Umbrel had a huge update a couple weeks ago…I needed to re-flash. Thanks so much for your offer of customer service. Genuinely appreciated!!! View quoted note →

I Am Greek Orthodox! View quoted note →

Cannot say how much I appreciate this initial, well thought-out response. I think it’s important in these things to remain cognizant, knowledgeable, and also to keep in mind that Fiat money will always incentivize the Obfuscation of things. In other words, systems designed to defend privacy can and will be attacked a million ways to Sunday in ways that “obey the rules”. Every Revolution is a breaking of the chains of enslavement. Literally. Period. End of Sentence. If you consider yourself a Bitcoiner, you’re now at war. There’s no middle-ground anymore. It’s go-time. Shit or get off the pot. Let this sink in if you haven’t already. Samurai wasn’t the straw, it was just another straw. They’re coming for us. All of us. And they know who you are. We need to decide now what our response is. Fight, Freeze, Flight. Those are the choices in matters such as this. View quoted note →

Just feeling the need right now to leave here: In my irl experience, Revolutions don’t happen because your society breaks down into chaos. Revolutions happen because your society comes together in Hope. Revolutions happen, imo, when people discover Hope out of the Hopelessness.

It’s dicey to recommend music, anywhere to anyone, but sometimes you have to, just to be you. All I can say is that I heard this years ago on local community radio, it affected me so much I spent a month tracking it down, now it’s on my playlist forever. Just laying it down here, no explanation. Don’t judge in the first minute, it’s a journey you’ve never been on.

Kind of larking, but I don’t believe younger generations have sufficiently priced in how so many music videos like this have shaped Gen X for the revolt in the coming Revolution:

I can’t tell you how much I appreciated meeting you at the Halving Party! I get inspired by other Artists, I appreciate what you’re creating, I cannot wait for your Sellout years, I’ll support you until you do a Superbowl or World Cup Halftime show sponsored by Cordanoh, then I’ll always swear you were Yoko Ono’d by your soon-to-be future busty bimbo and I’ll absolutely swear that in El Salvador you were coke’d up and waving a gold-plated machine gun and yelling about Meme Factory funding from the IMF and how Greg Zaj had to hold you down and force meds into your throat and then we washed your golden furry locks in the ocean tide under full moonlight…. ok shit, somewhere in there reality morphed into fanfic. Anyway. You’re an amazing human being, my friend. I appreciate you. And you will be recognized in History for your DSB’s. All Meme’rs have a place in our future. But none have demonstrated the Proof of Work of the Pleb like You have! View quoted note →

I encourage all FOSS-forward Bitcoiners to watch this fascinating and always entertaining episode of “The Why Files”, which explains concisely why Satoshi Nakamoto was right to remain anonymous, why Nostr may become a pivotal protocol for our shared Human future, and why Free Open-Source development is the only path to a better future.

I’m headed to El Salvador, but as I’m getting my trip together on down-time I’m reflecting on my fav artist who came in under my radar (as an artist) and completely woo’d me to understand the “Op-Art” movement. He passed away in 2020, but I’ve driven many miles w/i America to see works by Richard Anuszkiewicz. Like all Artists, it’s not a one-off…it’s a body of dimension and acceptance.

Wall Street Cheat Sheet for CNBC interviews: 1) Bitcoin is Rat Poison 2) We’re obviously interested in Bitcoin, but we’re unsure about it’s valuation metrics 3) We’ve been cautiously watching Bitcoin since 201yadda? and appreciate the adoption we’ve witnessed over the yada yada years we’ve been yada yada “into it” 4) We’re cautiously recommending our Institutional clients tip-toe into the space. We believe there is long-term potential, but it’s volatile, and there is regulatory risk. 5) U srsly even asking about Bitcoin, poor? We are not the same.

Hey plebs! nobody knows me, and i like it that way. So just offering: God Candle incoming. Why? Because nothing now stands between Us and Our Future. Lock and Load.

This. America began the public fear-mongering campaign as Public Service Announcements, then developed them into afternoon shows for kids, then developed them into News Headlines, then developed them into Government Propaganda. You’re right in identifying that “fear mongering” began its early usefulness in media with the “stop, drop and roll” psa’s…which piggybacked off “duck and cover”, which was a misnomer for “when you see the blast, don’t go to the window to see what’s happening, instead assume it’s a nuclear explosion and if you go to the window you’ll be eviscerated by glass, so duck and cover and maybe you won’t die…?” Anywho…Fear-based media propaganda took hold, and has always exceeded it’s actual usefulness. View quoted note →

Is it too early to say that there are no Bitcoiners in Kiev? I mean, I’m definitely not that guy. But, I mean…there are no Bitcoiners in Kiev. And it’s worth acknowledging that. Because let’s be clear. Bitcoiners are 10-steps ahead of Fiat. Sry. Kthxbye.

I can’t read anyone’s mind, but I feel that what Lyn is hinting at is: What do I Want? What do I want. This question is very powerful, if we ask it and let it reside in us. View quoted note →

Ugh…last insomniac sleepy thought for Nostr. I was talking to a teen earlier today and it randomly came out of me that David Bowie’s whole “Space Oddity” song or whatever it’s called was really just a song about the transition from a teen to an adult. The “Tell my wife I love her very much.” “We know.” That’s you to your parents.

Evidently we’re all being wagged by the dog to learn about the “Cloward-Piven Strategy”, and it’s definitely real, if it’s for real. For my 15 minutes of due diligence, I went to the Wayback Machine and found this:

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[quoted here] “Named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Cloward and Frances Piven, the general idea behind the strategy is to intentionally overload the government system so much that it causes a crisis and collapses with a subsequent loss of confidence that Cloward and Piven hoped would “hasten the fall of capitalism.” I am reminded that my late father, a conservative, had a good but incredibly liberal friend who would bluntly argue that the cost of avoiding violent class warfare in America is the network of welfare programs that keep the poor complacent. As much as the idea disgusts me I have always thought that he was at least partly right…The basic idea behind the Cloward-Piven strategy is to break the system in order to make the poor miserable enough to rebel. Not surprisingly to those of us watching the tactics being employed by the current ruling party, the author also mentions their connections to the radical Saul Alinsky, whose ideas apparently so inspired President Obama… In their 1966 article, Cloward and Piven charged that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor; that by providing a social safety net, the rich doused the fires of rebellion. Poor people are able to advance exclusively when “the rest of society is afraid of them,” Cloward told The New York Times on September 27, 1970.” h/t @FreyjaTarte on Twitter here’s a link to a short Joe Rogan interview about this:

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“Woman Sues National Park Service After Being Told She Can’t Use Cash to Pay Entry Fee” As someone who has spent decades car-camping all over the US, I’ve wondered if this would be implemented. The point is to establish monetary-surveillance over people who are “away from a fixed point of surveillance” for too long. And it’s ridiculous, because when I’m travelling from campsite to campsite, it’s impossible to deal with credit cards…you don’t have even part-time staff at many state parks anymore. You have to leave cash in a metal box. Which reveals how this is not about convenience in any way. Also, cash is legal tender for all debts (payments) public or private. Also, if you really want to bake your noodle: why are we required to pay to use “public” lands?

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Woman Sues National Park Service After Being Told She Can't Use Cash to Pay Entry Fee

In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Elizabeth Dasburg and two other plaintiffs allege the National Park Ser...