Last Notes
But But Israel cares about humanity.
Let’s make it a song…for the VOID of course.
https://wavlake.com/track/c8237763-eb7b-4777-9705-c7bc7b1a7c3d
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A Nostr Haiku…
PV to the void
the void zaps me twenty one
we are friends now, void
Next day I return
the void has gained a follow
it is a bot. Hmm.
I post a long thread
on decentralized money
the void replies: "k"
We fight. I mute it.
Two relays later, it's back
the void forgives me
Now we zap each night
no algorithm to judge us
just me and the void
Israel printed a steak. Soy protein, methylcellulose and a premix blend, layered by a machine to fake the marbling a real cut gets on its own. It's on shelves in the Northeast now, and the box calls it “premium.”
A 250 gram "marbled steak" with 26 grams of protein. A real ribeye that size carries more than double, and it got there eating grass in the sun. Methylcellulose, for the record, is the same binder in fiber laxatives and wallpaper paste.
A cow belongs to whoever raised it. A cartridge of premix has a patent and a licensing fee, and the rancher gets written out of the story.
We already learned you can't print money and call it value. Dinner works the same way. Find a rancher and keep paying for the real thing while it's still easy to get. *Emphasis in the picture is mine*. You can’t make this sh*t up.
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Pick up your copy of Nostr’s CEO on Time Magazine. Hurry, it’s limited.
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@npub1aeh…4nwx pointed out this has a name, the firehose of falsehood, and it's only one tool in a much older kit. There's the big lie, too large for anyone to believe was invented, and the kernel of truth, where a lie hides behind one real fact. Laundering plants a claim somewhere obscure and cites it up the chain until it looks independently sourced.
When criticism lands, you discredit the source, distort the facts, distract, and make caring feel pointless, or you just answer with whataboutism. The subtler tools look like freedom. Reflexive control makes you choose what someone wanted and call it your own idea, controlled opposition keeps dissent in safe lanes, and a limited hangout confesses a small truth to bury a bigger one. In the West, ownership and access to officials do the censor's job for free, and the result is manufactured consent. Rename something and the label wins the argument, and keep people afraid of a permanent enemy and they'll trade freedom for protection.
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Modern propaganda has mostly given up on convincing anyone. It works better to flood the room with so many claims, counterclaims and manufactured emergencies that you eventually stop trying to sort them, because sorting has become exhausting and nobody can keep it up forever. A tired mind gives up on asking what's true and settles for whatever feels familiar or belongs to its own side.
That exhaustion is the real win for whoever is running the game, because a person too worn out to reason will hand over the job of deciding to someone else. Protecting your attention is how you keep the ability to think for yourself.
The only place left with ads is a book.
Sovereignty is boring and repetitive, and that's how you know it's real.
Sovereignty is boring and repetitive, and that's how you know it's real.
Outrage feels like participation. You read one more thread and walk away convinced you did something, when all you really did was hand your mood over to whoever wrote the headline. The people who profit from your anger have figured out that a feeling of action is cheaper to sell than the real thing.
GM. Back from a long, offline weekend on the lake in Coeur d'Alene with my family getting all of my attention. Felt good man. Real good.
But I am back and it’s good to see you all this morning. Missed you guys. Here’s a few pics from the trip.
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It’s not can, it’s a shall. lol.
How do I use this? It’s asking for password? Looks awesome btw
Gm Nostr.
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https://blossom.primal.net/cb55e9d41d0a78b80651f06f2ee71fa021f6c26f841688647abb153404b2b426.jpg
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Haha. For sure. I got a good quote repost for that.
I have a 🧠 and write my thoughts out loud for all to hear. lol
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Dear Satoshi,
It's been a while.
You missed a few things.
First, your internet money worked.
This has created enormous problems.
The dollar still exists, but now half my friends measure their net worth in sats and their self worth in follower count.
Speaking of followers, we built a decentralized social network called Nostr.
It was designed to eliminate gatekeepers.
Within six months we had influencers.
Within twelve months we had celebrities.
Within eighteen months we had people posting screenshots of engagement metrics while explaining why engagement metrics don't matter.
Progress.
A guy spent 10,000 BTC on two pizzas.
Every year we celebrate this event to remind ourselves that we're all financial geniuses.
The celebration consists primarily of calculating how much the pizzas would be worth now and suffering.
You'd love it.
The banks eventually adopted Bitcoin.
Not because they were convinced.
Because there was a fee involved.
The same people who said you were dangerous now offer Bitcoin exposure in a retirement account.
The same people who said "never trust banks" own it through those accounts.
Everyone claims victory.
A software company borrowed billions of dollars to buy Bitcoin.
Then more companies borrowed billions of dollars to buy Bitcoin.
Then investors bought the stocks because they couldn't get enough Bitcoin.
Then those companies borrowed more money and bought more Bitcoin.
A generation of MBAs now believes debt is a mining rig.
We call this institutional adoption.
You probably called it something else.
The block size war ended.
For about six minutes.
Then we discovered new reasons to fight.
We fought over ordinals.
We fought over inscriptions.
We fought over spam.
We fought over filters.
We fought over software clients.
We fought over whether fighting was good for Bitcoin.
At this point the fighting is one of Bitcoin's longest-running consensus mechanisms.
Nobody has changed their mind since 2017.
The arguments continue anyway.
Your whitepaper was nine pages.
Bitcoin podcasts now require seasons.
The Monero people still tell us Bitcoin is surveillance.
We still tell them nobody can audit their supply.
Both sides believe mathematics is settling the argument.
Both sides post about it every day.
Neither side appears confident.
Quantum computers are supposedly coming.
Depending on who you ask, they'll arrive next Thursday or sometime after the heat death of the universe.
The proposed solution is to move old coins.
Which brings us to you.
A surprising number of people would like to secure your coins by confiscating them.
For safety.
Bitcoin governance has matured considerably.
My node validates every transaction on Earth.
It sits in a closet making tiny blinking lights.
My family believes it's a router.
I've decided that's close enough.
I memorized twelve words to become my own bank.
I immediately stamped them into titanium, engraved backups into steel, created encrypted copies, distributed geographic redundancies, and developed a disaster recovery plan.
Being my own bank has become a part time job.
Nobody knows where their seed phrase is.
Everyone insists they know exactly where it is.
These are not contradictory statements.
On Nostr, strangers send each other tiny amounts of Bitcoin called zaps.
This is revolutionary because we've finally monetized agreeing with each other online.
People now earn money for posting pictures of coffee and saying "stay humble."
Some make a living doing this.
Capitalism always finds a way.
Also, there are now AI versions of you.
Several, actually.
They all sound confident.
Which means they're probably realistic.
As for me, I don't care about price.
I checked it this morning.
Then after breakfast.
Then after saying I don't care about price.
Then one more time to make sure I still didn't care.
Bitcoiners have become exactly what they feared: A global network of paranoid optimists with hardware wallets, strong opinions, and twenty browser tabs open.
And somehow...
you were right.
It's still running.
It's still 21 million.
Nobody has managed to print more.
Trust us, many have asked.
Thank you for disappearing.
Had you stayed, we'd have blamed you for everything.
**P.S.** If you're still around, send 21 sats from one of your wallets.
You would instantly settle thousands of arguments and create millions more.
**P.P.S.** Please don't send 21 sats from one of your wallets.
We finally got the arguments organized.
Truly Yours, Contra
Verizon: "Can you hear me now?"
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I'd explain it to you, but I don't speak Walmart.
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I know. lol. Nostr frustrations. 🤣
What if "event not found" was found?
Asking for a protocol.
You know gas prices are ridiculous when the guy in the lifted truck isn't revving his engine at Walmart during mating season.
Don't pick sides until you know the full story. Some people are really skilled at making others look bad.
They are. Quite expensive as well.
That would be legit. I’m with ya