X could still be the biggest Nostr client if Elon truly believes in free speech.

They still have a year before Amethyst passes them 😎


NOSTR FIXES THIS.

https://cdn.satellite.earth/a5ad48db241f3f77e8336329fa8f6281be2613363414968ae5d097231854ed54.png


my first post on here, y'all kindly show me love

https://m.primal.net/KsiR.jpg


A very good and brilliant initiative, but for this to work perfectly well,we will need a decentralised Google like platform as Google is also part of the problem

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can't tell you, I have geolocation off but it is morning here too


GM #Nostr 🫂🎨💜
https://creatr.nostr.wine/creator/content/50160f89-3aa3-4772-b1a9-6ec5711a0654.jpg


New Tor defaults and per-account settings for Amethyst. Things are getting exciting! https://image.nostr.build/f3102e9eb96fd7a7a19c62ad787bf00625c9166b4fde62ba7f1272b0d1214be4.jpg


#SimpleX founder Evgeny Poberezkin speaking truth. #Nostr focuses on censorship resistance with privacy as an afterthought. SimpleX focus is on privacy. Do not confuse the two.

> **Censorship resistance and privacy are in a contradiction - the more censorship resistant a communication solution is, the less private it is, inevitably.**
>
> Evgeny Poberezkin

https://i.nostr.build/GnyxMZRnCnOf9zzh.jpg

#ikitao #opensource #privacy #nostr #censorship


👀
https://image.nostr.build/fa88640b2724c9e2383bc2108c92f87c196bb38a22494305e55cdaa4a7ec9141.jpg


Fuck these people...

The rich and famous will be shielded from continuous AI supervision. Rules for thee but not for me.

"Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on," Ellison said, describing what he sees as the benefits from automated oversight from AI ...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/


HA!

https://nostpic.com/media/04c960497af618ae18f5147b3e5c309ef3d8a6251768a1c0820e02c93768cc3b/a65af087d55a81ceada3c1da4ccb8a2964e67cb4ce39cb40abdfc1eef3d9b23e.webp

#SilkySlyMe


I like green tea !

https://nostpic.com/media/04c960497af618ae18f5147b3e5c309ef3d8a6251768a1c0820e02c93768cc3b/2978169ee3f36d0839fb4d4a1a93f8367de4ff711f57920020369eafebaeae3c.webp

#ComingAndGoing


🙃😂😂😂

I disagree...but it's funny... https://nostpic.com/media/04c960497af618ae18f5147b3e5c309ef3d8a6251768a1c0820e02c93768cc3b/40046fec203ec5fe9b93abac07bb7fd84695567467f4bf3e4e4be5734c68e15c.webp

#ToooooFunny


Ouch !

https://nostpic.com/media/04c960497af618ae18f5147b3e5c309ef3d8a6251768a1c0820e02c93768cc3b/a3e211316dd18cb41401c4ff9f5faf1d28bc8d3f63acc13472f818942f3eae92.webp

#TruthBeTold


https://image.nostr.build/5410cadb3b87e8ebebee0df5fc84b80adb79d8de7d17feaf7c5f78fac53025fe.jpg

🤨🤨🤨

#CNN #ABC #NBC #CBS #MSNBC #Media #Fiat #USD #Kamala #Harris #Walz #Biden #Communist #Woke #Shit #Left #Democrat #Fake #Drunk #Liar #Hollywood #DNC 🫏 #Chicago #Boston #Evil #BrandonJohnson #Crooks #Pedophiles #Illegals #AntiFreeSpeech #Against1stAmendment #WEF #Schwab #Soros #Climate #California #Ignorant #ProAbortion #Haitians #BlackRock #OpenBorders #DestroyAmerica #Wisconsin


it's morning here


My city... Genova, Italy 🇮🇹
https://files.v0l.io/efa921c8aef848e3f5ecf42e2e8021fa40c1399bf3a2596606c12c0a3ad385be.mp4


Almost every human npub on Nostr is a lurker.


My backyard.

I love it here. https://image.nostr.build/123ffd455fd0041b91acbabe5a3d3d94d209d9fc13b8f3c433ec620f36cb8a75.jpg


What doesn’t kill you just makes you stranger.

GN 🌙 PV 🤙


#meme #memes #memestr #nostrmemes https://video.nostr.build/d5b720a0cc41987388945dc1ff9d3306b24b5e1af87d3538353215e4e424645c.mp4


that is two, where is the Trinity?


buy less foods


THE X ACCOUNT OF THE RECENT TRUMP SHOOTER WAS IMMEDIATELY SUSPENDED LEAVING PEOPLE TO SCAVENGE THROUGH UNVERIFIABLE SCREENSHOTS TO INDEPENDENTLY RESEARCH HIS MOTIVES AND CONNECTIONS.

NOSTR FIXES THIS.

https://cdn.satellite.earth/145c390b885d50604c662d73f98b46248136c662553e1a2506551cb97d4cfff5.jpg


Getting close with Queen Lola 🦁💜
#lions https://i.nostr.build/nUsF8nUFro2vAruq.jpg


blue spot in grey sky?


💡
https://image.nostr.build/ac79794466874fbf20642909a95fe529a1092f88955a93aee973f9a3d7a05a9d.jpg


The most punk thing that you can do right now is be happy.

The mainstream wants you exhausted, unhealthy, doomscrolling, angry and pathetic. It drives more clicks and advertisers. Finding true joy has become edgy.


AI is finally getting hands right. https://image.nostr.build/3c1dd258f903fc6dd7107b1aab8955a98cc38b46b01a1f30071a1837bab2ed43.jpg


Flats or Drummies? #asknostr #cooking #foodstr #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/8c35ce2f2aa19e9277bf4d4d00b8074a8ff65fd781641b69703099d3bece8504.jpg


The God of Jesus Christ was the God of Israel who is one.

‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

 “Well said, teacher,” the man replied. “You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him."

(Mark 12:28-32)


there is no such thing as the Trinity


There is no evidence to prove that Jesus is God.

The question of who Jesus is has been answered by Simon Peter with these words:

 “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

(Matthew 16:16)

To this Jesus replied:

“Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven.

If your faith says something else about Jesus you are in deep trouble


"God became man" in Christian religion, but not in the Word of God.

1 Timothy 6:16 says about God that he "alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see."

If Jesus had been God, no one would have seen him and he would never have died.

The Gospel of God teaches that God sent his Son to the world, not that "God became man" which he never did.


the accusation Jesus’ opponents made was false, Jesus didn’t make himself to God, he says that he is the Son of God


July 21, 2024 DONALD TRUMP Named MESSIAH by Rabbi Isser Weisberg

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

https://www.chabad.org/search/keyword_cdo/kid/11924/jewish/Isser-Zalman-Weisberg.htm

https://www.chabad-mafia.com/


alt Brave Browser Linux Privacy Browser Spyware High

https://image.nostr.build/e5273fc61f627e1042b54c71180cd90a4b77b47dd9fbde5c5c02c53f8a57a33b.jpg

# Brave Browser (HIGH Spyware)

Brave is a favorite browser among those trying to escape all the spying and tracking forced on us by Big Tech, but it still has a little spyware in it.

It is ranked with a spyware level of HIGH at neocities dot org, which is the same as Firefox.

[Neocities Brave Browser review and ranking](https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave.html)

Brave intentionally leaves some spyware in so you can still get things done online without much headache.  Brave is a good browser if you want to cut down on the spyware as much as possible while still keeping most things functional. However, unlike Firefox, there is no way to mitigate against some of the spyware features.

Brave was created by Brendan Eich, the ex-CEO of Mozilla (Firefox) who was forced out of his position because he donated to the traditional marriage Prop 8 in California.  Brendan Eich has also spoken out against vaccine mandates, so at least we know this browser has conservative backings, and isn't run by the leftist commies.

You can install Brave Browser on DeGoogled phones using the [FFUpdater app from F-Droid](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/).

[⚡ Follow Freedom Tech](http://primal.net/p/npub1fkluklzamwpyn7w8awxzrcqe7z8mldlvthk4gz9kz3vsh6udz62s9qj48l)

#PrivacyBrowsers #Linux #DeGoogledPhones #FreedomTech #BraveBrowser


https://image.nostr.build/e4398565ac5766abf89dfc8672da3473200864de1865bf6af2caa1cfc4c544d4.jpg

# Brave Search Now Has Independent Image Search

There is now another descent image/video search option other than MS Bing and Google for image search.

Brave Search (search.brave.com) introduced their own image and video search results yesterday. You can read about it 👉 [here in there news release](https://brave.com/image-video-search/).

Users no longer have to choose between MS Bing or Google.

Back in 2018, Mozilla ousted their own CEO Brendan Eich because of his conservative views and activism, so he moved on to become the CEO Brave Software.

The ousting of Brendan appears to have backfired on the cultural Marxist extremists running Big Tech. With Brendan at the helm of Brave Software, Brave has created a much better browser than Firefox, and they have now created a serious search engine contender.

Go ahead, give [Brave Search](https://search.brave.com/) a go.  It's one of the best out there. It's also one of the few that has it's own search index.

[⚡ Follow Freedom Tech](http://primal.net/p/npub1fkluklzamwpyn7w8awxzrcqe7z8mldlvthk4gz9kz3vsh6udz62s9qj48l)

#PrivacySearchEngine #BraveSearch #BraveBrowser #FreedomTech #DeGoogled


Introducing Paid Monero Nostr Relays! 🛡
To keep your feed clean and spam-free, simply pay a small fee with Monero to a relay. Your pubkey gets whitelisted, allowing you to publish events there.
Reading from these relays remains free for everyone, ensuring curated and quality content on the global page. Experience a more refined and secure Nostr with Monero. #Monero #Nostr #Privacy
https://pmnr.xmr.rocks/


Not a bad afternoon view 🐘💜 https://i.nostr.build/rSwFzbVl6UGzoEwN.jpg


https://m.primal.net/Kpyt.jpg
Proud to be a Home-School dad!
My 4 year old son was just discussing the different pilons used to distribute lateral load on large-span bridges...


Cool graphic from Brian Roemmele. https://i.nostr.build/1UmPuTXfOkXijtZQ.jpg


I do


Well, when you put it like that… 🤯
https://m.primal.net/KfOz.jpg


Picture this:
1. You type on Google "laptop won't turn on"
2. Google now knows you have a broken laptop and can estimate how desperate you are to fix it.
3. Because it knows how desperate you are, it can increase shop prices proportionally.

You are going to pay the maximum they get you to pay.

That's algorithmic pricing.

The more companies know about you, the more they can predict and sell how desperate you are to other stores out there.

An internet-connected car knows much more about you than you realize. A smart TV also knows what you like. Your Alexa knows if there is a problem in the home.

Privacy is much more than just sensitive data.

It's about not giving leverage away.

Because algorithms will use it against you.

Be safe out there.


It's that simple, ladies and gentlemen. How about separating ourselves from technology altogether as the ULTIMATE goal?

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BlackRock is the largest shareholder of the world's largest Bitcoin miner, holding 12%.

The current price is below BlackRock's average purchase price.

Why has BlackRock tripled its position in less than 10 months and doubled it from April this year to July?

https://image.nostr.build/17a7927c30b3c2c904edc5a872caf65b41b4ae430afd2acd4ac69208ff2bf527.png


So BTC is now compromised as a result of BlackRock seeing green in BTC. Sad.

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I actually would rather Monero be used than BTC or BCH if it's not designed to help with OPSEC. Good call.

nostr:note13z07804fs5glt9qfwz266nc8qdly8zvqjdp7q0yvh2nm3zhula5qnjpsg8


”Taylor Swift is not a psyop” https://video.nostr.build/292dd3c4bb6754bb2bba316189d0aaf64c46e666098a5c7e05ac5398fb62680b.mp4


Hello again, Nostr.

I managed to upload noclvag to a git forge. You can find it at https://codeberg.org/alex0jsan/noclvag

Please give it a try and let me know what you think.

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpmljvl9pm8uuhf6pajvct9j2p7c6ah5tq8ae4k0hpy8auve5f957qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qqsrwk6evsxnuydgh2s4kcu96mx5qu5yr5n24a42dqp0wza9g8y6x0s4m0rn4


Nostr is about replying. Engaging in conversations. Building your social graph.

There is no algo to spoon feed you. Effort is rewarded.
https://m.primal.net/Kcfz.jpg


Bees know honey's sweet truth, no time wasted on flies. Like #Bitcoin, some gotta taste the #USDollar's bitterness to crave change. Ever had that "aha" moment? #CryptoAwakening . https://image.nostr.build/df31a863494a47ee53020283c44b126f056a63247b7d49ecb6c38fc8ba314138.jpg


Ukraine could not use British missiles effectively without US data – Times

From RT

Storm Shadow missiles will not hit their targets if London unilaterally allows Kiev to strike deep into Russia, sources have said Ukraine will not be able to effectively use British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles for long-range attacks on Russia without targeting data provided by the US, The Times has reported. In an article on Saturday, the […]

Sep 15th 2024 3:48am EDT

Source Link: https://www.rt.com/news/604039-uk-us-ukraine-missile/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS

Internet Archive Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240915075501/https://www.rt.com/news/604039-uk-us-ukraine-missile/

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Christians Are Being Hounded From Their Jobs by the Perpetually Offended

From David Icke

There is an outright onslaught on Christianity in the Western world. The faith on which our civilisation was built is being mocked and regarded with contempt. This is painfully visible in the U.K. which suffers possibly the highest number of incidents of intolerance against Christians in the Western world. It did not start out like […]

Sep 15th 2024 3:45am EDT

Source Link: https://davidicke.com/2024/09/15/christians-are-being-hounded-from-their-jobs-by-the-perpetually-offended/

Internet Archive Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240915075221/https://davidicke.com/2024/09/15/christians-are-being-hounded-from-their-jobs-by-the-perpetually-offended/

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Russian Electronic Warfare Makes GPS Useless for Ukraine’s Guided Missiles – Reports

From Sputnik

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Electronic warfare (EW) used by the Russian army has made Ukraine’s attempts to use the GPS system to guide missiles useless, the Times reported on Sunday, citing a British military source.

Sep 15th 2024 3:04am EDT

Source Link: https://sputnikglobe.com/20240915/russian-electronic-warfare-makes-gps-useless-for-ukraines-guided-missiles---reports-1120158739.html

Internet Archive Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240915071221/https://sputnikglobe.com/20240915/russian-electronic-warfare-makes-gps-useless-for-ukraines-guided-missiles---reports-1120158739.html

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For new nostriches that ask this question in your #introductions. The bad ass Kat has laid it all out for you. nostr:note1pcf0kqmdn9mq634zwu6tk4snt08fjlgw78rvcdx89ssxmfyp0evs2qmzk5


Are New-World-Order Elites Plotting To Use AI To ‘Deprogram’ So-Called Conspiracy Theorists?

From ZeroHedge

Authored by Jacob Burns via HeadlineUSA.com, Might the New World Order use biased, pre-manipulated artificial intelligence programs to try to “deprogram” those with unpopular opinions by persuading them that their logic does not compute? A recent study on that subject underwritten by the John Templeton Foundation might give so-called conspiracy theorists […]

Sep 14th 2024 11:20pm EDT

Source Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/are-new-world-order-elites-plotting-use-ai-deprogram-so-called-conspiracy-theorists

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Mastodon is German, there is no free speech in Germany


https://mostr.pub/  and  https://momostr.pink/ are good for breaking the barriers between Nostr and "Mastodon"

I was able to talk to Nostr from ActivityPub


"Being psychologically normal is the same thing... you think the way everyone else does."

that way you won't be successful in creating anything new


Well that’s a wrap on 48 hours in Dubai!
What an amazing place, so much wealth, construction and culture.
I urge if you can to visit, it’s incredible and very forward thinking just don’t visit during these too warm months! 💜🫂 https://i.nostr.build/pWBG89RdcAbz4DkC.jpg https://i.nostr.build/N5L63Ba0vlvrLf4O.jpg https://i.nostr.build/lj0JpMRcqi3vGgrH.jpg https://i.nostr.build/dyf9jVMYUueblqOv.jpg


ok. “normal” means what you say, I thought about psychological normalcy


I don't know if this makes any sense


Aaron Swartz would have loved nostr.

Effectively the culmination of his life’s work.

1999: At the age of 12, he co-authored the RSS 1.0 specification, which is a format for syndicating web content.

2000: Swartz became a member of the Creative Commons organization, which aims to expand the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally.

2002: He founded the Infogami platform, which later merged with Reddit.

2005: Swartz joined Reddit as a co-founder after a merger with Infogami.

2006: He left Reddit and began working on various projects, including the development of the web application framework, "Open Library," which aimed to create a web page for every book ever published.

2008: Swartz was involved in the development of the "Demand Progress" organization, which focused on issues related to internet freedom and government transparency.

 2010: He played a significant role in the campaign against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), advocating for internet freedom. He also developed a tool that allowed users to download large amounts of data from PACER  (Public Access to Court Electronic Records), which was typically behind a paywall.

 2011: Swartz was arrested for downloading a large number of academic journal articles from JSTOR with the intent to distribute them freely.  The U.S. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts pursued the case against Swartz, and he faced the possibility of severe penalties, including up to 35 years in prison.

 2012: On January 11, Aaron Swartz tragically passed away at the age of 26. He allegedly took his own life due to the pressure of government prosecution.

https://cdn.satellite.earth/43780cc29e73f0ac8a226aba6e3ca93422a9022c4b27422995e5b99127d8d900.mp4


read it from the Hebrew Bible

https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt1059.htm


I am not getting new posts


Those who run out of fiat to stack more sats, here is the trick 😁
https://m.primal.net/JxpT.jpg


I wish there were a country that welcomed those who choose to renounce their citizenship


If you all will not start demanding #nostr devs to implement privacy NIPs then 99% will end up with troubles and in jail !


Repguy attack is the attack on the free relays and Nostr growing popularity. The goal of this attack is to overload free relays with spam events and create the impression among new users that the protocol is susceptible to attacks by bots and spammers. Supporters of the idea of paid and exclusive relays for all users without exception are probably happy.

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Easy. Deep packet inspection (DPI) working very well for censorship in many countries. Sometimes authorities in my country even block masked/obfuscated traffic through Shadowsocks etc, and no matter traffic is coming from known VPN provider or your rented private server.

But at such moments the infrastructure for delivering regular traffic is usually disrupted, and encrypted VPN is still needed for business purposes inside the country, so the authorities do not block Shadowsocks and similar protocols completely yet.

Such protocols as OpenVPN, L2TP, IKEv2, WireGuard aren't working in my country right now. Sometimes for someone WG is working, but not for me. I also noticed that mobile internet providers block Shadowsocks more often and for longer periods than 'wired' internet providers.

By the way my VPN provider created a special page for users from my country, where it tells how to switch to SS and Outline.


Good holidays on the Lake Baikal

https://image.nostr.build/6554f9cb584b83ec963bda62b81204a5bfbd4af414f0429071a64bdf0197afcf.jpg


Mushroom season

https://image.nostr.build/83e989a15cb56e2f2fe9132061ba52f95cc27370772b2be06d2922ea5e906cf7.jpg


Dubai Mall, the biggest mall in the world! Was only able to cover I’d say 25% of it! So much marble, luxury stores and security like nothing I’ve ever seen! There’s guards and sheikh’s everywhere and this store also had 2 security guards at the entrance!
Mind blown 🤯 💜
#dubai https://i.nostr.build/L4w7GmDZCVLYohOO.jpg https://i.nostr.build/uw3BLIh2pJw9oOtj.jpg https://i.nostr.build/hD1TrndLW64cMbVx.jpg


Little things add up. Don't dismiss them.


you have no such information, you write a lot of BS but some of it is entertaining like the talk about tits


I am not telling entertainers to commit suicide


“...you will be going against most of the people on this planet”

yes, and that includes the people who profess the Christian religion.

Jesus Christ: “Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.”

John 17:3

Christian religion: “Whosoever will be saved , before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith except everyone do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.

And the Catholic Faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity”

https://www.anglicancommunion.org/media/109017/Athanasian-Creed.pdf

#Christianity #Jesus #God #Bible


in the past 330 days, the damus relay has transferred 104 TB of notes


Nostr may be slightly better but Fediverse died when thor left


everyone includes you


Butter used to be something that clogs your arteries, now it lubricates them

https://primaforce.com/blogs/articles/fact-or-fiction-does-butter-clog-your-arteries?srsltid=AfmBOoqP42UYj6dyoazWLtrhakmSetR4AS0CI9YaA1Y9CwEt5OAtiisJ


that would be sad, Nostr would die with all the entertainment gone


To stay healthy these days I watch my diet-avoid seed oils, processed foods, carbs and eat mostly meat, eggs and cheese. I also get a full blood work up  + urinalysis once to twice a year. If you want to avoid prescription drugs for chronic illness, I think it’s better to take charge of your own health rather than rely on a physician. Here are the markers I find most helpful:

HbA1c < 5.7
Fasting glucose < 100
TG/HDL < 2
Triglycerides < 170
Uric acid < 5.6

And waist to hip ratio should be less than .8

Am I missing any?


Imagine eating seed oil spread when there is this-

#butter https://image.nostr.build/eece554339a915102314cb5090210335d7cb054a5913fde50db6be39868dc4f7.jpg


Our Nostr client product NostrX is now live — a powerful Nostr client integrated seamlessly with telegram

We've streamlined the process of entering the #Nostr ecosystem, offering a sleek, user-friendly interface with intuitive, easy-to-use features.

Join us now: t.me/nostrx_bot

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https://m.primal.net/KnYr.mov


ECB cuts deposit facility rate by 0.25 percentage points.

Christine Lagarde says inflation will decline to 2% [theft of purchasing power] per year in 2025.

Remember, kids: fiat monetary inflation never stops, it just slows down enough so you forget they’re robbing you. https://v.nostr.build/46OxNBVikPohyb9v.mp4


https://m.primal.net/Knmm.jpg

test


Nation-wide disruptions of Germany credit card network. Bitcoin fixes this.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/germany-hit-nationwide-disruption-card-101655382.html


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Pfizer Launches PfizerForAll™

From Dr. Peter McCullough MD

Pfizer’s passionate and dogged pursuit of profits reminds me of a funny quote I once read about a New York City playboy at the end of the 19th century. He pursued pleasure so hard that he overtook it. Whoever wrote this— and I think it may have been Ambrose Bierce—appears to have borrowed the phase […]

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Most Shared:
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Most Zapped:
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GERMANY - Production losses, redundancies - economic crash looming!

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


Bill Gates Wants AI-Based Real-Time Censorship for Vaccine ‘Misinformation’

https://www.infowars.com/posts/bill-gates-wants-ai-based-real-time-censorship-for-vaccine-misinformation/

#Zap to support, DM to suggest new feeds.


Locked into a nice one in Bali earlier in the year, then the next wave I got dragged over the reef 🫠
Thanks to @balishots for nailing the photo 🙏🏽

#surf
#lineup
#photostr
#photographerstr
#bali
#photography
#artstr
#grownostr
#plebchain
#surfer
#waterphotography https://image.nostr.build/a82c0cb729fa1bab9ab9b107b50dcb4ef89ea23bc513c1deaadf0b1e1a2001d5.jpg


My favorite #Nostr related services

Nostr.band
See what notes are trending

Nostr.build
An absolutely great media uploader and media cloud storage

NIP-05.com
Get a verified nostr address (look at my address in my profile)

npub.pro
Beautiful nostr based websites

Zaplife.lol
See who zaps who on nostr

Zap.cooking
A place for hungry food artists

Emojito.meme
Download custom emojis

Joinstr.xyz
Coinjoin your #bitcoin through nostr relays

Zap.stream
Live streaming with zapping

go.Yondar.me
A social map

Spring.site
A nostr browser to visit nostr sites

Blogstack.io
Decentralized nostr blogs with zaps

Nosta.me
Simple, guided nostr onboarding


Sailing mis-adventures.

We’d spent a couple of days anchored up in refuge cove while a front passed through. Winds funneled down the valleys from different directions spinning us around the anchor causing it to get tangled. We brought Heart of Gold close to shore and tied off to a tree while we untangled the chain. Meanwhile the tide went out and we found ourselves high and dry on the beach until it came back in.
No harm done and a couple lessons learnt ⛵⚓

#sailing
#yacht
#boat
#photostr
#photographerstr
#australia
#austr
#photography
#art
#artstr
#grownostr
https://m.primal.net/Klvt.jpg


If you want to grow nostr, invite people you know, losers.


Australia social network bill is insane. Are people up in arms over it at all?

You basically can’t criticize your government… that’s loss of democracy full stop.


 I don't believe in reincarnation, I believe this:

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die”


In my experience the short term titillation of somebody “liking “ your post or engaging online is outweighed by the cavernous sense of isolation I feel interacting this way. Nostr is the only social media I have now but I have felt more isolated and alone then I’ve ever felt before I engaged with social media. I’m old enough to remember life without it and I agree with you that it hasn’t been positive for the human race. Or if it has the positive has been dwarfed by the negative IMO. Definitely a double edged sword.


I completely agree that it's astonishing how much people share about their personal lives online. I've noticed that whenever I take a break from social media, it's as if I've fallen off the face of the earth, friends seem to forget about me altogether. I also feel the same way when I don't participate, it's like I'm being left out. It's like you can only be friends now if you're actual friends online. Digital friendship has almost overtaken personal, real friendship, and now I can understand why everyone feels so lonely. Before, if you wanted to see how a friend was doing, you would have to go see them or call them. Now people can feel like they know what's going on with you with zero interaction because they can see your posts. I post less now, but there was a time when I posted a lot. I've deleted everything basically now, besides X and Nostr. It was eye-opening when I would talk to someone who I hadn't talked to in a long time and they could bring up so much stuff about me that we never personally spoke about to them.

Also, it's becoming increasingly dangerous to post too much identifiable information. A lot of attacks and robberies are being planned based on information someone posts on their social media.

It's crazy how people tie their self-worth to online validation, likes, comments, and followers have become the ultimate measure of popularity. This creates a lot of anxiety and stress associated to social media use. Even on Instagram, people are ditching traditional posts for stories, likely because there is less pressure to get likes and comments.

Social media has changed a lot. It's definitely ingrained into society now. One of the biggest dangers is that the algorithm has the ability to shape minds all over the world. They can make you perceive whatever they want. Social media I think, can be a good or bad thing based on how you use it. You can scroll your feed chronologically on X, think for yourself, or fall into the "For You" page and be told how to think. The danger is that they are all run by big corporations that have done everything they can to make it as addictive as possible, so it's actually become a net negative for most people. They are also not in the business of making you happier or smarter, so they will push whatever governments or corporations tell them to. Maybe Nostr fixes this.


As an analytical person and former psychologist, I’ve always been fascinated by studying human behavior—especially in the digital age. The idea of sharing one’s life online is an entirely new phenomenon, unique to this century.

While reading “Hatching Twitter” (though I’m not convinced we’re getting the real version of that story), one of the early chapters mentions that no one would feel comfortable sharing their life online. Today, that thought seems almost bizarre when you consider how nearly everyone is doing just that. However, I’m left questioning how beneficial this has been for humanity as a whole.

I find myself comparing this to the invention of electricity, which fills me with awe and a sense of advancement. But when it comes to the tech revolution and its effects on the human mind, I have my doubts. The original intention of social media was to make people feel more connected and less alone, but paradoxically, it feels like people are more isolated than ever before.

Last year, I took a significant step back from social media. I shut down my online business, deleted all social media apps from my phone, and nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m  can vouch for this—each time he showed me something from one of those apps, I felt disgusted with what the world had become. During that time, I felt truly free, as if I had finally taken off a mask. However, I also noticed an odd side effect: I felt disconnected from the world. I wasn’t updated on what my friends were doing, and I missed that sense of social interaction, even if it was superficial.

One of the most intriguing aspects of social media is how followers, likes, and engagement seem to dictate people’s sense of worth and relationships. People can become genuinely offended if someone they know unfollows them, to the point where they may not want to maintain an in-person relationship anymore. It’s as if the virtual world is dictating real-life connections: “Oh, you unfollowed me? I guess we can’t be friends in real life.” It’s a strange, almost absurd shift in human interaction.

Another bizarre aspect of social media is the idea that people who don’t resonate with you—or even dislike you—can still follow your life closely. They can see what you think, feel, and do daily. Ex-lovers and people from your past are just one click away from finding out what you’re up to nowadays. This level of access to personal information still feels surreal to me. How much information we handle and share without second thoughts is, frankly, unsettling.

In the end, while social media has undoubtedly changed the way we connect, it raises the question: has it truly improved our lives, or are we more isolated, less authentic, and increasingly detached from genuine human connection?

#FoodForThought #AskNostr

Btw, GM Fam🌹


I had a cousin commit suicide this week.

Please remember that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.


When cry-bullying and sadism replace military discipline, military forces will suffer astonishing and disproportionate casualties against an even minimally-trained and equipped enemy.

The Dirlewanger Brigade learned this in the Warsaw Ghetto.

The IDF are learning it now.

Infamous Israeli colonel (and smugly-confident liar) critically injured in Gaza: https://qudsnen.co/?p=47727


If we want Nostr to truly protect privacy and resist censorship—like when X faced a government ban—we need to stop relying on relays with known IPs or domain names.

We need encrypted traffic between clients and servers by default. That means Tor (and networks like I2P and Nym) should just work right out of the box, ideally without leaving the mixnet where traffic could be exposed at the exit node.

💡 A lot of relay operators are already running Tor onion services, which is awesome—but we need to make them easier to discover and use. If a public relay becomes unavailable, we should be able to switch to the Onion service version seamlessly.

What do we need to do to make this happen? First, it’s about getting Nostr relay software to publish the Onion address when it’s set up. Then, it’s about getting clients to handle alternative transports like Tor or I2P natively, letting users choose between IP (TCP/IP), Tor, or other options.

We could also explore mapping DNS records to onion addresses or including the info in HTTP headers. But maybe the most straightforward approach is extending NIP-11 to include alternate transport details so that everything's baked into the protocol.

What do you all think? How can we push this forward? Let’s brainstorm and figure out the best way to support these privacy-preserving networks and keep Nostr resilient. I think we need Tor support in native clients where users can turn it on with a single click. Or maybe even have it attempt Tor as a fallback when the normal way of connecting fails.

This isn’t a big change current relay info ospec here: NIP-11 https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/11.md


A reminder sent to the European Parliament and the European Council: this is what Chat Control and the Going Dark initiative will result in – total surveillance and the end of secure and private communication.

You can read the articles at mullvad.net/why-privacy-matters

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I may have gotten a small drone. Here is our main garden. It only took 2 crashes to get it.
#dronestr #grownostr #gardenstr https://image.nostr.build/d3fc0c77aac2c85bfb65ef67013a5a1fa8aadfb1c8f0611ff1fd7ffee1a9f1b6.jpg


If it's not open source, it's not private.

If you can't choose to use your own server, it's not private.

If you can't use it when the company is gone, it's not private.

If you can't create anonymous accounts, it's not private.

Stop trusting the marketing. Start verifying.


no idea


I checked that word, it means "cheerful", I am more like depressed


I don't know what "gay" means I live in Sweden


I can’t understand the American obsession with tits
tits show that humans are mammals, that’s all


Here's my profile for Reason on Nostr and why it could very well change the world

Pasting a few paragraphs here, you can find the rest at the link

Feel free to spread far and wide 😉

*************

Can Nostr Make Twitter's Dreams Come True?

Twitter's founder says Nostr is “100 percent what we wanted”—an open, ownerless network

Alex Gladstein | 8.13.2024

Virtually everyone agrees that social media is broken. On Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok, people fear out-of-control algorithms, fake news, state actor censorship, and propaganda. Google and Meta collect vast troves of personal information on their users and receive hundreds of thousands of requests every year from governments around the world to access that data. YouTube has become arguably "the most powerful media platform in the history of humanity," yet its algorithm is an ever-changing black box to the creators that populate the platform with videos. During the pandemic, federal officials were in contact with every major social media platform, coercing them to remove content.

The problem is centralized control. We can't trust companies to run our primary communications infrastructure. Government regulation only makes matters worse because it creates new legal barriers to entering the industry, which protects incumbent players and stifles innovation.

What if there were an alternative, not owned by Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, or the Chinese Communist Party? What if there were a way to control your own data to prevent companies from harvesting and monetizing it? What if you had granular control over what you see in your feed, with the freedom to choose your own algorithms? What if you owned your identity, which could be accessed seamlessly across different clients? That way, if you disapprove of the changes that Elon Musk brought to X, instead of closing your account you could take your handle and followers elsewhere.

That alternative exists. It's called "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays"—or Nostr.

The Decentralized Solution

Invented by a pseudonymous programmer and overwhelmingly funded by grants from non-profit foundations, this decentralized, free, and open-source protocol has been quietly evolving for the past three years. Like bitcoin, Nostr is a community-run digital network highly resistant to censorship and corruption. It has 40,000 weekly active users and a growing ecosystem of clients and applications ranging from social media to long-form publishing to payments.

Nostr is only necessary because our existing internet is so broken.

Fifteen years ago, social media seemed destined to decentralize the world and give power back to the people. In 2009, we watched as Arab Spring activists used Twitter and Facebook to organize, coordinate, and help topple several long-standing dictatorships. The promise was that these new social platforms, designed by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, could help liberate the masses.

It was intoxicating—but turned out to be a mirage. The Arab revolutions stalled out when brutal military regimes cracked down. These platforms became tools for spying and censoring their users. X and Facebook have helped journalists and human rights activists reach bigger audiences, but they haven't fulfilled their revolutionary promise.

Jack Dorsey's Shift from Bluesky to Nostr

This was a major theme at the 2024 Oslo Freedom Forum, which is put on annually by the Human Rights Foundation, where I serve as chief strategy officer. At this conference for democracy and human rights, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey told the audience that the problem was, actually, guys like him: The very fact that Twitter, now X, has a CEO makes it a single point of failure. Governments routinely pressured Dorsey to censor content; once the company's offices in India were raided. Dorsey says that under the new Musk regime X complies with whatever governments want.

The X network is proprietary. Known as a "silo," this construct traps a user's identity, followers, and data. X also has the power to evict anyone from the platform and delete what they've written. Several years ago, when he was still running the company, Dorsey became convinced that Twitter should become an application instead, where users could post content to an open, ownerless network. This would make it similar to how bitcoin works, where you use an application called a wallet to interact with the network, but the network itself is neutral and open.

Building a non-proprietary architecture was Dorsey's original vision for Twitter, but over time the need to maximize revenue to build a business and serve shareholders undermined that goal.

Nevertheless, in 2021, Dorsey encouraged the creation of Bluesky—an initiative bootstrapped in-house to create that open neutral base layer. But after Musk bought the company, the managers of Bluesky were afraid they would run out of money and started raising funds from venture capitalists, which undermined the vision of building an open platform. Dorsey grew disenchanted and left the Bluesky board.

At the conference in Oslo, Dorsey explained what happened next:

I asked a question: What open source initiatives should I be funding that would be helpful to the public internet? And people kept tweeting at me that I should be looking at Nostr. I found the GitHub that described it and it was 100 percent what we wanted from Bluesky, but it wasn't developed from a company. It was completely independent. Its paper diagnosed every single problem we saw and had. But did it in a grassroots and dead simple way, that felt like the early Twitter where any developer could get on and really feel it.

Escaping the 'Golden Prisons'

Nostr was created in 2020 by the pseudonymous Brazilian programmer fiatjaf, who describes it as "the simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global 'social' network once and for all."

Though nobody is in charge, Nostr works as promised and is thriving. "It is the solution we've all been looking for," says Miljan Braticevic, founder of Primal, one of the two dozen plus clients now available for the Nostr protocol. "Nostr is not a Twitter competitor or a Mastodon competitor. This is the biggest misconception at the moment. That's just the tip of the iceberg. Nostr is nothing less than the foundation for the new internet. Meaning almost every conceivable app we have today will be built on Nostr."

Braticevic's prediction is echoed by at least a dozen other prominent developers. Martti Malmi, the first coder to work on bitcoin alongside Satoshi Nakamoto, is now a Nostr developer. In a recent talk, he said he had started to work on similar ideas around decentralized identity in 2019, only to come close to giving up. But then he found fiatjaf's invention, which he called a "godsend."

"Bitcoin is freedom of money, and Nostr is freedom of everything else," Malmi said. "I was there" in the earliest days of bitcoin, "and Nostr is even more intense."

For something that could be world-changing, Nostr is quite simple. To join, you sign up with a mobile or desktop client, which helps you to create a public and private key pair. The public key (or "npub") is used as your identifier, and you share it with clients and other users so that people can find your posts or pay you for your content. The private key ("nsec") is hidden by the user, stored safely (just like a bitcoin seed phrase), and is your way to log in to different services. Unlike platforms like X or Facebook, no other information is required to set up and use Nostr.

This gives users a powerful range of sovereignty. You can use a client, for example, that has strong hate speech controls. Or you can choose one that doesn't have any at all. You can use a client with aggressive algorithms, just like the ones X uses today. Or you can use one without any algorithm at all. Today, when you log in to an app like Primal, you can sort your feed by what's the latest, by what's most popular, by what's most zapped, or by customized keywords. It's up to you.

Last month, the macroeconomist Lyn Alden, author of one of the best books on bitcoin, published a long essay about Nostr's potential:

[Nostr] is a simple set of foundational building blocks that, if widely adopted, could gradually reshape "the Web" as we know it. Instead of a separate set of siloed social ecosystems, we could gravitate toward a more interoperable set of ecosystems, with more of the power dispersed to the content creators and to the audience, and away from the middlemen corporations.

The Nostr network is constructed like a spider web that can morph and regenerate, making it almost impossible to censor. When you set up a client on Nostr (perhaps, Primal or Damus on iOS; Amethyst on Android; or Coracle on the web), you choose from a variety of relays to connect to. This architecture ensures no single point of failure: If you are connected to seven or eight relays, and half of them choose to censor posts, your feed remains censorship-free, as your app will display the net sum of everything broadcast from each relay. If the Chinese government decides to attack your relays—as it did in 2023 when Damus launched on the Hong Kong and mainland app store—then more can be spun up. "The enemy," said Damus creator Will Casarin, "is too numerous."

Prominent bitcoin developer and educator Gigi—who switched to Nostr and deleted his X account—says that what helped it become so resilient is that it has zero exit cost. If the Chinese Communist Party bans YouTube, its domestic users lose everything. There's no way to get back their profiles and followers. The same is true if a user voluntarily closes an account.

Gigi calls these corporate silos "golden prisons" with no escape. Nostr's spider-like architecture makes escaping easy. If one client goes down, or you fail to connect to one relay, you just find another client or connect to another relay. You keep your posts, photos, preferences, contacts, and even algorithms of choice. If you use X, you are an X creator. But if you use Primal, you aren't a Primal creator, you are a Nostr creator.

https://reason.com/2024/08/13/can-nostr-make-twitters-dreams-come-true/


If you can see this, Tor is now inside of Amethyst.

No more Orbot.


Being smart is easy. Being kind and patient is hard.


I really don't get the people that complain that they don't get followers on Nostr because there is no algorithm.

I never got any followers in any of these platforms with algorithms (even though I used them actively for years), except when by some unexplicable hit of luck some people started using @lntxbot on Telegram and by word-of-mouth it got to Alex Bosworth and he mentioned it on tweet and then my follower count slowly grew from 50 to like 5000 over a 3-year period.

Is there a magic trick that allows you to go from 0 to 100000 by gaming the algorithm these days and then scam your followers a high-ticket course about how to get followers and become a millionaire? Or what are these people talking about? Why do they even want followers in the first place?


FOLLOW MORE PEOPLE.

REPOST MORE NOTES.

BUILDING OUR RIDE OR DIE WEB OF TRUST ONE NPUB AT A TIME.

GOOD MORNING. 🫡


Today. The colors! https://i.nostr.build/tDRh8hkxU39xZw0l.jpg https://i.nostr.build/rARvhxQBmUuV1DJT.jpg https://i.nostr.build/q7MrAxBx0gWikn6v.jpg


“Hate speech” is a made up Marxist euphemism. A dog whistle for aspiring censors.

There is no such thing as hate speech. There is only speech that particular people don’t like.
https://m.primal.net/KfdA.mov


Best comment ever! nostr:note1zdslyx2tjkpze24tqu38f0f4vpf0mscrrreg4fr743txv2znqakq97pkr4


Over the past few weeks I have proven to myself the possibility and feasibility of creating a 'wallet' that exists independently of an app, device, or platform. This will drive the regulators crazy because their strategy is to lean of the platform providers, who in turn, lean on the app providers.

The 'wallet' uses redundant relays and blinded mints, so there is no way to track or shut down at any point of control.

I am not doing this for nefarious purposes,  just proving that it is
#unstoppable


Big, if true. 🤔
#fediverse

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This was bound to happen. How many did they miss?

https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-on-google-scholar-key-features-spread-and-implications-for-preempting-evidence-manipulation/


URGENT: PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY COMMUNICATION RIGHT NOW!

on 4th Sept 2024 #ChatControl regulation representatives of EU goverments will resume work based on a secret document according to Patrick #Breyer, former Member of the European Parliament.

Help to mobilize everybody to defend our #privacy of communication and its developers, investors!

If no preventive actions from your side now, this regulation will be endorsed on 12/13 December 2024.

According to the draft regulation dated 28 May (Council document 9093/24), ChatControl deploys to do, for instance:

🔻 “upload moderation”, users of apps and services with chat functions are to be asked whether they accept the indiscriminate and error-prone scanning and possibly reporting of their privately shared images, photos and videos.

🔻Scan by “artificial intelligence” technology previously unknown images and videos;

🔻If a user refuses the scanning, they would be blocked from sending or receiving images, photos, videos and links (Article 10).

🔻End-to-end encrypted services such as Whatsapp or Signal would have to implement the automated searches “prior to transmission” of a message (so-called client-side scanning, Article 10a).

During the last discussion on 24 May, the Council Legal Service made it clear that indiscriminate chat control scanning of non-suspects is still envisioned and remains a violation of fundamental rights.

Nevertheless, most EU governments are determined to go ahead. https://netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2024/05/2024-05-28_Council_Presidency_LEWP_CSAR_Compromise-texts_9093.pdf

🌎 Tell your goverment and parliamentarians, that the proposal should be rejected altogether!

🔴Is your government in favour?
→ Ask for an explanation and for your government to revert its course.

🟡Is your government abstaining?
→ Ask why and demand that they take a strong stance against chat control.

🟢Is your government opposing?
→ Great, but take a closer look at the reasoning: Some governments like #Germany e.g. only object to the scanning of encrypted communications, but are fine with the indiscriminate scanning of other private and public communication, with the end of anonymous communication by requiring age verification, or with introducing a minimum age for “risky” communication apps. Also critical governments need to do more, exert their influence in the Council of the EU and agree on a joint list of necessary fundamental changes to the proposal. Absent such revision they should ask the European Commission to withdraw the chat control proposal as it stands.

🔴 In favour of ChatControl: France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden.

🟡Abstained: Estonia, Netherlands, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Austria

🟢 Opposed the proposal: Germany, Poland

When reaching out to your government, the ministries of the interior (in the lead) of justice and of digitisation/telecommunications/economy are your best bet. You can additionally contact the permanent representation of your country with the EU: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/who-is-who/organization/-/organization/COREPER/
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EVENTUALLY EVERYONE WILL USE NOSTR.

GRADUALLY THEN SUDDENLY.


Gaza Arrest Warrants: Assessing Starvation as a Method of Warfare and Associated Starvation Crimes

#gaza #icc

https://www.justsecurity.org/96257/assessing-gaza-starvation/


Melbourne Symphony Orchestra board promises independent review after musicians revolt over Gaza comments controversy

#emails #gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/17/melbourne-symphony-orchestra-board-promises-independent-review-after-musicians-revolt-over-gaza-jayson-gillham-controversy-ntwnfb


The privacy and security space is one of the most toxic on the internet. It seems to attract many of a certain kind of paranoid and hostile personality that is neither healthy nor productive to interact with regularly in this context.

For this reason and more, I will be posting less about digital privacy and security as a primary focus on this account moving forward.

"The whole is more than the sum of its parts." — Aristotle

Information security is only one part of holistic, purposeful living, and I will be sharing more on my life's work, focusing on the big picture—the total package—moving forward.

Big announcement coming soon™


Interesting article.  I have quite a huge amount of respect for Amir having introduced him to bitcoin.  Few people know this but nostr is actually the SECOND attempt to build a social network on top of Bitcoin.  The first was called lorea, and I worked on it with Amir.  Sadly, Amir quit bitcoin, having done some great work, like introducting the BIP system.  It was a full seven years later that the next attempt, nostr, was tried.  And it was pure luck that Jack saw the potential in it, and supported it, or it would have likely gone the way of lorea before.  Cypherpunks, the good ones, are pragmatists.  Satoshi was the master, in that respect.  Write some code to make things a little bit better, and buy yourself a territory of freedom for a few years.  If there could be said to be one value of cypherpunks it would be "dont harm the users", and that simply goes out the window very quickly.  The whole cypherpunk movement today is selective LARPing with fake values.  A real cypherpunk just writes code, makes things better, and tries not to harm the users.  Rinse.  Repeat.


PsyWar: Enforcing the New World Order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-cV5WUuyB4
₿ is anarchy. Anarchy is rules without rulers.
#bitcoin #nostr #anarchyⒶ


Elizabeth Francis, the oldest living American, turned 115 yesterday. https://image.nostr.build/9b23307fd52cfe42911700f79a4301cfd59fc6b063109b73d2af7640ba9ad195.jpg


Nice and slow! #slowstr 🐶🐾🐌🐌🐌🐢🐢🐢 https://i.nostr.build/jzngXsHW18gwd6cU.gif


Putin’s been messing with Biden again 🤣🤣🤣 https://video.nostr.build/804bceab62d61a103aed040fcb6c518e29efc44efd4c6a152d76b6d04104d2f7.mp4


Today it's a given that permission is required.  https://image.nostr.build/de1a3acbe3e2133cbbc42971830631afac151290dce88d6ef60aefe7ab50b619.jpg


what about the teaching that God is triune when the Bible says that “there is but one God, the Father” (1 Corinthians 8:6)


The NOSTR is #Blooming 🌸 at #btcprague https://image.nostr.build/4715dc0050a98584c11fcc9be124d3f1a9e143c2568f240023c1357592d4f531.jpg


Normalize anons. Reboot your identity. Delete your accounts. Start from scratch. You'll find your friends again, don't worry about that. The freedom and the privacy you'll gain is with everyone else.


It's amazing 😍 Thank you all for your contributions 💜🤙🏻🫂
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the core downfall of mastodon is that every instance is an opportunity to censor potentially thousands of individuals on the grounds of vague reasons such as “in appropriate content”

their entire architecture is based around the idea that a single instance admin has the power to decide what its users are allowed to see, and you can’t easily move to another relay without rebuilding your social graph.

why people still use this protocol is mind boggling to me.

let users control their own feed ffs. Individuals and clients should have this power, not relay tinpot dictators. nostr:note16k0nhk0mehf6pwutlr34xlk7cvq08dyvhx7uxrp2crlextlgykaqxwa6v8


nostr dead

nostr:note16l4f7k94aprt6eapkcq4x6kcxvuqye2pc75qa8rasr7e76wk80sqpz8svp


After spending 7 years as a political prisoner, I understood what freedom really is when I was under solitary confinement.  Freedom is not one thing, freedom is the sum of being able to do many things, that’s why I believe that financial freedom is one of the many dimensions of freedom at large.


And we wonder why people are so fucked up, people building apps just want you to be hopelessly addicted so they can make more money from ads. It’s hard to find design books on optimizing human well-being. Why does our relationship with computers have to be framed around getting users hooked on crack? There is something seriously wrong with our industry. nostr:note12er924k94g2qjpx004758q06tklrwfwp7v5lrh422nfzjdykk53sq87z4k


Un oedémère ocracé (Oedemara podagariae)
#photographie #photography
D’autres photos ici sur mon nouveau site :
https://www.superbe-nature.fr/insectes/coccinelles-oedemeres-et-tenebrions

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https://www.usluck.com/310385/jean-bugatti-poses-with-his-bugatti-royale-one-of-seven-built-1932/ Jean Bugatti poses with his Bugatti Royale, one of seven built, 1932. #OldSchool #OldSchoolCool

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https://www.europesays.com/1277660/ Father-Son Duo Hired American Assassin Who Disguised Herself with Hijab in Revenge Killing Attempt on Birmingham Family #England #UnitedKingdom

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Always Question The ‘Official Narrative’ – David Icke

From David Icke

The post  appeared first on David Icke.

Jun 12th 2024 2:25am EDT

Source Link: https://davidicke.com/2024/06/12/always-question-the-official-narrative-david-icke/

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Scientists raise alarm over common sunscreen ingredient being found in frozen pizzas and candies

#titaniumdioxide

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/frozen-pizza-candy-titanium-dioxide-sunscreen-foods-b2561031.html


I’ve had this idea for a while but hadn’t found the right way to express it.

I’ve had this idea for a while but hadn’t yet found the right way to express it — the contrast between doing something ourselves (“in house”) vs outsourcing it and the implications thereof.

There are trivial examples like whether to hire someone to clean your house and more profound ones like whether to send your kids to school rather than educating them yourself (homeschooling.)

The outsourcing almost by default of fundamental things like the electrical power to your home, the server on which your most personal information is stored and your life savings to a bank or brokerage firm is anomalous by historical standards. One’s personal information, wealth and power were largely in one’s own hands, and it is only recently, due to technological progress and convenience that we have adopted such tradeoffs.

Of course, this didn’t happen all at once. People stored their gold in banks for safe keeping, and banks issued paper notes for ease of transacting. It’s since been abstracted to inauditable bits on a screen, in an account for which you have to convince a third-party server of your identity to access. Moreover, if you want to donate to Hamas, ISIS, Julian Assange or the Canadian trucker protests, for example, the bank might not sign off on it. Had you kept your money in hundred dollar bills or silver bars, you could physically hand them to any of those parties (if ISIS didn’t behead you first) permissionlessly*.

_*If you had bitcoin, you could do this digitally, but you still wouldn’t be able to buy goods and services (yet) in most places or pay your taxes with it._

Another area in which personal autonomy is exchanged for centralized convenience is social media. You log-in to platforms like Twitter or Facebook, wherein they store your identity and data and feed you information via algorithm based on whatever it determines will keep you most engaged. You could instead keep a list of bookmarked blogs and sources for news and the interpretation thereof, but the convenience of having it served to you on a single platform is too good to pass up for most.

The mission creep from your money to your information diet to your alimentary diet (processed supermarket and restaurant food) is only the beginning. The pharmaceutical industry is constantly developing new pills and potions as substitutes for in-house biological processes. Instead of eating healthy and exercising you can simply take Ozempic to lose weight. Instead of experiencing anxiety or anger, you can outsource management of these emotional states to various pharmacological cocktails.

With vaccines, we’ve started to outsource immune function to large pharmaceutical conglomerates, and this is deemed so important that we have in many cases made this mandatory while simultaneously conferring preemptive liability on their makers. During covid, it got to the point where "natural immunity,” the in-house option for evolution’s aeons, was called a “[conspiracy theory](https://x.com/goddeketal/status/1751646311458230752).”

The mRNA shots, in particular, crossed the line from immunity based on stimulating your in-house antibodies to creating their own [mini-factories](https://x.com/wakeupfromcovid/status/1389666073813864454) inside the body and quite possibly [altering human DNA](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8946961/).

And of course we have artificial intelligence now, and that creates ever greater possibilities for outsourcing. A telling exchange between [mRNA-zealot Stephen Colbert](https://x.com/therealZNO/status/1737107956028809572/video/1) and the author Yuval Harari occurred on the Colbert show wherein the host suggested [outsourcing his very judgment to AI](https://x.com/ConallGulban/status/1767898410248544740/video/1), as we humans are too error prone.

Colbert’s idea wherein not only is our biology, but our sense- and decision-making outsourced for convenience is the ultimate capitulation. The Matrix movies were not, to my knowledge, meant to be documentaries, but this is the end game of total outsourcing where even autonomy of mind is surrendered for comfort, ease and the “greater good.”
. . .

I read a [piece](https://njump.me/naddr1qqv9yetkd9jhw6twvuk4yetkd9jhwuedd3cxjmncvvpzq6ksswfdrw4r7mlh49qfu2k9u4zrtpextk955kquvpna3r4rq9vyqvzqqqr4guqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmnyqyd8wumn8ghj7argv4nx7un9wd6zumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6t5ve2d) on nostr by [Svetski](http://npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m/) (don’t know if that’s his real name) wherein he explains the internet stack. The stack, he points out, is made up of _protocols_ like IP, TCP, and on top of it HTTP (web), SMTP (email) and FTP (files).

_Platforms_ like Twitter, Gmail and Facebook are built on top of those protocols. For example, Google can ban you from using its Gmail client, but it can’t ban you from using email generally because email (SMTP) is a neutral protocol available to anyone to send information peer to peer, not a third-party client platform like Google.

Svetski argues that the internet was successful (and crushed the walled garden of AOL) because nobody owned it. He compares the open protocols of the internet to a free market which is where innovation and creativity necessarily flow.
But because the bitcoin protocol (a native internet money) had not yet been invented, payments were still at the platform level. Paypal and online banking are third-party, walled gardens, accessible only by permission. And because nostr had not yet been invented, identity online was similar. Third parties controlled information about you, and you needed a variety of logins, 2FAs, etc. to prove you were who you say you are and access your accounts. As such, they could track your usage of their platforms via that information.

Put differently, both the monetary and identity pieces of the internet were at the platform rather than the protocol layers of the stack.

Of course, with bitcoin and nostr, that no longer need be the case. You can now securely log into platforms without disclosing your personal information to third parties via nostr’s public/private key pairs. They know that npub has been signed by the user’s private key, but they don’t know your real name, phone number or banking information. If you needed to pay for something you could do so via bitcoin, again, without the need for third-party authentication.

Of course, many people are opposed to this because it means you could transact privately**. But there is also nothing stopping platforms from requiring proof of real-life identity — they’ll just have to compete with ones that don’t.

_**(In truth, there is in some ways more transparency because everything in bitcoin and nostr is publicly viewable and auditable even if the connection between real-life identity and npub/xpub is severable.)_

In other words, this in-house/outsourcing choice can alternatively be looked at as an up/down struggle via the technology stack. The forces of centralization and outsourcing want to push money and identity up the stack onto their platforms. The in-house forces want to push money and identity down the stack to the protocol layers.

The same framework can be used for things like education or social media too. Is education (learning) something that requires a platform replete with admissions offices, graduation ceremonies and credentials, or is it a body of knowledge and wisdom handed down over human history to which anyone can have access? Does social media really need to be mediated by middlemen or can we via nostr simply connect peer to peer over relays?

In fact, the original protocol might be language — accessible to anyone with the requisite vocabulary — and even in that area there are factions who want to make it platform-like with ever more words you’re not allowed to say and even words you’re required to use in reference to certain sensitive individuals. It’s not enough to be understood, but you must, in certain circles, signal your “good person” credential to interact via the new rules of the platform.

This is not to suggest outlawing universities and colleges from offering platforms to those who deem them worthwhile or Twitter from organizing the social experience in a way people prefer. Surely, it should be possible to outsource if you prefer, and if you want sit on the couch eating Doritos all day and hand your weight management to Ozempic, that should be an option (provided the [side effects of the medicine are all fully disclosed](https://x.com/DrSuneelDhand/status/1799851798481756498) and concomitant liability is in place.)

But it’s long past time to see these “solutions” for what they are — conscious top-down grabs from centralized power to turn what used to be protocols — language, money, education, online communication — into permissioned platforms, accessible only to those with the requisite credentials.

So please don’t mistake this for an argument that nothing should be a platform, or that we need to grow all our own food and never outsource tasks to other people with superior technical knowledge and expertise. It’s great that restaurants and farmer’s markets exist, that designers make clothing and architects draw the plans for structurally sound buildings. The point is we should be aware that in-house vs outsourcing requires tradeoffs and be free, even encouraged, to refuse to them when the balance is not in our favor.


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View from Italy (1914)
- Gerda Strøm #art


Russia May See Ukrainian Long-Range Attacks as ‘Precursor to Nuclear Strike’, Ex-DoD Analyst Fears

From Sputnik

The Biden administration has greenlit the use of American long-range strike systems by Ukraine to launch attacks deep into Russia. This puts the entire planet in a “shockingly” dangerous situation, says former DoD analyst and US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski.

May 31st 2024 2:43pm EDT

Source Link: https://sputnikglobe.com/20240531/russia-may-see-ukrainian-long-range-attacks-as-precursor-to-nuclear-strike-ex-dod-analyst-fears-1118724278.html

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HA! https://image.nostr.build/f8aa8e36be2d59d297f5f504c606be3d9dabd883cfdc16d30146b694deea6ab0.jpg
#Memestr


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I setup an automated system to water the entire garden on a timer, which allows me to go on longer adventures away from the farm without the plants dying. #gardening #outdoors #technology

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I'm going to be experimenting with Magnetoculture in the Three Sisters Garden this year. Half of it will have the magnetized wires, the other half will not, and we'll see if there's a difference. #technology #diy #survival

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I test out the new Inverter I got for my Solar eBike, which allows me to run anything you can plug into a house socket up to 1000 Watts. #diy #technology #survival

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The sticks I harvested from the wilderness for the Spiral Garden are showing signs of life! I wonder if they'll root and provide a living trellis. #gardening #outdoors #nature

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We've added the ability to look up supported accounts by their local username across multiple platforms including the Fediverse, Bluesky, and Threads!
https://m.primal.net/IFzb.mp4

Try it here: https://mostr.pub/


General Motors….

Nostr culture still feels a bit alien to me, trying to find topics to interact with is difficult. I know I’m new here and so is the platform (well in organic, non VC type of way). and I’m going to persevere, mainly as I think V4V is very interesting as an independent music maker.

I didn’t come from X and ‘Bitcoin X’ never interested me. Someone referred to ‘Bitcoin Tourette’s yesterday and it summed up my thoughts pretty well on Dorsey and Musk’s platform.

I suspect I’m not the only one that thinks funny eyes, being called hodl something and memes about Jay Powell and Janet Yellen non stop just isn’t that interesting.

Do I have something more exciting to contribute? Not particularly. To many here perhaps I’m a ‘normie’ but from someone who’s worked in music their whole life that’s wrong, I know so many strange people that I call friends. We ain’t normal lol. My music, which is kind of odd and not poppy is already in a niche lane within a niche lane.

It would be great to get to know more people here, I’ll keep chipping away….

Why am I saying this? I’m just saying some shit it the hope that at some point people start interacting.


nostr:npub1f4faufazfl4cf43c893wx5ppnlqfu4evy2shc4p9gknfe56mqelsc5f7ql  has a really good article about nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m’s leaving the Bluesky board, support of Nostr, and the recent interview.

I mostly agree with the article but I think there’s more than just that Bluesky is taking on a corporate platform prespective with the roll out of the atproto. It’s that Bluesky is engaged in a kind of closed protocol design that feels heavy like xml and java. It’s open source like Android is…

My hope is that nostr:npub1pu3vqm4vzqpxsnhuc684dp2qaq6z69sf65yte4p39spcucv5lzmqswtfch can be the super easy to use for normies app for Nostr. We’ve got a much bigger and more interesting ecosystem of apps. Nostr is a lot easier to work with than atproto for developers. But it’s also super confusing to new users. Wallet setup is hard, registering a username is hard, understanding how to login to nostr web apps with browser extensions is hard. We can solve these problems, but it takes work.

We’re about to launch the creator and journalism residencies to help bring a diversity of content beyond our core bitcoiner community which is sustaining Nostr.

Take a read:

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/13/bluesky-is-building-the-decentralized-social-media-jack-dorsey-wants-even-if-he-doesnt-realize-it/


nostr dead

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Alright assholes I'm back in this bitch because I've had it with the Twitter shithole censoring my links and telling me i cant say fuck, no idea if anyone is reading this but if you do read nostr:npub15dnln6cukw3yrflnv3hnrntdt9amh0uw466u6tns05ymqp3nal4qzz3lfc 's fantastic new piece speaking to US regulators on open-source arrests:

https://www.therage.co/us-officials-sour-on-biden-war-on-privacy/


This is ‘Casper’ the ghost of Satara, one of only 4 white lions in the wild. 💜🧡
He is almost 10 years old and fortunately for him he has had his brother’s protection that’s enabled him to live this long.
If you ever visit Kruger you might be fortunate enough to see Casper 🦁
#lions https://i.nostr.build/KG0J3.jpg https://i.nostr.build/9zrJo.jpg


💯
#quotes https://i.nostr.build/5GrJK.jpg


Lunch time walk https://i.nostr.build/YgP27.jpg


https://void.cat/nostr/ebea466de36dbcb12a9a8b61a339ce417e2cfc9d3a49bca8fc6903e4613f12ff.jpg
- Fred Cuming #art


Hamas accepts ceasefire deal – Al Jazeera

From RT

The militants have reportedly agreed to a truce ahead of an Israeli invasion of Rafah Hamas has accepted a ceasefire proposal put forward by Egyptian and Qatari mediators, a spokesman for the group told Al Jazeera on Monday. The announcement came shortly after Israel ordered the evacuation of the city of Rafah ahead of a […]

May 6th 2024 1:50pm EDT

Source Link: https://www.rt.com/news/597089-hamas-accepts-ceasefire-deal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS

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Relay that 🤙🔥

The clock is ticking.

#cybersecgirl #snowden

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#meme #memes


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#meme #memes


don’t depend on corporations to grant you rights.
defend them yourself using freedom technology.

(you’re on one)


you are not the only one


Another Boeing whistleblower mysteriously dies:

"Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems and one of the first whistleblowers to allege Spirit leadership had ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX, died Tuesday morning after a struggle with a sudden, fast-spreading infection.

Known as Josh, Dean lived in Wichita, Kan., where Spirit is based. He was 45, had been in good health, and was noted for a healthy lifestyle."

#cybersecgirl #boeing

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Excerpt from 'Permanent Record' by Edward Snowden

#cybersecgirl #socialengeneering #opsec #snowden #bookstr

"The fact is, no one with a biography like mine ever comes comfortably to autobiography. It’s hard to have spent so much of my life trying to avoid identification, only to turn around completely and share “personal disclosures” in a book. The Intelligence Community tries to inculcate in its workers a baseline anonymity, a sort of blank-page personality upon which to inscribe secrecy and the art of imposture. You train yourself to be inconspicuous, to look and sound like others. You live in the most ordinary house, you drive the most ordinary car, you wear the same ordinary clothes as everyone else. The difference is, you do it on purpose: normalcy, the ordinary, is your cover. This is the perverse reward of a self-denying career that brings no public glory: the private glory comes not during work, but after, when you can go back out among other people again and successfully convince them that you’re one of them."

https://i.nostr.build/Dj8Ja.jpg


What a Bronze Age Skeleton Reveals About Cavities

Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40158259 )

https://nautil.us/what-a-bronze-age-skeleton-reveals-about-cavities-543227/


And thus the origin of the Satoshi Nakamoto was really a CIA agent theory began...

#cybersecgirl

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Microsoft intends to record everything you do on your PC for “AI” processing

https://www.osnews.com/story/139462/microsoft-intends-to-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc-for-ai-processing/


Excerpt from 'Permanent Record' by Edward Snowden.

#cybersecgirl #snowden

The Internet is fundamentally American, but I had to leave America to fully understand what that meant. The World Wide Web might have been invented in Geneva, at the CERN research laboratory in 1989, but the ways by which the Web is accessed are as American as baseball, which gives the American Intelligence Community the home field advantage.

The cables and satellites, the servers and towers—so much of the infrastructure of the Internet is under US control that over 90 percent of the world’s Internet traffic passes through technologies developed, owned, and/or operated by the American government and American businesses, most of which are physically located on American territory.

Countries that traditionally worry about such advantages, like China and Russia, have attempted to make alternative systems, such as the Great Firewall, or the state-sponsored censored search engines, or the nationalized satellite constellations that provide selective GPS—but America remains the hegemon, the keeper of the master switches that can turn almost anyone on and off at will.

				It’s not just the Internet’s infrastructure that I’m defining as fundamentally American—it’s the computer software (Microsoft, Google, Oracle) and hardware (HP, Apple, Dell), too. It’s everything from the chips (Intel, Qualcomm), to the routers and modems (Cisco, Juniper), to the Web services and platforms that provide email and social networking and cloud storage (Google, Facebook, and the most structurally important but invisible Amazon, which provides cloud services to the US government along with half the Internet).

Though some of these companies might manufacture their devices in, say, China, the companies themselves are American and are subject to American law. The problem is, they’re also subject to classified American policies that pervert law and permit the US government to surveil virtually every man, woman, and child who has ever touched a computer or picked up a phone.

(*paragraph formatting, my own)

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https://ipfs.cahlen.org/ipfs/bafybeigj2cctr423sshftisl3gfan2dwdjp7l3hltgnvdahzwwebvvvqlm/CahlenLee_20240428_SurvivalCake.jpg

When I'm hungry but it's too wet and cloudy to cook I turn to my Survival Cake recipe, which is just Coconut Flour, Date Powder and Cacao mixed with a little water. It's filling, nutritious and tastes like desert! #survival #health #food

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Love it when I lock myself out of the house 🙃 Fr though, it gives me a chance to use some fun lock-picking tools/methods I have ;)

Tonight was fast. Very fast. Record time for me. No one was the wiser.

Learn and practice pententesting techniques. Hacking It's not all about computers, it's usually people (social engeneering) as well as physical exploits (gaining access to the server room/safe etc)

#cybersecgirl #pentesting #hacking


strolling in Tokyo🚶
#photography #artwork https://image.nostr.build/acc1b34492e7f34ab1811487f069a5890966dd1a955e0d69122f3c4e76c631ab.png


Gm #Nostr 💜

nostr:npub1ytx8ffefzymnsen8eu99g9rwnc4emfpdyjjk2hrlqkqs8sfr8feq5vek79

#cybersecgirl

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#Come in! We will be happy: https://linuxtosha.ru/
“In the spring, when the ground thaws, people also  becomes softer.” Alexey Maksimovich Gorky
https://m.primal.net/IAYp.png
#art #alby #bitcoin #cat #Coffee #dog #dream #Gentoo #grownostr #Linux #memes #Nature #nostr #Photography #pleb #plebchain #zap #zapathon


# Outrageous Climate Propaganda on Irish National Television

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This a telvision programme was produced for RTE, the national broadcaster in Ireland.

It describes what the 'future of Ireland' will look like, according to a man called Mark Little.

Mark Little received almost €110,000 of public money over a nine month span, In order to help the Department of Health “combat misinformation” on Covid-19, and now he's trying his hand at climate propaganda:

https://v.nostr.build/gZ9XO.mp4


according to stats.nostr.band - nostr has roughly 10k "trusted pubkeys" as active users.

but there are another 40k pubkeys writing events on average.

what is a trusted pubkey and how do we know how many people are actually using nostr?

there doesnt seem to be much activity on the protocol. i can't see anything. One nostr diehard friend of mine said that nostr is dead and gave up on it. are we missing something here?

#asknostr


A corner of my city ⛵🇮🇹 https://void.cat/nostr/f999b3f41e7895d26601ed931b9e0245560fcd6c5159ddca2a55939b5f8c06b9.png
#photostr #photography


About the Chinese police officers who may soon be patrolling in Hungary

Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40172448 )

https://telex.hu/english/2024/04/25/what-do-we-know-about-the-chinese-police-officers-who-may-soon-be-patrolling-in-hungary


The Universe as a Computer

Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40168030 )

https://dabacon.org/pontiff/2024/04/26/the-universe-as-a-computer-john-archibald-wheeler/


GM

The freedom to transact is a fundamental human right that is necessary for a functional society. I'd rather die than stop fighting for that.


Catholic Student Suspended For Wearing ‘There Are Only Two Genders’ Shirt

https://www.infowars.com/posts/16-year-old-catholic-student-suspended-for-wearing-there-are-only-two-genders-shirt

#Zap to support, DM to suggest new feeds.


this is socialism?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternity_package


If only they taught this to us when was kids

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I’ve been doing it all wrong. https://image.nostr.build/749883fff537c21660ab0af7e39abe6990b7a660ad96fde65642fd827b7f2e7b.jpg


absolutely 🙏


Scott Ritter Extra: US Missiles of Limited Use to Ukraine

From Scott Ritter

Apr 25th 2024 2:01pm EDT

Source Link: https://rumble.com/v4rk055-scott-ritter-extra-us-missiles-of-limited-use-to-ukraine.html

Internet Archive Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240425181839/https://rumble.com/v4rk055-scott-ritter-extra-us-missiles-of-limited-use-to-ukraine.html

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https://www.europesays.com/1176223/ Would NATO beat Russia in a war? Of course, Poland warns. “It is not we, the West, who should fear a clash with Putin, but the other way around,” Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said. #ConflictInUkraine #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #Ukrainian #UkrainianConflict

https://media.pubeurope.com/media_attachments/files/112/333/337/954/012/747/original/eedda5ee9745cf22.jpg


#News Net neutrality is back. Its path through the courts will determine who regulates tech https://w.st/4TPJG


The Saddest and Strangest Tales of Animals in Space

#animals #history

https://gizmodo.com/animals-in-space-1849367335


Brilliant!
As a bitcoining carnivore I must say both have saved my life.  I'm at month 5 on the Lion Diet where I've healed insulin resistance,  shed excess body fat, cleared my skin, thickened my hair, improved my sleep, increased my energy, raised my tolerance to hot saunas, healing my massive carb addiction, and elevated my mood to constant bliss...
BEEF never gets boring, I look forward to steak and beef patties every day!..🙏🙏🙏


Did you know Damus Purple includes a universal translator? 🖖

Today it gets even better. We heard you #siamstr: Purple now includes Thai translations 🎉

See how auto-translations can significantly improve your #nostr experience. Sign up with lightning at https://damus.io/purple/checkout or use the side menu to join purple with apple pay. Enjoy! https://image.nostr.build/c3da21e6d4d90dc89c35f7b30b214189adb86aaf573b240cee359cab4ab8a3f6.jpg


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ATTENTION CARNIVORES 🥩 : Nationally acclaimed Meat & Seafood Company Beck & Bulow is now accepting #Bitcoin onchain & Lightning payments both in store & online 🙌

They are accepting orders online & ship to all 50 states.

https://www.beckandbulow.com/

When I first found their butcher shop last summer, I asked to pay in BTC at checkout, because, on seeing the quality of their huge selection, I knew I would be ordering all my meat from them.

At the time, the team didn't have a good way to accept BTC, so...

we took a low-time preference approach.

Over the course of the next 8 months, the staff & I became good friends. I went to their carnivore meetup, we went shooting together, & I grabbed lunch with the owners to talk more about BTC infrastructure options for merchants.

Importantly, I never pressured them to do anything. We just kept the conversation rolling in person and over text. As time went on and BTC appreciated in price, their urgency grew.

Here is a testament to their conviction, they are not only accepting BTC, but...

#Bitcoin is now a cornerstone of their employee 401k plan. The company has committed to hold all payments made in BTC, online or in the store, indefinitely in cold storage.

Craziest of all, the company has put 20% of their treasury reserves into #Bitcoin 🤯

They began by selling meat door to door & at farmers' markets. A serendipitous series of events led to the co-founders acquiring a buffalo ranch in New Mexico.

Through proof of work their meats are now in over 1,000 restaurants & stores in New Mexico.

My challenge to you carnivores is to visit them online & give them a warm welcome to the #Bitcoin community by trying their amazing products!

https://www.beckandbulow.com/

Let's test the strength of their payment processor IBEX 😁

Read more about this amazing team and their new #Bitcoin offering at nostr:npub1t8a7uumfmam38kal4xaakzyjccht4y5jxfs4cmlj0p768pxtwu8skh56yu here:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/meat-and-seafood-company-beck-bulow-adopts-bitcoin-as-a-treasury-reserve-asset

Gradually, then suddenly folks.

PS: Among my favorite products they sell:

-Local Free Range Bison
-Local Free Range Beef
-Wagyu (unreal quality)
-Angus / Wagyu Hybrid
-Elk
-Wild Boar
-Lamb
-Poultry
-Local Tallow
-Eggs
-Euro Style Salted Butter
-Fresh Lobster
-Many types of wild-caught fish
-Excellent Cheese
-Raw Milk
-and much more... https://i.nostr.build/nWwGa.jpg https://i.nostr.build/0jmLM.jpg https://i.nostr.build/2R5dX.jpg https://i.nostr.build/LeOoD.png https://i.nostr.build/q6Vrd.webp


I am wondering why my computers don't work the way I expect


Since US law enforcement agencies have been able to identify a money laundering offence involving this particular wallet, then they are well equipped to detect such crimes, and there is no need to criminalise mixers or #bitcoin wallets as a technology and its developers in general.

This is exactly what we talk about in our meetings with regulators: we understand that US law enforcement has all the tools to track #Bitcoin  transactions on the blockchain. That is why real criminals, and even more so oligarchs, use completely different schemes to launder dirty money.

Besides, Western intelligence services are diligently training dictatorial regimes how to recognise both traditional banking and crypto-assets transactions, so the oligarchs have this knowledge from the intelligence services under their control in non-democratic countries. They don't want and don’t need to use such tools.

And to be precise, I definitely think it's very harmful to promote or ask oligarchs, criminals to use your privacy payment tools. It gives more opportunities to weaponise this kind of rhetoric by any kind of government.

Our 15 years of human rights practice shows that real oligarchs prefer other tools for laundering dirty money. For example, the daughter of dictator Nursultan #Nazarbayev, Dariga #Nazarbayeva - #UK law enforcement authorities failed in their attempts to hold her accountable for money laundering. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/08/uk-agency-loses-case-against-ex-kazakh-president-family-aliyev-nazarbayev

Kazakhstani regime used political lobbyists, expensive Western law firms, and the Kazakhstani state apparatus to succeed in laundering her dirty money.

This scheme works for the oligarchs, people who have stolen billions from the budget of a country where their family members have been in power for decades, politically persecuting any dissent, torturing and killing.

They do not need mixers, they have perfectly mastered money laundering schemes through investments in expensive real estate and consultations with former higher officials, top Western law firms.

Mixers and self-hosted wallets, on the other hand, are used by activists who are financially excluded by authoritarian regimes and do not have the privilege to use banking services in general due to political repression.

Moreover, the knowledge of US intelligence agencies is used to financially exclude regime critics and their family members both domestically and transnationally. This is exactly what #Turkey, #Kazakhstan and other regimes do all the time, sharing knowledge gained from Western partners with #Russia, #Iran, #China to repress dissenters abroad.

In less than 5 minutes Kazakhstan blocks fundraising via bank account or @stripe for families of political prisoners, so bitcoin p2p transactions and mixers are currently the only instrument to protect human rights in such authoritarian countries. Regimes can trace such transactions, but they can't stop them and so far it has helped save lives.

Therefore, an effective fight against money laundering would begin not with the criminalisation of privacy payment tools and their developers, but with ending the impunity of authoritarian regimes and their oligarchs in using legal schemes to circumvent sanctions through the banking systems of third countries. https://image.nostr.build/c349d26015a22cf1db76dad933a7752bb4986ef55720154f4dbe67f999c56320.jpg https://image.nostr.build/224b3d0be9bfd139e2d74c1172629518ccd6dbaab20d78d0b92f4e968d4a4cdc.jpg https://image.nostr.build/fe3aee61fe806c37d9a688784bbad901b7fdbc5cccea63bcd09194e063521ab9.jpg


RHR AT 1800 UTC TOMORROW.

https://rhr.tv

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Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

If two parties have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of their interaction. Each party can speak about their own memory of this; how could anyone prevent it? One could pass laws against it, but the freedom of speech, even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society; we seek not to restrict any speech at all. If many parties speak together in the same forum, each can speak to all the others and aggregate together knowledge about individuals and other parties. The power of electronic communications has enabled such group speech, and it will not go away merely because we might want it to.

Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we must ensure that we reveal as little as possible. In most cases personal identity is not salient. When I purchase a magazine at a store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am. When I ask my electronic mail provider to send and receive messages, my provider need not know to whom I am speaking or what I am saying or what others are saying to me; my provider only need know how to get the message there and how much I owe them in fees. When my identity is revealed by the underlying mechanism of the transaction, I have no privacy. I cannot here selectively reveal myself; I must always reveal myself.

Therefore, privacy in an open society requires anonymous transaction systems. Until now, cash has been the primary such system. An anonymous transaction system is not a secret transaction system. An anonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when desired and only when desired; this is the essence of privacy.

Privacy in an open society also requires cryptography. If I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it. If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy. To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy, and to encrypt with weak cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy. Furthermore, to reveal one's identity with assurance when the default is anonymity requires the cryptographic signature.

We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence. It is to their advantage to speak of us, and we should expect that they will speak. To try to prevent their speech is to fight against the realities of information. Information does not just want to be free, it longs to be free. Information expands to fill the available storage space. Information is Rumor's younger, stronger cousin; Information is fleeter of foot, has more eyes, knows more, and understands less than Rumor.

We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.

We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.

Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it. Our code is free for all to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of the software we write. We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down.

Cypherpunks deplore regulations on cryptography, for encryption is fundamentally a private act. The act of encryption, in fact, removes information from the public realm. Even laws against cryptography reach only so far as a nation's border and the arm of its violence. Cryptography will ineluctably spread over the whole globe, and with it the anonymous transactions systems that it makes possible.

For privacy to be widespread it must be part of a social contract. People must come and together deploy these systems for the common good. Privacy only extends so far as the cooperation of one's fellows in society. We the Cypherpunks seek your questions and your concerns and hope we may engage you so that we do not deceive ourselves. We will not, however, be moved out of our course because some may disagree with our goals.

The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer for privacy. Let us proceed together apace.

Onward.

Eric Hughes

9 March 1993


Privacy is normal and good.

There has been an effort among authorities to make “money laundering” and “financial privacy” the same thing. That is, the mere act of moving money privately itself becomes a crime. That’s not okay.

Money laundering is when money that is obtained through crime is concealed by obfuscating it with clean money. The actual crime is the initial non-financial crime (say, mob stuff), and historically money laundering involves manual activity to work with the criminals.

Now that open source tech can make certain transactions private, authorities increasingly equate all private money transfer with money laundering, even if the developer of the open source tech had no direct involvement with criminals. Authorities target them regardless, and sanction the technology itself. Financial privacy becomes synonymous with crime in their minds, and in the minds of the public.


BREAKING: Samourai Wallet Founders Arrested & Charged with Money Laundering, Unlicensed Money Transmitting Offenses

- The charges include conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to run an unlicensed money transmitting business.
- The Samurai Wallet website has been confiscated, and a seizure warrant for Samurai's mobile application has been submitted to the Google Play Store.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/samourai-wallet-founders-arrested-and-charged-with-money-laundering/


The Messiah is Among Us! -Rabbi Tovia Singer

https://tube.raccoon.quest/watch?v=TiHqrMNSxAw

Who is the Antichrist? Rabbi Tovia Singer Exposes False Christian Teachings

https://tube.raccoon.quest/watch?v=xVG8lPB1Les