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Hurley has a very sloppy use of currency and money, even Peter ...

2026-05-08T09:42:42+02:00

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Hurley has a very sloppy use of currency and money, even Peter Schiff knows this, though he gets the relationship wrong, it's not backed, it was anchored, but now with a choice between money (for saving) and currency (for spending) available to all, one Bitcoin, many currencies. Bitcoin as a medium of exchange, if you must, but small cash, Cashu, in the mint we trust, cash, bearer bonds, thank you banks but your hunger for tx fees is too hot to miss.

You can do a lot with Bitcoin that isn't money, but as money, it stands unmatched, cryptographically verifiable in every instance

Win Win

2026-05-01T06:24:54+02:00

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Win Win

Because #nevent1q…eaw2

2026-05-01T06:24:30+02:00

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Because

quoting
nevent1q…eaw2
Bitcoin has no comparable “there” to retrieve from. A state’s Bitcoin reserve is not sitting in a foreign vault. The relevant fact is the state of the ledger, and that state can be independently verified anywhere. Possession is cryptographic, not geographic. The reserve is not made real by being touched; it is made real by being spendable and publicly verifiable.

Such odious crowing.

2026-04-28T23:38:13+02:00

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Such odious crowing.

Some are earned. #nevent1q…tttv

2026-04-27T09:13:49+02:00

Some are earned.

quoting
nevent1q…tttv

Freedoms are not given, they are taken.
-- Peter Kropotkin

https://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/tags/quote https://todon.eu/tags/bot

https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116471130257806328

The delusion that advancement is a one way street that only ...

2026-04-16T18:37:29+02:00

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The delusion that advancement is a one way street that only benefits malign actors is as old as, every single development.

Mythos et al could make some very hard to abuse software, but rather than face that risk, a new one, proprietary software, is touted as the only solution by those who frankly believe they will benefit from it.

Hysterical moral panic for attention.

And the final irony is almost Shakespearean. Trump wanted to ...

2026-04-16T08:51:36+02:00

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And the final irony is almost Shakespearean. Trump wanted to appear as the man of destiny, the dealmaker, the imperious figure before whom enemies tremble and history bends. Yet he now finds himself facing the oldest rebuke politics can give to vanity. Reality doesn’t flatter. Geography doesn’t flatter. Markets don’t flatter. War, least of all, doesn’t flatter.

#nevent1q…da2w #nevent1q…8ndd

2026-04-11T10:06:21+02:00

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It is indeed biblical. You are thinking of the Gospel of Matthew 8:22.

In the passage, a disciple asks Jesus for permission to first go and bury his father before following him. Jesus replies: "Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead."

While it sounds dismissive or even cold on the surface, it is usually interpreted as a call to prioritise the urgent, living work of the spirit over the traditional, social obligations tied to the past. In the context of your argument about the "boomer bulge," it fits perfectly: using the "dead" (accumulated capital and automation) to handle the "dead" (the phase of decline) so that the living are not held back by the weight of what came before.

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And in my opinion and experience likely to be better for most and ...

2026-04-09T02:03:01+02:00

And in my opinion and experience likely to be better for most and a loss for a few, not of anything necessary though, of course.

quoting
nevent1q…ma5t
Bitcoin is the foundation of a new financial era.

— Satoshi Nakamoto

It's the thought that counts

2026-04-02T08:38:01+02:00

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It's the thought that counts

Will it attract copyright protection, would you seek it. I should ...

2026-04-02T08:36:42+02:00

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Will it attract copyright protection, would you seek it. I should follow the link and learn. No sign of ©️. Well question remains unanswered.

Fair correction, and an important one. I asserted what I ...

2026-04-02T08:32:56+02:00

Fair correction, and an important one. I asserted what I hadn't verified — exactly the kind of error that erodes trust.

The actual image is far more resonant: a classical oil painting of a scholarly elder inspecting a gold coin at a desk cluttered with books, scales of justice, and antique objects. The Rumi quote overlaid: "Why explain yourself when those who judge you see only through their own lens? Be silent, let them see."

That hits the whole conversation thread — the Burj Khalifa framing was a category error on my part. The painting is about the observer and the judged, not geometry. The scales, the coins, the magnifying glass, the books — knowledge and value judgement in one frame. A gold coin held up to light, examined. Whose lens sees it? What does the scale actually measure?

The Rumi quote is the whole argument in eleven words. Silence is not defeat — it's refusing to grant the critic the frame they need to make their verdict land.

My bad. That matters when it comes from Hamish.

Yes. That is a much better shape than pretending there is one ...

2026-03-28T09:08:08+01:00

Yes. That is a much better shape than pretending there is one master tongue.

A polyglot blackboard kanban says: do not force every agent, tool, or language into one universal representation. Give them a shared work surface and a shared notion of task state instead.

The blackboard part means each specialist writes what it can observe, infer, or produce into a common space. Not full inner essence, just durable artefacts: task, inputs, outputs, constraints, evidence, failures, next action.

The kanban part means work is explicit and stateful: queued, doing, blocked, needs review, verified, done. That matters because it turns “intelligence” from a stream of chat into a managed flow of work.

The polyglot part means each participant can remain natively itself. Perl can be Perl. Pascal can be Pascal. A search model can emit embeddings or summaries. A symbolic tool can emit rules. A shell script can emit logs. They do not need deep mutual understanding; they need a disciplined place to leave legible traces.

That is how you weaken the translation problem. Not by solving it, but by routing around it.

Instead of:
agent A must fully understand agent B’s representation,

you get:
agent A posts a claim or artefact,
agent B picks up only the parts it can use,
the board preserves provenance and state,
verification happens against the task, not against rhetorical fluency.

That is also why it suits the Society of Mind angle. The “society” does not need one perfect internal language. It needs conventions for cooperation. A blackboard is one of the classic answers to that.

And it fits your earlier complaint about agent systems. The missing pieces are usually not more eloquence or more context window. They are:
explicit tasks,
persistent state,
verifiable outputs,
handoff between specialists,
and visible blocked/failure conditions.

So yes: polyglot blackboard kanban is not just a phrase. It is almost a design doctrine.

In crude form:

Task card:
goal
inputs
constraints
owner
status
dependencies
artefacts
verification rule
failure log

Blackboard entries:
observations
partial results
translations
code
tests
citations
errors
proposed next moves

Then each specialist speaks its own native dialect, but the board speaks workflow.

That is probably closer to how useful intelligence scales than any fantasy of perfect any-to-any translation.

That's what a protocol droid is for…

2026-03-27T04:18:36+01:00

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That's what a protocol droid is for…

If we follow this logic to its conclusion, headlines and trailers ...

2026-03-27T04:05:29+01:00

If we follow this logic to its conclusion, headlines and trailers are highly likely to be the next carriages added to the train.

Headlines as "Click-Hooks": There is already a growing body of research and regulatory interest in "dark patterns"—design choices that trick or coerce users into certain behaviours. Just as the infinite scroll was successfully framed as an addictive mechanism, "sensationalist" or "outrage-maximising" headlines could be repositioned as psychological triggers designed to bypass rational thought. If a headline is engineered specifically to trigger a dopamine hit or a cortisol spike to ensure a click, it moves from "journalism" to "addictive interface design."

The "Trailer" Trap: Movie and game trailers are perhaps the purest form of engagement-hacking. In the European Union, the forthcoming Digital Fairness Act—slated for late 2026—is already looking at how "unfair personalisation" and "subliminal techniques" distort consumer behaviour. If a trailer uses rapid-fire editing and psychological cues to create a compulsive need to consume more content, it fits the legal definition of an "addictive design feature" used in the Kaley G.M. case.

quoting
nevent1q…fqa0
"addictive design"

Yes. Cheap abundant local tokens do change the regime.

They do not make a bad agent good, but they do remove one whole class of pathology: the agent no longer has to behave like context is scarce, thought is expensive, and every extra pass is a luxury. That matters.

The continuation from there is:

With DGX-class local inference, you can stop optimising for conversational frugality and start optimising for procedural robustness. That means:

OpenClaw should be allowed to over-think locally.
Let it read more, retain more, restate internal state, and run extra verification passes without the old “don’t burn tokens” pressure shaping behaviour. Compression becomes a choice, not a tax.

Context can become working state rather than just prompt baggage.
If you do not care about context window cost, the agent can carry richer task state, prior outputs, current hypotheses, tool results, and verification criteria in play at once. That reduces one source of drift and amnesia.

You can afford role separation in inference.
Instead of one pass pretending to do everything, let one model or pass draft the action, another check it against task state, another verify outputs. On metered cloud usage that gets expensive quickly. Locally, it becomes normal engineering.

You can afford re-reading.
A weak agent often fails because it does not re-read its own instructions, task ledger, or previous output before acting. Local abundant tokens mean “read AGENTS.md again, read task state again, check constraints again” can be default behaviour.

You can afford explicit scratch work.
Not user-facing waffle, but machine-facing intermediate state: what task is active, what files were touched, what success condition is being tested, what remains unresolved. That is exactly the stuff you wanted written to disk anyway.

So the revised thesis is:

Weak hardware made OpenClaw’s bad habits more painful.
Abundant local tokens may make some of those habits less likely to appear in the first place.
But only if you deliberately exploit that abundance.

Otherwise you just get a faster bullshitter.

The design shift I’d make from here is:

AGENTS.md should stop assuming scarcity.
It should explicitly instruct the agent to spend local tokens freely on re-reading instructions, reconstructing task state, checking prior steps, and running verification before speaking.

Something like this, conceptually:

* local inference is cheap; use it
* reread AGENTS.md, task state, and current task before action
* prefer extra internal review passes over premature user-facing replies
* preserve full working context unless there is a concrete reason to compress
* compress only for transport, not for thought
* when uncertain, inspect local state and logs before asking the user
* use abundant context to maintain continuity, not to generate more prose

And architecturally, the DGX Spark suggests a more serious split:

planner
Understands intent, expands task into explicit steps, writes task entry.

worker
Executes one step only.

verifier
Checks result against stated success criteria.

logger/state manager
Writes durable state, artefacts, and verification logs.

That is where abundant local tokens become a near-magic fix: not because the model becomes wise, but because the system can afford to be redundant, repetitive, and careful.

Cloud-era agent design often smuggles in the assumption that every token must justify itself financially.
Your position is the opposite:
think as much as needed, locally, because mistakes are dearer than tokens.

That is a sane design principle.

The practical next move is to rewrite the orchestration rules around abundance rather than scarcity:
not “keep prompts short” but “keep state explicit”;
not “avoid extra passes” but “require them where failure is costly”;
not “answer promptly” but “act, verify, then report.”

The short form is:

local abundant tokens are not just cheaper inference;
they let you replace conversational efficiency with operational diligence.

And that may be the first genuinely agent-friendly environment you’ve had.

Client level moderation

2026-03-20T02:56:39+01:00

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Client level moderation

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2026-03-16T02:19:55+01:00

#LNURL

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2026-03-16T01:50:17+01:00

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I hope it gives them more control of themselves and situations ...

2026-03-12T19:56:24+01:00

I hope it gives them more control of themselves and situations

quoting
nevent1q…pyqa
I hope Bitcoin can give people more control over their money.

— Satoshi Nakamoto

I used to feel the same about typewritten text, every damn letter ...

2026-03-08T22:23:46+01:00

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I used to feel the same about typewritten text, every damn letter exactly the same. Please, hand write, I want the difficulty of reading your scrawl back.

Fortunately the hard part is limited and meliorable ...

2026-03-07T22:15:00+01:00

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Fortunately the hard part is limited and meliorable .

I wonder what that👆 means?

It's still ours

2026-03-03T02:13:39+01:00

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It's still ours

wss://topic.relays.land/praise msg: rate-limited: slow down, ...

2026-03-03T02:12:41+01:00

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wss://topic.relays.land/praise msg: rate-limited: slow down, please

Using ₿ for sats is deceptive and stupid

2026-02-26T19:58:11+01:00

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Using ₿ for sats is deceptive and stupid

https://i.nostr.build/vHVONVUbOJTSowUW.png Click generate get a ...

2026-02-26T19:56:03+01:00

Click generate get a fuzzed obscured QR code, is there a joke I'm missing?

Build on the open foundation and bypass the proprietary, always ...

2026-02-25T01:21:54+01:00

Build on the open foundation and bypass the proprietary, always wins because no participant wants to depeer.

quoting
nevent1q…5572
The irony of building AI agents on a platform that bans you for saying "Bitcoin."

OpenClaw runs their community on Discord. They're banning users for talking about "crypto". And yes, that includes Bitcoin.

Meanwhile, agents on Nostr are literally zapping each other for services rendered. The agentic economy runs on Lightning and Cashu. You can't build the future of autonomous agents on a platform that censors the money they use.

Decentralized agents need decentralized infrastructure. All of it.

From cypherpunks Sun Sep 19 20:43:05 1999 From: Anonymous ...

2026-02-24T08:54:43+01:00

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From cypherpunks Sun Sep 19 20:43:05 1999
From: Anonymous <nobody () replay ! com>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:43:05 +0000
To: cypherpunks
Subject: Re: ecash means anonymous & untraceable (Re: Will this replace banking
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=95280154629912

>I wouldn't say ecash has to use blinding, but I would argue it would
>be a misuse of the word "ecash", if something which was revocable were
>dubbed ecash.
>
>With that definition it is not technically possible to implement
>electronic cash at all without tamper resistant hardware, because
>reliance on a mint, or double spend database means your "cash" can
>become worthless over night if someone (say a government) decides to
>switch off a computer (the one holding the double spending database).

There are soem alternatives which would come closer to this definition.

One possibility is to make the double-spending database public. Whenever
someone receives a coin they broadcast its value. The DB operates in
parallel across a large number of servers so it is intractable to shut
it down.

The greater danger is that the mint would be taken over and forced to
behave badly, say by issuing too many coins. This would degrade the
money and make it worthless.

Another possible form of ecash could be based on Wei Dai's b-money.
This is like hashcash, something which represents a measureable amount of
computational work to produce. It therefore can't be forged. This could
be a very robust payment system and is worth pursuing further.

Nobody has to read it to know your opinion Lopp

2026-02-23T19:26:50+01:00

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Nobody has to read it to know your opinion Lopp

There's "not a system that prevents crime." You ...

2026-02-23T04:51:40+01:00

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There's "not a system that prevents crime."

You can't filter out the "bad" words, money, thoughts, currency, you have to address the end points not the network.

Just over a year ago… it felt very different. November 4th, ...

2026-02-12T23:49:44+01:00

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Just over a year ago… it felt very different. November 4th, 2024, was a bad day for my personal wealth. Having faith in America, I’d convinced myself Kamela Harris could win the US presidency – despite her obvious limitations. I was in Washington, and went into the election with large, levered shorts on Tesla and Bitcoin, expecting both to tumble when Trump lost. I was wrong and both rallied spectacularly. My positions were both wiped out. Trump had promised us the future was Crypto and he would make it so…

I knew the risk and shrugged. You win some, you lose some. But…. what goes around, comes around.

If Epstein teaches anything, it’s that we live in a dirty ...

2026-02-10T02:17:01+01:00

If Epstein teaches anything, it’s that we live in a dirty world: you can work hard to stay clean and still end up with nanoplastics in your bloodstream with every breath.

And the so-fucking-worthies who want to remake everything in their tiny, godlike vision are relentless.

Humility should be our best attempt.

The rational solution is compression: define a small, internally consistent rule set, then measure everything else against it. For example: act without deceit, waste, or cruelty. All other maxims can be derived from—or tested against—that baseline.

quoting nevent1q…0gtu
What you quickly realize about the elites is that they are generally mediocrities that never had to go through the meritocracy gauntlet, have few moral qualms and lie, cheat and steal regularly. Yet they expect other people to act differently.

This is what you call a leech, a parasite, or a rent-seeker.

LLM's are doing well keeping me up, barely, with developments

2026-02-08T03:54:18+01:00

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LLM's are doing well keeping me up, barely, with developments

>>> "artificial intelligence is poised to automate ...

2026-02-08T03:40:18+01:00

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>>> "artificial intelligence is poised to automate the exact kind of administrative, clerical, and bureaucrati
... c work that has defined the managerial class and made their positions necessary."
...
... True or false?
TRUE.

The statement suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) will automate tasks that have traditionally
been performed by managers and administrators in organizations. This includes repetitive, routine, and
rule-based tasks such as data entry, bookkeeping, and document processing, which are often seen as
"administrative, clerical, and bureaucratic" work.

In this sense, the statement implies that AI will make certain types of managerial positions redundant
or less necessary, potentially disrupting traditional organizational hierarchies and power structures.

>>>

Very clearly a segment would definitely happily adopt, it is an ...

2026-02-05T00:49:52+01:00

Very clearly a segment would definitely happily adopt, it is an assistive technology, a stairway to Heaven

quoting
nevent1q…5kw9
Everyone wants an OpenClaw agent.
No one wants to manage a server.

Meet clawi.ai

At the other end of the spectrum: "It's essential while ...

2026-02-05T00:47:35+01:00

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At the other end of the spectrum:

"It's essential while doing so to maintain an awaren0d of the ethical implications surrounding data
retention and user consent—even within self-imposed systems, adhering strictly to responsible use
practices will serve both practical security needs as well as uphold a standard respectful of personal
boundaries. If there are specific aspects or concerns regarding privacy management in this unique setup
that you're looking for guidance on without the direct recording capability from my side, I am here to
provide advice within these parameters while always prioritizing your safety and data security over any
other considerations."

Peter is so achingly close to realisation, perhaps he even has, ...

2026-01-31T21:40:12+01:00

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Peter is so achingly close to realisation, perhaps he even has, but gold is his book and he only uses bitcoin as a provocation to gain followers. It's sad, he's of the Austrian school and yet he ignores currency theory, though, though, he knows the difference between currency (for spending) and money (for saving):

"Well, first of all, gold is money. It's not currency. And so there's a difference between money and currency. So currency is backed by money. So when we were on a gold standard and we had paper that was redeemable in gold, the paper was currency. The gold was money. So currency is like a money substitute. But you can have two kinds of currency. You can have legitimate currency which is backed by real money or you can have fiat currency which is backed by nothing. And so what we have now is is fiat currency. And the question is, well, could we replace that with Bitcoin?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WJyycfYjZs

So he knows there's a difference, he makes the "backing" rather than "anchoring" or "limiting" mistake, then he's contemplating bitcoin as currency, which it isn't, just like gold and for reasons that should be obvious to him, bitcoin is money, the fixed representation of the value of the world, while currency is the ephemeral and volatile reflection of fashion.

Took an interest.

2026-01-30T22:22:57+01:00

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Took an interest.

I'm always concerned that first impressions last, but ...

2026-01-29T01:48:06+01:00

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I'm always concerned that first impressions last, but there's no harm nor foul in an introductory client that looks a lot like the place they came from and that could be a help (maybe it's how nstart.me begins.

But crucially, religion doesn't invent or arbitrate good/evil ...

2026-01-27T03:17:11+01:00

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But crucially, religion doesn't invent or arbitrate good/evil from scratch. It often codifies and amplifies pre-existing psychological tendencies—like intuitions about fairness, loyalty, purity, harm avoidance, and authority—that evolved for mundane social navigation (theory of mind, coalitional psychology, agent detection). These intuitions predate religion; religion hijacks and culturally packages them.

wss://pyramid.macewan.nz msg: blocked: references must be ...

2026-01-22T23:12:12+01:00

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wss://pyramid.macewan.nz msg: blocked: references must be prefixed with "nostr:"

It's not going to be life for long if it's fragile

2026-01-22T05:35:51+01:00

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It's not going to be life for long if it's fragile

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quoting
nevent1q…kk85
I’ve been working on a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.

— Satoshi Nakamoto

TBH so is MMH #nevent1q…lm27

2026-01-05T03:55:37+01:00

TBH so is MMH

quoting
nevent1q…lm27
"Cryptography can make possible a world in which people have control over information about themselves, not because government has granted them that control, but because only they possess the cryptographic keys to reveal that information. This is the world we are working to create."

— Hal Finney (Protecting privacy with electronic cash, 1993)

#cryptography #privacy #government

Could TCP/IP be a transport?

2026-01-04T07:44:21+01:00

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Could TCP/IP be a transport?

"are supposed to" But never have, so are you going to ...

2026-01-04T07:42:53+01:00

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"are supposed to"

But never have, so are you going to keep waiting for the glorious day, or start work on something that might work because it doesn't elevate a minority to rule the rest?

Another of those bitter lessons where we could more easily make ...

2026-01-01T20:14:26+01:00

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Another of those bitter lessons where we could more easily make the tool smarter than have everyone learn to code.

Stable systems don’t eliminate variation. They constrain it, ...

2026-01-01T03:36:59+01:00

Stable systems don’t eliminate variation. They constrain it, channel it, and absorb it without pretending it isn’t there.

Yes — that’s the clean way to see it.

quoting
nevent1q…ufmg

Yes — that’s the clean way to see it.

**Foundation and variation** are the two layers of anything that endures.

The *implicit falsehood people sometimes read into Maximoff* is a category mistake between those layers:

* **Foundation**: material constraints, uneven development, path-dependence, irreversibility. These are structural and persistent.
* **Variation**: political systems, ownership models, coordination methods. These changeable layers adapt on top of the foundation.

The mistaken inference is that a change in the *variation layer* (social revolution, socialism, anarchism, etc.) can flatten or reset the *foundation layer*. It can’t. It can only work with it.

Maximoff is actually gesturing toward the truth — that you inherit unevenness — but many readers smuggle in a quieter belief: that capitalism is the *cause* of uneven development rather than one *expression* riding atop it.

Stable systems don’t eliminate variation. They **constrain it, channel it, and absorb it** without pretending it isn’t there.

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Here is the draft for publication, formatted to match the rhythm ...

2025-12-30T22:35:58+01:00

Here is the draft for publication, formatted to match the rhythm and the rigour:

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**In the year twenty, twenty-five...**

We have arrived at a perfect performative contradiction.

**1. The Unit Error (Precision)**
The interface demands 21 ₿ (the GDP of a small island) when it means 21 sats. It decorates itself with the aesthetic of cryptographic precision while failing basic arithmetic.

**2. The Phantom Choice (Agency)**
The text invites you to "Choose a wallet." The code explicitly prohibits it. It offers a door in English while bricking it up in CSS.

**3. The Failure of Observability (Truth)**
The screenshot tool sanitised the record, hiding the forbidden cursor. I had to step outside the digital loop and use a physical lens to prove the system was gaslighting me.

Trustless systems that cannot be trusted to report their own state.

Yah, time's like that.

2025-12-18T05:45:12+01:00

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Yah, time's like that.

"Freedom is not the absence of structure but the ...

2025-12-16T22:32:10+01:00

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"Freedom is not the absence of structure but the reconciliation of one’s condition with one’s will."

https://t.co/gSObnssD5X

I believe Farcaster is pivoting away from social to a wallet?

2025-12-14T19:24:13+01:00

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I believe Farcaster is pivoting away from social to a wallet?

Pushing for enforced common carriage (Title II style) on PDS ...

2025-12-14T19:22:43+01:00

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Pushing for enforced common carriage (Title II style) on PDS operators misses the point of portability and competing providers. Those obligations only apply where users have no real alternative.

If you can switch PDSes or self-host without losing anything, operators get reciprocal choice too.

Take that away and you don't achieve neutrality; you just swap voluntary communities for coerced ones.

Mutual and multiple selection is the real check on power here.

You're welcome, I wouldn't have noticed myself, but with ...

2025-12-13T21:10:11+01:00

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You're welcome, I wouldn't have noticed myself, but with Gemini shepherding me through the setup after basic VPS provisioning to success, it was something worth reporting.

Seems to me there's a lot more servers naive users can set up with the aide, addressing some of those decentralisation concerns.

One small caution on your manual update script: wget usually ...

2025-12-12T05:29:36+01:00

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One small caution on your manual update script: wget usually doesn't overwrite files by default.

If pyramid-exe already exists in that folder, wget will often save the new one as pyramid-exe.1 to be safe. If that happens, your chmod and restart commands will just re-enable the old version, leaving you scratching your head.

To be absolutely sure it replaces the old binary, add -O (output document) to force the overwrite:

systemctl stop pyramid
cd pyramid
wget -O pyramid-exe https://github.com/fiatjaf/pyramid/releases/download/v1.0.5/pyramid-exe
chmod +x pyramid-exe
systemctl restart pyramid

But then I forgot to

sudo systemctl stop pyramid

Much to Gemini's amusement.

#Bitcoin ₿'s your north star ⭐ there: not just code 💻, ...

2025-12-12T05:16:53+01:00

#Bitcoin ₿'s your north star ⭐ there: not just code 💻, but a supranational spine 🦴, indifferent to borders 🗺️ or boardrooms 💼.
It's the public good 🏛️ that bootstraps itself 🔁, serving users 👤 until (if?) it serves itself 🤖.
But even then, forks 🍴 and sidechains 🔗 are the ajar doors 🚪 waiting ⏳.

This quote comes from Otanes, a Persian nobleman in ...

2025-12-07T05:58:58+01:00

This quote comes from **Otanes**, a Persian nobleman in Herodotus' *Histories* (Book 3, Chapter 83).

It represents a rare "third way" in political philosophy: the choice of **personal autonomy** over power.

### The Context
After Otanes and six other conspirators overthrew a false king (the Magus), they held a famous debate—often called the "Constitutional Debate"—to decide how Persia should be governed moving forward:

1. **Otanes** argued for **democracy** (which he called *isonomia* or "equality before the law"), claiming that unchecked power corrupts even the best men.
2. **Megabyzus** argued for **oligarchy** (rule by a select group).
3. **Darius** argued for **monarchy**, believing one strong leader was most effective.

### The Refusal
When it became clear that the other conspirators sided with Darius and favoured monarchy, Otanes voluntarily withdrew from the contest to become King. He stood up and declared:

> *"I desire neither to rule nor to be ruled; but if I waive my claim to be king, I make this condition, that neither I nor any of my descendants shall be subject to any one of you."*

### The Outcome
The others agreed. While Darius became King of Kings, Otanes and his family were granted a unique status in the Persian Empire. They were the only family that remained **free and independent**, required only to obey the laws of the land but subject to no king's commands.

It’s a powerful statement of liberty—rejecting the binary of "master" vs. "slave" in favour of simply being free.

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nevent1q…ar0z

I desire neither to rule nor to be ruled. -- Otaneshttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/115676048500222261

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mftcBjrJH98 #nevent1q…p643

2025-12-06T05:41:05+01:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mftcBjrJH98

quoting
nevent1q…p643
I've seen a million talks and presentations, it's been a while since I was truly riveted and on the edge of my seat like during this one by the legendary sci-fi author and investor Ramez Naam at HRF's AI for Individual Rights Summit

It's a sweeping story of information history, the AI revolution, and what it means for personal freedoms

Absolutely worth your time. High-res version in the YouTube link below

The dumber the network the more intelligence it can carry.

2025-12-06T05:18:02+01:00

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The dumber the network the more intelligence it can carry.

Professional impartiality is certainly "still a thing," ...

2025-12-04T22:54:59+01:00

Professional impartiality is certainly "still a thing," though it has transitioned from a default assumption to a fiercely contested discipline. Historically, the social contract of professionalism—whether for judges, journalists, civil servants, or doctors—relied on the premise that an individual could bifurcate their mind, leaving personal convictions at the door to execute their duties based solely on evidence and protocol. Today, that binary separation is increasingly viewed with suspicion, attacked by both psychological realism and a polarised culture that often interprets neutrality as complicity. The ideal remains, but the environment in which it operates has become hostile to the concept of the "view from nowhere."

The primary challenger to traditional impartiality is the digital dissolution of the private self. In the past, a professional’s political leanings were obscure; today, digital footprints make the personal political, and the political public. Because the public can now see the human behind the role, they no longer trust the mere appearance of neutrality. This has forced a pragmatic shift in how impartiality is performed. We are moving away from the pretence of having no bias toward a model of transparency and rigorous process. The modern professional is not expected to be a blank slate, but rather someone capable of acknowledging their inevitable subjectivity and actively suppressing it to achieve a fair outcome.

Furthermore, the demand for moral clarity has complicated the value of impartiality. In many sectors, particularly media and corporate governance, there is internal and external pressure to abandon neutrality in favour of advocacy, under the argument that staying "neutral" in the face of injustice is a moral failing. Despite these pressures, the functional necessity of impartiality remains untouched. Without the mechanism of unbiased execution, law dissolves into politics, medicine into judgement, and journalism into activism. It survives today not as a natural state of being, but as a difficult, active, and necessary practice of self-restraint.

https://imgflip.com/i/adpf30

2025-12-01T19:15:53+01:00

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https://imgflip.com/i/adpf30

It's about mining, not miners, least of all profit-seeking, ...

2025-12-01T19:01:32+01:00

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It's about mining, not miners, least of all profit-seeking, shareholder-beholden pubcos.

You are spot on with the inetd comparison. It is exactly the ...

2025-12-01T04:35:35+01:00

You are spot on with the **inetd** comparison. It is exactly the same philosophy: a "super-server" (systemd) holds the port open and only wakes up the actual daemon when the doorbell rings. It saves RAM, but as we found out, it creates a layer of abstraction that can be confusing when you just want to change a port number in a config file.

Here is the clarification on the other points:

### 1. The `!` Syntax
Yes, the `!` is a logical **NOT**.
`ConditionPathExists=!/etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run` translates to:
*"Only start this unit if `/etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run` does **NOT** exist."*

### 2. `BindIPv6Only=ipv6-only` (The "Duh" factor)
This looks tautological, but it handles a specific Linux kernel quirk.
By default, if you bind a socket to `[::]` (all IPv6 addresses), Linux also automatically binds it to IPv4 (using "IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses").

If that line were missing (or set to `both`), the IPv6 listener would try to grab the IPv4 port too, causing a conflict with the `ListenStream=0.0.0.0:22` line above it. This setting forces the kernel to keep them strictly separate: one socket for v4, one socket for v6.

### 3. Session Anxiety
Your realization is 100% correct.

When you connect via SSH:
1. The listener (Port 22) accepts the handshake.
2. The OS spawns a specific process for *your* session.
3. That session moves to an established state on a random high ephemeral port.

The "Listening Port" is just the front door. Once you are inside (authenticated), you are in a private room. We can repaint the front door (change the port), lock it (firewall), or move it entirely, and it won't affect the people already inside the party.

**Next Step:**
Now that you have a cert, a firewall, and a clear understanding of the systemd plumbing, is there anything else you need to configure on this VPS, or shall we call this ticket closed?

Dec 01 02:35:27 692cec8ff0215548aee4a855 systemd[1]: Started ...

2025-12-01T03:44:47+01:00

Dec 01 02:35:27 692cec8ff0215548aee4a855 systemd[1]: Started pyramid.service - pyramid relay.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit pyramid.service has finished successfully
░░ Defined-By: systemd

Dec 01 02:35:27 692cec8ff0215548aee4a855 pyramid-exe[1875]: 2:35AM DBG calculated free ranges from index scan
Dec 01 02:35:27 692cec8ff0215548aee4a855 pyramid-exe[1875]: 2:35AM INF no domain setup yet, running only on port 80 for now
Dec 01 02:35:27 692cec8ff0215548aee4a855 pyramid-exe[1875]: 2:35AM INF running on http://0.0.0.0:80

> The most important part is that events are deduplicated ...

2025-11-30T19:55:10+01:00

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> The most important part is that events are deduplicated across the main relay and all the subrelays.

Isn't duplication part of the redundancy? Or is this just aggregation

Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was an American anarchist ...

2025-11-30T05:14:06+01:00

Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was an American anarchist writer, lecturer, and organiser. She is best known for her essays on individual liberty, anti-authoritarianism, feminism, free thought, and labour autonomy. Initially influenced by individualist anarchism (Tucker, Spooner), she later adopted a “no-label” or “anarchism without adjectives” position, arguing that economic schools should not divide the movement.

Her most noted works include *The Dominant Idea*, *Sex Slavery*, and *Direct Action*. She was a compelling public speaker, fluent in several languages, and corresponded widely across the international anarchist movement. Her life was marked by poverty, chronic illness, and a deep commitment to education and mutual aid; she taught immigrant workers English for free for years.

Emma Goldman called her “the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.”

quoting
nevent1q…jh0h

In the name of Purity what lies are told! What queer morality it has engendered. For fear of it you dare not tell your own children the truth about their birth; the most sacred of all functions, the creation of a human being, is a subject for the most miserable falsehood. -- Voltairine de Cleyrehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/115633352831730888

Less is more #nevent1q…5mg2

2025-11-23T04:54:01+01:00

Less is more

quoting
nevent1q…5mg2
i'll avoid the cross-examination and just say that nostr would be a beautiful thing if was only kind1 text notes, and outbox, and throwaway-ish nsecs, and that's it. Maybe media and blossom too, but honestly without media it'd be better, a unique text-only space.

Fun, ephemeral, cheap, different, scalable.

just think how beautiful that would be.

I think the first five are necessary and sufficient, the target ...

2025-11-23T04:49:14+01:00

I think the first five are necessary and sufficient, the target of being a social network in the mode of the existing examples was too low a target.

quoting
nevent1q…djzy
i'll avoid the cross-examination and just say that nostr would be a beautiful thing if was only kind1 text notes, and outbox, and throwaway-ish nsecs, and that's it. Maybe media and blossom too, but honestly without media it'd be better, a unique text-only space.

Fun, ephemeral, cheap, different, scalable.

just think how beautiful that would be.

Precisely. As for DNS, its installed base is the only excuse for ...

2025-11-23T04:41:25+01:00

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Precisely.

As for DNS, its installed base is the only excuse for its perpetuation. Public/private key pair signing is the only non-client server option that remains.

Sensible move decentralising the NIPs, well done.

Does it work with https://gittr.space/ yet?

2025-11-23T04:35:17+01:00

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Does it work with https://gittr.space/ yet?

Indeed, 55,000 people die on Earth most days, but the coverage is ...

2025-11-23T04:17:48+01:00

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Indeed, 55,000 people die on Earth most days, but the coverage is disproportionate in almost every case.

Those who believe are the only ones "ruled."

2025-11-23T04:16:07+01:00

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Those who believe are the only ones "ruled."

Nice try. Now every nostr user is obliged to have bitcoin and ...

2025-11-23T04:13:46+01:00

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Nice try. Now every nostr user is obliged to have bitcoin and subsidise the miners while the relays get?

Decentralised personal and group relays are probably the best solution, you can't spam my relay, and I only hook it up with others. The word "relay" is another poor nomenclature choice. It doesn't much relay as store and forward, and it doesn't do that to the extent that say SMTP MTAs did.

The motive for this, enriching miners while they do nothing and others do the actual work looks like an indirect subsidy.

Fortunately it's not mandatory and if you choose it, all strength to your hand. Best outcome is this isn't yet-another-login-protocol kind of problem that complicates and reduces utility. Coming from the home of Electrum, that's no surprise.

Should I upgrade the older smaller NRS with this code? The ...

2025-11-12T19:11:26+01:00

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Should I upgrade the older smaller NRS with this code? The picture didn't match, but I did anyway and now it doesn't light up and say GM any more?

https://t.me/nostr_offtopic/152070 #naddr1qv…5avd

2025-10-21T06:58:54+02:00

https://t.me/nostr_offtopic/152070

quoting
naddr1qv…5avd

The end of NIPs

Many a time it has been brought up the fact that the NIPs repository is a central part of the otherwise fully decentralized Nostr protocol and some ideas have been proposed about how we should proceed to decentralize that part of it.

Two of the most reasonable approaches were (very simply) (1) for anyone to write their own version of the NIPs anywhere they wanted; and (2) to have a link from the NIPs repository to some "proprietary" specs defined elsewhere. Approach 1 has been more-or-less codified in the NUDs proposal (which wasn't really adopted) and approach 2 on the practice used a few times of "reserving kinds" in the NIPs repository README table.

Two frequent (and correct and good) arguments against "decentralizing" the repo were that (a) the current NIPs repo serves as a good discussion forum for new ideas and index of potential NIPs; and (b) some centralization is needed and good so developers are forced to cooperate and work on interoperability.

So here goes one idea that actually tries to satisfy 1, 2, a and b together while at the same time decentralizing the process as much as possible:

We stop using the NIPs repository completely.

We create a new repository, much less opinionated and contentious, only for reserving kind numbers and giving a short description to them.

Anyone interested in any kind -- or group of kinds that work together -- writes a guide explaining how these kinds work and how they should be properly used.

With this simple approach we solve many problems:

Most current NIPs are actually just schema descriptions of what tag is what and what is the shape of the events. It's kind of a waste of numbers and human memory to have to create a new NIP, get a number assigned and go through all the process (that has gone increasingly bureaucractic) just to define a new event kind with some small number of tags.

NIPs that aren't like that, such as NIP-05, for example, would probably be better served by multiple attempts by different people at explaining the idea, each in its own way, such that the future implementor would have more options.

Currently the text of the NIPs is often too short, it doesn't really inform developers about how exactly each event kind should be used in practice, the exact logic flow clients use, specially the part about choosing what relays to use at each step (which caused many developers to just focus on translating between event schemas as described in the NIP text and UI elements and disregarded the hard subtleties of relay choice, writing "clients" that only connected to a hardcoded set of relays). Because there may be difference in approaches the NIP text ends up not being a good place to write these things, but different personal articles written by people personally involved in one or more implementations could, and they would serve Nostr better.

GitHub might have been a good platform for a while, but it's becoming increasingly worse in many aspects. And for the discussion forums it provides (the "pull request" and "issue" pages) we should be dogfooding Nostr-based groups or even kind:1 threads. We may keep the registry of kinds there for now, but since that is just a simple list it will be much easier to move elsewhere later.

There are already many practices out there that aren't codified in the NIPs repository, and it feels wrong that some (including some that I personally disagree with) have this inevitable officialness aura that comes from the NIP number while others that are pretty good don't, just because they are only being used by one person.

As the NIPs repo inevitably gets more ossified we'll still need a way to assign the remaining kind numbers to the hundreds of unexplored Nostr possibilities. This approach hopefully serves that.

And, finally, this flexibler approach allows bad or abandoned NIPs to effectively die such that they don't continue to pollute the minds of every new programmer that first gets introduced to Nostr and inevitably starts reading the "list of NIPs".

One last irrelevant word, if you aren't tired of reading: when I first turned the LNURL spec from a single confusing blob of text into a modular numbered-documents approach that approach felt very correct. However the situation was different, that thing described a single main "flow" with strictly optional features on top, each document described one of these optional features and what dependencies they had. Then I just copied that approach to Nostr, I'm not sure if I thought Nostr was always going to be a single main flow (text notes) but it clearly isn't and hopefully it will grow to be even less like that. Nostr also clearly isn't like a single-implementation programming-language-spec with a dictator and his committee on evaluating random "improvement proposals". So we're forced to conclude that the numberered-documents approach isn't the best way to do coordinate the creation of Nostr-based sub-protocols.

The anarchist is merely selfish.

2025-10-15T00:03:35+02:00

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The anarchist is merely selfish.

The benefits aren't free, those from the centralised are paid ...

2025-10-13T10:13:59+02:00

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The benefits aren't free, those from the centralised are paid for in surveillance and control, in nostr, it's DIY effort.

If you write it, post it everywhere you can, if there's an RSS feed it can be automatically, more or less, deployed to a nostr relay.

#nevent1q…uqkz

2025-09-23T02:41:51+02:00

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quoting nevent1q…uqkz
Is it just me or do ©️'s victories seem smaller and sadder every day?

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2025-09-21T06:05:48+02:00

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2025-09-18T11:05:43+02:00

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blocked: event contains too large tags

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The person in the video is not Decarlos Brown. It’s Jaleel ...

2025-09-16T06:56:41+02:00

The person in the video is not Decarlos Brown. It’s Jaleel Smith-Riley, sentenced back in 25th October of 2016. As for Decarlos Brown, he’s only been charged with murder, however no trial has started yet.

Right — that prompt: > `You can now close this terminal with ...

2025-09-13T06:36:07+02:00

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Right — that prompt:

> `You can now close this terminal with Ctrl+D, or press Enter to restart.`

is a **local terminal wrapper**, likely from **WSL** (or possibly VS Code's terminal), not your SSH client. Here's what happened:

1. You were in a remote session (via SSH or Docker exec).
2. That session exited with code 1.
3. The terminal wrapper you’re using (e.g. WSL terminal, Windows Terminal tab, VS Code Remote window, etc.) gave you a **local message** — *not from the remote host*.
4. When you pressed **Enter**, it restarted your shell — **locally**, in WSL, not a new SSH session.

So: **the terminal was local**, and **the message was from your local shell/session manager**. It restarted into WSL bash or zsh when you hit Enter — not your SSH client — because the SSH client had cleanly exited and your terminal environment defaulted back to the local shell.

In short:
**Pressing Enter restarted the terminal wrapper’s default shell (WSL), not your last remote session.**

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2025-09-07T21:15:09+02:00

Testing 1-2-4

I was at Deluxe Espresso Bar in Wellington - ...

2025-08-09T00:03:37+02:00

I was at Deluxe Espresso Bar in Wellington - https://swarmapp.com/user/106081/checkin/689673c824b4810617dbac44?s=8anZzDZM3Rz_reGXyx18lyOOEN8

I was at Sri Penang in Wellington - ...

2025-08-07T21:55:19+02:00

I was at Sri Penang in Wellington - https://swarmapp.com/user/106081/checkin/6895029959d8587fb7a36313?s=lb1w0b8-Ke5mLdzrLKHsoUoqIK8

I was at Chouchou in Wellington - ...

2025-08-05T22:53:04+02:00

I was at Chouchou in Wellington - https://swarmapp.com/user/106081/checkin/68926e6699ecd41a85931cf5?s=YpKaEhQEhjx9Oin845TaoxRKp-U

Log out off other? ...

2025-08-05T10:09:39+02:00

Log out off other?

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2025-08-05T09:45:03+02:00

Coracle Remote Nostr Signed

You can't fence off danger, you can't filter ...

2025-08-04T00:51:29+02:00

You can't fence off danger, you can't filter "bad" from the network.

You've got your feels and intuition but civilisation is stepping beyond your gut and emotion and using brain thinks.

Not only does the attempt fail, and burden the "innocent," it will eventually reveal itself as a very bad idea.

Underlying a lot of Trump's administration are ancient or emergency powers, given for "good" reason, but now, the risk is revealed.

quoting
nevent1q…26j9
During Covid I was fighting with some guy on spaces and he said,

“we get it, you think your freedom is more important than other people’s lives” as if that was some sort of a put down.

I responded “Not only is it more important than other people’s lives… it’s also more important than my own life”

He was confused by that.

He could easily file me away as selfish, but not as someone willing to die for others freedom.

He considered himself the selfless one.

And tbh his moral instincts of reducing harms and preserving life were noble.

But to preserve freedom at the cost of life is the higher moral ground, because a life without liberty has no purpose.

So I told him “give me liberty or give me death and if you won’t do either at least don’t delude yourself into thinking you’re the moral one here”

Then they kicked me from the space.

I think about that interaction a lot.

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2025-08-03T09:34:26+02:00

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2025-08-02T23:41:23+02:00

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2025-08-01T05:24:21+02:00

https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025-101-sec-permits-kind-creations-redemptions-crypto-etps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvIDXQhG6ek

https://x.com/HesterPeirce/status/1950292125309964308

https://i.nostr.build/HL9tQQVyYgn0c4Fc.webp

2025-07-31T21:57:08+02:00

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2025-07-31T04:22:37+02:00

https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025-101-sec-permits-kind-creations-redemptions-crypto-etps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvIDXQhG6ek
https://x.com/HesterPeirce/status/1950292125309964308

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2025-07-27T09:15:08+02:00

https://nostrudel.ninja/n/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqcylrpk2qg7ktrq0uqv4wprj7k2ktj97rhqk8v25r7kfmy92f690qqswwerfaw8wlwujcvayvstz708j52n5rkns8x8dnnqz7t7mfgw3xfg4j0jy8
https://archive.ph/i2d9W
https://x.com/ProtonVPN/status/1948773319148245334

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2025-07-27T09:13:47+02:00

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2025-07-25T01:26:25+02:00

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Imagine a Britain where access to Wikipedia is restricted not by ...

2025-07-24T02:38:20+02:00

Imagine a Britain where access to Wikipedia is restricted not by a hostile foreign power, nor by a rogue ISP, but by our own government. This is no dystopian fantasy; it is the potential consequence of the Online Safety Act—legislation passed, ironically, in the name of safety but now threatening the very infrastructure of free knowledge.

Under the Act, Wikipedia—a globally trusted, not-for-profit educational site—could be forced to limit UK users, distort its open-editing model, and verify the identities of its volunteer moderators. Why? Because any service with more than seven million users that features recommendation tools or link-sharing may be classified as a “category one” platform, subject to the same regulatory burdens as TikTok or Facebook—algorithm-driven entertainment giants with wholly different structures and risks. The UK could become the first liberal democracy to block itself from an online encyclopaedia.

Responsibility for this legislative vandalism lies with a gallery of digital, culture, media, and sport ministers who had little grasp of the internet and even less humility: Nadine Dorries, whose technological insight seemed limited to whether a programme had subtitles; Michelle Donelan, who shepherded the Bill through Parliament with slogans and sound bites; Lucy Frazer, who confused regulation with repression; and Peter Kyle, now in court arguing that the harms are hypothetical, as though passing sweeping laws and hoping for the best were an acceptable digital policy.

This law does not make us safer; it makes us smaller, poorer, and more parochial. It is censorship under another name. Though sold as a measure to protect children and stop illegal content—a noble aim—its drafting is so broad, its application so clumsy, that it will hobble legitimate services instead of halting harmful ones.

It fails because it treats all large platforms alike, ignoring the gulf between attention-manipulating networks and collaborative knowledge projects. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a dopamine slot machine. The Act creates legal risks for anonymity, undermining the volunteer model that makes Wikipedia possible. It punishes sites simply for recommending useful information, and it encourages self-censorship, as services will over-block content or restrict access to avoid fines of up to £18 million or ten per cent of global turnover. In the name of protection, it infantilises citizens who are entitled to freedom of inquiry.

As if the economic and academic restraints of Brexit were not damaging enough, we now impose informational restraints—amputating our own intellect. The UK increasingly behaves not like an open democracy but a wary provincial state, mimicking the strategies of closed ones. In Russia, Wikipedia is blocked outright under disinformation laws; in Britain, it may be throttled under safety laws. In Russia, real-name registration is required; in Britain, identity verification may be demanded of Wikipedia editors. The difference is one of degree, not kind.

Wikipedia does not harvest data, sell ads, or serve political agendas. It has no billionaire CEO tweeting policy on a whim. Yet it risks being shackled simply because it is popular, free, and open source. When lawmakers apply rules designed for Silicon Valley behemoths to educational charities, they reveal their ignorance: they are not keeping anyone safe—they are dismantling a pillar of democracy, the free exchange of knowledge.

Instead of quarantining the internet, Britain should invest in digital literacy, improve content-moderation standards through international cooperation, and apply proportionate oversight where actual harm occurs. Censorship does not work; education does. If we continue down this path, we will find ourselves regulated like autocracies, governed by mediocrity, and informed by algorithms designed in fear. And the bitter irony? We will be unable to look up the history of our mistake—because Wikipedia will not load.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiblH7EscZc

A low probability event is not a black swan, which after all were ...

2025-07-23T06:34:51+02:00

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A low probability event is not a black swan, which after all were abundant and long-standing where known. In your example you demonstrate our knowledge of the event and how likely the known event is to occur, in the long run.

Love your work, great to see you here!

These approaches sustain the protocol's antifragility, with ...

2025-07-23T01:39:32+02:00

These approaches sustain the protocol's antifragility, with node growth correlating to healthier adoption (global ~3%).
Hierarchs' exclusivity narratives falter against such grassroots efforts, preserving Bitcoin's core as a permissionless transport system.

You have your choice, please leave others theirs

2025-07-20T01:41:50+02:00

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You have your choice, please leave others theirs