GM It’s concepts all the way down, and at the bottom of it all is a signed event. Few. Cc: @david @vinney...axkl

GM The inverse flywheel effect happens when product decisions are made purely based on ideology: sovereignty being imposed rather than being offered as a choice. Users are insulted and alienated and the spokes of the flywheel break off one by one and it grinds inwards, spiralling, until it’s just you in the middle, going around in slow circles

Podcasts are not real

Opus 4.8 out just now I'm keeping my hopes incredibly low. My body can't take another rug pull like it did with 4.7

Episode 160 of @Plebchain Radio 🎙️ is up. I sat down with @paul keating and @DirectorHodl to talk about Hummingbird, the documentary they just released on @IndeeHub The film grew out of the Bitcoin Jungle community in Uvita, Costa Rica, and builds itself around the indigenous prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor. The eagle is the engineering mind that builds and abstracts. The condor is the body that lives in relation to the land. The two fell out of balance after 1500, and the prophecy holds they're meant to come back together in our era as a third bird, the Hummingbird. At the heart of it all is Estella, a Costa Rican farmer who fought the banks and the monocrop barons and ended up as the Bitcoin Grandma of her local market. Tune in to the episode on Fountain or wherever you get your Nostr signal.

Fountain: Podcasts & Music

Plebchain Radio • 160 – Of Eagles and Condors with Paul Keating and DirectorHodl • Listen on Fountain

Paul Keating and DirectorHodl come on the show to talk about Hummingbird, the documentary they just released on IndeeHub. The film started life as ...

GM Exactly one year ago, I said “no.” I choose life.

Nobody knows if @Scardust Official made it to the UK or not for their tour, but this video will reveal everything 😱 https://fanfares.io/s/HHd123

Plebchain Radio Ep. 160 – live with @paul keating and DirectorHodl View live event →

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Sunday Brunch #14 is up. @Joe Martin came on to talk about his new album Alone in Valentine, which he recorded in Nashville at Glen Campbell’s old house with Cal Campbell and Cornelius Webb producing. Joe calls it a record made by humans for humans, finished before the AI slop catches up. We spent the rest of the time on craft, on what’s happening to grassroots venues, on where Nostr actually is right now, and on whether culture is the path through for value-for-value when lectures keep falling flat. Joe brought five songs and not one of them was his own, which I overruled by playing Checkmate off his new album. Tune in on Fountain or wherever you get your Nostr signal.

Fountain: Podcasts & Music

Plebchain Radio • Sunday Brunch 14: Joe Martin • Listen on Fountain

Joe Martin finally made it onto Sunday Brunch after a few months of being impossible to pin down, which turns out to be a good problem – his new ...

GM Finding Home Episode 4 with @Roger 9000 had its first public screening at Bitcoin Ireland yesterday. Thank you to the organizers (are they on nostr?) and to @AZA_21m for making this possible. 🙏 🫂 If you missed it in Ireland, you can still watch it on @IndeeHub https://indeehub.studio/film/finding-home/season/1/episode/4

The Null Razor: Never believe something when you can’t rule out that someone needs you to. In other words, epistemic apathy is more noble than blind faith

The Nostr booth returns to @BTC Prague this year. Thank you @Martin Kuchar for pushing for this. This will be THE place to hang out during the conference, a cypherpunk sanctuary. Thank you @Freedom Tech Co. and @Angor for helping make this happen along with @nosfabrica

GM It takes a very specific kind of crazy person who chooses to build on bitcoin and nostr. You’re trying to sell a product to people who don’t have the time to use it or the money to pay for it.