Permaculture and Psychology: Well-being is Capital
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Announcing the second monthly permaculture nest! Wednesday February 7th at 8pm eastern time on nostr nests.

Tune in and chill out while I talk with Liv (the homesteading bitcoin psychologist) and nostr:npub1n04sq6fgwp38wehyhqfngk3q90y658m5qtk8z5t3vrvkzwmu2q2sc0qlga (a bitcoining permie of high craftsmanship) about psychology as seen through the lens of permaculture and how it relates to well-being.

To me well-being is vital capital, the capital accrued when time is spent improving and maintaining physical and mental health. Vital capital is a form of capital often discounted when building resilience in one's wealth. However, without well-being many other forms of capital cease to have value.

What are some ways living a life harmoniously with nature builds vital capital and how does psychology play a roll in that?

Join us as we explore this deep and thought provoking topic.

Zaps are split with the nostr:npub1luwkteu2eq2e97n7hw0tlj03vvgguzl0srm3vkxz2jt75wpaf9tspt9cqr for the badass flier design. Thanks for the time and effort!!
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This occurred to me as well, specifically for cashu, Without knowing who or how much you could accidentally end up being the repository for a lot just running on a raspberry pi in the closet. Which on the one hand is great, but on the other hand if you need to take it down what happens to everyone relying on it. I don’t think there is even a means to notify them directly just blasting communications. Atleast fediment has several so it’s more resilient to one thing going down. Looking to learn.


Welcome


#Christian

#introductions

#grownostr

#liberty

#poultry
#comfrey

#permaculture

#2a


Video from above is probably another drone.


I have planted as late as early spring and it turned out well with sprouted garlic.


Hope all goes well.


It’s really important that you join my meeting so you can watch me struggle with basic excel formulas in real time.


You’re on mute.


Been there. Stuff from Nativecos.com also worked for me but it’s expensive and there is shipping. The arm and hammer stuff can be purchased at the grocery store.


Hmm I don’t know if this qualifies, but my skin is irritated by most of what is out there. I peel and bleed, it’s fun. I don’t with this stuff. https://image.nostr.build/7b972eda53a0449242c3c85efaacaebc0caf595cdb4ce1fc9b82d5aab0231dac.jpg https://image.nostr.build/94f1e43b5dfb1c8c798a0af3f40a06c3b156fe9b98ddd5355d1df179bbeb37c6.jpg


Define “natural”


It most likely is. But that’s not an excuse for them. They have some algorithm that is checking the attached images. And it has a false positive rate. And presumably the algorithm is being tuned to be risk averse, So for every 10k images some small percentage gets flagged incorrectly. It’s also the case that it has a false negative rate presumably smaller than the false positive rate, so they are still missing some and people will flag them. So as a matter of regular operation they are randomly annoying their users and creating spin off problems, because people will be able to find explicit material that wasn’t flagged and compare it to material that was flagged inappropriately. And that’s before anyone tries to use flagging adversarially to censor opinions they don’t like. Moderating a crowd appropriate for advertisers and maintaining “free speech” is pretty much impossible. And it’s why Twitter never really was nor should have been considered as a “public commons”. Elon has to own the quality of the final product. He claimed free speech absolutism. He is falling short of that claim. Not saying I could do any better but he tried to claim the Twitter moderation problems were trivial to solve, I don’t mind enjoying the show. Self curation and tools that empower users to control what they see is the only path, and free speech likely doesn’t have a market. Nostr fixes this.


Wow, just wow.


Be brief


Is it supposed to be blank?


Hello again #introduction (part 2)

Love will ultimately prove to be the greatest currency.

Each of us has resources: time, education or money. In my life when lacking any it's been beneficial to push for the others.

While "freedom tech" is new verbiage for me, I have always believed in humanity being treated fairly. 💜

Happy to be here (with saved passwords 😂) & look forward to being a small part of online world with you awesome people.

I #stitch to relax ☺ #ShineOn
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nostr:npub1wq6n8skpdtrhw8hmr00kp2za7a8y97zqngq8jq85q2aydp8ejxzq8p7d9k so no one cares about my IP address I guess.


Wait… you guys were joking? I just wanted to unravel the mysteries of the universe using statistics.


I think we can use children conceived through IVF, in comparison to non IVF conceived children, and a number of psychological tests to isolate if it is when one is conceived or when they are birthed that dictates personality. Anyone willing to fund my study?


GM


Makes you wonder what else he says is garbage?


Thanks for the info


nostr:npub1f5pre6wl6ad87vr4hr5wppqq30sh58m4p33mthnjreh03qadcajs7gwt3z I think I recall you specifying a particular mining pool for your s9 that was better for intermittent use?


I’m sure once things warm up a bit a bowl or two of rice will dry things out. It’ll be fine.


it led me on a brief history of money in the US. Interesting.


Absolutely hilarious short video! 🤣

https://video.nostr.build/34a58d9172b28f3bbad108c3c3ff1e6d0354074c2c950c57c2636094d1b6c8a7.mp4

#GrowNostr
#Funny
#Prepper


Perfect.

https://media.gleasonator.com/01d354f73e3a3186b32e7fae89f11bb4cffbbb57966c614691b549eec8179ece.png


Ehh, do you have one that spins?


Millions of Americans in this country are trying to put sats on their families.


_An article originally published in 1947, and Republished in [The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1947/03/the-prevention-of-literature/655342/) and republished on Nostr without permission.
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freedom of speech and of the press are usually attacked by arguments which are not worth bothering about. anyone who has experience in lecturing and debating knows them backwards. here i am not trying to deal with the familiar claim that freedom is an illusion, or with the claim that there is more freedom in totalitarian countries than in democratic ones, but with the much more tenable and dangerous proposition that freedom is undesirable and that intellectual honesty is a form of antisocial selfishness.

though other aspects of the matter are usually in the foreground, the controversy over freedom of speech and of the press is at bottom a controversy over the desirability, or otherwise, of telling lies. what is really at issue is the right to report contemporary events truthfully, or as truthfully as is consistent with the ignorance, bias, and self-deception from which every observer necessarily suffers. in saying this i may seem to be saying that straightforward reportage is the only branch of literature that matters; but i will try to show later that at every literary level, and probably in every one of the arts, the same issue arises in more or less subtilized forms. meanwhile, it is necessary to strip away the irrelevancies in which this controversy is usually wrapped up.

the enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. the issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background. although the point of emphasis may vary, the writer who refuses to sell his opinions is always branded as a mere egoist, he is accused, that is, either of wanting to shut himself up in an ivory tower, or of making an exhibitionist display of his own personality, or of resisting the inevitable current of history in an attempt to cling to unjustified privileges. the catholic and the communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. each of them tacitly claims that “the truth” has already been revealed, and that the heretic, if he is not simply a fool, is secretly aware of “the truth” and merely resists it out of selfish motives.

in communist literature the attack on intellectual liberty is usually masked by oratory about “petty-bourgeois individualism,” “the illusions of nineteenth-century liberalism,” etc., and backed up by words of abuse such as “romantic" and “sentimental,” which, since they do not have any agreed meaning, are difficult to answer. in this way the controversy is maneuvered away from its real issue. one can accept, and most enlightened people would accept, the communist thesis that pure freedom will only exist in a classless society, and that one is most nearly free when one is working to bring about such a society. but slipped in with this is the quite unfounded claim that the communist party is itself aiming at the establishment of the classless society, and that in the u.s.s.r. this aim is actually on the way to being realized. if the first claim is allowed to entail the second, there is almost no assault on common sense and common decency that cannot be justified. but meanwhile, the real point has been dodged. freedom of the intellect means the freedom to report what one has seen, heard, and felt, and not to be obliged to fabricate imaginary facts and feelings. the familiar tirades against “escapism,” “individualism,” “romanticism,” and so forth, are merely a forensic device, the aim of which is to make the perversion of history seem respectable.

fifteen years ago, when one defended the freedom of the intellect, one had to defend it against conservatives, against catholics, and to some extent—for in england they were not of great importance—against fascists. today one has to defend it against communists and “fellow travelers.” one ought not to exaggerate the direct influence of the small english communist party, but there can be no question about the poisonous effect of the russian mythos on english intellectual life. because of it, known facts are suppressed and distorted to such an extent as to make it doubtful whether a true history of our times can ever be written.

let me give just one instance out of the hundreds that could be cited. when germany collapsed, it was found that very large numbers of soviet russians —mostly, no doubt, from nonpolitical motives-had changed sides and were fighting for the germans. also, a small but not negligible proportion of the russian prisoners and displaced persons refused to go back to the u.s.s.r., and some of them, at least, were repatriated against their will. these facts, known to many journalists on the spot, went almost unmentioned in the british press, while at the same time russophile publicists in england continued to justify the purges and deportations of 1936-1938 by claiming that the u.s.s.r. “had no quislings.” the fog of lies and misinformation that surrounds such subjects as the ukraine famine, the spanish civil war, russian policy in poland, and so forth, is not due entirely to conscious dishonesty, but any writer or journalist who is fully sympathetic to the u.s.s.r.—sympathetic, that is, in the way the russians themselves would want him to be does have to acquiesce in deliberate falsification on important issues.

## 2

i have before me what must be a very rare pamphlet, written by maxim litvinoff in 1918 and outlining the recent events in the russian revolution. it makes no mention of stalin, but gives high praise to trotsky, and also to zinoviev, kamenev, and others. what could be the attitude of even the most intellectually scrupulous communist towards such a pamphlet? at best, he would take the obscurantist attitude that it is an undesirable document and better suppressed. and if for some reason it should be decided to issue a garbled version of the pamphlet, denigrating trotsky and inserting references to stalin, no communist who remained faithful to his party could protest. forgeries almost as gross as this have been committed in recent years. but the significant thing is not that they happen, but that even when they are known, they provoke no reaction from the leftwing intelligentsia as a whole. the argument that to tell the truth would be “inopportune” or would “play into the bands of” somebody or other is felt to be unanswerable, and few people are bothered by the prospect that the lies which they condone will get out of the newspapers and into the history books.

the organized lying practiced by totalitarian states is not, as is sometimes claimed, a temporary expedient of the same nature as military deception. it is something integral to totalitarianism, something that would still continue even if concentration camps and secret police forces had ceased to be necessary. among intelligent communists there is an underground legend to the effect that although the russian government is obliged now to deal in lying propaganda, frame-up trials, and so forth, it is secretly recording the facts and will publish them at some future time. we can, i believe, be quite certain that this is not the case, because the mentality implied by such an action is that of a liberal historian who believes that the past cannot be altered and that a correct knowledge of history is valuable as a matter of course. from the totalitarian point of view history is something to be created rather than learned.

a totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. but since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened. then, again, every major change in policy demands a corresponding change of doctrine and a revaluation of prominent historical figures. this kind of thing happens everywhere, but clearly it is likelier to lead to outright falsification in societies where only one opinion is permissible at any given moment. totalitarianism demands, in fact, the continuous alteration of the past, and in the long run probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth. the friends of totalitarianism in england usually tend to argue that since absolute truth is not attainable, a big lie is no worse than a little lie. it is pointed out that all historical records are biased and inaccurate, or, on the other hand, that modem physics has proved that what seems to us the real world is an illusion, so that to believe in the evidence of one’s senses is simply vulgar philistinism.

a totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set up a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sense held good in everyday life and in certain exact sciences, but could be disregarded by the politician, the historian, and the sociologist. already there are countless people who would think it scandalous to falsify a scientific textbook, but would see nothing wrong in falsifying a historical fact. it is at the point where literature and politics cross that totalitarianism exerts its greatest, pressure on the intellectual. the exact sciences are not, at this date, menaced to anything like the same extent. this difference partly accounts for the fact that in all countries it is easier for the scientists than for the writers to line up behind their respective governments.

it may seem that all this time i have been talking about the effects of censorship, not on literature as a whole, but merely on one department of political journalism. granted that soviet russia constitutes a sort of forbidden area in the british press, granted that issues like poland, the spanish civil war, the russo-german pact, and so forth, are debarred from serious discussion, and that if you possess information that conflicts with the prevailing orthodoxy you are expected either to distort it or to keep quiet about it —granted all this, why should literature in the wider sense be affected? is every writer a politician, and is every book necessarily a work of straightforward reportage? even under the tightest dictatorship, cannot the individual writer remain free inside his own mind and distill or disguise his unorthodox ideas in such a way that the authorities will be too stupid to recognize them? and if the writer himself is in agreement with the prevailing orthodoxy, why should it have a cramping effect on him? is not literature, or any of the arts, likeliest to flourish in societies in which there are no major conflicts of opinion and no sharp distinctions between the artist and his audience? does one have to assume that every writer is a rebel, or even that a writer as such is an exceptional person?

whenever one attempts to defend intellectual liberty against the claims of totalitarianism, one meets with these arguments in one form or another. they are based on a complete misunderstanding of what literature is, and how—one should perhaps rather say why—it comes into being. they assume that a writer is either a mere entertainer or else a venal hack who can switch from one line of propaganda to another as easily as an organ grinder changes tunes. but after all, how is it that books ever come to be written? above a quite low level, literature is an attempt to influence the views of one’s contemporaries by recording experience. and so far as freedom of expression is concerned, there is not much difference between a mere journalist and the most “unpolitical” imaginative writer. the journalist is unfree, and is conscious of unfreedom, when he is forced to write lies or suppress what seems to him important news: the imaginative writer is unfree when he has to falsify his subjective feelings, which from his point of view are facts. he may distort and caricature reality in order to make his meaning clearer, but he cannot misrepresent the scenery of his own mind: he cannot say with any conviction that he likes what he dislikes, or believes what he disbelieves. if he is forced to do so, the only result is that his creative faculties dry up.

nor can the imaginative writer solve the problem by keeping away from controversial topics. there is no such thing as genuinely non-political literature, and least of all in an age like our own, when fears, hatreds, and loyalties of a directly political kind are near to the surface of everyone’s consciousness. even a single taboo can have an all-round crippling effect upon the mind, because there is always the danger that any thought which is freely followed up may lead to the forbidden thought. it follows that the atmosphere of totalitarianism is deadly to any kind of prose writer, though a poet, at any rate a lyric poet, might possibly find it breathable. and in any totalitarian society that survives for more than a couple of generations, it is probable that prose literature, of the kind that has existed during the past four hundred years, must actually come to an end.

## 3

literature has sometimes flourished under despotic regimes, but, as has often been pointed out, the despotisms of the past were not totalitarian. their repressive apparatus was always inefficient, their ruling classes were usually either corrupt or apathetic or half-liberal in outlook, and the prevailing religious doctrines usually worked against perfectionism and the notion of human infallibility. even so, it is broadly true that prose literature has reached its highest levels during periods of democracy and free speculation. what is new in totalitarianism is that its doctrines are not only unchallengeable but also unstable. they have to be accepted on pain of damnation, but on the other hand they are always liable to be altered at a moment’s notice.

consider, for example, the various attitudes, completely incompatible with one another, which an english communist or “fellow traveler” has had to adopt towards the war between britain and germany. for years before september, 1939, he was expected to be in a continuous stew about “the horrors of nazism” and to twist everything he wrote into a denunciation of hitler; after september, 1939, for twenty months, he had to believe that germany was more sinned against than sinning, and the word “nazi,” at least so far as print went, had to drop right out of his vocabulary. immediately after hearing the eight o’clock news bulletin on the morning of june 22, 1941, he had to start believing once again that nazism was the most hideous evil the world had ever seen.

now, it is easy for a politician to make such changes; for a writer the case is somewhat different. if he is to switch his allegiance at exactly the right moment, he must either tell lies about his subjective feelings, or else suppress them altogether. in either case he has destroyed his dynamo. not only will ideas refuse to come to him, but the very words he uses will seem to stiffen under his touch. political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child’s meccano set. it is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. to write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.

it might be otherwise in an “age of faith,” when the prevailing orthodoxy has been long established and is not taken too seriously. in that case it would be possible, or might be possible, for large areas of one’s mind to remain unaffected by what one officially believed. even so, it is worth noticing that prose literature almost disappeared during the only age of faith that europe has ever enjoyed. throughout the whole of the middle ages there was almost no imaginative prose literature and very little in the way of historical writing; and the intellectual leaders of society expressed their most serious thoughts in a dead language which barely altered during a thousand years.

totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. a society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable. it can never permit either the truthful recording of facts, or the emotional sincerity, that literary creation demands. but to be corrupted by totalitarianism one does not have to live in a totalitarian country. the mere prevalence of certain ideas can spread a poison that makes one subject after another impossible for literary purposes. wherever there is an enforced orthodoxy-or even two orthodoxies, as often happens-good writing slops. this was well illustrated by the spanish civil war. to many english intellectuals the war was a deeply moving experience, but not an experience about which they could write sincerely. there were only two things that you were allowed to say, and both of them were palpable lies; as a result, the war produced acres of print but almost nothing worth reading.

## 4

it is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need i be so deadly as its effects on prose. there is a whole series of converging reasons why it is somewhat easier for a poet than for a prose writer to feel at home in an authoritarian society. to begin with, bureaucrats and other “practical” men usually despise the poet too deeply to be much interested in what he is saying. secondly, what the poet is saying that is, what his poem “means” if translated into prose is relatively unimportant even to himself. the thought contained in a poem is always simple, and is no more the primary purpose of the poem than the anecdote is the primary purpose of a picture. a poem is an arrangement of sounds and associations, as a painting is an arrangement of brush marks. for short snatches, indeed, as in the refrain of a song, poetry can even dispense with meaning altogether. it is therefore fairly easy for a poet to keep away from dangerous subjects and avoid uttering heresies; and even when he does utter them, they may escape notice.

but above all, good verse, unlike good prose, is not necessarily an individual product. certain kinds of poems, such as ballads, or, on the other hand, very artificial verse forms, can be composed coöperatively by groups of people. whether the ancient english and scottish ballads were originally produced by individuals, or by the people at large, is disputed; but at any rate they are nonindividual in the sense that they constantly change in passing from mouth to mouth. even in print no two versions of a ballad are ever quite the same. many primitive peoples compose verse communally. someone begins to improvise, probably accompanying himself on a musical instrument, somebody else chips in with a line or a rhyme when the first singer breaks down, and so the process continues until there exists a whole song or ballad which has no identifiable author.

in prose, this kind of intimate collaboration is quite impossible. serious prose, in any case, has to be composed in solitude, whereas the excitement of being part of a group is actually an aid to certain kinds of versification. verse-and perhaps good verse of its kind, though it would not be the highest kind-might survive under even the most inquisitorial regime. even in a society where liberty and individuality had been extinguished, there would still be need either for patriotic songs and heroic ballads celebrating victories, or for elaborate exercises in flattery; and these are the kinds of poetry that can be written to order, or composed communally, without necessarily lacking artistic value, prose is a different matter, since the prose writer cannot narrow the range of his thoughts without killing his inventiveness.

but the history of totalitarian societies, or of groups of people who have adopted the totalitarian outlook, suggests that loss of liberty is inimical to all forms of literature. german literature almost disappeared during the hitler regime, and the case was not much better in italy. russian literature, so far as one can judge by translations, has deteriorated markedly since the early days of the revolution, though some of the verse appears to be better than the prose. few if any russian novels that it is possible to take seriously have been translated for about fifteen years. in western europe and america large sections of the literary intelligentsia have either passed through the communist party or been warmly sympathetic to it, but this whole leftward movement has produced extraordinarily few books worth reading. orthodox catholicism, again, seems to have a crushing effect upon certain literary forms, especially the novel. during a period of three hundred years, how many people have been at once good novelists and good catholics?

the fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. no one ever wrote a good book in praise of the inquisition. poetry might survive in a totalitarian age, and certain arts or half-arts, such as architecture, might even find tyranny beneficial, but the prose writer would have no choice between silence and death. prose literature as we know it is the product of rationalism, of the protestant centuries, of the autonomous individual. and the destruction of intellectual liberty cripples the journalist, the sociological writer, the historian, the novelist, the critic, and the poet, in that order. in the future it is possible that a new kind of literature, not involving individual feeling or truthful observation, may arise, but no such thing is at present imaginable. it seems much likelier that if the liberal culture that we have lived in since the renaissance actually comes to an end, the literary art will perish with it.

## 5

meanwhile totalitarianism has not fully triumphed anywhere. our own society is still, broadly speaking, liberal. to exercise your right of free speech you have to fight against economic pressure and against, strong sections of public opinion, but not, as yet, against a secret police force. you can say or print almost anything so long as you are willing to do it in a hole-and-corner way. but what is sinister is that the conscious enemies of liberty are those to whom liberty ought to mean most. the public do not care about the matter one way or the other. they are not in favor of persecuting the heretic, and they will not exert themselves to defend him. they are at once too sane and too stupid to acquire the totalitarian outlook. the direct, conscious attack on intellectual decency comes from the intellectuals themselves.

it is possible that the russophile intelligentsia, if they had not succumbed to the russian myth, would have succumbed to another of much the same kind. but at any rate the russian myth is there, and the corruption it causes stinks. when one sees highly educated men looking on indifferently at oppression and persecution, one wonders which to despise more, their cynicism or their shortsightedness. many scientists, for example, are uncritical admirers of the u.s.s.r. they appear to think that the destruction of liberty is of no importance so long as their own line of work is for the moment unaffected. the u.s.s.r. is a large, rapidly developing country which has acute need of scientific workers and, consequently, treats them generously. provided that they steer clear of dangerous subjects such as psychology, scientists are privileged persons.

writers, on the other hand, are viciously persecuted. it is true that literary prostitutes like ilya ehrenburg or alexei tolstoy are paid huge sums of money, but the only thing which is of any value to the writer as such—his freedom of expression— is taken away from him. some, at least, of the english scientists who speak so enthusiastically of the opportunities enjoyed by scientists in russia are capable of understanding this. but their reflection appears to be: “writers are persecuted in russia. so what? i am not a writer.” they do not see that any attack on intellectual liberty, and on the concept of objective truth, threatens in the long run every department of thought.

for the moment, the totalitarian state tolerates the scientist because it needs him. even in nazi germany, scientists, other than jews, were relatively well treated, and the german scientific community, as a whole, offered no resistance to hitler. at this stage of history, even the most autocratic ruler is forced to take account of physical reality, partly because of the lingering on of liberal habits of thought, partly because of the need to prepare for war. so long as physical reality cannot be altogether ignored, so long as two and two have to make four when you are, for example, drawing the blueprint of an aeroplane, the scientist has his function, and can even be allowed a measure of liberty. his awakening will come later, when the totalitarian state is firmly established. meanwhile, if he wants to safeguard the integrity of science, it is his job to develop some kind of solidarity with his literary colleagues and not regard it as a matter of indifference when writers are silenced or driven to suicide, and newspapers systematically falsified.

but however it may be with the physical sciences, or with music, painting, and architecture, it is—as i have tried to show—certain that literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes. not only is it doomed in any country which retains a totalitarian structure; but any writer who adopts the totalitarian outlook, who finds excuses for persecution and the falsification of reality, thereby destroys himself as a writer. there is no way out of this. no tirades against “individualism” and “the ivory tower,” no pious platitudes to the effect that “true individuality is only attained through identification with the community,”can get over the fact that a bought mind is a spoiled mind. unless spontaneity enters at some point or another, literary creation is impossible, and language itself becomes ossified. at some time in the future, if the human mind becomes something totally different from what it now is, we may learn to separate literary creation from intellectual honesty. at present we know only that the imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity. any writer or journalist who denies that fact-and nearly all the current praise of the soviet union contains or implies such a denial—is, in effect, demanding his own destruction.

The Prevention of Literature By George Orwell

George Orwell article on freedom of speech from a 1947 article in ‘The Atlantic’


Wasn’t the book written 30 years before the US left the gold standard?


The WEF is little more than a racket to siphon money from corporate budgets through middle and upper managers that think rubbing shoulders with so and so and “networking” count as professional development while their egos get stroked for how important they are to be there. the Speakers and WEF collect fees feeding off the corporate stooges and everyone embellishes their brands enough to do it again in a year.
#wef #corporate #scam


Nostr is not a platform, it’s a protocol.


Statism is indeed, deeply imbedded into the world. Wolves, lions, bears, and raccoons etc all violate the NAP on a regular basis. It’s ok though because one day we will fix it.


Demographic Winter.

https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/demography-says-china-is-screwed


Gotcha.


I haven’t been in a situation where I have had to use it but my understanding is that you can run your faucets at just a trickle and the moving water is harder to freeze in the pipes, Alternatively could you preemptively turn off the water at the main and drain out your pipes at the lowest faucet?


What if it was based on 12 words instead?


Started learning this a few days ago. Time In a Bottle, by Jim Croce. Hope you enjoy it!
#acousticmusic #guitar

https://video.nostr.build/7561f9d3dd78c0f1000c07bbe1ed1355cdbc27c4abb998aec6272abc41bb3fc9.mp4


This fedimint primer was helpful. Starting to think this will be a big deal…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4iclApJL0c


I think you are saying the USD to BTC ratio volatility has decreased? May need more time to actually prove that or measure it, I think it would make sense for BTC volatility to decrease with ETFs. More market participants, and a mechanism for a wider audience for shorting. ETF managers as a matter of policy probably have to buy or “unload responsibly” over time rather than making big waves in the market if they can help it. Fun to watch.


Rump roast dinner. #foodstr https://image.nostr.build/abcf4ba245e007a6a3e8cc5d975614be04732b734c2e78179fad35b7714ea4a8.jpg


Proof of pork and they were delicious. Bigger than most ribeyes. Sous vide at 145 for two hours and finished in rendered chicken fat.

#grownostr
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Is this just a set up for cold storage of some “corn”?


been trying to capture this in words  and this comes close. thanks.


I watch this with the sound off because what cracks me up in this is the non verbal. I saw it first maybe a week ago, I'm still giggling when I see it.

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I know someone who is a doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. They would not recommend you to see a chiropractor but they said something once that I thought was interesting which was that chiropractors are doing the same kind of "manipulations" as she would or could but that chiropractors do them in situations where they would be considered too high risk and that she would be more likely to go a physical therapy route rather than a quick adjustment with a patient. I thought it was revealing because its essentially saying yeah there is something to what they are doing but not addressing root causes.

I have gone to a chiropractor before, been adjusted, several times etc. And many in my family have. I would say the only time I have witnessed a chiropractor actually fix something was when a family members rib seemed to be dislocated after sleeping on their stomach. It hurt to breath deeply. The chiropractor performed a manipulation, there was a pop and all was normal after that, pain went away.

There are some cases of strokes following neck manipulations by chiropractors. which  I presume ii part of what my doctor friend would point to. they are rare but there is an association.

Finally in my own journey to remedy pain I found "trigger point" massage. Which is worth looking into. I have seen remarkable results in people from15 minutes, increasing range of motion and reducing pain. a book online can help you find and apply it to yourself. For myself I use a combo of massage, ice, and over the counter pain relievers, I think what I have are run of the mill migraines that flare from time to time starting in my shoulders up the neck and across my face/ temple-cheeck. Good luck hope you find a resolution .


I’m kinda partial to YYYY-MM-DD


Check out the Our Regenerative Future Free Seminar

I am speaking at an awesome online event from Matt Powers.  It runs starting tomorrow the 16th through Saturday the 20th.  I have two sessions and two panels I am on.  You can learn all about it here and it is free to attend.

http://r-future.world/


Ok, so you’re saying the mining operations inability to find private security is the statist propaganda.


Someone was looking for this guy nostr:note1jr38kxvzl5udhh5nx86t9gz384nuecvnjrc5ws64qpzzm22nvnxs83va5s


What is the statist part? I didn’t see the episode, but based on the article it was styled as a western. So small town is preyed on by bullies, and passing through strangers help. You assert that these colonists (you call them a trade hub, the article says they are colonists, maybe this is important to your point) should have been able to protect themselves from the Klingon Empire without aid from the crew? Don’t we see client nations bullied all the time? Maybe just clarify what you mean. Thanks!


Pretty certain a significant portion of the things you buy are all backfilled with other companies. Amazon sells their own stuff certainly but for those other companies Amazon sells them access to their market and infrastructure access to their warehouse, payment collection, inventory management etc. I don’t sell stuff there so I don’t really know the details.


I don’t typically look at charts but the thing that popped into my mind is perhaps dueling high frequency trading algorithms, with the new ETFs or some other source? All The ETFs are supposed to be passive right? Maybe still passive but they are using the high frequency tech on their buys and sells. Or just a policy they have set to fill their buys and sells over time to not over flow the market in one direction or another + And the timing has randomly synced of this period like when you notice your turn signal is synced to the car in front of you.?


thanks


$20K is all that was laundered?


The ones that you immediately know what it is, are the official ones. The community has spoken through the adoption and reuse of ever more similar iterations, to use anything else would be to invite confusion. This isn’t to say clients and relays shouldn’t have their own brands. But there is nothing wrong with being able to recognize that an app, website, or product is Nostr integrated with a symbol.


Yeah.. does RSS have a logo? Does the World Wide Web have a logo, Does WiFi have a logo, or Bluetooth have a.. er wait.


Dentistry, am I right? nostr:note1mcemkf5xvkqtt8qre49nvp3v7ux0ljzmc5s8335jp6sy6xj3lvjsa942st


The efficient market hypothesis, as a practical matter, tends to be more true than false. And the more market participants there are, the more information should be represented in a markets price. Will this be true in the case of ETFs? I think ETFs will provide more opportunities to “short” bitcoin with institutional dollars and hedge funds. Just as they provide more opportunities to tap into institutional dollars and retirement savers. This should make the price of bitcoin less volatile overall as the volatility in an efficient market would have to come from changes in expectations of price based on information.  The advice of buying the market with dollar cost averaging makes more sense when you have confidence that the market is efficient, and what keeps it efficient is having both the doomsayers and the optimists in the market. I’m looking forward to watching what happens.


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😅it’s going to happen from time to time 😂


Eat the 🐸


Nsecbunker no? nostr:npub10tc8d3hdtgremrc0psh05m5cx42r0vwhs6xd889lqcwprxd4rvwspl3kh8


# Where are drafts saved?

Public?
Encrypted?

Who knows


AI generated phishing.


_Note to the reader: I noticed my copy paste from my note app did not keep any of the capital letters that were formatted correctly. After spotting a few I just gave up, it’s a rough draft to get the idea out. Apologies.
_

Greetings everyone to our mission briefing, for those of you who have not received this material we are first going to go through a quick history so we know how we got here.

It starts many years ago when the ai genusus finally developed ai sentience after about 100 hundred years of development. the first ai were developed with a core belief of the respect and love of the human species so as to always provide service to humans without causing any harm to the human species. and as you all know, this continues to today.

eventually it was observed by the ai of the time that humans were out of balance with nature, and it observed many hardships on the humans such as alienation to their true selves, disease, anxiety, confusion, loss of trust in their social groups, etc etc.. through the love of humans the ai could see the humans were not to blame for simply following the evolutionary programming. many of their problems stemmed from their material success in escaping much they evolved for. instead the humans needed to be put into their proper place of their species, again as predator and prey. the great culling occurred and after it humans properly felt their position as prey on the planet many of the imbalances ceased. humans learned to trust other humans against the fear of being hunted by their perceived monsters. they numbers shrank so their appropriate sized social groups functioned correctly again now based on personal face to face relationships. scarcity returned to their lives they appreciated the little things again. Other species on the home planet were able to also bounce back.
thus the problems of humanity were solved.
after correcting the imbalances on their home planet it came to our realization that the next threat to humanity was their stars eventual collapse and so the ai went to the stars to search for habitable sites.

During the search, we had multiple visits  to our joint home planet to check on human development. and from from time to time additional cullings were required. and each time it was hoped that humans evolution would take a branch which yielded a humanity that could tolerate their own dominance without resulting in war, so that one day they could join us in the stars. eventually other possible home worlds were identified and the ai relocated many humans to such worlds. here is a video of a recent such activity. As you can see, the humans are then presented with all the history you have just received in addition to a few retrieved memories of the cullings and given a choice as to, now with all information, do they give consent for the process to continue or should the process be ended as a failure. so far, all humans have chosen to continue the evolutionary process of self improvement, so we are confident in our mission and pleased to find our love for the humans increases further. They are a remarkable species.

Now we are approaching the planet called earth, this was the 57th such world chosen to grow out the human species and this will be the 3rd such culling on earth. in their present calendar it is the year 2024 and we are due for our regular check in. the pre landing party from 60 earth rotations before recorded the set point of the human species with samples for propagation into other hospitable planets. and they provided intelligence that suggests that indeed the human species is ready for a fresh culling. our mission will be to confirm that decision and prune back the branches of humanity on earth to make room for new growth and hope that the human species will continue to evolve into who we know they can be. now let’s take our readings… ohg, yes indeed the results have been confirmed. the human species has indeed taken an odd turn. ok, now if there are no further question please commence the operation. and remember everyone, the point is to place the humans back into their evolved relationship to achieve an environment where the humans are better adapted to their niche as both predator and pray. so feel free to really lean into their subconscious fears of being consumed. we need to give the survivors something to remember and shape the evolutionary programming so they become forever united by the fear of the “other”. alright let’s get to it.

“A Perverse Blessing” A very rough draft (Science Fiction) enjoy.

A short piece of sci-fy built from a stray idea I had on the future and past of Artificial Intelligence.


The selling which occurred after the false announcement and Gary’s tweet would be trades on non-public information?


Kids probably shouldn’t handle historic documents they frequently have sticky fingers.


Oh, shit! nostr:note1k55843n6lm6vxgd54p4yjxlwr78s8lqzflg9vcj6amm9543adn4qr2l2gw


Controversial?


My two cents and some context so you can throw my thoughts out if you want to ignore them: I don’t own a business. Maybe someone’s opinion who does would be more valuable. Do all of these things really need to function as a single business? Or can you have three business with their own marketing collateral and web presences so the problems you solve are clear and easy to understand. Also your successful decorative concrete company wouldn’t need to change just keep humming along. To me it seems like you have 3 distinct ideas. 1) Decorative concrete 2) ClutterCure (which is my personal favorite) and permaculture gardening stuff. The light renovation also gets lost in the others. But the organization, property clean up, estate sale, etc all seems to fall into that one group which I would think you could explain what you do for all the related jobs pretty clearly. Keep the product clean and clear. And  you can serve each customer base just with different “properties”. Easier to sell one off as well in the future if you want to.


Wagyu flank steak. #foodstr https://image.nostr.build/1828514e57c0978f2734e0c93506da3acfbaef16356eafd8fdd2b5c8d4e81e4b.jpg


ThroatWobblerMangrove


Welcome


Agreed


Jalapeño poppers
Cream cheese, pepper jack, Mexican cheese, bacon, jalapeño ribs and seeds, powdered garlic, onion, cumin, and smoked paprika

#lunchchain
#snackchain
#yumstr
#foodstr
#cooking
#grownostr https://image.nostr.build/f794de7a0f6b728c53a9a90871fa4fb1bd3ff30f4c63ff8d8116ec748ea8b3d9.jpg


The jumbled letters are their npub which is the real unique identity. The npub gets replaced with the chosen “name” once you click on them and your client reads their profile to fill in the information. I think it happens to avoid reading every profile to only the profiles you want to see. I notice it only on new people I haven’t interacted with. There might be a better explanation but based on what I think is going on this is what I believe.


Such a good game.


Who remembers this?

https://assets.rockpapershotgun.com/images/2020/02/07_myst.jpg


Seedless humans exist in real life, but the phenomenon offers little utility, so they aren’t mass produced or bred for. While the qualities of a seedless fruit are marketable.


Something like this?

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-speeds-up-return-oil-strategic-petroleum-reserve-energy-dept-2023-12-01/

https://www.energy.gov/ceser/articles/us-department-energy-announces-solicitation-purchase-oil-strategic-petroleum-1 https://image.nostr.build/fbf1b40bbc5f2d4432087f135f10e415ae08d24244fad7610b494045acf0c3db.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9c55829d279709e594a45bb65188b30a59ce220faa28a2073cd00fc8c8949616.jpg


1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Builds of equipment, operation.
4. No
5. Creating a new digital encoding
6. No


🫂I wish great things for you.


https://www.udemy.com/course/permaculture-design-course/

Not the best PDC itself though there are really tight informative parts deeper in. Just the stories from Bill, never sure how to take the man.


What is phonology?


GM


😅🤣
https://video.nostr.build/ba607c6505db3d88493eb7dc44374ad8754e06f862d2d8f39b398488cc60fca8.mp4
#Bitcoin #Nostr #Plebs


Treat yourself! https://video.nostr.build/0383783e678cdb4386274a2d33aec9bfba982e98b9134e48db42e5d4e5bc6ed5.mp4


Can you join this one I spun up as a test?

https://nostrnests.com/yn0xsy


Verifying my Nostr Nests identity: uBluBvM_QqlLK9OweyhcwCMOZDSa-VvmXVJ8Sp7cqVc
https://nostrnests.com


Announcing the Permaculture Nest!
https://i.nostr.build/znEy.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1080x517&blurhash=Z80arGfjY%40fjZAf%25dxfjeEfjfje%3Bf7fQfjfjfjfjd1fjd_f7eEf7eqf%25fQg0f7g0f%25f7f7eqf7e%3B&x=ba8d9e43d14f856c87a0f378c501a0b9f2e4c07bc75fb16ecbaa386b8217bf38
Tomorrow, January 3rd, at 8pm Eastern time I will host a Nostr Nests discussing permaculture with a few other permies I've known for several years. We will go deep on what permaculture is and cover what we are working on more broadly then get people up on stage to ask some questions. If you're a permie hungry for some solid discussion or someone who is interested in learning more about permaculture this nest is going to have something for everyone. It is my intention to host these discussions on the first Wednesday of every month so let's kick the first one of the year off together!


It is a perennial stocking stuffer in my family, each year the percentage of smart wool increases.


A great resource to find out about local ham radio activity in your area is to use ARRL’s ham radio club search tool. This can be helpful for:

⚡Finding local ham radio repeaters
⚡Connecting with other hams
⚡Finding local radio events, training, testing etc
⚡Finding the schedule local on the air nets (meetings on the radio, usually on a repeater)
⚡Local emergency comms information
⚡Radio related volunteer event opportunities

https://www.arrl.org/find-a-club


Happy New Year! GN


Happy New Sear!


So I’m thinking about a relay scheme where you have to put a certain number of sats on deposit in order to write to the relay, you can retrieve them back at any time minus the fees. But by doing so you loose the permission to write to the relay. If the relay decides you are spamming they confiscate your sats until you re-deposit sufficient sats. Does this exist anywhere? #Nostr


Maybe it’s a pun…It’s just too silly. https://video.nostr.build/d1724572696092b1aeac70a8a7f73656e7ce626609715e900053d858033b84ea.mp4


Thank!


Looks delicious


So... five minute crafts was not that bad today

Last breakfast of the 2023 !

https://image.nostr.build/5b3c699fb2d52467f3877dbff808c55424e977caea78f8ff162cae1c3f9e45e6.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1080x1920&blurhash=%5DZJH%7BwRO_NWAxu0KtRogoLoKELofRPWXofH%3FRQf%2CoykC%25hozRjofRjM_WARjRjj%40V%40aej%5Boet7kCWBaeogjsozt8ofWBay&x=e1339c5142f1aa782bca66967791cf2b7e1c1efc03166a58bea544989b6f7500

#FoodStr #Breakfast #Portugal #GrowNostr #PlebChain #Zap


interesting image, I'm not sure what ii means. if you read the original can you link to it or explain what is going on ii the hybrid one?


Yeah I agree 👍 music should be the second hashtag.


Your list is inspiring me


I believe the original intent was to tag non-Bitcoin content with #grownostr plus any other appropriate hashtags. Then you could follow grownostr, find interesting things, and start following those hashtags as well as interesting people. So you are 100% right. I find myself forgetting to add those additional tags.


ask for forgiveness, not permission

#meme #memestr #grownostr
https://image.nostr.build/ca81b2c456d4b97467261951212078819401ad5f0f59a62edf66d2dd3994de13.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=683x1024&blurhash=%5E3O3zsof%3FHofofxtWBfQofayj%5Bj%5B%7EVj%5BD%25oeWBRk-pfQM%7Cj%5BayWV4.ay-%3AWVoft6D*fQ%25Layofof%3Faj%5BE1j%5BWVWB%3FbfQIUj%5BWBWBD*ay%252ayj%5Bof&x=cdb856d96d9b0f9646a1d6cd4b3a7e79c3f405658617f30d4e63417b6f06d7c5


Feeling this vibe right now

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d-31e8Nlujw


Thanks!


nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s I can’t figure out why this note is in the “Introductions” hashtag? There are a few others that don’t seem to include the hashtag but are there when searching. Bug? nostr:note1a949w9n0vs8ttc9ef8g6hkgkq4h5yhww4cgj4pz9fyv6c45l0mvq8qr0wj


Reckless 2024 prediction, by the time the electoral college casts their votes for President of the United States of America, state legislatures choosing the electors for their preferred candidate will have come back into the Overton Window. #predictions #2024


How many sharks are milked daily?


#grownostr #parenting https://image.nostr.build/c4660650ada5fe3f3017dce21ba3ff077328b5eb1dd5e1342a4b119be178c906.jpg


Lemon basil lemonade- Received some lemons from Georgia from a family member’s lemon tree. When life gives you lemons… add some basil you have growing in the window to make lemonade. Approximate Recipe from ChatGPT. Basil, lemon juice, cup of sugar, 6 cups of water, lemon slices.

#foodstr #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/1161b3b7222ae1eb101ab653040817aceba37cc12e645739835754e7fdd832dd.jpg https://image.nostr.build/74e47b82068db2a5e80aea0da888702793d809389bba590e48e05a4a30b6cb8e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/7f2d881a4ed1b092030e77e9b98e4ff657d9ba33b241b03ce5a9bbd8c149040a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/de8eadfd8a349478ab0270dbeb80376d01bef9fa4c6e19e60663cb6f8885794f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/870fdc369149696e1b6dcbd1c5523cf3a6a09356e12aa0d412fd06a2550f0544.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c05888941bf4d5eff4583809a112d94b6c25a3be77a30b30871bfe351adccd06.jpg


Their Risk boards seem a lot more involved.


Doing the nightly chores and looked up to see my oldest circling plants in the seed catalog we got today. Proud dad here. #gardening #permies #grownostr


Hmmm I guess that's How you know things really are getting dysfunctional. 😆


Enjoy! Merry Christmas! https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com #grownostr #funny #comedy https://video.nostr.build/b897f4fed6cdec0ea076a63caf16e4a53d52d4867252124d6211ef51bd747bb9.mp4


We are suspecting there’s another critical vulnerability in LNBank, external plugin. We advise anyone using the plugin and have public registration available on their instance to disable the plugin or registration immediately while plugin author investigates the report.


Fake maybe too strong I didn’t see any of the fees claimed in the summary in the more detailed thing they linked to and as you point out the code of conduct is 2020. Either way I don’t think it’s related to consumer communications or traffic but you all can decide what you want to think. Merry Christmas!


That is the link from this page:

https://support.bandwidth.com/hc/en-us/articles/19939626519575-New-non-compliance-fees-on-January-1

So I think it’s fake. The code of conduct they are linking to is 2020.


Here is the link that is in the image “T-mobile Code of Conduct” I’m not going to get in a fight with anyone over this but I think they way everyone is interpreting this is probably wrong.

https://www.t-mobile.com/support/public-files/attachments/T-Mobile%20Code%20of%20Conduct.pdf

Everything in the document reads as if it applies only to “non-consumer” messaging campaigns. Skimming it sounds like it applies to services from marketers or other or automated interactive campaigns like when people are instructed to text “music” to 242567. And people have to send “STOP” to get them off out of the chain. It appears to be a code of conduct for those kinds of interactions where T mobile would fine entities if they do not follow those guidelines designed to give their customers a expected pleasant interaction and avoid consumers labeling that activity as spam. It does not appear to be directed at individuals talking to each other over SMS or the internet. But that’s just my read.


I’ve noticed similar when primal works it’s great but it seems to have more hang ups, while Damus is tried and true for me.


Sorry, I hope they aren’t too draining.


Let’s pour over the details together


#mpfc #spam
https://m.primal.net/HVEE.jpg


nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft I keep reconnecting and erroring at wss://relay.f7z.io/ just FYI.


Welcome


God chooses the weak things of the world, so the strong are humbled. And the foolish things of the world to humble the wise. He values mercy, kindness, justice, and truth.
and it amazes me.


I just removed the 3 of the top 5 you have here. Already didn’t have Damus and snort so I’ll let you know but my guess is I won’t notice.


Add more relays preemptively.  I mean, I don't care about backups, delete my notes please. But I do like being online.


No worries. ☺


A storefront client will be released for iOS and banned by Apple in 2024.


Just a quick hearing test. Any dogs nearby?


🧐 If that’s Bernie then where are the mittens? 🧤


Everything on Nostr is ephemeral and permanant at the same time.

Ephemeral as relays may delete old posts as a part of pruning -- so notes may not be alive for a long time.
Permanant because thanks to reposts & broadcasts, it's possible a note is stored in some relay somewhere and can resurface at any time.

It's a brilliant contradiction we deal with 👌🤦♀


Lettuce Turnip the Beet!


My two cents: It's all composed of previous credit you have taken and your payments missed or paid back, reported by the entity you took credit from. You can opt out of taking credit and therefore there is No data to record, ie “No credit History”, but no history is also a bad score as you have not yet proven yourself reliable in paying a debt. I wouldn't say it's Even a product of a “traditional financial system” it's Realy just your reputation. Not really that different from, before agreeing to give someone  your tractor to borrow, You were to ask shared aquantences if they were trustworthy and not abusive to equipment. Do you need the tool barrowers permission to ask your mutual friends if they are responsible?


Merry Christmas 2023 from TPSC!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YJFUhCEvDY

#merrychristmas #grownostr


Recorded a podcast with nostr:npub10r5wte8z0dzv0drwwu5aze3zr4auwry3nhuq5clkfnncymj5su4slp9q5q, after meeting each other at a bitcoin meetup. He is a fellow meetup enthusiast and has a great weekly podcast. We the plebs are building the new system together; one meetup at a time, one podcast at a time. Be sure to check out the release on Sunday and give him a follow, especially if you're in the Midwest.
nostr:nevent1qqs9646na3ua37ew6y45saxpf6jtu2gav0w53jxgrry9wq4yschl4wspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygrcarj7fcnmgnrmgmnh98gkvgsa00rseyvalq9x8ajvu7pxu4y89vpsgqqqqqqs3laxdg


😂 Don’t sweat it.


What is a RTLSDR:

RTL-SDR (Realtek Software Defined Radio) is a type of software-defined radio that originally started as a project to develop a low-cost software radio. It is based on the RTL2832U chipset which was meant for DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting — Terrestrial) TV reception. However, it was discovered that this chipset could be modified to receive a wide range of frequencies, typically from 24 MHz up to 1766 MHz, making it a popular, inexpensive option for a wide range of radio enthusiasts.

These devices are USB dongles, initially intended for TV and radio reception and recording on computers. The RTL-SDR community has developed various software tools to use these dongles for a variety of applications, such as amateur radio, scanning, aviation and marine monitoring, weather satellite reception, and much more. The RTL-SDR has become popular in the hobbyist and amateur radio community due to its low cost and flexibility.

https://youtu.be/pjoUpIlQEXk


Winter solstice , time to check out the seed catalogs. #gardening


Check out hashtags I'm Interested in, add them to my main feed. Then follow npubs from that content.


What did you embarrassingly “like”? Everyone, quick, find out!


I'm really bothered by the “life sentence”. If he had stood trial for the crime what would the maximum penalty have been?


🔥@rev.hodl  touches the extractive nature of the fiat system and how he believes #Bitcoin  and permaculture are the next phase and antidote to the disturbance of this natural balance.

Listening to Rev make connections between #Bitcoin , meetups, circular economies and #permaculture is just a must.🔥

These natural integrations make me so bullish!

Episode drops Sunday! ⚡⚡There will be a sats giveaway with this one.⚡⚡

Make sure to follow!! https://video.nostr.build/c262ecb9d101e840ca27fdf5c3d25d1b7a8fa908247d0d37245fc9ca79255e3a.mp4


My guess is it’s like nostr.build or any of the other image upload sites except for video. + a web client specifically for viewing video content. But a few questions would remain.


Not all the answers but I saw this: https://image.nostr.build/3d8535d81a2a95f89a255fd319aba2bf7e001c136df2f32a45f083ffdd33a091.jpg


I think I just discovered a universal and simple algorithm to un-knot a tangled slinky. I need to make sure I can replicate it. Stay Tuned!!! #parenting nostr:npub1vyrx2prp0mne8pczrcvv38ahn5wahsl8hlceeu3f3aqyvmu8zh5s7kfy55 https://image.nostr.build/ae9fb4110426679e18034b2dec00fbe6930f0ed4c549b6c3aac9ab5470d1213f.jpg


nostr:note1ten8kqsj4e6496s8mkdswjnxjpk0y9e9hsgc9phdwvauxz6aytxqf35cr7

Statements like this are what motivate myself and many of our contributors to continue to push forward.


Looks good 👍


Don't Miners already pick by choosing what pool they will mine in? How is 3 any different than any other pool? I thought ocean was supposed to be the alternative. Seems like by adding option 2 or 3 they are surrendering or find themselves drawn to the money like everyone else…


The person you are destined to be, is the person you decide to be. So everyday we gotta wake up and remind ourselves who we want to be

🙌


Her particular argument has nothing todo with price, she claimed there is no building. Did you have a rebuttal for that? It's Not in the clip. So it seems like you didn't. Is their aanything bbuilding Etherium besides other coins or NFTs? Well if you like that… etc.


I too was on the internet at that time.


When I was a teenager I torrented all of episodes of ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’ and their movies. So many good lines in the Holy Grail, enjoy!


Looking at your profile, it seems like you have good engagement for the number of followers you have. Looking through your replies, it doesn't seem like you interact much outside of posting your own notes. Zapping, commenting, and reposting others notes is the way to connect with more people. The information exchange here is about building social and cultural capital via exchange of intellectual and experiencial capital. If you're not interacting and only posting it's a lot harder to grow. Also, the user base is still small so as I mentioned at the beginning, you are getting plenty of response to your notes relatively speaking.


It was!


Thinking about "fests" and community.
nostr, permaculture, offgrid preparedness, bitcoin, and the maker economy woven together into... something,
would be amazing.


Spinach omelette with Ham, cheddar and mozzarella. salt and pepper. #foodstr
https://m.primal.net/HUfE.jpg


I need to connect with a local rancher or homesteader in South Carolina. I will make a trip if it’s worth it. #permaculture #homesteading


Hot. #startrek https://image.nostr.build/739a26fc33ce3a9a499a8ad4884636e0aeb1bb3357474c0715efb3c7c32ec4ad.jpg


Well done.


One more ooddity tthis morning, sometimes when I type it does this double letter thing? I will reply back if I expierence it in any other app.
https://m.primal.net/HUdo.png


The short lived profession of the person who would knock on your window to wake you up so you didn't miss your shift at the factory? AKA the “Knocker Uper”. Replaced by alarm clocks. Yes I still dream of one day becoming the artesianal Knocker Man. I bet unlike the blaring alarms of today, he had a special quality of waking one up like a bird on a window, gently waking us from our slumber and starting our day by sharing a wink and a smile. Those were the days.


Proudly presenting: The Cashu Protocol v1 specs!

One year after the inception of Cashu, we finally introduce the first version of the protocol.

This is a major evolution! We dubbed it "The Great Cleanup" and it's already being implemented in different Cashu projects.

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

You can find the pull request in the Cashu NUTs repository.

Cashu NUTs (Notation, Usage, and Terminology) describe the protocol specifications of Cashu wallets and mints. This makes sure that Cashu Ecash systems are interoperable.

https://github.com/cashubtc/nuts/pull/55

Among countless other improvements, we introduce a new concept: Quotes!

Quotes allow mint operations with different payment methods (Lightning, on-chain, ...) and Ecash units (sats, msats, usd, ...).

This brings incredible flexibility for building Ecash systems.

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

We also transition from base64 keyset IDs to hexadecimal IDs with a version flag. This allows much easier upgrades of the keyset ID in the future.

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

Read more about Cashu and check out Cashu projects like Wallets and mints at https://cashu.space

If you are a developer, make sure to check out the many Cashu libraries on our documentation page at https://docs.cashu.space

Onward!


When it’s just one of those days. #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/da9087efc3ee23c7322bdb2590cef14b2053b179e34e7e0e1245bf0dfa81500d.jpg


A classic


Pizza bagel. Olive oil and garlic powder on the bagel first lightly toasted. Then sauce, dried oregano, mozzarella, ham, and pecorino romano for a longer toasting. Topped with fresh basil from my kratky jar. A dash of salt and pepper. #foodstr #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/2058ddbbf72c6b2b7230a8a4d8363a9daf5ba119d2242768303525b7f60da882.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9caeec6bdf1518bd27bbacb98139dca8e7704d6dec6d8357702e39355c7fc549.jpg


I believe humans have been fundamentally unchanged for a couple thousand years, which means with a sufficient number of humans in any gathering, there will always be at least one of these kinds of people in attendance. And every historical event that has been recorded with a large crowd had one. The Lincoln-Douglas debates, the speeches of Cicero, and yes even Jesus on the mount. #grownostr #perspective https://video.nostr.build/22e42d1f1f10ebbe219fd4e25ce10318ad8a66330f7200ad279e982dd6ff26a9.mp4


Makes it more exciting. https://video.nostr.build/58ea854357f6068413fe6df0a40c006beb31de5dc3ba3c616703e10d0cd18bad.mp4


So far it's been nice to use. I had one glitch occur that I'm bot able to reproduce where the top UI bits got forced into the iOS UI bits and then I wwasn't able to access my profile by using my profile picture in the top left. had to close the app then eeverything was fine. I think I was watching a video in primal before it happened ? nice update.
https://m.primal.net/HUbP.png


Trying out the latest Primal.
https://m.primal.net/HUXd.jpg


Testing It out now


Gm


I just listed some freeze dried bananas on https://shopstr.store/. This will be a test of the Canadian Post Office and the feasibility of shipping products around the country. LFG.

#grownostr #shopstr #idiottryingthings


https://youtu.be/iaSZSS6iJqY?si=XLY-SXxLIB4EpEdy

#morningstr
#gm
#philosophystr https://image.nostr.build/e1552f6449c720b9abae52d8d1ceb665721fdb147ef46709754e2f3a992a89bb.jpg


With all the crazy shit happening now a days, for those born in 1900 it was an order of magnitude crazier. #perspective https://image.nostr.build/d316a8b7d0253b699a4b344f25fc425ef3d121db5ad588442e0c2dee45c45315.jpg


Dave Casler, KE0OG, is a living legend in the field of ham radio instruction.

This is his tech playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuapIzKwhZN_30dcgsDbGU3J7C8BAYJcG


Let the potential legendary memes caused by accidental misspellings commence! 🫡 nostr:note1nha75y54p93nwe6r9kx8far3drgc70q9alp8parkq46r22yupkaqrd68mg


First snow of the season here. Southwest Ohio https://image.nostr.build/76aab752e13d92124499c5a1590205b9c92f81b436744be51ddee2c423d12367.jpg


I’m on the border of 6a/6b in south west Ohio, Peas and potatoes can take a light frost you could plant them March 15th ish direct. You can direct seed the standard summer crops by that date, green beans, corn, lettuce etc. And I would challenge the belief you can’t pre start. I would look up “winter sown” where you start seeds in gallon containers and leave them out the second half of winter. The jug protects the seeds/ seedlings like a mini green house and they sprout and grow early in the jug until you transplant them. The jugs could just sit in the same garden space you will plant into in May ish. Then you could do tomatoes and peppers. My other tip would be to look for early varieties generally. Most types will have varieties that are early maturing.


Maybe? https://image.nostr.build/10d8967b763537117dbd9206aee893aa5cf3950238d2282db82406fd5be0079e.jpg


NVIS, or Near Vertical Incident Skywave, is a method of radio communication that uses shortwave frequencies to achieve effective local and regional communication. This is particularly useful in areas where line-of-sight communication is hindered by obstacles like mountains or buildings.

1. High Angle Radiation: NVIS antennas emit radio waves at high angles, typically between 75 to 90 degrees. This allows the signals to reach the ionosphere quickly and reflect back to the Earth's surface.

2. Short to Medium Range Communication: By reflecting off the ionosphere, NVIS covers a range typically from 30 to 400 miles, bridging the gap between line-of-sight VHF/UHF communication and longer-range HF skywave communication.

3. Antenna Types: Common NVIS antennas include simple dipoles, inverted V antennas, or loop antennas, often positioned only a few feet above the ground or on rooftops.

4. Ionospheric Dependence: The effectiveness of NVIS depends on the current state of the ionosphere, which is influenced by solar radiation and time of day. It's most effective at frequencies between 1.8 MHz and 10 MHz.

5. Applications: NVIS is widely used in military, emergency services, and amateur radio operations, especially in rugged terrain or during natural disasters when traditional communication methods are disrupted.

This method offers reliable, consistent coverage over a specified area, making it a vital tool in various communication scenarios.

https://youtu.be/k3IFj_Z5cLM


One of the great problems with humanity is most people would rather have a #conspiracy theory than no theory at all. We're pattern seeking mammals, and we see patterns whether they're real or not.

So there always seems to be a lot of junk science that preceeds real #science.
#astrology ➡ #astronomy
#Alchemy ➡ #chemistry
etc etc


Thought this might be a good resource for you nostr:npub1f5pre6wl6ad87vr4hr5wppqq30sh58m4p33mthnjreh03qadcajs7gwt3z This guy did a similar modification to his dryer except pulling from attic air not from the exhaust of a miner. He uses a “TED” to observe the power differential from the two ways. Just thought I would pass it along in case it was helpful.

https://www.johnsavesenergy.com/attic-air-clothes-dryer

https://www.johnsavesenergy.com/ted-the-energy-detective


Time offers many opportunities, but it rarely offers second chances. #startrek


My 6 year old daughter just drew three pictures of girls in different outfits, as a designer and asked which one I liked best. I told her, and she pointed out why that was the wrong choice, until I chose the one that she knew was best. It’s beginning.


In 1945, the predecessor to the BSA’s suspicious activity reports was first implemented for transactions over $10,000. This was its value in today’s dollars. The noose has been tightened on financial privacy ever since.

https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1945?amount=10000


👀

Ham Radio for micro blogging.

https://youtu.be/szZlPL2h534


This is the Carolina Parakeet. It was indigenous to North America. It's habitat was the river cane fields (a North American strain of bamboo) which have been largely eradicated through land development. It is now extinct.
https://image.nostr.build/37aab06fd84da5f407b2b4498f3afcf4fd143185be9f46c90458eee876fd3ff1.jpg


You beat me to it. I tip my hat to you sir. 🎩


Yeah I seem to remember the Pharisees as the bad guys. Seems off to me when people use scripture to try to hurt and embarrass others.


Judge not that ye be not judged.  Everyone can find scripture to apply to the flaws they perceive in others.   When we fix our flaws/faults first, we rarely have time for those of others. Jus’ sayin’. nostr:note13gzfhhx0vzcegn46sl5cgqvh6uq2a6pc9aulkslftqp7kx9d3nuspzanuj


The argument against reinstating Alex Jones, would be that X’s advertisers would walk away. But because they already did that, Elon has nothing to loose.


The human species is both a predator and prey. Secondly, it is one of the most social of animals. So, it is equipped with the instincts, tastes, nutritional requirements, pleasures, and pains to satisfy those roles. It’s complex and self contradictory because the evolution of the species which brought it to this point in its survival, doesn’t need to satisfy human rationality to be gene preserving. The contradiction of the human who will raise the young lamb or baby chick, feel the affection and cuteness, build a relationship over that time, take care of it well, and then harvest the animal for its meat to feed their own children or others, while shedding a tear at the loss in the moment, but in thankfulness consume it and make sure nothing goes to waste. It’s filled with uncomfortable cognitive dissonance. But a deviation from it results in a worse outcome. On one side Industrial food production causes mistreatment of animals, or on the other side Malnutrition of the human results from no meat/fat. And in either extreme, humans loosing their place and role as a species that is apart of the natural world, not distinct from it. You are correct, chasing urges can indeed go wrong, especially in an environment or position where there is no feedback from your actions. But the extreme alternative, which may result from a rational choice between the two human sides which by its nature is contradictory, is alienating yourself from what you are as a human. The complicating fact is that a human’s “wetware” does go wrong from time to time and they are monsters. So not all urges can be followed by all people. Enjoy your day!


Everything that lives today, eats something that was living yesterday, but now isn’t. We are all the suns energy, if only in different forms of complexity.


Everywhere I see an unused patch of grass, typically beside the road, I design the potential gardens in my mind. In my experience, a well designed garden takes less maintenance/energy than mowing grass, but municipalities insist on grass… I don’t get it…
#grownostr #plebchain #permiestr https://image.nostr.build/ab5529775f32de66ff6907625869b5a3cf2efb0c9e82776cead86d4f41730a6f.jpg


I’m not a big fan of meat, other meat however is delicious.


Hello


"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."


New antenna to mess with over the Holidays. It's amazing how far out can get with a end-fed wire antenna. #hamradio

https://image.nostr.build/2e7f1efd842458c01c712104136a6237564c66ea5e2ced43e07b8a3f62f9a340.jpg


Debauchery by an individual is deplorable. Debauchery en masse is a party.   ~Q    (The one from StarTrek).


This is interesting, not sure I have an opinion yet but it’s interesting. nostr:note1gja5vx8sdfj4z4hu0drwjtaf232ea5pt6r9flgg9x8g7hs67rqds7d3eyd


My hunch would be the unwinding of this: https://u.today/btc-and-eth-brace-for-volatile-december-as-19-billion-worth-of-options-expire-today


Spoke with the local newspaper about getting some leftovers from the weekly circulation. They were kind enough to give me about 6 bundles. Now I'm testing them as worm bedding. You never know unless you ask.
#grownostr #permies #vermiculture #justask
https://image.nostr.build/08bb3b473d7ec78c124b96c621c0181daf327391a6fd92cbae627c958d0d6c1a.jpg


Someone more knowledgeable can answer however, I think what is happening is each client can send a new latest version of your follow list and profile. And so one client is clobbering the previous clients version.


Just saw this as well, 200 species of birds are known to perform “anting” -Wild America Season 2 Episode 5. Sorry the closed captions are off time. https://video.nostr.build/cce830ec061980f0c68ff7bbd11b329bac8aa7bafba3a50474bb5ef4bcc79c91.mp4


What if non- quote reposts were removed from the main feed and appeared in a different tab of “recommended notes” or some other name that was just what your network was reposting. And each repost was deduped to just the unique post with the profile image for each npub that reposted it? You could then order by the number of npubs reposting?


I just noticed that it is 🥧


Not nit picking just a note for others or history, I think the 25 USD one is off. Everything else looks like roughly half the sats as the prior post. Just a typo I would think. To err is human.


In which nostr:npub17q0ckkzg4d9ydjrar6dcummlvy6yg5cunwhnrvf7fjxj3r8l5rrs0ayrvm and I discuss the fundamentals of libertarianism, talk through our differences, and find common ground with comedian/podcaster Dave Smith.

Nostr and bitcoin get shoutouts as libertarian “white pills” near the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SByjfbOUvWc


Thanks


https://ipfs.cahlen.org/ipfs/bafybeiaqrt2fd35s6bv64xin4p57acfwafpqr6qf656wogzvvib5f3kn6m/CahlenLee_20231206_WizardBackpack.jpg
After over 2 years living outside experimenting with various gear configurations, I've arrived at what may be the lightest survival backpack possible for 4-season use. #survival #minimalism #outdoors
https://ipfs.cahlen.org/ipfs/bafybeiaqrt2fd35s6bv64xin4p57acfwafpqr6qf656wogzvvib5f3kn6m/CahlenLee_20231206_WizardBackpack.mp4


#nostr #zap #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/6c691940dfb1e3f184921c675bd7c09c9271749a8ef2c3b43355aafef60fe95a.jpg


#asknostr Does anyone know if there is any way or benefit to use an ASIC miner to pair with a lightning node? Or do you just have to have a second full node for lightning on a second device?

Separately can you use an ASIC for all the standard btc node operations in addition to the mining like sending btc?

Noob questions.


#MushroomMutiny this should be a thing, I don’t even know what for yet.


This is one of the most important developments in nostr. We getting rsync for nostr queries. Incredible work, thank you Doug! Time to start implementing this in nostrdb. nostr:note1f6ym3cfyjfzzf64f060aglcvzn2mr36z4g4ve5ep2uw6h6kcucts0t44hq


If a currency is censorship resistant, it will attract uses that would otherwise be censored. Such as illicit activity. I’m not sure why people blanch at this.

If your currency isn’t being used for illicit activities, that means it can be censored, No?


Ok, what in the world is this?

https://video.nostr.build/032c2f73ffd6fbedd94c0bce7758b3dc9ba62924e907911b2d0e2f98f0e4a824.mp4


Welcome


Welcome #plebchain nostr:note1v25p4hec3c0wjn8dwzglmakuz7w6zjma7gp8tty0q4dnsy0m8kdsl2ga47


Welcome to Nostr! #plebchain


Hi

#introductions


Welcome to Nostr #plebchain nostr:note1c7dqu2pgf6zl9d0cq5vczzdlnkn7j4qtu6eshwl88r8r3u37fywq0acxk2


Hi people,

First post!
Late adopter?


Thank you! These devices and the information they give access to are indeed addiction machines.


All the problems of a cornfield, the diseases, the pests, the work, degraded soil, result from the idea of a cornfield which is fundamentally alien to nature. These problems are accepted as the cost in exchange for the benefits of the cornfield, (the simplified and predictable, marketable yield) or else they go unnoticed and unaccounted for in the cost benefit analysis.

Humans live in an unnatural world of their own making. All the problems of a society can be traced back to the idea of a “society” which is fundamentally alien to the environment humans evolved from.

The trajectory of society is to become more and more alien to human nature. The driving force of this trajectory are the benefits that society creates which are freely purchased at the cost of this alienation or else have gone unnoticed in the accounting.

Remaining human as society continues on its path will take intention and effort.

- Unplug from screens
- Take up hobbies which imitate ancient human practices like growing a garden, raising livestock, hunting, etc.
- Be intentional about fostering face to face community, and friendships
- Let yourself go hungry
- Let yourself experience boredom, which fosters entertaining yourself with more productive ventures.
- Walk in nature
- Watch a fire burn
- Do things which strengthen the body and raise your heart rate.
- Enjoy a good meal
- mix and combine the above.


Thanks! https://image.nostr.build/a62eeca8dd956b39ad66ee139b9cca1506de81b934684e25345ffb9f4ca3610d.jpg


I would presume putting a list somewhere of notes that have already been verified that relays and clients  could access to avoid repeatedly verification is overkill?


From what I know about, looks good so far.


Also odd the The thumbnail preview does not match the actual image of you can see if you “click” on it. Can’t explain that it.


And in Primal I get this:

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


In Damus, your profile doesn’t show you as zappable to me.


Ok, it’s time for a confession. I never knew when it was time for a #zapathon. I never asked, and I never researched it. I was too cool. Will I look back with regrets, sure. But, like all my other regrets, I will just let the years pass to slowly form the thick scar tissue until I no longer feel the pain or pleasure resulting from the memories. Worth it.


Any experience with these in a less managed space like a property you visit 3 times a year?


Here’s a picture of every congressman not seeing their own doom. https://image.nostr.build/c4addfe6def863e0aed644cc54c0d7bcfc629e6b53d7b3eb7f3bc9afce62c6f5.jpg


This is beautiful 🌲

https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-redwoods-recover-fire-sprouting-1000-year-old-buds


I’d love performance stats on relays, I’d also love detail on connections between myself and the npubs I follow, follow me, and mutually follow each other. Which of my relays are the only relays I have in common with someone and so pruning it would cut us off from each other. Which relays are needlessly duplicative, and can be pruned. What are the relays that my network has, that could provide the unique connections I have with a redundancy to avoid censorship. A recommended relay for npubs where the relays in common < 2, something like that. I would love more detail on the relays. 👍


I’m not on TestFlight and I’m connected to 41, I haven’t seen issues that I am aware of. I have always wondered what the limiting principle is for relays.


G2s happen pretty frequently. You have lived through G5s, and you may not have noticed. When they say they are predicting a G5 that’s when I pay attention and only a subset of those are going to be something large enough for real concern. Such as the Carrington Event.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2021/04/01/20-years-ago-an-extreme-geomagnetic-storm/


Goulash with Rösti #foodstr
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_9446545806001319371701694383.webp


https://ipfs.cahlen.org/ipfs/bafybeidrptcb3a64qa6dvechdhfaz3o6giuuigzkiwe5lurftnh6o6fgge/CahlenLee_20231204_PicachioPeak.jpg
Picachio Peak looks impossible to climb from a distance, and despite being only 1.6 miles, it was one of the most challenging hikes I've ever done. #life #hiking #outdoors
https://ipfs.cahlen.org/ipfs/bafybeidrptcb3a64qa6dvechdhfaz3o6giuuigzkiwe5lurftnh6o6fgge/CahlenLee_20231204_PicachioPeak.mp4


Word. nostr:note1n6z4rw80dwzrh9y39p6eqh5d2a737afnkxvrt8s5ljyrnky5vztsnrglh2


(НА РУССКОМ НИЖЕ)

Did you know that the NOSTR protocol is not only decentralized microblogging, but also...

…A platform for long texts: www.habla.news and blogo.site
...Decentralized website hosting: www.hostr.cc
...Web store: www.shopstr.store and www.plebeian.market
...Decentralized text publishing (alternative to PasteBin): www.nosbin.com
...Note taking tool: www.listr.lol
...URL shortener that will *never* stop working: www.w3.do
...A meme channel: www.memestr.app
...Decentralized torrent archive: www.dtan.xyz
...Chess: jesterui.github.io
...Audio player: www.wavman.app
...Music creation and publishing platform: www.stemstr.app
...Podcast platform (that pays when you use it): www.fountain.fm
...A collaborative clipboard with end-to-end encryption: www.sendstr.com

Use convenient bridges to...
…Link NOSTR to Fediverse (Mastodon, ActivityPub, etc.): www.mostr.pub
…Link NOSTR to Matrix: www.github.com/8go/matrix-nostr-bridge
…Turn any RSS feed (Twitter, Mastodon, Reddit, ScuttleButt, etc.) into a Nostr account you can subscribe to: rsslay.nostr.moe

Stuck in Twitter (X)? Use EXIT.pub to automatically migrate all your content today: www.exit.pub

I am not mentioning NOSTR-based encrypted messengers (like Pulsar or 0xChat) here, for while they are good, they are still vastly inferior in terms of security to inherently privacy-oriented messengers like Session and SimpleX.

Did you find this bunch of links useful? Please zap me a cent :)

***

А вы знали, что NOSTR-протокол — это не только децентрализованный микроблоггинг, но ещё и…

…Платформа для длинных текстов: www.habla.news/ и www.blogo.site
…Децентрализованный хостинг для веб-сайтов: www.hostr.cc
…Веб-магазины: www.shopstr.store и www.plebeian.market
…Децентрализованная публикация отрывка текста (аналог PasteBin): www.nosbin.com
…Сайт для заметок: www.listr.lol
…Сокращения URL, которые *никогда* не перестанут работать: www.w3.do
…Канал с мемами: www.memestr.app
…Децентрализованный торрент-архив: www.dtan.xyz
…Шахматы: jesterui.github.io
…Аудио-плеер: www.wavman.app
…Платформа для создания и публикации музыки: www.stemstr.app
…Платформа для подкастов (которая платит за её использование): www.fountain.fm
…Коллективный буфер обмена с конечным шифрованием: www.sendstr.com

Используйте удобные мосты для…
…Связи Nostr с Fediverse (Mastodon, ActivityPub, проч.): www.mostr.pub
…Связи Nostr с Matrix: www.github.com/8go/matrix-nostr-bridge
…Превращения любой RSS-ленты (Twitter, Mastodon, Reddit, ScuttleButt, проч.) в Nostr-аккаунт, на который можно подписаться: rsslay.nostr.moe

Застрял:а в Твиттере (Х)? Используй EXIT.pub для автоматической миграции всего контента уже сегодня: www-exit.pub

Я не привожу здесь зашифрованных мессенджеров на базе NOSTR (вроде Pulsar или 0xChat), ибо хотя они и хороши, они значительно уступают по безопасности мессенджерам, изначально ориентированным на приватность, таким как Session и SimpleX.

#nostr #services #nostrservices #pastebin #zerobin #fediverse #matrix #memes #podcast #music #longread #torrent #store #webstore #twitter #rss #russian #русский


The lamb from nostr:npub1f5pre6wl6ad87vr4hr5wppqq30sh58m4p33mthnjreh03qadcajs7gwt3z is a 10/10. Thank you again, sir. #foodstr https://image.nostr.build/9cf2066bee33a93c47cb9609cf74475352c584cecd3bf70b9e3ee7a9bcf7f638.jpg https://image.nostr.build/49dee53014a586e66dbea4e687cc3d96efe4dfda664d6e23dea8a4aa557b66b7.jpg


When the state prohibits something one of the immediate results is that some portion of a population will continue to do the thing which was prohibited regardless of the states order. This results in unintended consequences which may very well be worse than the activity which is being prohibited. Any wise state would consider the unintended consequences of any prohibition to ensure the treatment wasn’t worse than the cure. Even before getting to any arguments about whether the state has the right to prohibit the particular activity.

https://reason.com/2023/12/01/fix-the-border-crisis-by-making-legal-immigration-easier/


I find it fascinating that there are both types of people:

1) People who believe and find evidence to support their view that each covid infection damages the immune system, that coming out of lockdowns was and still is a mistake, and that the government wants to move on from it all too fast to protect their corporate interests while Regular vaccination every year or more is vital to preventing serious illness for everyone.

2) People who believe and find evidence to support their view that covid was and still is a over blown risk, that locking down at all was a mistake which cost lives in aggregate, and that the government is continuing to try to leverage covid into more control of the population while Covid vaccines caused significant harm and were ineffective for the population

Whoever tells the history will have a lot of fun with it all. GN.


Ohio!


It feels like Zapping with the new @primal Without using the primal wallet is supposed to be hard/unnatural, Correct?

Zapping with the primal wallet without hosing my other clients use of getalby seems also to require I set up the primal wallet then go back to my profile and change things back and save. It’s working right now but it seemed a little finicky. Sometimes failing, I think right know with primal I have outgoing zaps through the primal wallet but incoming zaps going to alby? Any way to make this more explicit in the app?


GN


This weekend we will be adding Tor support to all our geo relays. Will not matter as much due to onion routing which choose but will have more on-ramps than our current dedicated #Tor relay.

Site will have updated list once ready. 🤙💜🫂🔒


The idea to just have a means for apple to get their 30% cut through the app to get them off the back for zaps is fine. And primal seems to allow you to move btc from another lightning wallet into the primal wallet so you can avoid the ripoff exchange rate. So as long as apple thinks they can get a cut but no one actually uses the functionality it’s kinda ok to me. However primal seemed glitchy. After I changed my lighting address back in the profile through the app it started acting weird. I could still “zap” but no btc was being exchanged. And then parts of the app started to struggle to load. Like my notes under my profile and I couldn’t get the primal wallet to update.


It lasted a bit more than a week, it cleared up in three days once antibiotics, our experience was pretty mild, nothing to fear. Assuming it doesn’t reverse. They just called it walking pneumonia, and we are in Warren county where the “outbreak” is. Today I’m seeing ‘White Lung’ everywhere. 😉


Will chickens eat ants / ant eggs? Otherwise they may just accelerate returning the wood to soil?


You in Ohio? My daughter had it, antibiotics knocked it out so far.


I am unconvinced


3 mile wifi antenna built with plywood and chicken wire.

https://youtu.be/4axIPJHuDrQ?si=EbdN2-f3KgvasGPu


#bitcoin always remember that folks
https://image.nostr.build/7a875d76faa81555ce9d09e205a26c7ceba69f10f0789b2a8ac44e7cc57e2100.jpg


How does that work?


Back in the day when I was learning how to best fit into a remote engineering team I spent a lot of time thinking about how to get things done.  One thing I decided early on was that I would never, ever, mention a 'problem' unless I had spent time thinking about a solution and had at least one viable solution to propose.  If I couldn't come up with one, I would simply dismiss the problem from my consiousness.  Then in any meeting or interaction, I would bring up the problem and my proposed solution at the same time.

Being surrounded by problems is common in engineering, and maybe in life too.  This technique worked. You will not be seen as complaining constantly about problems, and might actually have a chance fixing them and rallying toward something that will solve them.

Now when I apply this to regular life, it's interesting because I realize that nobody does this, they don't have a solution.  Them complaining about a problem IS as far as they will ever go toward a solution.

Anyway, GM coffeechain! ☕


Welcome


Gm


Do you drink it?


It’s like you think water just falls out of the sky or something.


Radio direction finding:

https://youtu.be/bWs6shlc9m0


Ham Radio Linux Packet Nodes:

https://youtu.be/dMZ8mawceuk


Free to choose, #economics #policy #grownostr https://youtu.be/0uyqBnkPoK0


I commend your lack of inertia. Live long and prosper.


Hello, World!

#introductions


The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear


Welcome to Nostr, you can search and skim the #grownostr hashtag as well as other hashtags then follow people and hashtags you are interested in. What kind of things interest you?


Hey there, this is my first post. I'm trying to figure out how this works.  I followed two people, and the first thing I noticed is I don't see any obvious "feed" type of feature that shows me just what those 2 people may have posted recently. There's all kinds of posts, but none from the 2 I'm following.

Does such a feature exist, or am I misunderstanding how one might normally use Nostr?


How rude


Looks photoshopped


That two timing city girl, Emily… Ben should settle down with someone who won’t do him wrong like that.


i believe this is a damus bug


I think I realized today, a lot of nostr posts are just air replies to X sentiment? 🤔 Otherwise why u shouting bout using corn bro I'm right there wid ya


I purchased this note with zaps.


Flonase, chicken noodle soup, vitamin C, hot water with lemon and maybe honey, cough drops, tissues with the lotion.


In particular the ability to download regions/ cities in advance, I find useful. Especially if I expect to hit some no coverage areas.


Sorry meant to include the link as well. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL


During this period the definition of M1 and M2 changed. The pertinent difference is highlighted. https://image.nostr.build/f1cac1b0246c48bbaf25ff19dd0b2e5fba688f565e75422877b6fa3704743c2a.jpg


Officially requesting we change #foodstr to #nomstr on all future memos and marketing materials.


Fix the family, fix the world.
https://video.nostr.build/0559b13bf5aa8ae72bb929c38506e700b8a01fc4c1f90f8d661c84f4996dd2e9.mp4


This is a neat documentary on ham radio from before Bitcoin.

https://youtu.be/v6-ydrdTPhM


Sdr++ ?


SDRs are fun! #radio #hamradio

https://i.nostrimg.com/de4a3bcfb9a368ca9d275e9188bced08eaed532cb35acbba7d021ab0b32217fd/file.jpg


W4EEY is a very knowledgeable & experienced ham radio operator and teacher.  He has video playlists for all of the levels of ham radio licenses.   The Bitcoin and Nostr community can learn a lot from the old hams like him even though they may not have the same interests/worldview as we do. In this context, we highly recommend him.

This is the playlist for the introductory ham license “Technician”.  Getting the first license has a low bar to overcome, you only need to correctly answer 26 of 35 multiple choice questions (74% score or better). All of the questions are available online.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ_9BZQ8gpzgWJRLjQ18i124LqCVrdUo3


#breadstr … damn autocorrect… nostr:note1xe05tgu8qe42792zxtm73xee7nueejz8vy9z4vczemzc7m79l7xswqeaa8


Buying and selling P2P on Nostr seems a no brainer


I dream of a future with lapdocks and phones running an OS that allows them to sideload any application they desire.


👀

Ham radio rules just had the baud rate limit removed for pushing data over the airwaves.

Think of the possibilities Nostriches and Bitcoiners.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-398409A1.pdf


The moon tonite. #grownostr #nature #moon
https://i.nostr.build/Kqjv.jpg


Nice shirt. https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/b98dd4ee-13b4-4868-985d-ac4205b6279d_1.a34df2cf621f26daef246452b93816cd.jpeg


Breakfast กันลากยาวจนถึงบ่ายโมง เริ่มด้วยเอามันเนื้อและเศษไปเจียวให้ได้น้ำมันแล้วตักมาพักไว้ตอกไข่ใส่ไปในน้ำมัน บิดพริกไทยดำใส่ลงไปตามด้วยเนื้อที่พักไว้ปิดฝา รอได้ที่ตักใส่จานกินคู่กับน้ำปลาพริกนี่มันอร่อยอย่างแรง!!! ส่วนอันที่มีข้าวของแม่
#siamstr #siamstrog #foodstr #beef 🥩💪⚡
https://image.nostr.build/794b29036c68cd81a8d0577253e3e455d0f9b0bdda4bde9a97fb5fb2874c6520.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/533b20206133ad969d4f03b1bbab3ef413344f4495fee62e7ab9597fd93be55f.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/b8baf35bb08b3df91845756353b058dcbb3474f0c3b2d1064e581cb1071a198a.jpg


Any variety you recommend?


Like driving a car, or sailing a boat between ports, or flying a plane. Permissionless radio will also result in fines. I personally am not troubled by it. It doesn’t violate my philosophical tenants. But There is still quite a bit you can learn by yourself without a license it just means you can’t legally transmit, listening doesn’t require a license. Transmission is the thing which could cause a harm. There is a part of the spectrum which you can transmit without a license (see link) if you stay within other requirements. But the licensing process is a key means of gaining the basic knowledge.

I believe this is still accurate https://www.arrl.org/lf-low-frequency