Erik Cason

It’s pretty clear that X is designed to parasitically feed on negative emotions in short loops that are thematically linked. It’s the eyeball dopamine feedback loop glitching out on the horror show max infinite. It’s like the rubbernecking at a grisly car accident had a freak baby with your nightmares about your own insecurities sprinkled with a few cat videos. There’s this slow rot that is gangrenous to the whole thing. I think more and more folks are getting how unhealthy it is, and it’s not ‘social media’ fault—people want to connect and know what is going on in the world—but traditional social media models are designed for manipulation and control from the get go. The big tech companies don’t give a shit about our experiences, they only care about their bottom line which they make through advertising. The good news is there is something new on the horizon and Nostr is likely the substructure of whatever that is. I’ll be glad when old social media dies from necrotizing sepsis.

I know that many of you already know this, but I’m really amazed at how much of a difference it makes towards my mental health to get my heart rate above 130 for 20 minutes within an hour of waking up. Every time I do that I always feel so much better than I would anticipate I would. It’s a strange illusion to feel in a funk and then to simply extricate oneself from it by a brisk walk. I somehow always forget that doing that allows for me to feel so much better and be able to take on the day from a place of feeling empowered, rather than being tired and cranky. I really got to remember these little hack for myself to make my life a bit easier.

For Christmas I’m gonna torrent and fill a 5TB external hard drive with all of the best movies and TV for my family. I’m tired of sifting through contemporary garbage shows and movies, particularly for kids.

I’m always impressed at just how dark the shithole of ragebaiting Xitter is, and just how nice Nostr really is. Goes to show how the algo is designed for hate and that humanity on a whole is actually pretty great.

I honestly wonder how much of the internet has been scrubbed, and for how long has the capacity to consistently scrub it has been? How much dialogue is real vs laundered misdirection? This is a pretty dark existential hole, to which Nostr has a pretty great answer and shows just how important this really is.

I’m just coming to the realization of the absolute and extraordinary danger that mid-40s, jaded cat-ladies who got their therapist license are to the whole of society because they can both 51-50 any patient and they think their world view is both normal and safe. This is the advanced vanguard of today’s culture revolution.

Going off grid for a week to mine for gold, fish, and swim! Always good to teach kids proof-or-work and what it takes to get hard money.

I appreciate all of you. Believe it or not, nostr is a space of compassion and holding, where all of the sins of the contemporary world can be held and honored for just what they are. Anyone can say whatever they want and need to here, in this place of pure expression. There is no sin or taboo… People can simply come as they are, with all of the pain, hardship, compassion and love that they can muster. Nothing can or will be forbidden. Few of us understand how needed and essential to the human soul it is that there is simply a space where they can say what they need to, and not be censored. It is of the most beautiful and honorable conditions of what it means to be human. It is the only way that we will ever have the kinds of conversations that are necessary to create the kind of change that the world needs. Thank you for participating.

Man, my life is wild.