Jameson Lopp

My latest Function Health lab results claim I've knocked another 5 years off my biological age and am now a decade "younger" than my chronological age. Sorry, haters, looks like you're not getting rid of me for a very long time!

Had a guy introduce himself to me as the "roommate and... other stuff" to my second cousin at the Thanksgiving reunion today because he didn't know if I was one of the many hardcore Christian homophobes in the family 😬

It's a beautiful day to still be alive, amirite nostr:nprofile1qqsvfr3f7p95stxqrjslnmuvsmhcxxxqt8swjdfjx5tz7zq0yms5cygpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpzdmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82c30av56d8? https://video.nostr.build/cf1c290d1d219f45375af3f5a6462bdb3c4dce3b7bd4f9ec2311a10477cab264.mp4

In America we are taught to view the Pilgrims as adventurers who endured great danger in order to seek religious freedom. The full story is, of course, more nuanced. Many Pilgrims were Puritans. They did not sail to America to establish religious freedom for everyone, but rather to practice their own fundamentalist religion exclusively. And they didn't go to America because they were thrown out of England. They first went to the Dutch republic, where they stayed for over a decade. They decided to leave Europe for the Americas, of their own free will, in no small part because tolerant Dutch society was proving too alluring to their children and leading them away from the cult. Thus they made the decision to move to a place where they could brainwash their children in peace without the inconvenience of regular reality checks from interactions with non-puritans. There was actually a notable Puritan who supported freedom of religion. Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island. He was a Puritan minister and Massachusetts Bay Colony threw him out for preaching about the idea. He left for a bit but then went back to Massachusetts Bay and continued his preaching. The Puritans told him that he needed to leave under threat of death, so he went and founded Providence Plantations on the principle of religious freedom.

We long have suspected the entire BSV ecosystem was some sort of elaborate money laundering scheme, and it's finally starting to make sense... nostr:nevent1qqs8g3xnlh9j29ezw7287h8sgsdn80t8uam4n2lh82lmg7rz98fq3cspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtczypt58pelketcqek0z9q2n5c7x68mt2uyh79tfyrl97js6r4d2hruqqcyqqqqqqg6fjwk2

Haters say Trump doesn't understand inflation, but this is obviously fake news. Just look at the man. Dude gilds damn near every physical possession he owns. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-doesn-t-understand-inflation/ar-AA1R8EtN

Gotta love some of the religious billboards in the South. "Tired of porn? Jesus sets you free!" Instructions unclear. Am I supposed to beat it to Jesus? Isn't that gay and haram?

South Park did it again! The scene from Arlington, Texas:

Nice try, X 😏

What does it say about me if my video streaming service is bombarding me with HIV pharmaceutical commercials? 😅

One of Andrew Jackson’s trials (when he was a judge, before he became President, was interrupted by a drunken bully, Russell Bean, who was indicted for cutting the ears off his wife’s baby who had been fathered by another man. Carrying a knife and waving a pistol, Bean threatened to kill Jackson, the jury, and everyone else in the courtroom, and then he stormed out. Jackson ordered his arrest for contempt. The sheriff found Bean in front of the courthouse haranguing a crowd. Thoroughly intimidated, the sheriff returned reporting that Bean was too violent to apprehend. Jackson ordered the sheriff to form a posse, but Bean frightened the posse away. Jackson then ordered that he (Jackson) be summoned as a posse member. The sheriff did so and Jackson announced a 10-minute recess. He took off his robe, picked up his pistol and found Bean still causing a ruckus in the street. Pointing his gun at Bean, Judge Jackson commanded: “Surrender, you infernal villain, this very instant, or I’ll blow you through.” Bean instantly complied, later saying: “Why, when he came up, I looked him in the eyes and I saw *shoot.* There wasn’t *shoot* in nary other eye in the crowd. So I says to myself, says I: Hoss, it’s about time to sing small, and so I did.”

14 years after the franchise aired its last episode, Amazon has greenlit production of a new Stargate series! 🥳

Looks like Cloudflare is down which means half the internet is down, including X. Nostr FTW!

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It's been a very cypherpunk weekend. Lots of key management operations. FYI, creating SeedQR templates with pen and paper is a pain in the ass. Not much margin for error.