DMs are a big cop out on Nostr. Discuss. Influencers and devs send DMs but don't respond. Is that a technical or technocrat or personal issue?

Is there a trend here? Too much emphasis on obvious safety creates increasing danger? @Board

The Board

US Embassy Attacks: Preventing Security Breaches

Explore US embassy attacks, security vulnerabilities, and asymmetric threats. Learn how to prevent future breaches and protect American diplomats a...

In the article, It suggests a 98% success rate preventing attacks on US embassies opens the doors to missing potential edge cases. The Spanish fire service has also been criticised for becoming too effective at putting out forest fires. Natural destruction is prevented, building up worse problems for later. Our least favourite stepchild, blanket KYC, also proving ineffective against real culprits. It's as if apparent success is the warning sign for massive pending failure

Nostr has a rich social ecosystem brewing. Proof that open systems can work for everyone. View article →

Embedded trending Nostr posts on Wordpress site...

Decentralised Nostr news feed – RT Crenville Writings

The author profile and article links go to @yakihonne webpage, my preferred Nostr client. The html Code is available on the Page so you can edit the wss relays, change the client to open the links...#nostr Doing my bit spreading the decentralised news on legacy WP.

Openvibe away. Hello decentralised web.

Hey @Spatia Nostra I set up a feed of Nostr Trending Posts on my Wordpress site. Included the embed file too.

Decentralised Nostr news feed – RT Crenville Writings

Banging the drum for Nostr and nPubPro websites over on WordPress...

nPubPro free Nostr-powered websites – RT Crenville Writings

Set up a website on Npub.pro -

RT Crenville

RT Crenville

Author of the Olga “Seje” Hansen thrillers. Psychological noir that’ll make fans of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo reach for a stiff drink. ...

For a free service and almost no extra work involved with getting it going, it's a great platform to extend your Nostr reach.

My best ideas arise while traveling. It makes sense to me. We are nomads by nature. On the move we would stare into space, minds open. An unusual form or a break in the expected pattern of our surroundings would catch our attention. We would react accordingly.

On Nostr can you prevent users from following you? I know you can mute users you don’t want to hear from, but can you actively remove yourself from someone else’s follow list? Or is it a relay issue making my timeline really really poor quality - apart, of course, from the few quality accounts who stick. #asknostr

Breaking news: 750 people died in Congo today - from malaria. Just another slow news day.

Yakihonne

Breaking News: The Daily Death Toll Nobody Notices

When what’s not in tbe news undermines the credibility of what is

Updated my Nostr resource page with the Numo tap and pay release ...

Nostr – RT Crenville Writings

my effort to bring Nostr to the attention of Wordpress users. View quoted note →

Going back to X sounds about as appetising as trying tequila again, forty years after a spectacular fail to impress a girl I thought I fancied.

darn, I thought I was pseudonymous, not sodding enormous View quoted note →

Them Black-Eye Peas have a lot to answer for. View quoted note →

#Warleaks What if Julian Assange had taken the next logical step—using Bitcoin not just to sidestep PayPal, but to make it impossible for a state to erase the truth? One of the worst afflictions of creatives is turning off the tap of ideas. 🤪 I’m deep into writing the #OlgaSejeHansen thriller series—a four‑book arc that covers everything I love: action, noir, erotica, intrigue (usually sharing the same side of the same knife), philosophy, cultural clashes, humor, the whole shebang, even crypto. In Book 2 the “not‑your‑keys” trope underpins the storyline. In the final book the heroine pays for a Hercules in the Yukon with BTC. Don’t ask; it’s a pretty cool finale. A recent podcast between @calle @Marty Bent prompted the following line of thinking… Bitcoin can’t end war—human greed, malice, and ideology still drive it. Maximalists love to claim that the incentives baked into a Bitcoin standard will “fix” conflict, but while a sound‑money system could shorten wars, on its own it can’t neutralise the three forces that oil the fire. But what if we paired that immutable money with a force for good? Imagine an AI swarm that constantly monitors, verifies, and disseminates evidence of aggression, drowning out misinformation. After listening to the recent pod about Clawi, it seems feasible to have an LLM agent in every home—or an army of LLM agents in every home—more good than ever fighting evil. When that AI truth army runs on a Bitcoin‑based incentive layer—a match the community identified years ago—the cost of silencing truth becomes financially ruinous for any regime that tries. In short: money that can’t be seized + AI that can’t be silenced = a self‑defending shield against war‑driven lies. That’s a book, a movie franchise, and… maybe a whole new lifetime of storytelling. btw, ideas are literally worthless and unprotectable until they are executed. It would be great to read someone else's completed book version of this plot line.

Perplexity for bang up-to-date research. @Maple AI for a safe space to build out theses. Humans for both the first and final say. Thoughts anyone?

This a screenshot from Idiocracy, right? Option 2? We'll search your passport details on the dark web. All being well we'll find it and our intern will confirm you are mature enough to post crap on social media. This is that "darkest before it gets light" moments - hopefully. View quoted note →

It's challenging writing about fights between the heroine, #OlgaSejeHansen and the bad guys, like, really bad guys. Before joining the Helsinki Police "Bears" unit – Finnish SWAT team – her title was "Unarmed Combat Instructor" at the Utti Jaeger Regiment. She trained Special Forces operatives to fight hand-to-hand asychronously. What does that mean? When baddies face a Tier 1 fighter like Olga, they have little to no idea where the first or next strike is coming from. She doesn't fight to a pattern, but to opportunities. A body feint left, fists up, halfway through the feint she may let go a kick to the groin, or maybe a hook kick to the jaw, or maybe a spear punch to the throat. Even if the opponent doesn't go down, it will hurt or deaden a limb. Either way the strike will momentarily disorient even trained fighters. That moment of confusion is the opportunity for another kind of strike if required. Asynchronous. So unlike most Hollywood fights, there is no pattern, no kata-styled one-two-threes. And definitely no fluff. The aim is to take out an opponent in a few seconds. Does the heroine always get her own way? No. But she is not there to entertain with extended, glamorous fight sequences, or give anyone a chance. So, it is quite hard to write such a degree of unpredictability into action scenes. Rather like describing how we walk, it can also be frustrating to break down the subtleties and even harder to communicate them without a reader glazing over in too much detail. Nothing like a challenge. This is about 6 seconds of action... Seje moved out of range of Bozo’s reflexive flailing hammer fists, angling for a disabling strike to the groin. Fists ready, upper body feinting left then right. On the first feint left her right heel stomped inside by her left foot. A heartbeat later, like a dancer, she flowed her body upright and glided her right leg back into its original rear position. Seventy percent weight on the back leg, still primed to strike with either knee. Bozo was focused on her left leg. One instant muscle memory strike was on its way to find out. Pushing off her right foot, she shifted her weight forward, leg, hips, knee and foot unleashed in one whipping move, full power. No evasive action from Bozo. The dance worked. But as the ball of her foot landed, she realised, "Fuck, he's wearing body armour over his balls." The full force of the strike between Bozo's legs glanced to the side, his thigh absorbing the bulk of the blow. He winced but stood his ground. Re-focusing, she took advantage of a lull in his aggression... "No armour where this is landing." There is a free download on my bio of the first 3 chapters. Seje is not just a fighter, she's a master strategist and to put it mildly, she will do anything to achieve the outcome she needs – even dropping her colleagues in horrendous circumstances. Grim, shocking, funny, nothing is ever gratuitous but advances the plot and the characters. That's #noir!