“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended.” 1984

"What's worth making?" with Hal Abelson, one of the most influential people in my life. A driving force behind the Free Software Foundation with Stallman, Creative Commons with Lessig, OpenCourseWare, and many others, Professor Abelson has long worked for freedom. There's a lot to learn from him.

gm #nostr 🌞

Primal is nice but feels so much more corporate. Why am I asked for a subscription as soon as I launch? Feels antithetical to what nostr is supposed to be. The very concept that we have to subscribe to everything these days is indicative to the loss of ownership we all secretly suffer. We borrow music, we don’t own it. We borrow movies, we don’t own them. Freedom will come from owning again. Bitcoin is about owning. nostr is about decentralization where no one entity controls any part of it. I’m sure I’m speaking into a void, since that’s what nostr feels like. But hopefully someone somewhere will agree that what the world doesn’t need is more subscription services. People need to own things again.

@jack I made a thing. Happy belated.

strong mullvad representation throughout chicago

Is there something like BGP for nostr #relays? For a client connected to multiple relays, it would be interesting for a broadcast of the best relay to use at a given time (or which to avoid if a relay is suboptimal)

“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” - Aldous Huxley

If anyone ever makes a free software phone, I hope they call it the gnuPhone Hudis

happy new year

Now I wish I’d gone to Nostrasia

good morning 🌞