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Austrian School Revival — the meme wars are just getting started 😂 https://image.nostr.build/a9d1b2fedccb40e493bda1a17d98673f4ab8dc9840f5d008153e628e018bca6b.jpg

2024-04-10 22:18:00

What’s next after a second passport? Making sure your wealth is transportable. #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/2a85e1db7afe8a034f9851edeedaf51e23c672f5f7e0c5c8fa4463b578057732.jpg

2024-04-07 19:38:45

I went to see Oliver Anthony here in Round Rock TX with my wife… Wonderful message and a voice like a bell. amazing performance, I’m so glad I went. https://image.nostr.build/97aadb2b78a7413db558f563aee30e1f5cb1f06d88d3d424d439430e9b4e2ef3.jpg https://video.nostr.build/21616b5550f0273436f994cc7629b1a5baa1bd7b80aa957d6344a6b0d7199553.mp4

2024-03-31 01:08:49

It’s still hard to believe sometimes that bitcoin is casually trading at these prices. https://image.nostr.build/3acf6fa3bae577ce63b395a98583dfe318bc1bf25b0c93ca68a09de6c03557a7.jpg

2024-03-25 21:49:17

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Are you behind this? … 👀 👀 https://image.nostr.build/0d79a5c7d1d15cc8fa3b34e5239352697bba40fcefa115f4f09f5cf35608aacb.jpg

2024-03-24 21:25:55

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Yeah… no thanks https://image.nostr.build/f8036c4951268398a3dd1dfde28a132f3a12d6e780b278987e7c62d973466abf.jpg

2024-03-24 21:19:09

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I miss a discussion of durability in your article. Personally I love technology and progress, as long as universal principles of sound architecture and engineering aren’t violated. Modularity, you know.

2024-03-23 20:56:16

Bitcoin’s “Quantitative Hardening” in the Belgian Financial Times 💪 https://image.nostr.build/7dea1f313d17f3f1f631fd73f9fbfef19c0cdc1e3934dd66cef0f762545d29f0.jpg

2024-03-21 11:28:51

I’ve learned a lot from Peter Todd over the years. Here’s a discussion of his NOSTR critique: #note1vlm…qqfk

2024-03-20 13:47:04

(US politics) Does anyone else also feel that the Drudge Report has taken a turn to the left? I’ve been reading it for 15 years or so and used to feel that it was sensational but quite neutral in the left-right spectrum. The last 2 years I notice a change, with a lot more negative news focused on Trump vs Biden for example. What do you guys think? New owners perhaps?

2024-03-17 13:30:22

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But also with constant subsidies, which is why it became so popular

2024-03-17 13:24:50

Bitcoin is demonetizing real estate. A lot of “invoosters” chomping at the bit to “buy the dip” in real estate are going to get burnt badly. It’s for the most part essentially a shitcoin, just one that’s slightly less shitty than the dollar.

2024-03-17 13:00:43

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The UK?

2024-02-18 03:19:05

https://image.nostr.build/38791c0d097801847c091b0680538b39ecd934f7538a9c5e093fe8ee6f554654.jpg

2024-01-24 14:34:46

The industry with most desirable goods of its era gets to deliver the power brokers of the world. That’s why we had oil barons, Wall Street titans, and now tech moguls. Most likely, the next generation of global power brokers will emerge from the #bitcoin ecosystem.

2024-01-18 19:35:40

Milei Smells Like Teen Spirit https://image.nostr.build/41cdb04d73ff1bdc4d8a87985044e9420703d1187d20cef121d5c1a0dd8ca2ca.jpg

2024-01-14 19:05:08

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Awesome! Thanks for sharing that Jonathan

2024-01-14 18:54:54

Bitcoin Beggars have the biggest… https://image.nostr.build/4baf981f983bbd6b7ed2ebb38359ab71f9f945ad5793de080a2f673a59b5ed18.jpg

2024-01-10 15:10:29

The SEC 2FA blunder is an early example of how old world institutions who do not respect the cypherpunk toolbox will lose reputation, money, and eventually sociopolitical relevance, one loss event at a time.
No more double standards. In a bitcoin world, it's adapt or die. https://image.nostr.build/ef0733bfca19a46e0edcebb9dbaf0367a36b38c3f65563d14f2e92f997928c17.jpg

2023-12-27 15:23:18

A call to crypto flippers
Whether or not there is another “alt season”, I invite all you crypto aficionados to redirect your life’s energy, up to now invested in feeding this addiction to coin flipping/“invoosting”, towards cleaning up your act instead. Come join us on the bitcoin front—we have a lot to give, yes, but we need you, too.
You see we’re approaching a battle of the ages here. One that will likely involve bank runs, devaluations, and wars in the West. A conflict whose outcomes will certainly impact the lives of our children and many generations after. And for that years’ long struggle our world needs all the help it can get.
I have a lot of sympathy for people suffering from behavioral addictions and general lack of impulse control—I struggle with this still myself. In fact I believe addiction is the dominant challenge of our current era, co-created by the fiat system which drastically reduces the rewards people can earn from deferral of gratification and a virtuous life in general.
But this is not the place to get in the intellectual weeds.
I’m just here to send you, to the best of my ability, a warm invitation to try and clean up your life. I’m here to remind you that the world is worth it, and to valiantly assure you that you are worth it.
So get yourself to a meeting (yes the one you’ve been telling yourself you don’t need), pick up that book you bookmarked a while ago, ask someone for advice or support, cue up that meditation podcast, walk a dog, go on a walk in nature, or take a cold shower for 30 seconds. I suggest beginning small, so small that you can take that first step right now.
We’re all going to die one day. You know it, and deep down you also know what kind of life will make you feel proud to have lived. Sure, you can keep trying to get that chuckle out of other degen traders, and get on a little buzz by setting up that 10x leveraged play, but deep down you know that is just a poor surrogate for making a real connection with yourself and the rest of this world.
Here is the good news: once you start walking the path towards the good life (not as in hedonism but as in doing the right thing), you will, little by little, start noticing that you are in fact not alone, that in fact we are all in this together. You’ll start developing friendships and rekindling old ones that you’d forgotten you lost. And, paradoxically, as you slowly face your fears of “not having enough” head on, you’ll realize you already have so much to be grateful for, and you’ll start to feel happier than you’ve ever been.
Help yourself, you’re worth it! Under that thin cynical veneer, a truly beautiful person resides. That person knows in his bones that this little planet, with all its male and female silliness, with its songs of pain and sorrow, this blue-green-orange place teeming with life, is surely worth it too. Your possible reaction to this paragraph, that “meh…” or eye rolling part of you, that’s not all of you, that’s not who you are deep down. There is wonder in you, and joy, and a thirst for worthwhile adventure. If you can’t feel it, it doesn’t mean the sun isn’t there for you, but just that there’s clouds hanging out in your sky. An ominous sky makes place for a cheerful one, over time but inevitably, once one starts walking the path of the good life.
So join us my friend. Join us bitcoiners in the fight to defend life and liberty on earth. Lord of the Rings is real, and we are the Hobbits: weak physically, sure, but possessing a unique power to save the world of man. Time to leave the Shire!

2023-12-27 12:27:11

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Yes it is

2023-12-18 12:15:05

Behold the generation
From hyperbitcoinization;
Born from zoomers
Here are the Bitty Boomers. https://image.nostr.build/befff11111af94cfb262d8a52130f63e52182a97fe36e3056337aad356c57cc4.jpg

2023-12-18 11:34:55

Hyperbitcoinization will lead to a new baby boom, I believe it. Just like after WWII, it’ll come from people celebrating the restoration of a future for themselves and for humanity.

2023-12-12 02:29:21

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Fahrenheit, yes. Regular Amazon one

2023-12-11 21:48:10

So last night, on a whim, I seasoned a frozen thick cut steak, then put it in our dehydrator at 160° until morning (8hrs). It came out perfect: juicy within, lightly roasted outside. I’ll do this now often, it’s an instant breakfast requiring only 1 minute prep. Works with frozen burgers and such too, but they come out a bit drier.

2023-12-03 11:39:59

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I love that! Dank om dit te delen :-)

2023-12-02 12:37:58

“That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,
But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.”
—Tennyson

2023-12-01 14:02:01

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I haven’t heard it, but yeah surely interesting. I know one of the Epstein survivors personally so I’ve been following this for several years.
Martyr Made’s series on Jonestown was fantastic.

2023-12-01 13:38:32

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@npub1jfn…t047 is a bitcoiner

2023-12-01 13:32:05

My most listened to podcasts in 2023 https://image.nostr.build/42c8c4a7ec27c2fd765228539f07f761ab329ecf648465370553072755200b45.jpg

2023-11-28 15:46:31

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I followed it for a while and I’m pretty sure the responses are llm generated

2023-11-28 15:35:30

This account is a bot that targets bitcoiners. It is highly responsive and its replies seem AI generated. More sophisticated than anything I’ve seen. Honeypot? https://image.nostr.build/e984c5ae7620e7e039b8ed2aeead13a891950ee3d8850e0a347f0a54614af5b3.jpg https://image.nostr.build/cffa194cce1aec2d3ec3267bfda11df83f67dc55713fb1b924d26baa0b9eacdf.jpg https://image.nostr.build/07a0d1cd51e9693536b4af175dbcadc5a0816b0eb44cf664f1399edb98bfb97f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9b82de3accec0cc85e240c38bca79958e6ce9f48ef19639d9c3b35a35a47b0fb.jpg

2023-11-23 02:30:07

Added a new little sculpture to my collection today. The seller called it “the nerd” (pictured on the left). The piece is dated 2002 by one C.Smith. I love that it was made in that year because it means the artist was clearly inspired by the news of the internet boom and bust. His little beau tie is adorable, and also the rest of his style fits the era really well: receding hairline and neck carpet, heavy set glasses and tucked in shirt 😊. The pencil to me symbolizes the transition from the paper-and-fax culture to the new all digital world. A little piece of history! https://image.nostr.build/f90f43bdc998e9c483a6da2dbfad7e918be3ce93dde9328a6ffac3d33b36c127.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2b291a493d50bfa7785846296299279c62815eae5207117ee35f99e67195464e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/cb259bdb57530e06ab5adf1c7a065ac9be2c2a47e977b5650e23815005bd52fb.jpg

2023-11-23 00:57:44

Who is a musical artist currently alive whose dynamism and creativity, in your opinion, most closely approaches that of David Bowie?

2023-11-17 19:28:23

SMH at a discussion on public radio about Asian Americans and higher education, all trying so hard to avoid the word “IQ”… 🤐

2023-11-17 14:19:55

The world is pretty crazy now. And that’s with inflation at just 20% in the West. What will it be like when inflation hits 50%, 80%, 150%?
That’s why I invest most of my time in building mental resiliency. I want my mind and body to be ready for a world where the crazy gets cranked up to eleven, combining the worst of the 1930s, 1940s, and the 1980s.

2023-11-16 11:49:17

JK Rowling is such a great writer… from her first Strike detective novel:
“He took the train out to Canning Town station. It was overlooked by Canary Wharf, whose sleek, futuristic buildings resembled a series of gleaming metal blocks on the horizon; their size, like that of the National debt, impossible to gauge from such a distance.”

2023-11-13 11:14:26

Not the onion… 🇨🇦💩
Surreal story in 4 pictures https://image.nostr.build/0889dddeb4e9fa57ede9fee15504efd3103ee384051a669dad8083d1e782cdd2.jpg https://image.nostr.build/69d5128ac88f002a37e41ef6c354f624fc6d92990c5d0d69456c56e782f255e4.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c0eb85a49a9cd9a1519ff052127f4674535c3394e82895fea837e530800a7626.jpg https://image.nostr.build/978c0aab36ff810b70e228c9640635c6d5f731cf79847d986d9fdff40a6019e7.jpg

2023-11-13 11:02:57

In bitcoin, the miners and startups, if sufficiently short term motivated, can be tempted to fork the system at the detriment of pleb hodlers. Sovereign node running is an immune function that prevents that.
In politics, the government, if sufficiently short term motivated, can be tempted to fork the system at the detriment of productive citizens. Sovereign individuals owning firearms is an immune function that helps prevent that.

2023-11-13 07:40:53

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How does one request deletion?

2023-11-10 04:40:41

“What if we had a genuine initiation ritual for newly minted maxi’s… a passing rite that affirms your exit from the old, rotten fiat paradigm and your subsequent entry into satoshi’s judicious universe; a transformation symbolized by your face seemingly moving through a portal. I get excited just thinking about it!“ #circlebearding https://image.nostr.build/3e92c7ec335bde25094b6d04f5caf440446df4b6a3aeea02755caa03370ecf82.jpg

2023-11-09 17:34:46

We all know this feel. https://image.nostr.build/0e560e9eafcd5b92c5e25b39fbc58b0e53e463f09026cb64d0d3a7277ec5b440.jpg

2023-11-05 01:13:11

The Ozric Tentacles just dropped a new album! It’s amazing, really trippy and energetic. The band was founded in 1983 by two brothers, one of them died in 1999. The father was a famous sculptor in the UK, friends with Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, etc. #PsychedelicRock
https://open.spotify.com/album/058fujhOImFn47bQgl1u4Y?si=QA8BHR-rS02tIbWuXvTm-Q https://image.nostr.build/6ffe54914b34aac0cb174204722da064cb9ace8216ac7a5bfa371d0d69145b2e.jpg

2023-11-02 22:10:16

Verbatim, just now:
Wife: How are you doing Mr. Scrolly Mc Scroll Pants?
T: I’m going to log out of Twitter soon
Wife: Is it an anger factory full of angry people?
A: Yes! 😂

2023-11-01 20:14:03

My dad fired his first bullets this week. Commanding a firearm has such an immediate effect on people, I think because it viscerally conveys to the handler how it really has the power to level the playing field. Proud of him! https://image.nostr.build/eef8a910bc2407fc3dff8f66dc295f58daf9777bd6e462471f57728c1992aaa6.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6afac4e168047a88d79a78114604fc21dd06f1efcfc5654bb6d76d7442c07012.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5a46d64d81e7e751f7adce1aab7e9e68af8bc2f44082055888c7bc641f595942.jpg

2023-10-28 16:35:50

The unacknowledged fear of (ego)death causes people to do the stupidest, most destructive things. To create a truly peaceful society, we all must learn to accept our mortality and fallibility one way or another.

2023-10-22 21:13:16

ETH/BTC hopium. I’m not smoking it, though a dead cat bounce is always possible of course. https://image.nostr.build/cfa47764cb8dac1b69e4b31e6c328e5729aa10d0abdce9f5c75cbba8fa2d6b8c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/06868eadf0d83e94e71c796f917ca467878051ec5e844580621eec99b0726511.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6656a189d84a8dbb307d62cf9fc8f8229c9b9b9559da2d61ab940215cbd35006.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d6fedf63384139211b599362166297e74c51c608219d2ed56ef8321fb9e12b08.jpg

2023-10-21 23:08:22

Socialism is the cult of victimhood.

2023-10-21 13:29:56

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Great work!
Also TIL 😄 https://image.nostr.build/3ce7b8721cd0de7ce1c1e5c0747d330cd270784ba63faaba74ac7326ff895eb1.jpg

2023-10-19 20:38:47

No Ethereum, this doesn’t mean “it’s still so early”.
You’ve had a go at it, I get it that you really wanted to try. It made a bunch of your early founders bitcoin rich.
Now it’s time to pack your stuff and go home. https://image.nostr.build/094f0ac5a80faf1e938f4eb1538e2942e3c4a232a4516b1d090391b5d562638e.png

2023-10-18 20:18:19

The 2015-‘17 block size war in a nutshell.
Big blockers want to increase capacity regardless of security and centralization concerns.
(Cartoon is from New Yorker Magazine, 1920s) https://image.nostr.build/175d2ba4872c17701181eced1055e7bf901fc8b855e877b8765cab52c5c1945e.jpg

2023-10-18 05:12:51

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Be direct please, I don’t appreciate passive aggression

2023-10-18 04:59:30

The situation that the Jewish people are in, including some bitcoiners that I respect, has been on my mind lately.
No doubt I’ll comment on it more, but for now I wanted to offer my deep sympathy in the form of sharing an anthem I grew up with, “The Flemish Lion”. Both in this song and in the recent personal updates I see determination and fierce courage in the face of gruesome brutality. I keep re-reading in particular verse IV.
Here goes the translation:
The Flemish Lion
They shall not tame him, the proud Flemish Lion,
Even if they threaten his freedom with chains and shouts.
They shall not tame him, as long as a Fleming lives,
As long as the Lion can claw, as long as he has teeth.
Chorus:
They shall not tame him,
as long as a Fleming lives,
As long as the Lion can claw,
as long as he has teeth.
II
Time devours cities, no thrones remain standing:
The armies may fall, but a people shall never perish.
The enemy marches to the battlefield, surrounded by mortal danger.
We laugh at his fury, the Flemish Lion is there!
III
He has been fighting for a thousand years for freedom, land, and God;
And still, his strength remains in all its youthful delight.
When they think him powerless and provoke him with a kick,
Then he rises threateningly and frightful before them.
IV
Woe to the thoughtless one, false and full of betrayal,
Who comes to caress the Flemish Lion and treacherously strikes him.
Not a single movement of his escapes their watchful eye:
And if he feels wounded, he shows his might and roars.
V
The signal for revenge has been given, he is tired of their provocation;
With fire in his eyes, with anger, he springs at the enemy.
He tears, destroys, crushes, covered in blood and muck,
And triumphantly grins at the enemy's quivering corpse. https://image.nostr.build/a29cdb29859496847a4a2a0ead8ff778adad53b281199827999d237b8153cb54.png

2023-10-17 21:44:49

ETH/BTC https://image.nostr.build/d66690c447b04651fad076c8ff858a8f63bac395c2e4a38fd734add1979522ff.jpg

2023-10-16 22:05:03

The challenge with people who hate living in reality is that they are usually keen on forcing me to live inside of their fantasy. “Crazy” and “tolerant” don’t rhyme. https://image.nostr.build/9e03244e7a8cc0c65360676b152ccc34540041342e98cef0b2880d8a7260d5dd.jpg

2023-10-16 14:45:09

Imo all addiction stems from avoiding feeling your feelings, because you believe you’re not strong enough to handle them.
A cold plunge forces you to feel your feelings and thereby reminds you how string you really are. https://image.nostr.build/d5384fcb5746bbe53e853fcf07c64a4564469db71d2d445181235090f19570e7.jpg

2023-10-16 03:02:53

M for Mayhem? ETH/BTC https://image.nostr.build/01b400baf0241edaea186488efbabc026abc868c667357d68bcc05ce8251c20c.jpg

2023-10-14 07:34:12

Bitcoin Amsterdam was wonderful, I’m so glad I came. https://image.nostr.build/28cf45812e356fc4864cb619a47df27a689dd2d85f58da7590ae6d7ef6f51056.jpg https://image.nostr.build/af0657e12aa7f8178f9c68f99baadcb400508040e326cc8f7ebd0f4f201350df.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ca007806f50a76f8e9259df18df03f250afcc011f1aaccb8cdea2618f0a96f99.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2d8c4da0bb15f99f54a0386689112408adf681b264ca88b575d0c5726613ed0d.jpg

2023-10-08 19:48:16

I learned a lesson about the effects of a mainstream media diet… My parents are from Belgium and read the newspaper every day. They had NEVER heard of Joe Rogan and didn’t recognize his picture either 😄

2023-10-08 17:43:34

Re: Israel-Hamas — I find myself tempted to write emotional tweets with simple proposed solutions. I think it’s mainly my brain trying to deal with feeling helpless.

2023-10-08 13:58:28

Voor Vlamingen (okay ook Nederlanders😉) die volgende week in Amsterdam zijn: ik organiseer een informele hangout op donderdagavond. Wees welkom!
https://meetu.ps/e/MywWb/Btg3N/i

2023-10-02 13:12:02

Let’s be honest:
On the bitcoin standard, there’s no guarantee that a custodian won’t fail spectacularly every few years.
And on the fiat standard, there’s no guarantee that the system won’t burn to the ground every few decades.

2023-10-01 14:26:32

Who is the Chinese emigrant equivalent of Ayn Rand? Is there anyone who qualifies in terms of free market ideas?

2023-09-29 21:19:25

The Economist today.
Headlines like these used to be unthinkable. Impossible.
Now here we are.
Bitcoin did this, we did this. https://image.nostr.build/eaa68b33587b11547d02925387fcb3981ef3834dd005d449055e2924cf008a79.jpg https://image.nostr.build/01afae4f31a7cc3f6c640014ea331602e0465a3dfa5550e2a169784f8419b21d.jpg

2023-09-28 18:13:29

The Land Run Monument in Oklahoma City is super impressive. All the more so since it was inaugurated as recently as 2006. Fascinating piece of history, too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rush_of_1889 https://image.nostr.build/44e61e5bc97434b560548e5105f7ef95ba7c6464d6d5bbaeff7d8cb199e3772f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3fce6cac1df203a19be5586189210f7f7385f7e29464e09dce67ba0313956b55.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5802c0f724b57a772774ffd9b8f9f274aa5dfb82acb87d5451ee247643507c39.jpg https://image.nostr.build/30790a9ac32f89e41c8f0d790f2b9bf3794e63e704a79d3788e03caf88bf9aad.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1ea93da752796d5005ac14a1939dc43963a8989a1a870d8717a69bbaddeb4c97.jpg

2023-09-26 03:06:13

My wife has been a libertarian from before we ever met. We just watched the Milei interview together. She was very moved to see someone who is running for President of Argentina articulate these important ideas so clearly (as if explaining it to a child) and sincerely.
She especially appreciated the part where he explained how the Social Justice ideology violates equality before the law — which highlights the irony that in order to achieve its faux social equality it destroys actual judicial equality.

2023-09-25 22:20:47

Eureka Springs, AK
#OliverAnthony https://image.nostr.build/5e7767edcfb7b76b532d6aec091243ee2f1af6dff79793262f1b9c9fbe7439d0.jpg

2023-09-23 04:10:40

Guess where I was today ☺️
#structuralmasonry https://image.nostr.build/a3e8bb9e3bacd371f8910c8fb35f14c3a612877501dd2541bd0f596a83ab4fea.jpg

2023-09-21 15:21:21

As obsessively we listen to music and watch movies today, before 1930 people read poetry and read novels.
Seeking to learn what was in people’s hearts and heads in times’ past, on my last Belgium trip I bought more poetry bundles and writings by and about novelists.

2023-09-18 22:33:10

Toon from the fourties https://image.nostr.build/6a1ba09c336574a9642a3707e9e3b7b312713a19609f07978ca177e81a636994.jpg

2023-09-13 08:02:32

Now we know why Jacob of Israel had 12 sons 😄 #note1k66…zu0k

2023-09-11 05:05:11

The entrance to the school I went to for kindergarten and elementary. Built in 1930, it still had nuns volunteering when I went there. https://image.nostr.build/7147e2e98bb810309e15cbe847c8779b4199a836d86b6ebcbef2f11031fa87ff.jpg

2023-09-10 12:28:18

Everyone in Belgium is talking about labor shortages. Is this a universal phenomenon?
I suspect that what’s really happening is inflation:
=> Higher input costs for biz + higher cost of living
=> biz can’t offer wages that make economic sense for workers.

2023-08-20 00:04:03

Overheard election prediction: “Orange Man will go independent, team up with RFK and run on an Orange Coin ticket. They’ll tackle Inflation and the Deep State in one fell swoop.”

2023-08-14 21:06:09

No one better than Parker for your daily dose of Texas chauvinism 😄 #note1xts…7lhe

2023-08-14 12:34:01

Was looking at this map yesterday. Wondering what it means in the context of changing political climate. Also curious why Florida doesn’t have permitless carry. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/3ab25c3847a78593b96bde343b7a008eeb76e75367f89f9f7d8fd31c0f2acebe.jpg

2023-08-14 01:45:44

Milei is crushing it in Argentina’s primaries. I’ve never in my life seen a strong libertarian candidate get results like this. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/0e4ad25473bd253093c070626218ee246a068cea1c5eaedc7854f9ccd2b7ff0d.png

2023-08-12 13:28:17

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Yeah, there was a period in 2010-11 where I was really into permaculture. I remember reading a lot about it and watching all kinds of videos. I also visited a permaculture kind of a farm in Ecuador once. And I was, yeah, just making distant plans of implementing some of these principles myself. In the last few years, I've lost a little bit of interest in it. Not in the fundamental principles, but more because I eat more of a carnivore diet, and so the kind of changes that you have to make to a landscape to allow for ruminants to graze and stuff, they aren't so drastic compared to, you know, if you want to grow crops in a permaculture kind of way. But I still love the idea of, like, there are ideas around forests and forestry and yeah, actually seeing your post makes me curious to rethink some of these ideas and see how they apply to Texas. So thanks for the reminder. (Transcribed from speech with ChatGPT’s whisper)

2023-08-12 04:02:41

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I used to own it! Lost it in one of my many moves…

2023-08-11 01:07:09

First new release in years to actually give me goosebumps. The lyrics cut to the bone…
Oliver Anthony, “Rich Men North Of Richmond” https://nostr.build/av/48c9206d99cfbb8345a2083699f6950793c4ae0dfbbfa329d5382769fcd626d4.mov

2023-08-07 21:32:25

Social media interactions are surrogates for real connection. They’re not “bad”, it’s just they suck up your attention and thereby crowd out the time you’d otherwise spent talking to people on the phone or in real life.
One habit I started is that I’ll often respond to people who text me with a recorded voice message. Voice > text. Another is just to unplug from social media. I may soon delete Nostr from my phone.

2023-08-07 19:35:02

Someone reading a book outdoors, hadn’t seen that in a while. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/c9b7bec786d28e88c2e74d8d55b2cab944986c3b331804aab48c6e23e768c189.jpg

2023-08-07 13:19:29

To a newborn, the experience of leaving the womb may have felt like a near death experience. Perhaps that is also why infants are so blissful; they’ve died before they died and have peace with the natural cycle of life, of which growth and decay are integral parts.
And perhaps that’s part of why many adults become anxious and miserable; they’ve forgotten about the ebb and flow of the universe, about the beautiful connection between all things. Feeling isolated and adrift, they anxiously cling to their present incarnation as to a single burst of fireworks that’s already fading in the dark night.

2023-08-05 14:22:45

Thanks everyone for all the love following the WBD pod I did.
Below is my naive “before” photo I sent to my family (just before ingesting the ibogaine), one photo from my room during the trip, and one from just after “waking up” in the airport, where I was glowing—feeling like a million bucks. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/a35e1031fb0af357f18ece2bc7d83b29569ee67e74c725850b128a7d14b0c474.jpg https://cdn.nostr.build/i/d1faf17f42fd8d4d342168732514903d0dbdf1b83d2943987e1ebabb573c48d4.jpg https://cdn.nostr.build/i/bfbc178d8bf11e84ce129ee1e0fe56f3a98ec6b307533390a6f9e6ffd5d5abfc.jpg

2023-07-31 00:13:42

Late Sixties Austin TX — pretty wild! https://cdn.nostr.build/i/4996cb1394d6cfb99250d36f51ef6a27789ff587fbe0cda9dd92bf5d5ea52e59.jpg https://cdn.nostr.build/i/391dca489eff2d728e70881fdb6bc6ec3dc22ba302dc1e49a0019de0658b4d43.jpg https://cdn.nostr.build/i/307f4919401cce98aaa4060f354fe8c8013d4ac39c1422efe2a084451933df7a.jpg https://cdn.nostr.build/i/771c1e04a2160a954819fc54c4d490262964d808ab9ef34a8e95bd8064106c19.jpg

2023-07-28 06:55:48

Listening to music from my birth year, that would be playing when my parents were expecting. Quite the trip. The Cold War era was a tough time. // I’ve come to believe a lot of memories are stored in the body, every in infancy. These imprints can flare up later in life. Hence “the issue is in the tissue” and “the body keeps the score” //

2023-07-23 17:24:00

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ADD is a euphemism for being easily distracted and therefore highly open to suggestibility. I struggle with it quite a bit and think it makes me more vulnerable to social media / hyper online culture rather than less.

2023-07-23 16:11:20

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Hahaha I disagree…

2023-07-18 13:42:21

I’m blown away. These lyrics (below) are exactly what I was wrestling with as a teen, suffocating from anxiety. I felt trapped and wondered if free will maybe didn’t exist at all.
Like Wyatt says, I believed: “Had I been free, I could have chosen not to be me.”
I never consciously listened to lyrics growing up, but I always am surprised when relistening, how closely the themes of my favorite music harmonized with my emotional landscape.
Free Will and Testament - Robert Wyatt, 1997
Given free will but within certain limitations,
I cannot will myself to limitless mutations,
I cannot know what I would be if I were not me,
I can only guess me.
So when I say that I know me, how can I know that?
What kind of spider understands arachnophobia?
I have my senses and my sense of having senses.
Do I guide them? Or they me?
The weight of dust exceeds the weight of settled objects.
What can it mean, such gravity without a centre?
Is there freedom to un-be?
Is there freedom from will-to-be?
Sheer momentum makes us act this way or that way.
We just invent or just assume a motivation.
I would disperse, be disconnected. Is this possible?
What are soldiers without a foe?
Be in the air, but not be air, be in the no air.
Be on the loose, neither compacted nor suspended.
Neither born nor left to die.
Had I been free, I could have chosen not to be me.
Demented forces push me madly round a treadmill.
Demented forces push me madly round a treadmill.
Let me off please, I am so tired.
Let me off please, I am so very tired.

2023-07-16 18:21:34

Classical Music: who are your favorite composers?

2023-07-15 21:06:27

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I’ll do some blood tests soon

2023-07-15 18:46:02

Life as a carnivore is so simple. No more decision fatigue in the grocery store, restaurant, or shopping street.

2023-07-06 22:52:42

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I remember looking those up, too. Could also be genuine doubts because he was so depressed.

2023-07-06 22:42:51

What’s your take on the theory that Len Sassaman could have been Satoshi? https://evanhatch.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c85c2b10

2023-07-06 19:26:01

Enlightening, punchy read: “The Lazy Mysticism of Alan Watts”
https://www.philosophyforlife.org/blog/the-lazy-mysticism-of-alan-watts

2023-07-05 11:51:59

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Ability to regulate emotions is a big one. If a person has a propensity to get fits of anger, or to become suddenly cold/unempathetic, or other emotions that seem disproportional to the situation… those point at trauma.
Another is addictions: drugs and alcohol of course, but also more subtle addictions like food, work, even working out. It’s tricky because you don’t want to pathologize every person, or dismiss uncomfortable truths because the messenger has a different lifestyle than yours. But yeah I try to at least consider these factors.

2023-07-05 11:40:39

If you have significant unprocessed trauma, your brain will come up with stories that justify those emotional echoes from the past that run through your body—stories that are far fetched and most often completely wrong. This is true regardless of intelligence. That’s why when I assess experts, I consider emotional maturity before everything else.

2023-07-04 09:27:43

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I’d suggest “pretend abundance” or “abundance surrogates”. Like how social media is a surrogate for an abundant social life, while at the same time undermining the real thing.