It makes sense to me, due to the nature of Nostr, that people should have two or three Nostr IDs. With one, you should have the freedom to say whatever is on your mind in the presence of contacts you don't know in real life -- but that one should be an anonymous ID. It can be reserved for potentially controversial posts that could be used against you, like those that express certain political, pharmaceutical, or religious views. Another ID might be a more measured, professional one, a public face of sorts, where you are well "behaved" and won't get in much trouble with the thought police. Thirdly, one could have a personal ID for contacts you know in real life. (Better yet, don't be on social media with your real-life friends -- actually be with them! Or send personalized direct messages through Signal.) All the while, in any case, it's important to keep in mind that whatever you say will likely stay on your "permanent record." You don't want to post stupid things in your 20s, for example, and have it haunt you in your 40s.

Sometimes when I use another Nostr client meant for the same purpose (such as microblogging), I feel like I'm cheating against the one I normally use. Of course that's silly. But the experience just shows that the protocol is decentralized and user-centric -- it's not meant to tie us down to one centralized platform. I hope Nostr developers continue to make strides in their great work. It's already cool; I just want it to be extra, extra supercool in five years.

I might be kind to a random woman in town, because we should love our neighbor as ourselves. But God forbid that we worship her! I should love my mom in a significantly greater way, because we are to honor our mother and father. But God forbid that we worship her! We should love the Virgin Mary more than any other woman, because she is Jesus' mother -- i.e., the Mother of God -- and because Jesus gave her to us at the Cross to be our mother, too. But God forbid that we worship her! Catholics are big on both reverencing Mary and having no other gods before the true God.

It's been hard to hang out on Nostr because of the non-stop Bitcoin chatter. But I come back today after a few months, and I see people are mostly taking about normal human things. That's great. I also learned of a new Linux client and the existence of remote signers. Super cool.

On the morning of Good Friday (yesterday), my brother had a heart attack, and his heart stopped beating. He was resuscitated. He was given a stent and it's believed he will make a full recovery. Not sure, but he might rise up out of the hospital on Easter Sunday: his own personal triduum.

Over the years, Pope Francis has changed the way I pray. As I begin the Rosary, I pray "for the holy intentions of the Pope."

The Church is a hospital for sinners AND a museum of the Saints in light -- with the Saints also serving as support staff.

While I'm happy to have Trump as our president, I am not a fan of promoting AI the way he does. If it is so powerful to do great things, it is also powerful to do evil things. It will be used for evil when evil men are in leadership. Even if you like and trust Trump, this is no time to relax one's fight for digital #privacy. Administrations come and go. You never know who's next.

Catholic Bibles are bigger.

I did early voting today. I try not to be judgmental, but I wondered things like who the blue-haired, mask-wearing fat lady with cankles and the rainbow t-shirt voted for. Also the black lady who forced her son to come in and vote with her seemingly against his will. And the guy behind me who was asking for an absentee ballot for his mother-in-law in the hospital. I wished I had gone in to vote wearing a garbage bag shirt.

J.D. Vance told Joe Rogan he uses Signal. We should make encrypted messengers more mainstream. No good reason not to.

No matter what our newly revised legal system says -- no matter what is believed by Dems or even by Donald Trump -- two dudes cannot in reality marry each other.

Kamala should stay at home as a homemaker to serve and love her husband.

ATTN SMART #PRIVACY SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS (I’m not one of them): We all know email is not the best solution for private communication. Rather than patch up a weak protocol (like the good work Proton is doing), can other privacy technologies and protocols — like XMPP, Signal, etc. — be tinkered with and reshaped to look like email? I’d like something that feels appropriate for long-form communications. I want it to look like email, with simple addresses (XMPP has this) and folders and tags — maybe even a calendar — and be available on mobile and desktop. Something where contacts and messages are kept private — stored on local devices and/or encrypted. Surely others have considered this kind of email replacement. Right? Or is it impossible?

I like Nostr a lot. But I think it’s important to remember that its censorship resistance does not necessarily go hand in hand with #privacy. If our identities are known on Nostr, then “they” can see what we posted years ago (problem: sometimes we change our views, or we say stupid things that can be taken wrongly, or say things out loud that we shouldn’t). And Nostr is also a fine way to create a social graph of people — to see who’s connected to whom. So wouldn’t it be wisest to have at least two different Nostr IDs? One for the public, and one that’s anonymous for more personal things we’d rather keep private? Otherwise, everything we say will indeed be part of our “permanent record” — something we don’t like when the government does it. For instance, one might have all sorts of things to say in opposition to Crooked H., Barack Hussein, Brandon, and Commie-la — but would that person want all that tied to his name if it can all be used against him? Am I thinking about this correctly?