"In the once-upon-a-time days of the First Age of Magic, the prudent sorcerer regarded his own true name as his most valued possession but also the greatest threat to his continued good health, for—the stories go—once an enemy, even a weak unskilled enemy, learned the sorcerer’s true name, then routine and widely known spells could destroy or enslave even the most powerful. As times passed, and we graduated to the Age of Reason and thence to the first and second industrial revolutions, such notions were discredited. Now it seems that the Wheel has turned full circle (even if there never really was a First Age) and we are back to worrying about true names again"

US Muslims should be in full support of the tax revolt. Much of it goes to paying interest on the national debt anyway.

Incredible stats. I highly recommend running a lightning node. It's easier than ever to set up on umbrel or start9. You can even zap folks from your node too! View quoted note →

It's time to make the digital hijra to Graphene View quoted note →

Many people complain about AI slop on legacy social media, but one kind of slop that annoys me greatly is the state slop. You know the accounts where their entire personality is a never ending feed of how amazing and brilliant their country/government is, how their leaders are apparently operating on some divine plane of wisdom. Every post is written by someone trying way too hard. Oh any hint of criticism, no matter how mild or factual, is treated like a serious personal attack on their identity. And what's funny is that the moment their state does something obviously stupid or morally questionable, the damage control kicks in like crazy, “sure it’s bad, but at least it’s not as bad as that government over there!" or "you don't understand, it's just Realpolitik!" What makes it worse is when this is dressed up as “geopolitics”. The analysis is always shallow and predictable (yes this might seem bad but let me show you how this thing that happened is a good thing! (🧵1/38)) and always ends with the same conclusion that their country is playing 4D chess no matter what. Really makes me hate reading anything geopolitics related. Man it has to be exhausting to keep that up all day, every day, but I guess the paycheck helps. What’s even sadder is when they insist they’re not getting paid at all. Doing PR for the state for free might be the most pathetic flex of all. Cuck behavior.

@alp Finally got around to installing noornote on my linux mint machine. I downloaded this package since I think it matches my architecture: noornote-0.3.2-linux-amd64.deb I installed it and went to run it in /usr/bin/, and I get this error: ./noornote: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.39' not found (required by ./noornote) Is that a package I'm supposed to install? Duck AI is telling me that I should absolutely not upgrade glibc With the help of AI, I ran these commands to get more info: $ ldd --version | head -n1 ldd (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.35-0ubuntu3.11) 2.35 $ dpkg -s libc6 | grep Version Version: 2.35-0ubuntu3.11 Let me know if you have any more ideas for me to try.

All I see is Riba Money View quoted note →

"Hui's cybertechnics, guiding the development of a decentralised splinternet by linking both Islam and geography whilst playing the geopolitical game of balancing between the Western and Eastern blocs will be vital at compounding digital sovereigty. Cybertechnics invites us to think deeper as 21st Century muslims about the relationship between the State and the Believer. Hence the Muslim needs to seek innovation not for the sake of innovation but for survival through sovereignty, adopting planetery thinking by finding solutions to shared global challenges. For the message of Islam was not sent to one people but to all of mankind." View article →

Amazing. Meta's new feature for customizing algorithm topics rejects "Gaza" and "Palestine" with a "not supported" message, while accepting "Israel" as shown in journalist Ayman Mohyeldin's video demonstration:

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A Y M A N on Instagram: "This speaks for itself. Meta has a new feature that claims to let you control your algorithm. Look what happens when I try to add the topics I want to see more of."

Meta's new feature allows users to control their content feed by setting topics of interest and exclusion. However, an issue arises when attem...

Nostr is the way to take back the algorithm!

Stay tuned for announcements on the next summit. InshaAllah we're definitely going to include more nostr stuff, as it's becoming a key component of building Muslim digital sovereignty View quoted note →

Jummah Mubarak!

Great essay. Your best one yet. An Austrian economist would probably sympathize with much of what you’re getting at, but it'd be good to clarify a few things. Seeing the market as computation metaphor is useful, but I'd hesitate to describe markets strictly in terms of “computing” solutions in a technical sense, since prices are not outputs of the calculation itself but social expressions of exchange under subjective value through private property. From this angle, markets don’t solve an optimization problem so much as discover information that could not exist prior to action itself. Also, where you said that economics has nothing to do with monetary policy should be rephrased. Like an Austrian would agree that economics is fundamentally about intertemporal coordination, but would stress that monetary institutions/policy matter precisely because they distort or clarify time signals through interest rates, credit expansion, capital investment structure. So in that sense, monetary policy is one of the main ways temporal coordination is either achieved or corrupted. Monetary policy isn't something peripheral as it affects time preference. Lastly, on scarcity, I would be cautious about saying it can be “overcome" (Overcoming scarcity is a handy praxeological definition for Jannah). Even in conditions of extreme abundance, scarcity is a structural feature of human action, as wants expand and the tradeoffs never disappear. Oh and can't forget opportunity cost. So maybe I'd just call it an era of "extreme abundance" rather than overcoming scarcity itself. That said, your treatment of Bitcoin as something more than “digital gold” especially as a novel way of binding time, which reminded me of Gigi's essay "Bitcoin is Time", is genuinely interesting to me. Even from economic perspective, there’s clearly something here that goes beyond conventional monetary categories and deserves further exploration.

This is an interesting feature that I think nostr apps should incorporate. I view nostr as a tribe building engine. In legacy social media, users are algorithmically inventivized to follow and prop up influencers, and everyone is in a rage baiting rat race to get more engagement for potential revenue from social media overlords like Elon. The result is slop, predictably. I think things are arranged differently here on nostr where people naturally gravitate toward a group of like minded people. I mean this happens on legacy SM, but the algorithm isn't geared toward that type of community building. I have a feeling that "influencers" don't really thrive here, and we should be building around that and cultivating an toxic environment that rejects legacy influencer behavior. Growth on nostr should be about which tribes you're affiliated with, and your reputation with them, rather than how many mindless followers you've got. View quoted note →

Well this essay explains what's happening:

Amjad Taha, Muslim Brotherhood Maxxing and the Emirati Dysinfluencer Factory

Inside an AI-powered influence network linking Emirati influencers, pseudo-news sites, and the European far right

"The pseudo-news sites examined are low-quality content mills: opaque editorial structures, AI-generated material, recycled accounts, and a focus on social media reach rather than readership. Crucially, they often drop pointed propaganda and disinfo" View quoted note →