The final boss will be separating violence from state. Unimaginable in our time, but our species is still young. Maybe in another few thousand years. Maybe #Bitcoin plays a part in this.

Anyone ever setup a private Matrix server with bridges to other communications apps (WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram, etc.) on an Umbrel? #asknostr

The Book Obedience to Authority, by and about Milgram's experiments, should be redone, but instead of believing they were administering pain, participants should believe they are followed by creeps. First, the creep should be in the room with them, watching their every move and asking inappropriate questions but never answering any from the participant. Then a creep should be in a separate room watching but should be visible to the participant. Then the creep should no longer be visible but the participants told the creep is watching from the cameras, and shown a picture of the creep. Then the creep should be back in the room with the participants and explained that they are now watching their loved ones. And repeat the experiment from there, with the creep changing proximity to the participant but always reminded that they are watching either the participant, the participant's spouse or children, or someone else for whom they care. Bottom line, people who want to watch strangers, especially with the intent to exploit them (and why else would someone want to watch strangers, really) is creepy. People forget that it's real life humans on the other side of these apps, watching them, gathering information. It's anti-social behavior that society has normalized, because the creeps just happen to not be standing in the room with the participants while they watch them. View quoted note →

Can #Nostr socials win not because it is getting 10x better but because the other sites are getting 10x worse? How can most the internet be clean, curated, professionally done, and be that bad? It has become exponentially worse just from November alone.

I woke up this morning and promised myself I wouldn't think about Bitcoin today. After all, Bitcoin is presently boring and today is a day for higher priorities such as family. But I awoke at 3:00 am still adjusting back to my own time zone. Family was still asleep. And Bitcoin runs 24/7. What. Was. I. To. Do.

I kind of like the AI slop. It's less censored, more based, a little messy. Reminds me of the early internet.

@jb55 Nostr could also be the social base layer of a game launching browser that inverts the current experience of having to login to a game to find whether friends are playing. Instead, someone could see what games their friends are playing (ex: bobby is currently in a Minecraft world, Susie is in Roblox, Johnny is in a Fortnite game), and click a button to join them not just in the game, but exactly where they're playing. Think Zap Stream but for playing games rather than watching videos. Nostr could be invisible in the background, and all the user sees is a game launcher/browser that starts with their friends.

I had to download WhatsApp for the first time ever, too. That app is the OS for entire societies. Every business and relationship runs off of it outside of the United States. It's gross and incompatible with my values. We go hard on our freedoms and privacy in the U.S. https://fountain.fm/episode/G2UESMQumN6WghscU0k5

I wonder where EU and UK officials would mail government warnings? To the founder @fiatjaf ? Or perhaps the CEO@Derek Ross ? View quoted note →

The Calvary has come. An actual engineer is working on the problem. View quoted note →

Still cool. View quoted note →

I used to think Bitcoin was the mind virus and we're the freaks. But then I came to realize as I spend more time with more Bitcoiners, we're the only sane people in this world. View quoted note →

Be three dimensional in a 2D world. View quoted note →