Darrell O’Donnell

Political Capitalism. This is the thing we are up against. “Political capitalism is the capitalism you get when the cheapest, most reliable way to improve your rate of profit is to invest in the political process, to get favorable regulation, pork barrel government contracts, and cash bailouts.” ‘“capitalists have gone from profit-seekers to rent-seekers…”’ https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/06/big-nascent-important/

Working with "my buddy Claude" on some identity-adjacent stuff in VS Code. There is some irony to this...

Yup. Most private browser. Perfect privacies… Sure… https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/this-browser-claims-perfect-privacies-protection-but-it-acts-like-malware/

Foundations: - identity - communications - payments - trusted data

Do #nostr apps receive a portion of the Zaps that I send (or receive? No: should/could they? Yes: should/could they? I want the best UX and am willing to pay - directly (already doing it) and indirectly.

Digital Threat Modelling Under Authoritarianism https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2025/09/digital-threat-modeling-under-authoritarianism.html

Human Attention > Machine Attention But how much greater??? https://youtu.be/2JcuRhCKZdA?si=zVfzwMrMZGlA6i6B

Seth Godin's This is Strategy is one of the best, and most actionable, books on strategy. Especially as it applies to things that are changing the world (hint: #nostr #bitcoin).

Very true. Drives a lot of our thinking at Ayra. https://ayra.forum nostr:note12wymzk0rf2ks72udf4ll5yh9ay4j8rwldlfpucdlg2c80yqvzg4q8xs4vm

Ayra Cards use a concept of Payloads. In a hypermedia context, this is a use of Associative Linking: Information is connected based on relationships and associations rather than just hierarchical or sequential organization. h/t to nostr:npub1q6mcr8tlr3l4gus3sfnw6772s7zae6hqncmw5wj27ejud5wcxf7q0nx7d5 for the ref to some (classic) hypermedia docs. https://ayra.forum/ayra-cards-and-fpp/

Ayra Cards use a concept of Payloads. In a hypermedia context, this is a use of Associative Linking: Information is connected based on relationships and associations rather than just hierarchical or sequential organization. h/t to nostr:npub1q6mcr8tlr3l4gus3sfnw6772s7zae6hqncmw5wj27ejud5wcxf7q0nx7d5 for the ref to some (classic) hypermedia docs.

Ayra Cards and the First Person Project https://ayra.forum/ayra-cards-and-fpp/