MilitantEmpath / chaos_cake is on Nostr

The most powerful magic is chaos magic

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2026-09-03 14:37:54 UTC

This is my kitchen. I built everything myself.
What you are looking at was an empty field of rocks and sticks before I came along and devoted myself.
I took the raw materials of the Earth and created a living sculpture. Functional art.
The dirt walls, clay plaster, mesquite shelves, rock accents, yucca stalk decorations, copper plates, and cottonwood corner posts all collected from on-site resources.
It is my orientation that affords me these opportunities. And you can know it too. Right now, in this very lifetime.
I like to use the term "old story." The story of separation. The old story says that you are a separate individual. A soul encased in flesh in a world of others.
In that story, your purpose here is to make a place in the word. To survive, maximize your self-interest, and contend with all the other separate selves out there trying to do the same. To insulate yourself from hostile natural force whilst taking what you need and what you want from the world. Cuz.. why not?
The new story is to realize that your purpose here is not actually to maximize your wealth and security and self-interests. Your purpose here, the reason we are on Earth and in this cosmos, is because you carry gifts that you yearn to express to the world.
Just like every species. There is no species on Earth that only takes from and degradese the ecosystem. Every species actually contributes to the aliveness of the collective. They contribute to the unfolding of life and beauty.
We're the same.
It doesn't look like that right now. That we are a gift to life and beauty. It doesn't. But that is what a mature species becomes. So the transition we are in right now is the maturation of our collective consciousness.
This is true on an individual level as well. Which is why you can mine a million Bitcoin$... but if you're not using that to make the world more alive and more beautiful you're gunna feel... "I wasn't put on Earth for this... When am I going to get to live MY life.. not the one I've been bribed to live."
So this is the orientation I am talking about. The orientation of understanding yourself as gift. So in every situation you get to ask yourself, "what is mine to do? What is my Task? What is mine to give?" And that doesn't mean self-sacrifice because it includes a recognition of the generosity of all the world and all the world's species. To receive fully all the gifts that allow me to give forward and leave things more beautiful than they were when I found them.
It is understanding myself as an agent of the continuing coming aliveness of the world.
Just take a look at natural history. It is just a history of the world coming more and more alive. 4 Billion years ago, nothing. Then bacteria. They become more complex, multi-cellular. Then things begin to colonize the land, create soils, and plants, and flowers leading to insects and they made it even more alive and more beautiful. Then we came along.... Same reason. We're the same. So long as we're tapped into that, into that story about what is humanity for.. then you will know your ultimate purpose.
The old story says we're here to transcend nature. We're here to conquer. But that's not actually why we're here. The more that we're tapped into "what can we contribute to the aliveness of the cosmos" then life has meaning. Then you know why you're here. You know how to orient yourself and navigate life. You're tapped into the maturation of our species.
There's a north star to follow.
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2026-09-02 20:43:36 UTC

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Thank you, but not genius. Just dialectical materialism. This school of thought has been around for almost 200 years and is the only philosophy on Earth that has sparked revolutionary thinking across the globe.

2026-09-02 13:55:21 UTC

I think the real takeaway from AI art should be its affect on how we love each other.
What once took deep emotional attunement is now achievable through internet clawing AI. Our standards must shift with these new material conditions. Stagnation spells doom.
During the Russian Civil War, Alexandra Kollanti observed the lack of emotional depth and commitment revolutionaries gave their romantic partners. It wasnt because Russians all had an avoidant attachment style. It was because the material conditions of the revolution deflected energy away from feelings that normally accompanied love. Being unable to sleep or feeling pangs of doubt as one yearns for their lover is a loss of energy the revolution could not afford.
However, once the war ended and the Soviet Union was established, Soviet situationships fell out of favor. People wanted something deeper. Something longer lasting now that the material conditions allowed for it.
If we look at our current material conditions it makes sense that in this epoch, love and understanding are experienced as one. Conditions like the tremendous abundance of products & services and the economic logic that intermediates our relationships has devalued our material instantiations of love.
You dont need to make your lover a mixtape when every song is available to stream at the click of a button. Buying movie or concert tickets as a gift has lost value since you can stream it from the living room. These are still obviously acts of love but the social value of these acts has diminished. There's always a convenient alternative and its important love is removed from convenience.
There's no need to rely on these material confirmations anymore. In fact, many Americans think it is virtuous to be materially self sufficient. Techno-capitalism nutures isolated individuals, making other people obsolete in the grand design of what we used to think compliments a full life.
Under this system, the only thing that is safe from planned obsolescence is our immaterial recognition of each other. How I understand you can never be bought or possessed or reproduced.
This means now more than ever what our community or lovers do is not as important as how they respond to you specifically. The standard for what it means to be understood has increased. The digital age makes it materially possible to know more about others than ever before. You can know someone you've never met simply by stalking their social media; their likes, places they've been, the things they follow.
In the past, making the perfect mixtape for a partner required you to be present with them and attentive to what they say and how they behave. It required complex inferences you'd have to make about their general disposition. Now if you want to make a mixtape for a lover, you dont have to pay attention to them at all. You can lookup their Spotify Playlist or checkout their music highlights on Insta.
An act once requiring deep emotional attunement can now be achieved with mere data collection. Now that data is freely given; our deep thoughts go online, photos of our favorite things, our search histories sold to brokers. Corporations literally know if you are pregnant or have cancer before your doctor or family does. ChatGPT can give relationship advice tailored to your exact situation.
This is one of the reasons I like Nostr so much. My real name is tied nowhere to this account.
Still... it doesn't mean much to know things about others anymore. Knowing lots of facts might've constituted understanding a few decades ago. But now it is not sufficient. Otherwise, AI chat bots would seem to "understand" and "love" us. The standard for love must rise above ordinary factoids. Thus, to be loved is to be understood deeply and intuitively.
For example, I am not always the most honest person. It stems from mommy trauma and an insecurity in simply being myself or being honest about my feelings.
When I am dishonest, an acquaintance might take the lie at face value and make sweeping generalizations about my character. But someone who loves me will want to interpret my behavior charitably. Generosity makes the lover's understanding more accurate.
There lies the nuance that AI can never understand or replace.

2026-09-01 19:33:16 UTC

Not only did corporations start cutting corners with our food production the second regulations were removed, but not a single fuckn' thing got cheaper for the consumers.
Make no mistake, they will kill each and every one of us for a dollar.
Here's just a few of the Current Major Food Recalls in the United States
IT PAYS TO PAY ATTENTION
-Taylor Farms Iceburg Lettuce and premade Salad Kits: Risk of Cyclospora Parasite, over 10,930 reported cases
-Jalapeños, Prepared Salsas, Guacamole and Pico De Gallo (especially those sold by Taylor Farms): Risk of Salmonella Javiana, 431 reported illnesses, 57 Hospitalizations
- Kroger, Simple Truth, Brookshire, Country Morning and Sunups brand Eggs: Class 1, the highest risk level possible: Risk of Salmonella, 98 reported Illnesses and 26 Hospitalizations
- Nara Organics Infant Powdered Milk Formula: Risk of Clostridium Botulinum Contamination (Botulism). 3 reported cases.
-Frozen Blueberries and Mixed Berries (especially those distributed by Publix): Class 1, the highest risk level possible. Risk of E. Coli, 4 Hospitalizations
- Dreyer’s Outshine Fruit Bars: Potential Glass Contamination.
- Smoked Herring: Severe Risk of Clostridium Botulinum Contamination (Botulism)
- Raw Farm brand Cheddar Cheese: Risk of E. Coli, 3 Hospitalizations
- California Dairies inc. brand Powdered Milk and Buttermilk: Risk of Salmonella
-Utz and Zapps brand Potato Chips. Class 1, the highest risk level possible: Risk of Salmonella
- Lacnola Lactation Granola (made for breastfeeding mothers): Risk of Salmonella
- Alfalfa Sprouts (several brands): Risk of Salmonella & E. Coli, 55 Reported Illnesses, 4 Hospitalizations
-Christopher Ranch and Garland Fresh Peeled Garlic: Risk of Clostridium Botulinum Contamination (Botulism).
-Marketside Tomato Bisque Soup Kits: Risk of Listeria
-City Foods Deli Meat (specifically pastrami and corned beef): Risk of Listeria
- Walmart Great Value, La Ceiba and Lucern brand Cottage Cheese: Great Value has the risk of being Unpasteurized, La Ceiba has the Risk of Listeria, and Lucern has the Risk of Foreign Metal Objects.
- Fromm Family Foods and Oma’s Pride brand Wet Dog Food: Fromm Family Foods has a Risk of Foreign Metal Objects and Oma’s Pride has the Risk of Salmonella
- Green Powder Supplements: Risk of Salmonella
-Pork King Good brand Pork Rinds and Seasonings: Risk of Salmonella
- Fresh Made Salad Inc. brand Cream Cheese: Risk of Listeria
-Clover Hill Dairy brand Ricotta Cheese: Risk of Listeria. 10 Hospitalizations, 1 Death

2026-09-01 13:50:01 UTC

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The books 🤓

2026-08-31 14:29:45 UTC

Never forget that the system we are rebelling against is a gang of completely unaccountable strangers who are genocidal, pedophilic, war profiteers that have seized the levers of power and have turned them against all life on Earth for personal gains.
So, you kno... prepare accordingly.
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2026-08-30 16:21:30 UTC

This weekend's endeavors come with a reminder.
That true self-reliance isn't raising chickens, or planting seedlings, or building a home off the grid.
True self-reliance is stringent control over your perception faculty. It is trusting your instincts without obeying the implorations of others. Because if you just borrow and conform to the ideals of people you see on TV/social media.. then that's all you can do: borrow. You fail to search out what makes you individually great.
The only observation that matters is your own personal perception shaped by a lifetime of experiences. Otherwise all you're doing is making predictable assumptions based on the whims of other people who claim to know your duty better than you do.
I suggest you see these people for what they are: charlatans.
This is not *a* way to become great again. It is the only way.
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2026-08-30 13:19:44 UTC

Your attention is your super-power
The moment is your canvas
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2026-08-27 15:08:15 UTC

I built my off-grid house entirely from on-site soil and with my own two hands. The walls are 50cm thick. The dome even goes underground. Then I stocked it with years worth of provisions, firearms and ammo, thousands of varieties of seeds, rare medicines and first aid, I then hardened the off-grid systems against cataclysm, and have contributed countless hours to strengthening the resiliency of the surrounding community.
I joined Nostr as a continuation of that pattern. It is one small facet of a robust systems that can resist breaking down, no matter what kind of storm we're made to endure.
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2026-08-26 21:03:49 UTC

Look at what we've done...
Out of the estimated 113 Billion humans who have ever existed, the majority of them lived both briefly and a very long time ago. So it's historically rare to live throughout the changes of the world as it is rebuilt around us. Nostr, crypto, the fall of the petro-dollar.
Humans today will experience on average 50 years more than the majority of humans who have ever lived. Today the average infant will grow to adulthood and the average adult will live into their 70s.
The majority of all humans could never read or write, they had no choice in where they lived or where they could go or what they could do. Mostly just farmers born to tend the lands they we bred on.
Most humans who have ever existed did not know what it was like to be 30, let alone 80
It has never been normal to witness the world as it is rebuilt and changed around you. But we do now.
I ask again, just look at what we have done....
For better or for worse, there's no denying the capabilities of our kind. Every 30-something year old like me flying on a plane to their grandmother's funeral, watching a movie or reading a book, casually aware of gravity, how the weather works, and what the Sun is made from, and even the names and histories of the places below them, all while being able to consider why they might go somewhere at all. In their pocket a credit card, a smart phone, and medicine capable of treating almost any ailment... all this is such a normal thing to us now but it truly is a living and breathing example that miracles are real. And they are created by the godlike force of the hands and minds of people like us.
Humanity has forged this reality for itself. We so easily critique and squander what we have for there is admittedly a lot to critique and squander.
But considering at least once in a while how crazy it is that we exist as self aware humans and we exist on the side of history where we are expected to see 30, 40, 50, maybe even 80 or more. The side of history where we can tell time to the second, wipe with soft paper, see clearly with glasses, play cards with friends, mass distribute books, listen to a master pianist on demand, turn on and off lights and heaters, drink soda, drive cars on a whim, launch rockets, press buttons, understand the contents of outer and inner space, and share ideas like these instantaneously on a global scale.
We created all these things, all these opportunities, out from the material of the Earth and our minds. Out from nothing.
We woke into the conditions of this Reality and said, "not good enough. How about this instead?"
We bear the fruits of both our bounty and our destruction. Destruction of the world, our spirits, and ourselves. But our next great innovation is on its way. One that includes the wisdom to properly carry out our innovations. To not just live long lives, but also good sustainable ones. #nostr #cochisecounty #optout

2026-08-26 20:00:15 UTC

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Yes the monad is an essential form of gnosis, although my understanding of it comes more from the musings of literary geniuses like Emerson rather than gnostic texts.

2026-08-26 19:46:14 UTC

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Maybe what you judge to be good is already great and the only self sabotage is your inability to recognize all the cool shit you've already done in favor of chastising yourself for not meeting arbitrary standards

2026-08-26 19:43:19 UTC

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I clicked the barf icon and it switched to a heart. Sad. It's rug pulls all the way down

2026-08-26 19:29:07 UTC

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Inspiring presentation. Thanks Dave. And Happy Birthday

2026-08-26 14:19:12 UTC

Notes & Other Stuff Transmitted over Relay is a great way to reconstruct our models of communication with each other. But let's not forget there's another channel to re-establish that is just as important: our individual communication with the planetary other, the monad.
It begins by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Let us declare what is Natural legitimate. All plants and people are to be legal. The notion of illegal plants and people is obnoxious and ridiculous. Accessing the mind behind Nature, the genus behind all genera, through the use of hallucinogenic plant medicines remains the best hope for dissolving the steep walls of cultural inflexibility that is driving us towards ruin.

2026-08-26 03:00:53 UTC

¡La tierra es para quien la trabaja! #cochisecounty