Nostr notes by hmichellerose

Ya I love the People of Walmart site! fun stuff. But Walmart is ...

2026-05-04T19:21:48+02:00

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Ya I love the People of Walmart site! fun stuff.

But Walmart is everywhere, not just the poor places in the states. It's probably the most popular store here in Puerto Rico. Half of my stuff I got at Walmart. and so it's just the common person's store.

not sarcasm. I say Walmart as that is where you find normal day ...

2026-05-04T18:55:20+02:00

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not sarcasm. I say Walmart as that is where you find normal day to day people and not social media influencers. Also any grocery store works.

Interesting! I have similar thoughts. I think it's about ...

2026-05-03T16:17:36+02:00

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Interesting!

I have similar thoughts. I think it's about hierarchy. Spirituality does not require hierarchy, but organized religion does.

You can find things funny when they aren't a danger to you. ...

2026-05-03T16:16:20+02:00

You can find things funny when they aren't a danger to you. And I think that is why women often get the label of "humorless". A lot more things are dangerous to women than to men, and so they don't laugh at those things.

Ya know like rape jokes. You're probably not going to laugh at a rape joke if you are on a date actively trying to make sure that you don't get raped.

There is some nuance here, sometimes humor is a way to deal with trauma. And so whether or not a joke is funny to someone who has experienced that thing depends on the punchline. But a 'ha ha that person got raped' is wildly unlikely to get a laugh out of someone who deals with that fear everyday.

Understand but don't accept. ...

2026-05-01T21:33:28+02:00

Understand but don't accept.

Your body knows when you are in a good relationship 🫶 🥰 ...

2026-04-29T04:16:12+02:00

Your body knows when you are in a good relationship 🫶 🥰

The difficult and complicated part its that it’s both. I ...

2026-04-20T04:14:12+02:00

The difficult and complicated part its that it’s both.

I imagine we’ve all seen the very publicized examples of very crass abortion supporters who have done things like throw an abortion party, etc. That’s ugly. And it says that women matter but a fetus does not matter.

I’m sure we can all also think of an example of a staunch anti-abortion campaigner who would like to see women forced to carry their rapists babies. That’s horrific. And it says that a fetus matters but a woman does not matter.

The tricky part about all of this is that it’s both, and it’s not simple at all. The life and well being of a woman matters, and a fetus also matters. In tragic times and places when the their needs are at odds, then very difficult choices about which matters most have to be made. And the ‘answer’ to that will differ in every situation. It’s not simple. We can’t make it simple. And that’s why someone in a fancy suit hundreds of miles away who knows nothing of the specifics of the situation can’t be the one that makes those choices. The people directly affected by the outcome of the situation are the only people fit to make those choices.

It's interesting that I'm talking about sexual assault ...

2026-04-19T21:51:16+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…cyjk
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It's interesting that I'm talking about sexual assault and you change the topic to money chasing. Why are these things related in your head?

What are you talking about?

2026-04-19T21:10:18+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…xdmy
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What are you talking about?

Every woman knows that it’s not “all men.” But women ...

2026-04-19T20:50:23+02:00

Every woman knows that it’s not “all men.” But women don’t know WHICH men it is. Predators aren’t dumb, they present as normal dudes. Because of this, it is logistically necessary for women to be wary of all men that they don’t know well.

A situation that sucks for everyone.

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2026-04-18T06:42:05+02:00

Does being understanding and loving actually work? I feel like ...

2026-04-15T23:57:50+02:00

Does being understanding and loving actually work? I feel like I've put in an epic effort for decades to be as decent as I can to people. I've bent over backwards to be understanding. I've worked hard to hug rather than kick when someone is down. ...did any of that help anything?

If someone doesn't want to see you, if their ideology won't let them respect you, then they will just never be good to you. It doesn't matter how loving you are.

You can't make someone care.

Some places are better. In Australia I would bring my oldest out ...

2026-04-15T18:26:54+02:00

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Some places are better. In Australia I would bring my oldest out to the bar with me when she was a baby! ...they did kick her out as it got crowded in the evening tho.

and, in some places the pubs had a kids play grounds out on the patio!

ahh, ya you didn't sound genuine to me, and this proves it. ...

2026-04-15T16:39:09+02:00

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ahh, ya you didn't sound genuine to me, and this proves it.

You have a lovely day now (which is passive aggressive for fuck off)

ya, I know a lot more than you on these topics.

2026-04-15T04:55:17+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…c0ks
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ya, I know a lot more than you on these topics.

...ahh, right. this is all my fault. so sorry, I'll go ...

2026-04-15T00:23:02+02:00

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...ahh, right. this is all my fault.

so sorry, I'll go admonish myself until others stop being shit to me.

This is an issue in the present moment.

2026-04-14T21:08:34+02:00

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This is an issue in the present moment.

How exhausting it is to constantly have to check and test to see ...

2026-04-14T20:41:25+02:00

How exhausting it is to constantly have to check and test to see if those who are trying to get close to you have any respect for your basic human rights.

That has been the case for me in the past ~4 years. So, so many in the Bitcoin/Crypto community have gone down an ugly red pill path adopting an ideology which tells them that women are not appropriate to full autonomy. And these people will attempt to pull you in to their ideology. They will court you and use lovely sounding words and phrases, and once your guard is down they will try to convince you that you are a follower, inappropriate to decision making, a second class human, support staff only.

It’s so exhausting, and pathetic. They hide their ideology as they lack the courage to be honest about their convictions. They know that they will be rejected outright if they don’t hide behind flowery words and drip feed their disrespect.

What sucks most about this is that now it’s a logistically horrible idea to let anyone in at all until they have thoroughly proven their respect for my basic human rights. So tiring. And it doesn’t feel like that should be the case, that I should have to performs checks to see if someone supports my basic autonomy. What bull shit.

O this is interesting! So many illusions have been shattered ...

2026-04-13T16:48:55+02:00

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O this is interesting! So many illusions have been shattered lately! We are in some new eras.

If you want people to have understanding for you, and you should, ...

2026-04-13T16:48:06+02:00

If you want people to have understanding for you, and you should, then you need to practice having understanding for others.

And once again, we’ll look to the red pill crew for an example of how not to do it 😉

The red pill crew, or those sympathetic to them, will explain to you that the “male loneliness epidemic” and young men falling into extremism is a symptom of them being treated badly by the very “woke” lefties, and the extreme feminists, and by the confusing messaging to young men about where their value comes from. And I totally agree, that’s a problem and we should have some understanding for it.

However, the same set of people who will expect you to have understanding for young angry misogynist men will fail to understand the angry feminists. Don’t ya think that maybe extreme feminism is a reaction to centuries of legal, social, and at times physical repression of women? Might those things cause some backlash that we should have some understand for?

And these same people that want you to have sympathy for young angry misogynist men will also talk about gang violence and “black on black” crime. They also fail to understand where that might come from. They will reject any discussion of the down stream effects of centuries of brutal legal repression and systematic segregation and impoverishment. Might it be that some young black men fall into gangs as they were a born into a difficult situation that doesn’t give them as many options as others get? Should we have some understanding for that?

You can’t have it both ways. If you want others to have understanding for you, and you should, then you need to practice understanding for others.

O no big story, just thousands of small ones. I ran out of ...

2026-04-11T02:52:11+02:00

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O no big story, just thousands of small ones. I ran out of tolerance for those not willing to put in any effort to understand others. I've just had enough of that for a lifetime. I am now done.

O the amount of times I’ve been told that my concerns are ...

2026-04-11T02:06:31+02:00

O the amount of times I’ve been told that my concerns are paranoid, illogical, hysterical. I’m always being told to shelve my concerns so that I can consider other people’s perspectives. I can’t do it any more.

There is quite a lot to be learned from listening to others perspectives. I’d go so far as to say you can’t learn or grow if you don’t. But it has to be mutual. Continuing to do the hard work of putting yourself in someone else’s shoes when they won’t do the same for you just degrades your respect for yourself.

If you can’t be kind, if you can’t be understanding, if you can’t take a moment to consider how a situation impacts someone else…. Go fuck yourself and good bye.

Understanding is not the same as agreeing or condoning. One of ...

2026-04-09T17:54:07+02:00

Understanding is not the same as agreeing or condoning.

One of the most frustrating things about being on social media is watching the sea of posts and memes and “debates” which are just people intentionally misunderstanding each other. People purposely being obtuse and twisting others words in attempts to “dunk” on others and score a few likes.

It’s not just ugly or childish, it’s wildly lazy. What a cheap easy way out of actual thought.

“It's the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

Do you think there is an objective definition of terrorism? If ...

2026-04-09T02:01:14+02:00

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Do you think there is an objective definition of terrorism? If so, what is it?

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2026-04-09T00:04:50+02:00

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2026-04-07T19:25:51+02:00

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2026-04-07T19:25:02+02:00

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2026-04-07T02:53:21+02:00

One of the most intellectually lazy things you can do is decide ...

2026-04-06T05:24:46+02:00

One of the most intellectually lazy things you can do is decide that if someone disagrees with you it’s simply because they are an idiot.

Here is some discrimination against men. This is what the red ...

2026-04-05T20:28:37+02:00

Here is some discrimination against men. This is what the red pill crew should be mad about.

Today is my last day of being 42, my last day of being the answer ...

2026-04-03T21:51:51+02:00

Today is my last day of being 42, my last day of being the answer to life the universe and everything 😭 Really I can’t say I pulled that off, but I sure did give it a go!

In the past year I made 12 trips to 5 different countries. I did two talks en español!

I definitely prefer the messier moments and the messier photos. Life just is messy, you make yourself miserable trying to be perfect and polished.

Evergreen April Fools meme ...

2026-04-01T20:19:39+02:00

Evergreen April Fools meme

Buen dia. I already fell victim to one cruel April Fools joke ...

2026-04-01T16:00:40+02:00

Buen dia. I already fell victim to one cruel April Fools joke 😢

The biggest way in which men fail to protect is by not believing ...

2026-03-31T23:52:46+02:00

The biggest way in which men fail to protect is by not believing that there is a threat to protect against.

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2026-03-31T18:06:01+02:00

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2026-03-31T16:39:53+02:00

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2026-03-30T23:08:40+02:00

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2026-03-30T22:06:00+02:00

you control your behavior. You don't control others, you ...

2026-03-30T22:05:46+02:00

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you control your behavior. You don't control others, you don't control the circumstances of your life, you don't control mother nature, etc.

And so it only makes sense to focus on your responses to the circumstances around you. You can decide to attempt to influence the world, but the world will surprise you, and do things that you didn't want it to and that you can't control, and you have to focus on your decisions on how to respond. As that is the only thing you control.

No? Have you ever read a US history book?

2026-03-30T20:59:02+02:00

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No? Have you ever read a US history book?

Affirmative action for white men has been a part of the states ...

2026-03-30T19:57:36+02:00

Affirmative action for white men has been a part of the states for the entirety of it’s existence.

That has been fading a lot in my life time, but it amuses me how people get so angry about the evil “DEI” and don’t realize that in a lot of places DEI is simply a process for removing the affirmative action for white men. It’s a process for making the hiring process more fair… making it more of a meritocracy.

No you can't. You can influence a lot of things, but in the ...

2026-03-30T19:53:48+02:00

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No you can't. You can influence a lot of things, but in the end you control nothing but yourself.

If you take on responsibility for things outside your control you will make yourself miserable. Fewer things in life I am more sure of. This is just the way it is.

The key to the whole inner peace thing is to not have any desires ...

2026-03-30T18:14:12+02:00

The key to the whole inner peace thing is to not have any desires or attachments that your sense of self is dependent upon.

20+ years ago I spent a few weeks studying Buddhism in a world religions class at Oakton Community College. I don't remember a lot accept that I didn't like it. I'm not supposed to desire anything? What's the point of being alive then?

Years latter I came to understand the concept more as you're not supposed to be attached to things and that made a lot more sense to me.
...But I am attached to things! I have to un-attach from my kids in order to have inner peace? Nah that's BS

But now I get it. It goes back to this 'outcome pressure' thing that I deal with a lot and the idea of not taking on responsibility for things outside my control. It's about a sense of what you are and are not responsible for.

The attachment thing is mostly right. But it doesn't mean don't care, or don't strive, it means don't lose your sense of self to an attachment to something external.

“Only the people can save the people” 🫶 #NoKings ...

2026-03-28T18:44:58+01:00

“Only the people can save the people” 🫶 #NoKings

I'm such a middle aged bitch. It's fabulous✨

2026-03-27T19:59:10+01:00

I'm such a middle aged bitch.

It's fabulous✨

Someone: "how do you do it all?" Me: "I don't, I ...

2026-03-27T19:38:48+01:00

Someone: "how do you do it all?"
Me: "I don't, I have a partner who does it all with me."

Ladies, don't marry a man that wants a wife and kids. Marry a man that wants to be a husband and father!

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2026-03-26T20:01:21+01:00

Sometimes I hear that macaroons are confusing, and that bums me ...

2026-03-25T20:15:43+01:00

Sometimes I hear that macaroons are confusing, and that bums me out as I find them to be so elegant and simple. So let me see if I can effectively communicate how beautiful this little piece of tech is…

Let’s imagine that you have a server that has some data to serve up and you want to gate your content and perhaps charge for it.

Step one, create a secret. Here we’ll use just the word “secreto”, which is of course “secret” in Spanish. The tricky part for you is that you have to know what a hash function is, and the tricky part for your server is that it has to hold on to and protect this secret.

Now perhaps you want to give your users ID’s. Something complex and official looking like “id12345678id”.

To make a very simple macaroon for your user you simple hash “secreto” together with that ID “id12345678id”. You can try this yourself on the command line if you like.

$ echo "secreto;id12345678id" | sha256sum

The result is “55413cca2fbc3a31f5ef5ab7b18390c926dd7f9d466034ea8ec2a0867e19e26d” and congratulations you created a macaroon! (Kinda)

You then hand your user this data:
id12345678id
55413cca2fbc3a31f5ef5ab7b18390c926dd7f9d466034ea8ec2a0867e19e26d

You don’t have to hold on to any data at all besides that secret. You can hold on to that ID data if you like. But tomorrow when the holder of this macaroon shows back up to access your services, how can you validate them?

Very simply as you know the secret!

You take that ID “id12345678id” and hash it together with your secret [$ echo "secreto;id12345678id" | sha256sum] to see if you get the hash that they showed up with, “55413cca2fbc3a31f5ef5ab7b18390c926dd7f9d466034ea8ec2a0867e19e26d”. If you do, then you know that your server created that macaroon and you can let them right in.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Well, ackchyually 🤓 ...

What I’ve described above is really more of an HMAC(Hash-based Message Authentication Code) than a macaroon. What macroons are really for is chaining hashes and adding attenuations. So let’s add in one more step.

You don’t want this user to have access to your server forever, so you want to add an expiration date to this authentication token. Let’s say April 27th 2027.

So let’s add that to our HMAC thus turning it into a proper macaroon! Right now we have:
id12345678id
55413cca2fbc3a31f5ef5ab7b18390c926dd7f9d466034ea8ec2a0867e19e26d

How do we add our new attenuation? With another hash of course!!! We take our existing hash, and hash it with our new data, “expires:2027-04-27”.

$ echo "55413cca2fbc3a31f5ef5ab7b18390c926dd7f9d466034ea8ec2a0867e19e26d;expires:2027-04-27" | sha256sum

We now have a new hash! “bf41dee1dacfe63e1d917c46d024e6ceb13506632e092fa218bd96df041f7b0e”

This is now the macaroon that we give our user:
id12345678id
expires:2027-04-27
bf41dee1dacfe63e1d917c46d024e6ceb13506632e092fa218bd96df041f7b0e

And still, only we know the secret. And so, this user can’t change this macaroon as doing so would alter that hash thus making our validation of it fail.

So how can we validate it? Also, very, very simply with just that secret and a few hash functions!

As we have the secret, all we need to do is recreate the macaroon and see if we get the final hash that the user showed up with.

Hash together the secret with the ID. Take that result and hash it together with the expiration data. If the result is the same hash as the user presented to us then we know that macaroon was created using our secret. So either someone has stolen our secret, or we created that macaroon!

Don’t trust, verify. Try it yourself on your machine.

$ echo "secreto;id12345678id" | sha256sum

This produces 55413cca2fbc3a31f5ef5ab7b18390c926dd7f9d466034ea8ec2a0867e19e26d. Then…

$ echo "55413cca2fbc3a31f5ef5ab7b18390c926dd7f9d466034ea8ec2a0867e19e26d;expires:2027-04-27" | sha256sum

Which produces bf41dee1dacfe63e1d917c46d024e6ceb13506632e092fa218bd96df041f7b0e.

The hashes match, authentication complete!

...one more ackchyually. A real HMAC function is slightly more complicated than demonstrated above. HMAC functions handle the data more carefully than just taking a string, and there lots of details in formatting, and there are details on how third party caveats are added, etc.

However, if you’ve made it this far, congratulations, you understand macaroons! 🥳

The relationship is the prize. It’s my sincere guess about the ...

2026-03-25T16:24:29+01:00

The relationship is the prize.

It’s my sincere guess about the universe that the most important things in life are…(in this order)
1. Who you are. What you chose to be. Your values.
2. Your loving connections with others. Your relationships.
3. How you impact the world. The ripple effects that your behavior has.

When deciding who to deal with, who to be close with, you gotta get an idea of what they think to be the most important things in life. If fame, power, fortune, etc. are on their list then you are at risk of being used for those ends.

If whoever you’re dealing with doesn’t see the relationship as the prize, then you are a tool to achieve a different prize.

It wouldn't bother me so much if I were paying for schools ...

2026-03-24T15:33:50+01:00

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It wouldn't bother me so much if I were paying for schools and firetrucks. But it really does bother me to know that I'm paying for bombs that get dropped on schools.

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2026-03-24T15:32:51+01:00

There is no utopia, everywhere has it's problems. You gotta ...

2026-03-24T13:25:46+01:00

There is no utopia, everywhere has it's problems. You gotta pick the set of problems you prefer.

...like today, my office in San Juan is far too sunny. So sunny I put sun glasses on over my computer glasses.

These are my kind of problems ☀️😎😉

There is a variety of misogyny that I run into a lot in the ...

2026-03-22T14:25:25+01:00

There is a variety of misogyny that I run into a lot in the crypto community. It's very nice sounding hippie dippie misogyny and it goes like this... male leadership is simply natural, it's what we see all throughout the animal kingdom. That's just the way nature is.
Two things here:

1. This is just plain false. For example, Bonobos are one of humans closest relatives in the animal kingdom, and Bonobos are matriarchal.

2. Let's say that the animal kingdom were entirely patriarchal, do we want to be like the animals? Do we aspire to be like Chimpanzees, or do we aspire to be more enlightened creatures? And I'd argue that more enlightened creatures aren't interested in suppressing half of their species.

“SaaS is dead” they say. AI killed it, we’ll all just use ...

2026-03-20T23:59:33+01:00

“SaaS is dead” they say. AI killed it, we’ll all just use Claude to write our own custom apps.

*ahem* Claude is SaaS.

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2026-03-20T20:09:49+01:00

Ahh the grotesque state of the world. ...

2026-03-20T18:12:51+01:00

Ahh the grotesque state of the world.

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2026-03-20T16:09:08+01:00

Chuck Norris' email was gmail@chucknorris.com

Ooo, I found the official music video, and it's stunning. Not ...

2026-03-20T15:00:10+01:00

Ooo, I found the official music video, and it's stunning.

Not sure why flowers and flowing fabric are so sensual, but they really, really are!

https://youtu.be/qKFMK2eDWeQ

Wow I need a bottle of wine and an evening that inspires me to ...

2026-03-20T14:40:01+01:00

Wow I need a bottle of wine and an evening that inspires me to dance to this 🍷💃🎶🥰

I must be overdue for date night… or maybe I’m ovulating. Who knows. Just dance.

https://youtu.be/Tyu8yRPlyIw

"The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates ...

2026-03-20T14:38:37+01:00

"The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates ~400BC

I think most of us know it on an intellectual level. If you’ve ...

2026-03-20T14:33:41+01:00

I think most of us know it on an intellectual level. If you’ve read a shit ton of books, if you’ve done a bunch of shrooms(so I’m told), if you’ve been to therapy, then you know…

You control nothing but yourself. You are not responsible for the behavior of others. You are not responsible for the outcome of a complex situation. The only things it makes sense to worry about are your own choices. Life is mostly just about deciding who you are and connecting with others.

We know this intellectually, but we were born in a world that sold us a very different perspective on life. One where you must feel shame if the outcome is not what you hoped. One where life is about being above others, and having more. And removing that programming from the back of your head takes years and years of work.

But everyone once in a while, I don’t just know these things, I feel them. Every once in a while I have a morning where I forget to feel shame and forget to try to be above others. And on those mornings, life really feels pretty fun.

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2026-03-19T19:23:40+01:00

Both "woke" and "based" are cringe. Flip sides of ...

2026-03-19T18:52:13+01:00

Both "woke" and "based" are cringe. Flip sides of the same political bullshit coin.

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2026-03-19T18:39:26+01:00

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2026-03-19T17:19:20+01:00

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2026-03-19T17:15:28+01:00

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2026-03-19T15:49:19+01:00

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

okay, but don't you think that you matter? When do you get to ...

2026-03-17T20:27:14+01:00

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okay, but don't you think that you matter? When do you get to be the priority?

I'd argue that in a healthy relationship two people are supporting eachother. At times one may get prioritized, but balance is pursued. Your goals, your ambitions, your development shouldn't be ignored.

Giving up autonomy is not a path to self realization.

2026-03-17T16:56:50+01:00

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Giving up autonomy is not a path to self realization.

Agreed, there is a difference. But I see submission as taking ...

2026-03-17T16:26:59+01:00

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Agreed, there is a difference. But I see submission as taking someone away from full self realization. ...which I view as a big part of the purpose of life.

...there is a video of him with 6 fingers? I missed that. Links?

2026-03-17T16:21:08+01:00

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...there is a video of him with 6 fingers? I missed that. Links?

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2026-03-17T16:20:39+01:00

I think that dynamic frightens people as they don't perceive ...

2026-03-17T16:12:10+01:00

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I think that dynamic frightens people as they don't perceive it to be healthy. ...I'm one of those people.

So what do y'all think about the Internets new fav conspiracy ...

2026-03-17T16:10:58+01:00

So what do y'all think about the Internets new fav conspiracy theory that Netanyahu has been dead for like a week now???

I flew past Cuba last night and there were lights on. The big red ...

2026-03-17T16:08:26+01:00

I flew past Cuba last night and there were lights on.

The big red light was another airplane, but the smaller white lights seemed to be in and around Havana.

But gents, please do braid your beard and wear cologne!

2026-03-17T15:56:06+01:00

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But gents, please do braid your beard and wear cologne!

It always blows my mind how people will speak like an authority ...

2026-03-17T15:54:22+01:00

It always blows my mind how people will speak like an authority on a topic that they haven't even researched for 5 mins.

If I ever quit tech I think I'd run one of those hippie ...

2026-03-12T21:33:43+01:00

If I ever quit tech I think I'd run one of those hippie dippie wellness retreats, but like with science. So you can totally bring your crystals and do sound baths if you like, but we also have Congnative Behavior Therapy and anti-inflamitory food. Chant whatever you want but you have to do your EMDR session!

And it won't cost an obscene amount cuz it's just some shack on the side of a mountain in Peru. So you just have to get down there then it's like $250!

In a world ruled by violence, the most violent will rule. What ...

2026-03-12T16:16:12+01:00

In a world ruled by violence, the most violent will rule.

What kind of world do you want? What do you want the world to be ruled by?

You can take a difficult fact about humans and you can decide to ...

2026-03-12T16:15:28+01:00

You can take a difficult fact about humans and you can decide to help, or you can decide to take advantage and use it to oppress.

Men are bred to be cannon fodder. Do you want to try to change that, or do you want to abuse that and send them out on your wars?

Women are physically vulnerable. Do you want to support and protect women, or do you want to use that to control women?

Next @nprofile…qxte! 2 special guests: SuperTestnet on testing ...

2026-03-11T20:20:53+01:00

Next nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dxqcjucn0d36zummzwdjhyan9wghsqgr5fmxf5yv6jtdg3v05fz6qxrxmctlvtsm75phtm5pxuaptqq400ux7qxte (nprofile…qxte)! 2 special guests:

SuperTestnet on testing hard/soft forks on regtest.

Then San Juan local Donny on mining pools & what they mean for you...Rumor has it he's bringing some NerdQaxe++ miners with him! 🚀

RSVP below

https://www.meetup.com/san-juan-bitdevs/events/313746427/

In the past ~5 years I've learned SO, SO much about the human ...

2026-03-10T18:35:35+01:00

In the past ~5 years I've learned SO, SO much about the human mind, and nervous system, and psychology, and how we operate, epigenetics, and neuroplasticity, etc. and it just blows my mind how uncommon this knowledge is.

Just 5 years ago I was a very educated and intelligent person and yet was walking around all day utterly ignorant of how my own mind functions. Wild.

It bums me out how psychology and therapy are demonised. Y'all we are so ignorant. We really need to be leaning into these tools a lot more rather than shaming them.

I like this. It's not making A plan, it's making planS. ...

2026-03-10T15:42:13+01:00

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I like this. It's not making A plan, it's making planS. And precisely because we don't know what will happen.

As this is a constant issue for me I’ve tried tackling it in many ways. It’s an uphill battle as the culture all around us tells us that there is a very specific path to follow in life, it’s our job to stay very narrowly on that path, and should we deviate, should tragedy find us and knock us off the track, well that is a shameful failure on our part. ...wow is that exhausting!

I like making AI + Photoshop images and I made these two. The first represents the narrow path. It’s a frightening and exhausting way to live. The second is the expectation of life that I’m trying to install in my head. It’s the idea that there are all kinds of possibilities all the time and it’s our job just to attempt to manage them well.

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2026-03-10T15:26:16+01:00

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2026-03-10T15:24:00+01:00

In case you forgot... you control nothing. You can scheme and ...

2026-03-10T01:32:44+01:00

In case you forgot... you control nothing. You can scheme and influence but in the end you don't stand a chance at actually controlling anything besides yourself.

So if you want a more loving world, you should be more loving. If you want a more educated world, you should be more educated. If you want a more violent world, you should be more violent. etc, etc.

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2026-03-09T21:28:31+01:00

Agent tools: ...

2026-03-09T20:33:12+01:00

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Agent tools: https://lightning.engineering/posts/2026-02-11-ln-agent-tools/
L402 docs: https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/l402
L402 tutorial video: https://youtu.be/DmrnISsk-vU (using the old name - LSAT)
Aperture: https://github.com/lightninglabs/aperture
x402 whitepaper: https://www.x402.org/x402-whitepaper.pdf

Agentic payments are so hot right now 🔥 You’ve probably ...

2026-03-09T20:32:52+01:00

Agentic payments are so hot right now 🔥 You’ve probably heard of L402 or x402, but what are they?

I’ll explain, but first, the internet! Back in the early 90s the HTTP protocol was being built, and with that came some error codes, 404 page not found being the most famous. 💅 But, reserved for future use, is a very forgotten error code, 402 payment required. This error code has sat waiting, for decades, for its moment to shine. And now, finally, we have money truly built for online commerce, Bitcoin + Lightning ⚡

And of course agents will choose to work with money designed for them. Agents don’t have identities, they can’t open bank accounts. They aren’t so great at filling out forms on a website, but they excel at using APIs! They can crunch numbers way faster than we can and they don’t want to sit around waiting on third parties to verify payments and grant access. L402s were designed for them!

So what is an L402?

It’s an access token that includes proof of payment. An agent shows up to an API endpoint looking for some data. The service returns a token with a Lightning invoice. The agent pays that invoice, receives the preimage as proof of payment and adds that preimage to the token, making an L402. The agent then returns to the server to access the data in that API endpoint presenting the L402 to get instant access. But wait, there’s more. As this is a bearer token, an agent can also attenuate that token and sell it, or pass it along to sub-agents, etc. Lots of options. No identity needed, no need for the server to hold on to user data.

This is a protocol created by Lightning Labs in 2020.

And how does this relate to x402?

You can think of it like this, L402 is a bearer token while x402 is a process. An agent shows up to an API endpoint looking for some data. The service returns a 402 error code along with instructions for various payment methods. An agent makes a payment and a facilitator service monitors the blockchain to check for confirmations, returning data to the server when a transaction is settled. The server can now grant the agent access to the data in that API endpoint.

This is a protocol created by Coinbase in 2025.

x402 focuses more on the broader crypto ecosystem while L402 focuses on Lightning. L402 tokens were built specifically for Lightning payments but it’s theoretically possible to use L402s inside of the x402 process.

There are of course so many more details here. If you’d like to dig in checkout the links below 👇

one without everyone trying to dominate everyone else. One where ...

2026-03-08T19:45:32+01:00

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one without everyone trying to dominate everyone else. One where we care a lot more about co-operation and exploration than we do about having more status than someone else.

It’s one of the most consistently difficult things in my life, ...

2026-03-08T19:43:00+01:00

It’s one of the most consistently difficult things in my life, how on earth can someone hold the reality that this could all end at any moment, at the same time as they engage in long term planning?

Car accident, WW3 nuclear blast, stroke, etc. you just never know. And you then have to hold that knowledge while planning your kids education, deciding if now is the right time to refinance your home, making a 5 year career plan… like I just don’t think the human mind can really do that.

So in a lot of ways, you just gotta say fuck it and go for it knowing that you and everyone you know will die, but just live anyway.

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2026-03-08T19:23:13+01:00

It really bothers me when people say that men are protectors, not ...

2026-03-08T19:19:17+01:00

It really bothers me when people say that men are protectors, not because I don’t want them to be, but because most aren’t.

I’m speaking in broad generalities here, and certainly there are exceptions, but generally, this is how it goes...

A woman spots a threat in her world, she goes to a man who is in a ‘protector’ position, a father, a brother, a husband, etc. She tells him what her concerns are. The ‘protector’ dismisses her concerns as hysteria. “You’re being paranoid”, “I’ve not seen him do that!”, “Not all men!”, “don’t be such a feminist.” And so she receives no protection. Instead she needs to arrange and manage her own protection. She forms alliances with other women. They text each other when they know they will be in the company of men they don’t feel safe with. They have code words. They share their location. They keep their phone near them waiting to go find and pick up their friend if needed. They help scheme on how to gather evidence. They are the shoulder to cry on when protection attempts have failed. And they are the support group when deciding how to manage an assault. And still, the ‘protectors’, don’t even believe them, let alone join any effort to protect.

Gents, if you consider yourself a protector, if that is something you wish to be, I love that, I support that. Just please fucking do it! Please actually do the protecting. The women are exhausted with doing all the protecting. They could use your help!

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2026-03-08T19:16:25+01:00

Stuff like this is the only way we're going to get better as ...

2026-03-08T15:57:23+01:00

Stuff like this is the only way we're going to get better as a species. Just individuals that refuse to be a part of the problem. 👏

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. So what turns pain ...

2026-03-08T01:00:42+01:00

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

So what turns pain into suffering?

Shame.

At least for me. How about for you?

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2026-03-07T16:57:08+01:00

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2026-03-07T16:27:09+01:00

We don't have a meritocracy, we have a psycocracy.

I woke up this morning thinking about interventionist wars. I ...

2026-03-07T14:31:36+01:00

I woke up this morning thinking about interventionist wars. I know, so relaxing!

Maduro is a bad dude, Khamenei was a monster. These people were destroying their own countries. But will our taking them out help at all? I hope so, but I really don’t think so. If the US hadn’t invaded Afghanistan in 2001 would the women there be better off today? Not sure, but it would be hard for them to be worse off!

And then I got to thinking about aliens. It’s my personal guess that they do exist and have been here to visit and, assuming they are a more advanced civilization, I always wonder… why don’t they help us?!?! But now I see. If they took out Trump, or Putin, or Kim Jong Un, would we really be better off in 20 years? No, highly unlikely. Because the leaders that we have are a result of our own issues.

Our horrific leaders are a symptom of our own lack of maturity. If we don’t get better as a species we will just put another psychopath in power.

So really, in a lot of ways, if you want to make the world a better place it’s probably a far better idea to be a therapist than it is to be a political revolutionary.

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2026-03-06T00:28:31+01:00