There is a reason people make resolutions on New Year's Eve, and I don't think it's just because it's a new year. New Year's follows the biggest economic shut down that regularly happens in the west - i.e. the most sacred time in our calendar. This naturally makes room for reflection and a desire for growth, catalyzed by contemplation of God become man (or, at least spending time with family). This in turn makes us better people, able to do more good. We should take this kind of time out more often; maybe we would find ourselves less prone to bias, sunk cost, burnout, and lack of vision. Happy New Year, and Merry Christmas for 6 more days.

Just overheard someone use the word "google" and it sounded anachronistic

"I see us free, therefore, to return to some of the most sure and certain principles of religion and traditional virtue—that avarice is a vice, that the exaction of usury is a misdemeanour, and the love of money is detestable, that those walk most truly in the paths of virtue and sane wisdom who take least thought for the morrow. We shall once more value ends above means and prefer the good to the useful. We shall honour those who can teach us how to pluck the hour and the day virtuously and well, the delightful people who are capable of taking direct enjoyment in things, the lilies of the field who toil not, neither do they spin. But beware! The time for all this is not yet. For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. For only they can lead us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight." John Maynard Keynes

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"The rioters appear suddenly in armed parties, under regular commanders. The chief commander, be he whomsoever he may, is styled General Ludd." Nottingham Review, quoted by Paul Kingsnorth in Against the Machine

Merry Christmas nostr!

Here's a quick demo of my new multi-sig signer: I wasn't able to get away without having a password unfortunately (fortunately?), but apart from the email-only recovery process I think this is a pretty familiar UX. Looking forward to polishing it in the new year and getting it fully integrated into Flotilla. If you're interested in reading the protocol, you can find it here: https://github.com/coracle-social/pomade/blob/master/PROTOCOL.md. I'm definitely interested in any review. Eventually, I'll probably need to get this audited if it stands up to basic scrutiny.

HOT TAKE: Pluribus is not good. I know, 3 weeks too late but hey

Claude just told me "Real security comes from: proper rate limiting and attempt monitoring, not just entropy"