No, that's what they used to do with their songs (which I applauded). Now they simply pose and posture.


I initially followed you because you identified as an Australian. My point, albeit not so well made, is that you were exhibiting a mindset typical of brainwashed US Americans, particularly the ranting about 'communism'.

Elitism is not understanding that ppl have differing levels of ability, everyone understands that. It's the elevation of one class of ppl above others. And ppl who ptofess it always want  to include themselves in that class, of course.

And btw, going back to your name calling about my being a communist, I am in the top 0.01% of capital accumulation (wealth). That capital gives me certain power, but doesn't make me, or anyone else of similar wealth, 'elite'.


I don't think Elon visited El Salvador. Rather, Bukele traveled to meet Elon (most likely at Spacex)


With respect, yr (deservedly) high profile would have greatly facilitated finding the other side of this trade


Bushido is bullshit; a fabrication


This is so much wank.

I see Nostr boosters continually trying to assert equivalency (or even superiority) to Bitcoin when in truth the comparison is laughable and those who make it only show evidence of cult like thinking.


1. I'm not a communist and nothing I said indicated I was

2. But you are clearly an elitist based directly on what you said

3. Going back to your puerile slur, it's an indication of deep brainwashing typical of US Americans who are the most brainwashed ppl on the planet (by far)


Fuck the "counter elite"


Both her and her husband nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u are derivative in what they post - they don't bring any original thinking or insight. This worked well for them when they made their songs (which were a way of presenting other ppls thinking in an entertaining way) but is boring in what they're doing now.


Just a polite note Lyn that I've decided to unfollow you on nostr today. The reason is that you're clearly making this a more personal account here where you talk about other interests (e.g. science fiction writing, computer games). That's a choice entirely within yr purview of course, but I follow you (like most others) for yr comments on economics & finance and most of the other stuff is just noise to me.


Her feed is influencer & attention seeking content,  ie. junk


Ugly machine generated art is soooooo 2023

It's almost 2025 now


That is incredibly ugly 'AI' art


Unfollowing everyone who does empty 'gm' or 'gn' posts

(Got the idea after unfollowing nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc which significantly reduced the noise in my feed)

#nostrspam


The siren call of being an internet 'celebrity'. Millennials in particular seem to find it hardest to resist


nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u and his wife nostr:npub1hu3hdctm5nkzd8gslnyedfr5ddz3z547jqcl5j88g4fame2jd08qh6h8nh are wannabe influencers who bring nothing original to the Bitcoin space now that they've stopped making their songs (which were good). I now avoid both.


She's a fraud, easily preying on the 'anti commie' mindset that clouds the judgement of too many usually astute US Americans (such as yrself).


Fwiw, I find yr account on X far more of an interesting read than yr account here. I think it's because you try to write for a more general audience there


nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu is probably your best prospect in that crowd. His whole identity is founded on being a 'white knight', particularly for causes that serve Western Imperialist interests (like yrs)


US Americans are easy marks for someone with your profile, especially those who remain willfully ignorant of the genocidal atrocities the USA inflicted on yr ppl


There's nothing 'punk' about being happy (try using this line on Johnny Rotten and see how he reacts)


1. Don't call me 'dude'

2. Educate yrself on why North Koreans legitimately despise the USA (but not necessarily its ppl). Wikipedia probably not the best source but one jumping off point for how genocidal the US bombing of North Korea was.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_North_Korea

And of course, the USA has never let up on its naked aggression towards NK, with its huge military presence in its vassal state South Korea still there today


Well noted. Hyeon-seo is a morally dubious person that too many 'anti-commie' types too easily fall for.


Fine for you to leave North Korea, but to go to the USA, which carpet bombed yr ppl just one generation back, shows a highly dubious personal propriety


Nostr: e-gold


Guy's already been 'doing Coinbase' since forever


OpenAI is the next FTX


Agree wholeheartedly, although the coming Open AI blow-up will have at least 10x the impact of FTX. And Sam Altman is a genius level fraudster whomakes SBF look like the amateur he was


I'll always follow you for yr deep technical knowledge even though it is accompanied by laughably shallow geopolitical takes like this one


I'm not a Marxist but intelligent ppl appreciate that Marxism has some valuable insights. Using 'Marxist' as a condemnatory adjective is lazy and shallow.


I quite like his energy


Watched some of her interview with Bret Weinstein now. Weinstein says a lot of stupid, ignorant stuff and Efrat agrees with him. So she's a fool.


Erfat's a fraud. This clip is a rant that hits multiple 'buzz' points but in the end says nothing.


Grace under pressure has been shown by the people of Gaza who can't get out from under Israel's genocidal bombing. Presumably nostr:npub1dg6es53r3hys9tk3n7aldgz4lx4ly8qu4zg468zwyl6smuhjjrvsnhsguz could still get out of Israel so she's either a fool to still be there, or worse.


Seeing as *you* have brought this subject into the discussion, what is yr position on Israel ?


My belief that the Apollo program landed ppl on the moon is over 99% however I'm actually also happy that there are ppl out there who are sceptical and think it was faked. It's good to have ppl showing scepticism about various topics.


Peter's politics are indeed adolescent level (and loathsome). However I still follow him for his good technical intelligence.


> Our digestive system is extremely acidic (even more than a lion!) meaning we are designed to eat MEAT and FAT only - zero plants.

Bull shit


This is such low effort posting


The @HRF is suspect and @gladstein is a fraud


Here's the background. The UK forced the importation of opium into China, at massive profits to themselves and tremendous harm to China. They also demanded the concession of parcels of Chinese land where they weren't subject to Chinese law but instead could set up their own legal system. One of these concessions was of course Hong Kong.

When Hong Kong was eventually returned to China, the Chinese govt showed great tolerance and restraint in allowing Hong Kong to keep some autonomy and existing foreign systems including legal systems.

Meanwhile, Western agencies sought to create mischief in Hong Kong by boosting 'pro democracy' groups and all sorts of CIA backed NGOs. IOW, the usual pattern of setting up a 'colour revolution'. Such a revolution was then attempted in 2019 and failed because it was not truly hone grown.

The Chinese govt has cracked down since that attempt and imposed laws like the one we are discussing here. You, with your Western blinkers, may be blind to what prompted it and it may offend your Western ideals but tough luck. it's not actually your business and this guy was an idiot to wear an openly seditios logo on his clothing when such laws have been put in place.

Finally, on a personal note, I find ppl wearing political and ideological logos on their clothing an obnoxious practice that comes from the USA, and I can see how it would feel quite foreign to Asian cultures. Actually, I find  wearing pictorial t-shirts in general very 'man childish' behaviour and again, very US American. I don't like that, under US influence, it's become a practice in my own country, although I wouldn't support a law against it (of course).

So no, I don't see this law and this prosecution 'insane' in the historical context of Hong Kong. I also see it as quite trivial. So again, I wonder why you chose to highlight this particular incident which heoowns to play right into the hands of the Western agencies pushing mischief in Hong Kong.

(btw, I tend to lean heavily towards the answer just being that you're a 'useful idiot')


Most things are 'non-binary' (but not sex), so this is a pointless utterance


Government is not directly equivalent to 'monopoly on violence'. Not even close


So the complete works of Shakespeare is 'advertising' ?

I get the principle of scepticism here but this absolutist line takes it too far. There has always been good genuinely Free culture in the world, and a world where you pay for everything of any value would be a very poor and sterile world.


Of course it's not fake news; my point is why are you highlighting it ?


I'm not a cold showers zealot but I did do a year of exclusively cold showers as an experiment. Two things I noticed :

1. I have generally (very) good skin but did have, like a lot of people, drier skin on my elbows. These patches of drier skin went away and turned pink and smooth again.

2. Natural highlights came back into my hair, to a startling degree. I had very blond hair as a child, ageing into a more ash blond. The cold water brought back shining colour into my hair. That convinced me to go 'no poo' (no shampoo), after seeing how good sebum retention is for your hair.

Even just going cooler is better than hot hot showers (I haven't kept to strict cold showers). And hot baths are fine too. It's the hot water continually running over your skin & through yr hair in a shower which is what's damaging.


His criticism here of the measures taken to lessen agitation for another colour revolution attempt in Hong Kong


Deliberately; I prefer you to keep your sats


Have you looked at Keet ?


Hollywood film (Warner Bros)

(And it's only a Guy Fawkes mask, if that's what you're referring to)


"Paradoxically, systems accused of being undemocratic are probably better equipped to survive, at least in the short and medium term. They have to constantly demonstrate to citizens that they are capable of solving their problems, whereas a traditional democracy believes that democratic turnover itself is a remedy for problems. In reality, swapping out one party for another changes almost nothing, which only exacerbates discontent."


It's amusing that this post received likes but no zaps (and also 2 imposter replies).

Zapping is for cucks. You don't take out yr wallet and give someone a dollar bill when they say something interesting. You just say 'good point', ie give them a like.


One more piece of evidence that @gladstein either 1) directly works for Western intelligence or 2) is a useful idiot


Not a very coherent exposition, imo


I'm autistic, and I've experienced a lot of unnecessary hardship in my life because I didn't know I was on the spectrum, but even after knowing, I wasn't taught what to do to better understand how my brain works so that I could navigate the world. Through autistic-centered therapy, I've learned a lot over the past several years, and I have many thoughts...

I've been thinking a lot about the importance of early intervention in autism. Temple Grandin and others emphasize how important this is. But what does that even mean? I think it does not mean teaching autistics to be like neuroypticals. The problem for me and others on the spectrum is that we've been taught to understand the world as if we had a built-in intuitive system. A heuristics way of managing sensory input, one might say. But the problem is that autistic people don't have such well-developed systems, but we do have strong analytical systems.

My theory is that every disabling aspect of autism is because of information overload and trauma. We get more information in every domain compared to neurotypicals.  So we can't make intuitive guesses with limited data, we actually have too much data, so we need to take a more cognitive and analytical approach. Yet, through cognitive approaches, we can actually make better decisions/observations/connections than neurotypicals.

So I think any kind of intervention should reflect this. Whether it is in childhood or adulthood. It should be focused on interpreting, navigating, and managing sensory inputs. For those on the spectrum, this means it will be cognitive processing the vast majority of the time. Teaching autistic people to sense their bodies and learn how to cognitively interpret them will go a long way.

Interventions for helping those who are non-speaking who have trouble controlling their body--to me--should focus on increasing the signal-to-noise ratio in motor systems. But also teaching them how to communicate through letter boards and typing as early as possible is essential to avoid trauma and worsening sensory overload. There's cutting edge research showing a direct connection between emotion and sensory overload in the brain.

Finally, we need acceptance. Autistic people experience so much abuse through their lives, one study reported 9 in 10 autistic women experienced some form of sexual abuse. They concluded the targeted abuse of those on the spectrum had no relation to perceived diagnostic "deficits" but rather, autistic people are singled-out because we are different. Nothing more, nothing less. Teach your kids to accept those who are different. Autistic people have higher rates of suicide. Therapy for those on the spectrum is mostly about undoing all the harm neurotypicals did to us. Most autistic people are traumatized, but it doesn't have to be that way.

Autism is a neurotype and a spectrum. It can be both abling and disabling, depending on how severe the information overload is. But I think if we reframe how we look at it, and we address the foundational challenges, we can make it so that no aspect of autism is disabling.

Don't try to cure us. A different way of interpreting the world can only benefit society, not harm it.


This only works for a few early 'influencer' types


A flawed understanding of human ancestry illustrated by a base 2 progression that most ppl moderately familiar with computers know off by heart. I'm not seeing the 'coolness' here


False equivalence between Bitcoin and nostr.

It remains unproven whether nostr has the right design to survive state pressure or other attack vectors. I personally don't think it does but anyway it remains to be seen.


Not to mention they're all US American characters (blurghh)


Disagree that he would have loved it but anyway, arrogant of you to speak for dead ppl


Both the top and the bottom are materialist takes, and thus in my view, misguided and sterile.


Against all United / Union superstates.

1 has already gone - the USSR

I look forward to the breakup of the 3 remainling ones - the USA, the UK and the EU.

The UK is a spent force and will probably lose Northern Ireland soon, its first colony.

The EU, a project pushed upon Europe by the USA to give it easier control over the sub-continent, never had its own sovereignty (unlike the other 3) and will not last many decades more; perhaps as few as 1 or 2. Good riddance.

And the USA? Clearly it is very sick and on an irredeemable path to failure now. But while its disappearance from the world stage will be a great boon, having been by far the greatest source of evil since the end of WWII (and much evil before too), this period of its decline and fall is also a great danger to the rest of the world, as it is so chaotic and destabilising and violent.


> hiding your head under a hat “for OPSEC”

i.e. exactly what Satoshi Nakamoto did

(Otherwise I agree with the main point of the post)


I like throwing a ball against a wall and catching it


30 to 50 years is way too generous, imo. I don't see 'crypto' (not Bitcoin) making it to the end of the decade. And good riddance.


Replying to the #NaturalSkincare tag (and not the Beef tallow tag), the best and most natural skincare (and haircare) is what your own body produces. It's a mix of oils, waxes and esthers and is produced by your own body with all the benefits of biofeedback. It goes by the (slightly unfortunate) name of *sebum*.

So best skincare is to not strip away the sebum that your body is producing to naturally protect and nourish it. Not stripping it away means not using soaps and detergents on your skin (and hair). Basically what's called 'water only'. In addition, try to keep the water cooler, because hot water also strips away the sebum more. (Cold) water only will give you naturally glowing,  elastic and not dried out skin, i e youthful skin.


All prizes end up getting gamed. Best to discount them as a signal of value.


On the other hand, I only found you because of the silly controversy around yr cancelled talk (and then started following).


If you rely on any reporting from the New York Times on China then you are getting played. They run a constant anti-China propaganda campaign (which far too many ppl lap up uncritically).


Sorry baklava man, we've been on the Bitcoin journey for the same length of time and I've generally enjoyed yr takes but I consider posts like these self indulgent wankery that there is way too much of on places like nostr. So this is where I leave yr journey.

(Obviously becoming a parent is a profound experience;that's not my point).


> IMO kissing someone after a cigarette vs a cigar is quite different.

Interesting take.

I do agree that if you're going to smoke then pure tobacco leaf is the best option. I went through a brief smoking period and during that time I made it a rule to only smoke Nat Sherman's and cigars on this principle.


> they are issued over time

Without miners putting in the  work (however minimal), then no, there will be no issuance, i.e, issuance is a product of work, not time.


Most of these look fake (posed) and uncool.

And there's nothing pleasant in kissing a woman who smokes.


Fear is a useful signal


I am a Dune-head, and the reason I like those books is that there is a depth to them that I have seldom found in other sci-fi works. I really like the political machinations, and the philosophical digressions.

On the first reading Dune reads like a typical Hero's Journey story. But when you re-read it, and also add Dune Messiah, it really becomes clear that it is a story about how bad Heroes are for the world.

Which is an important lesson for our times. And kinda a Bitcoin lesson too. We're the only crypto-cult that does not actually follow a Hero, since Satoshi disappeared.

#dune


Heh, I applied for a $20k grant to do a proper analysis of Nostr's decentralization on Saturday. Same idea (and similar cost) as my recent L2 Covenants article. Only took them one business day to reject it (took them 6 weeks to reject my grant request to keep OpenTimestamps running).

I'm not surprised. I strongly suspect there isn't much good to say about Nostr's decentralization and I hear OpenSats is funding a bunch of Nostr. Nostr needs a serious redesign.

https://image.nostr.build/53cab3aa2f8099ca6659b9f97648813b6de2eccbd53e4d9ccb9db956d51cbe99.jpg


"most people on Nostr"


One of these things is not like the others


I remember this account being a high signal one on X / Twitter. The signal seems to have got a lot noisier in its transition to nostr


How about I just block this wannabe influencer account instead ?


What bullshit. This comment only shows you don't understand the work WikiLeaks did and what they achieved.


Guess what, in some countries, even English speaking countries, we didn't have AOL.

Only one country''s citizens consistently think their insular viewpoint is universal.


This post has Google Plus energy


I'm tired of to this constant ewuivalisng of the nostr journey to the Bitcoin journey. The Bitcoin journey was a real hero's journey; nostr doesn't compare.


This is not news and further, it's not even fun


Less bitcoin conferences that only serve to enrich the organizers, less bitcoin donations to politicians and more donations to privacy projects.

https://invincible-privacy.github.io/donate/projects/


Platitudes like this and yr many other recent ones make you an uninteresting follow where once you definitely were. Stopped following you on X recently and took you off one of my 'quality' lists there. Now taking the same action here. Hope you regain yr sense of humour and intellectual depth at some point.


Bullshit mate. No-one needs permission to call someone something, particularly a public figure, and it was quite obviously done here for provocative effect, which is fine for a public talk.

British debating tradition does this all the time, which you should know as an Aussie and someone who shouldn't be infected by the 'commie scare' derangement that so many US Americans suffer from (and which is so fucking tedious for the rest of us).


I remember bitcoin twitter in 2016 and was a fairly active participant in it. So far I've found nostr far noisier than BT 2016. Feels very self congratulatory and culty, tbh.


This cult meter goes  up to 11


And I'm about the same amount of time in. So far I've called out nostr:npub1hu3hdctm5nkzd8gslnyedfr5ddz3z547jqcl5j88g4fame2jd08qh6h8nh, nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u, nostr:npub1gu47n7fxfm4py48jktmu6tdqcvva4e87fntynuzzf62zxnw2e7tsc6907g, received zero zaps (I don't want any) and only 1 follow back from a nice farmer account. And useless flex (that I won't substantiate) but I've been in Bitcoin longer than any of the accounts I named above unless they also go back to first half of 2011. I'm not getting any dopamine rush from this place (nor do I want one) and I'm actually finding it quite culty.


This post reminding me of crypto bro copium around things like "but it's not backed by proof of work"

Plenty of eminent Bitcoiners have raised concerns around nostr's relay vulnerabilities. I saw a post from Samson Mow on X today making just such a comment. Seems foolish to dismiss such concerns with a meme like this.


How often in ordinary conversation with someone do you simply say "I agree" (a like) versus opening your wallet and giving them a $1 bill (a zap).

Zaps can be useful when you want to reward someone for what you perceive as doing you a service but that's not how most ordinary interactions proceed.


Maybe I'm not seeing where this was a joke or tongue in cheek but anyway, I immediately unfollow anyone who proclaims the Stefan Bandera salutation.


Appreciate yr reply and sorry I was too harsh and frankly a bit arrogant in my comment above.

I won't share my full collection (took my X account private a number of years ago), but I can throw out some names here.

Not in any particular order :

x.com/adam3us

x.com/notgrubles

x.com/arbedout

x.com/stackhodler

x.com/bitstein

x.com/murchandamus

x.com/martiimalmi

x.com/LukeDashjr

x.com/adamcjonas

x.com/excellion

x.com/nozomimagine

x.com/DSBatten

x.com/AnitaPosch

x.com/ChristopherA

x.com/giacomozucco

(I hand typed these so sorry if there's an error in any which doesn't take you to an account)

Could add more; it's not at all an exhaustive list of quality bitcoiners.


The easiest way to fix yr issue might be to install the android or apple app on yr phone and ask for help inside Keet itself ('bug bandits' is the room you'd join for help). They're super responsive to helping ppl with issues on there.


What happens when you run the appimage? Anything?


Does anyone else ride a hippo like a horse?


Exposure to this account over a few days has demonstrated to me that it's not doing a very good job of selecting the better Bitcoin posts off X / Twitter, unfortunately.

Feels like the curator is pretty new to Bitcoin honestly.

I have a curated list of many high signal bitcoiners, compiled over 8+ years, and I see much better posts each day than the ones collected here.


Duolingo isn't 'learning a language' and their streak tracking is one of only many dark patterns they employ to keep you pretending to learn a language on their poxy app.


I've saw yr previous comment about using holesail and you're obviously not lacking in technical acumen, so please excuse this question if it's too basic but have you made the appumage executable and then tried running it ?


Yeah, I've got it running on Linux, although most of my use is on the android version.


Udi is a fraud! don't give him the audience boost


Agree with your general point but it is not 'literally slavery'. Slavery' is doing forced *directed* labour. On YT you still get to choose what you put yr labour into and how much and at what time, even if the fruits of that labour may be taken away from you later.


This is a red flag against using Amethyst in my opinion, if the developer is this ignorant *and* happy to parade his ignorance


Michael Hudson

(And if you don't know who this is then consider that you may be stuck in an echo chamber surrounded by others continually chanting tedious and shallow rants against Marxism)


In the scenario that Naval is referring to, I would argue that Keet (also on my phone) would be the more valuable app.

Not that nostr isn't and wouldn't be valuable, just that it's less censorship resistant than Keet.


NPCs can't 'assume' because, by definition, they are not conscious.

But if you're using the term to refer to actual humans then I think thats a mistake, as it comes across as arrogant and patronising

No movement gets anywhere by patronising the masses.