Proof of work

I spent like $2000 USD on ten #solar powered #meshtastic nodes, sold two (will be 3), donated one to charity, published the BOM, and I think I'm going to keep the rest of the nodes. Lost about $1500. Gained half a dozen VERY nice nodes. I'm good with this. I've taken decentralization to heart. Nodes should be built locally. It's not hard to do and any Makerspace will have a soldering iron and 3D printer. I'll build nodes for my local community. If other communities want them, they can build them.

Use Matrix. No AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3 And it's not based solely on a promise either! You have the choice of open source clients you can use. If one does anything you don't like, you can switch. No need to sign up for a new account, or get anyone else to switch to another system. It's real freedom.

"The guy who was "detained" by the US Marines (hands zip tied) was a U.S. Veteran just trying to cross the street to go to the VA office. 🙄" Via:

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AI6YR Ben (@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)

The guy who was "detained" by the US Marines (hands zip tied) was a U.S. Veteran just trying to cross the street to go to the VA office. 🙄 LA ...

Here's a fun thought: Stablecoins are losing value, when measured against bitcoin.

I removed two wheelbarrow loads of thistles (a mixture of bull and Canada) from our yard today. You have to pull them up by the roots so they come back more slowly, or eventually not at all. They were irritating me as I was trying to do other yard work and then after I got started everywhere I looked I saw more and thought "well I better take that one too, before they get more energy down onto their roots and pop up in more places". Hopefully next time I go out there I can focus on the task I intended to do instead of the one that turned out to be higher priority.

Remember at the end of last year when some people were saying Trump was going to use the military against Americans on US soil and most people thought they were blowing things out of proportion? Pepperidge Farms remembers. What else were those people saying? Seems relevant now that the national guard, marines and a predator drone have all been deployed.

"What is economic imperialism?" Answered by John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hitman"

If youwant to know what's going on in #LA from first hand sources... https://la.indymedia.org/js/?v=cont&stb=0&url=https://la.indymedia.org/news/2025/06/302717.json Yes, LA has a local Independent Media Center.

I aaccidentally came across a long article on decentralization from 1977. It's not about tech. From what I read so far, it's the real deal. I am impressed.

Schumacher Center for a New Economics

Decentralization: Making Small Places Work Again - Schumacher Center for a New Economics

Decentralization: Making Small Places Work Again Americans should all be able to live and earn their livelihoods in the kind of environments they...

Don't spoil the ending for me, I'm not emtirely through it yet.

Ripping up grass is a lot harder than jist hoeing rows in a garden, that's for sure. Those roots just don't want to budge. Plus the sod is heavy to cart away too. Slowly but surely, I'm removing our lawn and replacing it with mulch around fruit-bearing trees, and native blueberries, black raspberries, a squash hill, and as many other things as I can fit in there. I just gotta keep on top of it and not get side tracked before I finish ripping everything up and getting the mulch in there. Otherwise it'll all grow back, and lower.

Via Kevin: "superintelligence." god this industry sucks Source:

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Kevin Rothrock (@kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange)

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What are the nostr accounts that are building something other than Nostr, Bitcoin, or AI slop? I'm already well aware of the honey, beef jerky, and leather wallets. They're good. I want more of that and also some cool tech account to follow. #AskNostr