Many folks on X are rightly calling this pathetic. The brother keeps talking a big game but in private he begs his LSM overlord to get monetized again. But they think this is some "own" by the faggot zionist Nikita Bier but they don't want to realize that they're no different than jvnoir. They're just as pathetic, as in their feeds, audiences, revenue, social relevance are mediated by the same black-box algorithmic regime at the mercy of whatever Bier and company decide. This message by brother jvnoir below is just the perfected expression of everyone's digital passivity.

My reflections on the recently held Muslim Bitcoin Summit I essentially frame it as a sign that a serious Muslim Bitcoin culture is beginning to form through brotherhood, sovereign infrastructure, Nostr, self-custody, and a shared desire to build outside the fiat order. I argue that financial hijra must become digital hijra. Bitcoin cannot truly flourish among Muslims if it remains trapped inside the same institutions, platforms, habits + desires, and surveillance systems produced by the riba-based world it is meant to replace. View article →

Just now finding out that my little bro is on nostr 😂 Anyway. Zap him. View quoted note →

"....I am more concerned about the emergence of new governance structures within the Net than with efforts to establish legal sovereignty over the Net. To me, these are the conceptually interesting issues, and if they seem relatively unimportant or otherworldly now, in the fullness of time I think they will become central to our l understanding of the complex worlds that we inhabit." View quoted note →

So much of the scene in Muslim tech is just slop The funding that's involved in this "Pipeline" is going straight into building toxic SaaS FinTech sludge that locks Muslims in a fiat subscription and make them more passive and dependent while having their data sold to Israeli tech firms. This entire model to funding just needs to die man. It just produces more Muslim founders optimizing for acquisition + platform dependence + high time preference investor expectations instead of building anything that meaningfully challenges the infrastructure we’re trapped in, while also incentivizing Muslims to be more passive in cyber. Anyway, Jummah Mubarak.

SAIF space happening today

The price of a Google pixel 10 is back at its all time low on Amazon currently 👀

We laugh, but nostr could also suffer the same fate if we are not careful. Trying to appease normies and constant mass marketing doesn't always yield the fruit you want.

Modernity forces every muslim to choose a path

Many such cases

This was the definitely the most thought provoking talk at the summit I think one of the biggest takeaways for me is that the migration off of LSM is necessary but it is not enough, as the act itself of moving on to Nostr does not free the individual (the same can be applied to Bitcoin) from the habits and desires of the old corrupt system. Yes, nostr and bitcoin are neutral systems, but that neutrality is only the precondition for transformation, not the transformation itself. So the Islamic concept of tarbiya, the spiritual+intellectual nurturing of the self, is needed, and Nostr provides the neutral space to create the conditions in which that can emerge and can be cultivated. Everybody on @NoorNode and @BitcoinMajlis relays gotta read this! View article →

Wise insight from AbuZ

School of Divinity

Call for Papers – Islamic Colloquia of Edinburgh (ICE) | School of Divinity | School of Divinity

Third Annual Online Conference on Fiqh of the Future

"Islamic law has long engaged new realities with conceptual depth and interpretive flexibility. Yet today’s technological transformations raise questions that are increasingly difficult to fit neatly into premodern categories without further refinement. How should jurists think about agency, embodiment, accountability, harm, kinship, ownership, intention, legal capacity, and personhood in light of rapidly changing technological conditions? What happens when older legal distinctions remain useful, and what happens when they begin to strain?" Interesting topics:

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One of the main points that I was trying to highlight in this talk is that Bitcoin will not meaningfully take root among Muslims so long as it is forced into the same fiat institutions and habits that were built on Riba money. Real Muslim Bitcoin adoption requires a financial hijra joined to a digital hijra where new sovereign tools + infrastructures and forms of community are built so an actually anti-riba way of life, a culture, can emerge. View quoted note →

This is low key just a Nostr onboarding event 🤫 View quoted note →

Been shilling this Noornote feature on LSM. Getting some engagement! View quoted note →

@Mohamed GigaChad you're slacking. Need you to step up and get to the top 10 next time.

The gathering of a life time View quoted note →

"There are undoubtedly many more such virtual communities than there are nation-states, and the ties that bind them are for the most part much stronger than are chauvinistic nationalist impulses. Each community will have its own rules, its own access policies, initiation rituals, censure policies, and so forth. Governments have had little power to penetrate such private groups, and even less penetration is likely when strong cryptography provides a new topology for connectivity."