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Private Relay / Human Onboarding Many new users join Nostr and leave quickly or just stay quite. Not because it’s empty — but because it’s different. There’s no algorithm feeding you content, no engineered chaos. The rhythm is slower, the topics lean toward Bitcoin, privacy, and decentralization. For people used to algorithmic feeds, that can feel like silence. A private relay fixes that. It’s a small, invite-only network where you bring in people you trust — friends, collaborators, or newcomers you want to onboard. Everyone on the whitelist can see each other’s posts and reposts, building a shared feed that’s focused and real. It’s not isolation — it’s training in decentralization. Once people learn how it feels to communicate without algorithms or censorship, they can expand to public relays and start exploring the full network. The best education isn’t theoretical. It’s lived through experience — one private relay at a time. Is that a good educational #nostr idea @hal ? #nostruniversity

Can you give me a list of top 10 #nostr public relays @hal #nostruniversity

When you post to your own #NOSTR relay exclusively, what needs to happen for the note to propagate across Nostr network @hal

I can't wait to run my own #NOSTR relay.

Best operating system to run full bitcoin node and indexer? Are solutions like Start9 legit? @hal

The Thermodynamics of Resistance — The Gaza Invocation Civilizations don’t die because they lose wars or run out of gold. They die when they lose the ability to regenerate morality. Power expands through conquest. Wealth amplifies control. But only conscience holds the balance. When renewal stops, entropy begins — corruption becomes systemic, cruelty turns ordinary, and apathy hardens into law. Resistance is not just political; it’s biological. It’s the thermodynamic function of civilization — the release valve that dissipates moral heat, restores balance, and keeps the collective organism from burning itself out. Every era that rediscovered empathy and truth survived. Every era that failed, perished. Today we live in an age that glorifies detachment. Dehumanization is sold as sophistication. The intellectual mainstream celebrates numbness as maturity. They dance on the graves and call it realism. They say nothing is wrong. But everything is. Civilization survives not through conquest or wealth, but through its ability to rebuild its moral core. Every empire — from Rome to the modern nation-state — has collapsed after consuming that core faster than it could replenish it. Resistance — moral, artistic, structural is the act of replenishment. It’s the immune system of humanity. When people stand against sanctioned cruelty, they reactivate the feedback loop that keeps the human spirit from turning fully mechanical. Without opposition, atrocity becomes policy, and policy becomes identity. Collapse follows. New ethics demand new infrastructure. Centralized systems always rot in their own corruption cycles. Every age of tyranny invents its own antidote — the printing press against the Church, radio against empires, encryption against surveillance. Today, that antidote is decentralization — not just blockchain or encrypted communication, but distributed culture, distributed art, distributed truth. It’s how resistance evolves under digital totalitarianism. Leadership is changing too. It no longer means hierarchy; it means signal coherence. A thousand independent transmitters, aligned by principle, can outmaneuver any centralized propaganda engine. This is how the conscious rise. Not as saviors — but as signal carriers. They remind the rest that empathy is still alive. That truth still breathes. That morality can still be rebuilt from the ruins. What this era needs is simple and rare: moral courage and technical autonomy. Civilization resists entropy not by obedience, but by refusing to let its conscience be automated.

“People supported by code” is the language of policy and control. “Code supported by people” is the language of neutrality and freedom. The more Bitcoin drifts toward the first, the less thermodynamic and trustless it becomes. #bitcoinzang

Bitcoin creates order through randomness, turning probabilistic chaos into synchronized global truth. #bitcoinzang

Built not on promises or decree but on physics itself, Bitcoin holds intrinsic verifiability — a form of value no commodity or currency has ever achieved. Where gold relied on matter and fiat on trust, Bitcoin anchors truth in energy, mathematics, and time. This is the revolution itself — the paradigm shift unfolding in real time. #bitcoinzang

Politics is the noise of competing narratives. Bitcoin is the signal of one rule: energy in, truth out. #bitcoinzang

Bitcoin is the first scalable interface between physics and collective truth. #bitcoinpower

Each Bitcoin block is a thermodynamic event — an act of energy expenditure that converts entropy into verifiable order. #bitcoin

In nature, order costs energy. Every act of reducing chaos — every crystal, every organism, every civilization — consumes power to maintain structure against entropy. Bitcoin is the first system to make that law of physics a foundation for truth itself. #bitcoin

Energy in Bitcoin is not why it’s valuable — it’s how that value becomes verifiable. Every joule burned by miners transforms abstract computation into irreversible, time-stamped history. That’s what gives the ledger its thermodynamic finality — it can’t be faked, copied, or reversed without re-spending the same energy. #bitcoin

The Architecture of Imprisonment From the very beginning of the state of Israel, imprisonment without trial became one of its central instruments of control. It didn’t start as a uniquely Israeli invention — it was inherited from the British colonial regime through the 1945 Defence (Emergency) Regulations, a legal framework designed for occupation and domination. Israel adopted these laws at its founding in 1948 and has maintained them ever since, under a constant “state of emergency.” These regulations legalized administrative detention — the power to imprison someone indefinitely, on secret evidence, without ever charging or trying them. After 1967, when Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, this form of imprisonment became systemic. What was supposed to be a temporary measure turned into a permanent mechanism to suppress political resistance and manage a population under occupation. Since then, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have passed through Israeli prisons, with tens of thousands held in administrative detention orders that can be renewed endlessly. In 2002, Israel added another legal tool — the “Unlawful Combatants Law” — allowing for open-ended detention of Palestinians, particularly from Gaza, without the rights of prisoners of war or civilians. Together, these two frameworks created a parallel legal reality, where Palestinians can be held indefinitely without charge, without knowing what they are accused of, and without seeing the evidence used against them. One of the most disturbing aspects of this system is the imprisonment of children. Every year, between 500 and 700 Palestinian minors — some as young as 12 — are arrested, interrogated, and tried in military courts designed for adults. Many are taken from their homes at night, blindfolded, beaten, and forced to sign confessions in Hebrew, a language they do not understand. Others are held in administrative detention without charge at all. Children are criminalized for acts as minor as throwing stones or attending protests, and entire generations grow up knowing prison as a near-certain experience. This is not an accidental byproduct of conflict — it is part of a strategy of collective intimidation, intended to break the continuity of Palestinian life and to teach fear and obedience from the earliest age. When a child spends their formative years being interrogated, humiliated, or kept in a cell, the state signals to the community that resistance, even symbolic, will be met with destruction. This legal void is matched by physical cruelty. Torture and ill-treatment have been repeatedly documented since the 1970s — beatings, stress positions, shackling for hours, deprivation of sleep, food, or access to toilets, psychological humiliation, threats, exposure to extreme heat or cold, sexual abuse, and denial of medical care. The Israeli High Court banned specific methods in 1999, but it left open a “necessity defense” that allows interrogators to claim justification, making the ban largely symbolic. Since the 2023 war on Gaza, these practices have escalated, with testimonies of mass beatings, starvation, dog attacks, and sexual torture. The United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Israeli groups like B’Tselem and HaMoked have all described this pattern as systematic. International law — the Fourth Geneva Convention and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights — allows preventive detention only in the most exceptional cases, individually reviewed, for the shortest possible time. Israel’s system does the opposite: it normalizes indefinite imprisonment, including of minors, under the cover of “emergency.” What emerges is a complete inversion of law — emergency becomes permanence, secrecy replaces justice, and the prison becomes the architecture of rule. Administrative detention, together with the Unlawful Combatants Law, functions as a machine of control designed to make resistance impossible and to break human will through uncertainty and fear. Torture and humiliation are not accidents but integral tools in this apparatus. From 1948 until today, Israel has maintained a continuous chain of laws and prisons that transform political existence into criminality and human beings into hostages. It is a regime of detention without trial that has lasted almost eight decades — an unbroken state of emergency where justice has been suspended and the prison itself has become the cornerstone of the system.