There comes a point in a Bitcoiner's journey where you eventually come to this daunting realization 👇

"Although societies dating back to ancient Mesopotamia damaged their environments, dreams of returning to a lost ethic of land stewardship still underpin modern environmental rhetoric. Indeed, the idea that ancient peoples lived in harmony with the environment remains deeply rooted in the mythology of Western civilizations, enshrined in the biblical imagery of the garden of Eden and notions of a golden age of ancient Greece. Yet few societies managed to conserve their soil—whether deliberately or through traditions that defined how people treated their land while farms filled in the landscape and villages coalesced into towns and cities. With allowances for different geographical and historical circumstances, the story of many civilizations follows a pattern of slow, steady population growth followed by comparatively abrupt societal decline."

Good wallets to try out View article →

I can see people being OK with voting for an AI rather than a politician. Might happen sooner than we think.

"states are the outgrowth of natural elites: the natural outcome of voluntary transactions between private property owners is non-egalitarian, hierarchical, and elitist. In every society, a few individuals acquire the status of an elite through talent." https://mises.org/mises-daily/natural-elites-intellectuals-and-state

You know what to do. Zap him! View quoted note →

"With agentic AI and AGI what inevitably emerges is algorithmic selection optimization following the logic of techno-capital and freedom from conscious political will. Human consent to join this process is irrelevant as the virtue of inhabiting networked civilization has already been done and human political decision-making is already being outcompeted by algorithmic governance." Already happening View article →

Apparently there's an option (literally a drop down menu) for the lightning node on umbrel to use knots... Could have saved me a lot of trouble if I had known that at the beginning 😔 anyway, lightning node restored alhamdulilah. Where the jummah Mubarak posts so I can test some zaps? View quoted note →

The cybercult will make the nation state obsolete Start building your cults on nostr

Wise words from Eco

The right now have their saint George Floyd

I’m starting to think geopolitics isn’t even a real science or discipline. Whenever I read or listen to it, the “analysis” usually boils down to the practitioner explaining how their favorite country or region is secretly playing 4D chess. It rarely feels objective. The frameworks are loose and the predictions are vague and the explanations almost always read like elaborate storytelling. It seems more like narrative-building than science where they try to make unpredictable human/state behavior fit into a neat (and often flawed) theory after the fact. I mean how often has geopolitical analysis actually predicted major shifts? Almost never it seems. And yet after the fact the same analysts will retroactively claim “Oh, but the signs were there!”

I've been using this greentext a lot lately in response to people's analysis of the attack on Qatar. It captures the situation quite well I think

It's so amazing to see that Muslims on legacy social media are just casually calling others to use Linux instead of windows due to Microsoft's involvement in supporting Israel. I think we'll start to see a large influx of Muslims on Nostr a lot sooner than we think. Let's keep posting and building so we can have a space that's more than just coal and endless aqida debates. We want to have a semi welcoming space for when our brothers and sisters arrive here inshaAllah.

I have a page set up for Anti-Riba Money on the Bitcoin Majlis website. Check it out:

Anti-Riba Money | Bitcoin Majlis

I’ve noticed that many Muslim critics of Bitcoin, especially maximalism, seem more upset with our grounding in Austrian economics than with Bitcoin itself. It’s odd really. Why treat it like a scandal that someone studies an economics discipline built on a priori axioms of human action? Is it really so offensive to assert something as basic as Hoppe’s formulation in Democracy: "Human action is an actor's purposeful pursuit of valued ends with scarce means. No one can purposefully not act. Every action is aimed at improving the actor's subjective well-being above what it otherwise would have been. A larger quantity of a good is valued more highly than a smaller quantity of the same good. Satisfaction earlier is preferred over satisfaction later. Production must precede consumption." I honestly don’t get it. Why would anyone be appalled by this framework for thinking about economics? It’s such a strange hill to die on for critics of Muslim Bitcoiners.

Man, I just missed this! Hopefully there's a recording of it... View quoted note →

Great introduction to nostr for Muslims. Worth bookmarking and sharing with normies on legacy social media. View article →

This book is required reading. I cite it a lot in my book because it provides so much foundational material for approaching Economic theory and history. View quoted note →

Jummah Mubarak y'all You know what to do!