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Sunday Brunch goes live on nostr in ~90 min at 12pm ET/ 1600 UTC. I'm joined today by @AZA_21m from the @npub1rjtr...mp8a (and much more). She's bringing a carefully curated playlist with her and I'm looking forward to digging in. The show will be live on your favorite nostr livestreaming client. Tune in!

Me with my pencil and notepad when the inevitable inference-cost reckoning arrives

New Plebchain Radio is live 🔔⚡️🟣 Ep. 155 with @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 is a builders’ episode: permissionless doesn’t remove gravity, it just removes excuses. We get into: – why the latest “politicians + Wall Street” Bitcoin cycle felt dirty and why Bitcoin can’t survive as asset-only – the state of Nostr client UX and why UTXO built Wisp for Android (inbox/outbox, basics, shipping) – Nostr DMs: NIP-04 vs NIP-17 vs the next thing, and the current interoperability trench war – replacing Nostr.band-style search/trending with real ranking signals + “trending as relay feeds” – wallets + NWC-first UX, and why Lightning still fails when your node sneezes If you care about Nostr actually working for normal humans, this one’s for you.

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Plebchain Radio • 155 – Capturing The Will‑O’‑The‑Wisp with UTXO The Webmaster • Listen on Fountain

Episode 155 opens with Avi’s sermon “Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls”: permissionless networks don’t remove gravity. They remove gatekeeper...

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GM Too much cerebrating, not enough stickybeaking

Having written one full fiction book and ~70% of another in the past 1.5 years of the “reasoning” AI era, one thing is abundantly clear to me: AI is dreadful, cringe even, at writing creative fiction even with the most elaborate prompts – I haven’t used a shred of what it’s given me. That includes Opus 4.6. However it is exceptionally good (and getting better, especially Opus) at editing – developmental, line, and copy. This has been invaluable for me in the writing process.

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Sunday Brunch Ep 9 is live ☕️🎶⚡️ This week’s guest-DJ is Budtender from @Hash Power Music , and it’s a proper “coffee + record player” decompression session with the house rule intact: 90% of sats streamed during songs goes straight to the artist. We talk: the Nostr serendipity chain that pulled him from “silent Bitcoiner” into music onboarding Hash Power Music’s vision: keep what worked from labels, ditch the predator incentives, let artists stay sovereign a Brunch-worthy playlist with everything from stadium-sized rock to dark cinematic vibes and a big plug for South by Worldwide: a Bitcoin/Nostr, Lightning-enabled music festival running alongside SXSW where zaps/boosts route live as acts change

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Plebchain Radio • Sunday Brunch 9: Budtender (Hash Power Music) • Listen on Fountain

Sunday Brunch #9 is a classic “coffee + record player” decompression session with Budtender (Hash Power Music) as guest-DJ, running on the hous...

Wrong stream name. This is Sunday Brunch with @Hash Power Music live now! View live event →

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Episode 9 of Sunday Brunch goes live on nostr in ~2hrs at 12pm ET/ 1600 UTC Joining me today is @Hash Power Music, bringing a curated list of artists they have onboarded into the open music world The show will be streamed live on your favorite nostr livestreaming client. Tune in and shake those saturday night cobwebs off !

New @Plebchain Radio episode is live 🌀⚡️ Today’s episode is with @Sourcenode , and it’s a pattern-walk back to the center. We start with a sermon on weaponized escapism: the system doesn’t just sell distractions, it aims to keep you numb, looping, and harvestable. The real exit is constructive escapism: retreat into craft, build tools, make art, write code, and turn flight into creation. Then Sourcenode and I get into: • why Nostr feels different in the nervous system than legacy platforms (and why clout is a golden handcuff) • “fiat” as something deeper than currency: unwinding psychological and social layers • Bitcoin as trust-minimized, not magically trustless (the social layer matters) • the risk of financialization turning money into “asset-only” • practical onramps: helping businesses adopt Bitcoin and build real vendor networks If you like conversations that trace the mandala back to the source node, press play.

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Plebchain Radio • 154 – Mandalas That Converge To The Sourcenode • Listen on Fountain

Episode 154 opens with Avi’s sermon “Weaponized Escapism”: in an attention-extraction world, the urge to flee is rational, but the kind of es...

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Going live on nostr with @Sourcenode in ~1hr at 3pm ET/ 2000 UTC for episode 154 of @Plebchain Radio Available on your favorite Nostr livestream client

Say WoT? Ep 4 is live 🔧🕸️🤝 I sat down with @Marks (CEO of Maple AI, ex-Apple) for a technical deep dive on the question hiding underneath the whole agentic future: How do we get useful AI without turning our private lives into training data? We get into: – privacy-first AI design (local encryption + confidential computing / secure enclaves) – why “AI proxy” setups still leak prompt content to big model providers – the coming “inference hangover” (venture-subsidized compute doesn’t last forever) – agents with memory and permissions, and why the real problem is attack surface – Web-of-Trust, identity, and signed events as bots and humans transact side-by-side If you’re building on Nostr, thinking about agents, or just want your AI to stop being a snitch … this one’s for you.

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Avi is joined by Mark Suman (CEO of Maple AI, former Apple engineer) for a technical dive into the intersection of AI privacy, confidential computi...

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In ~2hrs at 1pm ET / 1800 UTC, @Marks joins me for Episode 4 of Say WoT? to talk about how AI agents are taking over nostr and what we can do to hasten the enslopification* Tune in on your favorite nostr livestreaming client for this important conversation 👀 *or something. We haven't actually discussed what we're going to cover

GM I yearn for the good old days when men were men and masked their waning testosterone with sports cars. Now it’s agentic frameworks