I remember in 2021 they were getting tired of trying to redpill people off the msm, too busy getting jabs and wearing masks. I think we have been turning around somewhat.
I also remember a great video about building a parallel society to escape tyranny. We just have to hit critical mass, where the tyranny cannot survive any longer. Opting out for a better world. But to reach that level you have to spread awareness. There are a lot of slaves working for the Great Reset, we have to pull them out to realize the Great Awakening.
Or maybe we just wait for the TV to tell them the mind-boggling truth some other day.
You don't have to believe any of this to believe in building a better parallel society. Alternatives to fiat and government through Bitcoin and self-sufficiency and local economies. Maybe humanity can't handle so many humans, so we form communities, but there are still those who are left out and there is still too much noise. People making too much noise to find their tribe.
“I’m sorry but I don’t want to be an Emperor, that’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the good Earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little: More than machinery we need humanity; more than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say “Do not despair”.
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die liberty will never perish. . .Soldiers: don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, use you as cannon fodder.
Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate, only the unloved hate – the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers: don’t fight for slavery, fight for liberty.
In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written: “The kingdom of God is within man” Not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men; in you, the people.
You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let us use that power, let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security.
By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfill their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.
Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!
Look up! Look up! The clouds are lifting, the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world – a kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality. The soul of man has been given wings, and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow, into the light of hope, into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up. Look up.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20210811211938/https://www.ingersolllockwood.com/declas-spaceforce-future-proves-past/
Yahoo no longer supports images in signatures. I swear, we're straight up going backwards.
A little bird predicts that shitmail isn't going to last much longer, but instead they'll monetize your emails as data fed to AI. Think of all that data... Nothing is free.
Takeaway today: "brainwashing" requires completely surrounding the target in desirable information. Isolate the target from "misinformation." It helps that humans will naturally prefer to maintain the status quo and reject the idea that they might be wrong.
But if you can break someone's shell and introduce the slightest bit of doubt. Doubt is insidious.
Realized today that sharing snacks/treats is like treating humans to be around you. Human relationships really are kinda like dogs. Also was reading the Angry GM's stuff about how social encounters in RPGs, like in life, are a social abacus of "is it worth it sharing my time with this person."
I would imagine that things that are simple and uniform are harder to break and easier to repair, as you can find replacement parts or the time-honored recipe for success just... works. As to durability, the real test is: can your kid break it?
Murphy's law: more fragile pieces/opportunity for failure = more likely to fail.
Witch hunting became an industry that fed the judges and inquisitors. Witches were blamed for the weather, for mishaps, and tortured without due diligence on anyone's word, even children and felons who could not normally testify. Accomplices were named through torture. Where there was no torture, there were no witches. When they could not seize the witch's assets, there were no witches.
The witches were a group, an army, preventing God's grace. If only we could kill enough witches, earthquakes and killing frosts might not happen.
Pretty interesting. Just a little bit of "The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology" by Rossell Hope Robbins.
Stop pretending everything is gonna be OK.
I am honestly scared. What's gonna happen when Gen Z takes the reins? 10% of us ain't even literate! The doomers and their children, for sure. The apathetic losers and memelords of the apocalypse.
Maybe it's not that bad. But it's still pretty bad.
Nostrasia Edward Snowden notes No. 2
Can we fight it, can we raise awareness, if not can we create new jurisdictions online in our own space. Infrastructure based on other people's stuff isn't secure.
Chinese and U.S. everything apps to contain your life for government review. Nostrverse is a human-based alternative with
infinite variety in apps and clients.
People don't control their own lightning, kinda defeats the point.
Facebook etc. servers were funded, we need to fund them. Avoid monetization and the Twitter points of failure that led to ads and enshittification.
Too much dependence on specific relays that then fold or force everyone to use the same relay.
We need to get new users recognized (they have no followers). Shoutouts?
Nostr isn't ready for a big rush. Get onboarding and everything figured out first. "make it easy, make it friendly, call out what's interesting about nostr"
block lists and follow lists and trending people etc. to help new users out.
agitate. Free Assange. They could, but they don't.
reading suggestions:
discourses on voluntary servitude
the wealth of nations
Teach how the internet/technology/phones works
We want to make it accessible to the non-specialists. Not a religion for the techpriests but accessible to all.
Nostrasia Edward Snowden notes #1
"everybody is shouting and noone is listening"
small community is better.
"government is done to us". They don't want pushback. Comfortable silence, "we'll fix the problems if you let us".
The point of democracy is that we can debate.
average people (gross) don't have a huge desire to understand and use security. npubs and nsecs are meaningless to people used to usernames.
adversaries are studying us like we're studying them.
"authoritarian center of gravity" governments move towards using emergencies to violate civil rights.
Watching nostrasia. Yeah, people tend to see bitcoin and company as a ponzi scheme, where the rest of us who believe see it as something that gets more valuable when more people invest in it and use it, which is really true of anything.
It feels like there was a preemptive smear campaign against the future. There are no coincidences around timelords lol. It feels like things turn out *too* well for them sometimes.
It seems like predominantly guys transition. Gotta make up for your original white sin. I'm sorry, but I don't want to be uncomfortable in my own skin anymore. Call it white pride if you want.
I'm not really a rebel. I'm just so tired of all the bullshit that I don't go along with it anymore.
Ya, peace through strength. I think the most powerful tactic against any division/worldview is to show that we're on the opposite side, but we're rational humans. Mobs are faceless.
But we're not on anyone's side are we? hahahaha.
This is what we need.
Personal relays: It only stores my posts, but everyone can see my posts by joining the relay.
Household/town relays; if I know you in person, we have our private relay
Community relays; if we like the same thing, we share a relay, maybe we even pay for it.
Public relays; Gossipstations
Freedom ain't free. If you want to keep the comms up you have to host it and pay for it. Free gets you noticed, but the people who pay are here to stay.
Is there a way to teach nostr clients to prioritize loading specific relays? And then yeah, it'd be nice to see what relays people are on publicly so you can get max connectivity.
Who's ready for World War 3? Time to unpack my unwanted opinions today (whump).
The U.S. has no clue what they're doing, the Middle East is a sociopolitical bomb they're going to activate, and the UN is literally sitting back to let us take the explosion in the face because they're too lazy to take care of shit themselves. It's been the same way for a long time.
Everyone gets hurt, and the only people who benefit from chaos and war are They Who Shall Not Be Named. I'm really glad that in the last 20 years we've learned nothing about foreign policy. (except that one orange guy who was allowed into North Korea. We don't talk about him.)
Man, I can't wait for the masses to get duped into yet another war. Where is my money going again?
C'est la vie!
As in digital goods or physical ones? I would think of selling little digital items or services, like Symbi for zaps
Personally I like craigslist/facebook marketplace, where it's as hands-off as possible. I'm not much of a coder so I couldn't help anywise hah...
All value stems from human interaction. The internet just makes this more clear than ever: you can see the value of a bitcoin which has no physical value, because we agree to use it and give it value. Same thing with currency. Social media exists because we agree to use it.
Money=Attention=Money
Going to keep hoping for relay neighborhoods a la Geocities. Specialized relays for specific topics and groups. Can't get telegram working :(
Then people can choose to avoid Nostr orange-pill zappaganda. I don't understand why they would, but they could.
anarchy =/= communism
shared universal fears
same problem different solutions different eyes separate hearts beat against each other the devil (the distance between us) laughs
my anger is concentrated into sarcasm all caps is a psyop the state will harness and manufacture your rage give them nothing to work with but questions defy everything
haha good game play your own way
Freedom is a buzzword. You forget freedom from God, freedom from Church, freedom from family and work and life. Freedom to break the law, to take drugs, to destroy the good and create the obscene. Yes, freedom from dictators. No, freedom from morality.
Bitcoin is an idea
It is a lifestyle
It is defiance
It is international
It is uncontrollable
It is independence
It is a community
It is a flood
It is much more than a currency.
It is insurance against government.
It is liquid gold based on the people, for the people.
(Also fuck CBDCs.)
Today: figuring out a hotspot and cameras. Also today: the horrifying realization that anyone could be watching the security cameras with the right IP address. Just, why?
It seems like there's a conflict of interests between the people who want to use Nostr as a community for Bitcoin and development, and people who just want to use Nostr like any other platform (gross, I know). I think global feed is a good example of that looks like.
Not all of us plebs have taken the deep dive yet... (I need to learn to Bitcoin...) But through acceptance and later osmosis, you might infect the world with knowledge.
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