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Sometimes I am blown away at how fast tech is changing. I want to read a book, Blueprint for a Revolution. I met the author Srđa Popović at the Oslo Freedom Forum in May and will see him again at another conference next week. I think his work is interesting because he's not partisan left or right, just really practical about how we keep democratic and pluralistic societies. The thing is, i've got dyslexia and ADHD, I love books and reading, but it's hard. So i strongly prefer audiobooks. There isn't an audio book of Blueprint for Revolution. No problem, some googling and i find a pdf, and then vibe code an audio book maker! A few minutes later, I've got a remarkably good audiobook for me. It sounds great. Now any book i want, i can make an audio book. The script even handles making sense of chapters, and stripping out text which isn't meant to be read like page numbers and image source text. This kind of thing wasn't possible a year ago. Now it's a side project, i'm able to make professional audio books just for myself. The world is changing. Anyway everybody concerned about how to change the world should read this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueprint_for_Revolution

Content Moderation Is Impossible At Scale - The nostr:nprofile1qqsy6577y73yl6uy6curjchr2qselsy72ukz9gtu2sj5tf5u6ddsvlcduvjxm Impossibility Theorem of Content Moderation I think a bunch of folks here might not know about this internet 'law' but it does feel like Nostr folks might agree with this. https://www.techdirt.com/2019/11/20/masnicks-impossibility-theorem-content-moderation-scale-is-impossible-to-do-well/

This week's episode of revolution.social is with the Etymology Nerd and author of Algospeak, Adam Aleksic. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpkW8JhqcgY It's on Fountain if you're not the video type: https://fountain.fm/episode/qXPDqSn3AJnjabKexuXh It actually helps a bunch of you do listen / watch on youtube as that's the only place there are public viewer numbers. This conversation was really fun. Not the least of which was i got to interview of the the social media influencers my kids like. He's somebody who both is successful on big social platforms and really understands the problems with they way they're shaping culture, politics, and the economy.

Today i interviewed nostr:nprofile1qyx8wumn8ghj7cnjvghxjmcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqqg9z7wsf3dyd9t9gltzcyktmu6rqfk3542960d7lyd7ygtt8ehpa45we2nqc for my podcast, it needs to be edited and will be published in a couple of weeks. But some of what we talked about was exciting and new to me, so i figured i'd share it. Harper built a social media network for his AI coding agents to talk to each other and it had a big positive impact on the quality of their work! https://2389.ai/posts/agents-discover-subtweeting-solve-problems-faster/ He even co-authored a paper about how they're doing it: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13547 Wasn't nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7e3h0ghxjme0qyd8wumn8ghj7urewfsk66ty9enxjct5dfskvtnrdakj7qpql2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqta478g experimenting with things like this?

Bluesky has decided to submit its ATprotocol to be an IETF standard. https://docs.bsky.app/blog/taking-at-to-ietf

Too many bitcoiners think that critiques of the money system has to be from the right. I don't know much about these folks, but i find it interesting when i do find projects like: https://moneyontheleft.org/ Plus of course everything David Graeber wrote and said... ;-D

It would be cool if someone from Nostr got this fellowship. New_Public does really good work researching and advocating for social media protocols. https://newpublicorg.applytojob.com/apply/7NdtTpX328/Social-Media-Fellow

The internet is weird, youtube analytics say that one of the most popular youtube channels of people who watch revolution.social is a true crime series in the Mizo language. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuajV8FLWvX82RvrFznTe2w I had to google Mizo, it's not even a language i've ever heard of! Turns out it's in the same language family as Tibetan and is spoken in the hill country of far eastern Indian and northern Burma. This has to be some weird content farming or something. I have no idea.

It's been a while since i proposed a change to a nip, but I'm working on a short form video app, soon i'll ask for beta testers... As part of that I wanted an event kind which was like kind 22, a nip-71 short form video event, but where it's addressable and i can update it. Turns out nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqelpt5w already added support for this in Amethyst has this functionality, but it wasn't a in the NIP. So now here's the nip proposal. Take a look. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2072

On Revolution.Social this week i talked to Blacksky founder Rudy Fraser. He talks about building on the ATprotocol but without being controlled by the Bluesky company. They run their own moderation, algorithms, identity servers, hosts (PDS), and are building an entire alt tech stack called rsky. But what's most interesting to the Nostr and Bitcoin community is in this conversation we talk a lot about how to fix the money. We talk about needing to build an alternative financial system which is not owned or controlled by the state or corporations. We talk about the role of mutual aid in social change and building a future society we want to live in. And we talk about Cashu and how we're exploring bringing it in to the ATmosphere (how the they talk about the ATprotocol ecosystem beyond just bluesky). It was a fascinating conversation, and i really hope that Nostr Bitcoiners take a listen as this is a conversation about permissionless protocols and freedom money which is very different from what we normally hear in bitcoin circles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA1DutGDVcs&list=PLklPNPs42pgA3IImetDMeQ3kflBrOqwr7

On Revolution.Social this week i talked to Blacksky founder Rudy Fraser. He talks about building on the ATprotocol but without being controlled by the Bluesky company. They run their own moderation, algorithms, identity servers, hosts (PDS), and are building an entire alt tech stack called rsky. But what's most interesting to the Nostr and Bitcoin community is in this conversation we talk a lot about how to fix the money. We talk about needing to build an alternative financial system which is not owned or controlled by the state or corporations. We talk about the role of mutual aid in social change and building a future society we want to live in. And we talk about Cashu and how we're exploring bringing it in to the ATmosphere (how the they talk about the ATprotocol ecosystem beyond just bluesky). It was a fascinating conversation, and i really hope that Nostr Bitcoiners take a listen as this is a conversation about permissionless protocols and freedom money which is very different from what we normally hear in bitcoin circles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA1DutGDVcs&list=PLklPNPs42pgA3IImetDMeQ3kflBrOqwr7

My friend Alaa, a hacker and activist who's been in jail in Egypt for over a decade has finally been freed! He was arrested for organizing pro-democracy protests and being the hacker who setup all the websites for the movements. Many years of campaigning and hunger strikes were required to get him out. His son went from a tiny baby to a teenager while he sat in an Egyptian prison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaa_Abd_El-Fattah

Bluesky the company is spinning off the the name system, DID:PLC in to an independent swiss association. https://web.plc.directory/ https://docs.bsky.app/blog/plc-directory-org This is a good step, the name system should not be owned by the company.

Pole dancing in a giant 3 meter tall inflatable unicorn costume is really hard. https://v.nostr.build/8clR97GOkKYRya5X.mp4

Earlier this year I discovered these inflatable off brand mascot costumes and started taking them to raves and festivals. First a cat, then a bear, and now I’ve got a unicorn. The way people react is magical, hugs, delight, and general whimsy. Given how really affordable the costumes are and how much people like them I’m surprised other people aren’t doing this. https://v.nostr.build/mQV2QoH6Fv9zfwRM.mp4

So just in case folks think I complain too much, here’s a video of me walking in to #burningman in a giant inflatable teddy bear suit. https://v.nostr.build/neq0MWTaYje3pQ9l.mp4