This might be a question younger people won’t relate to, but here goes:
What is an album/CD you bought because of a hit song, then came to love everything on it EXCEPT the hit song?
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Going 1st:
Modern English’s brilliant “After the Snow” (hit song “I’ll Melt With You”)
also 4 Non Blonde’s “Bigger Better Faster More” (“What’s Going On”)
Another ‘80’s pick - Underworld’s “Underneath the Radar” (love this one SO much, but I still also love the titular hit as well).
Started watching “Yellowstone” w/ my girlfriend.
While I appreciate the storyline and direction, I’m having a hard time buying it, and it’s kinda pissing her off.
So I’ll leave these thoughts here where it won’t matter if they trigger anyone, and go back to enjoying the show with her.
As someone who grew up in rural Texas - and as a Maxi - the whole Hollywood “rich dudes can still be tough-as-nails American Cowboys” daydream in “Yellowstone” is like watching shitcoiners cling to proof-of-work.
It isn’t real, it never was, and it’s some kind of last, sub-conscious projection of power before an inevitable hard wake-up call, imho.
The American Cowboy was a fantasy that captivated the world, yet never actually existed. It was irl simply a unique decade or so when poor white trash were given free license “go take what you can, do what you want - Government will come in and mop up later”.
Yet that very, very brief, unique era for a handful of Americans enraptured and encaptured human imagination worldwide forever. Freedom and Responsibility.
I can only hope Bitcoin is that same, remarkable opportunity.
I hope this (likely brief) era for Bitcoin will somehow light a fire in our collective soul as well.
I don’t see how it can. But then no one scraping and raping the American West saw themselves as heroes either. They were just following their selfish - yet briefly free and unfettered - incentives.
Just like I’m doing now.
The role of Artists, imo, is to envision the future and question it.
As an Artist, I’ve watched what’s happening with “AI” (a misnomer)…and have been excited and also dismayed.
But long story short.
Art has been in a nadir for decades now. Overrun by formula. By Fiat money
I welcome our new AI-bandit overlords. They’re going to break the fiat system. For the 20 years or more.
After that, humanity will retake Art and Culture.
But that’s a long way off.
We have a generation of wild-catters decentralizing “Hollywood” ahead of us right now.
Just a PSA reminder because it’ll be forgotten soon, so never forget:
“If you can’t openly audit an election, it’s not an election.”
Ok Nostr mods, delete my last post plz.
I’m hearing it had dark tone. Mebbe this moar better for the champagne-and-ketamine crowd:
@yellow
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@Narwhal Tacos
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BFF!
You never stopped believing
@yellow
Throughout the long, dark night of all our souls.
Your suffering will never be forgotten.
The Central Feature of all false, misleading Spiritual Philosophies:
“If you don’t embrace, you are against.”
This is unerring.
Truth never demands commitment.
Bitcoin always exposes true incentives.
Bitcoin always exposes the dumb money.
Bitcoin History: The Slaying of the Bear Whale (2014)
lol
A Whale-Wall of shorts at $100K.
Wall Street remains the dumb-money in Bitcoin.
Asian markets will eat this up over the weekend.
$110K coming in hot and fast…
Weekend pump to $100k territory incoming.
I can feel it in my coins.
100k by Monday.
Saturday night in the US, when fiat markets are closed.
Bitcoin is surging more rn than during most of the year’s “phenomenal” ETF-accumulation hours.
This is Nation-State adoption front-running. imo.
And if so…it has barely begun.
In that light I want to say that I appreciate all who read this, and hope you’re happy and grounded and warmly loved. I have a feeling things are going to move very, very quickly from here on out.
Good morning Nostr!
Anyone on iPad know a Nostr app that seamlessly allows Zaps yet?
I’ve been here for more than 2 years and still can’t Zap.
I don’t want a multi-party workaround. I want a single client I can plug any lightning wallet into and zap away.
Not to nag, just wondering if I’ve missed anything yet.
Peace be with y’all!
When I was young I thought Life was a thing.
And as I grew older the thing became complicated.
So I concentrated, incorporated, coordinated, consolidated, orchestrated and
Centralized.
And as I grew older the thing became simplicated.
Which isn’t a word in any dictionary or thesaurus.
Things are funny that way.
#Bitcoin
This is a pivotal story, imo, pre-dating Ross Ulbricht and the Samorai Wallet devs, about how the Deep State/US Gov’t has been targeting and building an “off the books” case against Bitcoin. This fascinating interview (skip about 20mins in to get to the meat) outlines the early steps in the (then) soft-war to build a straw-man legal basis for extra-legal activities.
Arrest first, compile a case after. This first tactic was to freeze-out independent developers of the burgeoning Bitcoin ecosystem, and create a controlled firewall around it that only “officially approved” developers can interact with it.
They didn’t recognize Bitcoin for the threat it was to them, now they’re treating Bitcoin like they treated every errant country in the World…the standard CIA playbook.
The secondary tactic btw is “taxation”, esp unrealized gains taxes on Bitcoin. The goal now is to force all us Plebs who front-ran, to sell it to them for freely-printed Fiat paper money. They won’t come to our houses, they’ll send us a bill. And if you didn’t buy on exchange, you’ll be sent to IRS court for an interview.
The Deep State doesn’t hate Bitcoin. They WANT the Bitcoin.
Which means they have to get it from us.
The War against Bitcoin has not even begun. They will turn us all into Saylors.
This is the Tea Party the gun-toting Libertarians never had the huevos to take on.
https://rumble.com/v5k0get-targeted-for-bitcoin-inside-ian-freemans-unjust-conviction-by-the-governmen.html?e9s=src_v1_mfpWorth a read, imo:
“Regardless of who wins the presidency, the result of the 2024 elections is likely to be the most pro-crypto Congress ever — and one that could deliver the industry’s long-held lobbying priority of removing regulatory roadblocks….
“When it comes to new players on the scene, there has not been something to just explode like this — to go from an industry that spent very little to being arguably the biggest spender of the election cycle,” said Jordan Libowitz, vice president for communications at the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, an ethics watchdog that tracks campaign finance issues.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/21/crypto-super-pac-spending-industry-friendly-lawmakers-00183754I have to say what’s fun and funny is watching Wall St simps learn that Bitcoin is actually super-fucking boring.
I’ve straddle both “streets”, I’ve been there. I’m fully in the maxi camp trying to keep things interesting, and will continue to do so…
…but the swirling drain of truly Sound Money will inevitably become very uninteresting to talk about for Men and Women who don’t have anything else going on in their lives.
When productivity and resources become slowly cheaper and cheaper, what becomes valuable is human ingenuity, competence, and happiness.
Is it possible to send/accept Zaps using Nostr on iPad?
