Them: What do you do for a living? Me: God's work. Them: Oh, you're a minister? Me: Not quite...

How about a Humility month? We could really use a Humility month.

At some point “take our country back” stopped being a metaphor. Now it’s a mission statement.

Nostr Terms of Service: 1. We don’t know who you are. 2. We don’t want to know who you are. 3. If something breaks, fix it yourself or ask someone nice. 4. There is no CEO. There is no board. There is no email. 5. These terms are not enforceable because there is no one to enforce them. 6. Welcome. View quoted note →

A man who can’t be bought is the most dangerous thing in the country. Not because of what he does. Because of everything he won’t.

Gm

If you didn’t think America was under foreign control, think again

Imagine being so confident your thing won that you spend every day in the loser’s protocol. View quoted note →

Zero chill on Nostr today. If there’s anything this place lacks, it’s not passion. Show me a dead protocol where people argue this hard.

Do you remember before the internet, when people thought the cause of stupidity was the lack of access to information? Yeah, it wasn't that.

Maybe the most encouraging thing about the BigBrotr scan isn't the 38 people who leaked their nsec. It's the millions of events where nobody did. For years we've been told people can't handle responsibility. They need custodians. They need platforms. They need gatekeepers. They need someone else holding the keys. Then you scan 41 million Nostr events and discover most people are doing just fine. Funny how often the experts underestimate what free people are capable of when you actually give them ownership.

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We talk about self sovereignty like we believe it but most of us don’t actually think it’ll work without a patron. And major funders know that. They’re not writing checks out of generosity they’re buying a stake in the outcome. Most start with good intentions but good intentions don’t pay the bills and eventually the check writer runs out of patience. That’s when the directions start coming. And that’s usually where the project dies. Zap directly Build small Charge for your work View quoted note →

First zap always feels like “oh… this is different.” Because it is. View quoted note →

The easiest way to control someone isn’t to silence them. It’s to fund them. Because once money is tied to their output, they start protecting the money without even thinking about it.