Chris Liss

Journalist friend of mine came to the Lisbon Web Summit to moderate a panel called “The Non-Proliferation Of Fossil Fuels”. Told him he’ll probably find the “non” crossed out after the election.
Dude was a good sport, got a laugh out of him.

2024-11-08 17:13:24 GMT

I don’t think it’s a settled question whether regulation and “legalization” is a Trojan Horse for censorship, or bitcoin is a Trojan Horse for the entire legacy financial system.
With greater adoption this was always coming, in fact it was best case scenario because the alternatives were either it were killed before it got this big, or it never got this big because it didn’t catch on.
We’ll see what happens. The legacy system is fucking around, and all of us will find out, one way or the other.
I don’t think the state is all powerful. It has to work around the rights for which people stand up and the technology that enables those rights.
#note1gfr…2pm0

2024-10-17 11:24:33 GMT

https://fountain.fm/episode/97TT7Swwcsu0f2u3O6Bn

2024-10-15 11:00:30 GMT

My dog is so based he doesn’t even care how much we joke about him. Takes himself dead seriously regardless.

2024-10-15 08:23:05 GMT

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Think many are starting to realize/do this. Censorship in the Information Age might backfire spectacularly.

2024-10-14 19:39:34 GMT

If someone can build in a match-making service for bettors with a small automatic rake, this will happen. Instead of playing -110 to Draft Kings, you pay -103 to the match-maker (maybe even less), the developer gets rich, and you don’t just build out the nostr ecosystem but probably the lightning payments one as well.
#note1anv…u9uh

2024-10-14 15:59:23 GMT

lunch spot -- seriously, food was good
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2024-10-14 15:52:15 GMT

Saturday's walk
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2024-10-14 14:05:30 GMT

sorry we never told you
#note1u0t…s2vu

2024-10-12 17:31:47 GMT

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many such cases

2024-10-12 10:12:57 GMT

MSTR's model isn’t just for corporations to emulate, but nation states.

2024-10-12 08:38:34 GMT

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People really love to seem “savvy,” “in the know” — whole personas are cultivated around it.
Being humble and stacking is not savvy, though.

2024-10-11 17:51:09 GMT

Went for a run at the track today, ran the last 400 fast (for me), was out of breath. Walked it off, breathing hard, was looking at the trees around the track and thinking:
"Here you go, some CO2 for you, feel free to keep the carbon, leave the oxygen for the atmosphere.”
I have no idea, but I’m assuming that’s what they did with it.

2024-10-11 12:30:20 GMT

Bought some dandruff shampoo, and it works great. But turns out what I really needed was ANTI-dandruff shampoo.

2024-10-11 10:03:32 GMT

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Thanks John -- have posted a lot of long form pieces from this npub.

2024-10-10 14:43:42 GMT

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Thanks!

2024-10-10 12:24:13 GMT

https://fountain.fm/episode/b6EtruhLEl3FD19bZWwM

2024-10-10 10:55:40 GMT

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haha

2024-10-10 07:33:06 GMT

My life is unreasonably good right now, way beyond what I could have hoped for.
Of course all the particulars are precarious. Freedom, health, life itself can end in a heartbeat literally.
But until that happens, I have to look in amazement that I can just type into a keyboard and publish my thoughts, speak into the microphone attached to my desk and broadcast my ideas.
I can hear about a book about black holes and time warps, press a few keys and it’s delivered to my door in a couple days, read it and have my mind blown.
I know how to cook, to buy ingredients at the farmer’s markets. I know how to take care of my body, I have a daughter that is a good kid and dog that’s a bad dog, but perfect in his way.
My wife is based. There is zero conflict with my work, neither of us took the clot shot, neither of us would ever trust anything from The Regime again. She has my back, and I have hers.
I wake up, walk the dog, drink my black coffee with ghee, settle down to shitpost and work. I can write about anything or nothing. I can drive 25 minutes to the beach if I want. Or go to the track for a run. Or do Sudoku puzzles all day which I have done.
I had a whole roast chicken for dinner last night. I bought it at the French butcher who has the best, freshest, most flavorful chickens. I got parsnips, carrots, mushrooms, onions and garlic at the market for my wife who made it. We had salad with tomatoes, peppers, onions and lettuce. We washed it down with the bottles of the best sparkling water that we have delivered from the Spanish market.
I make kombucha, I make sauerkraut. I grow herbs and chilis on my balcony. I have a sports podcast, high-stakes fantasy football teams. I watch the NFL every Sunday. I watch my daughter’s basketball games. We hike alongside the ocean cliffs or in the forest.
My apartment is nearly 100 years old. It has high ceilings, wood floors, light coming in from both sides. I have a lot of house plants that recycle the stale air and emit oxygen. There is a tree outside my balcony, it’s like a giant house plant in the background.
The sounds of cars going by, the people in the street. There is a church nearby and you can hear the people singing every Sunday.
They are singing about God. Which is maybe what I’m writing about too.

2024-10-09 17:22:02 GMT

I can imagine AI services putting bogus info next to your photo to combat this. Fake addresses, fake profiles, etc.
#note1tce…cwp3

2024-10-09 13:51:39 GMT

Every day I asked myself, who are the retards selling right now?

2024-10-08 18:49:08 GMT

Nobody appreciates @npub138y…aszc's predicament? Think his complaint is valid.
#note18cz…t6gr

2024-10-08 11:29:18 GMT

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I went to law school, and it helped to navigate some issues with the business, but it wasn’t necessary.

2024-10-07 17:37:31 GMT

I truly despise the Democratic Party and its wholly owned corporate press, but @npub1qny…95gx is right. It’s not about who you like or don’t like (and I like Elon), but centralization of power.
There was a reason Gandalf refused the ring:
*“You are wise and powerful. Will you not take the Ring?”*
*“No!” cried Gandalf, springing to his feet. “With that power I should have power too great and terrible. And over me the Ring would gain a power still greater and more deadly.” His eyes flashed and his face was lit as by a fire within. “Do not tempt me! For I do not wish to become like the Dark Lord himself. Yet the way of the Ring to my heart is by pity, pity for weakness and the desire of strength to do good. Do not tempt me! I dare not take it, not even to keep it safe, unused. The wish to wield it would be too great for my strength. I shall have such need of it. Great perils lie before me.”*
#note1p2r…gzx6

2024-10-07 12:09:55 GMT

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I once put the plug in coffee maker at an Air BNB on the electric stove, realized something was wrong when I smelled burning plastic from the other room.

2024-10-07 12:08:15 GMT

Bought a bunch of cinnamon sticks to chew on — good for your breath, good for your blood sugar. But they really do burn the shit out of your tongue.

2024-10-07 08:17:16 GMT

yesterday's walk
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2024-10-04 20:15:52 GMT

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it is very bizarre — I can’t believe they’re that inept or negligent, has to be something going on.
But the problem with cheating is some states like Florida will play it straight, so how do you explain the discrepancy? And once people see how obvious it is, “you’re a conspiracy theorist, our elections are secure” won’t cut it in 2020.
So yeah, it would be real battle to frame it.
But also literally anything is on the table.
This was one nightmare scenario:
https://www.chrisliss.com/p/conspiracy-part-5

2024-10-04 13:44:30 GMT

I know about the Cantillon Effect within borders, but was thinking there must also be one between them.
Let’s say the US prints $4T through some bill, and a bunch of already super rich Cantillonaires see their net worth go up by many billions. Can’t they take that newly created wealth and buy foreign assets with it?
Now of course eventually the printing will cause a currency devaluation commensurate with it, so they’ll get less for their money. But if there’s any lag between the printing and the full commensurate devaluation, I would think the Cantillonaires can pounce in foreign markets too.

2024-10-04 10:07:13 GMT

Note to self: post on artists, actors, naysaying what can and can't be achieved, what it requires, why most people shouldn't try unless they are either already free or simply have no choice

2024-10-04 09:19:23 GMT

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We don't know anything for sure, but any government with a money printer is like a drug addict with access to more drugs. He might just stop on his own, but he hasn’t yet, and barring rehab and cutting off access, it’s a pretty safe bet he won’t.

2024-10-04 09:13:36 GMT

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These are good questions, but an important variable is missing: what are governments going to do in response to these conditions?
And if the answer is print a ton of money, then the price will rise.

2024-10-04 08:39:17 GMT

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Obviously. Anyone under 45 drops dead suddenly, not a drug OD? The jab. Friend has random, unexplained neurological problem? Jab. Maybe some things are caused by something else, but base case if you had no prior health issues before injecting yourself is always the jab.

2024-10-03 19:44:42 GMT

next time someone asks me who I am, will say:
“I’m part of the control group, you know, for the matrix. Just in case it doesn’t work out.”

2024-10-03 17:15:48 GMT

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I don't think you vote for Trump the person, but the set of policies and people around him, and those who would apply a different set of pressures.
I think it’s FAR more likely he’ll support free speech for those reasons (not due to any deep understanding or ethical principle necessarily) than the Regime.
IMO, Trump vote is a no-brainer — there’s just nothing really to lose compared to the Regime.

2024-10-03 16:32:16 GMT

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ah, ok — thought you were talking about nostr

2024-10-03 16:02:22 GMT

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That's a very strange reason. Maybe they mean they didn’t see enough people posting, so those who posted frequently were filling up their feeds?
Seems like an easy fix — follow more people, unfollow the people whose frequent posts you don’t like.
But it doesn’t really matter. People will get nostr at the price they deserve.

2024-10-03 06:50:44 GMT

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that's my base case — matter of “national security”

2024-10-02 21:39:36 GMT

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agree on all of this except I think that if they succeed in cheating, there will subsequently be a war for the framing of what happened, and whoever wins that war will win the election. I don’t mean violence either, though some false flags might happen, but a war of frames, whether “you’re a conspiracy theorist, don’t question elections wins — which it did in 2020” or “enough is enough, you’re lying, we know you’re lying, and you know we know, and the people, which includes the police and military, are not going along with it.”

2024-10-02 09:50:56 GMT

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Really shouldn't do cocaine after receiving an mRNA shot.

2024-09-29 08:30:13 GMT

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indeed

2024-09-29 08:01:29 GMT

Working on a post about Christians of which I am not one. Growing up in NYC, I always thought of the “Christian Right” as a bunch of scoldy, joyless losers (kind of how I feel about the woke left now).
But during the last few years, it’s been obvious that a large portion of those who had the courage to speak out against tyranny rather than abjectly comply were those who believed in something higher than the State. They couldn’t be easily bullied by fear and incentives because their belief in God inoculated them against the utilitarian nihilism of trading principles for social and professional expedience.
It’s not that they don’t have fear or feel the pressure everyone else feels. It’s that they were able to manage those emotions without caving in.
As I said I am not one, but am awfully glad they exist.

2024-09-27 11:29:44 GMT

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Trump is flawed, to be sure, and it’s possible if Harris wins, the second-order effects would be more corrective, but there’s also a LOT of downside if she were to win. (She won’t, barring insane, over the top, cheating BTW.)

2024-09-27 09:08:08 GMT

I'm done with black pillers like Whitney Webb who try to persuade you everything is futile. It's like someone telling you everything is a lie. How can you believe them?

2024-09-27 08:13:57 GMT

Virtually everyone who has not been bribed via social and professional incentives despises The Regime.
It is nothing but phony, gaslighting sociopaths actively and purposefully making things worse for all of us, undermining core American principles at the behest of special interests to which it is totally beholden.
Those interests at a minimum include pharmaceutical and military industrial conglomerates, but beyond enriching parasitic cronies, I believe there's a larger agenda, and that's to deal with the inevitable fallout from global debt burdens they know can never come close to being paid back.
They have looted the West's wealth and they need to cover up the crime. That's IMO what's at the heart of all the top-down control measures from the fake WHO treaty to the climate hoax, to AML laws, to CBDCs, to the censorship industrial complex wherein they're arresting people in the UK for Facebook posts!
When the pensions don't cover the cost of living and health care because that money was spent on Iraq and Ukraine (the killing was just a necessary and unfortunate side effect of buying arms from the MIC), there would be a French Revolution-style reckoning for those responsible.
Even "healthcare" costs are a misnomer because it's largely treatment for the damage done by big ag, processed food, toxic pharmaceuticals, 70 jabs, the mRNA, pesticides, fluoride in the water supply, etc.
The Regime (which is bi-partisan) is fucking despised and deservedly so. In Trump you have a bit of an outsider, a kind of crank, and so there is *some* small modicum of hope as he is not beholden to the degree these low-character scumbags of The Regime are.
That's all this is. If you are not bribed -- and so many sadly, tragically, willingly, cowardly are -- you fucking despise The Regime.

2024-09-26 13:44:42 GMT

New Podcast: One Funeral At A Time
https://fountain.fm/episode/4DX7R8fb2LNpTBIwGg8b

2024-09-26 12:25:38 GMT

This is low-key one of the biggest psyops of the last 50 years -- *the idea that your own observations, intuitions and insights are worthless against the body of accepted knowledge.*
The theory of relativity was discovered by a tinkering patent clerk! The dull, obedient tenured career academics do more to stifle innovation than propel it forward. Max Planck famously said: "Science advances one funeral at a time."
Do you know who read the patent clerk's Theory of Special Relativity and asked for clarification on it after the paper had been ignored by the entirety of mainstream science at the time?
Max Planck
So I see this cartoon as a great litmus test -- if you view it as a hilarious dunk on the cranks who are challenging the orthodoxy, you have fallen for the psyop and assumed your place as a midwit, dutiful to the status quo. If you take it unironically and are curious as to what he might have found, you are free.
Full disclosure: I fell for this psyop for a long time, and am both pissed at myself for squandering so much time but also overjoyed to be free of it and thirsting for knowledge about the world as a result.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/134743ca8ad0203b3657c20a6869e64f160ce48ae6388dc1f5ca67f346019ee7/009408323ef4d8fb5bad4aab4f86822e140f3392000cb95d42ed1627d9275ed1.webp

2024-09-26 08:58:59 GMT

Yeah it does.
But good luck getting that point across until you first help people understand the problem.
#note1tw8…e9kc

2024-09-25 17:18:36 GMT

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2024-09-25 12:39:45 GMT

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2024-09-25 09:45:05 GMT

Stuck at home waiting for the wife to return so I can ditch @npub138y…aszc and go running. Third cup of coffee, should have done some “real” work (none of my work is real), but opted for shitposting.
Someone has to populate nostr with posts.

2024-09-25 09:31:54 GMT

Every time you speak the truth, it raises the cost for them to keep up the lie.
Bankrupt those motherfuckers.

2024-09-24 10:06:53 GMT

Lot of people concerned re nostr’s growth, but not me.
Have a podcast maybe 400 people listen. Have a two substacks, maybe about the same read each.
Kind of small compared to my old job and I’ve been doing this full time* for almost three years.
But then I think — imagine you were a musician doing gigs and at least 400 people showed up for them. That’s pretty good.
And consider Johann Sebastian Bach wasn’t known for his compositions until 100 years after his death! One of the greatest artists in human history just writing away in obscurity. He fucked around big time, never even found out one bit.
We have it great on nostr, that anyone reads our uncensored notes at all.
Tick tock, next block. GFY, next post.

2024-09-20 08:12:03 GMT

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Yes but that’s only over the long haul. Short term there can be many scams.

2024-09-19 12:30:31 GMT

Lot of people ask how to increase engagement on nostr. One way is to create an account for your dog and talk to him periodically.

2024-09-19 08:41:18 GMT

There is a massive information asymmetry between those paying attention and those bribed (through social and professional incentives) not to look.

2024-09-17 20:33:35 GMT

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People don’t like it when you upset the prior dynamic. Have had that happen a few times also.

2024-09-16 13:50:35 GMT

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Maybe, but if that were the case, why are they trying so hard to stop him?

2024-09-16 12:45:49 GMT

Lot of people I know look to betting markets rather than polls to handicap the election. But if Trump were assassinated, obviously that's a loss of your bet. Same as if he lost due to cheating.
So given there have been two attempts, and cheating is considered likely by many Trump supporters and presumably bettors, what would the non-cheating, non-assassination odds be?
And given that everyone knows the corporate media is in the tank, and even Google is altering search results, what would be the real, honest, fair democratic odds?
I think the answer to that is why there have been two assassination attempts so far and all the absurd lawfare that preceded them.
It's not that people love Trump (some do, but a minority). It's that we are all so sick of these sociopathic factions (pharmaceutical conglomerates, big banks, war machine, corporate media, oligarch-funded NGOs and unelected bureaucrats) forcing reviled candidates and deeply unpopular policies on us.
Very few support lockdowns, forced injections, child sex changes, censorship, wars, willful neglect of the border and inflation caused by the money printing used to pay for all of the above.
If we had any kind of democratic election where the people were given unfettered access to information, without the heavy thumbing of the scale, there is no question in my mind we'd be looking at a historic landslide.

2024-09-15 12:20:51 GMT

I do think some of the UFO stuff might be true, but your point is taken — they want to equate critical thinking with magical thinking.
#note1cg9…u5kp

2024-09-14 17:41:44 GMT

My social life:
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2024-09-08 13:39:09 GMT

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good way to put it — yeah, not implying you were making the point that church = good. Just using your example to show that no matter what = good, it will be not only be inadequate, but the very act of trying to achieve that false sense will also be projected onto others and cause people to persecute them, i.e., be evil.

2024-09-08 13:23:10 GMT

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don't think he’s saying everyone who seeks to be good is evil, only that the face of evil consists in the seeking to be good. Because even if being “good” was going to church, you will have the types that persecute those who don’t go to church. Virtually all evil is in projecting outward your failure to be good, and you only “seek” to be good if you feel you are morally deficient.

2024-09-05 17:55:56 GMT

IRS owes me a refund from 2022. Finally sent out the check in June of 2023. Still haven’t gotten it.
Called them up. Automated menus. Then finally waited on hold for 20 minutes after pressing random buttons, got a guy, wrong department. He transfers me. Another 25 minutes, get a woman.
She’s mumbling, can’t tell what the hell she Is saying, ask her to speak up, she refuses, says she’s speaking as loudly as she’s going to.
She says we can put a trace on the refund check if I want. I ask what does that do. More unintelligible mumbling. I ask what if the check arrives in two more weeks, and the trace is on, does that require me to do anything? More mumbling about forms, matching signatures and something else.
I get annoyed, say I can’t really hear you and can’t decide whether to put the trace on it because I don’t understand the consequences. It’s been 15 months since I filed for the refund (and paid my accountant an extra $400), and I’m getting frustrated.
When I’m done talking the call is still connected, but no response. Hello. Hello? Hello!!! Still connected, no response for another minute, and I hang up, figure hopefully that shit will just arrive in the next month or so since I’m overseas, and it takes a while.
No idea if she put the trace on it or not, but doubtful because I didn’t tell her too.
Get your money out of the system to the greatest extent practicable. It’s falling apart.

2024-09-03 13:48:15 GMT

Had a paranoid thought just now while driving back from the butcher. (Stocked up on a lot of shit): was thinking about Roger Stone’s claim that CNN never covers Trump’s rallies, but had a high-priced freelance photographer present for the one where he was shot.
The obvious inference is that the deep state of which CNN is a part knew what was going to happen and were ready to document and put their spin on it.
But how would having the exact photos help them if the assassination were successful? IOW, if he were killed, what good would it do to have up close photos of the event, rather than just a bunch of cellphone videos?
On the other hand, those photos make Trump look like a hero, the way he stood up and yelled fight.
So the paranoid thought was, what if Trump and CNN are in on it together, and it’s all kayfabe? That the choice in the election seems so obvious (taxes on unrealized gains? FFS?) because they want you to be relieved if he gets elected. They want you to be on board with whatever they’re planning next, so they set you up to worry about some communist, and you get something else bad.
As I said, it’s probably just a paranoid thought, but the last time I felt the choice was this obvious was Obama/McCain, and in retrospect, I got duped. (Not that McCain would have been any better, just that I had no idea what Obama was at the time.)

2024-09-02 17:05:03 GMT

Convinced my wife to let me post her Lisbon guide on nostr, she was skeptical. Just now some anon (thank you!) zapped her 10K sats. I called her in, showed her the history of all the zaps she’s gotten for it (more than 20K now), and she was impressed.
I told her, she’d have to update it every six months or so to keep it current but that it would sit there forever, and the zaps would come in indefinitely, and she thought it was very cool.
This is the future.
#note14u3…mz9d

2024-09-02 15:05:27 GMT

And by the way, now that I’m singing the praises of Portugal — here’s my wife’s guide to visiting.
IMO the best, most comprehensive and current guide anywhere — and only on nostr.
#note12hl…nj47

2024-09-02 14:47:39 GMT

Was talking to my wife about Portugal. Right now it’s in a sweet spot of not very authoritarian — government doesn’t bother you, people mostly keep to themselves, are not busybodies — and also very safe. How long it will stay that way, I have no idea.
The EU is a scourge, and Portugal is beholden to it, but Portugal is economically insignificant and geographically isolated (only country it borders is Spain.) And crime could always get worse, but I don’t see a lot of sketchy/openly insane people when I walk around the way I did in San Francisco and Denver this summer.

2024-09-02 14:00:35 GMT

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And thanks for the zaps! Much appreciated.

2024-09-02 11:09:32 GMT

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I would say only 10-20 percent are truly in a state of psychosis. Most are going along due to incentives. (Psychotic people are scary!)
The key is to reach the non-psychotics, and you do that by persuading them that appeasing the psychos is no longer in their interest.

2024-09-02 11:04:38 GMT

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They will if you convince them they are drawing dead. Which they are.

2024-09-02 09:57:08 GMT

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yeah, thats an issue which is why if you're a good curator you probably don’t want to repost Lyn Alden or other large accounts as much even if as is the case with her, a lot of the posts are worthwhile.

2024-09-02 09:55:08 GMT

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Have had that same experience *many* times. Smart, otherwise engaged people just with zero interest in sense-making about what’s going on. But that same herd-drift mentality can be used IMO, if you persuade them the worm has turned and they’re on a sinking ship. Can’t argue facts directly, more just pointing out a few obvious things they already know.

2024-09-02 08:48:33 GMT

Posted this on Twitter, less applicable here, but maybe useful as a way of finding common ground with people who for whatever reason are stuck in outmoded worldviews.
I suspect more people than we realize are silently going along to get along but are not remotely on board (or in denial) of what’s really going on. Anyway, this was the post:
*Imagine a lot of smart liberals are realizing it's time to fold a bad hand now.*
*You are not pro-war, pro-censorship, pro pharmaceutical conglomerates, jailing and assassinating political rivals, biological males destroying girls sports.*
*You were for the regular working person, skeptical of the corporate media, defenders of free speech.*
*This is not what you signed up for. This is not what you're about. I know a lot of you well, and this phony, dishonest cabal of oligarchs isn't aligned with your values at all.*
*You do not owe this metastasized version of your former party blind allegiance. They lied to your face about Biden's dementia, the lab leak, the safety and efficacy of the shot.*
*They are not looking out for you. The incentives you had to go along are insufficient. The lies are too big now, the absurdity too out in the open.*
*Opt out. Leave. Fold. Fight for your real values not these astroturfed perversions.*

2024-09-01 14:49:43 GMT

Remember, the price is fake, the news is fake, the polls are fake, the markets are fake.
Any indicator that can be manipulated will be manipulated.
Stick to the fundamentals: first principles and your direct observations.

2024-08-30 14:36:40 GMT

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thanks -- will do that

2024-08-30 14:03:39 GMT

Madrid airport wifi is like fame. You get 15 minutes before they expect a confirm from the fake email you gave and then it’s over.
Apologies to [email protected]

2024-08-28 19:36:27 GMT

The effect of this would be people getting their wealth off the fiat rails so it can’t be easily seized.
#note1pkk…hfg8

2024-08-28 18:30:32 GMT

My Twitter posts are mostly fuck you to the fake douchebags peddling the lie.
My nostr is mostly, here’s something that occurred to me today.
I don’t do this on purpose. It just seems to fit the respective mediums.

2024-08-28 13:22:16 GMT

Had a dream I was in a store asking the clerk some questions. Another customer remarked that he admired the way I didn’t easily back down (can’t remember what it was about), and I turned to him and said more forcefully than I meant to, “I really just don’t give a fuck anymore.”
He and I became friends, turned out he had an insane conspiracy theory YouTube channel.

2024-08-24 14:18:54 GMT

People my wife knows are gushing about Kamala Harris because they think it’s fashionable. It’s like wearing a watch or saying your kid got into Princeton — something you do for social reasons.
That’s the extent of it. Politics as fashion for the consequence-insulated. (Or so they think.)

2024-08-21 16:34:55 GMT

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when the official explanation is plainly a lie, it’s rational to consider others to see if they better fit the facts.

2024-08-21 14:49:16 GMT

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@npub1w0r…cu4x and @npub1yzv…rf8q

2024-08-20 18:12:27 GMT

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I can definitely see it, but the bolder the move, the more dire the consequences if it fails. And there will be strong incentives for people (when they see the worm turn) to jump off the sinking ship first. Plus, they are evil and craven, so they can’t trust each other.

2024-08-19 23:50:54 GMT

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You only need to quantify things that are close calls. These are not.

2024-08-19 23:38:35 GMT

Every election I can remember, the more charismatic person won except the last one: Reagan over Carter/Mondale, Bush over Dukakis, Clinton over Bush/Dole, Bush over Gore/Kerry, Obama over McCain/Romney, Trump over Hillary. Only exception was Biden over Trump, and there were serious irregularities around it.
Forget politics, and just ask yourself if there's ever been a bigger gap in charisma/personability than in this election. Then consider the economy which just massively revised down its jobs report for the last year, with inflation crushing the ever-shrinking middle class.
The fundamentals are terrible for the democrats. The indicators (polls/betting markets) say otherwise, but in an era of so much manipulation and fraud, fundamentals > indicators IMO.

2024-08-17 08:54:14 GMT

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Read a book a long time ago called “People of the Lie” wherein the author M. Scott Peck defines evil as “ militant ignorance.”

2024-08-16 14:08:43 GMT

eventually the hash-rate will surpass this
#note12ac…qg2r

2024-08-15 11:44:21 GMT

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I think “standing behind your chair” as the counter example is already a win for censorship resistance. Way more resources and risky than your boss just telling you to delete or your fired or the government doing the same.
The goal of censorship resistance should be to vastly increase the costs of stopping speech. They tell you to delete it, and you say it’s on relays all over the world now that you don’t control. Too bad!

2024-08-15 11:03:42 GMT

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If someone stole your key and posted, you would just say what happened and get a new key, disavow it.
You are under no obligation to post at all. But the whole point is if you do post, you can’t be censored.

2024-08-15 10:49:39 GMT

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It is if the reason you’re requesting it is because your boss threatens to fire you or the government deems it “misinformation”.

2024-08-15 10:46:24 GMT

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Problem with being able to delete is governments can say — “this is misinformation, delete.” No longer censorship resistant in that case.
But you could maybe have a separate category for shitposts that you don’t care about making censorship resistant. But nostr being deletable is like bitcoin transactions being revocable.

2024-08-15 08:59:26 GMT

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Deletable notes kills censorship resistance but maybe you could have two categories, deletable and not deletable, so if you post the latter it’s forever.

2024-08-14 22:19:39 GMT

The price is fake, the polls are fake, the markets are fake.
Build your conviction from first principles, not formerly reliable indicators people have since learned to manipulate.

2024-08-14 18:30:30 GMT

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depends where he was coming from

2024-08-13 17:33:18 GMT

this would be a cool display option (you could toggle off the authors)
#note1vqj…45wr

2024-08-13 13:08:43 GMT

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Disagree strongly. People speaking up is why so many of the covid measures had to be shelved. It’s never too early or too late. Some people will get got, of course, but you could also be a compliant shill and get a heart attack from the mRNA. No one knows what will happen. But you do know what you believe is true and you can say it.