Ladies please stop changing your name when you get married. You are not property. This is no longer necessary. Keep your individual sense of identity.

Linux ✅ GrapheneOS ✅ Proton mail ✅ Signal ✅ Brave browser ✅ VeniceAI ✅ Do I win a Cypherpunk award?!? 😄 ...does publicly discussing my setup disqualify me from winning a Crypherpunk award? 🤔

It's when we moved away from matrilineage that the concepts of virginity and monogamy became important.

You do you, I’ll do me, together we’ll be us ❤️

You do you, I’ll do me, together we’ll be us ❤️

When my therapist recommended that I take up a creative hobby he probably didn't mean me spending even more time on my computer... but I really like making weird AI/Photoshop pictures! So here we are. I've been working on this one a while and I'll probably do different versions of it. But this is a mix of Restaurant at the End of the Universe with a 'this is fine' vibe. What ya think?

Don't ya just love it when a song just really, really captures an experience? Miley Cyrus' Something Beautiful is the date night were all striving for lol It's the moment of looking at your date across the table half a bottle of wine in when you’re just hopelessly enamored and it’s painful to not touch them 🤩🔥🎇

News from the Lightning world has been good lately! ⚡️🥳🚀 If you’re thinking about running a node I’d recommend Litd, an all-in-one Lightning node management tool that includes LND, and here are a plethora of resource for you… Local testing:

Polar - Regtest Lightning Networks, Made Easy

One-click Bitcoin Lightning networks for local app development & testing. Spend less time setting up your development environment, so you can spend...

The docs:

Run litd | Builder's Guide

Run litd in integrated or remote mode.

Demo video: Helper scripts:

GitHub

GitHub - HannahMR/run-litd: Checklists, example files, and helper scripts for getting a Litd node up and running on a ubuntu server.

Checklists, example files, and helper scripts for getting a Litd node up and running on a ubuntu server. - HannahMR/run-litd

Nix package:

NixOS Search

And should you run into any trouble, chat with us here: https://lightning.engineering/slack.html

It been called all sorts of different things throughout time and in different places. It is a fundamental misunderstanding of reality. But a very understandable one as it is at times necessary. Buddhists might call it attachments. Meditators might call it failing to be here now. Psychologists might call it magical thinking, or being comparative. I tend to call it outcome pressure. But whatever you like to call it, it will $%^@# you up. It’s a failure to understand reality. You control nothing but yourself. You can not chose the outcome, you can only chose your actions. And we suffer whenever we get the idea that we can or should control anything outside ourselves.

You gotta read this book I just finished! It’s called “Come As You Are” and it’s about women’s sexuality. If you are a woman, if you do or plan to get into bed with women, or if for any reason at all you care about women’s sexual well being, you gotta read this book!!! Really, it’s the map to where you want to be. https://www.amazon.com/Come-You-Are-Surprising-Transform/dp/1476762090

MidJourney is therapeutic for me in a weird way. I have these weird conceptualizations in my head that are tough to put into words... and yet some how easier to turn into images. I don't think I can explain it very well, but these two images are of the same thing just looked at with a different understanding. It's kinda different ways to conceptualize a "life path". ...do ya know what I mean? No. But that's cool lol

AI is going to make in person education a lot more popular. Don’t believe me? Here is the conundrum I was pondering this morning. There is this book that I want my kids to read and really, really ponder. But how can I be sure that they do that? They are clever people who have access to ChatGPT! I can give the book to them and asked them if they read it and they will say “sure Mom, I read it.” I can ask them to write a book report for me and they will spend 2 mins getting ChatGPT to write a report and email it to me. Okay, I can ask them to hand write the report for me. They will hand write the report that ChatGPT created which will take them 20mins and maybe they will absorb ~2% of the knowledge of the book in that process. The only way I can be sure that they have read and really thought about the book, is to ask them to go on a walk with me and give me all their thoughts on the book as we walk. Post AI, tests will have to be in-person conversations.

“The Patriarchy” is over, right? No, not really, because “the Patriarchy” isn’t just laws, it’s a point of view. I’d argue that legal patriarchy ended in the States in 1993 when marital 🍇 became illegal in all states. But we still struggle with the issue of viewing life and the world through a male lens. Don’t believe me? Here is some data… The Bechdel test: The Bechdel-Wallace test, is a measure of the representation of women in film and other fiction. The test asks whether a work features at least two, named, women who have a conversation about something other than a man. Basically, is a work of fiction written from an entirely male perspective, or are female perspectives included in the work? We can look at Oscar nominated films over the past ~50yrs to get an idea of how the perspective of the western world has been changing. 70-80’s: Only about 25% of Oscar nominated films passed the test. 90’s: 35–45% of Oscar nominated films passed the test. 2010’s: 40–50% of Oscar nominated films passed the test. 2020’s: We are getting close to 70%! How about a reverse Bechdel test you say?? Basically, it’s about 100%. All Oscar nominated films would pass the reverse Bechdel test. Crash test dummies: Men are more likely to get into car accidents, but women are 47% more likely to be seriously injured in a car crash. Why? Crash test dummies and car safety features were designed for men. Even “female” crash test dummies were simply smaller male crash test dummies. But in reality, women are not just just small men, they are women. It’s only in the past few years that meaningful efforts have been made to use crash test dummies and design car safety features that accurately reflect the biomechanics of female bodies. So, yes “the Patriarchy” is still very real and very much with us. But, good news, it diminishes every year because of course it’s is illogical and unwise and harms everyone to have a patriarchal view of the world as the world is half female. Just as it is illogical and unwise and harms everyone to have a matriarchal view of the world as the world is half male.