Put on headphones, close your eyes, and zone out for the next 20 minutes listening to this absolute masterpiece.

Spotify

Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58: I. Allegro moderato - Live

Ludwig van Beethoven, Krystian Zimerman, Wiener Philharmoniker, Leonard Bernstein · Beethoven: Piano Concertos No.3 Op.37 & No.4 Op.58 · Song · ...

GM 🌞 Keep building.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son! If —Rudyard Kipling

Honestly? This sounds pretty amazing.

Hello old friend.

“The harder the government squeezes on the internet, the faster and more effectively people will get around it.” – @jsr Life finds a way.

Good art makes you uncomfortable. Massive Attack are legends.

Gadget Review

Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment

Massive Attack used live facial recognition technology on concertgoers, turning surveillance into provocative art that sparked debate about privacy.

Just replace any mention of “digital assets” or “cryptocurrencies” in this article with “curtains” and “whispers” and you will get a sense of the level of control they want and the absurd lengths they’ll go to ensure that you are not free.

The Rage

US Government To Bring PATRIOT Act to Digital Assets

FinCEN Director reveals that the Treasury is finalizing a ban on privacy tools, Representatives revive Special Measures to Fight Modern Threats Act

@water783 Just had a look at the new XChat app. Looks cool, but it sucks that it's running your own fork of the nostr-mls crate and you've made a bunch of changes that break interoperability between different MLS clients. I would have loved to have you contributing and working more closely with us on changes so our apps would have remained interoperable.

Turtles, all the way down.

GM #spxm 🌞

@hodlbod @Vitor Pamplona @PABLOF7z Do you guys know of any upward limit on the size of filters? E.g. how many pub keys can I reference in one filter? I’ve never hit any limits before just curious if you all have see anything.

“The civility of individual officers doesn't alter the fundamental reality of what happened. I was arrested at an airport like a terrorist, locked in a cell like a criminal, taken to hospital because the stress nearly killed me, and banned from speaking online—all because I made jokes” Sounds like some dictatorship, but it’s the UK.

GM 🌞 Touch sand.

I find it tremendously ironic that the invention of the welfare state, ostensibly to help those in need, has effectively destroyed our sense of community duty and care for our neighbors. It’s allowed us to convince ourselves that it’s “not our job” to look after each other like we used to. People love to argue that without the state those in need would be left behind. I staunchly believe this to be untrue and downright patronizing. Most people, most of the time, are fundamentally good and generous.