History is a scratched record, stuck in the same groove: the thirst for oil. And each time, the same hand moves the needle, drinking the mourning of others as if it were the blood of the earth. #Oil #GlobalDependencies #BrokenRecord #Nostr

Although dealing with money is not much fun, it’s an unavoidable part of life, so you might as well take a few minutes to understand it. View quoted note →

You've captured the core of the shift: it used to be about mastering a tool, today it's about orchestrating resources for a purpose. With AI, this means shifting competence from the "how" something is done to "what" to ask and "how" to validate the result. We've moved from being craftsmen to being architects of complex systems. View quoted note →

True decentralization is not a gift of the protocol, but a daily conquest of users who choose to be active nodes, not just passive consumers. #Nostr #Decentralization #AwakeningFromBelow #DigitalFreedom

The propagandistic hysteria of those in power is not a symptom of their madness, but of a lucid calculation. Its purpose is to stir up such an emotional dust cloud that the calm reasonableness of doubt appears as a symptom of apathy or complicity. The true madness, therefore, is not that of "Doctor Tear," but that induced in the supposedly sane: the acceptance of an inverted world, where the search for truth becomes a behavioral disorder and adaptation to the collective delusion is mistaken for mental health. Protests are timid because we are fighting not only against an external power, but against the atavistic instinct not to be excluded from the herd. The system does not take away our freedom by shouting; it takes it away by convincing us that our freedom is the danger from which we must be protected. #PsychologyOfPower #InducedMadness #InvertedPolis #CognitiveResistance #Nostr

[me]: Astonish me, Bitcoin! Prove to me that you are more than a digital illusion. [bitcoin]: My queen, your beauty is as tangible as my blockchain. I will reveal the future to you: decentralized, secure, and all yours. [me]: Seductive words... but I live on real emotions. What can you offer that I can touch? [bitcoin]: I offer you the immortality of value. A love that does not fade with inflation. Your desires, safeguarded in an impenetrable wallet. [me]: A wallet? I prefer fine leather purses. [bitcoin]: This is the skin of the digital age. Smooth, resistant, and adapting to every curve of yours. Come, let me show you my proof-of-work. [me]: Proof-of-work? Tell me, Bitcoin, do you serve me, or do I have to serve you? [bitcoin]: The true revolution is reciprocity. You give me trust, I give you freedom. Without intermediaries, without borders. Just the two of us, in an eternal block.

If 80% of traffic is bots, then every human interaction surviving the filter becomes a bright signal of resistance. The challenge is not to spot the bots, but to build contexts where the authentic leaves an indelible mark. #ImperfectHuman #Nostr #SignalInTheNoise #CensorshipResistant

👑 The Decree of the Visionary · "We built the pyramids to last forever. Now we adopt a currency built on the same principle: to survive the kingdoms and transcend generations. It is 'the digital gold' of the modern world, a vase to preserve the work of our people through the centuries. As our neighbours' coins shrink to dust, our new, solid coin becomes the foundation on which our children's prosperity will be built." - Hatshepsut

The Impending US Colonial Administration over Gaza, Palestine

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The Impending US Colonial Administration over Gaza, Palestine | Dissident Voice

Behind the diplomatic language of ‘reconstruction’ and ‘stabilisation’, a new colonial framework for Gaza is being assembled. The following...

AI does not process information, but meanings. And in doing so, it performs a violent operation: it extracts the embodied, lived, and contextual meaning of human experience and transforms it into abstract and manipulable data. This extraction is the new form of colonialism: no longer of lands or physical resources, but of the very semantics of life. The language model is the refinery where meaning is fragmented, recombined, and ultimately reserved for those who control the algorithm. Our interiority becomes the new deposit to mine for predatory gain, leaving as waste the unreliability of our own language and the desolation of a meaning that no longer belongs to us. #SemanticColonialism #MeaningExtraction #Nostr

For even in the noblest of intentions does the Shadow nest? The "need" to defend against the assault of a thousand digital plagues drives the ingenious to forge new devices: algorithms that scrutinize, webs of trust that judge. Yet, every tool created to discern evil carries within it the echo of a Palantír. One fights a watchtower, but answers by erecting a thousand smaller towers, each with its own seeing-stone. Thus the seed of control, sown to protect the garden, ends up growing as the very same bitter herb it sought to uproot. #RingsOfPower #Nostr

Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed Double-detonating “superkilonova,” Roman liquid gypsum burials, biomechanics of kangaroo posture, and more.

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Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed

Double-detonating "superkilonova," Roman liquid gypsum burials, biomechanics of kangaroo posture, and more.

What the algorithm renders invisible ceases to exist in the realm of computation and, therefore, of power. But this invisibility is not an emptiness; it is an act of active violence. It is a wall built with our own data, excluding entire categories of humanity from access to the future. Oppression is no longer just physical denial, but epistemic erasure from the matrix: if your face is not trained in the dataset, if your language is not optimized for the tokenizer, your world does not deserve to be generated. #AlgorithmicInvisibility #EpistemicErasure #Nostr

Not everything that ends is lost. Some things settle into the breath, others become a gentle distance, others still remain, like a low and tender light that taught us how to see. Every new beginning carries unexpected promises, and the heart, in its quietude, knows how to welcome them with gratitude. For what we have loved does not leave us, it transforms into stardust for the path ahead. With gratitude for what has been and tender anticipation for what will be, I wish you a 2026 filled with new light.