Ava ॐ

Privacy Advocate • Artist of Life • Spiritually Incorrect Mystic • Biohacker • Founder at @npub1p0dunwf2cnvu5q3zrqejwenw6q4z8rd454939cm2wcrmmvtq2pgqzk5dsc

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2025-04-01 22:38:44

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Thank you. Reposting with the correct retention data.
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/d9c3b51c22afe51039b8b9a63b64077354d4885e4d2a1103d1fe5fe13acb06c2.png

2025-04-01 21:58:08

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Thank you for confirming and for all you do to help grow Nostr. These numbers align with my understanding and the testing I've conducted over the years. Accurate data is important not only for measuring growth but also for assessing the overall health of the ecosystem.

2025-04-01 02:25:05

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There are quite a few anti-vaxxers on Nostr. The undeniable reality is that Ian quickly got 1.2 million followers on X, gets tens of thousands of likes per post (reach), participates in a global discussion on X—like Snowden—and only got a couple hundred likes or less here. Nostr and censorship-resistant free speech is a beautiful thing, but it's still small and niche, with the best data we have showing only around 16-17k daily trusted users posting notes.

2025-03-31 06:28:58

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I hope so. That would be wonderful. Either way, the experienced reality is a solid metric.

2025-03-31 04:17:49

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Ian Carroll hasn't posted on Nostr since February 14, and his last comment was on the 15th—so well over a month ago. However, he has been regularly posting to X, etc., with his most recent post just 7 hours ago.
Go ahead, have a look at his recent Nostr post engagement. It is nowhere near where it was or where it should be, given that he was recently on Joe Rogan. I rest my case.

2025-03-31 03:49:08

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So, the data is broken, and Nostr is just as active as ever—is that it?
The lack of engagement and interaction beyond the usual 16k regular posters is hard to ignore. Are you denying that reality too?
We can’t get to where we want to go if we deny where we are.

2025-03-31 03:09:34

Since January, fewer than 18,000 daily active users with trusted pubkeys have been writing events on average.
As of March 8th, #Nostr retention has flatlined at 0.
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/d042e5ab2a2a7e1b67997b201c20bc4fcacd3a08fabc5c198892bdc7496ddf6e.png
#nevent1q…qgys
#IKITAO #Nostr > #Bitcoin #GrowNostr

2025-03-30 01:31:55

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Unfortunately, I don’t have much time to dive deeply into this right now, but off the top of my head, this looks like a sophisticated attack leveraging mshta(.)exe to execute malicious code outside the browser sandbox.
The fake CAPTCHA trick is clever, as it uses social engineering to get users to run a command that fetches a second-stage payload.
The obfuscated JavaScript on the site is constructing and executing the payload dynamically using eval(). The use of Ethereum smart contracts for storing or distributing C2 server addresses is particularly notable—there is a growing trend in malware campaigns to leverage blockchain technology for resilience, as blockchain-based infrastructure is much harder to disrupt.
To figure out what the stage 2 payload does, you’d need to:
1. Capture the payload: Use a network proxy or sandbox to intercept the HTTP request made by mshta(.)exe and retrieve the payload.
2. Deobfuscate the JavaScript: Tools like jsbeautifier can help reveal how the payload is constructed.
3. Analyze the payload: Static and dynamic analysis in a controlled environment should provide insight into its behavior.
Blocking mshta(.)exe via group policies is a good mitigation step if it’s not required in your environment. Again, I’m swamped at the moment, but I hope this helps as a starting point. Let me know what you find out.

2025-03-28 22:30:22

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Wayland

2025-03-28 21:56:59

Fedora KDE Plasma 42 Beta just dropped a very nice update. Things are looking and feeling more polished. It just keeps getting better and better.
Yes, there are inconveniences, like Proton VPN not yet being in the official 42 release repos, but that is easily configured manually.
Yes, there be dragons (so far, only little ones), and no, it's generally not recommended to run a beta OS on your daily driver. However, I trust myself, my backups, and I enjoy helping test open-source betas, so I choose to do this as a way to contribute.
It is also worth noting that I have never had a Fedora beta release lock up my system—knock on wood.
Every day is like Christmas; you never know what enhancements the next update will bring.
I am loving this Fedora KDE Plasma 42 Edition release.
#IKITAO #Linux #Tech

2025-03-28 04:33:46

@nprofile…xz56 girl 💜
Goodnight, #Nostr 🙏🏻
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/20d74d76f509d17fd98eabd152d97c7adf3882c5f359629192be2cd615acb94a.jpg
#IKITAO #Moxie #Catstr

2025-03-27 21:25:33

"Signal's Harada declined to respond to Trump's “defective” comment and pointed to Signal's previous statements that it has yet to see any evidence of any vulnerability in the app, much less one that has anything to do with Jeffrey Goldberg being accidentally added to a White House group chat.
But Harada noted that the overall attention to Signal—even the president himself saying that “everyone uses Signal” in the Oval Office—is an example of the kind of visibility it has never had before. “All awareness for Signal is a net positive. The interest in Signal continues to be at an all-time high,” Harada says."
#nevent1q…v9mh
#IKITAO #Privacy #Tech

2025-03-27 20:35:50

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
— Carl Sagan
#IKITAO

2025-03-27 04:16:17

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🫂🙏🏻💜

2025-03-27 01:34:58

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2025-03-27 00:47:18

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Good night.

2025-03-24 12:26:51

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Good morning, Derek.

2025-03-24 01:33:58

Steve Vai - Teeth of the Hydra 🔊💜
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/31ea2ca4ce145d814a06c241ae1dd40173ae63b12f8cfc0202099d72c94ef50e.mp4
YT
https://youtu.be/46qjDJ0lLdE
#SteveVai #Music

2025-03-14 02:59:30

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Goodnight, Supermax.

2025-03-12 18:00:01

He who is fearless in being bold will meet with his death;
He who is fearless in being timid will stay alive.
Of the two, one leads to good, the other to harm.
Heaven hates what it hates,
Who knows the reason why?
Therefore even the sage treats some things as difficult.
The way of heaven
Excels in overcoming though it does not contend,
In responding though it does not speak,
In attracting though it does not summon,
In laying plans though it appears slack.
The net of heaven is cast wide.
Though the mesh is not fine, yet nothing ever slips through.
— #Tao Te Ching: Ch 73 (D.C. Lau translation)
#IKITAO #TaoistWisdom

2025-03-10 07:11:04

Goodnight, #Nostr
#nevent1q…93jf
#IKITAO

2025-03-10 02:26:13

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Amethyst on mobile. Gossip on desktop.

2025-03-10 02:24:54

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Looking forward to it. Add far as I know, it will hit Hulu tomorrow.

2025-03-09 22:12:02

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💯, but to me, she is priceless.
#nevent1q…4kzw

2025-03-09 21:22:38

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https://stats.nostr.band/

2025-03-09 02:47:20

Follower counts don't mean much on Nostr, because #Nostr still has a significant adoption and retention problem. Nostr needs better onboarding and user-adoption campaigns, period—the numbers don't lie, and they haven't changed much in over a year (+ ~10k weekly users).
Nostr Real Time Statistics over the past two months:
https://stats.nostr.band/
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/fddd02509287025c26b11f8e71b56c831d0ea6373e9cac9036bbc6c9a39240bc.png
#IKITAO #GrowNostr

2025-03-09 01:05:17

If #Nostr goes #deadstr everytime #Bitcoin goes #upstr or #downstr...it's really not a good #lookstr.
#GrowNostr
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/1bb596d87bde128f8ed6e42a732bbd51772499a00b25dbb7e6043be41c8f6a9a.jpg

2025-03-08 03:47:17

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@nprofile…xz56. I cashed in 3k of BTC bought at 16k to bring her home, and it was the best investment—she is worth that, many times over.

2025-03-08 01:42:56

Putting together some shelves at the moment, and I am once again reminded of how essential a good #Leatherman is to anyone's toolkit.
#nevent1q…thup
#IKITAO

2025-03-04 03:55:54

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Good night, Carla.

2025-03-04 02:46:47

Everybody is talking about what we fry our potatoes in, without acknowledging the obvious fact that fried and processed foods are unhealthy, no matter what oils you use.
— Ava ॐ
#IKITAO #AvaQuotes #HealthAndWellness

2025-03-03 07:18:30

@nprofile…xz56 is my guru.
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/b35cbaa95b18e51836ea890e5aacb895419176e0d6637115307e2f39fbd99f5c.jpg
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#IKITAO

2025-03-01 16:04:39

The way is the refuge for the myriad creatures.
It is that by which the good man protects,
And that by which the bad is protected.
Beautiful words when offered will win high rank in return;
Beautiful deeds can raise a man above others.
Even if a man is not good, why should he be abandoned?
Hence when the emperor is set up and the three ducal ministers are appointed, he who makes a present of the way without stirring from his seat is preferable to one who offers presents of jade disks followed by a team of four horses.
Why was this way valued of old?
Was it not said that by means of it one got what one wanted and escaped the consequences when one transgressed?
Therefore it is valued by the empire.
— #Tao Te Ching: Ch 62 (D.C. Lau translation)
#IKITAO #TaoistWisdom

2025-02-27 21:43:39

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My heart goes out to you and your family. 🫂🙏🏻

2025-02-27 06:53:30

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Yes. Just 1/16 tsp per gallon.

2025-02-27 05:51:07

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Good morning.

2025-02-27 04:43:27

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We currently have around 60 laying hens—plenty of multi-colored organic eggs. And, yes. 🙏🏻

2025-02-27 03:32:03

New baby chicks are growing at Casa de Ava 🐣
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/b69bae2438052cc52397972e9e933a7eec42bc95d9df18f577b24ca6ec52884b.mp4
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/68101b4f1fd1a290953c96d3ff8633cc68ebe83b2f6ca8389473ab1372df72f7.jpg
#IKITAO

2025-02-27 03:22:49

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It displays a different pfp.

2025-02-27 03:14:11

In the Hindu epic, the Mahabharata, the Yaksha (a forest spirit) asks Prince Yudhishthira this riddle:
"Who is happy?"
Yudhishthira answers:
"That person who is free of debt, not in constant travel, and who eats a frugal, satisfying hot meal in his own home every evening."
#IKITAO

2025-02-27 02:04:32

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Welcome to Nostr.

2025-02-24 16:39:48

When the government is muddled
The people are simple;
When the government is alert
The people are cunning.
It is on disaster that good fortune perches;
It is beneath good fortune that disaster crouches.
Who knows the limit? Does not the straightforward exist?
The straighforward changes again into the crafty, and the good changes again into the monstrous.
Indeed, it is long since the people were perplexed.
Therefore the sage is square-edged but does not scrape,
Has corners but does not jab,
Extends himself but not at the expense of others,
Shines but does not dazzle.
— #Tao Te Ching: Ch 58 (D.C. Lau translation)
#IKITAO #TaoistWisdom

2025-02-22 21:11:16

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As a student, I was frequently sent to the principal's office—almost daily—for exercising my constitutional right. I would remain seated, put my left hand over my heart or face out the window instead of at the flag in silent protest, until they finally just gave up and allowed me to remain seated. I am patriotic in my own way; I will not be forced me into blindly pledging allegiance to anything I do not fully support.

2025-02-22 20:39:31

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Indeed, but there is a loophole: Sex toys are available to sell as "novelty toys," just not as "sex toys." It's like selling a "bong" is also illegal, but if you call it a "water pipe—for tobacco use" and you also sell other legal smoking products, then it is legal.
RE: West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 1943
"...states can still require it while offering exemptions. And states have varying levels of exemptions — for example, Florida and Texas allow for a student to be exempted from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance only if a parent or guardian consents."
https://www.kxan.com/news/national-news/47-us-states-have-laws-requiring-students-recite-pledge-of-allegiance/

2025-02-22 20:16:14

One is a relative, the other stranger,
say the small minded.
The entire world is a family.
अयं निजः परो वेति गणना लघुचेतसाम्।
उदारचरितानां तु वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम्॥
ayaṃ nijaḥ paro veti gaṇanā laghucetasām
udāracaritānāṃ tu vasudhaiva kuṭumbakam
— Maha Upanishad VI.71–73
#IKITAO

2025-02-22 19:51:11

Here I stand and if I shut my eyes, and try to conceive my existence, "I," "I," "I," what is the idea before me? The idea of a body? Am I, then, nothing but a combination of material substances? The Vedas declare, "No." I am a spirit living in a body. I am not the body. The body will die, but I shall not die. Here am I in this body; it will fall, but I shall go on living.
— Swami Vivekananda (At the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago on September 11, 1893)
#IKITAO

2025-02-21 23:38:03

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You can use Proton with your own domain, but the core Proton services are not designed for self-hosting.
While Proton is open source on the client side, their service infrastructure is proprietary and cannot be self-hosted on a NAS or any other personal hardware.
AFAIK, the only self-hosting related options with Proton are using a custom domain with Proton services and utilizing their SMTP bridge for integration with other applications.

2025-02-21 20:03:28

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I agree. Though, it is still a bit limited in the amount of cloud storage space they offer—my phone alone is 1TB—so for many, it is still not optimal to use for ongoing device and phone backups. Hopefully, Proton will see this recent Apple debacle as an opportunity to increase the storage space included in their premium accounts and release a photos app—making it an easier jump for most people.

2025-02-21 19:31:22

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Thank you. I saw your post before, encouraging me to post more about privacy and security again. I still post about it, but I keep things in their proper perspective—here is why I don't post about it as often as I once did:
#nevent1q…9c5f
#nevent1q…m3e6

2025-02-21 18:02:01

One who possesses virtue in abundance is comparable to a new born babe:
Poisonous insects will not sting it;
Ferocious animals will not pounce on it;
Predatory birds will not swoop down on it.
Its bones are weak and its sinews supple yet its hold is firm.
It does not know the union of male and female yet its male member will stir:
This is because its virility is at its height.
It howls all day yet does not become hoarse:
This is because its harmony is at its height.
To know harmony is called the constant;
To know the constant is called discernment.
To try to add to one's vitality is called ill-omened;
For the mind to egg on the breath is called violent.
A creature in its prime doing harm to the old
Is known as going against the way.
That which goes against the way will come to an early end.
— #Tao Te Ching: Ch 55 (D.C. Lau translation)
#IKITAO #TaoistWisdom

2025-02-20 09:25:38

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Good morning.

2025-02-20 08:44:06

It is time again. B.R. Chopra's Mahabharat (1988-1990) remains an unmatched masterpiece in spiritual television. Watching it on Plex—together with Mahabharat Katha (1997-1998)—is a wonderful experience.
#nevent1q…nppc

2025-02-19 23:33:15

Is society healthy, that an individual should return to it? Has not society itself helped to make the individual unhealthy? Of course, the unhealthy must be made healthy, that goes without saying; but why should the individual adjust himself to an unhealthy society? If he is healthy, he will not be a part of it. Without first questioning the health of society, what is the good of helping misfits to conform to society?
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
#IKITAO

2025-02-19 05:36:32

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I agree with you. If you are going to eat red meat, then high-quality meat is much better for you than processed. The reality is the vast majority of people eat the processed stuff.
However, that does not change the fact that the scientific evidence demonstrates a clear causal relationship between red meat consumption, cardiovascular disease, and arterial function.
If you're interested in exploring this topic further, I highly recommend you dig into this research and check out the documentary in the subsequent podcast with Joe Rogan linked in the post below. What makes this particular podcast significant is that when presented with the scientific evidence about meat consumption and health, even Rogan, who advocates for meat-eating, acknowledged the strength of the data. I think you may find the podcast quite informative. I've included all the relevant links in the post below for reference.
#nevent1q…dvqq

2025-02-19 03:31:40

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Outstanding. Did you finish the intro course I linked to in the original note?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oBtKHwFBn0k&list=PLNnZ7rjaL84JjFpgDxRlAOKRa9ie25gtp

2025-02-19 02:47:11

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I appreciate your concern about animal welfare. However, there are a few important points to consider:
1. Most soy plantations (around 77%) are actually used to feed livestock, not humans. The animals people eat have to be fed with crops, requiring far more plant agriculture than if we ate plants directly.
2. Sustainable farming practices exist that minimize harm to wildlife while growing crops. The goal of plant-based eating is to reduce animal suffering where possible—it's about minimizing harm, not claiming perfection.
3. There's a clear ethical distinction between:
- Unintentional wildlife impacts from any type of agriculture
- Deliberately breeding and slaughtering billions of sentient beings annually
4. If you're concerned about crop-related wildlife deaths, you should actually support plant-based diets since they require significantly less cropland overall compared to animal agriculture.
The key is to focus on reducing harm where we can. While no diet is completely free from impact, choosing plant-based options typically results in less land use, fewer resources consumed, and less intentional animal suffering.
Regarding plant sentience—while plants have remarkable communication abilities through chemical signals, electrical impulses, and underground fungal networks, they fundamentally lack the biological structures necessary for experiencing suffering: no pain receptors, no nervous system, and no brain to process pain or emotions.
Consider this: 77% of global farmland is used for livestock and their feed crops. If everyone switched to plant-based diets, we'd dramatically reduce total plant and animal deaths, as livestock consumes enough crops to feed billions of people.
The math is unambiguous—plant-based diets require up to 80% less agricultural land, produce five times fewer animal deaths, and cut environmental impact in half. This isn't about claiming perfection; it's about acknowledging the clear scientific evidence that shows which choices cause the least harm to both plants and animals.

2025-02-19 00:14:02

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It's on the list. From what I understand—in addition to needing to overcome the hurdle of gaining traction over more established languages—the catch is, lack of marketing, smaller ecosystem and community, and limited backing etc. Heres what the community survey says:
"Approximately three quarters of the respondents use Nim (40% frequently, 36% occasionally), while the remaining quarter is divided between people who never used Nim (7%) and people who stopped using Nim (17%).
Of those people who don’t use Nim, the most frequent reasons are: 'Nim seems immature, not ready for production,' 'Nim doesn’t have libraries I need,' 'Nim doesn’t have enough learning materials,' and 'Nim seems too risky for production,' in that order."
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2025/01/23/community-survey-results-2024.html

2025-02-18 16:30:34

This is going to be huge for cats, obligate carnivores—who depend entirely on meat for survival. Lab-grown means fewer animals raised for slaughter and less farmland needed to feed them.
Bone appétit! Dog treats from lab-grown meat are hitting the U.K. market
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/06/nx-s1-5288784/uk-dog-treats-lab-grown-meat-carbon-emissions
#IKITAO #GoVegan

2025-02-18 15:59:27

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No. I agree. That's not my article. Slathering rendered animal fat on my body is not my thing.

2025-02-18 14:52:26

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#nevent1q…v0n0

2025-02-18 05:53:30

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Good morning.

2025-02-18 05:28:34

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Roman gladiators received better medical care than the average Roman citizen, including bone setting, wound treatment, basic surgery, and regular health monitoring.
They received structured training that was above average for their time period. This specialized care was provided because gladiators were valuable investments—they were expensive to train and maintain, and their "owners" wanted to protect their assets.
Their plant-based diet, heavy in grains and legumes, was specifically designed for elite athletic performance—similar to how modern athletes follow carefully planned nutrition programs. They were nicknamed "hordearii" (barley men) because of this diet.
This wasn't a "slave diet"—it was premium sports nutrition by Roman standards, followed by both enslaved and free gladiators alike, and even adopted by wealthy Romans who trained as gladiators.

2025-02-18 02:57:11

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Here is a short list of top-performing vegan athletes, from multiple-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic to 2011 Germany's Strongest Man Patrik Baboumian, Venus Williams, Men's Fitness "25 Fittest Guys in the World" Rich Roll, and many more.
https://www.veganfoodandliving.com/features/vegan-athletes-plant-based-diet/
As you may very well guess, to go into their own unique routines would involve doing your own research—as it would be far too involved for me to post here—but here's a good resource to get you started.
https://greenletes.com/vegan-athlete-diet/
"The Game Changers" also is an excellent documentary featuring some of these elite athletes, special-ops soldiers, and more—produced by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan, Lewis Hamilton, Novak Djokovic, and Chris Paul. 👀🔊
https://ia801700.us.archive.org/23/items/the-game-changers/The-Game-Changers.mp4
Archive link:
https://archive.org/details/the-game-changers
You can also find it streaming on Netflix.
All the best to you. 🙏🏻

2025-02-17 21:25:17

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Many Bitcoiners eat loads of fatty red meat because they think it makes them stronger, healthier, and even more masculine. The reality is, it leads to clogged arteries and erectile dysfunction, among many other well-documented health issues—there's nothing masculine about that.
Ultimately, the only knowledge is self-knowledge. I can't make anyone do anything—any more than all this carnivore fad diet talk can make me do anything. All I can do is share my perspective, backed by decades of modern research, thousands of years of lived results, and today's world-class vegan athletes and peak performers.
Freedom of speech and reclaiming our attention/time/life from big tech is a thread that connects people who use Nostr, so it was time to start speaking more about it.
And yes, good on you—don't let perfect be the enemy of good. For example, I enjoy buttermilk, but I don't buy it because of the way cows are treated in factory farms.
'Grass-fed' is just a label, like 'organic'—with loose regulations that are easy to game. There's a stark difference between a Hindu cow, or Bessie being milked on the farm and well-cared for, and a mother who has had her babies stolen from her, lives in inhumane conditions, is shown no love, is an object to be used, and is pumped with antibiotics and other medicines just to keep her alive until she can't produce anymore.
And then they're thrown away like garbage—sent to slaughter at just 4-5 years old when they should live to 20, their bodies so broken and worn they're only good for cheap hamburger meat and pet food. That's the reality behind every glass of milk from factory farms.

2025-02-17 02:35:36

Food Choices | How Your Diet Affects Your Health | Health & Wellness 👀🔊
https://ia801703.us.archive.org/10/items/food-choices/Food-Choices.mp4
Archive link:
https://archive.org/details/food-choices
This ground-breaking documentary explores the impact that food choices have on people's health, the health of our planet and on the lives of other living species. And also discusses several misconceptions about food and diet.
#IKITAO #GoVegan

2025-02-17 00:41:17

> Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.
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> — Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
#IKITAO

2025-02-16 07:08:33

"Like most people, I would like to minimize the unnecessary suffering in the world. I want to eliminate needless violence and pain, and I give my support, wherever I can, to a positive approach to this goal.
But like most people I never gave much of a thought to the impact my way of eating had on the world. Sure, I knew animals were killed for meat, but isn’t that the way of nature? Isn’t that the way of life’s food chains? But I’ve learned that the animals used for food in the United States today are not just killed; something else happens to them. And finding out about it has changed me forever.
The more I’ve learned, the more I’ve felt that if people knew what really goes on they would make major changes in their food choices. Major changes that would go a very long way, not only toward improving their own health, but toward reducing the suffering in the world as well.
Let’s start with chickens. In order to understand what happens to these animals, it helps to have a feeling for what kinds of beings they are. Unfortunately, most of us have rather stereotyped visions of them.
The word “chicken” is often used as a synonym for “coward.” But that is a human moniker. Chickens, while high-strung and quick to startle, are anything but gutless, timid creatures. Roosters are renowned for their pride and ferocity and the adamant assertion of their power. Many cultures have exploited this fact in the so-called sport of cock fighting. And throughout the world a wide variety of cultures have acknowledged the potent spirit of the cock by using his name as a synonym for the male penis. In languages all over the world the word for the male chicken is also used to signify human male sexual potency.
Female hens are likewise not the craven creatures we’ve been conditioned to think they are. They can be absolutely fierce in defending their little ones, even against terrible odds and much larger predatory birds. A scientist who studied chickens for years, E. L. Watson, watched a mother hen defend her little chicks against the awesome attack of the dreaded raven.
'I have known one little old hen who reared chicks on the far western coast of Scotland near clifs where ravens built their nests. On ordinary occasions, ravens are the terror of domesticated fowls, that fly to shelter at the first sight of the black wings. They dare not face beaks so much stronger than their own. (But) this little mother of a brood of ten would stand her ground with her hackles up, eyes glaring defiance. Such was her courage that she lost but one of her brood when two ravens came against her.'
Chickens are not the fearful creatures we have been conditioned to think. And the generally agreed-upon idea that they are stupid is equally ungrounded in fact.
Now, I’m not saying that chickens are the most brilliant of animals. But I do know that our understanding of what constitutes intelligence is utterly relative. If an aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, for example, all of Western civilization would probably flunk. We have a very convenient and self-serving way of defining intelligence. If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
Personally, I wouldn’t be too quick to try to define the intelligence of chickens. I’d be afraid of judging them by standards that are irrelevant to them. For the more I’ve learned about the kinds of creatures they are and what they have been known to do, the more I’ve been impressed by their unique kind of intelligence.
One naturalist gave a chicken hen 21 guinea fowl eggs he had found, just to see what would happen. These small, hard-shelled eggs are a far cry from a chicken’s eggs. But the hen took the task to heart and somehow managed to tend to all 21 of the eggs without a sign of protest. As a product of our conditioned conventional notions about chickens, I originally thought she did this simply because she was too stupid to notice they weren’t her own eggs. When the chicks hatched, she didn’t seem at all perturbed by the fact that they weren’t chickens. Their small partridge-like appearance and unfamiliar ways evidently presented no problem to her. Again, I thought she was simply too stupid to notice they were not chickens. But I was wrong. She was far more tuned in to reality than I knew. After a few days of brooding the little guinea fowl, she took them away out into the cover of some bushes. Instead of asking them to feed on the ordinary mash that was given the chickens, she scratched in some ants’ nests for the white pupae. Chickens don’t eat such food, but guinea fowl do! The little ones took to it with instinctive relish.
How could she have known? What form of intelligence was she displaying? Was she perhaps sufficiently tuned in to have received some sort of message from their collective psyche? That’s more than man can do!
On another occasion, a naturalist gave a chicken hen some duck eggs. She tended them and hatched them as if they were her own, yet wasn’t fazed at all when ducklings emerged from her labors instead of chicks. Utterly undaunted by the situation, she proceeded to do something neither she nor any other chicken in the area had ever done before. She walked up on a plank bridging a stream. Then, clucking, she invited the little ducklings into the water.
It is a mystery to me how these mother hens knew what to do for the babies they hatched who were of another species. But somehow they did. It appears that when we speak of being taken under someone’s wing we are correctly referring to a remarkably caring and sensitive kind of nurturing.
Living as divorced from nature as most of us unfortunately do, we may not have much personal experience with chickens anymore and so may not know what wonderful mothers they are. But throughout recorded history the hen has been a supreme symbol of the best kind of mothering. In fact, the Romans thought so much of the maternal qualities of the hen that they frequently used the phrase “son-of-a-hen” to mean a fortunate and well-cared-for man."
— John Robbins, Diet for New America
#IKITAO #GoVegan

2025-02-16 01:51:17

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Strange Days.

2025-02-16 00:31:06

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Good night, friend.

2025-02-15 23:32:28

Bugout Bag for Van Life What’s Inside and Why? 👀🔊
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/15c04c78561770e78be2a90170fb3f543dd6a1c22dcc5b6bdaede89363ba8eff.mp4
Part 2:
Bug Out Bag Essentials for Van Life 👀🔊
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/1231e2bf4d5086d2b5f3a748544112410211f03b1e075db858ded7cb869cc844.mp4
YT
https://youtu.be/OtA9wQ8OCtg
https://youtu.be/6qVvpxUUgv0
#IKITAO #NomadLiving #DigitalNomad #VanLife

2025-02-15 03:10:24

> Titles do not equate ability.
>
> — Ava ॐ
#IKITAO #AvaQuotes

2025-02-15 02:24:29

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Beautiful. It suits you.

2025-02-15 00:45:05

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💯

2025-02-13 23:53:57

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Thank you. I'm sure I will. I am grateful for the offer. I'm getting her ready to go full-time. She broke down when I was driving her home. I think it's probably a cracked head or a blown head gasket—I'll know for certain very soon. By the time I'm finished, there will be a shower, workstation, compost toilet, bed, diesel heater, kitchen, solar, etc., but there is much to do before then. Trying to do this as right as I can within the time frame and budget.
#nevent1q…7v9y
#nevent1q…2ers
#nevent1q…m80x

2025-02-13 23:28:56

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Good night, Gigi.

2025-02-13 22:23:52

Fleetwood Mac - Landslide 🔊💜
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/5b915a46227ae645ce2f6092e4f9c0ff1d14c89c879e925b5349848d8ec225ee.mp4
YT
https://youtu.be/mXonGAEPQp8
#FleetwoodMac #Music

2025-02-13 22:14:34

> At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
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> — Thich Nhat Hanh
#IKITAO

2025-02-13 02:38:57

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Well said. Though, the bus was recently moved and is now a museum exhibit.
"Too many visitors, inspired by her brother’s story, had gotten into trouble while attempting to visit the site; too many formal and informal rescues had been necessary. In the previous decade, in separate incidents, two young women died on their treks. Both drowned while attempting to cross the cold, fast-moving Teklanika—the same river that had barred Chris, who was 24 when he died, from retreating to the highway as his food supply ran out."
https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/chris-mccandless-into-the-wild-bus-142-alaska/

2025-02-13 02:05:15

"April 27, 1992.
Greetings from Fairbanks! This is the last you shall
hear from me, Wayne. Arrived here 2 days ago. It
was very difficult to catch rides in the Yukon
Territory. But I finally got here.
Please return all mail I receive to the sender. It
might be a very long time before I return South. If
this adventure proves fatal and you don't ever hear
from me again I want you to know you're a great
man. I now walk into the wild. Alex."
— Christopher McCandless (Alexander Supertramp)
(Postcard received by Wayne Westerberg in
Carthage, South Dakota.)
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/d7c6b3dd9cd8f52871c5cbf9fc7b34e4f13ff7cc9fa26887a4d87ea43ca04ed3.jpg
#IKITAO

2025-02-12 23:35:04

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If your email has been widely shared, it's likely already available on the dark web. The real security risk isn't just email exposure and spam—it's the common practice of reusing the same email-password combination across multiple services.
When a single service is breached (like a retailer or streaming platform), threat actors combine your exposed credentials with other leaked data, creating comprehensive profiles. One breach now compromises all accounts sharing those credentials.
Best practice is maintaining dedicated front-facing emails for official business (some sites don't allow alias emails), while using unique email aliases and high-entropy passwords for every other service. Services like SimpleLogin (included with Proton) allow you to easily generate a unique email alias for each individual account.
This compartmentalizes risk—if one service is compromised, others remain secure, and if an alias service fails, your primary email remains functional for critical communications. All of this can be stored in an open-source, independently security audited password manager that is either local on an air-gapped device (one that never connects to the Internet) like KeePass, or that uses cloud sync for greater convenience like Proton Pass/Bitwarden.

2025-02-12 23:03:00

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Classic.

2025-02-12 22:19:26

People act precious about sharing email addresses, as if we don't already have battle-tested solutions like disposable emails/anonymous email aliases.
Practice good OPSEC. Using easily generated, disposable emails and long, unique passwords—through tools like SimpleLogin and a password manager like ProtonPass or BitWarden—is far more secure than carelessly plugging your one and only NSEC into random alpha/beta/stable apps that haven't passed a single independent security audit.
Using event signers like Amber or extensions like nos2x is better, as it reduces your dependency on 3rd party app security, but all the key/event signers we have have never been subjected to or passed an independent security audit.
Just because something's built on or compatible with Nostr doesn't make it secure, and just because someone is an outstanding developer does not make them a security professional. 99% of app developers are unqualified to audit their own apps—that's why proper security audits cost ~$15K+ and require a team of dedicated specialists.
The reality is: if you your nsec gets doxxed, everything attached to it is doxxed—period. There's no fallback, no way to keep your account and just change compromised login info. This is even more critical for businesses on Nostr and those outsourcing social media management—incompetent/disgruntled ex-employees are a very real threat.
Myself and many others have said time and time again: we need a parent/child key system—with the ability to generate, pause, and deactivate child keys—to match the basic privacy and security that we already have with disposable emails and lengthy unique passwords. The clock is ticking.
#IKITAO #OPSEC #Privacy #Tech

2025-02-12 03:23:22

Time for evening meditation, and cool down time with ambient music and a book before sleep. Tomorrow comes early. Good night, #Nostr. 🙏🏻💜
#IKITAO

2025-02-12 01:23:37

Lionel Richie - Say You, Say Me 🔊💜
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/fdbe7e53bf8f041968043edbcd4b77510433cbcbe32b85af2fe3f2e760606e8e.mp4
"I had a dream, I had an awesome dream
People in the park playing games in the dark
And what they played was a masquerade
And from behind of walls of doubt a voice was crying out
Say you, say me
Say it for always, that's the way it should be
Say you, say me
Say it together, naturally"
YT
https://youtu.be/9OfoTaLXrUo
#LionelRichie #Music

2025-02-12 01:14:44

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Give it time. 🫂

2025-02-12 01:12:06

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Much love. Thank you, Mina. 🙏🏻💜

2025-02-12 01:11:17

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That's not how the scam works, but I hear you. 😆🙏

2025-02-12 01:08:42

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It's a thing.

2025-02-12 01:04:20

Just hit 17k followers. And so it begins...
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/4faed3791635a30075e64d4969a4935928354f08ccf0d0af32875c3ec334ac90.png

2025-02-12 00:55:57

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Beautiful.

2025-02-12 00:55:07

Police Squad Greatest Moments 👀🔊💜
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/39a58c8a2a8df8cca120fe39f0a46fda4d8673c93fdd0975cb084d48126f0e8c.mp4
YT
https://youtu.be/23enI8zO4xU
#PoliceSquad #ClassicClips #Flickstr

2025-02-12 00:41:58

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She is the Queen.

2025-02-12 00:32:47

The Naked Gun – Peter Noone (Herman's Hermits - I'm Into Something Good) 👀🔊💜
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/a98995422f81ae659b52f09e4572e194092cc4eb26541ea6cd6f013a9c13f410.mp4
YT
https://youtu.be/XTSjhm2t8ms
#TheNakedGun #ClassicClips #Flickstr

2025-02-12 00:02:21

Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers - Islands in the Stream 🔊💜
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/410b853d62e8999e7418267e032bf9047865de923c28b8c4815bc39885acd3e2.mp4
YT
https://youtu.be/JXIugHbnEaw
#DollyParton #KennyRogers #Music

2025-02-11 10:41:15

Baby girl. 💜
#nevent1q…wy6m
#IKITAO #Moxie

2025-02-11 09:31:49

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https://www.kraken.com/learn/satoshi-to-usd-converter

2025-02-11 09:30:31

🙏🏻
#nevent1q…lvnr

2025-02-11 06:29:51

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Lightning is still a beta WIP. If only we had Monero as a default, that would be way more cypherpunk, more private, and more reliable.

2025-02-11 06:25:41

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It seems to be selective at times.

2025-02-11 04:55:10

Britney Spears - Everytime 🔊💜
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/0dc25fdb10fa6fc5b71ec4091ae3a98534e45b10078cdb2e558356e75745d4e5.mp4
YT
https://youtu.be/8YzabSdk7ZA
#BritneySpears #Music