Martin
Martin Lowe

Argumentation theorist. I write stuff.

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2026-04-19 09:41:33 UTC

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The idea that comedians are cultural critics explains why authoritarian regimes go after them first, and why their silence is a canary in the coalmine.
Of course, the OG cultural critics, and the template for comedians, are children. But since no one takes them seriously, comedians have to pick up the gauntlet.
#nevent1q…wstg

2026-04-19 09:37:54 UTC

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Norm was something more than a comedian. He made himself a persona that was a comedian, and used it as a vessel that was more art than entertainment.
I only found one clip of Norm where he seemed to break character for a moment. What he said blew my mind.
Paraphrasing, he pointed out that no one likes criticism from a smart ass, and so, since the comedian’s true job is to criticize his own culture, he has to pretend to be the dumbest person in the room. Only then will the audience feel safe laughing at their own stupidity.
This from someone who studied mathematics at university as a 16-year-old. There’s more to learn from Norm than most professors.

2026-04-15 09:17:11 UTC

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I’m back from a hiatus, and trying to use nostr for publishing articles.
I have no idea what to do for engagement though. Totally out of the loop, so I don’t even know if people CAN see my stuff, let alone how to make it pop up in people’s timelines.
For all I know, I’m not even in the right relays.

2026-04-15 00:01:23 UTC

What complexity theory can tell us about how to save civilization.
There is a concept called "Chesterton's fence", which is often cited in relation to complex systems. It's a reference to a parable, in which someone comes across a fence, and says "I don't see a use for this fence, let's clear it away", whereupon Chesterton replies "If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it".
The point here is that fiddling around with complex systems we don't understand, is likely to cause unknown harm. The reformers of the modern era would have done well to dwell on this insight, as they tore down everything that was old.
And anyone who wants to fix their mistakes, should heed Chesterton's advice.
I am one of those who think the West was on the right track in the Gilded era, and that much of what has happened since then have been steps in the wrong direction. But it would be foolish to think that there has been no progress made at all.
A sensible reformer must sift through the changes wrought on society since the 1870's, and judge them according to sound principles. What have we lost, that we should seek to regain, and what have we gained, that we should seek to protect?
Here are my suggestions.
First of all, Chesterton admonishes us to be gradualists, not revolutionaries. I would add to this a point that is well known to nostr-users; that the solution probably lies in building decentralized parallell systems that can outcompete the lumbering centralized ones.
But beware. Centralization is not evil, it has its functions, and a counter movement that abhors all kinds of centralization, even centralized authority that limits individual freedom, is likely to fail. What is needed is to understand how centralization works, so that it can be used wisely.
We should seek to regain sound money. As bitcoiners know very well, there is perhaps no change that will do more to save civilization. By raising the cost of bad ideas and the rewards for good ones, we halt the engine of destruction that is the fiat economy.
We should also seek to reestablish the natural social credit score known as honor. Most people today think of honor cultures as barbaric, but that is merely because only barbaric cultures have kept honor as a social currency. The west used to be an honor culture, and it greased the wheels of our societies.
Closely related to this, we should not reinstate bigotry. One of the advantages of honor cultures is that they are exclusive. If honor requires honesty, courage, discipline and fairness, then anyone who possesses those virtues are accepted in the culture - no matter the colour of their skin, their sex or any other trait. Honor requires sacrifice, which is the price paid to acquire social currency.
We should not reinstate the abuse of children, but recognize that many of the measures that supposedly protect and help children today are actually abusive. Children should be allowed to work, if they want to, and they should have the freedom to pursue their interests. They should not be subjected to arbitrary coercion, and that includes being forced to endure endless hours trying to learn what adults think is important.
No resource today is more squandered than young teenagers. This phase is marked by incredible adaptability, speed of learning and courage, and today most of it is spent locked inside a box, being forced to endure lectures on things they won't remember, need or care about. Businesses would queue up to hire them, and the teenagers would queue up to get hired, if both parties were allowed to freely decide on contracts.
Indeed, I hope to see universities crumble and die, and perhaps something worth preserving will emerge from the rubble. Most scientific advances in history happened outside universities. Newton's annus mirabilis was the year he was *not* at Cambridge. Einstein worked as a clerk at a patent's office when formulating his theory of relativity. Most of the great names in scientific history had little formal education, and even less need of it.
We should seek to reinstate local communities, and thus we should seek to get rid of state welfare. The project of politically enforced independence has atomized societies. We want to be dependent on one another, because those dependencies is the glue that holds us together - for better or for worse. Caring for ones neighbours and relatives is a privilege and a duty, and we can't have more of that until we get the state out of the equation.
And finally, fun should be taken seriously. Perhaps the most important gauge of a healthy society, is how much fun people have in it. I don't mean mindless entertainment, but banter, satire and true comedy. As the legendary Norm Macdonald pointed out in a rare serious moment (after memory): "The job of the stand up comic is to criticize culture, and make people laugh at their own stupidity. But they won't be willing to do that if you're a smart ass. So you have to play the dumb person who sorta stumbled upon something weird. You have to seem dumber than them, and only then are they willing to laugh".
There's probably more stuff that needs to go on the list, but the important point I'd like to get across is that we must respect Chesterton's fence. We must respect complexity. What exactly that means, in practice and principle, is the topic of my next article.

2026-04-14 16:45:00 UTC

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I’m guessing primal doesn’t.
Which app are people using these days? I’ve been away for a while…

2026-04-14 08:21:05 UTC

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How do I add themes? I know nothing about this.

2026-03-09 07:21:31 UTC

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Seems to me that most people using phrases like «not really decentralized» are hardly better than people saying «not real communism».
Question isn’t even whether it’s sufficiently decentralized, but whether it *can be*.
There’s always a slide towards centralization, because it often pays off for the centralizers. That’s fine. What you need is a mechanism for decentralizing when it gets out of hand.

2026-02-23 19:30:34 UTC

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People think honor cultures are bad, but that’s just because their cultures often are shitty.
It’s like saying DVD-players are bad just because people mostly watch shit movies.

2026-02-23 19:28:40 UTC

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Honor cultures = social credit systems.
Bottom-up, informal social credit scoring is necessary for civilization. We need to get back to that.

2026-02-23 19:06:27 UTC

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I would like to get my chat group off telegram. Should have the option to just clone that setup.

2026-02-09 20:38:28 UTC

Human civilization has always been, and is to this day, shaped by a series of compromises between culture and technology - both in the broadest sense possible.
This is not bad, we want it to happen. Because we’re utterly dependent not just on technology, but continued technological growth. And not just because we need better technical capabilities, but also because it forces culture to improve (printing press is a case in point).
The monster we’re fighting now is a parasite that in one sense has always been there - the cluster of centralization, optimization, quantification, formalization, standardization, as well as short-sighted risk analysis and top-down linear thinking that lends itself to all resource exploitation.
It’s not always bad, and indeed often necessary. But it is self-reinforcing, and can quickly get out of hand.
It came into our culture after 1871, when the Germans offered the world final proof of the superiority of their militarized model of society (by sweeping the french armies off the map in a matter of months), and every western power promptly copied their school system, as well as their bureaucratic logic.
The elimination of the gold standard then became a matter of time - an unavoidable victim in the modern project. A centralizing beast had been implanted into western civilization, which is kinda ironic since its success in the first place came of decentralization.
Another irony (or paradox) of the past 100 years is that while unity was sought in politics and statecraft, art and culture faced utter fragmentation and relativism. Dunno what’s going on there, to be honest.
Anyway, what is needed is to abandon the exploitation mode, and get back into exploration mode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration%E2%80%93exploitation_dilemma).
Civilization thrives when it has frontiers, opportunities and freedom - all fruits on the tree of technology.
So I say: Embrace technology, but repudiate the idea that we should control it.
We can’t, and shouldn’t try to.
It affects us as much as the other way around, and for most of human history, that has been a very good thing indeed.
(This is not a comment on Core vs. Knots, btw.)

2026-02-07 13:36:42 UTC

I’m hopeful that complexity theory offers a way forward in social science. That would provide a major ipgrade in the way we speak about politics, economics, society, even ethics and relationships.
Once you understand the fundamental difference between simple, linear, designed systems, that can be tweaked and optimized, and complex adaptive systems, that can only be gently nudged at best, on the other, a lot of the scientific journal literature looks like geocentric astronomy.
And once you realize that these are two *worlds*, drawing a sharp line through all of reality, between that which can and cannot be quantified, optimized, formalized, standardized and generally tinkered with, solutions to old problems, large and small, seem obvious.
But perhaps the most amazing thing about complexity theory, is that it provides the most forceful arguments for freedom. From its many insights, spanning all the sciences from history and art to physics and economics, a common thread of emergent order and efficiency speaks to the importance of letting systems adapt.
And the irony is that those who constantly tell us that gender, ecosystems and sexuality is complex, do so to justify far more dangerous interventions into far more complex, and far more important systems, such as the market, civilization and the scientific enterprise.

2026-01-05 10:00:47 UTC

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2025-12-16 07:54:44 UTC

«If men must spare women the world, then women must spare men the truth - as though each forever remained alternate halves of the same defenseless child»
- R. Scott Bakker

2025-09-12 19:11:17 UTC

We’ve been here before guys.
Knut Hamsun was crystal clear: he supported Hitler because he saw him as the only defense against communism. And why did he – along with hundreds of thousands of other Europeans in the 1920s and ’30s – believe that fascism was necessary to fight communism?
Because the liberal elites lacked the backbone to defend Western civilization against the communists’ subversive tactics. This is established history: fascism arose as a reaction to communism.
Orwell understood this in Spain, and he tried to warn people about it in Homage to Catalonia. Fascism and communism feed off one another, because both seek a political game whose currency is lies, subversion, and violence.
The cure is honesty, and a clear understanding of Popper’s paradox of tolerance. A united civil society must say: “No, it is not acceptable to sabotage others, no matter how repulsive you find their opinions,” and: “Yes, we are not just willing, but positively thrilled to enforce this principle with force if necessary”
That is what it entails to defens freedom. Anything less is a green light to escalation, which will end very, very badly.
And I want to stress this, because it is EXTREMELY important: what we need is not moderation. What we need is a fierce, uncompromising, radical defense of liberal priciples. We need an unshakable, absolute zero tolerance for violence, sabotage, cancel culture, threats, and abuses of power.
In that sense, it is deeply worrying to see how toothless and uninformed our leaders are. They are the ideological kin of those who watched, pathetically and impotently, as Hitler tore down the last remnants of democracy in 1933.
It is also worrying to see conservatives gleefully try to get people fired for tasteless comments about Kirk.

2025-09-12 18:58:45 UTC

To understand the way forward, there is nothing better than reading The Beginning Of Infinity by David Deutsch.
https://blossom.primal.net/23dc4946fb73870fac2a54071a09171a56c5a3a53898416f415da7d29199655c.jpg

2025-09-12 18:56:55 UTC

Become a radical, or watch society get destroyed by radicals.

2025-09-12 18:54:57 UTC

Make no mistake: This has happened once before.
Do not run. Become an extremist for tolerance and freedom.
https://blossom.primal.net/852f6808618ef371cd7c37982bdede567043adfba4df189ce53f15047116f284.jpg

2025-09-12 18:53:10 UTC

The alternative to the European Union is not a Europe divided.
It is a Europe with strength and confidence.

2025-04-18 21:31:40 UTC

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Seems I’m wrong… it is a complex system, but it is a very peculiar one.
I think it may exhibit more permanence than any other complex system, due to its ability to keep itself instantiated by human minds, and its minimalistic and foundational utility.

2025-04-18 21:21:43 UTC

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I’m being purposefully pedantic here, but what complex systems do is keep themselves in equilibrium.
Question is: Is bitcoin a complex system?
I think not.

2025-04-18 21:19:40 UTC

I wrote a bitcoin-pitch disguised as an article about technology.
https://audaciousdenizen.substack.com/p/technology-makes-you-ungovernable

2025-03-25 07:14:39 UTC

The most important misunderstanding about quantum computers IMO is the largely implicit idea that companies in 2025 are able to build sufficiently fault resistant systems.
Google can’t build a non-racist image generator, or stop itself from ruining its own products, BUT they’ll build a 10 million qbit QC before 2035?
Come on…
If it were batteries, I might’ve been there with you. Better batteries will be incredibly profitable, there’s a real race there. But compare the hype and the results surrounding SS batteries since 2015, and ask yourself whether it makes sense to be more optimistic WRT a technology that is less useful, less profitable, more esoteric and edgy…
I think not. Indeed, I don’t think Shor’s algorithm will be breaking anything in my lifetime, even though I think we’ll have fusion. It’s not pessimism, merely a proper respect for how hard it is to build quantum computers.
https://m.primal.net/PsNB.jpg

2025-03-24 23:01:23 UTC

The absolute state of Euopean politics these days
https://m.primal.net/Prvs.jpg

2025-03-10 23:06:10 UTC

Might as well start posting here right away. I mean who are we kidding… Europe’s totally gearing up to shut down X.

2025-03-10 23:02:10 UTC

In Norway it is now faux pas not only to support Trump, but letting Trump-supporters go about their business.
It’s taken on hysterical moralism in the blink of an eye.

2024-09-04 07:14:49 UTC

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And the fact that economics IS just another social science among all the others in modern universities - and a disparaged one at that - indicates that money is not truly a concept in neoclassical economics.
I believe Mises made this point over 70 years ago. Abstracting away money prices makes economics meaningless.

2024-09-03 18:54:45 UTC

I think there is no race. The internet is actually running laps around legacy institutions, and has been for years.
It’s just not obvious to everyone because measurements are bad.
It’s not about who makes the fewest errors, but who is learning fastest.
It’s not about who is biggest, but who is growing fastest.
It’s not about who is the most powerful, but who is most flexible.
Bitcoin beats banks. Twitter beats universities. Youtube beats school. I think this will only get broad recognition after the fact, when people start sifting through the debree of collapsed fiat institutions.
#note14hq…fhtf

2024-09-02 23:18:12 UTC

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Free speech is a value, a project to maximize the ability of people to form networks and exchange information.
It’s not about the state, but people coming together to learn.

2024-09-01 15:24:58 UTC

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I’m certain this is just me being a noob, but how do I search for episodes (and not just podcasts, clips etc)?
https://m.primal.net/KYwL.jpg
https://m.primal.net/KYwN.jpg

2024-09-01 15:19:52 UTC

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Freedom must always be evolved. Tyranny is engineered.

2024-09-01 15:14:12 UTC

I don’t care how nice you are, how otherwise ethical and productive and intelligent:
If you support censorship, you’re my enemy.

2024-08-30 20:58:03 UTC

There is nothing I hate more than having to deal with the condescending advice of academic supervisors, whose depthless confidense comes from a much honed ability to dissemble and confuse on basic questions of scientific inquiry.
In reality, they’re merely enforcing faux rigour in a cargo cult that has nothing to do with truth seeking or genuine original argumentation. Being right, doing something new, or even just contributing to solving a problem, is frowned upon. You’re supposed to just do the thing, with no ambition at all, and prove that you’re a good boy - willing to spend endless hours doing something that’s pointless, boring and technical.
Because that’s what employers like to see. Everyone knows that ideas can cause trouble.

2024-08-30 20:42:58 UTC

Welcome, Brazilians 🥳

2024-08-29 13:01:18 UTC

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2024-08-29 12:58:50 UTC

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2024-08-29 12:53:44 UTC

Few
https://m.primal.net/KTcZ.jpg

2024-08-29 12:46:24 UTC

Challenge:
Go to r/phd, read some posts and discussions, come back here and tell me these people are in it for the learning and their love of knowledge.
Or even that it’s not all just a status game.
You can’t do it, because academia is utterly corrupted, root and stem.

2024-08-28 21:14:57 UTC

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I’ve met several parents of illiterate children as old as 11-12 years. There’s bo research here, but anectdotally they will learn to read, quickly, when they need it (which they will). The principal of Sudbury Valley claims they’ve not seen a single case of dyslexia, which he blames on coercive reading instruction.
So, maybe I’m misunderstanding your second paragraph, but it doesn’t make sense to me. They come out of the womb well prepared for self directed learning, and how do you, as an external observer, distinguish cheap dopamine hits from learning? (I don’t think it’s possible).
That said, all kids are different, as are parents, and I don’t mean any of this in a judgemental way. I generally assume parents know best what works for them.
I have some do’s and dont’s, but mostly fail to adhere to’em. I just try to avoid coercive measures, be open to them being right and me being wrong, enforce (my) boundaries and be honest.
Our #1 rule is «pick your battles». Stuff generally work out, and relaxed parents are a resource worth protecting.

2024-08-28 06:55:05 UTC

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Not much

2024-08-28 06:43:05 UTC

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Very interesting. I come at something similar from a different angle here.
https://primal.net/e/note1yf00y4a4skdz7j2hmhy8y36n5cjkp2hf8v2ejsf06dpq83rj80hq6sc7h4

2024-08-28 01:33:52 UTC

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Unschooling involves rejecting the idea that there is a set of skills and knowledge that every human is required to learn within a certain timeframe.
So I don’t care if my children learn how to calculate percentages, the names of dead kings or how to spell. All I care about is that they learn *something*, enjoy the process, and through this learning acquire marketable skills and the ability to connect with other people.
The basic idea is that while children are not adults, and should not be treated as such, they are nevertheless *people*, and have certain unaliable rights. Foremost among these is the right to spend their attention on what they deem interesting. And yes: so long as it doesn’t negatively impact the rest of the family, that includes the right to spend all day playing computer games and eatching youtube.
It’s an educational philosophy centered on the benefits of self-directed learning and the harms of coercion (see for instance John Holdt, Mobtezzori or Reggio Emilia).

2024-08-27 20:09:27 UTC

What are the advantages of centralization?
We see centralization naturally in times of crisis. Animals have group behaviour protocols for fight/flight situations, as do humans. The defining feature of such situations is that any coordinated action is better than no action, and there are often very few options to choose from.
Centralization is wasteful, and often dangerous, in all other situations. When options are many, when inaction may be wisest, when creativity and more knowledge is needed to make good choices. Then you want a proliferation of guessing, testing, criticizing, creation.
Now ask yourself: is it a coincidence that everything is constantly framed as a crisis?

2024-08-27 19:56:05 UTC

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Not this time. I was looking for an excuse, but it was all about schooling and education today.

2024-08-27 18:49:36 UTC

Had a 4 hour visit from Norway’s biggest newspaper today, to talk about my work/activism, unschooling and «following the dopamine».
My mom wondered if we felt safe that they wouldn’t do a kind of hit piece, and it occurred to me that we’re privileged, even when compared to real celebrities, in that there is nothing they can do to hurt us.
See, we both earn our money from our followers on social media, and they generally don’t care what the newspaper says. Indeed, if they do care, I don’t want them as clients, so a hit piece would be a useful filter for me.
I think a lot of people don’t appreciate the absolute power that comes from owning a paying audience of actual fans. You become impervious to legacy institution fuckery. Think about it: Does Mr. Beast need youtube as much as youtube needs Mr. Beast?
This flower has barely started budding. In 10 years, most legacy institutions will be obviously and ubiquitously seen as second rate. The cheap version. We’re already winning.

2024-08-27 13:20:23 UTC

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I didn’t know that, but who am I to argue with the wisdom of ur mom

2024-08-27 07:58:09 UTC

In Spain, kids start school the year they turn 3.
In Norway, the year they turn 6.
From the point of view of Spaniards, all Norwegians practice unschooling from 3-6.

2024-08-27 07:55:10 UTC

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Norway is the Nigeria of Europe. Oil/gas, corrupt government and infamous entrepreneurial spirit

2024-08-27 06:17:03 UTC

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2024-08-27 06:11:54 UTC

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https://m.primal.net/KPFD.jpg

2024-01-26 00:03:13 UTC

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Those burns sting a lot more when carefully written on a typewriter. Damn.

2023-11-14 15:33:14 UTC

Pre-sale of the norwegian version of the bitcoin stabdard is open.
Perfect gift for friends and family.
Every last one of them.
https://bitcoinbook.shop/products/bitcoin-standarden?ref=thaulow

2023-09-10 20:09:03 UTC

Had anyone thought about setting up a relay that hosts syllabus in pdf?
Would that be yet another good use case for nostr?

2023-08-27 14:03:30 UTC

Most people have their personal details stored on a bunch of servers, especially from KYC.
In a later phase, could cathedral operatives start fucking with your identity? What would you do to stop them?
Seems like yet another use case for nostr: verification of identity.
Has someone written about this?

2023-08-15 01:53:45 UTC

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Hey, I’ll be buying anyway when I have the money. No matter the price.
But I didn’t plan on having to be nervous about the price taking off, which I can’t help but be 🤷‍♂️

2023-08-14 21:03:14 UTC

Was forced to sell the last of my bitcoin today to pay for living expenses. All credit cards maxed, no options left 😭
Please assure me that I’ll have time to buy it all back before it goes to the moon.

2023-07-15 11:08:12 UTC

Anyone looking for someone to take care of their enormous villa in Spain, by any chance?
If so, I’ll do it free of charge.

2023-07-07 15:21:40 UTC

Tell me your problem and I’ll suggest a solution. If it’s good you send me sats.

2023-07-07 05:40:52 UTC

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I’m stealing some of these just FYI

2023-07-03 21:10:52 UTC

How can he post so. Many. Memes?!
npub1z324cpkjv9ay5fanw7rex5847dy7h3ndvaej2hy2vmc7r8c35res3x2kje

2023-07-03 21:09:34 UTC

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That’s a follow and a tip good ser 😂

2023-07-03 21:07:42 UTC

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2023-07-03 21:06:36 UTC

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It’s the nostr mascot: the "nostrich"
Yeah…

2023-07-03 21:05:57 UTC

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It’s mostly shitposting tbh.
But it’s ad-free, uncensored shitposting.

2023-07-03 21:05:00 UTC

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Aren’t we all, in a sense?

2023-07-03 21:04:45 UTC

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The others were always scams. Can’t run apps on a blockchain, and there was never any reason to try it.

2023-07-03 21:03:22 UTC

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2023-07-03 21:02:56 UTC

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They will

2023-07-03 21:02:43 UTC

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I arrived in France today. Seems peaceful.

2023-07-03 20:51:10 UTC

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Go set up your wallet, son, and you’ll like it even more

2023-07-03 20:49:29 UTC

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Yeah the vibe was caused the sort of people deawn to it.
It’ll increasingly be colored by the sort of people repulsed by the alternatives - a much bigger and more heterogenous group.

2023-07-03 07:08:02 UTC

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You think there won’t be political drama here? I really really really think there will be political drama, and I’m looking forward to it 😈

2023-07-03 07:05:15 UTC

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Camberra

2023-07-03 07:04:49 UTC

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All regulation will infantilize the citizenry to some degree, and prevent the culture from establishing its own institutions and ways of dealing with risk.
That’s not to say regulation is always wrong - I wouldn’t want to make that case - but merely to add my support to what you say: Regultion isn’t always right. It has a dangerous price.

2023-07-03 06:58:03 UTC

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Just like speech: there is no such thing as retracting a statement.

2023-07-02 22:50:38 UTC

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Found it 😀

2023-07-02 22:35:57 UTC

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As public as they get. U can’t even delete them.

2023-07-02 22:34:58 UTC

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Unironically believe this. Staggering ineptitude from someone I really admire.

2023-07-02 22:33:28 UTC

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I can’t find the button. Do you have a wallet set up? What client u using?

2023-07-02 22:29:49 UTC

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Stuffed pasta

2023-07-02 22:04:02 UTC

So how is the french userbase coming along these days?

2023-07-02 14:37:09 UTC

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Sooner or later yeah.
If you were running a relay, would you turn advertisers down?
There may be relays that get paid by users, but dunno how much it would have to charge to justify the operating costs.

2023-07-02 14:15:17 UTC

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No problemo!
Here’s a list of public relays. Some are paid too, for a bit less spam and more exclusivity.
https://nostr.watch/relays/find

2023-07-02 08:56:59 UTC

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Relays are servers. Unlike Twitter and Facebook, that have huge centralized servers, nostr has a lot of medium sized servers, mostly run by private individuals.
That’s why people tupically subscribe to several: So that you get some reach, and get enough content.
One could run a small relay and have people subscribe only to that, for a more discord-y experience.

2023-07-02 08:52:55 UTC

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Hello!

2023-07-02 08:52:15 UTC

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Hi man, nice to have you.

2023-07-02 08:51:09 UTC

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Which nostr client are you using?

2023-07-02 08:50:32 UTC

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It works!

2023-07-02 08:50:23 UTC

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Hi Burak

2023-07-02 08:49:47 UTC

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Hi. If you’re an artist, get your wallet set up so that people can show appreciation for your creations.

2023-07-02 08:48:50 UTC

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Hi June, welcome to the future.

2023-07-02 08:48:22 UTC

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Install this: https://apps.apple.com/no/app/wallet-of-satoshi/id1438599608?l=nb
Then open, press "receive" and "copy".
Enter damus, select "wallet" in menu, and "paste".
You now have a wallet in damus, and can receive and send bitcoin :-)

2023-07-02 08:42:50 UTC

Apparently the japanese shift has begun

2023-07-02 08:37:51 UTC

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Yo, welcome 👋
Got your wallet set up yet?

2023-07-02 08:32:07 UTC

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Dunno if it’s possible still, but in the beginning you could block yourself, and that’s the story of how my first keys became useless

2023-07-02 08:31:10 UTC

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You can like your own tweets too. I do it all the time 😝

2023-07-02 08:29:41 UTC

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The youngest boomers are about 60 years old now, and this decade the sun will set on the miserable culture they’ve built and maintained.
We’ll build something way better, and yes: 1970-2020 will be known as the small medieval period or something. A 50-year experiment with soft authoritarianism and exploitation.

2023-07-01 23:57:36 UTC

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Yeah we’re avoiding cities for sure.

2023-07-01 23:57:02 UTC

If it’s your first time here, you’re basically good to go. But I recommend installing a lightning wallet and connecting it to your account.
On damus (ios), I use wallet of satoshi
On snort.social (desktop) I use alby (which can also help you secure your private key)
Then you can receive bitcoin from other users. Post a note asking for a test zap when you’re done, and you’ll probably receive a little fraction of a bitcoin 👍

2023-07-01 23:50:35 UTC

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Elon is all the marketing department we need.