help. We've got a chance to really grow nostr, the idea of a video app that's not got AI slop and does focus on something more human is resonating. People hate what's happening to tiktok, instagram, and youtube shorts where algorithms and the platforms love of AI generated content going viral is taking over. Instead of fighting back we see AI only platforms like MetaAI and Sora. This is an assault on the very idea that people are central to social media. I think big companies see the shine of AI generated content and dream of a world without all these pesky rabble making demands of platforms. If only they could replace the creators with bots.
This call to action felt right to me, but holy shit I had no idea it'd go so viral.
The app has lots of bugs, and we need appstore approval, but at the moment the biggest problem I have is relays. I need you, the nostr community's help. I started out with strfry which we know scales but lacks search. So i started using nosflare, https://github.com/Spl0itable/nosflare , by nostr:nprofile1qqsdfx5syw3pmwsm8jpsdj3kn0ejg0vtgju0pdk3r9nq0aasny863hcpf4nss which worked pretty good when we had dozens of users but has had scaling issues and has been hard to debug. But Nosflare is cool. I was able to easily add nip-50 search support, and because it runs on cloudlfare i hoped would scale horizontally. When I told nostr:nprofile1qqsdfx5syw3pmwsm8jpsdj3kn0ejg0vtgju0pdk3r9nq0aasny863hcpf4nss I was using nosflare, he said i should have told him... but again I didn't think this would escalate so quickly. So then we tried using the ditto relay https://github.com/andotherstuff/otherstuff-relay by nostr:nprofile1qqsqgc0uhmxycvm5gwvn944c7yfxnnxm0nyh8tt62zhrvtd3xkj8fhggpt7fy and put a bunch of really beefy servers behind it. Even then it's struggling to keep up.
The thing is, we're pre-launch, we have 10k users in testflight and a mostly read only site at divine.video which is a react app.
I'm a really terrible sysadmin. Yes I've helped run my own mail server since the 90's but I hate it and i'm not good at it. I know my way around my command line, I've compiled my own kernel from source, but fuck i hate it. And now i've got to setup and scale servers to realize the dream of something i've worked on for the last 8 years. I need your help, but maybe i'll digress...
In 2017 I decided to learn crypto, i joined a startup, quantstamp, and built their testnet, a SAT solver to verify smart contracts. I quit because I came to see how scamy the world of ICO's and tokens were. I'm not the only Nostr dev to have explored the 'darkside'. I started my company to build decentralized social, initially trying to take secure scuttlebutt to the mainstream. I built planetary.social, and worked with amazing dev's like nostr:nprofile1qqsdpg0lhpmph96va39rh6xtevhfdfcfph85vhl74jpe4fx2yry6t8s4rw4p8 and others we saw Nostr arrive and we pivoted! We built Nos.social, which i'm really proud of but it never took off.
A few months ago I was in talks to help start andotherstuff, but i was also very frustrated with running a company, I wanted to build stuff myself. So I stopped managing people, started a podcast, and really dove in to building with agentic programming. I built a bunch of things I threw away. A lot of bad experiments. In the course of the revolution.social podcast i kept hearing about Vine. I listed to the "Vine 6 seconds that changed the world" podcast: https://vine-six-seconds-that.captivate.fm/ and I talked to people about this social media platform that was shutdown when nostr:nprofile1qqsd96tlwvs92nsnq6235l9whcx9493vgex32yeyajtqv4dna2dy6xc66zx6m was trying to save Twitter when he returned as CEO.
I thought, well Vine is cool, I know folks like nostr:nprofile1qqs04xzt6ldm9qhs0ctw0t58kf4z57umjzmjg6jywu0seadwtqqc75s8fsrrg and others have build nostr video apps, how hard could it be to make a nostrvine app. I started coding, that's why the repo is still called nostrvine: https://github.com/rabble/nostrvine Turns out that it wasn't that had to make something that sort of worked.
Then I thought, it'd be cool to dig up some old vines. I searched the internet, found some on youtube, some on the way back machine, and I thought oh cool, i found a couple hundred popular old vines. Then I hit the motherlode, a community internet preservation project called archiveteam had run crawlers to archive the site: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Vine they had about 2.7 TB of vine data, but in these very hard to work with WARC files that are 40GB each! I spent a month or more learning to parse and extract the files. I realized i had the meta data for most vine users, millions of comments, and hundreds of thousands of actual vine videos! It was a nightmare to parse because of the size of the files, the messiness of the data, and the like. But it was a consuming fun project, a puzzle.
At the same time, I was learning about flutter, I've had to rewrite the nostrvine codebase many times as i learned about riverpod, figured out how to get the UI to update smoothly while interacting with nostr. Getting the app to run fast and smooth was really hard. I also had to figure out how to host the damned videos in a way that works. I tried google cloud, cloudflare, and bunny. I made TONS of workers to run all of these services to make the system working. I also was seeing how much people, myself included are frustrated by AI slop, taking over social media. I have an old friend who runs a non-profit tech org, The Guardian Project, they'd make a tool for verifying videos are real for documenting human rights abuses. I thought, hell i could use this proofmode thing they've got to verify that videos are real. People like realness.
Over the last few weeks the pieces came together, I was scheduled to speak at WebSummit with nostr:nprofile1qqsr9cvzwc652r4m83d86ykplrnm9dg5gwdvzzn8ameanlvut35wy3g4h5cp7 and also to interview nostr:nprofile1qqszrptd47zv9e89q55savj7xzpmq4zm3sp749acnqc3zl8lp8ad7rgh59grd on the main stage talking about enshittification of the internet, and how we can resist it, by building things like Divine.
I talked to a reporter from Tech Crunch who'd written a positive article about AndOtherStuff, and she was excited to write an in-depth piece about my vine clone. Once the date was set, I had no choice to go forward. Was the app ready, NO NOT AT ALL. I was literally coding up releases on the plane while flying to Web Summit in Lisbon. I started submitting the app, and getting rejected. It got much better really fast, and basically works.
On the stage at WebSummit when I introduced diVine, the audience clapped politely. I showed the app to people and they sometimes said "oh this will be big" and wanted to play with it. But if you've ever made software, and you show it to people, everybody always finds something nice to say about it.
I had so little faith in diVine taking off that I was planning on taking a few days off to explore Morocco before heading to a non-profit software dev meetup in SF. It was only the last minute that I decided I might need be near a computer and internet connection post launch to see how things are going. Until diVine launched I thought the highlight of my trip and WebSummit would be that a podcast network wanted to pick up revolution.social and help me build an audience around the podcast.
I have never seen anything like this excitement. Just look at tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/search?q=divine there is a wave of people excited about it. There's a wave of news about it: https://news.google.com/search?q=divine%20vine&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen Folks are saying that I'm taking on TikTok, and it's been on the evening TV news all over the place.
This is a dream. More excitement than I ever could have dreamed of. Creating a social media app that reflects all the values I laid out in rights.social . Building something people love and are excited about. When the app's been up, the new videos are amazing, so funny, so creative. When Jack launched Twttr, we didn't get this reaction. It took a lot of time for twitter to emerge as a star. The scaling issues didn't even show up until a year after twitter launched. When Kevin launched Instagram it got 150K signups in the first few days, and I was blown away at how fast it was growing.
If it hadn't been for my messing up getting in to the appStore, and having my relays collapse under the traffic, diVine would have grown much faster. Somehow it hits a nerve.
This is where I need your help, the Nostr community. I've already got help from a ton of folks like the folks from nostr:nprofile1qqs8sxs4yuz47axp7uprpugrs3sfkdz5379tdg9xe2n5qfvz070a4egc9mrhy and nostr:nprofile1qqsfln36agetx43hsw8mgkm4hce9j46zu94m8er59nyzhv74p7gg0esdgpa8a and others i'm forgetting right now... But we need more help. Let's do this as a community.
We're building a permissionless, open future that can't be shutdown by corporate owners. But we only get there if the tech works. We don't get to integrate cashu and show users how there's another business model for social media if we don't make an experience that people enjoy using.
Here's where we are. We've got the new nip for replaceable video events, which is supported by divine and amethyst... https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2072/files we've got the proofmode verification spec i proposed: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2109 and my weird fork of nosflare which adds the ability to do filter requests that sort on things other than timestamp, it lets us find the most popular old vines: https://github.com/rabble/nosflare
The blossom server for media running on cloudflare mostly works, bunny is mostly working to scale serving the content. But fuck our relays are having trouble. Partially it's because divine doesn't optimize how many relay connections it does, so help with that would be appreciated.. but mostly it's we need to scale the relays, we need to work fast, and reliably. I'm trying to not talk much about Nostr and not make users understand anything about how nostr or keys or relays work.
We need a network of relays, we can dedicate for this, scale horizontally, which respond quickly, and support search. We could have search relays + normal content ones, but doing that requires updates to the released app, which is hard to do because we've got a delay of a day or more per release. So it's best if we can put this all behind relay.divine.video.
In terms of content moderation, my tactic is to provide a pretty heavily moderated experience on the primary relay and media server. But users own their keys, and the app lets users change or add relays and switch media servers. That way we can provide both freedom and the curated experience of users we're enticing away from centralized corporate social. And all of this is open source.
So help! I need nostr sysadmins and scaling folks. Please help. We don't have much time to catch this wave, and I'm in over my head. If you can help, reach out, rabble@rabblelabs.com or send me a DM, i'll add you to a slack room, and we'll figure it out.
Join me and we'll make a social media revolution to make revolution possible.
nostr:nprofile1qqs8d3c64cayj8canmky0jap0c3fekjpzwsthdhx4cthd4my8c5u47spp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejqna7ea3 You are an inspiration for the work you are putting into diVine and fighting against the increasing prevalence of AI slop. I can assist with non-technical work, or help coordinate purchasing for servers/supplies.
You have a village ready to help you, so please let us know how we can use our talents to assist.
Love and commitment don’t require marriage, but society encourages it and religous traditions compel it as a union made sacred.
Blah blah blah, not your keys, not your coins.
#nostr #dreams
You have no masters, only illusions of control. Accepting lies that allow for evil chain us to the perception of reality that numbs our slavery. Addiction through gambling, drugs, gaming, porn, social media, and food are intentionally crafted to weaken our minds into bondage and self-isolate. Once you are a slave, your spiritual death is an inevitability of time. The enemy has studied this spiritual death and continuously enhances ways to achieve its ends.
The fight for freedom will require your greatest sacrifice. Know what is the good, act on what is good, and be good.
"The Garden of Earthly Delights"
-Bosch (1490)
"A map of the psyche under moral collapse"
B. Netanyahu said “We control the height of the flame” he was talking about managing the level of conflict with Hamas. In plain terms: keep the fire burning, but never let it go out. The guy is insane.
Why did choreographed dance routines by nurses emerge simultaneously across continents during a declared global emergency? If hospitals were truly overwhelmed with dying patients, would staff have the time, energy, or emotional capacity for elaborate TikTok videos? Were the dancing nurses a test to identify who would comply, who would stay silent, and who would resist? What happens to a society when questioning observable reality becomes socially punishable? Were the dancing nurses the beginning of a larger social experiment in cognitive obedience?
How could two mutually exclusive realities; “overrun hospitals” and “dancing medical staff”, coexist without public outrage? Did each subsequent contradiction; masks, mandates, lockdowns, vaccines build upon the first one to deepen submission? Have we been conditioned to equate compliance with virtue, and skepticism with selfishness? How does fear make populations easier to manipulate into moral conformity? Why do official acknowledgments of "overreach" or "errors" come years later without accountability?
Were the dancing nurses the state’s way of mocking the very people it was supposedly protecting? How many people laughed, clapped, or shared those videos without realizing they were part of the spectacle? What psychological need is fulfilled by publicly demonstrating compliance? Why did people feel morally superior for following rules that kept changing, rather than questioning why the rules kept changing? Were the dancing nurses a minor curiosity, an irrelevant sideshow in a larger crisis, or were they the moment when power showed its face and most of us chose to look away?
https://blossom.primal.net/c1f6d6033d6c2a739d8d37fee3bde141e47a7e9dbbc57296597c3e7a370e1418.mp4
Keep posting these delusional videos for the Pịandemic. The sticker residue from the "Stay 6 feet apart" signs are beginning to fade and so are people's memory of this idiocy.
@hodl Finding contentment within yourself is a real superpower. When your happiness comes from inside, you don’t have to depend on what’s happening around you, and that’s something a lot of people spend a lifetime searching for. Inner peace lets you enjoy the present, no matter what you’re doing.
Hello Brother, Rather than simply telling you that will not work due to the control systems in place, please see the attached chart of how the Global Public Provate Partnership works. You can have someone file with the ICC or "Human Rights Court" to make a statement, but they/their family will certainly be targeted/blackmailed by intelligence agencies and armed agents of the state.
It is better to build adjacent systems that silently remove their control with like minded people. You are on the right track.
I’m taxed on my income before I receive it. If I spend it, sales tax. If I save or invest, capital gains tax. If I pass it on, estate tax. If I "own" property, property tax... forever. They print money backed by nothing, lend it at interest, then tax me again for using it.
How is this anything but legalized debt slavery?
Wake the f**k up. Politicians and billionaires are not coming to save us. Build the future you wish to see.
#asknostr #nostr #future
"A bird born in a cage think flying is an illness."
-Alejandro Jodorowsky
Collective freedom means living in true alignment with the universal natural laws that govern truth, justice, and morality for everyone. It’s the shared awakening of people breaking free from deception, control, and oppression together. It’s not about following rules or control but about the real power that comes when we take responsibility, respect natural order, and stand united to end all forms of slavery.
True freedom means taking responsibility for your actions while respecting the equal rights of others, creating a society where no one is a master and no one is a slave.
They push culture wars, race wars, and weekly distractions to keep us divided and blind to the real struggle for control over our lives. What matters most is standing together for our collective freedom.
Bitcoin is the means to what?
Each "bitcoiner" needs to answer this question. It tells more about your longer term goals and priorities in the space. If freedom is not your primary motivating factor, you will sell back into a slightly more comfortable prison at $250k per coin.
My answer: Bitcoin is a means to collective feedom. It is not the end, and it is not the only means required.
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Great work 👍
Can you share the context for this post?
The Israel-Palestine conflict is a heartbreaking struggle where Palestinians deserve dignity, self-determination, and an end to occupation, while also recognizing that Israeli civilians want safety too. True peace needs justice, empathy, and respect for both peoples.
Strike continues to roll out new features, yet still no Bitcoin proof of reserves.
This isn’t about being a hater. It’s about holding Bitcoin custodians to basic transparency standards.
Why is digital dollar integration prioritized over proof of reserves? That says a lot about Strike’s real focus. We have to remember the ultimate goal of Bitcoin: to build a transparent, decentralized financial system that doesn't require trust, especially in custodians.
I'm open to anything from here. How are you getting $58k downturn nostr:nprofile1qqs2wguqtndxwfg3j8y8sm6d5k8hjlnfwavzxqf4fw5wjx7tqdpde8qpr9mhxue69uhkk6t5vd5x2m3w0fshqtnrdahkk6twvuqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsg74v8j?
Is it from wiping out of debt leverage, major FUD expectation, war/t attack, or something else?
Thanks. I did not see his statement to remove sats from Strike. If you have that link I am interested.
I started running a knots node after the debacle with op return.
Thanks for the input KC. I hope you are okay. Stay humble and stack sats.
Strawman argument. Not rooting for your downfall Jack, I complimented you for your knowledge. Stay true to Bitcoin, not your ego.
You are dealing with experienced forces that are using you for marketing instrument. Are Brandon and Howard Lutnick into Bitcoin for the same reason as you Jack? Or does Tether custodianship by Cantor Fitzgerald play into this more than you thought...
Remember: Stay humble, stack sats
I've been in Bitcoin long enough to recognize the cycle.
Jack is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Hodlers, don’t be fooled — this 21 Capital SEC filing feels just like Celsius and BlockFi before I lost my Bitcoin. Strike still hasn’t shown proof of reserves, and they rely on Cross River Bank to handle transactions behind the scenes.
Jack speaks well and knows the Bitcoin space, which makes him a strong marketer, but that doesn’t make him trustworthy.
Not your keys, not your coins.