Leo Fernevak

Agreed.
While I think that Bitcoin will survive the potential risks of CTV, I never liked the idea of increasing unknown factors.
Perhaps I am wrong in my opposition to CTV and perhaps CTV might be overall beneficial for Bitcoin. Still, we need to think adversially regarding potential risks that could be used to harm the network.
1. Expanding the scripting capabilities. We can expect pros and cons here and it is hard to foresee what these will be.
2. The possibility of creating closed whitelisting loops.
After thinking the second point through over the last few weeks, I am no longer concerned with this scenario. Yet I will share my general thinking process of why I have changed my mind.
As for point 2, if I were to steelman the pro-CTV position, we could argue that all functions that improve security for decentralized Bitcoin users, also can be used by governments to increase the security of government-owned bitcon.
What secures *our* bitcoin as liberty advicates also secures government owned bitcoin, and vice versa. This is an unavoidable and fair situation that benefit Bitcoin.
A hypthetical worst case scenario:
The US, Canada, EU and Australia joins together to prevent bitcoin withdrawals from all exchanges within their respective jurisdictions.
This would not impact the Bitcoin network and sovereign Bitcoin users, but a lot of customers at exchanges would suffer.
Let's say that in this tyrannical scenario, the users of exchanges are only allowed to withdraw their capital in the form of CBDCs, while the exchanges end up holding the exchange-stored bitcoin.
We could then formulate multiple strategies for this alliance of the US and its partners to keep the mentioned exchange-stored bitcoin from being returned to their rightful owners.
One strategy could be via multi-sigs, which of course already exists. If a multi-sig requires signatures from both the US, Canada and the EU, it could be hard to overturn this decision via changing the laws in a single jurisdiction such as the US or the EU.
Another strategy could be to lock in the exchange-stored bitcoin into an unbreakable whitelisting loop, where the US, Canada, EU and Australia all include each other's addresses in a closed whitelisting loop system. If the government of the US is sued and ordered by the supreme court to give back user's bitcoin, it may not be able to.
On the other hand, if this were the case, the US could be forced to buy new bitcoin from the market in order to satisfy customer demands. This would make the whole closed whitelisting loop pointless, apart from it being ineffective from a global trade perspective.
It seems to me that my previous concern over closed whitelisting loops is not valid since it cannot function as a strategy for governments to abolish private property rights of bitcoin users.
My conclusion therefore is that closed whitelisting loops cannot become a threat to Bitcoin.
I am still critical of CTV, but less so than before.

2024-08-31 17:52:53

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🙏
Jay is amazing and it is an honor to have him here with us on Nostr. I used another of Jays compositions to accompany my wife's art. Shout out to @nprofile…pxuh .
https://youtu.be/aaVlXVVF64o

2024-08-31 14:23:11

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Appreciate your quality content Logan.
I put together a meditational journey with art I have made combined with the piano music of Jay here on Nostr. No AI of course. Shoutout to @nprofile…nr8y .
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ptSmpBownz4
Art should come at us as a force of nature, as wind, sun and rain - neutral and non-political.
Abstractions are a creative rest for the mind. Not everything should be explained or stamped with a logo.
⭐️🌟💫

2024-08-30 08:34:06

A Norwegian law from 2023 allows for mandated vaccinations of "either the whole population or parts of the population".
The law also allows the discrimination of unvaccinated individuals where they may be subject to quarantine within an area and obliged to follow every edict of the municipality.
These are clear violations of the Nuremberg laws that were signed after WW2 where the informed consent for every medical procedure was determined to be absolutely necessary in order to prevent future crimes and abuses against human rights.
https://image.nostr.build/b13b3c5f2c23fc7d980426c4ecc979ee8e241efe7eb186da0045b1550d59c8be.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/45c9d03d620522eec4883dca4614ed79e6f2a9bc07d63079fdd1033291487751.jpg
Norwegian law document source:
Paragraph 3-8:
https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1994-08-05-55/KAPITTEL_3#%C2%A73-8
#!Norway #Norge #Vaccine #Mandate #Forced #Vaccination #Law

2024-08-29 13:02:09

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GM. Sunny late summer afternoon here in Poland.

2024-08-28 21:44:11

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2024-08-28 20:41:01

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The Matrix likes the orange coin.

2024-08-28 20:39:06

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My savings would have melted away if it wasn't for Bitcoin.
Also, no way I'm crossing borders with painfully hidden gold watches.😄
When humanity develop cheap and abundant energy, gold will be fabricated at low cost while Bitcoin chugs along more decentralized than ever.

2024-08-28 20:27:45

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Right, I remember a man was sentenced to jail for mentioning the visual appearance of a politician.
The Thought Police busy with work.
Die Gedankenpolizei

2024-08-28 12:06:50

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Followed!

2024-08-28 12:03:25

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That's a great NIP solution.
The main issue I see is in cases where the root key is already compromised. It also requires a fully secure handling of the root key.
If we implement NIP-26 and then create new root keys from scratch, we could safely move from our old Nostr identities to new ones.

2024-08-28 09:46:31

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Absolutely. But for relays relaying a ton of users I have to expect that my notes may not persist indefinitely.
Yes, for users that worry about theit notes being deleted, running their own relay is a solution.
I responded to claims that notes are persistent. They might be, we don't know that yet.

2024-08-28 09:42:27

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Agreed. Then there is the problem of a single private key. If that key is compromised, we are no longer in control over our identity. This is particularly problematic for companies that need to share their private key with several people.
If Nostr were to have two private keys, one of them a master key with admin capabilities for the identity, the protocol would need a new architecture.
As a result, whenever a Nostr spin-off architecture solves this problem, every company, corporation and security-minded user will migrate to the protocol with higher security. That's just how things work.

2024-08-28 09:07:42

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Sure, but storage is costly.
We don't know yet how long we can expect Nostr notes to last. I have some Nostr notes that are 1.5 years but for all I know they could be deleted tomorrow.

2024-08-28 08:53:18

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When I joined Nostr it was said that we shouldn't expect notes to last longer than 6 months, due to relays needing to free up space regularly.
I like the idea of notes surviving for 10+ years but I'm not sure how realistic that is.

2024-08-28 08:48:59

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On twitter I have to compress ideas into a cryptic format, cut away some nuances and sometimes accept an approximate result that I'm not fully happy with, just because I can't cram in the full meaning into the character limit.
On Nostr I need to restrain myself artificially and brevity becomes a really flexible term.😄

2024-08-28 08:35:14

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I'm zappable. Will spread around the zap 23 times in 21 sat increments.

2024-08-27 18:47:32

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Hopefully not a German with 13 kilograms of hidden gold watches**.
**Pulp Fiction reference.

2024-08-27 17:23:21

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Great to have you here Logan. It is uplifting to see more focus on literature and art.
I reposted an earlier text I wrote on Aristotle, art and poetry.
#nevent1q…ftxm

2024-08-27 17:16:37

Aristotle: art and poetry, based on his book Poetics. (Repost from early 2023)
The below quote is from Will Durant as he attempts to encapsulate Aristotle's view on art:
https://i.imgur.com/tJYuxa6.jpg
When I came across this statement from Will Durant I decided to re-read Aristotle's Poetics to see how representative it was.
Aristotle studied at Plato's Academy in Athens, which brings continuity from Socrates -> Plato -> Aristotle.
Plato:
"And when someone honors beauty more than virtue, this constitutes nothing other than a real and thorough dishonoring of the soul" // Plato, Laws, Book B, 727d.
Socrates and Plato held an often times contemptful view of the poet or artist, expressed on several occasions in Plato's Republic.
This is likely because the artist was viewed as an imitator, in the negative sense. Reality is of course of higher value than any imitation. We might add to this that Socrates was sometimes ridiculed by contemporary poets.
Another point of irritation for Socrates was when poets celebrated and waxed sentimental over unethical men and portrayed them as heroes. It is possible that this latter case was Socrates' primary annoyance with the art of poetry.
Aristotle:
"What aims at reality is better than what aims at appearance".
// Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book I, 1365-b.
While there is overlap here between Aristotle and Plato there is also a clear divide. Plato is mainly concerned with ethics whereas Aristotle is more fascinated with analysis and substance. The ethics is obvious to Aristotle, what interests him even more is the practical considerations that can be made.
Aristotle continues:
"What a man wants to be, is better than what a man wants to seem (to be), for in aiming at that he is aiming more at reality".
Here Plato would focus on the ethical reasoning of 'being rather than seeming', while Aristotle is primarily occupied with the alignment to reality. For Aristotle, actions define us and it is through action that we realize our potentials. This in turn requires aims that are followed through - a fully practical process that does not involve pretense, but instead work and sweat. The point for Aristotle is not to spend time despising others for being unethical, but to inspire the proper practical achievement.
"And it is also natural for all to delight in works of imitation."
/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 3, 1448-b-9
Aristotle's remark here relates to delighting in realistic representations of things. He points out that we learn something from observing a realistic imitation.
Aristotle continues by observing that 'learning' is the 'greatest of pleasures'. He expands to say that 'gathering the meaning of things' is a part of what he is referring to by learning.
There is in Aristotle a focus on substance that isn't isolated to exterior appearance, but rather to attain some form of understanding of what we are observing.
In the artform of Tragedy, Aristotle counts six parts, where he highlights the Plot.
"And again: the most powerful elements of attraction in Tragedy, the Peripeties and Discoveries, are parts of the Plot".
/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 6, 1461.33
He continues:
"We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot".
Aristotle then lists Characters as the second most important part of the Tragedy art form:
"Characters come second - compare the parallel in painting, where the most beautiful colours laid on without order will not give one the same pleasure as a simple black-and-white sketch of a portrait".
There is in Aristotle a focus on actions, meaning and realism. Beautiful, decorative details are less important than capturing the true essence of something.
It is the plot and characters that makes the story significant to us, not the dramaturgical expressions on a stage; the Spectacle.
"The Spectacle, though an attraction, is the least artistic of all the parts, and has least to do with the art of poetry. The tragic effect is quite possible without a public performance and actors."
/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 6, 1450.b.16
"From what we have said it will be seen that the poet's function is to describe, not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen."
/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 7, 1451.a.35
There is attention to realism in terms of artistic plausibility, while not necessarily an exact imitation.
He continues:
"Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars".
Art builds upon timeless principles that can be understood intuitively and metaphorically, whereas history is locked into specifics.
"It is evident from the above that the poet must be more the poet of his stories or Plots than of his verses".
Again, Aristotle is looking at the meaningful significance of actions, plot and characters, rather than the exact outward format of the verse.
"Of simple Plots and actions, the episodic are the worst. I call a Plot episodic when there is neither probability nor necessity in the sequence of its episodes".
Improbable elements in a story are serious flaws for Aristotle. This is also an extension of his realism.
"The Plot in fact should be so framed that, even without seeing the things take place, he who simply hears the account of them shall be filled with horror and pity at the incidents."
/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 14, 1453.b.3
This is worth some reflection. Aristotle attempts to identify some kind of markers at this point by which we can identify a gripping plot. In short, it must stand on its own legs. This is yet another example of Aristotle's focus on the inner workings of a story or plot over the outward expression.
His realism is attuned to the inner, psychological motivations and plausible depictions of these, rather than merely ornamental or visual effects.
"The tragic pleasure is that of pity and fear, and the poet has to produce it by a work of imitation".
This perfectly encapulates Aristotle's positive use of the term imitation. The imitation he is talking about is an alignment with realistic internal realms, and how those can extend to the audience and create a meaningful experience.
"A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it."
/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 24, 1460.a.26
"Any impossibilities there may be in his description of things are faults.
But from another point of view they are justifiable, if they serve the end of poetry itself - if they make the effect of either that portion of the work or some other portion more astounding"
(1460.b.23)
This is where Aristotle shines, as he's playing the devil's advocate against his own argument.
While he is not yielding from his fiercely anchores principles, he is offering an alternative solution. If the artistic expression benefits it is possible depart from these strict guidelines.
At the end of the day, a compelling result is what matters.
In conclusion, I think it's fair to attribute the quote to Will Durant, as an interpretative summary of Aristotle on art. The inward significance is clearly highlighted in Aristotle. With some nuances.
Thank you for reading.
#Aristotle #Plato #Socrates #Writing #Plot

2024-08-27 14:07:30

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Nowadays 21 is a normal zap but in the beginning there were many 1,000 - 20,000 sat zaps.
Kinda cool to think about that 1 sat will be worth more than $1 at some point.

2024-08-27 14:02:26

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G'day.

2024-08-27 13:44:48

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Yup.

2024-08-27 13:08:49

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I'm on Amethyst (Android).

2024-08-27 07:55:23

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Great overview Logan.
When the quest for truth and reason is abandoned, when the concept of free will and individual sovereign decisionmaking is replaced by determinism and the belief that humans are merely a sum of their inputs, the logical outcome is an ideology that values power over truth.
Those that believe that they cannot change the minds of others via truthful argumentation will arrive at the conclusion that the power to set the standards is the only method of attaining ethical behaviors; via nudging and programming.
CBDCs and social credit scores is the logical destination of determinism, since there is an inherent assumption that the only realization of ethical behaviors is an external re-programming with values and ideals that have been stamped by the bureau as correct and appropriate.
Political correctness emerged as an assumed path to an ideological paradise where all injustices are believed to be conquered, if only, and this minor detail aside, if only everyone accept and practice the enlightened re-programming of political correctness, communicated by central planners and received at the mountain of higher wisdom, to achieve this necessary utopia.
Central planning being the root of totalitarianism didn't stop this quest for absolute power, perhaps because the imagined worst case alternative was the absolute power of some other group with a worse ideological framing.
Yet now we are witnessing the emergence of decentralization as a potent force involving game theory mechanics.
Property rights for all could suddenly be attained at a protocol level. Jurisdictions will now have to compete for capital and resources by providing and securing individual liberties.
The game has changed in favor of allowing liberty, private property rights, sovereign individuals and the decentralized quest for truth to emerge as a greater movement.
The future is determined by individuals, not by a centrally planned utopia designed by committees. A world where all risks are eliminated is an existence where all liberties have been dismantled.
Give me a life of risk and infinite possibilities rather than a prison of bureaucratic intentions.

2024-08-26 23:30:29

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Good ideas and interesting project you have going.
I was considering a secondary form of hashtags: funded hashtags.
Funded hashtags would be funded with let's say 10 sats. This would act as a cost barrier that reduces spam. Perhaps the relays that pick up notes with funded hashtags could gain a percentage of the sat funding.
While I hate pay-to-win features, spam will become an increasing problem and if the cost for funded hashtags is not expensive it might work.

2024-08-26 10:32:49

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I understand their strategies which is why I focus on the UN Agenda 21. It's not hard to understand once you study the code (Agenda 21) and put your mind into their shoes.

2024-08-26 09:43:40

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From a European perspective, I think that the establishment found it easier to implement the UN Agenda 21 under the banner of Social Democracy + alliances with Green parties.
As a result there is a general overlap between social democrat parties and the establishment, vs populist parties and anti-establishment movements.
This makes sense when we consider taxes, schooling, environmental policies, property rights, media control, moneyprinting in exchange for votes et cetera. These are all easier to achieve from a social democrat platform, even if there are authoritarian overlaps with the more extreme religious conservatives.

2024-08-26 09:26:16

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Yup.
Add that we would need at least two private keys to have proper control over our Nostr identity.
One key for regular login/signing and the master key for admin privileges that override the general key in case our regular key is compromised.
I never understood why the Nostr devs decided for risking a single point of failure.

2024-08-26 09:04:23

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This is just irrational.
Muted for being controlled opposition.

2024-08-26 09:03:14

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I don't see any specifics in his timeline.
Probably a good approach to not announce the destination.

2024-08-26 08:37:33

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Sorry, that doesn't even make strategic sense.
If I wanted to implement Agenda 21 + Agenda 2030, I would install a candidate like Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. Not someone that is pro-energy and antithetical to the climate alarmism agenda.

2024-08-26 08:35:08

Chris Pavlovski, the founder of Rumble, has safely departed Europe. The attacks on free speech in Europe are deeply concerning.
https://image.nostr.build/9423c63f58a9c6b0ad34db3e26d06d1cc319e56668e0ce9cfbd66bfc8e2aed11.jpg
#Rumble #Pavlovski #Europe #EU #Censorship #FreeSpeech #Durov #Telegram

2024-08-26 08:27:12

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Don't you find it hard to believe the logic that the media in a dozen Western countries would demonize Trump for 8+ years, charge him with crimes, only to give him a political victory over a political candidate that the establishment controls?
Sorry, I find this extremely implausible. Even if we assumed such a scenario, wouldn't there be a risk of unknown candidates that could beat Trump?
Spending 8 years demonizing a person that you secretly support is not going to happen across a dozen nations, their governments + government owned media.
We can probably find a number of flaws with Trump but he is obviously not favored by tge establishment. If it were up to me I'd rather see a Vivek Ramaswamy in charge of the US.

2024-08-26 08:06:29

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There are a couple of things here to unpack.
1. In Sweden, the Social Democrats governed for over half a century until 1974. This made them + their collaborating party VpK (the communist party) the uniparty of Sweden and their dominance has since then been held by its control of institutions, education and government owned media.
2. If we are discussing Trump, he has been notoriously demonised by the governments + media in most Western countries for 8+ years. If yoh haven't lived in Sweden, Norway or other European countries you wpuld probably not be aware of how coordimated the establishment is across continents.
I wrote a note where I bring up some of the reasons why Trump is viewed as an enemy by the establishment. One major reason is him pulling the US out of the Paris climate accord in 2017. This combined with his pro-energy stance set him on a collision cpurse with the UN Agenda 21 establishment.
3. Boris is a part of the establishment, correct.
#nevent1q…xpvh

2024-08-26 07:57:38

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I could add that a single private key is not how I would design a free speech protocol.
If it were up to me I would use a set of at least two private keys, one for regular Nostr use and one for admin control of the identity. If the regular key is compromized, the admin key could be used to regain control over the content.
I hope Nostr will become the free speech protocol we need.

2024-08-26 07:49:56

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Perhaps, but if we look at the data above, the rejection of MSM sources extend over decades.
I'm not American so the 'Republican' label here in Europe would overlap more with populists and the anti-establishment movement.
The UN Agenda 21 was signed by 179 nations in Rio de Janeiro back in 1992. If we want to analyze the operative system of the "establishment" we can simply review the policies (code) that Agenda 21 involves. It is a very comprehensive plan for the 21st century involving a false "sustainability" program, which was inspired by Club of Rome as they were searching for reasons to implement global regulations. A climate scare fitted the bill.
Since it was easier for the establishment to achieve the Agenda 21 goals on a social-democrat platform, this is likely why we are seeing an overlap between republicans/conservatives and anti-establishment movements for the past 30+ years.

2024-08-26 07:29:44

Free Pavel Durov.
https://image.nostr.build/1ef1eff020afd283c72c4d6e1555f6ef0536be98bfa9754964ce876e7faa6fa2.jpg
#Pavel #Durov #MSM #Telegram #Robert #Malone #1984 #Propaganda

2024-08-26 07:25:59

https://image.nostr.build/e154a535339a8184408fe5e3ad064e48b0ec45343644471b04f2af144061b6dc.jpg
#Media #MSM #Matrix #Propaganda

2024-08-26 06:25:59

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The benefit of Nostr is the long format, over the compacted micro format of Twitter.
A few books I can recommend before I head out with my wife.
1. Time's Arrow, 1991 by Martin Amis.
The story in this book takes place in the reverse. The protagonist is a doctor that is introduced to the reader at old age and he is experiencing a backwards aging every day.
His relationships may start with a painful feeling on his chin, until he meets a lady at a restaurant that he never saw before, experiencing how she removes the pain on his face with a reversed slap.
It has a number of humorous parts in spite of the serious topics. The book opens up a different way of thinking about causality. Everything we do is filled with what we fill ourselves with.
2. The mirror in the mirror, 1984, by Michael Ende.
This book reads like an abstract painting and reaches out with a number of short stories that leaves pause for reflection.
Michael Ende is perhaps more known for his book The Never Ending Story but here he compacts his visual thinking into a series of poetic and dreamlike meditations.

2024-08-25 15:59:18

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I believe that Vivek is the absolute best part of the new republican constellation. He needs to be in charge of reducing the size of government.

2024-08-25 10:19:28

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It was also interesting to see the polling results from the Republican side.
https://image.nostr.build/87c11486596b6eefe5892b283d39410fd06d17b8d809562214c3fd9331377c55.jpg
While both sides have vested interests in presenting polls that put them in a favorable light, the most rational approach is to present the figures as they are in order to device strategies to improve the ratings. Skewing the poll numbers is a risky tactic that only makes sense for the MSM.
The high number of undecided voters are more likely Trump- (or RFK jr) aligned than Kamala-aligned since there is tangible establishment-crafted stigmatization associated with Trump (8 years of smearing in a dozen Western nations) but no MSM-created stigma associated with Kamala.

2024-08-24 17:45:37

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Nostr suggestion.
2 layers of security:
Full-key (24 or 48 words)
Half-key (12 or 24 words)
Half-key would mean the first half of the words of the full-key.
At half-key level of security we can sign messages and do most things we can now.
At full-key level of security we can flag our profile as compromised, as well as deleting all half-key-signed notes after a date yy-mm-dd.
I guess we could also allow the deletion of all our notes at the full-key level.
Usage: the regular user would normallt use the half-key to access their Nostr profile and sign notes.
When/if the half-key is hacked/stolen, the user can flag their profile as compromised and set all new half-key-signed notes to be deleted. The user can now post messages with their full-key and explain what happened, create a new Nostr profile and guide their friends there.
The thief with half-key access would have their half-key-signed notes deleted due to the compromisation flag.

2024-08-24 16:20:56

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I'm not competent in regards to cryptography but on the top off my mind I would ask this:
Would it be secure enough to use a 24 word seedphrase as a "master key" while allowing signing posts and accessing data using the first 12 words?
Alternatively, to double the security: a 48 word seedphrase master key with a 24 word signing requirement.

2024-08-24 14:39:24

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Disagreements without hostility are always the most fruitful exchanges.
I appreciate the work that Samson Mow has been doing over the years and he is also a highly critical thinker that often listens to and consider nuanced feedback. He may not agree with the feedback but he is able to entertain multiple possibilities.
We will all disagree on the timing when
$1.0M bitcoin happens and that's fine.

2024-08-24 14:13:51

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Hans, you are misusing the term high time preference here.
Samson has been working with nation state adoption for several years. That's the opposite of high time preference.
Perhaps just sit down a bit when you are entering a subject where you have not built up credibility as an analyst.

2024-08-24 12:36:17

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Yeah, I was just showing my wife this some time ago.
The establishment demonization campaigns are on cue and very easy to spot.

2024-08-24 11:11:26

When the plot is coming together beautifully.
https://image.nostr.build/458857a2ab6408d3074e71bbc730b0c357b84f9855c6380dcadd21b3b09f2768.jpg

2024-08-24 09:38:16

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Good morning Jay, looking forward to hear more about your project. ⭐️💫🌟

2024-08-24 00:26:25

Stars are aligning, puzzles are solved and the Bitcoin bullrun is around the corner. The content update patch for 2024 is turning out well.
https://image.nostr.build/27caaef9ab5afc5b32d6835c64ac3d92835a30ce639c6a9b4e70e7505876e8d7.jpg
#RFK #Trump #US #Election

2024-08-22 19:09:41

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When we don't oppose harmful policies, we will sooner or later be hit by those policies, or by some permutation thereof, either directly or indirectly.

2024-08-22 19:06:17

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Yup. Central planners believe that society can be likened to a car that they can just drive as they please and that the vehicle is just a passive chunk of metal that exist to be moved from A to some destination B that bureaucrats have decided in advance.
In reality a society is more akin to an archipelago of ecosystems with emergent properties, a collaboration of sovereign, free agents with individual liberties and private property rights.
More freedom = greater prosperity.

2024-08-22 19:00:11

https://image.nostr.build/3e4608c6694fc1b1116ab6eed1fed1c38203883e4056f819da9483cb1137e878.jpg
#Tax #Unrealized #Capital #Gains #Theft #CentralPlanning #Central #Planning

2024-08-22 18:24:05

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"The free market constitutes an information-gathering process, able to call up, and put to use, widely dispersed information that no central planning agency, let alone any individual, could know as a whole, possess or control."
// Friedrich Hayek
#Hayek #Friedrich #Quote #Meme #Memes #Austrian #Economics #Free #Market

2024-08-22 00:09:43

https://image.nostr.build/f899e2d6beb1a3b88f3a8420ee8735a4b2522dc21317a4253fe235c5f4235c3d.jpg
#Meme #Memes

2024-08-21 20:40:04

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Nice project, looking forward to see more.

2024-08-21 20:39:22

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Thanks, Rustypuppy. I like to show the process where an initial and underwhelming design can be turned around to something interesting. It's all about identifying problems and solving them.

2024-08-21 01:53:22

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My wife grew up under communism in Poland.
Does that mean that my wife's opinion on communism is relevant and mine isn't?

2024-08-20 21:27:10

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The establishment of central banks perpetuates an inflationary loop.
1. Politicians buy votes while making fantastical promises of social welfare benefits funded by taxes and moneyprinting. The highest spending promises will typically win the most votes.
2. Governments sell debt (gov't bonds) to finance these expensive policies. Central banks and regular banks buy the government bonds with money created ex nihilio; from nothing.
3. As the government spends this newly created money, the monetary supply expands; inflation worsens.
4. Voters struggle with increasing prices due to inflation and can be predicted to vote for more government moneyprinting and spending. The loop returns to point 1.
A secondary form of inflation is caused by the Mandrake Mechanism.
Every time a bank loan is granted, new money is created by the bank from thin air. This newly created money flows into assets such as real estate, stocks, commodities, etc.
This process leads to an increase in house prices. Later when the assets are sold on the market, the newly created money enters the greater economy and the monetary supply expands; inflation worsens.
The speed of this loan-based inflation is set by the repo rate. When the central bank lowers the repo rate, loans become more attractive to lenders and thereby more money is printed into existence.
When the repo rate is set high, loans are expensive and the rate of inflation is temporarily reduced.
Keynes noted in 1919 that the establishment of central banks would lead to the destruction of capitalism; i.e. the abolishment of free markets.
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Central banks will gradually rig the market, together with government, with false signals, distorting the supply and demand from regular market participants.
The result is a gradually impoverished population, impacted by a worsening burden of inflation year by year.
In the West, this process has solidified a powerful social-democrat voting block with few potential challengers, a form of uniparty structure.
In Sweden, the social democrats ruled without pause for half a century, until 1974, which gives a clue to the power of the inflationary voting loop.

2024-08-20 06:58:30

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#Meme #Memes #Mpox #Moneypox #Monkeypox #Monkey #Pox #Money #Scam

2024-08-19 14:24:07

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I see two political options and people engaged in promoting the alternative they think is better.
I am not a mindreader so I can't insert a fear of change into other people's decisionmaking process. "Fear of change", what does that even mean?
I expect that adults will promote what they believe is helpful. If we have a better alternative to offer them we can speak out about that.
At the end of the day we know that inflation will continue as before and we need Bitcoin in order to protect life and liberty.

2024-08-19 12:16:42

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This is a mischaracterization though.
The upcoming election may decide if WW3 breaks out or not. I'm in Poland and the risk for escalation between Nato and Russia is a real threat.
The establishment in most Western countries are overwhelmingly in favor of a war escalation, while they just by accident also have demonized Trump for 8 years.
Some people in Poland have been jailed in the last year for simply being in favor of war de-escalation and peace talks.
In Sweden, many workers in vital infrastructure are not allowed to leave Sweden or change their job because they are placed under a war preparedness plan designed to protect critical infrastructure in the case of war.
In relations to the US elections, the establishment in most Western countries desire a particular political outcome which is for an escalation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, pro-Agenda 21, pro-Agenda 2030, pro-climate alarmism, pro-CBDC, anti-Bitcoin and for energy de-industrialization.
There is no savior involved here.
People should keep their savings in Bitcoin and speak up for individual liberties, private property rights, anti-censorship, anti-CBDC and for energy policies that can power a modern civilization.
This is why people are engaged.
It has nothing to do with saviors.

2024-08-18 23:38:31

Scifi Helmet 3D Modeling Tutorial.
Software: Blender, Zbrush + Substance Painter.
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This tutorial will not cover the basics of 3D modeling but instead focus on a tactile, hands-on design process without safety nets.
The standard modeling approach is starting with gathering reference images and proceed with sketching.
For this helmet design I wanted to attempt a different angle of approach. I decided to start the modeling process immediately and let practical considerations inform the design.
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This first, quick iteration, while visually awful, gave me a number of valuable ideas.
I wanted the glass visor to be spacious and let a lot of light in, illuminating the character.
One goal I had defined from the beginning was that the helmet was going to be used for scifi portraits, meaning that the visor must provide good visibility. I also wanted to experiment with setting up an interior lighting system.
Since I didn't know in advance how my lighting system needed to be structured, this hands-on approach suited me perfectly.
It's important to not lose sight of your goal at this stage. Trust yourself that the design will improve.
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Here I made a fast paintover where I indicated changes I wanted to model in Blender. No details at this stage. I want to let function impact design here and I need to consider the overall shapes first. In which direction do I want to take the helmet?
This is a stage where all paths are open. Anything is possible. I love this moment in a hands-on design process because at this moment I am not bound by an initial sketch that I have to copy and recreate. I can enter the creative flow instead and just imagine changes to the vague outline.
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At this moment in time I am not concerned with the quality of the mesh and don't bother with hard edges or weighted normals.
My ideas for the visor shape and area is starting to form, combined with some bulky shapes that strengthen the helmet and allow for integration of a radio piece.
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Here I added an early shape for a radio-comms device. I also extended the helmet chin area which was too weak in the previous version. I feel that I am on track with the changes and that the radio fits well with the placement of the character's ears.
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The helmet was still a bit too smooth and barren at this stage and I wanted to include some more technical items and modeled a simple box that I intended as a speaker/comms piece, connected to the radio antenna piece. I made the top of the helmet more bulky since it felt overly fragile.
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I decided to cross my Rubicon with these significant changes. I had been debating with myself how much light I wanted to flow in via the visor. As I was considering adding an internal light above the character's forehead, I had to extend the helmet shape forward in order to achieve that result.
Function informs design. This is why I didn't want to start out with a sketch, because I had no idea at the beginning how exactly the functionality would impact the design. Placing a character inside the helmet was crucial for me to consider its shape.
At this point I have started to add details to the radio/comms structure since I was happy with the overall layout.
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As I felt the interior was empty I decided to sculpt a simple instruments panel with mini screens that can display valuable information.
A bonus with this idea was that I could use these mini-screens to lighten up the character's face. I also modeled a simple microphone, extending from a set of headphones.
For the radio I modeled a few more greebles and four small cables hanging openly beneath. I was aiming at a retro-scifi style so I was looking for opportunities to show exposed cables.
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At this stage I was experimenting with the interior lighting system. As I had hoped, I was able to use the mini-screens on the instruments panels as light sources by cranking up their emission values.
Thanks to the function-informed design the top-light in the helmet could be angled to cast a light on the character's forehead.
Also I expanded the instrument panels a little and I was haopy to add some more exposed wires where they made sense.
The external radio and speakers needed some kind of internal device that connected with them, and the new pieces I modeled fitted the purpose.
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At this point I felt that my overall design was working and I started to improve the mesh, finalize the shape and add hard edges. The instruments panel grew and I think this was the first time in the design process that I could start imagining the texturing stage.
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More refinement. I made the top and bottom more bulky and sturdy. This thing was supposed to take some beatings.
After this I decided that I wanted oxygen tubes connecting with the helmet. I wanted the oxygen tubes in turn to connect to some kind of air filtering device.
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This was the final design of my oxygen tubes and the air filtering unit. I wanted a slight StarWars stormtrooper feel here, but with a more tactile and practical design. I added a screw-on system for a rustic retro scifi look.
This render is after my texturing process of course.
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Another look at the backside. I made several paintjobs and spent days on end just to scratch up the metal by hand in substance painter.
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Yet another paintjob. This is a closeup of the attachment system for the air filtering unit.
These designs above are the only ones I didn't model by myself. They are simply normal-map shapes that I added to a flat mesh surface. They look like general topology because I made scratches around areas that would have more wear and tear.
The screws have been used and the hatch has been opened many times, so I had to visualize this with the areas of peeled-off metal.
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Closeup of the air filtering unit and a different paint job.
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From this angle, the oxygen cannisters inside the air filtering unit are visible. I thought it was fun to expose the bottles like this, it is retro-scifi after all.
Under the filtering unit I made two circular connections, just in case I wanted to connect the filtering unit to a backpack in the future.
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The scratches don't stop. Below the helmet there needed to be heavy scratching due to placement wear and tear. Throw that thing across the floor.
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Another paintjob from below and heavy scratching. I realized how wildly fun it was to scratch up the metal.
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Closeup of the radio/comms system. I had intentionally made it slightly assymetric and went with an approximated balaced feel.
I wanted the helmet to look cobbled together in a garage. If the systems work, they work. They don't have to be factory design symmetric. I wanted a rough and tactile design.
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I wanted to allow the option to hide the radio/comms system.
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Frontal view of the finihed helmet. I tried to give the interior leather padding a kind of WW2 style, which fitted with the retro theme.
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Same render but with the radio/comms system hidden.
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A look at the instruments panels and microphone headset. These are all mini-screens without any buttons. The helmet user is probably not going to press any buttons with their facial extremities anyway.😄
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More interior.
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Full interior view of the instrument panels. I designed a number of simple screen graphics to fit with the retro style.
The two central lights are not part of the helmet. I modeled them separately to help illuminating the character from below. Because they are separate they can be resized, rotated and hidden easily.
Lessons
In conclusion I want to mention that I initially planned the UV seam on top of the helmet. This was a grave mistake that forced me to redo my UV-mapping and my first texturing. There was an unfortunate bug in my (old) version of substance painter that made the UV seam hard to hide. Also it presented a few other technical problems.
For my second attempt I placed the UV seam at the front of the helmet, cutting through a small segment of the frontal chin part of the helmet instead of the whole upper+back part.
This was a far better way to UV map the helmet and if I were to embark on a helmet project again, that's where I would cut my UVs.
Thanks for reading. 🌟⭐️💫
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#Tutorial #3D #Model #Modeling #Blender #Zbrush #SubstancePainter #Substance #Painter #Scifi #Helmet #Design #Lucentforge #Fernevak #Daz #Daz3D

2024-08-18 21:05:32

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Trump demonstrated who the LARPers are.
When you stand up against the establishment, reject the Paris climate agreement, reject CBDCs and support Bitcoin, there is a high risk of assassination.

2024-08-17 22:50:01

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#Bitcoin #Meme #Memes

2024-08-17 17:39:21

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Cherry Picked Inflation-metrics.
I guess it's wrong in the sense of understatements.😄

2024-08-17 16:22:26

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Yeah, sounds like he's on clown audition.

2024-08-17 16:17:43

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Len Sassaman is indeed an interesting possibility. I wouldn't be surprised if he was either Satoshi or deeply involved with Satoshi. In the first case he could have feigned skepticism toward bitcoin on social media. In the second case perhaps he came around to bitcoin after his initial skepticism.

2024-08-17 16:12:59

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That's a baaad take.😄
Modern communists since Deng Xiaoping are in bed with corporatism because it expands the power and reach of the government.
Corporatism allows the government to outsource tyranny and oppression to companies that the government control via regulations. This leaves the government with seemingly clean hands and all the retards will blame the companies that following government commands, threats of fines and incentive structures.
Neo-communism is the new fascism.
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2024-08-17 11:14:15

Dengism, after Deng Xiaoping.
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This is what happens when a communist system embraces corporatism to further the power, financing and reach of the government.
This allows the outsourcing of surveillance to corporations that are indirectly controlled by the government via regulations and economic sanctions. The corporations that don't play ball with government instructions can easily be dismantled by the bureaucrats overseeing them.
Want to force experimental treatments upon a population? Just outsource the dirty work to all major corporations, who exist and prosper at the mercy of their alignment with government doctrine.
Dengism is how communism survived in spite of its devastating economic policies, resulting in a merge with corporatism. A few steps of a false free market charade was enough to prop up the communist establishment with newfound economic resources and extended powers of central planning.
#Deng #Dengism #Xiaoping #Communism #Corporatism #1984 #Surveillance #Fascism

2024-08-17 10:21:58

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Agreed. I sometimes write in my note app first, depends on how much I plan to write. Then at other times I just write in-the-flow, which can be both a hit or a miss.
Ideally I would like to have a draft mode in Amethyst, with slightly larger lettering so that typos are easier to spot. My eyes never get used to this small text format.

2024-08-17 09:53:32

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Sounds like an interesting book.
I have sometimes wondered if Satoshi was an individual who defected from the establishment or if he always was an outsider. Both scenarios could explain his visionary new pathstaking and oppositional course in relation to the corrupt moneyprinting system.
One interesting aspect with insiders that defect is the amount of corruption they have seen and how it finally pushes them to take a stand against it. "Dropships burning off the shoulder of Orion", comes to mind in the sense of someone recounting the things that they have witnessed but few others have seen. Insider insights must leave a mark.
It is interesting to consider how Trump used to be part of the establishment and praised by the MSM. Over the past 8 years we have seen a development where Trump has favored American energy interests and subsequently voiced opposition to the global climate agenda, which in turn has placed him at an adversial angle toward the UN Agenda 21, perhaps without knowing what kind of behemoth he was becoming an enemy with.
He has kept his focus on American energy maximization (drill, baby, drill) in spite of becoming unpopular among the climate alarmist governments + media in the US, Canada, France, Germany, UK, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Brussels et al. I would call all of these government entities a part of the Western deep state, and Trump has upset their plans. This doesn't necessarily make Trump into a hero, flawed as any person is, but it explains the assassination attempt - he is too much of an obstacle for the estsblishment. It is easier for them to carry on with their plans if Trump (or some other opposition) is not in the oval office.
The likely long term plan of the deep state is the establishment of the UN as a global government and as such, nationalistic or populist impulses that might offer a defensive barrier to a UN power grab must in their mind be eradicated.
Yet, there must be an abundance of engineers, system designers and highly qualified individuals that have seen the metaphorical dropships off the shoulder off Orion, who have seen the corruption and direction of the central planning system.
At $35 Trillion of US debt and as of present when 75% of US tax revenue goes to pay off the interest of the US debt alone, the point of realization that the system cannot be fixed by its architects must be widespread at this moment.
Governments are run by policy. Policy is a progran code and the downstream implications of such code can be predicted.
The signing of the UN Agenda 21 by 179 nations back in 1992 marks a significant software update to both the operative system of 179 nations as well as the ideological framework. This imvolves a blending of the governance structure with a deep belief in a human-made climate catastrophy as an urgent, all-encompassing Weltanschauung that cannot and must not be critiqued. Shoot it down and the architecture of a planned global governance crumbles.
Then there is the circulation of elites. There was a point in time when Ceaușescu could no longer command and move the masses with his speech and the public had arrived at a stage where they had had enough of the oppression. At that point the military naturally defected to team up with the new rising opposition and so the previous barrier of defence of Ceaușescu, became his bane.
Since fabricated climate fears alone are not sufficient to forge a global governance structure with the UN at its apex, the WHO became involved to offer a second path to global governance: the fear of pandemics and the global regulatory framework that can bind nations together under a centralized command: the UN and the WHO. An attempt at crafting a one ring to rule them all. Global regulations can form such a tightening ring of control.
The chances for major power struggles among the participants of this global coup de etat are legion. A large number of insiders may be on the verge of defecting from the global 1984 project, if they haven't already taken an internal stance against it.
As smaller nations are adopting hard money (Bitcoin) at a faster rate than larger natioms, this creates an inverse relationship between present economic power and future economic power, allowing game theory to play out.
The game theory of nations attracting capital (Bitcoin), entrepreneurs and skill, in exchange for offering individual liberties, low taxes and respect for property rights in return, will offer a strong counter-movement against global governance.
Those that defect from the system will be able to join in a multitude of forming Galt's Gulches. Once again in history we may witness a rotation of the elites. Churn is inevitable.

2024-08-17 02:29:54

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#Education #Marxism #Socialism

2024-08-17 01:45:36

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Yes, that is probably one of the reasons for the slow growth. This will vanish over time though.

2024-08-17 01:40:17

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When there is enough variety in topics on Nostr, a varied audience can connect.
Nostr has been over-branded and branding is a central planning mechanism. When I started with Reddit or Twitter, I never used their branding as some kind of flag or banner.
I think a positive step forward is to reduce the bashing of other media channels.
One of Nostr's problem is trying to be different from Twitter while not understanding what makes Twitter valuable to its users.

2024-08-16 23:00:24

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#Milei #Quote #Freedom #Liberty

2024-08-16 22:46:18

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🙏

2024-08-16 10:35:51

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This sounds super creepy and boundaries need to be established.

2024-08-16 10:27:03

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Svensk här, bor med min fru i Polen.

2024-08-16 10:12:01

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Yet another possibility:
Semi-Mute
This feature would allow us to Semi-Mute a profile, with the result of us seeing 1 post per day from them.
A more advanced variant would be to add a menu where we can specify the number of posts we want to see per day from the semi-muted account, let's say 1-5.

2024-08-16 09:49:23

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Sounds like he is working hard to get a Kamala blowjob. 😅🤣

2024-08-16 09:48:19

Suggestion for Nostr devs.
1. Problem.
I want to follow a lot of great people and profiles. When they post many posts per day my following feed gets clogged up. Unfollowing them to help clear up my feed is not ideal.
2. Possible solution:
Add an extra viewing mode.
"Compact Mode"
If the Compact Mode is selected, I will see 1 post per person from those that I follow. The selection process could be the newest of their posts or the most interacted post. Not sure which option would be best since interactions can be botted.
Optional: show an information box below the post, stating that X number of new posts from that profile are available. If I click this option I can see all the new posts from this profile.
This optional part is not necessary of course, I can just click on their profile to see their last posts.
In this manner I can follow a large number of accounts and have their content compacted in my feed.
Expected problems with the *optional* suggestion: there may be vertical reformatting problems resulting from this feature.
#Nostr #Dev #Suggestion #Feedback

2024-08-16 08:50:41

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Yup. She's an authoritarian central planner.
I wrote a few reflections on why it is implausible to assume that Kamala Harris would embrace Bitcoin.
TLDR: Kamala's stance on taxes, energy and climate disqualifies her at any capacity of leadership.
#nevent1q…jhnj

2024-08-16 08:39:08

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🙏

2024-08-15 21:18:51

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No harm done, we all draw assumptions and we often don't have time to write an essay for every subject so there's always a number of possible interpretations.🫠

2024-08-15 20:39:50

As some voice hope for a Kamala Harris pivot toward a pro-Bitcoin stance, I find this implausible and will explain why I believe this.
Below I will have a look at Kamala's stand on taxes, energy and climate. First a glance at the Biden-Kamala constellation.
On March 9th, 2022, Joe Biden signed a document that involved the US government exploring CBDCs. The only way I can interpret this is as a plan to develop and implementing CBDCs. R&D does involve the 'd' as in development.
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Source 1:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/09/fact-sheet-president-biden-to-sign-executive-order-on-ensuring-responsible-innovation-in-digital-assets/
Next, it can be instructive to have a look at Kamala's tax policies from 2020, which are also largely mirrored in her 2024 position.
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Here we find that Kamala had listed capital gains taxes on her policy document in 2020 and still support them in 2024. Not very bitcoin-friendly at all and a disaster in terms of the erosion of private property rights.
Source 2:
https://taxfoundation.org/blog/kamala-harris-tax-proposals-2024/
Next up we have the subject of energy and climate. As expected, the more aligned a candidate is toward the UN Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030, the more climate alarmism and de-industrialization policies we find.
This applies to the US, Canada, France, Australia, Germany, UK, Sweden, Norway and a host of countries that are pro-Agenda 21. Not a coincidence.
Ironically, Kamala's negative stance on US energy will likely boost Trump's campaign and he has been consistent in his pro-American energy position for 8 years, in spite of the coordinated MSM backlash.
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https://image.nostr.build/c101b4eca713bfa2c316fbd5b8a36ecf8ab2c5aec86d83aaa51d0f1daac508ab.jpg
Source 3:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/23/climate/kamala-harris-on-climate-energy/index.html
In conclusion, considering the ideological foundation of the Democrats, grounded in the UN Agenda 21 climate alarmism, and with 6 years left to reach the Agenda 2030 climate goals, we can expect Kamala to reduce the US energy capacity of oil, coal and gas in favor of environmentally questionable solar and wind energy, resulting in a de-industrialization and possible energy rationing.
Since CBDCs are necessary tools to implement carbon allowances and social credit score systems, we can expect that any political candidate that is on board with climate alarmism, also see CBDCs as useful tools in herding (forcing) consumers toward eating less meat, using less gas, driving fewer miles with cars, travelling less with planes and using less energy in general, which, under her policies, there won't be sufficient energy anyway.
Bitcoin mining under this kind of energy rationing scheme would become pointless due to the skyrocketing costs of energy. De-industrializing a nation while also embracing bitcoin mining is not a compatible match. Can't work, won't work.
Trump's energy maximization plan however, is compatible with bitcoin mining at low costs. Without the climate alarmism ideology, Trump doesn't even have a use case for CBDCs, which by the way he is vocally against. Trump doesn't believe in social engineering applied by central planners to pressure people to stop eating meat or stop driving cars. He has rejected climate alarmism consistently for 8 years, in spite of global demonization and recently, an assassination attempt.
The deep state has shown itself aligned with climate scaremongering and this is the lithmus test I use to determine who is aligned with the deep state and who is not.
Are they pro energy or not?
Are they anti UN or not?
Are they anti CBDC or not?
Are they anti capital gains taxes or not?
Are they for individual liberties or not?
Are they for private property rights or not.
Are they pro bitcoin or not?
These are the questions we must ask.
#Kamala #Harris #Donald #Trump #Bitcoin #Mining #Taxes #Climate #Alarmism #Energy #Policy

2024-08-15 18:17:00

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It sounded as if people who are not programmers shouldn't voice feedback
Yet, even among programmers, some are jovial and others are pedantic, so I think the matter boils down to exercising a constructive problem-solving spirit, both programmers and non-programmees alike.🙃

2024-08-15 16:57:47

https://image.nostr.build/48475b771e8058d8bc784537de89ac6e3a29f0a96a4b6c9cd41d880018c010de.jpg
#Meme #Memes #Climate #Communism #Alarmism

2024-08-15 11:58:44

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Right.
I view interactions by context.
The need to generalize "you are a bad person if you do XYZ on social media" is often just too abstract, generalized and unrelated to specifics to be useful.

2024-08-15 11:21:49

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I can get that he wants to make some specific point about a particular instance he has observed, but he makes it a vague universal instead and hints that regular users should keep silent.
I wrote a response attempting to nuance the matter.
#nevent1q…4sxu

2024-08-15 08:36:29

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The important aspect is to offer relevant and helpful feedback. If users are going to spend time with an app it is important to listen to their experience, even if some of them may lack programming experience.
For those who have programming experience, being self-critical in order to improve a design is not much different from from sharing the same type of considerations with the designs of others.

2024-08-14 23:59:19

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Absolutely. Inflation is far higher than the CPI measurements.
I wrote a program some time ago that calculates the loss of purchasing power over a 45 year career based on different rates of inflation and taxes.
A few examples:
https://image.nostr.build/5d5a6d70d01d34df73297e4ae75196ce39a3f3a64560a1939ea7ea2f69880df2.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/1d81d64c1986bf407a521e0dcf9e088618a4df59df263292936efbad331c7c9a.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/0902852ae0f7e4977115bda795a64bc9075962e7c7701cd20596d6e9c9594972.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/29e105b5087f3106e6d507f77721cd326a57276beadf7529ce815821cf1f7207.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/29574cf22bdebbcd6611481a43f3e06d35ec36b5acad993f89ca90d64be341b2.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/25a5908a9f44ba4872e45783763432832f78b86e0cfb0f00ce5f5fa40ae8fced.jpg
#Inflation #Purchasing #Power #Tax #Taxes #CPI

2024-08-14 21:36:26

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Another US election year fearmongering virus scam from the UN deep state.

2024-08-14 19:07:24

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This reminds me of how powerful GIMP is as a software, while at the same time, many of its menus are confusing and hard to use for a beginner.
Gathering user feedback should be priority 1 in improving the UI workflow of users. For a composing app - gather feedback from composers. For an art app - gather feedback from artists, and so on.
1. Feedback
2. Improve user workflow efficiency
3. Appealing design
The feedback process could start long before designers are funded.

2024-08-14 12:07:42

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Thanks for sharing, Hans.
I can recommend using a couple of hash-tags for increased visibility.

2024-08-14 10:48:57

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🙏
I think that Jack didn't have the capital to turn Twitter around by himself. Standing up against powerful government pressure groups must be tough economically.
In either case, if Jack is striving to benefit liberty here and now he's at least on the right path. I appreciate the work he has done to provide us with more options.
As the puzzle is playing out, we have to make the best out of the puzzle pieces we have available.

2024-08-14 10:30:56

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I disagree.
It appears that Jack was swamped by government pressure groups, involving the CIA, while Jack was attempting to keep Twitter afloat.
Jack then embraced Bitcoin and turned around toward working with liberty solutions, allowing Elon to bring a new course for Twitter. Without Elon's capital backing, standing up against pressure groups and coalitions of advertisers would have been difficult economically.
There is no need to hate a man that has joined the liberty side. The existence of Twitter has been a net positive in spite of its censorship and Jack has provided the world with an additional option for social media when Facebook, Reddit and other alternatives were overwhelmed with establishment propaganda.
Nostr is the future, yet Twitter/X still has its role to play in advancing free speech, until it is overwhelmed by the attacks from the system.
During this period of *relative* liberty on Twitter, Nostr has a chance to evolve and be ready to accomodate individuals that will be silenced on Twitter over the coming months/years.
These are parts of a greater puzzle being solved as we speak.

2024-08-14 07:16:20

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I wrote a few reflections on this talk yesterday if anyone is interested.
#nevent1q…cgaq

2024-08-13 17:01:28

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VPNs will be used of course.
But, it would also be an opportunity to demonstrate the value of Nostr. Nostr will shine even brighter under censorship.

2024-08-13 16:54:35

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I often think about this.
In years to come, 1000 sats will be sufficient to pay for a human-made artwork, a logo or some other service. Quite remarkable.