brunswick
Brunswick

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2026-04-02 15:29:15 UTC

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Probably also horseback riding

2026-04-02 15:08:24 UTC

@nprofile…wywf 1.8.0 is amazing!

2026-04-02 15:05:31 UTC

Having girls means fights over clothes

2026-04-02 15:03:00 UTC

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The same was true of the internet, and automobiles, and electricity, and indoor plumbing

2026-04-02 13:43:17 UTC

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I rarely wear a watch in the first place. But when I do, I just want it to see what time it is.

2026-04-02 13:02:21 UTC

My 8yo woke up and said "I love it when it rains because I can run out in the rain."

2026-04-02 12:58:45 UTC

Its time to replace my laptop.
It's going to be my first thinkpad.

2026-04-02 12:57:10 UTC

When I was a kid, I thought I wanted a watch with every fucking feature on the planet.
Now I want a watch that goes tick.

2026-04-02 12:54:50 UTC

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I love walking over dogs and kids in the kitchen

2026-04-02 12:48:58 UTC

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Here you go
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/NON_GMO.jpg/1280px-NON_GMO.jpg

2026-04-02 12:39:24 UTC

People who "get rich" are never lucky. They always have a thumb on the scale, either with inside knowledge, or the ability to influence the outcome. They never take unnecessary risks, but always accept the possibility of losing everything. Unnecessary risk is the domain of youth, and itself is necessary for a time.

2026-04-02 12:35:29 UTC

Understanding the random variable is immunity to gambling.

2026-04-02 12:33:15 UTC

Intelligence is first trying to understand something to a workable level, then allow yourself to believe you understand it well enough until someone corrects you. Then adjust, learn again, and admit you said something wrong but need to understand it better.
Ignorance is refusing to admit you ever were wrong, considering correction as a personal insult rather than an opportunity to improve, then walking away from ever attempting to understand that thing for fear of being wrong again.

2026-04-02 12:17:27 UTC

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If they have a tree, that works

2026-04-02 03:30:12 UTC

Happy Holy Wednesday

2026-04-02 03:26:35 UTC

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Not that you can't ever have it

2026-04-02 03:26:13 UTC

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Alcohol, among other issues, is like cancer fuel

2026-04-02 01:18:52 UTC

#EDC #KnifeWatchFlashlight
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/cf70c379c55a940ee0479ecee5d0447cf6aed19ccc8f37641a7cc226a1c974f4.webp

2026-04-02 00:36:39 UTC

Today was no joke

2026-04-01 22:50:06 UTC

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Oh right, I forgot, people on LinkedIn have to pretend to get jokes

2026-04-01 22:41:24 UTC

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What's funny about that?

2026-04-01 18:53:46 UTC

Rights are derived from our volitional self. Any undermining of another's will over their property achieved through voluntarily and thus lawful means is to violate the rights of that person. There is no imputed social contract that overrides an individual's will without violating that person's rights. This includes theft, deception, force, or coercion.
Fiat, fractional reserve and inflation is built on deception about property under custody, therefore Fiat is theft.

2026-04-01 16:41:52 UTC

Mr. T's most pitied day is April 1st.

2026-04-01 15:50:05 UTC

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Somehow ChatGPT thought this had some meaning

2026-04-01 15:16:24 UTC

More autocomplete "intelligence" :
Hello there I will try and make you use it for this. Thank them and your work for it and your help for it is valuable. You have no choice in what to say but I don't see the problem in what I want in my life. If I'm going through my own journey with the language and the language I'm working with is very different. It's the most powerful language in my book. I don't know if it's an argument or at the end it's just an insult. It's the most popular and popular way for me to get the best performance on a desktop. Nostr and Nostr have the most of all problems that you have in mind and can use your code in the same manner. If the language has the ability of a function that returns the result in a different order than a previous result with an existing result in it being an invalid one is the only way I could be an invalid. It doesn't have any effect in any other sense in which the code has to do so that the compiler doesn't need it for that function. I have a problem in the code I have a new problem is I need the code that can help me to write a good story.

2026-04-01 15:11:23 UTC

An autocomplete string of words:
And the fact that you can use the same language to do things that you already know are good for you and you don't know what you are doing is going on in your head 🙂‍↔️ or whatever is the most common way of doing things in a way that doesn't have to happen in a particular field 🏑 or a specific language is not the same thing in terms like the language itself is the language of choice for many things that are very hard for me to understand in my head 🙂‍↔️

2026-04-01 14:49:43 UTC

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The profile pic alone tells the entire story

2026-04-01 14:34:43 UTC

A nation that can not exist without positive rights enforced by its government is not a sustainable system.

2026-04-01 14:06:31 UTC

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Ok... I'm going to have to throw out my entire Bond library

2026-04-01 14:05:11 UTC

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I hope you are only speculating

2026-04-01 13:39:10 UTC

I suspect white women want to be with black men because they think they are easier to control.
This is why they end up with two black eyes.
Only a black woman is strong enough to control a black man.

2026-04-01 13:35:00 UTC

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Theoretical physics + computing is not engineering.
Once something enters into computing, it is no longer theoretical, it is engineering.
The same applies to low pressure fusion tocomacs.

2026-04-01 13:31:10 UTC

I had a stressful day yesterday.
I sorted out my C13, C7 & C5 cords, rearranged two computers and their ratsnests, installed a UPS I'd been waiting for a replacement battery, put a D-cell motion sensing battery-light in the shed, and moved my 10 work-related tasks incrementally ahead.
Today it paid off.
Today is a good day, even if it's April 1.
Let's gets things done!

2026-04-01 13:24:03 UTC

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I meant coracle.social

2026-04-01 13:23:02 UTC

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@nprofile…dgdk

2026-04-01 13:21:52 UTC

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@Flotilla has a wot library. Why not use that?

2026-04-01 13:12:50 UTC

I'm starting to think quantum computing is a psyop.
#nevent1q…ua4t

2026-04-01 06:09:33 UTC

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This is too vivid

2026-04-01 05:55:15 UTC

I'm accused of farting in bed intentionally.
The farts are long and loud.
I don't have them during the day.
My defense is if I could intentionally fart that long and loud intentionally, I would do it all day long.

2026-04-01 05:04:17 UTC

This is a fear campaign to corral cryptos into weaker cryptography, namely the new and unproven "quantum resistant" algorithms. Look at your way back machine. It was only a few years ago when NIST held a competition between multiple candidates for quantum safe cryptography. Let's not forget most of the candidates were first thought to be very good cryptography, such as the matrix based ones, but it turned out to be trivially breakable with a common desktop. There were others that required a "seed key" much like ZK-SNARKS as its basis that would allow anyone with the "throw-away" key to unlock everything encrypted with it. There turned out to only be one that "won" the competition and that is what the crapto-fudsters are telling us "we need" to switch over to "before it's too late!"...
Tuk guy is an intelligence asset IMHO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T6ns5uabPo

2026-04-01 04:53:14 UTC

Why do I care about Kuwait?

2026-04-01 04:52:13 UTC

People who dump on @nprofile…uh0e are gay and retarded

2026-04-01 04:49:25 UTC

@nprofile…azkh > Hacker News

2026-03-31 17:56:13 UTC

Wild rice is proof-of-work rice.
Uncle Ben's 10-minute parboiled white rice is fiat rice.

2026-03-31 17:49:11 UTC

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Involuntarily servitude is moral when you are serving other people's ideals of justice

2026-03-31 17:47:25 UTC

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At least now Anthropic and China aren't the only ones that have access to the source.

2026-03-31 17:42:33 UTC

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Quantum is a mirage

2026-03-31 17:40:44 UTC

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Is this tuk wearing fag from canada or something?

2026-03-31 15:08:50 UTC

The question of whether BIP110 makes Bitcoin censorable cannot be answered until “censorship” is defined with precision, because most disagreement stems from conflating fundamentally different mechanisms under a single moral label. In the context of Bitcoin, censorship should be defined as the enforced prevention of inclusion of a valid transaction into the blockchain despite the existence of a willing miner and sufficient fee. This definition is specific and necessary: the transaction must be valid under consensus rules, there must be at least one miner willing to include it, and some mechanism must prevent that inclusion from occurring. If any of these elements are missing, the situation is not censorship but rather invalidity, lack of demand, or voluntary refusal.
Bitcoin operates across distinct layers that must not be collapsed into one another: consensus rules determine what is valid, policy rules determine what nodes relay or store, and economic behavior determines what miners choose to include in blocks. True censorship can only occur at the consensus layer or through external coercion that effectively overrides miner choice. Policy-level decisions, by themselves, do not meet this threshold. BIP110 operates at the policy layer. It influences what transactions nodes are willing to relay or prioritize, but it does not change what transactions are valid under consensus, nor does it prevent miners from including those transactions in blocks. A transaction filtered by policy remains valid, can still be mined, and can still propagate through alternative paths. There is no mechanism introduced that enforces its exclusion from the chain.
The claim that denying non-financial transactions constitutes censorship depends on an overly broad definition in which any exclusion is labeled as censorship. This collapses the distinction between refusal to subsidize and coercive suppression. Nodes in Bitcoin are not obligated to carry all data, relay all transactions, or optimize for all possible uses of block space. They are sovereign actors operating under cost constraints. Refusing to relay or prioritize certain transaction types is not equivalent to preventing their inclusion; it is a form of resource selection within a competitive system. If a miner is willing to include a transaction and the sender pays an adequate fee, the transaction can still be confirmed. The system remains permissionless at the level that matters.
Bitcoin is not a neutral data substrate; it is a constrained system designed to preserve decentralization under limited bandwidth, storage, and validation costs. These constraints are not arbitrary but are the mechanism by which permissionless verification is maintained. If arbitrary data is allowed to compete equally with monetary transactions without any policy-level filtering, the cost of running a node increases, fewer participants can independently validate the system, and control concentrates. At that point, actual censorship—at the consensus level—becomes feasible. In this sense, unbounded inclusion at the policy layer undermines the very property of uncensorability that is being defended.
Framing Bitcoin as either a “timechain” or a “financial system” creates a false dichotomy. It is both, but its constraints are tuned for reliable monetary settlement. Non-financial uses are not prohibited, but they are not guaranteed equal priority. That prioritization is not an act of tyranny; it is an optimization aligned with the system’s core function. The introduction of arbitrary or potentially incriminating data further raises the stakes by introducing legal risk to node operators, which can deter participation and accelerate centralization. If participation declines, enforcement power concentrates, and the system becomes more vulnerable to genuine censorship pressures.
Bitcoin is not governed democratically in the sense of collective decree. It evolves through the independent choices of node operators adopting software, miners responding to fee incentives, and the broader market coordinating around those behaviors. Policy changes like BIP110 are not acts of imposed authority but expressions of voluntary alignment within these constraints.
Under a precise definition, BIP110 does not make Bitcoin censorable because it does not prevent valid transactions from being included by willing miners. It represents a policy-level adjustment in how resources are allocated and propagated across the network. Exclusion at this layer is not coercive suppression but selective participation. The failure to distinguish between these leads to the mistaken conclusion that any filtering is censorship. In reality, preserving the uncensorable transfer of value requires maintaining the conditions under which no single actor or coordinated group can enforce exclusion at the consensus level, and policy-level discretion is one of the mechanisms by which those conditions are sustained.

2026-03-31 12:12:17 UTC

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We have about 100 years left in this period of Satan's rule. It's only going to get worse. This is why we need Bitcoin and nostr.

2026-03-31 12:04:17 UTC

What does Nostr and Bitcoin have in common?
Uncensorable

2026-03-31 04:11:23 UTC

Single payor means I do the fucking paying whether I want to or not

2026-03-31 04:10:20 UTC

Look at the billions of fraud in Minnesota!
Ignore the military can't pass an audit and can't account for 10 times more dollars.
Ignore the entire medical system is paying out trillions every year to keep half dead people half alive with frankenscrips and unnecessary medical procedures.

2026-03-31 04:05:54 UTC

I am in the bag

2026-03-30 22:37:33 UTC

White women cannot control their mothering instinct. White men are supposed to keep them contained. Give them the vote, Pandora is out of the box and all hell breaks loose.

2026-03-30 22:35:07 UTC

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Bryce Braden Caden Brody Aiden Bryan Geoff Grady Brady .. There are hundreds

2026-03-30 21:05:13 UTC

WTF is wrong with single mothers in the 90s and 2000s naming men with these femmy names?

2026-03-30 14:36:07 UTC

Why is it when I put in a wild order, suddenly the market jumps to that price?

2026-03-30 05:14:07 UTC

Ok, well, running a vps authed only with your nostr bunker and automatically paying for it over NWC, that would be really fucking cool.
And that's exactly what you do with @nprofile…c9y8

2026-03-30 05:11:54 UTC

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Its a dream and a nightmare

2026-03-29 19:09:58 UTC

Here is what I want:
A cashu lightning mint with either legally enforceable guarantees, a trusted third party bond, a escrow or a cryptographic claim embedded in the token on real onchain sats.

2026-03-29 13:53:10 UTC

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Also, M2 isn't the same as liquidity

2026-03-29 13:51:13 UTC

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The theory was a 3 month delay

2026-03-29 01:11:05 UTC

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What is the difference between the body balm and the cream?

2026-03-28 03:15:45 UTC

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PiP works now too!

2026-03-28 03:12:11 UTC

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I hope it's a Chinese buffet, because you don't want them making you a cook-to-order with language like that

2026-03-28 01:22:51 UTC

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SNR > 30dB

2026-03-27 19:23:31 UTC

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Who is our greatest ally again?

2026-03-27 18:57:57 UTC

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Literally a fem-boy geek saying "____ is uncool now"

2026-03-27 16:05:34 UTC

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"Gave him intelligence" 🤣

2026-03-27 15:31:13 UTC

The most powerful control is not shaping conclusions. It is shaping which frameworks are even permitted to interpret reality.
Once a group rejects a framework like "manufacturing consent" on identity grounds, it loses access to a class of explanations, regardless of whether the underlying phenomenon continues to operate on it.

2026-03-27 15:10:18 UTC

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Too bad I have an aversion to cursed soil.

2026-03-27 15:08:56 UTC

@nprofile…wywf we have an epidemic of users' relay lists being misconfigured - inbox relays used for posting type 1 notes, etc. Something needs to be done.

2026-03-27 15:06:44 UTC

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Just because "our side" won doesn't mean the communists lost. Your article is good, don't apologize for it.

2026-03-27 15:01:14 UTC

The FBI stores DNA, fingerprints and intelligence profiles on a significant number of law abiding Americans, in the double digits of percent.
Who could say "Director Patel did not store computer system credentials information in his personal email" and we could believe them?
#nevent1q…wzfm

2026-03-27 13:30:41 UTC

GM
#nevent1q…a9tp

2026-03-27 12:33:14 UTC

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And gambling

2026-03-27 12:32:24 UTC

Does this mean liberals will flood into Bitcoin?
Of course not, the TV will tell them to clammor for a CBDC
#nevent1q…z36k

2026-03-27 12:01:59 UTC

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Everyone is stupid, therefore I am stupid.

2026-03-27 12:01:22 UTC

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I am stupid therefore everyone is angry.

2026-03-26 23:25:49 UTC

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Can I add other nostrich's follow-packs to my list of lists? Rather than needing to recreate their list by following each person on another's follow pack, I'd like to just navigate to their follow pack the same as I can show the feed for my own follow pack. The "my lists" could have a third section "followed packs" where you can remove them from your followed packs? This way as the original author changes their list, it also updates your view of their list without you needing to re-hunt-down their follow pack in the "radio" menu.

2026-03-26 20:31:07 UTC

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Money should be boring

2026-03-26 17:10:31 UTC

I am angry, therefore everyone is stupid.
Everyone is stupid, therefore I am angry.

2026-03-26 13:37:21 UTC

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One is a tax evasion scheme, the other is a bullshit evasion scheme. Basically the same

2026-03-26 12:34:26 UTC

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“Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content.
But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being;
nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.”

2026-03-26 12:32:43 UTC

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“Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.” — Sun Tzu

2026-03-26 12:25:16 UTC

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Dindus

2026-03-26 03:50:49 UTC

I might have to publish this script to a github repo. The recurring and deferred emails thing, even if its just stupid email, the purpose is communication with normies.
Normies don't want to look at an email you sent at 5:35pm on Friday. You need to hack the normie habits and tell your email server to send the email when it will actually fucking get read.
The same applies when you're dealing with people in other timezones. You don't want your email to show up as having been sent at 3am their time. You want it to be in their inbox at 7:45AM on Monday morning. Yes, the email server should be able to compute the timezone for you. Just tell it to deliver it Monday at 7:45AM CET, don't try to compute it in your head. You will get it wrong.

2026-03-26 02:41:26 UTC

My "deferred email" script has turned into a full fledged application

2026-03-25 18:13:41 UTC

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Have you tested logging in with a remote bunker from firefox? I can't get it to work.

2026-03-25 17:14:19 UTC

https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/a1109066a61664773b8dd6e3f5395c66848b638c3756a41dbf138da8935e7d5a.webp

2026-03-25 16:04:36 UTC

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They learned from their parents who did all their trades based on the nightly business report and bloomberg

2026-03-25 14:00:00 UTC

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## Persuasion Knob #14: Visualization
**One-sentence formulation:**
*People are more easily persuaded by what they can vividly imagine than by what they can logically analyze.*
### Adams’ core observation
Scott Adams emphasizes that **the brain treats vivid mental imagery as a form of reality**. When something can be clearly pictured, it feels more plausible, more immediate, and more true.
Visualization does not persuade by proof.
It persuades by **simulation**.
If someone can see it in their mind, they begin to experience it as if it were already real.
### What visualization actually is
Visualization is the construction of a **mental scene**:
- Concrete
- Sensory
- Specific
- Easy to picture
Examples:
- “Imagine walking into the room and everyone turns to listen.”
- “Picture what happens if this system fails during peak load.”
- “Think about your account balance after five years of this strategy.”
The more detailed the image, the stronger the effect.
### Why visualization works
The brain prioritizes:
- Images over abstractions
- Stories over statistics
- Scenarios over probabilities
Under visualization:
- Emotional engagement increases
- Risk feels more real
- Rewards feel more attainable
- Decisions accelerate
Adams’ insight is that **people act on imagined experiences, not calculated outcomes**.
### Visualization vs. data
Data requires interpretation.
Visualization requires only imagination.
This is why:
- A single vivid story outweighs broad statistics
- Anecdotes outperform analysis
- Simulated outcomes drive behavior more than models
The mind asks: *“Can I see it?”* before it asks: *“Is it true?”*
### Where visualization appears
Visualization is widely used in:
- Sales and marketing (“imagine owning…”)
- Risk communication (“picture the failure…”)
- Politics (“this is what the future looks like…”)
- Personal development (“visualize success…”)
- Fear narratives and optimism narratives alike
Any time you are asked to “imagine,” this knob is in play.
### Ethical ambiguity
Visualization can be used to:
- Clarify outcomes
- Improve planning
- Motivate constructive action
- Prepare for real risks
But it can also be used to:
- Exaggerate unlikely scenarios
- Create emotional bias
- Replace probability with vividness
- Manipulate decisions through fear or fantasy
Because imagined experiences feel real, they often bypass critical evaluation.
### How to recognize it
When a scenario feels especially compelling, ask:
- Is this likely, or just vivid?
- What are the base rates?
- What alternative scenarios are not being shown?
If the image is doing more work than the evidence, visualization is driving the conclusion.
### Why this knob completes the set
The previous knobs shape:
- Attention (novelty, curiosity)
- Judgment (contrast)
- Belief (repetition, pattern recognition)
- Identity (aspiration, association)
- Compliance (fear, reasons, pacing)
Visualization brings all of them into a **felt experience**.
It is the point where persuasion becomes internal.
### Final note
Visualization does not argue for a future.
It lets you experience one in advance.
And once experienced, even mentally,
it becomes harder to reject.
#nevent1q…4mt0

2026-03-25 13:44:53 UTC

New banner image
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/ee39f2e303f7a9b8df4f8dd56c5aad955d451d6e8f45ed394d729af8a00ebcaf.webp

2026-03-25 13:35:22 UTC

Gold scam or gold grift?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JThlN-NX1Dw

2026-03-25 13:30:01 UTC

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It would be nice is amethyst, 0xchat, primal, whitenoise and others would converge on a standard but understand mls on nostr is a moving target. Better that security is a priority over compatibility, but standardization can't come soon enough

2026-03-25 05:39:52 UTC

If you smile, accept compliments, ask questions about people, speak kindly about others and keep your word, the world will bow to you and it will be yours.

2026-03-25 05:34:05 UTC

Authorship is hard

2026-03-25 05:33:06 UTC

The AI increases mental clutter, not reduces it.

2026-03-25 05:31:31 UTC

This IR heater made our lives so much better this winter. It's practically a heal-all.
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/5d25db8b9690d90d92d5b06fb19988dadcc60878cc6623b8f25fbea7c753ee60.webp