The six-second gang is coming to save nostr. View quoted note →

The irony of Claude telling me that my observation "is real" is not lost on me. "Your instinct for NixOS horseshit is well-founded, because the ambient nature of nixpkgs is real." "The churn is real." "The convenience is real." You know what will never be real, Claude? Robot consciousness and agency.

Which do you prefer. "Welcome to bitcoin. Bitcoin is just the first step to becoming a thoroughly sovereign mythic capable man who is going to fix the world, so you'll need to load up on praexology, learn the memes, change your diet, and subscribe to the following wellness fads. Here's a discount code for blue blocker red lens glasses." Or "Welcome to bitcoin. The world is going to shit, and you'll need to learn how to use it to survive."

Nostr "culture" is an extension of Bitcoin "culture", which is an extension of libertarian-type "culture" 's tendency towards the deep LARP. Libertarians latch onto a compatible idea or movement, world-build around it, and proceed to do nothing but use it as a dreamboard or a radicalization funnel -- nothing gets done. Seasteading used to be an oceanic engineering problem. And then the libertarians saw it was ideologically compatible and spent years dominating the dialogue. The whole thing became a hollowed-out space of unlaunched boondoggle projects. Bitcoin used to be a digital momey software project, and then the libertarian-types used it as an incubator for influencers who seem to avoid the subject of bitcoin-as-software in favor of dreamboarding about how bitcoin is going to fix food, music, architecture, art and people. These narratives are sold as a sponsored babysitting service to buyers of bitcoin, who endlessly listen to the podcasts while they wait around to get rich. Hardly any of these people use bitcoin out of necessity, but just as an extension of their ideological LARP. Eventually, the dominant social media platform wasn't ideologically compatible enough with many "bitcoiners", and that brings us to why nostr is the way it is. A handful of devs tirelessly try to make nostr a thing, and any traction in adoption is quickly squashed when the the tourists see the bitcoiners doing their babadook-why-cant-you-be-normal thing.

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Relaxing with some high culture shit

Shut up, nerd. View quoted note →

Oh Dainty Don. We love Dainty Don, don't we folks? He can't hold. That's what people say. People say he can't hold, what can you do? The bitcoin leaves his lettuce hands faster than no other. He's like magician. Poof. Dainty Don. View quoted note →

Update: Had to go with Papa John's via a Bittefill card This was literally how I did it in 2015. I was able to pay with Lightning though, so that brings us up to 2021, since they didn't have a node until 5 years ago. View quoted note →

I would buy pizza today with bitcoin, but it is bound to be a disappointment. I likely will have to rely on purchasing online gift card codes, which will likely be gated with doxxing requirements. This is barely better than 2015.

Bitcoin devs appear largely to not give a shit about what bitcoiners want. Nostr devs appear largely to not give a shit about what bitcoiners want. How is it that we are holding all this "empowering" "sovereign" money, but we still get cucked on all sides by dorks.

Went to go update my LN Address in Amethyst and I almost went apeshit when the field was missing from edit profile. Updating Amethyst brought it back.

WOULD SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME HOW WE ENDED UP IN THE SPLINTER REALITY WHERE DEVS ARE STARTING TO LOSE THEIR FUCKING MINDS ALL AT THE SAME TIME. View quoted note →