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Injustice, corruption exists in every stage of empire. What changes in the terminal stage is that the mechanisms meant to sustain and regenerate society begin to break down. The State survives not by idea production but by financial coercion through interest/taxation and moral depravity through perversion. Creating a negative feedback loop. There is no change, every outrage is a calculated distraction aimed at organisaing the herd.

The Helix is the best analogy of Time from an Islamic perspective. Not linear but directional. It is a spiral entropically descending into chaos. "The best people are those of my generation, then those who come after them, then those after them"

May Allah's light illuminate your path and guide you to joy and contentment. Jumma Mubarak 🕌

My 12 year old cousin got given his first smartphone today... time to intervene

The West lost civilisational pull when it allowed its cybernetic class to develop not for its own sake but for the casino fiction of its empire. Technocratic solutions have become a tool for hyperfinancialisation of the riba system that keeps the empire alive. Accelerate 🌀

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Criticism of Nostr stems from a distorted view of social media. The social element in these apps has long been erased and replaced by the algorithmic spirit. There is no you, every interaction is steered. If you're criticising Nostr because it's not big enough you need to ask yourself what does being social in the digital age actually mean.

Yuk Hui critiques the homogenising technological systems of modernity, arguing for a cosmotechnics that recognises diverse technological approaches and ways of relating to the world. That cannot be done without recognising the roles that culture and ethics have on building an independant course of technological development. China was able to develop at an accelerated pace, this however, wasn't because it was able to chart its own distinct technological way of looking at the world. Rather, it represents an accelerated version to the Western project. Which is why we see both China and the US being tied economically rather than being two indepedant competing trains of development, they both need each other to move forward. This is why philosophers like Yuk Hui are important and influencial to the nodes of the early Cyber Islamic network like SAIF, anything we do to develop needs to be grounded in Ihsan and Ibadah.

A useful podcast for Arabic listeners on the use of Fiat throughout history and the rise of Bitcoin as explained by Saifedean Ammous.

Hands down one of the best explainations of the American Empire

It'll be a good idea to have a series of Cicada style crytographic puzzles for SAIF

The cyberpunk movement from the late 80s that accumulated to the explosion of Bitcoin proved that an anchor state is unnecessary in leading the development of FOSS. the future is in the local nodes that can nudge states in a alternate path of progress that is unique to them We need an end to copy and paste GAE surveilled software with the "Islamic" label