Hierarchies crumble, networks endure. Never seen it put so succinctly View quoted note →

There’s a reason it appeals to 20 year olds 😆 Source: I was one of those navel-gazing 20 y/o View quoted note →

GN awster

If Check’s hanging around more and drops some chess shitposts then Nostr has just 2x’d overnight View quoted note →

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Nice time capsule from @MartyBent https://medium.com/@martysbent/bitcoin-just-hit-a-new-all-time-high-now-what-2d316a708559 I think I got in when I supposed to get in. Not sure how I would have handled early cycles

Pattern recognition at the level of 6-12 months, let alone 2-4 years, would help a lot of people not get taken advantage of by politicians and our political system. I wonder if looking at longer term economic and financial charts helps train one’s mind to think and notice stuff along longer timeframes. There are no charts for politicians lying or media memory-holing or censorship, but maybe thinking about the big picture in one graphable realm helps you bring a similar lens to other, more opaque arenas like politics.

There has to be a significant number of people who, knowingly or not, pivot their investment decisions off headlines in Apple’s Stocks app

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I would say this aged well, but it hasn’t even been 24 hours View quoted note →

Hand churned butter from France called Le Gaslonde My life is different after having it

I dropped X for Nostr a little over a month ago and since then: I’ve written and published five essays on Springsteen’s album Nebraska, five to go I’ve read Jim Webb’s Born Fighting as well as Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War (recommend both) Put a dent in Atlas Shrugged My bandmates and I are gonna record an EP at the end of February and I’m playing way more guitar than any time since I was a teenager I’m upstairs reading in bed with my wife before she falls asleep way more often I get all the news I need from the Nostr report, to paraphrase Paul Simon. I’m not a technical person; I just enjoy writing, reading and playing music, so I’m indebted to the people who are making this thing happen: @fiatjaf @ODELL @calle and the ego death folks like @Lyn Alden and @Jeff Booth . There are a bunch more who I don’t know yet but I’m gonna zap you when I figure out who you are. You’re making my life even better, so thank you.

I used to know someone whose dad was this reactionary, red-faced guy who responded with anger to stuff all the time and was very easily perturbed by things not going his way. I could never figure out at the time (2015-2020) how this guy was such a die hard Democrat. Temperamentally he was like the bloviating conservatives that ruled the day when I was a kid. But the Dems have largely become the party for ossified thinking and reactionaries. I hope that changes and we get some real dynamism across the whole spectrum of American politics.

Stringer Bell changed, man View quoted note →

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication Pulled from a comments section for Checkonchain GM

Watched the Dennis Hopper film Out of the Blue tonight. Good lawd

I read @TheyHODL ‘s note yesterday about Bitcoin being alive and had to go walk the dogs around the neighborhood just to think about it View quoted note →

It was a circuitous path to get to the things I’m trying to learn about now in terms of politics and philosophy and so on. I was way into Marxism in school, and I used to get embarrassed about that. I see it now as something I fell for, and I wonder if I’d been handed a copy of The Fountainhead or something instead of the Communist Manifesto (or RATM’s first album), if I’d fallen as hard in the other direction. Anyway I’m glad I am where I am and that I’m not gonna stay here forever. We have to let each other grow.

GM Nostr Check out Steve Winwood’s “Valerie” today if you get a chance