Love this photograph 🤩 #nature #photostr #grownostr View quoted note →

Great rip, as usual. FYI, the links in this episode’s show notes all land on 404-not-found errors in @Fountain The app is adding a string of characters at the end of each URL (maybe origin tracking?) and removing that suffix manually does the trick; I checked Apple Podcasts and the links are clean there. Cc @Oscar Merry @ODELL @Marty Bent @RABBIT HOLE RECAP View quoted note →

Great rip, guys. FYI the links in this episode’s show notes in @Fountain all land on 404-not-found pages Guessing it’s the URL suffixes that look like origin/click trackers, and the links work fine in Apple Podcasts, so I’m guessing it’s probably an issue in Fountain. Cc @ODELL @Marty Bent @Oscar Merry View quoted note →

Gm pv happy Sunday #coffeechain 🌇 We got home at 5. Went to bed around 6. Woke up at 8. Might make some coffee… Miiiight try to go back to sleep 😴 But first, some sun. Volume up… recognize that sweet sound?

Back out again tonight for round 2 🪩💃🕺 I admit, I am a bit tired 😅🥱🫂 #grownostr #artstr #musicstr View quoted note →

Remember when the “opinion section” was just one section, and the rest of the news told facts and stories, without telling you what to feel and why it should be outrage..? I miss that.

It’s fascinating, and concerning, the degree to which we base our interpretation of events on preconceived beliefs. Within a couple of hours, I’ve seen posts about the Trump-Zelenskyy meeting that range from scorn for how Zelenskyy spoke during the discussion, to abhorrence of how Trump treated the man sitting across from him. These responses often start from the assumptions of “this guy is a scammer” or “that guy a monster” and I’m just processing how deeply engrained some of our (allegedly) free opinions and beliefs are, when they’re ultimately built on a body of information consumed from partisan sources that we trust, often in spite of the fact that nearly every source of news is biased. It’s only human. But it’s also scary. I think the best we can do is trust our intuition - does it feel right? It’s also helpful to listen to our emotions, but especially important question those, and their origins, because emotion can mislead. Personally, I was sickened by the lack of empathy and compassion shown by our country’s leaders. I recognize the Ukraine war issue is extremely fraught, and with the amount of disinformation and propaganda out there, it’s hard to know exactly what’s right. But the fact is, when someone’s country is being systematically demolished, my heart goes out to them. Maybe that’s weak, or naive. (It’s not). It was a hard video to watch, especially after spending so much time on Nostr (and none on Twitter), because I have become a bit accustomed to all the good vibes. I do believe Trump actually wants to end the war. He may be able to get there, and even if the cost to Ukraine is high, the cost of continued warfare is almost certainly higher (although this is highly contingent on what Putin turns his gaze to next). Trump was clearly triggered enough to revert to “verbally-abusive-parent” mode. I’m not a shrink, but it’s not hard to see. Zelenskyy’s posture was that of man who has watched an ally turn into an abuser. We’ve already extracted enough minerals from the developing world, so now we’ll do it to Ukraine, so long as they agree to let Russia off the hook for the war? That shit feels wrong, man. Fuck war 💔

Good morning 🌇 I love city sunrises

Having never installed a password manager on GrapheneOS, where does a password get saved if you say “yes” when asked if you want to save it? I see where you can add password managers, but not where to find saved passwords 🤔 #asknostr #grapheneOS #privacy

GM friends, happy Saturday! What’s your weekend looking like? “On this episode of why are we bullish”, I’m bullish AF on the impressive range of amazing privacy tools being built. Left or right, rich or poor, white or black, we all deserve digital privacy. From govt’s, companies, and hell, even nosy neighbors! (Yes, some lady was giving me shit about my license plate yesterday, after yelling at some construction guys about making too much noise. No, she had nothing better to do). Anyway, I’ve been hearing interesting things about #obscura VPN from Brian Dong (is he on nostr?) so I thought I’d give it a shot. I was very impressed. Here’s what I texted wifey the other day, when she was having trouble getting her VPN (Nord) to work while traveling: —— If you can’t get connected, I’ve been testing a new VPN called Obscura; it was built by Carl Dong (he was an early Bitcoin Core developer) and its modeled after Apple’s private relay model (uses two “hops” instead of one) but rather than owning both servers, the second one is owned by Mullvad (arguably the best VPN provider), so that neither party can see or de-anonymize the data. And it’s FOSS (obviously I’m not reading the code, but if there’s an obvious issue it’ll be caught sooner or later). The best part(s) — 1) it’s insanely fast, as in, I’ve taken multiple video calls with zero lag and perfect video quality(!!!), 2) it formats your web traffic in some way so it doesn’t look like you’re using a VPN, meaning sites that often block Nord or Mullvad (like Reddit, BofA, etc.) don’t even realize, and 3) it’s significantly cheaper than Nord, and accepts payment over Lightning/no KYC nonsense. The only downside is that they haven’t released an iOS version yet, so it’s computer only. But since it’s only your laptop that’s giving you trouble (right?), that shouldn’t matter. —— Needless to say, we’re both converts. Wen iOS? 😁 #vpn #privacy #nokyc

There can be enough space for men to be masculine and women to be feminine, without rejecting and ostracizing people who don’t vibe with either category. Embrace who you are. If someone rejects that, they can fuck off. This is true for men in the context of (whichever type of) feminism that rejects masculinity. This is true for women in the face of being pressured to work (or being pressured into motherhood). It’s true for trans people in a world that denies their lived experience. Indigenous cultures often acknowledge (and respect) an alternative way of identifying oneself, and neurobiological studies show significantly different brain activity and hormones in people who feel different inside vs out. I have never experienced this feeling, and it would be arrogant to claim that I know much about it. But I know what it feels like to be a man. It means confidence and standing tall, but that’s very different from abusing your power. It means respecting (and protecting) the lives and experiences of people around me. It means respecting women’s power, and weakness. It means acknowledging my own strengths and flaws, ones that I share with many of my brothers. Being grounded in masculinity means holding space for the differences between us. The culture war bullshit is, indeed, bullshit. And pendulums will always swing. But my hope is that, as we move closer to equilibrium, more of us will learn to abide in compassion, and become able to listen without immediately believing OR rejecting the views of those around us, and bring more Light into the lives of those around us. We’re all conditioned by our environment, and it can take immense effort to unravel that conditioning and experience the world for what it is. I believe in human goodness - it’s why I Bitcoin. It’s why I’m here on Nostr. But we have a long way to go.

GM and happy Friday, friends! I had an interesting conversation with my cousin yesterday; she was stoked about a particular electric car company’s stock. I successfully made a case for Bitcoin (and why it’s an entirely different mindset than stock picking) but I also looked into the company she liked. Their stock was doing terribly, and it got me thinking. If you see a particular industry as having huge upside potential, but want to avoid the risk and nonsense of choosing a winning company, it makes sense to invest in the industry’s dependencies. You might miss a bit of the individual firms’ upside (because profit margins) but you benefit from the industry’s landscape as a whole. So it got me thinking, what is the Bitcoin network/industry/exonomy dependent on? Microchips, and energy, for miners… communication infrastructure/internet service for nodes… but in a way, because Bitcoin is money, it’s interconnected with everything. No commerce, no need for Bitcoin (kind of). And it’s simple enough that when Bitcoin pumps, hodlers benefit. But I’m still thinking about it. As Bitcoin adoption spreads, as more people hold and use it, what are some of the upstream companies/industries — those who aren’t already Bitcoin-adjacent — who will benefit? (Disclaimer: asking purely out of curiosity. Personally, I’d rather just hold more ice cold corn). #asknostr #grownostr #plebchain I’d be curious to hear your opinions, @Lyn Alden and @preston, if you have a minute 🤙

Studio Ghibli films will always be some of my favorites 🥹🤣🤣 #moviestr #grownostr