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2024-11-02 06:47:30

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This is pretty accurate from my findings as well. Nice summary!

2024-10-12 08:57:16

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👀 "33 trustees" look shady... at least 3 likely FBI/CIA resumes.
😱 DAO & white-paper don't seems to have any idea behind them - probably why they are recruiting.
🏃🏻‍♂️This is why 99% of other-coins fail. Just stick with BTC.

2024-10-12 06:01:35

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Excited to see the new folk on here! I'm see wallets as still the largest hurdle upon entry (took myself 3 months to set one up originally). And there has been so much turnover on the LN scene this year among good wallets (WoS, Phoenix, Mutiny). What are you recommending for beginners?

2024-10-12 05:52:53

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I feel like many of these brothers are well-meaning in their projects but just have not sufficiently studied bitcoin.

2024-10-10 22:02:24

“Verily the most disgusting of all voices is the braying of the donkey.” - Q 31.19
“Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?” - Q 105.1
https://youtu.be/eLkyTVF3bKQ
#rejectgenocide 🇵🇸 #votegreen ✅

2024-10-06 10:15:49

Syrian Ambassador at UNSC meeting on 20 September (day after the pager attack):
"The Arab Group [22 member states] demands that the SC condemn this israeli cyber terrorism...which are part and parcel of the genocide and ethnic cleansing... being perpetrated by the israeli occupying entity against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank."
"Furthermore Syria believes that states supporting israel (naming USA especifically) shoulder full responsibility for the ongoing israel occupation its acts of aggressions, its barbaric crimes, as well as obstruction of the SC preventing the SC from upholding its responsibility to counter threats supposed by the occupying power, threats to international peace and security."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/05/israel-mossad-hezbollah-pagers-nasrallah/

2024-09-22 18:12:25

Homeschool gang! 🙌
Except I did it K-12 and then did University on almost full scholarship.
Was it perfect - no.
Would I do it again - 100%! And planning to do this with my daughters.
#note13d4…fd78

2024-09-17 13:11:23

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Russian also went and banned Meta apps labeling them an "extremist organization".

2024-09-13 01:52:07

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Met him twice and got to vote for him in 2008. Amazing man of integrity, a rare breed in politics.

2024-09-11 21:15:52

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Invite only via X/Twitter is sus. Alby was the first Nostr barrier I had in onboarding and delayed my purple pill for a year. Still has cultish vibes.

2024-09-11 20:38:48

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Seems like Primal doesn't display Articles yet.

2024-09-05 22:40:25

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شكرًا لك على الرد يا حبيبي وأعتذر عن لغتي العربية (إنها ليست رائعة لذا فإن زوجتي تساعدني في الترجمة).
السياسة لعبة فاسدة وغادرة، ونصيحتي الأولى دائماً هي الهروب منها.
ينبغي الاحتفال بكل انتصار صغير حققه المسلمون في هذا البلد، ولن أرغب أبدًا في التقليل من شأن تلك الانتصارات. ومع ذلك، أنا محلل للسياسة الواقعية وسوف أتكلم عن الأحلام والأوهام عندما أراها.
إذا صوت جميع المسلمين الأمريكيين البالغ عددهم 3.5 مليون، فإن ذلك سيعادل في أفضل الأحوال 2.5% من الناخبين. من أجل المنظور، فاز نادر بنسبة 2.7% في عام 2000، وفاز جونسون بنسبة 3.3% في عام 2016. وتظهر الأحزاب الثالثة المستقلة علامات على النمو وزيادة الشعبوية، لكن السلطة تتعزز باستمرار بين جناحي النظام غير الحزبي في الإمبراطورية.
ومن غير المعقول التصويت لصالح ترامب أو هاريس بسبب دعمهما للإبادة الجماعية للفلسطينيين والشر المطلق؛ لذا، ما لم يكن لديك نوع من الأجندة التسريعية، فمن المحتمل أن يكون ستاين هو الحليف الذي يجب على المسلمين تأييده، وإذا كانت لدينا أي قوة سياسية لكان علينا أن نعمل على استمالة الخضر والليبراليين على مدار العقدين الماضيين.
أما بالنسبة للدول الإسلامية، فقد كانت هناك مقاومة واضحة من الكتلة، وقد شهد العام الماضي توحيد الجهود الدبلوماسية من بين أمور أخرى كثيرة. ليس من السهل بناء التحالفات العسكرية والاقتصادية بين عشية وضحاها، ومن المحتمل أننا لن نشهد حرباً شاملة حتى تتحرك الصين نحو تايوان - ولكننا سنشهد حرباً شاملة بشكل شبه مؤكد مع انهيار الإمبراطورية وصعود الشرق. الوضع الحالي ليس له حل سياسي وبالتالي سيتم إيجاد العدالة بوسائل أخرى. سأقول المزيد عن شرور الديمقراطية في منشورات لاحقة ولكني أدعو لكل دكتاتور عسكري عربي لأنهم بحاجة إلى توجيه الله الآن أكثر من أي وقت مضى.

2024-09-03 04:41:18

In honor of those who are fighting most for our freedoms and since I am aiming to my delete Twitter/X account soon, I'm reposting some of my content from the past year. Since Oct 7th I have exclusively used Arabic in my posting (aside from reshares and a lone post in Latin). This was intentionally to boycott use of English in MT dialogue, break algorithm, and improve my Arabic. As Nostr is still newer and not all clients have ease of translation, I'm posting here with English translation included.
🇵🇸 #FreePalestine
أمريكا = افضل طريقة للتعبير عن النفس هي الصمت لما الواحد يقول الحقيقة يسموه خطاب كراهيةً.
إن مصطلح "منكر الهولوكوست" أصبح له معنى جديد الآن
الرعاية الصحية هي مجرد ذراع آخر للمجمع العسكري. "الغذاء سوف يفوز في الحرب"
الأمم الإسلامية بتتوحد، وفي نفس الوقت، في نوبة صراخ من الإسلام الغربي لما ادرك أنه ماعندهوش أي سيطرة على السياسة العالمية باستثناء الهجرة والبيتكوين.
90% من المسلمين الغربيين ليس لديهم أي فهم للسياسة لأنهم يؤمنون بالسيادة الأخلاقية للديمقراطية. وهذا الجهل يبرر تواطئهم في الترويج للاستعمار. أولئك الذين ليسوا جاهلين هم انتهازيون دعائيون. اتبع المال…
شهد العالم خلال الشهريين الماضيين خلل في تفكير العديد من مسلمي أمريكا و السبب الرئيس في ذلك يرجع إلى الصدمة الناتجة عن المحرقة التي تحدث في غزة. كل هذا يؤثر سلبيا على الخطاب السياسي و هذا للأسف يصب في مصلحة الظالمين المعتدين. فللأسف الإسلام الأمريكي قد أصيب بنوع من السرطان و الذي يجب تحليله.
الإمبراطور (جو بايدن) بدون ملابس
America = The best way to express yourself is silence. When someone tells the truth, they call it hate speech.
The term "Holocaust denier" has a new meaning now.
Healthcare is just another arm of the military industrial complex. "Food will win the war."
Muslim nations are uniting, meanwhile Western Islam has a hissy-fit upon realizing they have zero control over global policy aside from hijra and bitcoin.
90% of western Muslims have zero understanding of politics because they believe in the moral supremacy of democracy. This ignorance excuses their complicity in promoting colonialism. Those who aren’t ignorant are propagandist opportunists. Follow the money…
In the past two months the world has witnessed many American Muslims become incapable of thinking rationally due to the communal trauma of the Gaza holocaust. This has led to the popularizing of an unhinged political narrative that is now playing directly into the hands of the oppressors. The reality that American Islam has developed a sort of cancer must now be analyzed.
The Emperor (Biden) has no clothes.

2024-09-01 08:44:40

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If this is interview with TTM is supposed to be the optimistic view I'd hate to see the opposing side.

2024-08-29 22:26:22

The Rings of Power Season 2 dropped on Prime last night. I’m two episodes in a loving it!
The PJ LORT trilogy was my initial internet culture. Sharing nerd-lore, using elven & hobbit names, fan fiction… It was fun, weird, and reminds me a bit of what Nostr culture is like right now.
The beauty of reading fiction is you get to imagine much of the faerie-world (Tolkien’s lecture - On Fairy Stories - being perhaps the greatest exposition on this) with it becoming an experience of your own. Adaptation, on the other hand, is more editorialized, communalized synthesis of a shared understanding of people's engagements with the story. The former is a fully sovereign experience, the latter a centralized undertaking - very much like the difference between a decentralize protocol and an algorithmic platform or custom AI. Depending on one’s disposition, favorability will incline in either direction and may even fluctuate from time to time. In fact, the ability to freely go back and forth is necessary for development and enhancement - this is how we analyze, test, and innovate.
This freedom of movement and flexibility is something I see attacked a lot lately - and I mean this in both the tech space and the mental arena. We see governments applying pressure on big tech orgs, tech platforms enforcing controls on customers, FUD everywhere so that indie-streamers are more trustworthy than degree-touting journalists. Polarized engagement-farming drives the machine so much that if the troll isn’t being fed, it comes down from the Northern mountains to feast on mutton, dwarves, and hobbits alike. We are much in need of a wizard to cast them all into stone and I’m glad that Nostr has been playing a part in such a spell for me.
Anyhow, this is why I love when a new Tolkien adaptation gets released - my mind gets to ping-pong between the real, dream-world and a new corporate fiction. I can float for a bit in the ether and analyze my fitra with the dream the world is trying to fashion and hopefully balance it with the vision I aim to build.
This is the magic of art and why I believe it will always triumph over science!

2024-08-20 05:34:40

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Was this his DNC speech? 💀

2024-08-18 21:08:23

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I've been checking out Odysee a bit lately and quite enjoying it

2024-08-17 19:14:02

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Most likely both

2024-08-13 17:50:20

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💯

2024-08-13 17:48:25

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This has been my experience with all customer service for the past six months. Best Buy recently was the absolute bottom of the barrel. Hearing auto sales is leaning this way too.

2024-08-13 11:01:40

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We've had a partnership with marketing on YouTube for a while. Surprised it is just now expanding... but yeah, very fiat 😭

2024-08-09 01:41:37

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Have some relatives in Ohio I can ask. And I hear Pennsylvania has good farm land. Unfortunately I don't know that part of the country too well.

2024-08-08 20:46:41

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Really depends on where you're located. Personally I buy from nearby farms and then slaughter myself.

2024-08-08 18:05:56

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Amish communities have been my best connections in accommodating Zabiha.

2024-08-06 04:35:39

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😭

2024-08-06 00:30:21

Following @npub1chm…r4y5 posts is the only reason I still have Twitter/X.
P.S. Please post to nostr more often 🙏
#note1j0d…349s

2024-08-05 05:39:25

Anon:
Will it get worse for Palestine?
My 2 sats:
What we will see over the next 4-5 months is increasing escalations with the likelyhood of all-out war in the region. Israel is seeking this conflict. America has proven incapable of mediator status and the Arab rulers are turning east to China. Iran is declaring that Haniyah's assassination is equivalent to an act of war and that USA is complicit in that act. Iran will be responding with a strike on Israel (most likely targeting military/intelligence assets) and Yemeni and Lebanese proxies may coordinate similar attacks. Any Israeli tit-for-tat response from that will be seen as acknowledgement of engagement in warfare and allying states will begin to be drawn in. There is no functioning commander-in-chief of the "rules based order", and in that vacuum chaos rules.
With the USA entering recession territory, its engagement in this war could also trigger major collapse of USD and global economic crisis. If that happens it will be something allowed to happen likely to advance CBCDs and/or currency devaluations.
Hold on to your hats (and sats)! It is about to get much worse for Palestine and the rest of the world.

2024-08-03 06:32:10

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Wow! Always disliked Spotify and haven't used them in over a decade but their AI is possibly on par with Amazon Alexa so no surprise they are syncing up with Zionist military.

2024-08-03 05:59:25

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Yeah, most of the 'alim I know maintain Telegram channels for their mashaykh. Some are pretty good and for an educational setting I'm fine with that.
I'm honestly okay if we don't bring the MT crowd here. Most people don't need a fatwa anyway. Imam at Jummah today actually had a great reminder about how folks come to seek advice about "x" when "y" (being their fard ayn) is really what needs to be addressed.
For us laymen here, perhaps we are the last or revival of a pioneering spirit.

2024-08-03 04:03:30

Main criticism I hear from folks on MT is that Nostr doesn't have any muslim scholars. I'm not interested in importing Dawah Inc and irl the ones I know hardly use tech outside of streaming classes (and even this is more so done through their students).
Do we have any hiding on here already? What would a scholar's engagement in this space look like?
#note1nf5…8dq5

2024-08-01 23:41:55

Shaykh Al Maghili speaking about the Shaheed Ismail Haniyah
#note16td…tt34

2024-08-01 23:40:51

https://youtu.be/ZgJvX9cNjDg

2024-08-01 20:51:34

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Gold medal memes coming out of the olympics this year 🤣

2024-08-01 10:51:43

Lavender AI trials in action. The shareholders rejoice. But does Shiekh Google have a fatwa for praying behind Khamenei?
#note1me9…tpr2
https://m.primal.net/JkzM.jpg
https://m.primal.net/JkzN.jpg
https://m.primal.net/JkzO.jpg

2024-08-01 02:07:39

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I feel like this must be a novice question but Twitter/X integration - does it not work anymore with them locking down their API? I trying following the Q&A guidance to set up a few RSS from Twitter/X and they aren't working

2024-07-29 19:03:06

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If you're not self-employed the travel stuff is going to vary. I currently work in a hybrid role and have flexibility to work and travel anywhere in the USA but have significant international travel limitations - all based on jurisdicional tax law from where the company is based. I've got a plan I'm working that should smoothen that out for myself next year but it is certainly not a easy issue or something very accessible to most folks. If you do any sort of virtual work, legislation is terribly behind and adapting to its flexibility. As these workplace laws update things should get easier but very likely sneaky privacy stuff will get looped in as well. We'll just have to see how this all plays out.

2024-07-29 12:01:09

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السلام عليكم
Hi Misty
I haven’t solved for this either but it is something I've been thinking about along with how we can best develop a bitcoin economy.
Although taxes are not fun or ideal, capital gains is less than income tax so if conversion to fiat is needed it can be strategically done. I also think there are advantages in keeping some UTXOs tracked for spending and others secret for savings.
The system of paying taxes on property you already own seems silly and little different from renting? Purchasing property is a tricky issue and personally I find little benefit in doing so within the USA. International housing market looks more appealing from many angles. It is unfortunate that having a physical address is required to access so many things in the fiat world. I spent a year living in a camper, moving from place-to-place and learned how challenging this can be first hand. With the right local connections it is possible to overcome this! Very likely we will see lots of physical, bitcoin-community locations popping up around the planet over the next decade.
For many who are unbanked bitcoin has already proven to be functional and beneficial, but depending on your jurisdiction some fiat connections may be necessary still for some time. That digital-to-physical energy conversion has to happen somewhere. Many of the Nostr clients are already serving as a kind of second-layer bitcoin bank with the zapping functionality and federated mints. The “be your own bank” trend will likely increase along with adoption. It will continue to be interesting to observe how governments try to control this with banking licenses over the coming years. The stronger bitcoin-communities become the more likely they will be able to project political influence - it seems like we are actively entering this stage.
This diplomatic, late-stage network-state is what concerns me the most, as with all things political they tend to get quickly corrupted. I am reminded that, “Bitcoin simply must be for enemies, or it will never be for friends.” and I look around at the growing Nostr community and am encouraged to see friendly intentions amongst the current majority.
النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ‏ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى دِينِ خَلِيلِهِ فَلْيَنْظُرْ أَحَدُكُمْ مَنْ يُخَالِلُ

2024-07-29 05:34:13

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Unfortunately these were probably feature requests as a lot of people have bad hearing

2024-07-28 20:04:30

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🤣 a classic G+ icon! What?!
Thanks for the rec! Will check this out.

2024-07-28 03:01:37

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Any recommendations for RSS readers?

2024-07-27 06:08:56

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We still early

2024-07-26 18:30:16

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Under 10 mins or over 45 for me. Big fan of long form educational content!

2024-07-24 01:36:58

Going to be doing some traveling for work/fun over the next few months and found this to be a nice reminder of the benefits that come when stretching yourself into new areas.
https://youtu.be/hKLJD2JwJ4k?si=qj2KYQ-uVylU4ghY
https://m.primal.net/JcEY.jpg
https://m.primal.net/JcEZ.jpg

2024-07-23 19:39:31

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Yeah, tested the refurb market and ended up with a carrier locked variant.

2024-07-23 06:49:52

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Luxury RV = Land Yacht

2024-07-23 06:45:17

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Trying to install GrapheneOS. Seems like I sourced a bad device.

2024-07-23 05:38:55

First attempt at using a non-Apple phone in over a decade today. Failed! Will try again in a few weeks...

2024-07-23 05:29:01

قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ ‏:‏ ‏ "‏ أَكْثِرُوا ذِكْرَ هَاذِمِ اللَّذَّاتِ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ يَعْنِي الْمَوْتَ ‏.‏
#note1nms…5q8u

2024-07-22 02:10:23

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Haven't tried log form yet but why not just publish to nostr at this point

2024-07-18 04:15:18

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Same LN address in bio ✅

2024-07-17 05:20:13

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Amazing collection! We need more content like this!

2024-07-12 02:06:15

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Doing justice is only fard upon oneself although we should certainky make attempts at encouraging good and forbidding what is bad. That said, the dominant opinion within Imam Malik's madhab is that hijra is wajib if one lives under a non-muslim ruler. And the reward of hijra is according to one's intention, so if the bros are making hijra even with less than the best of intentions at least the children will have a community around them that is praying and less apparently secular in behavior.

2024-07-03 17:59:26

"The cypherpunk ethos of "Don't trust, verify" was the basis of the Islamic sciences for centuries."
🔥 New Iqra from @npub1chm…r4y5
https://iqrapost.substack.com/p/notes-on-tasawwuf-as-opsec

2024-07-02 23:48:13

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😆

2024-07-02 20:11:34

"the age of the invasion of the body snatchers [has] truly arrived"
#note1lkf…lpcz

2024-07-02 19:48:20

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"the fentanyl of cyberspace" 💯

2024-07-02 18:52:45

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Looks fun! Might check this out as I need something for Egypt.

2024-06-18 18:54:52

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I have yet to check them out but have friends that really like them. Definitely seems like another good option!

2024-06-17 02:45:01

Considering I just had my second child with my Egyptian wife I found this quite funny. Uncle is totally correct - life gets much busier, but also much better!
#note1xqf…jx2l

2024-06-16 18:09:02

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Yeah, this could certainly help with large files

2024-06-16 18:01:13

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Been using Rumble for a year now but seriously considering uploading direct to Nostr

2024-06-11 08:00:43

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Seems like the iOS18 update is introducing Apples’ version of Microsoft’s Recall. I’d still like to think Apple’s the lesser of the two evils but they are really accelerating the being permanently included goal.

2024-06-10 20:34:50

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Which is worse? This or iOS 18?

2024-06-08 04:54:01

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Haven’t used Adobe for a few years but seeing the indie film community reaction to this has been priceless. Curious to see the new tools that will be developed from this shipwreck

2024-05-31 08:39:17

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Don’t forget Meta

2024-05-26 20:17:06

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Nope. Nice words about BTC doesn’t reverse this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Nawar_al-Awlaki

2024-05-24 00:35:14

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Didn’t realize this was released yet. Thanks for sharing!

2024-05-16 03:08:13

Very excited for this!
FYI, this might become a #LOTR stan account in September…
https://youtu.be/TCwmXY_f-e0?si=R8id9lvAyiq2amAl

2024-05-12 19:52:03

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Slugs are really common but that actually looks like it might be a rodent

2024-05-10 09:36:16

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Personally I found a point where I’m embracing the occasional bugginess. Just need to be more active.

2024-05-07 20:59:10

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Empirical surveillance is more in line with Deleuze’s “dividual” than Foucault. Always felt Hallaq’s silence on the techno-state as more a contrived ignorance. He largely reads like someone who has never touched a computer.

2024-05-07 00:20:17

The only dis track we needed:
#FreePalestine #HindsHall
https://x.com/macklemore/status/1787616471738368099?s=46

2024-05-04 06:52:56

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Any recommendations to add to my reading list?

2024-05-04 01:02:12

Instagram and WhatsApp gone. Got a ton of video content on Facebook that’s taking some time to migrate to a backup. Considering I need to get off Google next, what are some good video sharing options for data privacy?
I already use Rumble as a redundancy/backup and I’d like to try cross posting here to Nostr. Others I should check out?
#note12dl…07p6

2024-04-28 21:07:09

Meta apps: WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook - all queued for deletion this week. Let’s see how many I can bring over to Nostr 🤞
Oh yeah, Phoenix Wallet too 😔
Picked up this book on recommendation from @npub1chm…r4y5. I’ll probably add a few more books as detox medication.
https://m.primal.net/IBBb.jpg

2024-04-22 20:07:12

💯
Signal, Session, Proton, & Nostr are what I’m moving towards.
#note17jx…gj9n

2024-04-22 19:22:18

Google:
“This is too important a moment as a company for us to be distracted.”
Translation:
“AI is too important for us care if it is being use for genocide.”
#note1me9…tpr2

2024-04-17 21:08:13

Further evidence to my theory that AI is a weapon of the magical dark arts:
https://blog.paulbiggar.com/meta-and-lavender/

2024-04-16 20:56:01

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Allah is the only infinite, and Allah is indivisible.

2024-04-14 03:18:10

You know Twitter/X is dead when you stop going there for breaking news.
Today was that day for me!

2024-04-12 20:44:43

سبحان الله
#note1ffh…0ffh

2024-04-11 09:47:21

عيد سعيد 🌙
Must have been an update to Primal because zaps seem to now finally be working. Alhamdulillah! That was three months of learning more about bitcoin, nostr, and many other things and couldn’t be happier to be able to zap on Eid 🙂
Looking forward to building more in this space. Hope all of you had a blessed Ramadan!
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2024-03-25 05:43:34

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Under the assumption of progressive history the past really doesn’t matter or apply as of value to be studied. Only so much as to what can be forecast like the weather. The present moment becomes all that matters - what can my credit buy me today…

2024-03-23 21:56:24

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Yeah, there is a reason why history and economics are taught separately…

2024-03-19 03:04:48

Testimonial:
Last year the brothers at Bitcoin Majlis ran a bitcoin focused charity drive for @orphansofuganda raising over $6000 (~21 million sats) - nearly $14,000 in current valuation. This was my first time learning about and using the Lightning Network. Considering I still haven’t quite figured out zaps, I still have much to learn. But, I have learned enough that in the past year I’ve been able to orange-pill my wife!
If you’re looking for sadiqa options this Ramadan, this orphanage is a very good cause!
orphans-of-uganda.org/donate/
LN Address: orphansofuganda@833.mobi
You can learn more about them and last year’s campaign to support them here:
https://bitcoinmajlis.org/unleashing-the-power-of-zakat-through-the-bitcoin-lightning-network/

2024-03-19 02:20:47

Ramadan thoughts from the past week:
As Muslims we need to embrace time as a qualitative reality. Sure calculation my be permissible, but it is not from the sunnah.
Trying to do too much is the quickest way to burn out and (at least for myself) get sick. Consistency is king! And 2-3 goals is best. Be kind to yourself. Embrace relaxation and take a sunnah nap.
Keep your food simple. Make sure it is halal and aim for tayyib. I personally cut gluten and sugar a few months ago and have been mostly carnivore and my body feels like it is thriving! Also drink as much water as the food you eat.
Arabic only in the home. I’m not fluent myself yet so this is a big step for me. Ramadan is the month of Quran which is in Arabic so I’m trying to do all my audio content exclusively in Arabic. Amazing immersive experience so far!
Donate some Bitcoin to someone in need. If you’ve been DCAing for anything longer than 6 months you are insanely profitable, mashaAllah. I’ll make another note on this topic, but sadiqa is alway a good decision which much benefit.
May Allah bless us and reward our fasting!

2024-03-19 02:09:33

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Going to miss these newsletters. I learned so much!

2024-03-12 02:04:13

رمضان كريم
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2024-02-18 21:52:45

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...only a god can save us now.

2024-02-09 07:37:00

I recently swung by a café to get some remote work done. First time I’d had the opportunity to do this in probably five years. I was in the mood for tea, so I drove half-an-hour to go check out the only local spot I could find. Was able to get a decent ginseng oolong but the vibe of the place was just off (felt more like a fast food joint) and they were blasting pop music non-stop. The music was actually what really got to me as soon as I entered, and once I sat down I put my headphones in to drowned out the noise with salawat.
Is this the reality now? That everyplace has to have some background music playing? Elevator music was originally commissioned to give the perception of smooth and safe motion to the internal appearance of a static cage. Now one can’t escape noise pollution without a quiet pod.
What was once meant to beautify the mundane has now become an inescapable, infinite playlist modulating your pocketbook.

2024-02-03 20:59:43

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We are already in 2030. Pretty sure it was like 5 years ago...

2024-02-03 20:57:56

Employment is no longer about economizing the body's physical energy but rather its mental aptitude. AI's only hope of being freedom-tech will be in decentralization and self-hosting. Otherwise it is just another element of hypermodernity's cult of marginal progress. Tech is a drug, but the choice is are you an addict or a physician.
#note1hw3…4myw

2024-01-29 21:59:05

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Curious, is this move more an action against telecom or nostr? Nostr seems to have some solid advantages over email for newsletters , but telecom is still a giant for KYC.

2024-01-28 05:43:02

Consumption and contribution have collided into the economization of the content creator. There is a new IG filter every 48 hours, yet no longer any filtration systems to allow the metaphorical cream to rise to the top. In fact, we now have an utterly cluttered society full of homegrown and half-baked content. Where has the milking-cow gone? More likely, she has been replaced with soy or a synthesized alternative.
Case in point – my own experimental toe-dipping into the ocean of AI art generation:  My toddler loves cartoons. Personally, I’m disgusted with the quality available, not that toddlers should be watching cartoons anyway (as our pediatrician reminds us), but admittedly this is inescapable in our hypermodern era. So, with AI democratizing animation, I thought why not try to make one myself.
Today I picked up a copy of George MacDonald’s classic The Golden Key. It’s public domain and I would encourage anyone unfamiliar with the fairytale to check it out. I grabbed this copy as I wanted to get a peek at Maurice Sendak’s illustrations from the 1967 edition. I’d seen some hints already and knew the style I was exploring was dissimilar. However, as I flipped through the pages my wife called out over my shoulder, “That’s your aëranth!” (An aëranth is a magical creature that looks like the composite of an owl and a fish). Sure enough, the remarkable similitude between Sendak’s rendering and my AI generated rendering was obvious.   I present here both images for your consideration (mine being fully half-baked):
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2024-01-27 19:23:32

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It's the cognitive dissonance of the western lifestyle...
Primal on iOS > Damus , imo.
I wouldn't discourage anyone from using Damus though. Nostr onboarding, regardless of client, is a net good.

2024-01-21 22:00:08

RE: Islamic Cybernetics | @npub1chm…r4y5
The premised assumption that data trumps oil/energy when such accumulation requires ever increasing processing power, seems to ignore spatial realities and limits power projection to the realm of mass.
Hence, perhaps, the concluding leap to relegate fiqh to post-action rather than its juristic necessity in pre-action.
As with most things modern or post-modern, the overvaluation of data (mind over heart) leads to the erasure of the spiritual in its appetite of quantification.
https://notes-ibnmaghreb.vercel.app/collection/is-islamic-cybernetics-possible/

2024-01-21 21:15:11

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Fully expecting a reoccurrence of this with the BTC ETFs within a decade.

2024-01-20 09:54:06

The charm of the castle is constituted in its duty and honor.
Few have either.
Or know how to find them.
And project a facade into the polity prompting the fishmonger to believe he is a king.
Stay humble. Stack stats. Seek truth.
Generations will wonder at citadels we create.
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2024-01-16 11:45:55

I’ve been toying with the idea of Nostr for nearly a year now. I’ve never considered myself the techie in my family, but I can usually figure things out. Learning a new protocol is not simple - it’s not as hard as language acquisition, but more of a leap than learning to ride a bike or to juggle. It kind of reminds me of playing around with my grandma’s iMac when I was growing up in the mid-90’s. There are new, multidimensional connections that one has to put together. It will be interesting to watch how the tech giants embrace AI, the crown-jewel of the dying Information Age. Meanwhile from our couches, we will be determining the future of the Experience Economy.
#note

2024-01-10 21:36:23

going into '24 like . . .
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