🤦Here's one of the stupidest rituals I have ever participated in: A few years ago, I joined a progressive political organization, the details don't matter but let's just say that the stereotype of your average progresssive/liberal would have fit very comfortably in this environment. This was an online only group, we communicated only via text. This was a place where all participants could be freed of the oppressive bias of patriarchy, sexism, racism, and ableism. Here, behind text-only monikers, each of us could be judged, as Dr Martin Luther King said, by the "content of our character" or the quality of our work. 🤔 Surely, the DEI crowd, the avowed anti-racists, the people with diversity flags in their usernames, the people who had steeped themselves in knowledge about how to combat bias and discrimination would relish this environment. Except they did not. Instead, on day one, they insisted that all of us include our pronouns in our online nicknames and let everybody know what oppressed groups we belonged to. Because as always with these people, it isn't about equality, it's about deciding which in-group we're going to put on top this time. It's about weaponizing the language of bias against everybody else. It was absolutely ludicrous. 🧠 There is undoubtedly value in understanding the world from other people's perspectives and being aware of how implicit biases in ourselves and the systems we navigate impact other people. There is nothing more human than doing the same thing and having totally different subjective experiences, and then sharing these experiences with others. But that's not what this was. 🎯 Until the "left" expels this kind of thinking from their circles, they will continue to lose elections and the faith of moderate, reasonable people. Anybody who is truly dedicated to a more egalitarian future, to a world where one's skin color or gender shouldn't impact your access to opportunity, needs to be extremely cautious of thinking where we treat people differently based on these aspects of their identity. Many political commentators have suggested that disgust with this kind of rhetoric is part of why Trump won the last election, and I think there's absolutely some truth to that. ⚠️ Competitive victimhood is a mental illness. And it is driving people away from otherwise good ideas held by progressives. We need to do better.

Btcpayserver has a dependency on Bitcoin core, but there are also plugins for strike, breeze, etc. if you use these plugins do you still need btccore or can you get by without it? Further, for the lightning support,I see it can run cln or lnd. Both of these daemons have plugins that can eliminate the dependency on a full node, could that work with btcpay? Any help is appreciated #asknostr #btcpay #btcpayserver #bitcoin #lightningnetwork

🎓 If you have a young person in your life that is struggling to find work, opportunity, and direction, I implore you to read this post and share with people you think could benefit from this. Young people need our help, they are staring down a terrifying, unstable economic future. I cannot imagine the despair they must feel looking forward. And that's before we even get into how AI is decimating the job market and doubling in capability every 6-12 months. 🥳 But there's still one place that is ABUNDANT with opportunity, meaning, and paths forward: Bitcoin. Here's the TOP THREE reasons to work in Bitcoin and how to get started. 1️⃣ There is a TON of low hanging fruit in many areas: programming/development, UX/UI, media creation/eduction, implementation/consulting, etc. At least once a month I come across a idea that could be a big money maker, but nobody has taken it up because there is more opportunity than talent in the space. And that's something pretty crazy to say, given that the existing talent has built a 2 trillion dollar market. If Bitcoin was a country, it would be in the top 15 by GDP. And it got there in 16 years. 2️⃣This opportunity is across all scales from freelancer devs making their own products or chasing bug bounties to W-2 employment to seeking seed funding for multi-million dollar companies. This is a market that has been growing for 15 years and shows no signs of slowing down. 3️⃣This market DOES NOT CARE about your background. You do not need any kind of formal education. If you have trouble in the traditional job seeking environment, whatever barriers you face are practically non-existent in the Bitcoin space. The only thing people care about is signal and output. You've been to prison? You face discrimination based on your color, gender, nationality, etc? Bitcoin DGAF, only what you build does. Many of the best talents in the Bitcoin space work entirely anonymously, we don't even know their gender, nationality, etc. ⚠️"Crypto" gets a bad rap, and it should, but you should understand that there is a wide gulf of difference between people in "crypto" and people in Bitcoin. People in crypto are chasing quick money and making rug pulls, the pit is full entirely of snakes. The snakes don't go to Bitcoin, because the Bitcoin space is about the long-term growth of a public utility, and because no single person or company controls it, there is no way to leverage a privileged position to get rich quick. So the snakes generally avoid it. 😍 People in Bitcoin are genuinely enthusiastic about making a better future for humanity, and I know because I work with them every day. It is one of the few places I go where I am consistently humbled by the intelligence, optimism, grace, and character of the people around me. That kind of energy is contagious and exactly what young people need to stay on the right path and plot a valuable future. 🤔So how do you get started working in Bitcoin? - Educate yourself on the basics of Bitcoin and Nostr first. This will get you prepared to identify opportunities. Get an account on nostr, follow Bitcoin influencers like Odell, Jack Mallers, etc. - Bitcoin has multiple conventions every year, so does Nostr. And everything is online, free for you to watch. Check out Bitcoin Las Vegas and Bitcoin Prague. You will see what pain points people have with the technology, this is where your opportunity is. - Attend Bitcoin meetups, go to events and get into online spaces where people are talking about the tech. Skip anything related to investment, find those who are genuinely building. They are enthusiastic to teach you and get you involved. If you show up in these spaces with curiosity and enthusiasm, you WILL find opportunity. I know because I see it and have to pass on it every day because my schedule is already full. "Young people don't need a college degree. They don't need anybody's approval. They need ChatGPT and the knowledge that no man is above them"

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The social contract is broken, how do we know? Because the demand isn't that the people in the epstein files be prosecuted, we know that has zero chance of happening, the demand is simply that the files be released. That's how little faith people have in government, they'd rather just let social media, a notoriously poor system for determining truth, decide what happened and appropriately punish these people. Yet outside of this context, ask people what you think government *should* do, and you'll hear that they should fund and have a monopoly on healthcare, look after us, and fight crime. That same government? Really? Get your consistency in check bro. Because you sound fucking fucking crazy right now.

I'm on amesthyst, is there some way to automatically hide all these accounts which have been auto-imported from the fediverse? I have no desire to engage with users who will never see or reply to what I wrote #asknostr #nostr

Scott Galloway is busy calling for a consumer strike in response to ICE, telling people to drop tech apps, meta, Netflix, etc but not offering alternatives. Let this dude know about nostr. Resistandunsubscribe.com #asknostr #grownostr #purplepill #resistandunsubscribe

📆 4 years ago this week: Canadian trucker protests get de-banked and turn to Bitcoin, raising over $1 million worth of funds. No bank, no centralized platform, no politicians deciding how much they can receive or how they can spend it. 🗽 💛 💙 Shortly after, Russia invaded Ukraine, and Ukraine becomes the first country to crowdfund a war with Bitcoin. When banks abandoned service in Ukraine due to "risk" and "liquidity issues", Bitcoin was there for Ukraine. To date they have received $51M worth of Bitcoin, receiving over ten whole BTC in the past six months alone 😲. No middlemen, no NGO taking a cut, no international wire fees and delays, no "explain why you're sending money to Ukraine or we won't let the transaction through", just money going exactly where it needs to go with no interruptions. Bitcoin is freedom money, it will be there for you when you need it. Nobody can stop a Bitcoin transaction no matter how rich or powerful they are. 16 years, 24/7, 365 days a year. #bitcoin #truckers #ukraine #freedom Ukraine official BTC address

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Government doesn't protect us from bad actors, government IS the bad actor. Nobody in the Epstein files will ever face accountability so long as they have the government as their shield. Major TW on this document.

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Question for #linux users, I have been using and enjoying Linux #mint for years, I like the release schedule and Ubuntu base. And I like that they de-snapify everything. I am considering switching to #kde but when googling installing kde on mint, everyone seems to be advising against it, claiming it will lead to instability. It used to be common for users to install multiple DEs alongside each other. Is that no longer the case? What would be easier and more stable, de-snapping Kubuntu or installing KDE on top of Mint #XFCE? #asknostr #question #advice #technology #linux

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An obvious premise to an uncomfortable reality in seven steps 1. Media companies answer to their advertisers, not to you. Advertisers are the customer, you are the product 2. Media companies don't produce content which offends the advertisers or their target demographic 3. Advertisers want to sell you stuff and if you stop watching because you get offended or aren't engaged, you won't buy the stuff 4. This leads to an inevitable bias in the content they produce towards the people who buy the stuff. 5. The question is: who buys the most stuff, and would therefore have a bias in their favor? 6. The answer: women. Women make 70-80% of consumer purchasing decisions 7. Media is biased in favor of women If you're wondering why so many headlines don't survive the "gender swap test", or why men are maligned in broad strokes in ways you aren't allowed to do to other groups? This is one major underlying reason. #media #bias #feminism #gender