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billy the kid

[more about the creators of South Park] The Consistency Of Their Genius (2024)
https://substack.com/home/post/p-145106924
i liked this point about anti-celebrities, or people whose works precede their personalities. there are many other examples the could have chosen, (banksy, daft punk, satoshi....) to compare Stone and Parker to, but i guess the weren't talking about anonymity, only understatedness.
> That those brand names are more recognizable than their creators — Matt Stone and Trey Parker, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe — tells you something of what they have in common: a commitment to their own unique creativity, rather than their fame, and the discipline and grit to explore it for decades. Anti-celebrities, in their time but never of it, perfectionist but unafraid of failure, these two duos are proof, it seems to me, that a democratic culture, even one as decadent as ours, can still spawn excellence and intelligence, spanning high and low, and generating what I can only call joy.
i'll admit here that i haven't watched much of south park, but i have heard of some of the antics the show has caused, and am abundantly familiar with the joke that gingers have no souls. this must be my signal to start watching a little more, as now i've heard it come up a handful of times in the past week.
> And in two decades of an acutely polarized and politicized culture, what team is South Park on? Precisely. You can’t tell, can you? — which is a staggering achievement in its own right. And it’s not about risk-aversion: the duo was targeted by Islamist terror and [didn’t blink](https://www.mtv.com/news/o0rfoh/south-park-creators-say-muhammad-episode-was-censored-without-their-approval). They also took on the censors at the MPAA — savor this memo — and obliterated one of George Carlin’s “Seven Words You Can Never Say on TV” by saying [“shit”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ntZQl9vRmw) 162 times in one episode.
obviosly the writer of this piece is a fan, and biased though it may be, there are some interesting insights embedded therein. again, i'll have to watch more for myself to verify these claims. but i am intrigued.
> They have done all this, taken no prisoners, and remain uncancellable. Why? Because their mockery is genuinely universal (including themselves), their courage is real, and because they remain humane. ...
Matt and Trey are also huge sell-outs who haven’t actually sold out: incredibly shrewd from the get-go in controlling and owning their creation, they have massively monetized it since without ever compromising an iota. Paramount paid them [$900 million](https://stacker.news/items/1050472/r/unschooled) for their latest contract. And they’ve done all this without ever parroting the piety of some mega-stars and by doggedly retaining their personal privacy.
as i mentiond at the beginning of the post, the tie-in to the Pet Shop Boys could have been replaced for any number of other artists/creators, although i can see the relevance here.
https://stacker.news/items/1053999

2025-07-18 19:21:23 CEST

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it feels a bit Bradburyesque, does it not?

2025-07-18 18:34:47 CEST

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i think it is very cool! i'm worried it might send the wrong message lumping it in with these other projects

2025-07-17 14:17:48 CEST

am i doing this right?

2025-07-04 17:42:38 CEST

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Lovely work

2025-06-28 17:09:25 CEST

The Many Traditions of Non Governmental Money (pt i)
https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-many-traditions-of-non-governmental.html
Nick Szabo's blog doesn't seem to have been shared here yet.
> The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has put out [“educational material”](https://files.stlouisfed.org/research/publications/page1-econ/2018/03/01/bitcoin-money-or-financial-investment_SE.pdf) on Bitcoin for teachers and students (including a quiz!). The Bitcoin parts are odd enough, but this and a subsequent blog post will focus on the following statement: “traditionally, currency is produced by a nation's government.“ Is that a fair representation of monetary traditions? At the very least it is quite incomplete. This two-part series will proceed back in time, showing some of the many examples non-governmental money, in order to fill in some of the gaps.
https://stacker.news/items/1017879

2025-06-26 14:18:09 CEST

The unschooled network had grown by one newsletter. Working on getting Rocky on Nostr.
https://the-recurring-raccoon.ghost.io/ghost/#/site

2025-06-23 02:40:09 CEST

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Thanks for sharing. Sober takes are scarce, I'm finding.
Here's another: https://rumble.com/v6v649p-breaking-trump-enters-israels-war-with-iran.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_f

2025-06-19 13:50:05 CEST

Watch how the leaves of a plant slowly fall away,
trust that this is you, and those things in your life, unneeded,
fall away too

2025-06-19 03:10:20 CEST

we are all unschooled bitcoiners

2025-06-17 03:13:40 CEST

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#nevent1q…deyc

2025-06-16 12:59:47 CEST

Not your keys nor your coins:
https://stacker.news/items/1007405

2025-06-14 05:23:58 CEST

https://stacker.news/items/1005990/r/unschooled

2025-06-14 04:48:56 CEST

Bitcoin meetups are better than podcasts. Get out there and meet. up.

2025-06-14 04:45:42 CEST

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Reposting to revisit later
#nevent1q…6f48

2025-06-14 04:43:46 CEST

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Thanks for coming out!

2025-06-12 18:09:26 CEST

🚨Pop-up Windsor Bitcoiners meetup happening tonight at 6:00pm🚨
Please reach out for event coordinates.

2025-06-12 13:51:34 CEST

Small bounty for sage advice:
https://stacker.news/items/1004327/r/unschooled
Maybe @nprofile…s0t0 or @nprofile…9274?

2025-06-11 15:36:49 CEST

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Summarized the discussion here:
https://primal.net/a/naddr1qqrrjwfc8ymrxq3qfzv0uqk60xkejrevemuwmaph90pqw2ksw399wgwvnp70jjhydjcqxpqqqp65wpxsen5
#nevent1q…55ay

2025-06-11 15:29:43 CEST

Freedom movements need security and privacy, which is why MLS on Nostr is an important project.
I attended the call hosted by @nprofile…gand learned a lot.

2025-06-06 18:46:27 CEST

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Incredible minds
#naddr1qv…2gl2

2025-06-04 14:51:14 CEST

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Can one listen in?

2025-06-04 13:30:35 CEST

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Woah
#nevent1q…mmv5

2025-05-18 16:31:31 CEST

https://stacker.news/items/982958/r/unschooled

2025-05-15 13:51:28 CEST

https://fountain.fm/clip/TVwsLiOs1VqBy3gOfz2P

2025-05-02 15:48:03 CEST

https://stacker.news/items/969274/r/unschooled

2025-04-29 14:36:40 CEST

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You must be talking about their censorship of certain voices on the Bitcoin Core repo cf
https://stacker.news/items/965828/r/unschooled

2025-04-28 18:28:28 CEST

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

2025-04-27 16:56:49 CEST

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That was amazing how she just stumbled in there - what an opportunity! 😃

2025-04-27 16:55:10 CEST

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Thanks @nprofile…lwjj,
Your work prompted lots of great ideas for us. It was successful first meetup, hopefully of many to come.
Never stopping 🫡

2025-04-27 16:51:14 CEST

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Register here and I'll reach out to you with an invite link:
https://btcpay.theunschooled.net/apps/3yScj15BnqDJybRiXTBAUVEHdPcY/pos

2025-04-26 01:47:54 CEST

Thank you everyone who made it out to tonight's meetup. Was a success, wouldn't you say something @nprofile…nr6j?
Looking forward to meeting in May!
*Never stopping*

2025-04-25 18:20:51 CEST

https://stacker.news/items/958945/r/unschooled

2025-04-25 06:50:53 CEST

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😂😂😂
Phew

2025-04-25 06:40:26 CEST

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These are awesome

2025-04-24 23:14:17 CEST

https://stacker.news/items/957390/r/unschooled

2025-04-24 22:29:35 CEST

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I often wondered why RSS isn't leveraged more on nostr, like a better optimized rss reader client? I should take a page out of your book and try to vibe code something.

2025-04-24 22:09:01 CEST

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Lol
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsgfpv68lz5hdu2wwm3r6tf3z8twn4cxgcexdv77k8rxnuvudattvcf55dvy

2025-04-24 21:59:15 CEST

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Misread your note

2025-04-24 18:46:21 CEST

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Atomstr does this pretty well already.

2025-04-24 00:47:26 CEST

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@nprofile…y0hd

2025-04-24 00:46:42 CEST

https://theunschooled.bearblog.dev/meetups-and-events/
@ anyone who has registered, meetup location will be shared privately. Please monitor your dms.

2025-04-19 14:33:04 CEST

Thanks for the mention this week @nprofile…cpvr in https://stacker.news/items/948005/r/unschooled

2025-04-16 00:10:30 CEST

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Precoiner maxis 😈 we will get them!

2025-04-15 23:32:07 CEST

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Perfect - tell ALL the shitcoiners they are invited, but only if they are willing to be reformed!
I will share the location (will be in windsor) 48h before the event to the email you provided in the invoice. Lmk here if for some reason you don't get it.

2025-04-02 06:35:04 CEST

I designed a 7 Days Bitcoin beginners course syllabus based strictly on the writing posted to Stacker.News
Share it with your no-coiner friends.
View here: https://theunschooled.bearblog.dev/stacker-news-based-course-intro-to-bitcoin-an-overview/

2025-03-26 17:40:55 CET

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New blog link
https://theunschooled.bearblog.dev/about-the-unschooled-bitcoiners-meetups/

2025-03-26 17:39:20 CET

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New blog link
https://theunschooled.bearblog.dev/about-the-unschooled-bitcoiners-meetups/

2025-03-25 14:31:08 CET

Thanks to the anonymous contributer 💞
https://m.primal.net/PscM.jpg

2025-03-25 01:26:37 CET

🚨Meetup Alert🚨
Attn: Bitcoiners in the Metro Detroit/Windsor, ON area
A meetup will be happening Friday April 25th.
Please share for all to see!
Exact location revealed in the Unschooled Telegram group on the week of the event (comment or dm for telegram invite link)
https://theunschoolednetwork.github.io/posts/Unschooled-Bitcoiners-Meetup/
Support the cause by donating sats here:
https://theunschoolednetwork.github.io/posts/Supporting-an-Unschooled-Future/
For fun, here's the poster I'll be putting up around town!
https://m.primal.net/PrzC.jpg

2025-03-19 00:55:16 CET

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

2025-03-16 15:13:12 CET

https://stacker.news/items/914660/r/unschooled
No excuses anymore. Start reading.

2025-03-16 03:27:16 CET

https://stacker.news/items/914398/r/unschooled

2025-03-16 02:39:37 CET

DIY maple syrup
https://m.primal.net/PhSJ.mp4

2025-03-12 16:11:03 CET

https://theunschoolednetwork.github.io/posts/SN-Home-Mining-Cost-Profitability-Calculator/

2025-03-02 18:49:01 CET

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

2025-03-02 18:29:06 CET

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