"Cybertechnics will invite us to think deeper as 21st Century Muslims about the relationship between the State and the Believer. Hence the Cyber Muslim has to adopt planetery thinking, finding solutions to shared global challenges. For the message of Islam was not sent to one people but to all of mankind." View article →

Many people still think the future is something you build by launching a shiny new app/platform/interface and convincing enough people to move in, but I think that instinct misses the real problem. If the underlying rails are owned, if they are permissioned, or if they are legible to the same institutions that hollowed out the last internet, then all you’ve done is recreate the old world with better aesthetics and a more self-flattering story. Culture and myth are important, sure, but those alone cannot not save you. If the underlying infrastructure can be shut off, throttled, monetized, or “moderated” out of existence, then whatever you’re building is temporary and permissioned, no matter how compelling it feels in the moment. What actually lasts are movements that understand the necessity of long term memory, economic/social coordination, and exit. Memory can not be outsourced to hostile archivists who will sanitize it later (Wikipedia). Coordination can not depend on platforms that survive by diluting signal (which were distorted to begin with) into slop. And exit can't be a promise deferred to “phase two” in the convoluted roadmap. It has to be native. This is why serious movements always look selective from the outside. Not because they idolize exclusivity, but because coherence requires friction (toxicity). Of course, open doors at the initial stages with no standards end up recreating the same slop timelines. But a shared mission, rigid where it matters and flexible where it doesn’t, is the main outlook that keeps a group from collapsing into endless internal argument or external capture. That’s why the real work ends up being much more concrete than people expect. It's hard work and it's mostly boring. It looks like taking custody of your money so it can’t be debased, frozen, or moralfagged away, and coordinating with others on protocols that don’t require approval or some kind of brand alignment. It looks like building public spaces that anyone can read but only those willing to actually put skin in the game can meaningfully participate in. Money that settles without intermediaries, and communication that persists without an algorithm deciding who is visible, should be the bare minimum. Identity should be expressed through the hard work of figuring out how to use keys and building local reputation rather than outsourcing operations to zionist owned platforms and obsessing over stupid follower counts. This is less about launching something “new” and more about choosing to build long-term on different rails entirely, then slowly watching a culture spontaneously form around the people willing to live with the discipline those rails demand. TL;DR: stack sats and shit post on Nostr more

I love taking the kids out to go hiking in the forest Side note, the camera quality on the pixel9a is not bad!

I remember this sheikh saying at one point that Bitcoin is considered haram because it had no intrinsic value and it is too volatile. Funny how all of that doesn't matter since he's been censored from the fiat system. Funny how that rigid approach to Fiqh doesn't matter when reality hits. Anyway, welcome to the club.

"We are not seeing the end of history, but the end of the "Global Village." The world is being partitioned into high-walled gardens. Whether it is the U.S. in Venezuela, Russia in the Donbas, Middle East's straits, or China in the South China Sea, the message is the same: the era of universal rules is over, and the era of the Regional Pole has begun." View article →

"In the once-upon-a-time days of the First Age of Magic, the prudent sorcerer regarded his own true name as his most valued possession but also the greatest threat to his continued good health, for—the stories go—once an enemy, even a weak unskilled enemy, learned the sorcerer’s true name, then routine and widely known spells could destroy or enslave even the most powerful. As times passed, and we graduated to the Age of Reason and thence to the first and second industrial revolutions, such notions were discredited. Now it seems that the Wheel has turned full circle (even if there never really was a First Age) and we are back to worrying about true names again"

Incredible stats. I highly recommend running a lightning node. It's easier than ever to set up on umbrel or start9. You can even zap folks from your node too! View quoted note →

All I see is Riba Money View quoted note →

This is an interesting feature that I think nostr apps should incorporate. I view nostr as a tribe building engine. In legacy social media, users are algorithmically inventivized to follow and prop up influencers, and everyone is in a rage baiting rat race to get more engagement for potential revenue from social media overlords like Elon. The result is slop, predictably. I think things are arranged differently here on nostr where people naturally gravitate toward a group of like minded people. I mean this happens on legacy SM, but the algorithm isn't geared toward that type of community building. I have a feeling that "influencers" don't really thrive here, and we should be building around that and cultivating an toxic environment that rejects legacy influencer behavior. Growth on nostr should be about which tribes you're affiliated with, and your reputation with them, rather than how many mindless followers you've got. View quoted note →

Bismillah

But seriously what the heck is happening with the UAE recently?? It's like they recently cut their propaganda funding or they're using some shit tier promotional/marketing agency. I don't remember it being this egregious, or maybe I'm just now noticing. It's comical how bad it is.

Bookmarking this for when I install @GrapheneOS soon View article →

Interesting, and predictable, to see governments everywhere sprinting toward mandatory ID checks for age verification just for people to do anything online We're watching the internet get fenced in platform by platform. I suspect this crackdown will end up accelerating Nostr adoption inshaAllah. Get ready for the next wave!

Allah karim

They should just call it a euro stablecoin and they'd get a lot less opposition. Amateurs. View quoted note →

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I'll officially announce this in a few days inshaAllah, but I'll announce it here first since you nostr folks are special to me. The ebook copy of Anti-Riba Money is now freely available! You can download the pdf off of the Bitcoin Majlis website here: https://bitcoinmajlis.org/anti-riba-money/ Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and any feedback you have! Enjoy

The phenomenon of devs (not just in Bitcoin) being so economically illiterate, like at a comically infantile level, needs to be studied. They work with logic all the time, but it's like their brain suddenly short circuits when it's applied to human action. Very strange. View quoted note →

"Though I believe that the essence of Muslims all around the world is that rebellious nature against norms once you see truth." Our job when orange pilling is to take that instinct, that old Bedouin refusal to bow to anything but God, and wake it back up. The trick is getting people to see that the same nomadic spirit that crossed deserts now has to migrate into cyberspace, which comes with its own harsh terrain and logic. View quoted note →

This is really what all criticisms of Bitcoin ultimately come down to: "I don’t like that you possess something no one else can seize, freeze, dilute, censor, or gatekeep. I don’t like that you can opt out of the system without asking permission. I, or someone I trust, must have the final say over how you use your property." View article →