proof of cabin

i was poking around Mises .org and found F.A. Hayek's 'The Road to Serfdom' in cartoons. enjoy. https://cdn.mises.org/Road%20to%20Serfdom%20in%20Cartoons.pdf https://mises.org/library/road-serfdom-0

just like the internet protocol (IP) enables much more than just websites, the nostr protocol enables much more than just twitter clones here's a great list of the wide range of products, applications, and services that have already been built on #nostr :

Explore Nostr Apps

(i did not curate this list i just love it 💜)

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. —Aldous Huxley

my 2002 toyota camry has never broken down even once. no mechanical failures, no electrical malfunctions, no engine troubles

the establishment of a national bank with state capital and exclusive monopoly is item number 5 in the Communist Manifesto (1848), and there are only ten items fascinating let's see what the Founding Fathers of the U.S. thought of this idea: “Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.” —George Washington to J. Bowen 1787 “All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.” —John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 1787 “And I sincerely believe with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” —Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816

"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic."

"At one time, before uses were discovered for petroleum, the presence of oil in a piece of land lowered its value, since this unaesthetic ooze could find its way to the water supply or make a nuisance of itself elsewhere. It was the kind of land that unscrupulous operators would unload on the unsuspecting. Some people found themselves owning land with oil on it through gullibility—but when such land later became valuable, the owners became just as rich as if they had wisely foreseen it all." —Thomas Sowell

i'm honestly jealous of the people who get to read about this time period in their history books with shock, horror, and disbelief

pv fam 🤙🌅

atrocities and violence erupting in the middle east again after centuries of deeply rooted generational conflict, religious belief, and racial division social media managers for like a soap brand:

i bought 1/4 cow worth of grass fed beef from a local rancher and on a per pound basis it cost less than potato chips

[checks in on Threads] there's #nostr and there's everything else

so many software devs i follow are now all of a sudden "AI Engineers"

can you imagine being in charge of the Victoria's Secret brand strategy for the last few years and deciding that "deprioritizing sex appeal" was the way to go 😅

one fun theory i have is that people who look good for their age actually just look their age. it's their peers who look bad for their age.

It is so easy to be wrong—and to persist in being wrong—when the costs of being wrong are paid by others. —Thomas Sowell

being offended is a decision you get to make. you are always complicit in any feeling of offendedness.

people out here feeling hurt and disrespected and angry when someone mistakenly uses a pronoun they don't identify with friend, i let a coworker call me an entirely different name that doesn't even rhyme with mark for a full year because i thought to myself: who cares just be as kind to other people as you can bear. the rest is details.

all these new startups with ".ai" in their name are more than a little reminiscent of the ".com" bubble