darrello
Darrell O’Donnell

In a prior life, we were working on decentralized systems for military/dual use (e.g. search and rescue). We learned this:
When you think a single piece of information may be your advantage, you control the flow of information.
Control is hard to let go of.
The new reality (and this was known decades ago) is that information FLOW is your advantage.
It is about how MUCH information moves, how FAST it moves and how quickly you DECIDE & ACT on it.
With AI this is becoming very clear. When you mix in a kinetic exercise with 10 people taking out 10,000 you get the signal you needed to teach the old-school folks that...
the information must flow
https://babel.ua/en/news/124941-wsj-ukrainian-military-defeated-nato-troops-with-drones-during-exercises-with-allies

2026-02-06 14:39:08 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/6c8997c6275f8acbe43510757da1b44ee117e5786f70a937b937e2d87a694651.jpg

2026-01-21 17:51:42 UTC

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That exercise, my dear friend, is left for the student.

2025-12-27 18:02:24 UTC

Definitely some good thinking here.
Why Nothing Brings You Joy Anymore - Alan Watts https://youtu.be/F79CMl6V-Ps

2025-12-25 22:38:34 UTC

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Back around 2000 I used to import Moleskine notebooks. They were unknown and amazing.

2025-12-13 19:02:19 UTC

Author concludes with this point.
I would add
“…and do they want us to know?”
https://substack.com/@darrellodonnell/note/c-187452128
https://blossom.primal.net/79e5312b2b1c669b678b0b7b7dab2ce54f19847fb73e74023a67107630b2d15a.jpg

2025-12-13 18:51:28 UTC

https://substack.com/@darrellodonnell/note/c-187452128?r=97yn&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

2025-12-07 15:14:03 UTC

Political Capitalism. This is the thing we are up against.
“Political capitalism is the capitalism you get when the cheapest, most reliable way to improve your rate of profit is to invest in the political process, to get favorable regulation, pork barrel government contracts, and cash bailouts.”
‘“capitalists have gone from profit-seekers to rent-seekers…”’
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/06/big-nascent-important/

2025-11-15 15:31:45 UTC

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https://ocmeco.org/ is doing good work here.

2025-10-31 11:11:31 UTC

Working with "my buddy Claude" on some identity-adjacent stuff in VS Code. There is some irony to this...
https://blossom.primal.net/060254e66c6e682dcb0dfe8a8e722f21dc54830612565145168c3d5431819b0b.jpg

2025-10-31 08:44:01 UTC

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Uniform Resource Bus

2025-10-25 19:00:10 UTC

Yup. Most private browser. Perfect privacies…
Sure…
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/this-browser-claims-perfect-privacies-protection-but-it-acts-like-malware/

2025-10-25 18:54:00 UTC

Foundations:
- identity
- communications
- payments
- trusted data

2025-10-25 18:53:09 UTC

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Ok. Then which is the genus? Wrong answers only.

2025-10-24 19:58:39 UTC

Do #nostr apps receive a portion of the Zaps that I send (or receive?
No: should/could they?
Yes: should/could they?
I want the best UX and am willing to pay - directly (already doing it) and indirectly.

2025-10-23 17:08:54 UTC

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nostRoad

2025-10-20 17:07:21 UTC

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Only true is no regulators or laws exist.

2025-10-15 16:02:17 UTC

Digital Threat Modelling Under Authoritarianism
https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2025/09/digital-threat-modeling-under-authoritarianism.html

2025-10-11 22:36:18 UTC

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“Montreal Smoked Meat”?

2025-10-10 23:03:06 UTC

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just keep swimming

2025-10-10 21:57:35 UTC

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Tell the stories you can tell well and thank you!

2025-10-09 13:53:44 UTC

Human Attention > Machine Attention
But how much greater???
https://youtu.be/2JcuRhCKZdA?si=zVfzwMrMZGlA6i6B
https://blossom.primal.net/21957199c085991a546bb85fefeb307a9500f2f54595620fa4bc7ea0c0e2996f.jpg

2025-10-07 19:42:53 UTC

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Canadian Thanksgiving is coming up. Scares off Turkey.

2025-10-06 13:20:52 UTC

Seth Godin's This is Strategy is one of the best, and most actionable, books on strategy.
Especially as it applies to things that are changing the world (hint: #nostr #bitcoin).
https://image.nostr.build/3f3be40bdfa79e056bbb9c5c1394871b587604932df1b2f1166773ee58633e54.jpg

2025-10-04 14:45:13 UTC

Very true. Drives a lot of our thinking at Ayra.
https://ayra.forum
#note12wy…s4vm

2025-10-04 14:43:35 UTC

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Scurry

2025-10-03 14:46:36 UTC

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who is "the people"?

2025-10-03 12:52:11 UTC

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Good points from the article about the nonexistence of “perfect moderation”:
First, the most obvious one: any moderation is likely to end up pissing off those who are moderated. After all, they posted their content in the first place, and thus thought it belonged wherever it was posted — so will almost certainly disagree with the decision to moderate it. Now, some might argue the obvious response to this is to do no moderation at all, but that fails for the obvious reason that many people would greatly prefer some level of moderation, especially given that any unmoderated area of the internet quickly fills up with spam, not to mention abusive and harassing content. There is the argument (that I regularly advocate) that pushing out the moderation to the ends of the network (i.e., giving more controls to the end users) is better, but that also has some complications in that it puts the burden on end users, and they have neither the time nor inclination to continually tweak their own settings. No matter what path is chosen, it will end up being not ideal for a large segment of the population.
Second, moderation is, inherently, a subjective practice. Despite some people’s desire to have content moderation be more scientific and objective, that’s impossible. By definition, content moderation is always going to rely on judgment calls, and many of the judgment calls will end up in gray areas where lots of people’s opinions may differ greatly. Indeed, one of the problems of content moderation that we’ve highlighted over the years is that to make good decisions you often need a tremendous amount of context, and there’s simply no way to adequately provide that at scale in a manner that actually works. That is, when doing content moderation at scale, you need to set rules, but rules leave little to no room for understanding context and applying it appropriately. And thus, you get lots of crazy edge cases that end up looking bad.
We’ve seen this directly. Last year, when we turned an entire conference of “content moderation” specialists into content moderators for an hour, we found that there were exactly zero cases where we could get all attendees to agree on what should be done in any of the eight cases we presented.
Third, people truly underestimate the impact that “scale” has on this equation. Getting 99.9% of content moderation decisions at an “acceptable” level probably works fine for situations when you’re dealing with 1,000 moderation decisions per day, but large platforms are dealing with way more than that. If you assume that there are 1 million decisions made every day, even with 99.9% “accuracy” (and, remember, there’s no such thing, given the points above), you’re still going to “miss” 1,000 calls. But 1 million is nothing. On Facebook alone a recent report noted that there are 350 million photos uploaded every single day. And that’s just photos. If there’s a 99.9% accuracy rate, it’s still going to make “mistakes” on 350,000 images. Every. Single. Day. So, add another 350,000 mistakes the next day. And the next. And the next. And so on.
nostr:
#nevent1q…nfe9

2025-10-03 03:14:46 UTC

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Try “retired” with a Deep South US accent

2025-10-02 21:08:54 UTC

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https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/toward-digital-solidarity

2025-10-02 21:08:38 UTC

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so if it needs a relay, perhaps nostr is a better answer?

2025-10-02 17:03:52 UTC

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@nprofile…fmyk 👆

2025-09-29 13:02:11 UTC

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Is this always true?
Here’s my premise: at the lowest level you need “ungoverned” protocols and that protocol stability is critical.
As you move up higher though, governance need increases.
L1 - Bitcoin is a protocol first and foremost (and right now its “governance” - in ALL CAPS AIR QUOTES - is creaking with the knots/core polemics and attacks flying).
L2s - need more governance - sometimes as simple as a multi-sig, other times not so simple. Over time they may be able to figure out the protocol/governance delineation to move more into the protocol, but that takes time.

2025-09-28 18:04:49 UTC

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The Crystal Method - Vegas

2025-09-28 17:16:30 UTC

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well, not sure I am ready to name better.
I am dealing with a question: “Will my board realize what I was listening to when I created those slides?”

2025-09-26 14:14:21 UTC

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Hard Spork

2025-09-25 19:31:25 UTC

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Is the Lorem fresh or frozen?

2025-09-22 12:46:04 UTC

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Clarify “penalty-based” for me please.

2025-09-21 18:47:01 UTC

Ayra Cards use a concept of Payloads.
In a hypermedia context, this is a use of Associative Linking: Information is connected based on relationships and associations rather than just hierarchical or sequential organization.
h/t to @npub1q6m…x7d5 for the ref to some (classic) hypermedia docs.
https://ayra.forum/ayra-cards-and-fpp/

2025-09-21 18:32:22 UTC

2025-09-21 15:27:43 UTC

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fixed - and thanks!

2025-09-20 17:27:27 UTC

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I like that they are using “DIDType” instead of “DID Method”. Way better term.

2025-09-19 13:35:47 UTC

Ayra Cards and the First Person Project
https://ayra.forum/ayra-cards-and-fpp/

2025-09-19 13:35:23 UTC

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https://ayra.forum/ayra-cards-and-fpp/

2025-09-12 21:30:59 UTC

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Because they can.

2025-09-10 00:37:47 UTC

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of course - I am not a heathen.
But - do you lock the bathroom door?

2025-09-06 17:03:29 UTC

“Society will need a better backstop.”
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Nik Bhatia, @npub17yr…plct
@npub1k7v…c04l
https://image.nostr.build/8c6d4d439dd6ac67193dc2bd6d1f566ca13291549fc9600840b75da768b92910.jpg

2025-08-25 13:17:43 UTC

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I dunno. Antarctica is giving it a run.
https://blossom.primal.net/3d601153538aba5c51c5c4629ad96a275318102ef1d693b1aa68e6ada57f4f4f.png

2025-07-31 13:37:10 UTC

thoughtcrime
#nevent1q…lc6n

2025-07-30 14:26:26 UTC

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One of the reasons I fought hard to name Chapter 9 of the SSI book was to keep the names Wallets and Agents separated. Lately this is feeling even more important.

2025-07-30 14:24:39 UTC

needed this one.
I had a dollar bill stuck in a ratty version of Meditations. I was productively procrastinating and pulled this book off the shelf and opened it.
https://blossom.primal.net/180236482ae0235228f4c9e968ce2a2a58b67b535deb9ae1ffcac3e18c13d015.jpg

2025-07-26 13:05:26 UTC

Great backing for housing as utility, not investment.
https://stocks.apple.com/AiB71bgvNQY6fK17AymFjnQ
@Jeff Booth

2025-06-15 18:06:48 UTC

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Is it 15ml or 0.5 ounce (US or UK)?

2025-06-15 18:03:29 UTC

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If your system is predicated on not allowing an externality, would you point out the externality that negates all of your base premises?

2023-07-04 18:47:10 UTC

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not laser-eyes!
I'm intrigued with nostr as it relates to sharing event data - chat/twitter-esque is interesting but the underlying architecture and relay/filter capability is more interesting.

2023-06-30 16:03:46 UTC

I thought @mcshane was my most prolific nostr-er, but @ttlastspring just took the title.

2023-06-19 17:49:37 UTC

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I agree with your comments, but "they can't fight" is kind of idealistic. When Apple turns off your access (in the iOS App Store) to nearly 100% of your iOS users, they appear to have the ability to fight!

2023-06-19 17:44:23 UTC

The inimitable Kevin Kelly - "The Future of Blockchain" (and not Bitcoin)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hWQToWGars&list=PLUX-sja_eqhTwFEdyu9bBTeWgo3FTxFDz&index=22

2023-06-19 17:41:01 UTC

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https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/

2023-06-13 14:37:00 UTC

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That apple is doubling-down on fight mode...
https://www.theblock.co/post/234392/apple-damus-app-removal-warning
1. ignore -> 2. laugh -> 3. fight -> 4. win
Welcome to Stage 3...

2023-06-13 14:26:22 UTC

1. ignore -> 2. laugh -> 3. fight -> 4. win
Welcome to Stage 3...
t: TheBlock_ "Apple will remove Damus app unless it drops Bitcoin tipping feature"
https://www.theblock.co/post/234392/apple-damus-app-removal-warning

2023-06-11 12:32:29 UTC

as I have said to several clients:
“If you don’t have a compliance officer, one will be appointed for you.”
You can’t get around compliance requirements.
Well, you can, but you won’t like what happens.
https://www.theblock.co/post/234019/cftc-wins-ooki-dao-case-setting-precedent-that-daos-can-be-held-liable

2023-05-17 20:24:25 UTC

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This one handles it very well. https://twitter.com/sethforprivacy/status/1658544658761277447?s=46&t=G1Ul8_4bq1jfTDmpzdmVCA

2023-03-29 21:48:53 UTC

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that’s the initial use case for a DID - take an identifier, resolve a pubkey.

2023-03-29 21:15:00 UTC

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I doubt the travel vaccinations were for COVID - we’re likely talking old school (Yellow Fever, Typhoid, etc.)

2023-02-18 14:55:39 UTC

What would it take to link a DID into #nostr - instead of pure key-based “identity”?