Eric S. Raymond is an open source legend, author of the essay “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”.
Attached is his opinion on the US elections which I consider very valuable.

by @esrtweet

I hear Kamala Harris has conceded. For just a moment, I'm going to abandon the high-decoupling rationalist stance I normally post from and talk about what I personally wanted from this election and now hope I might get.

For me, a good outcome in this election meant not Trump winning, but his enemies losing.

I'm not MAGA, and not a tribal conservative of either the old-school or new-school kind. I'm a libertarian, and have some serious differences with substance with Trump and his partisans.

Also I have never much liked Trump as a person. He's vulgar and under-controlled; he talks and postures too much and, I think the charge that he's a narcissist has some weight. But...he chooses his enemies well.

I will also admit that I think better of Trump now than I did three months ago. He has demonstrated literal courage under fire, which is an important quality in a man who may need to make life or death decisions about the fate of a nation. I went to see him speak, and I saw a man much calmer and more together than I was expecting.

But I'm not really posting about Trump today, and the only other thing I'm going to say about him is that his most valuable quality is that he enrages evil people into unmasking themselves.

I have believed for decades that the central problem of American politics is defeating the Gramscian long march through our institutions. Covert and not-so-covert Marxists have waged a remarkably successful memetic war. it has many manifestations - blatant bias in the mainstream media, welfare statism, DEI, climate alarmism, transgender ideology, open borders - but the goal is always the same. To cripple and destroy the Main Enemy, the United States of America and everyone in it who loves liberty.

Trump's victory is the worst defeat of the Gramscians in my lifetime. They went all-in with an unprecedented campaign of lies, vitriol, hate propaganda, lawfare, and election rigging. He beat them anyway, and for that he has my respect.

What I want from the immediate aftermath of the election is to rejoice in their agonized screaming. What I want from Trump and Republican control of both houses is follow-through:

1. Impose election security measures so we can't be frauded again.

2. Abolition of every federal firearms law and regulation, including the disbandment of the ATF. We must restore the proper Constitutional order in which the government is frightened of the people, not the reverse.

3. Massive cuts in the reach and power of the administrative state. No unelected bureaucrat should ever have the power to effectively make law.

4. A concerted and conscious attempt to drive the Communists and Communist tools out from everywhere that they have burrowed into our institutions, perhaps starting with the complete defunding of any educational institution that harbors academic Marxists.

Yes, I know, many of these people don't know they're Communist tools. I'm past caring. I've been ready to throw them out of helicopters with my own hands since about 2014, hoping against hope that something would happen to make that kind of violence unnecessary.

Now, maybe, we have a path to defeating them peacefully. I'm not sure Trump fully understands this necessity himself, but there are people close to him - notably Elon Musk and Ron Paul - who I'm pretty sure do.

The first thing we need to do is be able to name the enemy. Conservatives have been cowards about this ever since the Army-McCarthy hearings a few years before I was born. They became afraid to speak about or explicitly oppose Communist infiltration, and we have been paying an increasing price for that cowardice through my entire lifetime.

Conservatives? MAGA people? If you really want to make America great again, make defeat of the Gramscians your cause. Name the enemy. Expose them. Defeat them. They have crippled, divided, and corrupted us for far too long. It's time to take our country back.


So what's the troll doing in the pic?


Those some rookie numbers. Pump the GF numbers please.


Why would you even need a Blockchain for this centralised garbage token.


Possibly the best Bitcoin meme ever.
Zap nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev bc he created it 🤝
https://m.primal.net/LrXJ.mov


Fiat is crashing again today.


But all better than a lada.


It would seem the old person has less time. I suppose it depends on the context of time here. Low or high time preference matters


That's the same version I have. 0.92.7


Amethyst was fine with it.


Here for the 69k memes.


Fiat still dumping.... And will do forever Laura.


2013-2019 gold range bound for 6 years. Peter got the usual blinders on.


Uptober is just the warm up.


Getting less than 90k sats for a $100 NZ chuck bucks now.... Get them while it's still very cheap.


Increasing demand meets absolute scarcity.

It's a nice feeling not being stolen from while being proven right.

It's been a long wait, enjoy the process. 🤙💚


Notes and other stuff. 😂


Great NOSTR.nz NIP05 😜


GM!


⚡

#bitcoin #hodl #stacksats
https://m.primal.net/LFBo.jpg


🤗 TEST!!!!
I’m WONDERING 💭 HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN SE THIS A DAY? (Let’s measure with reposts) $boost
I love #NOSTR & #BITCOIN Follow I follow back!!! #GROWNOSTR 💜🧡⚡🚀🫶🥂🍻🫡😀 https://image.nostr.build/90e6ee14e1151c09bec1355c25c1ccb69c13d2bbafa101f9cac3fbffda56f552.jpg


Making the world better one sat at a time. Who’s with me? https://image.nostr.build/7bdccddaff51f407e091da07e05dd5c40d9ea042532a3a4f3f76a9cc4fa6786c.jpg


Your gobberment should be compensating you for your terrible disability....


Few


Wow what a mess.


If you’re spending sats at least get some cool shit 😱 nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 https://image.nostr.build/0323e24a67524d388421e1fd74be27b65f10b1f144eca80c57cd25cf8fb78564.jpg


Best Value:

LightningPay:
98,200 sats = $100

Other NZ options:
94,600 sats - Easy Crypto
88,700 sats - Swyftx
85,600 sats - Independent Reserve


The tangle! 😂


I'm half way through this book, a timely pod and a great read.

https://fountain.fm/episode/bra7HVB8hNodw7AQb42y

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqpxquqzp6ngxssyeuhw0ppg4znewuyjchjl30a8hcqdhcjfzwms7rl4kjnaf00rd4


I try not to judge Nostr clients too hard in any given month on this early basis. They're all working on novel tech to increase speed and usability. They generally raised little capital or in some cases no capital, compared to what so-called Nostr competitors raised in the crypto space. How many bitcoin companies are around from a decade ago?

I use a given app, and rotate to what is gathering momentum to see if it works better, while still using what I used before, to test things as they come and go, because rarely does one client just go away. Multiple clients develop out of that trough and keep competing. But as one app goes through a period of weakness, I don't write it off. I ask what's happening and how it could be better, or what apps should look like.

I'm happy to see so many clients pushing hard and competing. That competition is what makes Nostr more interesting than Twitter/X over time. And indeed if none of the current clients provide what you want, you can enter with your own code and/or capital.

It's open. That's what makes it beautiful. That's why we're here.


GM


This sounds really neat. Great work team.
nostr:nevent1qqswagy388ffkjl79a8p8xppjav0jqj67sl5cf3gpwqqhdt079n38pgpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsygy3dj6l7p7nk5ww7lmtddl4g7d3qqd5q8qwsf2cacdzy5zv04g8eypsgqqqqqqsr3qmzu


This is explained so well but why doesn't my cousin or your cousin understand hahahahah 😂
https://v.nostr.build/rLw3.mov


Nice HFSP thrown in there... Nice work.


More importantly. You have read them all ! I always seem to have 2 or 3 to finish...


The first couple of Aha! moments using Nostr.

1. Receiving a zap from a stranger. Straight up nothing else like it on the net. Beats a ‘like’ by far.

2. Logging into a different client and finding all your data there. This is the future, so good not having to respond to messages across many different platforms.

3. Every time you’re using Nostr you’re strengthening the BTC network through shared experience. Secondary layers on top of sound money make sense.

4. It feels like the early days of BTC, still a little clunky and there’s a bit of tech involved, but that’s how you know you’re early. With bitcoiners behind it you know it will only get stronger ⚡

#landscape
#photography
#artstr
#art
#grownostr
#australia
#Austrich
#AUStriches
#noicemag https://image.nostr.build/96ed65ca92b461d1d9dbe782d05982ed5e48895b94b4fa13e777223e776675d6.jpg


So good. Lol


patience.


do steaks offend.


Please@rugmedaddy.info


When I win 3.125 #Bitcoin (minus fees), everyone who likes and boosts this post gets 1 million sats.

To decentralizing the hashrate, one BitAxe at a time!

😎

https://image.nostr.build/7e46885aac58ff0695ad7d44957ea542268f13045816e0a73f346ed3f064276b.jpg


Is it redirecting you to Https.


Buy bitcoin


Broken Money was published a year ago this week

Thanks to everyone who read it, shared it, and reviewed it! 🙏

I resisted writing a book for years since it’s such a tedious process, until finally a book formed in my head that I felt needed to exist, and that was too distracting for me *not* to write. And then I poured everything I had into it.
https://m.primal.net/KTlY.jpg


You spend the shitty money first.... Save the best!


I spot the bitcoin machine.


The April Repopulation Unit Survival Test has concluded! 68 players survived for a total of 3,039 hours and earned 724,000 sats! Join us again tomorrow for another month of epic adventure!
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Here's an early look at the Orange map for May! ฿ marks the spot. https://rustmaps.com/map/4250_975345425/staging
https://cdn.satellite.earth/969ce9ff8aafa9b4850a1dffe0a1c3a34388845047614fab5c261da6bc1eff77.png


Best Value:

LightningPay:
101,900 sats = $100

Other NZ options:
100,369 sats - Easy Crypto
97,100 sats - Bitaroo
92,600 sats - Swyftx
89,400 sats - Independent Reserve


58k gang rugged again.


Bitcoin


If the cost of the book is in anyway prohibitive for someone due to personal circumstances or jurisdictional issues, I happily endorse them pirating Broken Money.

There are always ways to pirate stuff anyway, but like, I'm not taking any action against you to make it harder, and my spirit is with you. ☮

https://m.primal.net/HmUm.png


Found... Nostr
by Kukks
1.0.10
Allows you to verify your nostr account with NIP5 and zap like the rest of the crazies

I had to refresh a couple times for it to appear, seems to be a upgrade of the existing nostr plugin! Will try it out


Your not confusing this with the Nip05 plugin, that is something different for support of nip05 file on BtcPay server domain. Nothing to do with zaps.


I'm not seeing any new plugin that will support this? Any details? nostr:npub1y24gz5gwucl79vtv4ctwpysl0r5m4xyzu2rgulnr44ks3t5mt92q4nz2ad   I have upgraded to v1.9.0 but nothing obvious in plugs that is supporting this yet.


I can see it on snort.


This is very handy.... Especially easy when using snort already.


It is very responsive, loads are faster and just overall works well.


I'll have to disagree, seems others in the thread are finding snort smooth, I have find it far superior than Astral, haven't gone back, snort is the preferred so far.


Looks good from here. Astral web...


Seems I get connection reset messages in browser. I'll use from phone.


Works from my phone, maybe blocked from work browser.


Nostroid link not working in browser.


Thanks Giszmo.


Same!