Last Notes
This is my kitchen. I built everything myself.
What you are looking at was an empty field of rocks and sticks before I came along and devoted myself.
I took the raw materials of the Earth and created a living sculpture. Functional art.
The dirt walls, clay plaster, mesquite shelves, rock accents, yucca stalk decorations, copper plates, and cottonwood corner posts all collected from on-site resources.
It is my orientation that affords me these opportunities. And you can know it too. Right now, in this very lifetime.
I like to use the term "old story." The story of separation. The old story says that you are a separate individual. A soul encased in flesh in a world of others.
In that story, your purpose here is to make a place in the word. To survive, maximize your self-interest, and contend with all the other separate selves out there trying to do the same. To insulate yourself from hostile natural force whilst taking what you need and what you want from the world. Cuz.. why not?
The new story is to realize that your purpose here is not actually to maximize your wealth and security and self-interests. Your purpose here, the reason we are on Earth and in this cosmos, is because you carry gifts that you yearn to express to the world.
Just like every species. There is no species on Earth that only takes from and degradese the ecosystem. Every species actually contributes to the aliveness of the collective. They contribute to the unfolding of life and beauty.
We're the same.
It doesn't look like that right now. That we are a gift to life and beauty. It doesn't. But that is what a mature species becomes. So the transition we are in right now is the maturation of our collective consciousness.
This is true on an individual level as well. Which is why you can mine a million Bitcoin$... but if you're not using that to make the world more alive and more beautiful you're gunna feel... "I wasn't put on Earth for this... When am I going to get to live MY life.. not the one I've been bribed to live."
So this is the orientation I am talking about. The orientation of understanding yourself as gift. So in every situation you get to ask yourself, "what is mine to do? What is my Task? What is mine to give?" And that doesn't mean self-sacrifice because it includes a recognition of the generosity of all the world and all the world's species. To receive fully all the gifts that allow me to give forward and leave things more beautiful than they were when I found them.
It is understanding myself as an agent of the continuing coming aliveness of the world.
Just take a look at natural history. It is just a history of the world coming more and more alive. 4 Billion years ago, nothing. Then bacteria. They become more complex, multi-cellular. Then things begin to colonize the land, create soils, and plants, and flowers leading to insects and they made it even more alive and more beautiful. Then we came along.... Same reason. We're the same. So long as we're tapped into that, into that story about what is humanity for.. then you will know your ultimate purpose.
The old story says we're here to transcend nature. We're here to conquer. But that's not actually why we're here. The more that we're tapped into "what can we contribute to the aliveness of the cosmos" then life has meaning. Then you know why you're here. You know how to orient yourself and navigate life. You're tapped into the maturation of our species.
There's a north star to follow.
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Lutnick was Jeffrey Epstein's neighbor in NYC who hung out with him and tried to lie about it. Guess you can understand why he's in Trump's cabinet.
Thank you, but not genius. Just dialectical materialism. This school of thought has been around for almost 200 years and is the only philosophy on Earth that has sparked revolutionary thinking across the globe.
Not only did corporations start cutting corners with our food production the second regulations were removed, but not a single fuckn' thing got cheaper for the consumers.
Make no mistake, they will kill each and every one of us for a dollar.
Here's just a few of the Current Major Food Recalls in the United States
IT PAYS TO PAY ATTENTION
-Taylor Farms Iceburg Lettuce and premade Salad Kits: Risk of Cyclospora Parasite, over 10,930 reported cases
-Jalapeños, Prepared Salsas, Guacamole and Pico De Gallo (especially those sold by Taylor Farms): Risk of Salmonella Javiana, 431 reported illnesses, 57 Hospitalizations
- Kroger, Simple Truth, Brookshire, Country Morning and Sunups brand Eggs: Class 1, the highest risk level possible: Risk of Salmonella, 98 reported Illnesses and 26 Hospitalizations
- Nara Organics Infant Powdered Milk Formula: Risk of Clostridium Botulinum Contamination (Botulism). 3 reported cases.
-Frozen Blueberries and Mixed Berries (especially those distributed by Publix): Class 1, the highest risk level possible. Risk of E. Coli, 4 Hospitalizations
- Dreyer’s Outshine Fruit Bars: Potential Glass Contamination.
- Smoked Herring: Severe Risk of Clostridium Botulinum Contamination (Botulism)
- Raw Farm brand Cheddar Cheese: Risk of E. Coli, 3 Hospitalizations
- California Dairies inc. brand Powdered Milk and Buttermilk: Risk of Salmonella
-Utz and Zapps brand Potato Chips. Class 1, the highest risk level possible: Risk of Salmonella
- Lacnola Lactation Granola (made for breastfeeding mothers): Risk of Salmonella
- Alfalfa Sprouts (several brands): Risk of Salmonella & E. Coli, 55 Reported Illnesses, 4 Hospitalizations
-Christopher Ranch and Garland Fresh Peeled Garlic: Risk of Clostridium Botulinum Contamination (Botulism).
-Marketside Tomato Bisque Soup Kits: Risk of Listeria
-City Foods Deli Meat (specifically pastrami and corned beef): Risk of Listeria
- Walmart Great Value, La Ceiba and Lucern brand Cottage Cheese: Great Value has the risk of being Unpasteurized, La Ceiba has the Risk of Listeria, and Lucern has the Risk of Foreign Metal Objects.
- Fromm Family Foods and Oma’s Pride brand Wet Dog Food: Fromm Family Foods has a Risk of Foreign Metal Objects and Oma’s Pride has the Risk of Salmonella
- Green Powder Supplements: Risk of Salmonella
-Pork King Good brand Pork Rinds and Seasonings: Risk of Salmonella
- Fresh Made Salad Inc. brand Cream Cheese: Risk of Listeria
-Clover Hill Dairy brand Ricotta Cheese: Risk of Listeria. 10 Hospitalizations, 1 Death
We got 3/8ths inch in the storm that came down Sunday/Monday early morning hours! A good drenching for us here
The speaker! It's easy to build community around music.
Great quote from a great thinker! Taking control of our shelter, water, and food needs is not only great for our local resilience but also subversive to the political and economic status quo! Do it for reason #1is enough to motivate me, but maybe also saving the world if enough people follow is a great secondary selling point!
Never forget that the system we are rebelling against is a gang of completely unaccountable strangers who are genocidal, pedophilic, war profiteers that have seized the levers of power and have turned them against all life on Earth for personal gains.
So, you kno... prepare accordingly.
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Superadobe just like Rich! But more in the style of Sam's house where we plan to connect a long rectangular room to the dome bedroom instead of many domes interconnected!
I am using that exact same UPS for my remote work station & maintaining my starlink connection. Had it for about 4 months and definitely a fan
Decentralized technology doesn't do much good without underlying social cohesion in the communities using it. Otherwise you're just connecting to servers run by people you'll never meet, which isn't that different from what we already have. Fortunately #cochiseCounty already has a lot of cohesion in the opt out building community 😀
Let the dead bury the dead. Life will go on the #Blake2b chain
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💯 it's much easier to ignore negative energy than engage with it
#nostr is optimized for community use. If everyone connects to one locally run relay, apps only have to worry about one data source, which means faster load times and fewer missed messages. Maybe there are regional or global relays too, but most communication happens among people who see each other in person regularly. This is the reality with decentralized technologies, and how I see society organized in the future.
I built my off-grid house entirely from on-site soil and with my own two hands. The walls are 50cm thick. The dome even goes underground. Then I stocked it with years worth of provisions, firearms and ammo, thousands of varieties of seeds, rare medicines and first aid, I then hardened the off-grid systems against cataclysm, and have contributed countless hours to strengthening the resiliency of the surrounding community.
I joined Nostr as a continuation of that pattern. It is one small facet of a robust systems that can resist breaking down, no matter what kind of storm we're made to endure.
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It's fitting that math, something that exists only in our minds, will be one of our main tools for liberation. We aren't as much physically oppressed as we are mentally. Our physical circumstances don't need to change as much as how we interact with each other - direct communications and transactions without intermediaries taking an arbitrary cut. Cryptography makes this possible, and it's really up to us when to start using this tool.
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Cryptography works because 2+2 =4. There is nothing the government or any institution can do to change that, no matter how powerful they get. That is why we will win
Anyone looking for land in #CochiseCounty should contact @nprofile…3mt5 Realty. This is the realtor I worked with when I bought land here two years ago. These guys walk the walk, are living off-grid and have each built their own earthbag house which is no small feat. They're also pillars of the opt-out community here which is why I was so happy to see them both at the meetup last night 😀
I think digital tech can fit into a sovereign life if used the right way: enhancing human capabilities instead of trying to replace them
Ideas > identities. This is what makes #nostr different
Great points by @npub1vux…h2mj. Nostr and decentralized technologies are just one part of a sovereign life, and a lot of the other parts are happening here in #cochiseCounty. "Decentralized software meets decentralized dirt. If you’re building at this intersection in the high desert, let’s connect."
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1/Great intro to nostr at the first @npub1yu4ah80r8mntvcp5kqpmxlad2zfy0c8l253xjdwu56z2tacp9sfscqgg3z meetup last night by @nprofile…6fhd and @nprofile…7yua !
We have a very exciting confluence of threads that are all tying neatly together here in Cochise County. 🧵👇
Look at what we've done...
Out of the estimated 113 Billion humans who have ever existed, the majority of them lived both briefly and a very long time ago. So it's historically rare to live throughout the changes of the world as it is rebuilt around us. Nostr, crypto, the fall of the petro-dollar.
Humans today will experience on average 50 years more than the majority of humans who have ever lived. Today the average infant will grow to adulthood and the average adult will live into their 70s.
The majority of all humans could never read or write, they had no choice in where they lived or where they could go or what they could do. Mostly just farmers born to tend the lands they we bred on.
Most humans who have ever existed did not know what it was like to be 30, let alone 80
It has never been normal to witness the world as it is rebuilt and changed around you. But we do now.
I ask again, just look at what we have done....
For better or for worse, there's no denying the capabilities of our kind. Every 30-something year old like me flying on a plane to their grandmother's funeral, watching a movie or reading a book, casually aware of gravity, how the weather works, and what the Sun is made from, and even the names and histories of the places below them, all while being able to consider why they might go somewhere at all. In their pocket a credit card, a smart phone, and medicine capable of treating almost any ailment... all this is such a normal thing to us now but it truly is a living and breathing example that miracles are real. And they are created by the godlike force of the hands and minds of people like us.
Humanity has forged this reality for itself. We so easily critique and squander what we have for there is admittedly a lot to critique and squander.
But considering at least once in a while how crazy it is that we exist as self aware humans and we exist on the side of history where we are expected to see 30, 40, 50, maybe even 80 or more. The side of history where we can tell time to the second, wipe with soft paper, see clearly with glasses, play cards with friends, mass distribute books, listen to a master pianist on demand, turn on and off lights and heaters, drink soda, drive cars on a whim, launch rockets, press buttons, understand the contents of outer and inner space, and share ideas like these instantaneously on a global scale.
We created all these things, all these opportunities, out from the material of the Earth and our minds. Out from nothing.
We woke into the conditions of this Reality and said, "not good enough. How about this instead?"
We bear the fruits of both our bounty and our destruction. Destruction of the world, our spirits, and ourselves. But our next great innovation is on its way. One that includes the wisdom to properly carry out our innovations. To not just live long lives, but also good sustainable ones. #nostr #cochisecounty #optout
Here's a video walkthrough of my setup https://v.nostr.build/QncWppGNdP8Y0arZxj62gU.mov
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Check out my setup for self hosting public-facing apps with StartOS and StartTunnel (and yes this blog post is self-hosted) https://www.cochisefreedom.tech/how-to/2026/08/25/self-hosting-startos.html
We are hosting our first meetup tonight. Looks like we will have a pretty good turn out.