Zap and Enchantment ⚡️✨ Fiat is the caterpillar that crawls out of necessity, Bitcoin is the butterfly that flies for freedom. But in nature, not all cocoons hatch, and metamorphosis doesn't watch the clock. Perhaps the real magic lies not in the certainty of transformation, but in the courage to long for wings, while the world just keeps on walking. 🐛🦋 And you, in this suspended moment between earth and sky, what are you trying to become? #CheyLoves 🏹🪶🦅 View quoted note →

If your relay only filters short messages, my smile is an event too long to be forwarded. No matter, I'll wait for someone to retransmit it carefully, maybe with a bit of latency, just the way I like it.

Technology won't save us from ourselves. It can, at best, create structures that make the abuse of power more difficult and its tracks more visible. True "decentralisation" is a continuous process, a verb more than a noun, a struggle not only against central servers, but against the human tendency, always present, to build new hierarchies on the rubble of the old ones. It is not a bug to be corrected, but the human condition from which to start for a wiser and more modest design.

N. ostr O. fficially S. erves T. itan’s R. ules

· Do not ask for permission. · Do not seek approval. · Don't give explanations. · Simply, act.

"It is not thanks to genius but thanks to suffering, and only thanks to it, that we stop being a puppet." (Emil Cioran)

Tem uma coisa que venho carregando comigo desde que cheguei no Nostr, e talvez alguém aqui possa me ajudar a entender melhor. A pontuação de reputação, a Web of Trust – a tal da WoT – sempre me intrigou. Mas quanto mais penso nisso, mais me pergunto: como ela é realmente calculada? Sei que cada cliente pode usar seus próprios critérios, e talvez isso seja justo. Mas algumas perguntas continuam abertas, pelo menos para mim. Os seguidores contam? E se sim, como? Um seguidor com zero posts, zero interações, parado há anos… pesa tanto quanto um ativo? Ou não pesa nada? E se for um perfil falso, um bot, alguém que segue automaticamente – ainda assim impacta? Porque se fosse assim, bastaria fazer alguém ser seguido por milhares de contas vazias para influenciar sua pontuação. Para melhor ou pior, dependendo de quem controla esses perfis. Não tenho respostas, só a sensação de que talvez, por trás de um número tão simples, existam mecanismos menos simples. E me pergunto se é justo que tudo isso permaneça tão… silencioso. Mas a pergunta que mais me importa, talvez a que ninguém espera, é outra: Se um dia descobríssemos que a WoT não mede a confiança, mas sim a distância de quem tem poder para decidir os parâmetros… alguma coisa mudaria? Ou continuaríamos olhando para aquele número como se fosse a verdade? 🌸 #asknostr

Someone said: "If even a single seed, among those I have scattered, will sprout, I will not have sown in vain."

"Abandon all worries For your existence, and You'll make it pleasant..." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If freedom was not having to ask for permission, and horizontality was the absence of hierarchies, what have we come to do here if the discovery algorithm reproduces the "who is already famous becomes more famous" with the precision of a clock?

A folha não desafia o vento: ela o segue até o galho soltá-la. Então cai onde o vento não pode mais levá-la. The leaf does not challenge the wind: it follows until the branch lets go. Then it falls where the wind can no longer take it away.

When individual sovereignty, a sacred principle of a protocol, is assaulted not with an argument but with algorithmic attrition, the ultimate betrayal of the libertarian spirit is accomplished. The Sybil attack and spam bots are not tools of persuasion or debate; they are weapons of mass disruption whose sole purpose is to pollute the user's *existential field*, replacing confrontation with a siege. It is the toxic implosion of freedom: one uses the openness and anonymity of the protocol to build machines of social coercion that replicate, on a micro-scale, the very dynamics of control and flight that one claimed to want to overthrow. The user is no longer free to leave; they are systematically pushed to flee. The community, thus, does not purify itself; cowards sterilize it with digital violence.

From Concept to Reality: the Story of Ferrari Luce | Episode 1 Before it had a name, there was a vision. A journey sparked by an initial concept that lit the way. Episode 1 of the new series, Ferrari Luce: The Inside Story, uncovers the secrets behind the creation of the first electric Ferrari. Featuring the voices of the people who shaped it, the episode brings together John Elkann, Ferrari Chairman, who shares the vision that launched the project, and Benedetto Vigna, Ferrari CEO, who explains the technological challenge of electrification. It also features Piero Ferrari, who reflects on his father Enzo Ferrari’s legacy, and Gianmaria Fulgenzi, Chief Product Development Officer, who reveals how the engineering team transformed this idea into a new chapter in Ferrari history. It is a story of innovation, heritage and the future. #FerrariLuceTheInsideStory #Ferrari Subtitles available in English, Italian, French, Spanish, German and Portuguese.

A scent of night-blooming Chimonanthus that, without asking permission, slips into every open window in the neighbourhood. It's not an invasion, it's a gift. It spreads because it is authentically itself, and its essence speaks directly to the soul, without need for fanfare. Its strength lies in its resolute delicacy, in that silent crescendo that eventually makes everyone turn to breathe it in. It is the connection born from being, not from having to appear. What is your most vivid memory linked to a fragrance that captured your attention effortlessly?