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Hear hear! Pumped for the rebrand and personally very much feel Trey’s evolution here. I’ve wrestled with much the same myself for the last couple years. Historically came from the left, have gradually come to a place where I don’t identify with either party in any meaningful way. I’ve even officially changed my party affiliation to independent.
I used to talk and write about how I think the two-party system will ultimately capitulate to #bitcoin and/or be essentially forced to reconfigure and reconstitute in some creative destruction process as a result of #bitcoin (versus Bitcoin capitulating to or being slammed ill-fittingly into the current two party paradigm).
Bitcoin basically introduces competition into the two-party duopoly that is our current politics.
And more importantly, beyond the two-party company town lies the frontier. That’s where we’re heading. Looking forward to and grateful for Trey’s voice and efforts on the journey.
LFG #note1ukv…qxjp

2024-09-03 12:57:46

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.” -John Milton #note1chq…rvet

2024-09-03 12:32:05

Gm #nostr https://image.nostr.build/898253fc3ea69aca53947469e8d1f9c1173f420939e9adb58ad86c6409ae8a97.jpg

2024-09-03 04:33:28

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So when we start our music podcast Trey we obviously gotta add films too

2024-09-03 03:55:52

Gn #nostr https://image.nostr.build/71fc19431debaec0d8cd0c553417ae4a40dd33ce4c149851040957f5b8c873e4.jpg

2024-09-03 02:15:16

“We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our lives because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think.
Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.”
-David Foster Wallace
Be yourself. Don’t run from yourself. Stay weird. Stay free.

2024-09-03 00:24:57

The state of things this week. In case you missed it, the Constitution is one of the “biggest threats to America’s politics,” having more children us propagating a Ponzi scheme, and taxing unrealized gains is good.
Orwell said “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
Disempower this nonsense with #bitcoin and #nostr. https://image.nostr.build/57c20bb48303648e1d3ae1cd7ac735c4874aa1e47d83966be7c20d56098eebc2.jpg https://image.nostr.build/7066758976dbf691b9ca8503a65bd84457c3c57058d0e545e40ae13ad64910ef.jpg https://image.nostr.build/712574a5ba0d78f615ca4ac1e330e3e2e2111f2255f4945649bca91391bbd7c3.jpg

2024-09-01 20:29:09

Folks, these people are deranged. I’m no Elon simp, but Robert Reich’s vision of the world is an Orwellian one entirely untethered from the free speech values upon which our country is founded. If you abandon those values quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches the watchmen?
Use #bitcoin
#grownostr https://image.nostr.build/456f4c1b836aae12e4acc92a47d8caa9d289548bc7bbf2cce12021c6909eda34.jpg https://image.nostr.build/7a7326a00622b757d8e97af5da27bdeeb9fe37778c2c4a761a1f4d1ebbdc9921.jpg

2024-09-01 13:07:24

#coffeechain https://image.nostr.build/72ed1faf061cefb3611eca7ca0ea8db96c28f591669c917481d7fd2ed0e10b80.jpg

2024-09-01 13:02:55

Gm #nostr https://image.nostr.build/9f623815d2ad7d8d326be3541acad4902c3ff15719cb52d724df4916cb39a4ab.jpg

2024-09-01 01:12:55

Agreed, and I think the deliberate election of certain restraints actually IS freedom. Just a different kind than most people think about. It’s positive freedom (aka freedom-to) vs the negative freedom (freedom-from) of having zero constraints.
*Using “negative” and “positive” freedom in the Isaiah Berlin sense #note1vmc…l695

2024-08-31 23:23:02

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https://youtu.be/alUnWyBBSi0?

2024-08-31 23:21:47

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I think I did a Tim Maia one. Totally agree on the other two. If I wasn’t about to head out to dinner I’d def be posting Jorge Ben tor!

2024-08-31 23:17:28

Brazilian music all day on #nostr in solidarity with our brothers and sisters from #brazil. It’s been real.
Last one is contemporary Brazil:
#tunestr
https://youtu.be/HU_FZJA8RCQ?

2024-08-31 19:24:51

Brazilian music all day on #nostr in solidarity with our brothers and sisters from #brazil.
We continue with another Brazilian twist on an American classic, which will lift your mood immediately:
https://youtu.be/7bkYIW8DmUI?

2024-08-31 16:39:41

I don’t know much about Brazilian politics, and I don’t have anything technical to contribute to help our Brazilian friends get onto #nostr . But I do love Brazilian music. So I’ll be sharing it all day in solidarity with our brothers and sisters from #brazil.
Next up is one I don’t think is even available on Spotify. Deep cut:
https://youtu.be/RpXw8VZTuGE?

2024-08-31 15:09:18

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This is beautiful, Leo, thanks for sharing. Shout out to @npub1jw6…h29m too for the moving music.

2024-08-31 13:29:22

As a not-especially technical guy, transitioning fully to #nostr is continuously humbling.
Grateful to all of you who have posted (and continue to post) so much good educational material. Grateful to all the generosity in this space.
I’ve never shared so much of my non-Bitcoin interests on any platform before, and it’s been immensely fun talking about books and films, poetry and art with all of you.
Have an inspired day everyone.

2024-08-31 13:00:49

Gm #nostr https://image.nostr.build/7761633aaa7a850221a302d90fdc549e8aab49b29f6bc43cfc824b4bcee7a4b7.jpg

2024-08-30 15:52:20

#coffeechain
https://media.tenor.com/UxIGUn-QpncAAAAC/tom-waits-coffee-and-cigarettes.gif

2024-08-30 12:32:21

Gm #nostr https://image.nostr.build/85a1d25181e6619fba62648558137296f32f7c2480ec9e4d4b186206d408ca34.jpg

2024-08-29 16:38:56

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Thank you for sharing that, too. Pairs very nicely and naturally with the Neruda. That poem is called “Keeping Quiet” by the way if you’re searching for it.

2024-08-29 12:57:43

Gm #nostr https://image.nostr.build/f96618876e3a5d085715f6b96118b17c1d7b10211bee5d593443826cd53dc967.jpg

2024-08-28 23:46:28

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Yeah I’d 100% agree. This is another idiotic Gensler move. I’ll be curious to see the language in the enforcement action, though. Politically this is kind of mind-numbingly dumb for Dems.

2024-08-28 19:13:25

I will simply never vote for a candidate who proposes taxing unrealized gains.
On this issue I think slippery slope arguments are valid and historically grounded.
I also think it betrays a fundamental lack of understanding and economic illiteracy.
More troublingly, it indicates a perspective on the relationship between government and citizen that I think is anti-American. #note1n5f…j3vk

2024-08-27 20:02:43

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I’ve been following this list for probably 10 years or so (it updates every year). In the mood for love has moved up the most dramatically in that time. I think it entered the list in the back half and is now top 20.

2024-08-27 19:12:59

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Haha fair, I definitely have some objections of my own, too. But as a board, international list of basically aggregated critic and artist opinions it’s probably the best resource out there that I’ve found. Much better I think than the recent New York Times list of the best 100 books of the 21st century, for example.

2024-08-27 18:07:50

For any fellow cinephiles and film people out there, this list (and site) is a pretty incredible resource
#filmstr
https://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_rank1-1000.htm

2024-08-27 16:01:18

Been spending lots more time on #nostr the last two weeks (shout out @npub164q…2rl3 for the push), and have been trying to share more about the stuff I care deeply about beyond just #bitcoin (though I of course talk Bitcoin too).
But for me those things are literature, art, poetry, and ideas. Before I eventually became a lawyer I went to grad school for lit and film, and that remains an integral part of my life and the way I think about things. It’s my intellectual anchor.
I’ve been blown away honestly at the quality of convos I’ve had on here the last week or so.
Even the last few days I’ve been discussing Infinite Jest, Shakespeare, postmodernism, DeLillo, etc, and the discussions have been very cool.
I feel I can kinda open up and express more of my total self, beyond Bitcoin bull-posting (which to be fair I still enjoy and support). It’s refreshing.
Hoping to continue to find and engage with more Bitcoin/nostr folks who are into literature and mining great artistic achievements for lessons and constructive discourse on the present.
Gm

2024-08-27 02:39:43

Gonna be an awesome convo. One angle I think about a lot:
Don DeLillo described the Kennedy assassination as “the seven seconds that broke the back of the American century.”
And he did so because after that Americans lost conviction in capital-T Truth, in a fundamental coherence of the universe. After all if we can’t even determine who committed the most famous murder since Franz Ferdinand, if we have to fall back on “magic bullet” theories, does anything mean anything? Is there something behind the curtain?
This, coupled with Vietnam, creates the perfect backdrop for the intellectual revolution that is postmodernism and all its tributaries and outgrowths.
Postmodernism takes over college campuses. Critical theorists like Derrida and Foucault and de Man become rockstars. Academia becomes almost a competitive game to see who can formulate the most radical understanding of the world.
We go off gold in 1971, and inflation ensues. For the next 50 years everything gets more expensive, especially higher education. So at the same time post-structuralists and post-colonialists et al are saturating the academy, the number of folks who can actually afford to go to the academy is decreasing.
So now we have elite schools increasingly captured by what is essentially an evolved viral (almost Darwinian) Marxism, teaching increasingly wealthy and well-connected kids. This is where we are now. With the country’s most affluent, privileged, educated kids becoming the most politically radical, and it’s all occurring in a way and in places more and more detached from the lived reality of normal people. And these kids of course grow up to take powerful positions in society (because they’re wealthy and well connected).
So a schism between “the Left” and the constituents it purports to care most about, “the working class,” emerges and grows.
Most regular people are basically just like what the actual fuck are you guys talking about.
And so the Left becomes utterly detached from its target demographic and becomes instead like an eternal regress of theoretical nonsense.
Like the bird in an early David Foster Wallace story (the title escapes me at the moment) that flies in increasingly narrower circles until it actually flies up its own ass.
Voila here we are. #note1vys…05lw

2024-08-26 04:00:47

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Sounds like your woke government school taught Shakespeare wrong, or at least deeply insufficiently. Shakespeare traditionally not taught in anything resembling woke, but some scholars in the last probably 25 or 30 years or so have tried to narrow him in that way. Don’t give up on him. You might find him even more interesting/constructive now as an adult with the economic grounding you now have.

2024-08-26 02:55:10

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Totally fair and agree. My pitch would be once you hit those, don’t lose that sense of intellectual adventure that got you there in the first place and keep branching out to more stuff. Because it’s certainly true that good fiction/lit can open up perspectives, unearth layers and vistas that were previously unseeable. Again, paraphrasing Eliot, good lit is a raid on the inarticulable.
It’s low key one of my dreams to start a Shakespeare / classic lit reading group of bitcoiners. I think the mash up of ideas would be exhilarating, fruitful, and lots of fun.
And when that dream comes to fruition you are getting an invite sir.

2024-08-26 02:26:56

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It’s long, but so worth it. Lots of the footnotes are pretty funny, too. Central theme of the book is basically what is freedom in modern America. And I would argue it’s a much more profound, human exploration of it than, say, an economic tract or a less subtle, less nuanced, novel-as-mere-vehicle-for-message thing, I.e. Rand.

2024-08-26 02:18:08

Couldn’t possibly agree with this more. Anybody who thinks ayn Rand is an elite novelist has simply not read enough (or widely enough) to know what an insane opinion that is.
Infinite Jest, for example, is a far more interesting rumination on freedom in America than anything by Rothbard, Rand, etc etc.
You will learn more about humanity from Shakespeare than from the Mises (all due respect to Mises).
So many incredible conversations about big ideas live in works of fiction or poetry, where people tend not to look.
100% endorse not just reading more but reading outside of your comfort zone. Read poetry, read more fiction, read something you think you might disagree with, read something long.
Imagine how absolutely miserable hyperbjtcoinization will be if everyone just reads and talks about the same five books. #note1xd2…v45n

2024-08-25 13:38:37

Gm, still thinking about RFK’s speech on Friday.
When you store your wealth in S&P 500 index funds, among the things you are “investing” in and funding are censorship, surveillance, big pharma, the sickness industrial complex, and war.
And so many people do this. They blindly, price-insensitively store their wealth, the result of their life energy on earth, in companies who participate in the aforementioned societally harmful things.
It’s a reflexive, inculcated behavior. It’s what the financial advisor class tells you is “prudent and smart.” It’s what Warren Buffett will tell you is “investing in America.”
It may be prudent and smart, in a dark, cynical way. But I reject the idea that investing in our own gradual spiritual and physical death as a populace is investing in America.
I tend to agree with RFK that the most important issues of our time are fixing our utterly toxic food system, fixing the perverse incentives of our broken healthcare system, dis-empowering the censorship and propaganda machines of mainstream media and tech conglomerates, and defunding war.
One way you vote for THAT is with your money, by saving in #bitcoin.
Another is with your eyeballs and your attention, by using #nostr.
So yes, we talk about our bitcoin price, and maybe we do it too much. But it’s because #bitcoin is a vote. It’s a tool. It’s a protest. It’s being the change you want to see in the world.
Gm #nostr

2024-08-25 02:16:59

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I am in the very very early stages of my knausgaard journey

2024-08-25 02:07:17

When your nightstand has lost all sense of direction: https://image.nostr.build/5e80e2480bbc4283392200863730ebe93ce6c61c7fe4d12cd6c3ca8b2addfca4.jpg

2024-08-24 03:22:45

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Good point and I sadly agree. I’m hopeful, but hopefully not utterly delusional, that tools like bitcoin and nostr will help a more critical mass of folks look outside the existing system. But you’re certainly right. Parliamentary system would create much more space for constructive clashes of a wider array of ideas.

2024-08-24 03:05:45

Despite RFK ending his campaign, I’m hopeful that there’s an emergent groundswell of independent political voices in the U.S.
Voices that are heterodox, non-monolithic, beholden to neither of the two ossified existing parties.
And I hope this leads to a politics with less theater and more real human interaction; less doctrine and more ideas.
Americans are a deeply innovative people. Our country’s founding itself was a tectonic innovation in governance.
Back then it was the tyranny of a distant monarch. Today we live under the tyranny of the two-party system and the ubiquitous media machine that supports it.
There’s a frontier beyond this paradigm, though, and I hope we can find a new frontier in our politics, too. Something more than merely recycled Reagan or FDR.
It’s why I feel so strongly about #bitcoin. Because it aids in the subversion of this paradigm. Same with #nostr.
Other than education, I’m not sure there’s anything in America more in need of innovation than our politics.
I see glimpses of something new, whether it’s Vivek walking around talking to everyone, even passionate detractors, impromptu and unscripted, without handlers or teleprompters.
Or RFK, taking on big pharma, crusading for clean food, healthier lifestyles, and a detoxified world for our children, and doing it all while a massive, coordinated censorship campaign sought to banish and discredit him into obscurity.
I occasionally even see some of it in a guy like John Fetterman who, after his hospitalization, has made the radical decision to just say what he thinks, haters be damned, party marching orders be damned.
I don’t agree with any of these people on everything. But that’s perfectly okay. And that’s the point.
What I want to see is a politics of PEOPLE, warts and all, debating ideas; not of vast machineries producing newer vessels for the same shit.
We are a nation capable of generative, even revolutionary heterodoxy. We awesomely, transcendently weird. But we’ve allowed our political imaginations to atrophy on a 24/7 diet of mainstream media, algorithms, and the virtue-signaling regime that makes us all self-censor.
Polarization went from being a temporary bug to being fundamental. Grievance is now both a business and an infinite regress. Activism is a profession.
If you listen closely you can hear the song of the trapped who has grown to love its cage.
But I’m hopeful there’s a rumbling of something new on the horizon.

2024-08-23 21:41:37

The RFK speech today was better, more urgent and more authentic, than any speech from the two major candidates at their respective conventions.

2024-08-22 18:42:57

On Tim Walz and his repeated digs at J.D. Vance for getting an education and making some money:
I was born and raised in a small rural town near the Appalachian Mountains, 2 hrs from the nearest major city. Still work in this town today.
My father was born and raised in an even smaller town, even more rural town with a population under 2,000.
I have three degrees from three elite institutions because my folks believed in aspiring to education, that it opened doors, created opportunities, and allowed you to experience more of the world. They instilled that in me.
I am a cocktail of my upbringing and my education.
I shoot guns, and I quote Shakespeare.
I eat venison, and I think about Dostoyevsky.
I am comfortable in both Waylon Jennings and Mozart, Steve Earle and Alice Coltrane.
I can cite Luke Combs and Lou Reed, wax poetic about Top Gun and Le Mepris.
I buy food (and milk) from farmers.
I am an attorney, yes, and my J.D. is from an elite institution. I represent the blue-collar folks of my hometown.
I am neither a supremacist, nor a relativist.
I am a dad and a husband.
I am a #bitcoin er
All my life I have had one foot in the ethos and spirit of my rural hometown and the other in the rarefied echelons of the elitely educated, the financially successful, and the well-connected. It's not always comfortable.
All my life I have climbed, my folks sacrificed and pushed me to climb and to aspire. "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield," to quote Tennyson (see, I told you I can do that).
And all my life I have kept my upbringing close to me, because it is a part of me. I don't shed my lived experience, nor do I forfeit its imprint, its impact, simply because I pursued the best education and got a professional job. The validity of my experience does not expire upon achievement.
So when Tim Walz repeatedly attempts to invalidate J.D. Vance’s upbringing, to cast him as some inherently callous, rich interloper, out of touch with the "heartland" simply because he pursued the best education he could and made some money, it bothers me on a deep, personal level.
In the Walz taxonomy, which is binary, but only binary for non-Democrats apparently, financial success or an Ivy-League education, automatically and irrevocably renders one out of touch with "regular" people. Further, aspirations to these things are no longer to be applauded; they're punchlines in campaign speeches.
Never mind the financial success and education of the Obamas, the Clintons, Kamala Harris, Oprah, etc. This does not invalidate their respective experiences, the journeys they each took to get there.
Only if you're J.D. Vance does success actually make you a charlatan to yourself, an interloper in your own life, an enemy to your past.
It's not right. We should be applauding folks, no matter their race or political affiliation, for aspiring, for traversing the brutal terrain of class, region and familial afflictions and making it.
You may agree or disagree with J.D. on the issues, of course. That's perfectly fine.
But dismissing him simply because he managed to go to Yale (like so many Dems, by the way, who readily purport to be regular, working class heroes), or because he majored in philosophy, or because he eventually worked in finance and made some money, is craven, disingenuous, breathtakingly lacking in self-awareness, and offensive to anyone who has actually grown up in the "heartland," myself included.
Like so many other Americans, I contain multitudes, Tim Walz, but your taxonomy apparently doesn't allow that.

2024-08-20 02:40:34

Excellent https://image.nostr.build/63844c436cc90701bf8214d50280dc15e0648129f577beb23ed10135f9fda4f7.jpg

2024-08-17 13:05:08

Facts #note1h4s…4jra

2024-08-16 13:01:09

Gm #nostr, touch grass and read poetry.
Neruda: https://image.nostr.build/7ecaae5d3dffa00db64267e380bfe9ef6db51d943768aa17afa72637989d51a3.jpg

2024-08-16 02:15:34

Developing a body of rigorous, high-quality #bitcoin research is low-key absolutely essential to advancing the policy discourse. Anyone who paid attention to the Obama era or even to what someone like JD Vance is trying to do with the GOP right now understands the importance of research > journalism > better, richer discourse > better, more thoughtful policies. It may sound staid on the surface, but this is key. Need the research for the discourse, need the discourse for serious policy. Kudos to @npub1jdd…4s60, @npub1n3s…te5l, @npub10af…0xj0, @npub1yez…awc7 and others for doing this work. #note1jp6…0t30

2024-08-15 13:00:50

Gm #nostr, touch grass and read poetry
T.S. Eliot: https://image.nostr.build/d5dd0271f1ad0733ba079bc378b92f93963c6964cd47a34ddc0b783555a57522.jpg

2024-08-14 13:51:07

Gm #nostr, don’t forget to touch grass and read poetry https://image.nostr.build/a382b507a0dd6d03022573c5238010b55b97a8c0d4ff4d8af97edfca29f39efb.jpg

2024-08-13 21:46:33

“And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.” -Shakespeare https://image.nostr.build/255b1214b419c79f7e1000aa50cd6e1a366be3f241d097fc0d71522f6ee54943.jpg

2024-08-12 22:53:05

Been thinking about “the Entertainment” in Infinite Jest as just social media

2024-08-12 18:41:47

“Nothing is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.”
-Viet Thanh Nguyen

2024-08-11 20:41:06

https://image.nostr.build/febd682d78d22365ab4eb31e5ad607fbbea79a79beca1ab3f5983c78b99a2889.jpg

2024-03-21 15:19:04

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Speaking of the avalanches, them remixing 8th grade for me:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6JxcXQCVdWE&pp=ygUaQXZhbGFuY2hlcyBiYWRseSBkcmF3biBib3k%3D

2024-03-21 15:14:34

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Haven’t listened to the new VW yet, but god do I love frontier psychiatrist

2024-03-08 22:25:20

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Harking back to our music lists, I think “sweet Jane” is, pound for pound, my favorite song of all time.

2024-03-08 22:18:37

Original pressing. Friday vibes #tunestr https://video.nostr.build/20c79c9c39b3434e0fd82b20255f4ec532cc3e03612d5955fd5d8eb78b7a070e.mp4

2024-02-22 20:21:29

"A new ECB blog post debunks #Bitcoin’s promises" is, on its face, one of the most comically unserious sentences I've ever seen. https://image.nostr.build/4936dac231947d69a0a9347abae2de71879bb42d104f0c754ee6fe63d85691bd.jpg

2023-12-19 01:32:08

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Also somebody needs to get ahold of Trey’s low time preference skincare routine and post it. Not a single crow’s foot in sight on my man!

2023-12-19 01:28:37

This conversation was so fun. We go deep on Bitcoin and progressivism and toss around some probably unexpected ideas and conclusions. Ultimately I continue to hope we move toward new political coalitions through and with Bitcoin. Thanks to Trey for having me on! #note1umr…yesf

2023-11-15 02:34:38

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Agreed 100% 🤝. I could listen to Cornell acoustically cover children’s songs and be moved. His version of “nothing compares to u” is incomparable.

2023-11-15 02:29:09

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Thankfully I’ve never even allowed myself to be tempted to enjoy velvet revolver. My shamelessness does, luckily, have some limits.
“Doesn’t remind me” is one of my fav Cornell songs though. When I’m thinking about him that’s usually the song I throw on.

2023-11-15 02:22:43

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😂😂 I mean, honestly, it’s just “plush.” It gets to me. Still shameful, I know. It’s a flaw.

2023-11-15 02:20:21

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Erect and crying somewhere

2023-11-15 02:17:21

I like the idea of Chris Cornell more than the idea of Scott Weiland, but if I’m being honest with myself I think actually enjoy more stone temple pilot sings than soundgarden songs.
Unsure if I feel ashamed or not.

2023-11-15 00:48:00

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2023-11-12 13:55:51

Gm #nostr, Brazilian music is great.
#vinylstr #tunestr https://video.nostr.build/c0c7a867b26d4b28a42ae2e5765200a77274f080e151983b936d9799edd257de.mp4

2023-11-11 20:28:40

https://image.nostr.build/7d516c84a772b232edac8bf45acdc43a619a89ad240ccdc4143f768670440efa.jpg

2023-11-11 17:14:25

Saturday listening with my daughter.
#tunestr #vinylstr https://video.nostr.build/a9f8226bc86478b3efdd24656e844607d9e3a7b541f2db6bfeaddf678de82b15.mp4

2023-11-10 19:04:15

For many politicians, this emerging bull market will be the first time they’ve really seen #bitcoin not only not die, but rise from perceived (and/or desired) oblivion.
Bitcoin is much more salient in the political consciousness, now.
And I think this means a few things.
Politicians will be forced to consider #bitcoin more seriously, which will of course mean more sedulous attempts to fit it into their existing, partisan, political paradigms, however uncomfortable the fit may be.
What’s happening under the surface I think, with actual voters, is #bitcoin is transforming their politics and moving an increasing number of people out of or away from their prior partisan, political affiliations. It’s creating distance between people and our ossified two-party system.
So at the grassroots level bitcoin is changing, and re-shuffling political affiliation, while at the political class level politicians are (and will continue) trying to figure out how it fits into the existing two-party paradigm.
The bottom-up dynamics will be much more lasting, much more transformative, and, I hope, much more effective.
More and more people are becoming politically homeless. And #bitcoin is becoming a new consensus force pulling together what would traditionally seem to be strange bedfellows.
Anecdotally, every Dem I know who has spent any time meaningfully learning about #bitcoin is not thinking to themselves: how do I fit it into my current political party affiliation?
They are thinking wow this really subverts my existing political thinking in a lot of ways.
In the same way that Wall Street is capitulating to #Bitcoin (not the other way around), I hope and expect political parties to capitulate to bitcoin (and not the other way around), too.
This could and should create a very interesting, generational re-shuffling. It’ll of course take time to develop and progress. But I suspect we’re already in the early stages.

2023-11-10 02:02:34

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Niiiiice. Dude, so much to discuss with this list. Throwing mac demarco in the top 5 = major conversation starter. Interesting National selection too. Curious how close Boxer or Trouble Will Find Me were to cracking the list.

2023-11-10 01:56:07

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True story. I played bball my freshman year of college. Over winter break we stayed on campus for games. We were packed into a couple of houses, sharing rooms, etc because all other buildings were closed. One night a teammate and I were just chilling, having some beers, listening to the mtv unplugged album. The sun went down and the room got dark. We were both so engrossed in the music neither of us moved to turn on lights. And we sort of felt a flash of what we perceived to be Kurt’s presence. Next day I try to explain this experience to our relatively young assistant coach. His response, deathly serious: “Logan, you’re aware the NCAA conducts random drug tests, right?”

2023-11-10 01:52:20

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@npub1l25…2s5p where have I strayed

2023-11-10 01:50:55

This bull run is gonna be next level #note19qs…psjf

2023-11-10 01:50:09

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Hit me with Trey’s top 5 albums

2023-11-10 01:43:05

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Nevermind is incredible, of course. Def not a knock on it. I just think In Utero raises the bar incrementally. The hottest take would be where does the unplugged album land? There are times when it’s number one nirvana for me.

2023-11-10 01:36:16

My most controversial music opinions: I believe most of these things, most of the time
1. Craig Finn is a top five lyricist of the last 25 years
2. Let It Be by The Replacements is better than Let It Be by The Beatles
3. The Velvet Underground and Nico is the best album of all time
4. (Getting spicy now) Rage Against the Machine is the most overrated band of all time, and I actually think they kind of suck. Good in theory, but the actual result not so much. The idea of them is better than them.
5. pre-American idiot Green Day is actually pretty great
6. Darkness on the edge of town > Born to Run
In Utero > Nevermind
Stillmatic > Illmatic
7. Prince is better than Michael Jackson, and it’s not close
8. Bob weir is an almost legendarily terrible back up vocalist
9. Joy Division is good but not transcendently so. Give me echo and the bunnymen instead.
10. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is better than every Radiohead album (nothing against Radiohead)
Non-exhaustive list

2023-11-10 01:24:27

“Look out honey
‘Cause I’m using technology,
Ain’t got time
To make no apology…”
Iggy pop on this #bitcoin pump https://image.nostr.build/20f8473ea8550778c4b96ac26c9fd9720893b6c2f7c916013bb44860645ffffa.jpg

2023-11-09 21:05:33

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
To all of you who made it through that long bear, who hodled through the collapses, the panics, and the handwringing…you earned everything that comes next.

2023-11-07 02:26:32

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Paprika or nostalghia. Haven’t had a good Tarkovsky jam in a while

2023-11-05 22:45:25

You guys are the best

2023-11-05 15:17:19

Bullish. Shout out to @npub164q…2rl3 for all his hard work on the pod. Taking it to a whole new level. #note1rur…uj9d

2023-11-05 15:14:56

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Def the worst, especially with and for a young child

2023-11-05 14:14:04

2023-11-05 01:15:25

@npub164q…2rl3 you’ll like these guys I think. Recommended to me by @npub1z0r…xuxf. Some of that sweet melodic fuzz. https://image.nostr.build/3fd8c78c9a2f600f6ed349274b4922fa227805fea3a201b19b7de51ec669b9c7.jpg

2023-11-05 01:10:52

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Love this. “Perfect pitch black” is 👌. Also dude are you Vertigo Kidd? Been listening to cold neon blues a lot!

2023-11-04 23:56:57

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Oh nice, so actually very little friction at all!

2023-11-04 23:35:54

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Awesome, gonna start sending to all my fav bands

2023-11-04 16:27:17

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Ah right on right on, good. This is the way, I think. Much better than blackout. Appreciate you, Derek 🤝

2023-11-04 16:16:55

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I shall follow your lead, friend 🫡. Are we going full non-nostr social media blackout this time around?

2023-11-04 16:11:36

100%, heartily agree. I think it’s worth it though, for folks with moderate to large followings on X, to make known on X that #NostrNovember means followers gotta make the jump to nostr to keep up. #note1rul…a26t

2023-11-04 14:47:44

Okay guys how are we getting all our favorite bands on @npub1yfg…v6vg?
I’m just going to start DM’ing them all unless anyone has any better, more coordinated ideas.
Obvious hurdles and threshold issues are they have to be amenable to receiving BTC, which means not thinking it’s just some scam internet money. Might require some education.
Then have to get a wallet set up. Which, if step one is in the bag, shouldn’t be too heavy of a lift.
I personally think of bands I’ve spent hundreds of hours listening to, that I quote all the time, philosophize about, etc. Bands who’ve given me way more value and joy than can be compensated merely by buying a record or going to a show.
The Hold Steady are probably the one that comes to mind first for me. But there are many.
Would love to be able to send them bitcoin directly.

2023-11-04 13:14:30

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Gm friend, that’s gorgeous

2023-11-04 03:53:19

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💜 Slowdive

2023-11-04 03:16:56

Will zap for shoegaze
@wavlake #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/75f6e1f77841651d9778ae24c9c3c2d289807da8f78d5cb12d73add745147183.jpg

2023-11-03 17:07:39

Honestly more people should do this, and then we should aggregate the numbers somewhere as a kind of crowd-sourced decentralized inflation/debasement tracker. Pick something you like and consume often and track YOY price increases. #note16ac…0f0s

2023-11-03 17:04:42

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Pure signal every time

2023-11-02 23:06:24

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Woefully short

2023-11-02 23:02:13

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Challenges is de-programming our social media conditioning, which is a very real thing.

2023-11-02 22:58:49

One of the challenges to onboarding the masses to #nostr is that the legacy social media environment has completely emptied out the “social” component and has largely evolved into naked audience-building, engagement farming, and clout-chasing for the purposes of monetization, which Elon has only turbo-charged.
So you get more incendiary stuff, more audience capture, more noise, etc. because the purpose is eyeballs, not connection or conversation or, dare I say, genuine “social” interaction.
Incentives are all warped. It’s kind of the same idea as “if it bleeds it leads.”
Nostr allows value to be explicitly exchanged but better aligns incentives. Which creates an epically more productive, genuine, fun environment.
Interestingly less transactional, despite allowing for direct transactions.