GM Nostr.
First, read this: https://www.therage.co/untitled-2/
Then, watch The Big Short again this week.
The system is rigged in favor of the bankers and the politicians.
They keep us divided with political theatre, war, and media circus shows.
The only way to win is not to play.
DHH has a great post today, one section really caught my attention and is something I've been thinking a lot about recently.
"And that's what gets me. Everyone find it easy to nod in agreement with Jobs' ode to To The Crazy Ones¹. Everyone wants to believe that they'd support "the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers". That they too would cheer for those who are "not fond of rules. And... have no respect for the status quo".
But they won't and they don't. Most people are either aggressively or passively conformist². They squirm when The Crazy Ones actually attempt to change the world. They don't see genius as often as they see transgressors. A failure to comply and comport. And they don't like it."
So GM Nostr. 🌞 Be crazy and non-conformist today.
1. https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/heres-to-the-crazy-ones
2. https://paulgraham.com/conformism.html
GM Nostr.
I was chatting with a friend about MLS messaging yesterday and he said something that had stuck in my brain and has now become an explicit goal.
Any competent dev should be able to safely integrate MLS messaging into their client in an afternoon.
What do you think?
But, imagine a world based on Nostr keys for identity (not phone or email) and relays as the servers in between. Relays know nothing about your or the comm, there's no lock in cause the client and the protocol are completely open source... We're nearly there.
Looks like they've diverged a bit. I actually just jumped over to snort to check it out as well. Seems like Snort has a lot more in it than Iris but the basic design is still similar.
I don’t I agree. I believe it’s very size dependent. The more we centralize control, the more space there is for mob-like rule and the more the ruling class become parasites rather than producing members of society.
If more/most services were organized and managed at a local/regional level I think we’d see a vast improvement in efficiency and quality and it would be more cooperative and flexible to boot.
While I do agree with you that most people don't want to be fully and radically responsible for their own wellbeing I don't think that precludes them from being capable of contributing to self-governance at the local level. We've lost quality local governance over the last 100 years because the centralized state has taken more and more power for itself and left nothing of import at the local level. So you end up with poor leaders fighting over crumbs and frivolous rules at the levels that should be running everything.
Yup. I agree. I was meaning it in the monetary/time sense. It takes time to get humans to move together in the same direction, but it's an important step of leadership that ultimately allows you to go faster and in a more aligned way.
For everything the catchment size will be a little different. Basic health services might be smaller, specialities slightly larger. Education likely to be very small (neighborhood level). There are likely to be very high level agreements on basic stuff like, "Don't dump toxic waste in the river" and high level arbitration mechanisms to deal with that. But those don't have to be government run. In fact, the whole reason that many companies choose Delaware for incorporation is that they have their own system of chancery courts that make it faster, cheaper, and easier to settle disputes.
The logical fallacy in your thinking is that people look up the ladder right now because that's what we've been trained to do. There's no reason that this is the natural state of things. Giant nation states are a remnant of colonialism and imperialism. We have decentralized planetary light speed communications and decentralized planetary light speed money now. People are far more self-organizing and cooperative than you're giving them credit for here.
Don't fall into the Hobbesian "Nasty, brutish, and short" trap.
We're saying the same thing. But I don't think you'll ever get perfect consensus in a large group. Having a space to speak is obviously important but eventually people have to "disagree and commit" to the decision and move forward.
Completely different. Really cool to see a quickly working demo but it's using a cut down version of the Signal protocol which I abandoned early on because it makes private group conversations extremely hard / if not impossible.
It’s pretty rad. Although our cable car is closed this year. They’re rebuilding it, which will be great, as long as they finish it sometime in the next year.
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