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Avi Burra
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Chronicler of the Sovereign Age | Anarcho Surrealist
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AviBurra 5 months ago
Finding Home Episode 4 – The Bittersweet Alchemist – is live on @npub1ah55...l8pw I spent five days with @Roger 9000 across London and Manchester. From the Bank of England to the Cyphermunk House. From a cold London pub to the neon heat of the Curry Mile. From a deportation story that'll make your blood run cold to a chocolate workshop that made a room full of kids sit still for an hour. Roger is a musician, a chocolatier, and a man who was told by the state that he didn't belong. What he built in response is the whole episode. Post production by @Lahav Cliffshark Watch here: image
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AviBurra 5 months ago
New Finding Home Epsiode drops this Friday. From the cold stone of the City of London to the neon grit of Manchester's Curry Mile – I spent five days with @Roger 9000, a musician and chocolatier who was deported, denied, and deleted from one country's ledger. What he built in response is the whole story. Editing and post-production by @Lahav Cliffshark
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AviBurra 6 months ago
New Plebchain Radio is live ⚡️☀️⛏️ I sat down with @Kent Halliburton of @npub10vkw...y3ep for a wide-ranging conversation that starts with solar sovereignty and ends with a much bigger question: What would it take to build Bitcoin culture on a thousand-year time horizon? We get into: – Kent’s path from the solar industry into Saz Mining – why solar still matters for real energy sovereignty, especially as batteries get cheaper – Peru, Paraguay, circular economies, and what Bitcoin adoption actually looks like on the ground in South America – the risk of becoming “ledger squatters” instead of builders of enduring institutions This one moves from energy to culture, from hashpower to history.
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AviBurra 6 months ago
GM The @npub1563z...c9n6 ‘s Maxi Madness is the first nostr project to make money. There’s a lesson there for all of us: freedom tech and sovereignty are overrated. Focus on the things that matter. Sex, drugs, and rock n roll
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AviBurra 6 months ago
Sunday Brunch #11 is live ☕️🎬🎶 This week I’m joined by Buttercup Roberts for a music-first, no-script hang where the house rule stays sacred: 90% of sats streamed during songs goes straight to the artist. We talk: – finding music through deep dives on WaveLake + Nostr – why direct zaps create a real connection between listener and artist – her film/storytelling background and the difference between movies and “content” – The Bridge: using comics + visual storytelling to make privacy, censorship, and digital freedom more human – Bitcoin for the Arts and why the goal isn’t just “Bitcoin art,” but culture that carries the ethos
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AviBurra 6 months ago
Sunday Brunch Ep. 11 will go live on nostr in ~3hrs at 12pm ET / 1600 UTC My guest today will be @ButtercupRoberts from @Bitcoin For The Arts (and much more!) and she’s bringing a thoughtfully curated playlist with her. The show will be streamed live on your favorite nostr live-streaming client. Tune in to support the arts, especially independent music! image
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AviBurra 6 months ago
Sunday Brunch goes live on nostr in ~90 min at 12pm ET/ 1600 UTC. I'm joined today by @npub134d6...yggk from the @Bitcoin FilmFest (and much more). She's bringing a carefully curated playlist with her and I'm looking forward to digging in. The show will be live on your favorite nostr livestreaming client. Tune in! image
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AviBurra 6 months ago
Me with my pencil and notepad when the inevitable inference-cost reckoning arrives image
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AviBurra 6 months ago
Posting GIFs from Primal 3.0 like image
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AviBurra 6 months ago
Having written one full fiction book and ~70% of another in the past 1.5 years of the “reasoning” AI era, one thing is abundantly clear to me: AI is dreadful, cringe even, at writing creative fiction even with the most elaborate prompts – I haven’t used a shred of what it’s given me. That includes Opus 4.6. However it is exceptionally good (and getting better, especially Opus) at editing – developmental, line, and copy. This has been invaluable for me in the writing process.
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AviBurra 6 months ago
Sunday Brunch Ep 9 is live ☕️🎶⚡️ This week’s guest-DJ is Budtender from @npub1zm95...092t , and it’s a proper “coffee + record player” decompression session with the house rule intact: 90% of sats streamed during songs goes straight to the artist. We talk: the Nostr serendipity chain that pulled him from “silent Bitcoiner” into music onboarding Hash Power Music’s vision: keep what worked from labels, ditch the predator incentives, let artists stay sovereign a Brunch-worthy playlist with everything from stadium-sized rock to dark cinematic vibes and a big plug for South by Worldwide: a Bitcoin/Nostr, Lightning-enabled music festival running alongside SXSW where zaps/boosts route live as acts change
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AviBurra 7 months ago
New @npub14kw5...j7y0 episode is live 🌀⚡️ Today’s episode is with @sourcenode , and it’s a pattern-walk back to the center. We start with a sermon on weaponized escapism: the system doesn’t just sell distractions, it aims to keep you numb, looping, and harvestable. The real exit is constructive escapism: retreat into craft, build tools, make art, write code, and turn flight into creation. Then Sourcenode and I get into: • why Nostr feels different in the nervous system than legacy platforms (and why clout is a golden handcuff) • “fiat” as something deeper than currency: unwinding psychological and social layers • Bitcoin as trust-minimized, not magically trustless (the social layer matters) • the risk of financialization turning money into “asset-only” • practical onramps: helping businesses adopt Bitcoin and build real vendor networks If you like conversations that trace the mandala back to the source node, press play.
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