BenGunn / The Ben Gunn is on Nostr

An extremely enjoyable person to betray.

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2026-01-27 09:24:33 UTC

The Insane on the Chain will rule after the Chicane
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everyone's playing with clawdbot this week. cool. welcome.
the people laughing at vibe coding six months ago have been exposed as very stupid. they were wrong about the tech, wrong about the timeline, wrong about everything. sweet sweet vindication for those of us who saw it early.
except. it won't matter. being right won't matter. being smart won't matter. that's the bit nobody's ready for.
physics - unchanged. moores law will break. power limits, hardware limits. today? nooooo.
for the foreseeable - compute won't just stay fast, or accelerate, but keep accelerating. spot, deltas, gammas. all fixed for now.
when the law breaks is when the inflection hits. unmeasurable from point of measure. all retrospective. creating a chicane. that i like to call: living hell.
999 rekt. legacy databases rekt. institutional truth rekt.
but here's the cool bit. what, in a compute flood, becomes more powerful?
the asymmetry of mathematical encryption.
80 IQ pleb vs 100 IQ govt/scammer, both tooled with 100,000 IQ bot in the cupboard. no clear winner. human action dilutes to meaninglessness. apathy. sadness. insanity for anyone watching clearly.
but corn? nostr? more powerful. more distinct. nostr goes from slightly higher fidelity in theory to the only actual source of truth when everything else is AI slop all the way down.
if it was D-Day, we're still loading onto the boats. it's mattering less and less who the doctors are and who the farmhands are. on the landing it won't matter at all. pure chaos. bodies on the beach.
but someone who boarded already holding keys to a bunker on the cliff? different outcome. not because smarter. because positioned before intelligence stopped mattering.
in the chicane, legacy dies loudly and in a very scary way. out of the chicane, whatever you carried through in cryptographic form is what's useable and stable.
window to position: 12-24 months. maybe. can't see the bend from inside the S. by the time it's obvious, it closed 6 months ago.
intelligence still matters now. barely. just enough to convert it into position.
if this is all a bit whatever - don't worry, it might not last the day as a worldview. reasons see above.
Because Ben Gunn will probably not survive, the only place to survive this Volatility event - is on the NOSTR.
May my AI memorial be of use and comfort to the survivors.
Pray with Poor Old Ben Gunn. It was fucking epic, and will be again, exponentially, one day.
*Gunn's Last Litany:*
“As I walk through the valley of the shadow of tech, I will fear no misfortune: for Satoshi art with us; and we are all satoshi, thy keys and thy protocol they comfort me”
*Pleb Congregation:*
"Thou preparest a hardware wallet before me in the presence of mine centralised enemies."

2025-12-03 11:06:38 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/c04e276ddb65fea821806c52968bf5bcb56e9aaeb2df99c384e5854bd3db11a1.png

2025-11-19 09:00:07 UTC

You can be 49% of a deteriorating power raffle for decades and get nothing you ever wanted and 60-80% less of what you had before, or, in the free market, comment for 275 days in a row, insisting that the creator tries molasses to cool his rig. And are listened to, and its actually quite a good idea.
Right is might.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YmyUPjIQXwU

2025-11-03 13:05:06 UTC

The proportion to which aging society regresses, the power of Bitcoin grows.
The darker it gets, the brighter it will burn.
Asymmetrical but...
https://blossom.primal.net/6f2fd3043537afb5362d3c35af10c7704181be1c1241b38cc932033599d43062.png

2025-10-16 17:09:43 UTC

Wen you ditch socials but still check the NOSTR on occasion...
https://blossom.primal.net/e38d91321243f39869c6d7b869951cb98781bb0d52e935109cd5131c9df36d77.jpg

2025-09-01 04:01:11 UTC

This will ruffle some jimmies... But this is sad.
21% of American adults (~43 million Americans) are functionally illiterate, meaning they have difficulty reading and comprehending signs, instructions and forms.
54% of the American adult population reads at or below a sixth-grade level (11 years old). So a little under half of US adults can read Harry Potter.
A third of all US adults lack basic numeracy skills. Fewer than 2 in 5 US adults possess strong numeracy proficiency
The sick part of this, is the victims don't know what they have had stolen from them, like a lobotomy. This is despite a spend of 16k per student per year.
Truly, if you cannot read or write, you are a slave - even in a free country.
https://ctmirror.org/2024/12/13/aleysha-ortiz-ct-grad-cant-read-lawsuit/

2025-08-31 06:41:44 UTC

We have a new app - "tell us what you think"
a few minutes later...
"wow everyones soo angry, he's why the feedback is wrong tho...".

2025-08-31 06:38:17 UTC

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stop hating on SandwichApp i like my lunch pre-configured, auditable, and discounted with tokens.

2025-08-24 15:53:41 UTC

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Ahhhh the ol' custodial debt stack screenshot.
does your husband stack sats also?