jqw22
jamesdewhurst

jamesdewhurst.npub.pro

Studying for MA in Jungian & Post-Jungian Studies.
Interested in the similarities between freedom tech and alchemy.

Public Key

npub1hf9rnm4ssuf4y30zhs3x0k38yj555p6yxaft3zaqcdfnmhumf34sd8z24s

NIP-05 Address

jqw22@nostrplebs.com

NIP-57 Address

salmonoctopus1@primal.net

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nprofile1qqst5j3ea6cgwy6jgh3tcgn8mgnjf222qazrw54c3wsvx5eam7d5c6cspznh5

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npub1hf9rnm4ssuf4y30zhs3x0k38yj555p6yxaft3zaqcdfnmhumf34sd8z24s

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2024-09-24 20:27:14

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I agree. Washington and Wall Street are committed to 'number go up' through to the US election at least whatever the future cost.

2024-09-24 09:26:01

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Words mean nothing.
Judge on actions.

2024-09-24 09:22:16

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I have found Nostr is a place where the introverted type can express their extroverted attitude.
I am also a mathematician by education.

2024-09-21 23:14:57

Economy, Knowledge and Surveillance in the Age of the Crypto scene, 2018
Cesar Escudero Andaluz
Money Talks: Art, Society and Power - Ashmolean, Oxford
https://m.primal.net/KxIr.jpg

2024-09-20 21:17:28

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Capitalism is working fine for the people who control the western democracies, the wealthy, big business, politicans and the media. Bitcoin doesn't fix anything for them and the narrative that bitcoin is the solution is misleading imo.

2024-09-20 13:32:00

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I don't know what it is but it looks interesting.

2024-09-20 13:30:33

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One bot is helping to make the protocol stronger.

2024-09-20 09:03:25

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Agreed. Can you repost ever month or so?

2024-09-18 22:29:27

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Would you like to elaborate?

2024-09-17 10:01:33

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WoT is a short term solution while dev's continue to work on creating new solutions to the problems of scaling, after which WoT becomes one choice from many.

2024-09-15 18:14:32

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I think it's an error to suggest computers learn.
Computers process code.

2024-09-09 10:40:20

By the waters edge.
#photography https://image.nostr.build/0e0e361e94435760b833002f40122ccf88b50aa497fb74b77400c7151b45a14a.jpg

2024-09-05 20:54:14

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Personally I think you're crazy.

2024-09-05 07:21:26

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It sounds like my experience of using nostr is not dissimilar from yours and ongoing development will hopefully address these.
I am raising the option for app developers to focus on their own brand over and above nostr to grow their market share, which will drive competition and innovation and be a net positive to the protocol and community as a whole.
I suspect this will be a difficult transition for what is presently a relatively small homogeneous community of like minded individuals with a common interest. However it will be necessary to break out at some point for the protocol to become globally adopted like http.
This I believe would be a good outcome for individuals and society due to the protocols inherent characteristic in favour of individual identity and autonomy.

2024-09-04 14:33:27

A protocol for the future?
The potential for nostr and the tension between developers, the protocol and the individual.
A quick look at my feed will confirm I'm neither a developer nor a techie. Before nostr I never used social media, well I tried all the usual flavours but something didn't feel right and my trials never lasted long.
So why is nostr different?
Nostr, as far as I understand, is a protocol, so it's not like X or Facebook or whatever, it's more like http, which is the web protocol or smtp, which is an email protocol. Yet non-techies no longer even know what http is, never mind talk about it so what makes nostr different, will it endure as a collective term or will fade and disappear in time?
A significant difference in using a nostr app is, to my understanding, that when you post something on your preferred app, that content is stored, not within the app itself, but in multiple places outside and no longer in the control of the app. To a non-techie this is quite a hard concept to grasp, because it is counter-intuitive to what our use of apps has conditioned us to understand, which is, we go into the app to find the ‘stuff’ we posted there.
The second significant difference are the terms npub and nsec, which, again to my limited undemanding, might be equated with being my username and my key. My username is my identity, which I can share and my key is what I use to create new notes under my username. It is important to note for new users that mine is the only key that will create new notes under my username. Again this is quite a departure for users of traditional apps, which have used the access security of their containers to build confidence and trust with their users.
What will encourage users to try nostr?
To those early adopters of nostr, trust might not seem like a big deal yet potentially this is the biggest challenge nostr app developers will face in encouraging users to shift away from traditional apps. Censorship as a reason to migrate will only attract those who are concerned about it or who have experienced it, but that is no where near the majority.
Nor will word of mouth encourage the millions of X, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat users to leave their legacy, friends and communities behind.
Does nostr simply have to be better in multiple ways than the existing traditional app?
It is hard to imagine a future of nostr users in the billions, but maybe such exercises are worth attempting in order to help app developers choose what to work on today.
Will nostr require a consortium similar to W3C who maintain the http protocol?
How will users protect their identity from theft? Can their nsec be linked to face id?
How will app developers build trust with users?
Will a time arrive, in the same way that app developers sought to colonise the web, when nostr app developers will shift their focus to their own brand promotion in a competition for users to use their app?
Will someone build a dominant nostr search algorithm, similar to Google, or will Google expand their search to incorporate nostr?
The future.
If the nostr user base does continue to grow, the direction and flow of users collective behaviour will start to change from what it is today, driving app developers in new directions and undoubtedly attracting the attention of the existing corporate giants, who will seek to colonise and monetise this new frontier, as is their nature, and nostr app developers will need to beadaptable to survive.
However, the aspect of 'transferable identity' is an inherent balancing characteristic between the centralising pull of the corporate machine and the chaotic decentralising forces of individual idiosyncrasies, which offered great hope.
The ability to successfully maintain this balance creates a great opportunity for individuals and will potentially support society(s) to successfully bridge the gap between the present and a new world order?
#note
https://m.primal.net/Kdyg.jpg

2024-09-04 10:39:41

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Correction.
Many are unprepared for change.

2024-09-04 09:34:59

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The problem is the nostr user count is so low, content is limited meaning there is not that much to find.
But it's growing, slowly, and your posts will speed that process up.
Will still require patience and perseverance imo.
btw, what is dual process reasoning?

2024-09-04 09:20:22

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Thank you. I'll check it out.

2024-09-03 23:19:48

Fire water.
#photography
https://m.primal.net/HwPZ.jpg

2024-09-03 16:21:38

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Lack of trusted app verification with regards to my nsec.

2024-09-03 15:58:34

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How do people think this differs from the content transmitted via other social media networks? People kid themselves that the underbelly of life does not exist if they cannot see it.

2024-09-01 18:59:28

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It matters not whether you are red or blue, democracy is the illusion both are clinging to in the US. Same in UK and Europe. Politics and media are owned. No point calling them out imo.

2024-08-28 08:13:10

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Nostr is the only social media I have ever used and it captures something unique which is no one ownes it.
It can and will evolve and grow but winning is a paradox because by default this must imply inclusion of the social media users which it defeated and to achieve that it must be capable of accommodating views and types which it presently views as different.
We are growing.

2024-08-27 18:14:07

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On mobile, primal and damus. Also just started using nos.social because it's different and I'm interetsed to see how it develops, hopefully it will come off testflight soon.
On desktop, primal with an extension.

2024-08-26 08:28:28

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Machines do not and won't ever be capable of understanding irony.

2024-08-21 21:08:46

Interesting read on yen, USD and bitcoin over the next few months
https://cryptohayes.substack.com/p/spirited-away

2024-08-18 09:59:11

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Good to hear you reflecting on your opinions, keep it up, this is important work.

2024-08-17 07:58:53

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If you have come to nostr to replicate your previous experience, what is the point.
First step will be to discard what you have already learnt, then you may be ready to learn something new.

2024-08-17 07:52:20

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What we think of other people is all projection.
What we are really experiencing is an unconscious aspect of ourselves.
Your arguments for nostr always have an understanding of the requirements for apps to scale, which I don't hear elsewhere quite the same.
Have a good trip.

2024-08-14 19:34:58

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Conference from this year at Oxford University.
People are thinking/working on this for sure.
https://m.primal.net/Jzae.jpg

2024-08-14 09:22:30

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https://m.primal.net/JzHR.jpg

2024-08-12 11:49:23

Female.Male
Sister.Brother
Mother.Father
Light.Dark
#photography
https://m.primal.net/JxEY.jpg

2024-08-07 08:47:57

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https://www.bytetree.com/content/images/2024/03/2024-03-26-tmai-70-2.png

2024-08-06 16:26:53

The magic of light.
#photography https://image.nostr.build/16dbfed25236ebd9fbbe25a5ab4dd2ca4c2b8205a7b5cb6472ef7fda0133e85b.jpg

2024-08-02 06:59:46

How BBC are reporting current stance on Venezuela election
Overwhelming evidence Venezuela opposition won election - Blinken
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1d10453zno

2024-07-30 08:10:53

Clip from BBC news report
A number of Western and Latin American countries, as well as international bodies including the UN, have called on the Venezuelan authorities to release voting records from individual polling stations.
Argentina is one country which has refused to recognise President Maduro's election victory, and in response Venezuela recalled diplomats from Buenos Aires.
Diplomats from six other Latin American countries - Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay - have also been withdrawn for what Foreign Affairs Minister Yvan Gil described on social media as "interventionist actions and statements".
Meanwhile, US senior administration officials said that the announced result “does not track with data that we've received through quick count mechanisms and other sources, which suggests that the result that was announced may be at odds with how people voted”.
That was “the principal source of our concern”, they added.
“That is why we are asking the Venezuelan electoral authorities to release the underlying data that supports the numbers that they have publicly announced.”
However, the US has not yet been drawn on what the result means for their sanctions policy towards Venezuela. Officials have emphasised that while they have doubts about the result, President Maduro did call an election and allow an opposition candidate to be on the ballot paper - even if the opposition leader was banned from running.
The Organization of American States (OAS) announced late on Monday it will hold a meeting on Wednesday of its permanent council over the Venezuelan results.
@npub17am…nldk

2024-07-29 08:07:03

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This is how bbc in UK is reporting your election result. The article suggests a widespread concensus that your election was not an accurate result.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz5rj2mzgevo
Stay safe.

2024-07-29 07:53:36

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Chase these people at your peril. The Russell Brands of this world are about themselves, they serve only themselves. You, and Nostr, do not need them.

2024-07-24 12:11:28

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Confiscation is already well underway via financial repression. This step is simply a further tightening of screw.
History tells us they, our respective Governments, will succeed in this endeavour.
Our task is to navigate through storm clinging to whatever we can find that floats.

2024-07-23 23:19:41

This made the UK news today but people are mostly oblivious or in denial as to the consequences of the worldly matters outside of sport, celebrity gossip, fashion and generally getting by. No one is prepared for change.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c035d05je2jo

2024-07-23 23:08:45

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UK & Europe too. Stay small.

2024-07-21 11:39:01

https://m.primal.net/JYpc.png
The following passage is taken from Jung’s commentary in ‘The Trickster, A Study in American Indian Mythology’ by Paul Radin, first published in 1954. The passage is located at the mid-point of the
commentary and in it Jung connects, for the first time, the myth of the trickster to his theoretical concept of the shadow.
Reproduced in C.G. Jung’s, ‘On the Psychology of the Trickster Figure’, in Collected Works, volume 9i, para. 469.
‘Now if the myth were nothing but a historical remnant, one would have to ask why it has not long since vanished into the great rubbish-heap of the past, and why it continues to make its influence felt on the highest level of civilization, even where, on account of its stupidity and grotesque scurrility, the trickster no longer plays the role of the “delight-maker.” In many cultures his figure seems like an old river-bed in which the water still flows. One can see this best of all from the fact that the trickster motif does not crop up only in its mythical form but appears just as naıvely and authentically in the unsuspecting modern man—whenever, in fact, he feels himself at the mercy of annoying “accidents” which thwart his will and his actions with apparently malicious intent. He then speaks of “hoodoos” and “jinxes” or of the “mischievousness of the object.” Here the trickster is represented by counter- tendencies in the unconscious, and in certain cases by a sort of second personality, of a puerile and inferior character, not unlike the personalities who announce themselves at spiritualistic s´eances and cause all those ineffably childish phenomena so typical of poltergeists. I have, I think, found a suitable designation for this character-component when I called it the shadow. On the civilized level, it is regarded as a personal “gaffe,” “slip,” “faux pas,” etc., which are then chalked up as defects of the conscious personality. We are no longer aware that in carnival customs and the like there are remnants of a collective shadow figure which prove that the personal shadow is in part descended from a numinous collective figure. This collective figure gradually breaks up under the impact of civilization, leaving traces in folklore which are difficult to recognize. But the main part of him gets personalized and is made an object of personal responsibility.’
#note

2024-07-18 09:59:17

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Lancashire, Northern England. An area with a long mysterious past.

2024-07-18 00:18:29

#photography https://image.nostr.build/da90e852c01cb027b41857d5e80ae680145a89d24bd1d2f2af46c17fd5ec98b8.jpg

2024-07-15 19:19:36

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Follow is lame for sure.
I would like clients to use a more assertive term.
Even 'add to feed'.

2024-07-09 10:08:12

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Ability to control the menu tags on the top bar which default in from your posts.

2024-07-06 19:54:26

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Thank you, I will read and consider. However I still believe it's very difficult to compare two different systems over the long term. Also the conditions prior to NZ's change will not necessarily be the same in the UK.

2024-07-04 16:51:50

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It's a fantastic piece of work. To help me, and potentially others, have you any ideas on where non-tech userrs can learn about notes, events and long posts and what the difference is?

2024-07-02 10:04:36

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At some point in time there was an individual in Glasgow who had reason and took the time to make this image on a brick wall down Ashton Lane.
That we can project any number of thoughts and feelings onto this mysterious image is equally amazing.

2024-06-30 14:54:22

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The advice I was given when I made a similar decision was to have enough funds to last 6 months without an income. Then you don't have to accept the first opportunity that comes along.
You could also take a flexible low pay job 1 day a week to cover some expenses and still have 5 days left to develop your network.
It's hard work and I wish you well.

2024-06-28 15:36:40

#photography
#bandw https://image.nostr.build/0f7e80319a5491e675ed615c3162bd8d551818562f4edd4f44830c88e3ea0303.jpg

2024-06-20 11:10:34

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I guess some users want moderation and so there is opportunity for some devs to provide it.

2024-06-15 07:44:17

Possible interesting event at Oxford University Mathematics Institute https://image.nostr.build/b6698d476a365091c9e3a8de0d93d9657ad4ea79293388d3844acb3068c40f77.jpg

2024-06-11 08:44:05

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It's very shit, that's for sure.

2024-05-19 07:48:52

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Lessons from History. Financial repression. UK 1950 to 1980.
https://youtu.be/S5NA0nS2o-8?si=UKiH_7VGNlSDvPzZ

2024-05-16 08:09:59

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East Lancashire, UK

2024-02-27 10:46:51

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This is quite a profound statement, touching on the infinite nature and creativity of the human psyche which you appear to have captured in the nostr protocol.

2024-02-26 14:12:29

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I love that image.

2024-02-06 23:20:35

When I myself am transformed, that is proof of work.

2024-02-03 11:18:45

#photography
https://m.primal.net/HaWV.jpg

2024-01-27 13:47:24

#photography
https://m.primal.net/HZVI.jpg

2024-01-27 13:43:23

Felt like quoting this from #jung today. In a world full of polarisation where many firmly believe they are aware of their individuality, where in truth I think "individuals are equal only in so far as they are in large measure unconscious of their actual differences."
The quote implies we each see the world through our own lens but are unconscious that everyone elses lens is different from ours.

2024-01-13 22:56:24

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Amazing

2024-01-09 09:34:52

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I interpret his tweet to be about protecting against censorship and maintaining access to all, I might be wrong.
Agree it's very clumsy and admit I also once paid to hear his views, until it seems his success went to his head.
When you realise someone is not for you, don't waste energy, just move away.

2023-12-29 12:39:54

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Interesting read on LLM's
https://www.epsilontheory.com/an-ai-in-the-city-of-god/

2023-12-28 22:39:28

#photography
https://m.primal.net/HVjz.jpg

2023-12-28 20:18:48

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Indeed, they already have.

2023-12-28 17:29:44

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Okay not replace all but whatever is built must be resilient and it must survive.
My main point is to highlight that monetization, in my humble opinion, increases competition and reduces cooperation.

2023-12-27 12:37:57

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I live in UK btw

2023-12-26 17:43:39

This years Christmas Present
https://m.primal.net/HVQq.jpg

2023-10-28 22:51:08

What is the point of Ln if I can't buy anything?