I went to the dentist office today. They don't take BitCoin.
#bitcoin
Medici
medici@nostr.band
npub1pafs...0qf3
Old man, still learning,
Slowly as is appropriate for an old man, and
incompletely as is appropriate for all men.
How are we betting? Will AI become an instrument of the forces manipulating the market, or will it become an instrument for the free exchange of information (which has its own effect on the market)? How are these outcomes different?
#asknostr
#finance
#nostr
#plebnet
For no reason that I can tell, Primal has begun to work as expected for me today, after being unavailable since the recent update. Any explanation would be appreciated.
#primal
My old man’s response to Greta Thunberg:
How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my life with your empty words of transcendent truth and beauty beyond my experience, while all you can talk about is submitting to the mandate of anti-scientific authority. How dare you!
#asknostr #GrowNostr #PlebChain #Bitcoin
Nothing will change so long as the political class insures that the taxed class continues to defend the very institutional systems that enrich the ruling class, that is, until the taxed class understands that the ruling class itself no longer protects their own interest. Evidence of that appears in my experience. Where do you see the ruling class working against its own interest?
#asknostr #GrowNostr #PlebChain #Bitcoin #politics
Submitting to the wisdom of the crowd is not the same as submitting to the voices from the social institutions of the government, media, academia and big tech. Finding the wisdom of the crowds, that is a different issue. Where do you find the wisdom to which you submit?
#asknostr #GrowNostr #PlebChain #Bitcoin
Many seem to think intelligence and intent are a part of this process of emergence. I am an old man who no longer believes himself capable of understanding the events in my life from the causes that produced them. Instead, I rely on the stories I tell myself about what is happening before me — stories that allow me to move and perhaps even to thrive in the complexity of my environment. Thank God I get a lot of help with those stories. My bet is you do too and you may have stories that I would appreciate. So tell me your stories, and I will tell you mine.
#asknostr #GrowNostr #PlebChain #Bitcoin
Understanding that ‘the word’ is ‘the breath’ of life should instill more fear in words. What will be born of speech? Usually it is not something intended. Will this understanding make us more cautious in our speech?
#asknostr #GrowNostr #PlebChain #Bitcoin
What emerges does so without cause. It is a process of potentialities limited by probabilities. Living itself is a process of limiting probabilities by each individual intent. Collective action comes only after the organizational structures give potential for it, which may be far earlier in the process than we understand. What say you about the processes driving collective action?
#asknostr #GrowNostr #PlebChain #Bitcoin
When the comfort and safety provided by a complex stability is overcome by the fear of and the disrespect of that stability insofar as it no longer can compel compliance to its organizational structures, then what is left are the terror of and the wonder of the new organizational structures emerging. Which structures do you see emerge? Bitcoin is only one.
#asknostr #GrowNostr #PlebChain #Bitcoin
I have always had am irrational fear of starving alone and unsheltered. The reality of this possibility has focused my attention toward those thing I might do to avoid it. BitCoin is only one of those things. Which others do you recommend?
#asknostr #GrowNostr #PlebChain #Bitcoin
How does one process this: 48% of Republican primary voters said the indictments made them more likely to vote for Trump in 2024. Yet among voters overall, Trump and Biden were tied. Are the indictments moving Democratic voters too? Things will become more interesting with the expected impeachment of Biden. What happens next?
[https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-is-top-choice-for-nearly-60-of-gop-voters-wsj-poll-shows-877252b6]
#new
#politics
A boomer’s recognition of Walter Kirn’s reference to The Fourth Turning’s return to McCarthyism with:
Are you now or have you ever been . . .
. . . believing anything that you have not been authorized to believe?
#politics
#news
#plebchain
America This Week, September 1, 2023:
Listen now | Subscriber-only video below: Listen to subscriber-only audio in your podcast app Read this week’s story: Thank you for listening. Tr...
Since the Primal Web update, I cannot click on button in my Opera Browser that triggers a response. Any suggestion for remedy will be valued. I have also tried the Brave Browser and get the same results. WTF?
#Primal
#asknostr