I have an interesting story to tell. I worked in the music industry for most of my adult life in one form or another. But it was not until today that I actually sat down and listened to the song Photograph by Nickelback. The existential experience that I'm having in this moment is difficult to describe.

#RIP #Dolly Parton What a unique human being she was. She was like a living superhero whose power was charm.

I don't have a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other. I have a wise, strong old man on one shoulder and a whiny jerk on the other. Now and then, a circumstance will reveal them both. I only need the strainer, but I have to remove the biggest pot in our collection to get to it. One shoulder just revels in how absolutely unfair this is that the universe would order itself this way. The other shoulder reminds me that there's a chance that this is the very worst thing that might happen today. The most interesting piece of this to me, though, is the way I can make this better is not to try to murder the whiny one, but to love him and teach him to listen to the other guy.

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The next thing I'm going to say is not meant to be a call for action. It is only an observation. Timothy May was a seminal cypherpunk who wrote a book called "The Cyphernomicon." In it, he predicted and advocated for a world built around ideals of self-sovereignty, freedom, freedom of thought and expression, and privacy. If you enjoy exploring technical concepts, it's worth a read. It's intense in places, and he understood encryption and surveillance long before most people, as well as how a counterculture might rise in defense of these fundamental rights. One of his particularly controversial and prescient predictions was the emergence of markets where people could bet on outcomes... something we've now seen materialize in prediction markets. This brings us to something just one step further: what May predicted would emerge as an "assassination market"... a way for individuals to anonymously pool money into a bounty that would be released to an assassin who could prove they had carried out the act. Someone who would rob a group of people for whom this concept resonates quite strongly is brazenly foolish. We live in an age one step away from that very future. I wonder if they now worry about a risk they may not have fully considered. View quoted note →

I have been working on my own "freedom tech" infra recently... and am pleased with some of my progress. And some of it is open to anyone's use. strfry relay: relay.jmoose.rocks Blossom server media.jmoose.rocks nostr tools: tools.jmoose.rocks BTC explorer explorer.jmoose.rocks BTC node: jmoose.rocks Monero node: not open to public The nostr relay is not comprehensive, but it's fast and works. Feel free to use it. The Blossom server will allow unlimited access with a 100 year retention (lol) for my friends. If you are my friend and want this let me know. Youre on the list. But right now it's also open to all with 2 year retention. Depending on (ab)use I might pull that though. Yet if it gets uploaded I will leave it So use away! Feel free to use the explorer. My logs stay pruned. I do not give a whoop about your data so it's a good place to do your lookups (trust me bro). I might spin up a mempool.space clone, but those things chew up so much resources... The old school BTCExplorer is as solid and fast as ever. The Nostr tools are ways to look up events and npubs etc on various relays. It's a WIP but is mostly working. Knock yourself out. (I am also glad to give anyoneone who wants a NIP05 address. In fact one of the next things I build will be an automated way to request that. It will cose 250 billion SATS if you expect it to work forever, and is free otherwise. The monero node is mine, and I use it, and I am sick of the maxi/monerobro bullshit so you can't use that. GFY. But light a scented candle and put on some Barry White first. Love, moose.

Wow! The new Yakihonne app looks great! But pay only. AND ~$144/yr? I do wish them luck as I want to see good new development in the nostrsphere. But there is no way I can afford this currently. :/ This is a sort of catch-22 isn't it? They should feel free to charge for their hard work. But I wonder how many accounts they will get? I suppose a handful is better than zero.

#Bluewallet is definitely the most underrated mobile Bitcoin wallet. Open source, very simple interface, yet all kinds of powerful features, fabulous import and export capabilities, multi-sig, coin control. Works with hardware signers including airgapped. Solid.