No one tell NPR about nostr 🤐

If you have quick response to this, you probably have not wrestled with all of the principles, nuances, and implications involved in its answer

Jesus's embrace of his own execution by an empire was seen as the overthrow of the world's powers – the world's way of defining order through dehumanization, violence, and death. Friday is the darkness of our human tragedy. But a bright, new Sunday is coming. #GoodFriday

Nobody loves you.

Anyone in bitcoin looking for a UI/UX designer+engineer? Remote, part-time.

Is there an Android app widget for bitcoin stats (block height, etc.)? Something like Clark Moody's dashboard. Only ones I can find are price widgets.

Twitter is a shitcoin

Weird to hear discussion of The Mandibles on a mainstream tradfi podcast.

"...Pentagon’s brand-new office, the Office of Strategic Capital." Many so-called bitcoiners need to wake up, and fast. Bitcoin is absolutely a threat to their legacy system, and that system is unraveling. While this office isn't directly aimed at us, the imperial immune system in general is on high alert. Start listening to those of us like #[0], #[1] and other privacy/freedom advocates. Learn the tools in the sovereign stack, and use them.

The Intercept

Pentagon Tries to Cast Bank Runs as National Security Threat

“When our financial system is under assault, that is a national security issue,” Senate Intelligence Chair Mark Warner told The Intercept.

When a high-level programmer tries to debug a low-level program

The struggle against loneliness, something many modern individuals experience but won't admit, is not just an emotional-relational one, but also an intellectual-relational one. When confronted with both, it is extremely demoralizing and isolating. (Pat answers be damned.)

"When the tide goes out [falling empires and their monetary systems] you discover who’s been swimming naked [state capitalists like Buffett and his ilk]"

Woman at the bar remarked on my wearing all black with a reserved demeanor and asked if I was a serial killer. My response? "No. Just a serial killer of ideologies."

People are panic buying bitcoin and I'm over here panic buying a 1/4 cow and bourbon

Bitcoin. Beef. Bulleits.

I think I've underestimated how many people in society are completely and utterly "under the influence" of drugs (mostly legally). It is very disturbing.

"Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy." —Benjamin Tucker, "The Relation of the State to the Individual" (1890)

Finally watching the Circle of Dust documentary, and I'm in hog heaven

Anarchic order heals statist chaos

"Sensitive. Sad. He carries within him the weight of a terrible tragedy. He is a good man, but lost. Which is why he comes across as grim."