erikcason
Erik Cason

Gm frens,
I have a hopefully message for you all today:
No matter what the state does, who is elected, or what new bullshit they come up with today; they cannot destroy bitcoin and they cannot take away the sovereignty that is found within cryptography.
So long as there are still the crazies, the radicals, and those who refuse to live within the bounds of a walled garden society, there will always be the space for the he rabble rousers to create a life for themselves. And now with bitcoin, there will be a way for them to protect and save their wealth against any and all governments that seek to impose their tyrannies upon them.
Rejoice and celebrate for we are winning and we are only a short 16 years into this. Within another 16 years we will become the preliminary political force to be reckoned with that will offer all people everywhere, and into the future, the power and capacity to protect their wealth beyond the violations of any state.
It is a most beautiful and fitting story for the destiny of man, and what it means to be free in our day and age.

2024-11-04 15:06:18

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Lmao, I just love your kind voice describing the barbarism of NY state.

2024-11-03 22:58:02

Like what fucking clown show reality are we living in where any of this shit is real? If your goal is to off yourself why the fuck do you need a pod to do it?
#note1hak…fuhc

2024-11-02 06:19:55

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Likely no, but it’s possible.

2024-11-01 01:32:14

“SUPREME COMMANDER DAD HAS DECIDED THAT FOR THE GLORY OF OUR HOUSEHOLD THAT 2/3 OF HALLOWEEN CANDY SHALL BE REDISTRIBUTED FOR THE GOOD OF ALL”
#note1rq6…w0xw

2024-10-31 16:31:37

Bitcoin is a one-way street.
You don’t see bitcoiners becoming fiat people; once they change they stay that way (with the fun exception of bitcoin derangement syndrome).
This means every single day the fiat system gets a little weaker and bitcoin gets a bit stronger.
It’s just a matter of time before the crossover inflection point happens.

2024-10-30 17:16:34

Like many, I really enjoy podcast, but fuck I absolutely hate the moment of prostitution where they start pitching me on their bullshit.
Look, if I value you what you create, I’ll seek out to support you, but when you need to spread your legs in the middle of a good conversation I just wanna turn it off.
I can’t wait for more V4V only podcast, and content.

2024-10-29 03:41:02

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For those that would like to know more about The Political vs. politics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concept_of_the_Political

2024-10-25 00:47:59

GN frens
https://m.primal.net/LhKZ.jpg

2024-10-17 17:13:49

Heading out for the fishing trip now, shill me some podcast from the last month that are real bangers that I can download and ⚡️⚡️

2024-10-17 15:31:37

But voting matters you guys, we can change this!
#note1nsu…0j9y

2024-10-16 17:45:59

Going off grid tomorrow for a few weeks. Fishing with my stepdad, son, and dog in the eastern sierras; maybe chill down in the desert after that. We are gonna 4x4 into some remote spots and then backpack in the rest of the way in.
I’m looking forward to turning off for a while.

2024-10-13 19:26:56

Sorry for my dyslexia.
Y’all are too kind for not calling me out on all of the gross grammatical and syntax errors I make.
🙏❤️

2024-10-13 00:21:28

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I was surprised to learn that’s the highest grossing animated film of all time.

2024-10-12 02:18:30

I meet this guy a few times a year. Was super early and bought 1000s of bitcoins only to sell them after a few gainz. Knows that all crypto can be hacked, knows guys at the NSA who are satoshi.
It’s always a cool story bro.
Too bad they never keep any of those bitcoin, with them being super well informed and all…
#note1ucn…nga2

2024-10-11 17:03:49

Most people are so captured by the guarantee for safety and security through the state (which does not exist in any meaningful way) vis monetary and economic means, that the idea of any form of life outside of that seems like nonsense.
It is nothing more than trying to explain the freedom beyond the cave to the slaves enamored with the shadows on the wall. They will insist their chains protect them, and the darkness is security.

2024-10-10 14:28:08

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There is a massive opportunity to use Nostr to build a kind of dating app where people can own their own data. I’d have to think about it for a while for how exactly it could be build, but someone’s gonna kill it with this idea at some point.

2024-10-09 20:17:33

I love that Alfred Nobel—the dude who invented dynamite and who can arguably be link to more deaths via war that any other human in existence—then decided he’d use his money to make a ‘peace prize’.
It’s funny stuff.

2024-10-06 23:43:11

What I am excited for over the next decade is watching every single app be expropriated into the decentralized web as a P2P self-owned solution so no one gets to harvest your data and use it against you ever again.

2024-10-04 19:30:45

The government hates you and will continue to steal, hurt and punish you no matter what because the people in government believe that’s the right thing to do.

2024-10-03 19:25:19

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I would only care if he signs and moves a substantial amount of coins.

2024-10-03 18:21:48

When I was young man I had a mentor who I asked why some people totally fail at keeping their word or commitments. His response was:
“The hard truth is that most people are going to let you down in life. Most people can hardly commit to their own word to themselves, nonetheless anyone else. Don’t expect too much of other people, or you’ll spend most of your life angry and upset at people who were always incapable of keeping their word. Focus on those who you notice always try to keep their word and live with integrity—they might let you down too, but they’ll at least own it.”
I think about this a lot, and now that I’ve accumulated more life experiences, it’s a hard truth that I’m only fully coming to understand now.

2024-10-02 15:09:09

My son who is under 10 bet me that he could read the1000 pages of the lord of the rings trilogy before the end of the month.

2024-10-02 02:43:39

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Uhh, what do you think we are doing against fiat?

2024-10-02 02:41:09

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“What is FOSS?”
That is correct for 5k sats.

2024-10-02 01:43:33

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socialism for me and not for thee

2024-10-02 01:42:47

To be clear, I am an anarchist.
This is a real and develop political ideology that is important to understand beyond the propaganda we have all been taught.
I believe that our future is one of a political ideology of anarcho-syndicalism. However what distinguishes the form of syndicalism that I see is not one of labor, or worker’s unions—but value itself.
Sound familiar?

2024-10-02 01:36:21

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I agree with most of this, and that is specifically why the vanguard that powerfully leads such a movement must be done with the greatest of safeguards and care or else you end up with a horrific malformation version of nazism.

2024-10-02 01:22:07

Read this, best response I’ll zap 21k sats:
https://heidegger-circle.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/5-Polt-Typewriter-CORRECTED.pdf

2024-10-02 00:40:53

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Agreed

2024-10-02 00:08:31

This is exactly why we will get a homegrown American fascist movement that will be outside and beyond republican lettuces-handed rightism, and it will become the most powerful political contingent to ever exisit.
The left will be begging for Trump in 8 years when they see what has been created from this.
And to be clear, fascism has ALWAYS been cultivated as an anti-socialism movement. That’s why it’s national socialism and not international socialism.
#note13z2…zkqj

2024-10-01 14:43:42

GM, it’s official Off-tober now.
I try to use each October to try to get my shit together a little more than the month before.
This offtober I’m gonna try to get ‘off’ cigarettes for the month, and ‘off’ my ass to work out everyday.
We will see how it goes, but I’m setting the intention here and now, and will revisit next month to see how I do.

2024-09-30 17:55:13

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I’m a bitcoiner, and i don’t have to put up with this kinda bullshit most of the time.

2024-09-30 17:54:37

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Because I am retarded

2024-09-30 17:36:54

Sorry, I’ve been pretty bitchy lately from a combination of personal life events, watching the catastrophe of American politics, and listening to everyone’s uninformed and absolutely banal opinions.

2024-09-30 17:34:19

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It’s true, just having a bad week

2024-09-30 17:15:08

I am forced to live in a reality with a bunch of smooth brained morons who are incapable of thinking of a world where they are not slaves.
Sigh.

2024-09-30 01:49:54

If I’m around normal people for too long, I feel existential estranged and start to get really depressed and like there must be something wrong with me.
Then I get to be alone in the forest for a week, and I’m happy as a clam again.
Turns out that NPCs are poison for my mind, and crushing for my soul.

2024-09-29 04:50:24

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>telling me about astrological earthquake predictions and San Andreas fault line
Say more about this, I have skin in the game.

2024-09-29 04:01:10

Goddamn motherfucking scorpions
#note1uje…p7y3

2024-09-28 18:27:31

We are in the middle of an inflationary crisis that ends in hyperinflation—mostly because 90% of people are highly regarded and will follow others off a cliff if that ‘feels right.’
I understand that it’s like talking about preparing for an earthquake. They happen so infrequently that the idea of being in an 8.0+ quake seems impossible—yet many people who live in earthquake regions are poorly, if not at all prepared.
This is simply a function of the human brain being unable to adequately calculate tail-risks, nor understand that inflation, like an earthquake, is a white swan, not a black swan event.
Everyone will get fucked by hyperinflation, and every fucking muppet on the block will act like they could have never seen it coming. You absolutely can, it’s just hard to look at; so most don’t.
If you want some chance of not watching everything you’ve worked for in your life from evaporation away, you will need Bitcoin to save.

2024-09-28 18:12:47

I paid $25 for a burrito and drink last night.
The dollar is fucked and you’ll never see prices go down unless your unit of account is Bitcoin.

2024-09-28 17:45:42

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This was ziggy

2024-09-28 15:12:39

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My fucking cat sent this when it was half thought out…damn it

2024-09-28 15:11:56

Voting AT ALL is a detrimental process of giving your power away. At best you may be afforded some small local changes, in exchange for compliance towards the global war machine and obed
This behavior seeks permission from structures of abuse and exploitation to ask for the possibility of the political—which will never be given.
This is why we’ve never seen a plebiscite to end unconstitutional wars

2024-09-27 15:36:54

When you meet a smooth-talking scorpion that absolutely convinces you that giving them a ride across the river could never end in tragedy because that doesn’t make any sense, remember that they are
A FUCKING SCORPION!!!
It’s not about what they say, or even what they believe because they really don’t think they’ll sting you and kill you both, because that DOESN’T make sense.
But that’s the whole thing, right? They are a scorpion. It is their very nature to sting in times of panic.
Don’t trust scorpions, even when they paint a rosy picture that doesn’t involve you drowning in the middle of the river. Because that will happen, and it’s because you trusted a scorpion.

2024-09-25 23:38:22

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A whole house fan in the attic to suck hot air out of the house. Just needed it wired on a 20 volt circuit, but all were full at the sub panel and trying to run the wire was a bitch, so I tied a few other things together and freed up a slot, but only after trying like 5 other things.

2024-09-25 22:35:41

I did!
I wired up this goddamn house fan after fucking with the wiring for 3 days.

2024-09-25 18:06:28

Holy shit, I’m 3 days into this electrical project that should only take an hour, but each step recurves into like 20 side quest. JFC fuck the guy that did this wiring.

2024-09-24 21:35:05

I live 50 miles from any stop lights.
I have a deep hatred and enmity for stoplights. The Pavlovian training to instill obedience to a light through the creation of the risk of death, verse a roundabout, and the selective and thoughtful placement of both, is the urban architectural project that is secretly a eugenics project.
#note1qf2…m5ey

2024-09-24 21:13:31

I should I just send it on more of my detached philosophical ramblings?
This is a rhetorical question.

2024-09-24 20:59:16

The real interest rate is the rate of interest in Bitcoin.
Few.

2024-09-24 04:27:48

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I am retard. Do I just login with my nsec?

2024-09-24 02:44:54

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I would zap you if I could.

2024-09-23 17:27:38

Bitcoiners should stop simping to any political banner or system and realize that they are a new kind of power unto themselves.
It will only be with the full realization of this that peoples will start to organize the new political dynasty and possibilities for a future freed from the lies and corruption of a monetary system that is tied to the current system of party politics.

2024-09-22 20:55:08

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Yes, this is why Leviathan is the cover of the book with bitcoin in the scepter, representing the overturning of the temporal realm to the spiritual once again.

2024-09-21 21:19:30

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What were somethings that you like and disliked about it? What are some of your favorite memories of it?

2024-09-21 21:16:00

How much do you think you really self-censor before you post something?
I often will write out something, and then edit it a few times and ultimately delete it, for no real particular reason. Perhaps it’s from a deeper subconscious fear of being cancelled or having your account destroyed by whatever fiat service you are posting from. That is now something that cannot happen here.

2024-09-21 18:26:50

I sometimes think about the totality of how many people throughout human history have gotten totally fucked by their governments and had to flee their homes and communities with nothing more than what they had on them.
What has been the economic cost of this, what is the cost of always living in a state of fear that it will happen again?
While it can happen, at least with bitcoin you can keep some of your property beyond the violent expropriations of any government. The value of such a thing cannot be understood by dollars or purchasing power, but only through the cost of life and what real economy security means to someone who has seen just the smallest amount of the horrors of the genocides of the 20th century.

2024-09-20 19:19:36

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Indeed, however if you get something from the 60s out in the sticks like me, most likely it was one drunk guy who finished most of the project with, “fuck it, it’s good enough”.
Damned either way.

2024-09-20 19:13:31

I have a real love-hate relationship with owning an older home. There are constant projects and repairs to be done, which are not only costly but a real time sink. On the other hand, I really enjoy feeling capable and learning from each project and acquiring new knowledge. It’s just a real bitch in between the start and finish of the project where I don’t know what I’m doing and I can lose motivation because I feel like I don’t know what I’m doing and can’t do it.
It’s a good metaphor for most things in life. Going through the chasm to completion is almost always the hardest part.

2024-09-19 22:58:05

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This is the only reason I’m not totally fucked financial.
I’m kinda retarded, but I’m at least dumb enough to understand that the best and brightest are building and working on bitcoin, and all I have to do to get ‘equity’ on that project *forever* is hodl bitcoin.

2024-09-18 06:09:20

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How many did you get all of that, particular at an airport for only $10

2024-09-18 05:58:00

I’ve done a lot of incredible stupid and poorly thought out things in my life. Sometimes I run into folks that for whatever reason it was, I have to take some ownership of some pretty embarrassing things that I did.
While it fucking sucks, it’s better to clean up the fuck ups rather than let them languish and become gangrenous.

2024-09-14 02:16:36

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I saw that and it’s looks awesome, but I’m out on the west coast so it’s a bit far out for me.

2024-09-13 21:27:58

While I have a big orchard (about 50 trees) I haven’t had a large garden in the last few years. After this last trip to the grocery store however, I really realized how much I’m getting fucked on subpar produce and products that I can grow and make much better for myself.
I plan on doing a larger garden next year, adding about a dozen chickens (got two nice coops and a good area for a chicken run) and maybe three or four goats if I’m feeling ambitious.
I know it’ll make traveling much more impractical and add about an hour more of chores each day, but I’m sick of making the trip to the store and losing so much on something that I’ve done much better before.
I feel like the goats and the chickens will be the real game changers. I’ll need to up my preserving and fermentation game, which isn’t bad, I just need to do more of it.

2024-09-13 16:07:18

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My first reaction is anger, and then once I think about it for a moment and realize it has nothing to do with me, it just becomes pity and contempt for being so small.

2024-09-13 16:02:09

To all those who make shitty negative comments that don’t add anything:
It must suck to be you and feel so much hatred in your heart.
I truly feel sorry for you and hope the grace of God will find you one day.

2024-09-13 15:33:13

Ugh, this sucks. I’m doing it, but I don’t want to.
#note1wk5…qdz7

2024-09-11 21:17:17

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Yea, at the beginning of the year when I started to do cold plunge and sauna, the motto was:
Don’t be a little bitch.

2024-09-11 20:39:48

There is one cat-eating guy out there who took last night’s comments very personally.

2024-09-11 20:35:35

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Yes, you can be the catfaced dragon of wisdom

2024-09-11 19:40:55

I’ve been working on a musical for a number of years. It’s called:
Drugs: The Musical
There are three main characters and two are experienced with drugs, and one is not and is enquiring about the experiences that each drug is. Each new act is about a specific drug experience and creating a whole musical production that fits the aesthetics of that specific experience. The last two scenes they try all the drugs at once, go totally overboard and then have a final scene where they talk about moderation and sobriety and why those are great things too.
Maybe one day…

2024-09-11 19:26:28

I really don’t like weight lifting—it’s hard, I have to push myself, and take responsibility for how I look and feel, which is hard in and of itself.
However I do recognize that I almost always have a better mood, more motivation, and just a higher capacity to get shit done on the days that I do lift.
I don’t wanna be fat, weak, and unhealthy when I’m 40, so I’d rather just eat the frog now and just accept that it is hard work and there is no way around that.

2024-09-11 00:55:49

Gonna get high and watch these two retards throw shit at each other to see which dumbfuck gets to finish destroying our country.

2024-09-09 21:12:49

What is Enlightenment? A short essay by Kant.
If you have not read this, it is short and will take 15 minutes that can change your life:
https://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/CCREAD/etscc/kant.html

2024-09-09 20:00:15

I just want the damn recipe, not a dissertation on the history of the dish, JFC.

2024-09-09 01:17:23

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Dude was like 16 at the time…
What am I doing with my life?

2024-09-08 15:24:17

GM,
I wake up most Sundays to cook my family biscuits and gravy.
Good way to start the day.

2024-09-08 02:11:43

The future is so cypherpunk that it’s a bit banal, but in a hilarious kafkaesque kinda way.

2024-09-08 00:42:30

Thank you all for helping me keep some sense of reality and that I’m not completely insane.
Went to a normie dinner party tonight and people were looking at me like I was batshit crazy, and I was still just in the shallow end warming up.
Some people never have their values challenged in any meaningful way nor actually look at them with a critical lens and it shows.

2024-09-07 15:35:54

I’ll say it again, and I’ll keep saying it until people get it:
I HAVE NO INTEREST IN GETTING NORMAL PEOPLE TO USE BITCOIN AND NOSTR
I am only interested in getting those who demand self-sovereignty for themselves, and are unequivocally dedicated towards building a future where everyone owns their own data, and no one can cancel them or steal it away from them.

2024-09-07 14:44:41

Gm,
Gonna be a nice weekend.

2024-09-07 01:10:49

I’m out here trying to zap some of y’all and some of you don’t have wallets yet.
Y’all are missing out on one of the most fun parts of Nostr.

2024-09-06 21:30:22

Marx’s great mistake was thinking that capitalism (as in free market exchange) was responsible for the inherent contradictions in the system of exchange and not seeing how dirigisme (your vocabulary word of the day) was the real culprit.
The creative destruction of capitalism, as Weber pointed out, is evolutionary. With any degree of state intervention, this evolution of capitalism devolves into a form of economic eugenics designed to create an economic depend on the state for all things.

2024-09-05 14:37:40

Look, it’s pretty simple:
If the state can identify you, it can target and kill you.
Doesn’t matter why, it just can.
There is a reason Satoshi was anonymous and why bitcoin isn’t an LLC.
That’s because if you don’t have a physical space or identity to be located, the state can’t physically or economically harm you. With cryptography, you actually have a shot at hiding from the state, and building things that they cannot stop.

2024-09-05 14:33:07

Elon is a handmaiden of the deep state, and if you think he’s a freedom fighter for good; I’ve got some BCH to sell you that’s actually real bitcoin.

2024-09-03 04:03:26

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It’s the power of the panopticon and what it means to live under constant surveillance.

2024-09-03 03:59:08

The more I think about Nostr the more it blows my mind.
I can just say whatever crazy shit I want and there’s like no guardrails or mods—it’s just out there, and people will actually see it.
No one appreciates just how powerful this is, how important it is, monumental even.
It creates a totally new possibility for the social web, which is really something else entirely. It’s the possibility of a new world in which people own their data; their information. No longer to be exploited, or owned, people can really say whatever they want.
And that is truly extraordinary.

2024-09-02 17:33:40

Sadly, some of my older family members are extremely NPC. After a lifetime of MSM brainwashing and the total destruction of thought from it, all they can really do when faced with difficult realities is exclamation, “That’s a conspiracy theory!” And shove their head in the sand, never to look at it again.
I use to think I was obligated to have them ‘get it’ but I now realize they’ll never get it, and that’s ok. I’ve met great people throughout my life who do get it and wanna rap deep with me about these topics. They really value getting to share in those conversations, and want to join the party to be a playable character in the world.
Not everyone is capable of being a playable character, and that doesn’t make them bad or wrong; it just limits what is possible with them. I now focus on just keeping things with them as ‘normal’ as I can and considering that allows for things be stable and easy for everyone else in the family and that works well.

2024-09-02 14:58:35

I’ve been really feeling the extreme emotions of, “WE NEED TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO DECENTRALIZED THE WEB, DEPLOY STRONG CRYPTOGRAPHY AND WIN AGAINST THE STATIST!!1!” and the other extreme of,
“Fuck it, I just wanna hang with my family, work on projects on my property and be left the fuck alone.”
I know a balance of the two is the real answer, but sometime in just really feels like one extreme or the other.

2024-09-01 21:31:30

I love September as it’s the month that I’m so rich in apples and pears that I get to seek out the ripest, juiciest, tastiest fruit that there are.

2024-09-01 16:29:19

Fuck these companies tracking my data and trying to sell me shit based off of that.
I have such a deep desire to find a way to completely fuck up their data sets and make them useless by feeding them tons of dummy data.

2024-09-01 04:37:01

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This happened to me today, it was painful.

2024-08-31 18:35:40

I’m always amazed at how cheap buying off someone crooked is. They’ll scam you for a few days of their wage, and fail to realize how much of a favor they did for you:
They proved they are a scammer and have saved you so much time and energy to have figured that out now, rather than later. Now they’ll never find work near any of my social circles and will be known as a scammer.
Your reputation is the most priceless asset that takes decades to build. Don’t piss it away for a quick buck or two.

2024-08-30 20:54:15

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Lmao, as much as I love @npub198a…0p3g this is actully @npub1rtl…jtfs and John is on here @npub1cqm…hjec

2024-08-30 14:34:47

GM.
Gonna be a great day.

2024-08-29 15:12:48

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Change clients and see what the difference gives you.

2024-08-29 03:44:18

There is a real lack of understanding in just how fucked up the algos are, and how much power we gain in not being manipulated by them. We could be using the internet to do something extraordinary, and instead it is being used primarily to sell us shit and keep us scared. The whole of humanity is being fed lies and distortions through centralized social media that is designed to keep everyone asleep and unaware of their real power.
Now that there is no longer gatekeepers to what can be said to a global audience we have the power to shape a real unadulterated narrative; also known as the truth. The power of censorship to have molded a false global narrative is one of the pillars of the power structure that keep people divided over petty and impractical differences that can now be shown for what they are: manipulation tactics through the algos to keep everyone disempowered. We now have the ability to reclaim our voices in a way that no one can stomp out. What is to come and the changes that are to be ushered in will surprise all of us in the most remarkable of ways.