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2025-04-01 02:02:12

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There just isn’t any novelty left - I’m not a doomer but to quote The Smiths-
“But that joke isn't funny anymore
It's too close to home
And it's too near the bone
It's too close to home
And it's too near the bone”
Not fast enough to answer your question.

2025-03-31 08:58:08

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I actually got a lot out of this book. It reminds you that there isn’t only one way to accomplish your life’s work. I resonate with the artists that only painted or wrote for short periods of the day - I can’t say I live that way exactly but I admire the value placed on the everyday life after all it is apart of the creative process.

2025-03-28 17:17:16

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Not really - never took economics in school either. Totally open to any suggestions. These books do not need to read as entertainment. I want to build my knowledge and vocabulary so lay it on.

2025-03-28 13:09:25

“A capitalist society requires a culture based on images. It needs to furnish vast amounts of entertainment in order to stimulate buying and anesthetise the injuries of class, race, and sex. And it needs to gather unlimited amounts of information, the better to exploit natural resources, increase productivity, keep order, make war, give jobs to bureaucrats. The camera's twin capacities, to subjectivise reality and to objectify it, ideally serve these needs as strengthen them. Cameras define reality in the two ways essential to the workings of an advanced industrial society: as a spectacle (for masses) and as an object of surveillance (for rulers). The production of images also furnishes a ruling ideology. Social change is replaced by a change in images. The freedom to consume a plurality of images and goods is equated with freedom itself. The narrowing of free political choice to free economic consumption requires the unlimited production and consumption of images.” - Susan Sontag, On Photography

2025-03-09 16:33:52

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My partner is a web developer and designer and I’ve been trying to get him involved in Nostr - but as he was signing up and going through all the flow there is a lot of friction. How can we help? Are there any other developers involved with Nostr in the Southern California area. We would love to set up a meetup to talk it over. I operate on vibes and for some reason even though I am new here I feel compelled to help.

2025-03-03 03:27:49

After being here on Damus a few days, I feel like I need to get this Bitcoin thing out of the way. I’ll keep it brief. I got into Bitcoin in 2016 after a web dev friend mentioned it.
As soon as I heard about it, I understood the potential. Ultimately though, I’m big on vibes and Bitcoin just made so much sense.
A little later in 2017, my business partner and I bought a laundromat in Echo Park, LA. We had a lot of ideas for this place - much more than a laundromat for sure. I immediately pushed for us to accept Bitcoin as payment, so we did. I was really proud of that—it felt important, like we were becoming a part of something bigger. But it wasn’t easy. We had to explain what it was to everyone, and some people thought we were being elitist. “WTF is Bitcoin?” blah blah blah… I get it — we were trying to do too much at once, not just with Bitcoin but with the whole concept of this laundromat.
(I often express myself with songs so of course I have a playlist that I played there at the laundromat on the daily, if you are interested, I will share it with you - for once I can see why people ask questions like this one - perhaps this is a ridiculous story to you lol.)
Anyway in the end, it didn’t work out. We sold the place at a loss a year later. (Still not ready to get into the details of that.)
People always ask me if I’d recommend buying a laundromat as an investment. My short answer? NO.
So, Maxis—what’s your Bitcoin origin story? https://image.nostr.build/87e754a0e5913f979e320ca5b2e43a371f0aca3e20b61fd54990496000d88e3a.png https://image.nostr.build/64ee41119b4a655e1d0d97a1acc6ab76d48d6eca6cfc383e49343229fa23d4f2.jpg

2025-03-03 02:14:08

I wonder how Satoshi is feeling today? Sending hugs. #grownostr

2025-02-26 15:15:47

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That is nice to hear.

2025-02-26 07:14:39

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https://youtu.be/ckM_TklU_AQ?si=tcRT9GCUsQAvMRYM

2025-02-24 01:03:43

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I love this. Thank you.

2025-02-23 03:17:51