Always great to hear @Bitcoin Mechanic 's perspective. Good listen. https://fountain.fm/episode/Zkz8oD0hAeFM6r5VeZJr View quoted note →

This hits a little too close to home 😔 "Sometimes I logged on to DM the friends I’d made in Miami—UX designers with endless reserves of Ritalin, a DnB music label boss, an academic doing her doctorate under a former member of the CCRU. Eventually, we all grew impatient with Landscape’s clunkiness. Our conversations sputtered out or migrated to Signal." I need to do better on using more nostr tools for messaging. View quoted note →

Really cool! View quoted note →

Got another one! ✊ View quoted note →

Incredibly eye opening history and downfall of Urbit:

Compact

The Rise and Fall of Urbit

During the 2020 Covid lockdowns, the privately owned realms of the internet became the obligatory venues for public life.

So much to learn from here. I could totally see Nostr going down this path if the community is careless. Nostr devs would do well to read this. Relevant quote 👇 "Privacy, which ostensibly set Urbit apart from Big Tech platforms, was a staple of their marketing rhetoric—but according to employees, the network’s actual encryption was a work-in-progress. “Sovereignty” was more of an aesthetic signal than a description of my actual relationship to my data. Urbit came to feel uncomfortably similar to the subscription-based cloud services I had previously hoped it might replace."

Alhamdulilah! This went well. Lots of questions about nostr and how it works. I shilled them noornote since it was easy to get started with. My message seemed to have resonated with the folks in the Webinar. There were about 20 people listening in. View quoted note →

Yeah, Bitcoin culture needs a reboot, but I guarantee you that the reboot will not happen on legacy social media (LSM) If bitcoin culture is ever going to be revived, it'll be here on Nostr. I am here for that.

I'm gonna be giving a 10 minute presentation about nostr this Saturday Does anyone have a quick blog post or video introduction that I could base mine off of? Because of how short this is, I think I'll just mention briefly how nostr is different from LSM, how it's open source, how identity is tied to public/private keys and not stored on someone's server, briefly how relays work, and zaps of course. #asknostr

The Malaysians be cooking 👀

#staySAIF

I'm really excited for this! I think setting up another Muslim Bitcoin Summit in the UK just makes a lot of sense. So much potential there. Need to inculcate this Bitcoin idea to Muslims everywhere View quoted note →

Chapter 2 of an exploration of the K-Wave. On anthropotechnics, immanent reversal and sacralization. By @Eco al-Hollandi Read here:

SAIF - K‑Waves and K‑Tactics — Phase 0: Pulse

Society for an Alternative Islamic Futurology - K‑Waves and K‑Tactics — Phase 0: Pulse

You can become a modern day Hawaladar by simply running a lightning node

Eid Mubarak everyone! Be sure to repost all the eid Mubarak posts you find so I can zap them. I have a lightning wallet that needs to be emptied.

What will be scarce?

The economics of structural change and the post-commodity future of work

Great essay, especially the part about the human element itself becoming the product in a post automation world, though I don't care much for the econometric methodology used, the conclusion seems correct. Relevant passage:

He's here! View quoted note →

Good to take breaks from social media sometimes and do other productive things But always come back. There is lots of work to be done here. View article →

Great essay for anyone wanting to get started down Digital Hijrah. As mentioned in the essay, you don't have to do all of this at once. Start small and go from there. View article →