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Avi Burra
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Chronicler of the Sovereign Age | Anarcho Surrealist
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AviBurra 2 weeks ago
Nostr is dead. Well, not quite dead. Not dead dead. But dead-ish. We've been here before. Maybe not as bad as this. Maybe a third-step-cousin-in-law kind of close. Last summer. And possibly the summer before that. But at other times nostr has not been dead. Maybe not fully alive. Definitely not alive alive. Alive alive was Dec 2022-April 2023. Once in a generation kind of alive. The kind of alive that makes it worth being alive. But no, that was it. That was the one time. But the rest of the time, other than now and last summer and the summer before, it has been not dead. Because every time you think it's dead, you hear the tiny ping of a zap from six feet under. And cadavers don't zap. They don't post memes and they don't fight vigorously out in the open about topics very few people want to understand, let alone care about, and they don't do other stuff. Like music. And film. And believe it or not, books too. And they don't zap. I said that already but it's worth repeating. So, what's the point of all this? There is none. Other than nostr is dead. And that's okay.
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AviBurra 3 weeks ago
This raises a very important and new question: how do people actually fill the time between prompts? You can of course have three different sessions running at the same time, so you can review and prompt one of the the other sessions, but there's got to be a better answer. I write. View quoted note →
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AviBurra 3 weeks ago
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
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AviBurra 3 weeks ago
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
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AviBurra 3 weeks ago
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. https://fountain.fm/episode/VzmUZwpCiSNbYtyx0A2x
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AviBurra 3 weeks ago
GM Exactly one year ago, I said “no.” I choose life.
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AviBurra 0 months ago
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. https://fountain.fm/episode/OJMQ6eJa9g0TzqqeE5BP
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AviBurra 1 month ago
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.