@ODELL a verified account with your name just posted "gm stay humble and stack sats" on X. Is this you? If it's fake, it seems to have fooled many people

"After the two Roosevelts, America was no longer an essentially capitalist country with a sprinkling of controls. Nor was it a socialist country. It was, and still is, a modern “mixed economy,” with the philosophic base and the political future that this implies. In a mixed economy, one of the two elements gradually withers away. That element is not the state. America had beaten the Fascists. It had stamped out Hitler. But it was turning into the Weimar Republic." Leonard Peikoff, The ominous parallels, 1982 View quoted note →

Weimerica --> Weimar + America. (And Peikoff called it in 1982 "The Ominous parallels")

Cool website with open source alternatives to most known software. I found it very useful. Funnily enough, they don't mention Nostr there yet!

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Another excellent episode of Citadel dispatch by @ODELL with @calle. Updates on Bitchat, Whitenoise, cashu, etc. Highly recommend. And stream some stats with @Fountain while you listen!

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Citadel Dispatch • CD184: CALLE - BITCHAT AND CASHU • Listen on Fountain

Calle is the creator and lead maintainer of the Cashu open source protocol. Cashu enables users to easily use bitcoin in a private, offline, and pr...

"The Nazi metaphysics and epistemology preach mind-sacrifice, thereby removing facts and thought (reality and reason) from the Führer’s path. The Nazi ethics completes the job: by preaching self-sacrifice, it removes morality from his path. The result is the destruction on every level of the possibility of individual self-assertion. The graduate of the Nazi epistemology asks: “Who am I to know?” His counterpart in ethics asks: “Who am I to know what is right?” Both give the same answer, the one absolute of their anti-absolutist mentality: “No man is an island. The Volk, or the Führer, knows best. SS Captain Josef Kramer, the Beast of Belsen, was asked at the Nuremberg trials what his feelings were on a certain day in August 1943, when he had personally stripped and then gassed eighty women at the Natzweiler camp. He replied: “I had no feelings in carrying out these things because I had received an order to kill the eighty inmates in the way I already told you. That, by the way, was the way I was trained.”43 If one fully understands this answer of Josef Kramer, in a manner that Kramer himself perhaps did not, if one understands “the way he was trained”—trained on the deepest of all levels, at the core of his person, i.e., trained philosophically —one need look no further for the explanation of Nazism. What other practical result could anyone expect from a man or a culture shaped to the roots by every imaginable variant of the soul-killing ideas of a century of mind-killing, ego-killing philosophy?" In Leonard Peikoff, "The ominous parallels" 1982

Tested White Noise this weekend, looks very promising. Encrypted messaging using Nostr relays! The user can even use their own Nostr relay to forward messages. Check it out and send me a DM if you wanna test it

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"You cannot force intelligence to work: those who’re able to think, will not work under compulsion; those who will, won’t produce much more than the price of the whip needed to keep them enslaved." Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

No crying at the casino! 😂 View quoted note →

I just want to point out that 116k = 2 x 58k

Ayn Rand on 1962 on the need for deregulating the economy as much as possible, as fast as possible, wherever possible, but warning about the disastrous consequences of doing it overnight when already so many people are dependent on the state. 63 years later it is so much worse. It's very interesting to see Milei being the closest embodiment of this principle in Argentina Original post credit:

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In 1962, Ayn Rand was asked what she would do if she were president. Her answer: deregulate, but rationally. “If anyone were to repeal all ...

@calle_👁️⚡👁️ @calle is a legend! Bullish on bitchat

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Citadel Dispatch • CD171: CALLE - BITCHAT AND CASHU • Listen on Fountain

Calle is the creator and lead maintainer of the Cashu open source protocol. Cashu enables users to easily use bitcoin in a private, offline, and pr...

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Running Bitchat

Thanks for this review, very interesting

Very excited about Blossom. Heard about it on @Guy Swann, and want to find out more about it

Bitcoin Audible • Chat_125 - Distributed Hosting in Bloom with Hzrd • Listen on Fountain

"That's a really cool aspect of the Bitcoin community and the nostr community as things are right now is most of our users are not your typical wha...

There is nothing wrong with trying to preserve one's capital in hard times, but the only real solution is to use one's capital to stop the present trends. In the long run, there is no way to profit from a destroyed America. There is no refuge from a collapse. There is no way to protect your assets, your home, your job, your family, your freedom. As Henry Hazlitt phrased it, "There is no safe hedge against inflation except to stop it." G. Edward Griffin, "The creature from Jekyll Island", 1994

Absolutely wonderful conversation with the 95-year old Thomas Sowell. Can't recommend it enough