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Shorthand Afficionado, Mixed Martial Artist, Music Lover, Philosopher, Organic Organisation and likes Decision Making via finding the red lines (consent not consensus). Likes facts not opinions.

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2026-11-15 11:43:13 UTC

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I agree with almost everything. Marx and Engels could not have said it better in there Critique. But I have to object that it is the government, unless you state who that is: corporate owned puppets in the most cases, that work against everyday citizens working for the public, designing laws, that were dictated by those corporations, to maximize their profits. There are politicians who have a heart, whose objective is to better mens life, but they have not enough support, because you and others don't believe in the system anymore (In America I guess you are ripe for a down of the system - the natural course of capitalism, nothing to fear, right?). What Bitcoin or any Coin for that matter concerns: Any coin, that was designed without the purpose of serving other than in-game purchases, you exactly get that. As long as people don't pay their rent in bitcoin and get their pension in bitcoin, your fate is sealed. Which brings me to the question, when do you start to engage politically, write directly to a guy supposed to represent you, why don't you organize a march to the bastille and just throw them out, declare a new dawn, instate a new tax system that is based on wealth and income and capital gains and declare that the system is so called progressive (which means the wealthy pay more in ratio as is the case in switzerland), then you declare that you have to tax first, then you get your inheritance (again we do it like that in switzerland), declare that pension is payed 50%/50% by workers and by the employer, declare that corporations that generate substantially (more than a million profit), are obligated to discuss wages with a union? And then declare bitcoin as the new currency?

2026-11-06 03:32:43 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bWMa2N0bwrg #truth #honesty #patriotism

2026-11-05 16:35:52 UTC

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Trump, who you say is so bad and evil - you say that in summary, I have a habit to rarely state my opininons, I let facts speak, that made you believe I said that (which means the facts spoke to you as well). But even though you got the message - you don't actually agree with my description of his business model he used to form his 'real estate empire' was fraud, why else distance yourself with "who you say"?
Under a direct femocr environment? What is that? Is your description of a functional society a female governed one, or do you just want to impress me - I think your mind is so used to expect uncertainty of mind and hope to shake me with such a word? Well I certainly shake my head.
We swiss don't fall into that trap, we think, which is the same as doubt, therefore we are. If we discuss things of matter, we leave gender at home, as well as religion or other belief systems irrelevant. And if someone tries to talk more than half a minute about such stuff, we know that we should do the same as with religious people - not argue, just ignore them and make sure they don't get a position where they can spread their opium, make sure that the state is truly separated from belief.
Wealth inequality is the number one reason why a society crumbles and their democracy with them. I suggest thinking about the consequences. Wealth inequality is healthy for the economy though, the investor can definitely do more with less, the question is, are you willing to loose free will and speech, freedom to walk without bodyguard, and neighbourly human connections and then retreat into a small town of the wealthy, where the rich govern themselves, educate their children themselves, simply put: Risk the Storming of the Bastille?

2026-11-05 15:44:21 UTC

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Politische Satire ist Bildung. Der Mann macht gar keinen einzigen Witz! Er öffnet lediglich die Augen für die Absurditität der Realität und wir können nicht anders, als Lachen.

2026-11-05 14:52:59 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CJkPuK8CJLA #money #banking #capitalism #satire

2026-11-02 22:02:42 UTC

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What is a clanker? And to answer your questions: I use deepl to get a decent translation (but I always check with a normal dictionary, if the meaning is still the same). Otherwise I'll never let AI do any work, I'd be ashamed of myself.

2026-11-01 20:46:36 UTC

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I know a guy who has this on his profile "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." Who might this be?

2026-10-26 16:45:25 UTC

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_farm_attacks
The fact that Donald Trump thinks it's real should tell you all. Dumb people are attracted to dumb conspiracy theories. The term "WHITE GENOCIDE" says it all too. Genocide being a systematic extermination by the ruling class of an opressed group. Farm attacks seem to be rare though and with the intention of robbing, furthermore even more black people are victims. Some white farmers got killed though, after all they still own substantial farms, racially fueled hate could very well be the case, as white supremacist behavior among those whites is still alive.

2026-10-26 12:56:48 UTC

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I don't believe in God or any fan based community dancing around a single absolute monarchist. I organize my life in terms of beauty. And as a man I interprete this as pure expression of a deep thought, just decision making procedure, meaningful gestures, that both parties agreed upon, as architecture respecting human value, buildings that values the feeling of being alife, being a kid, as well as the need for retreat, lonelyness. Function is beauty too, not only a young woman, blossoming - the weathered storm makes for faces, that have seen adversity, but made it through - a smile on such a face is true beauty!

2026-10-26 12:34:45 UTC

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Some don't only feel this, but get up every day and just know, that the banking system must be reformed and even know how to do it.
I am not against the creatio ex nihilo of money, but not in the hands of banks. They should lend money from the federal bank like any other. Gambling papers should be treated as such. As gambling, where you need to protect against addiction in setting limits and limited guarantees for the winner, a tax dedicated to treatment and reparation cost, because it happens, if you allow it.
In the case of the EU (I am Swiss), they should get together and form a real federation with a real federal bank, one that lends not the other way round as it is now (stupid construct, no wonder the Swiss did not want to join), when you introduce the EURO you need a true federal bank and the will to balance out different economic powers, or you go back to local currencies and manage it via exchange rates, that you can influence via money "printing". The project EU just got cold feet and decided to make the people angry instead. Just do it like the american or the swiss do it.
Another staple of capitalism, the legal entities of anonym share holder corporations (legal persons), should be reformed, so that anonym cooperatives are the norm, today possible by making a special democratic limited company, that strips the shareholder of the overwhelming deciding power. How can it be that we praise democracy, but abolish state governed sector and let stock companies take over, owned by 51%-shareholder holding multis and family dynasties? Are we a democracy or not?
I feel like you: powerless. At the same time I do have the power to help reorganize, should all go to shit, if it happens. I feel inner power - I made the effort and see clearly now, still shaping my world view, day to day. I seek out und write lengthy articles :-). Feeling self-worth helps against the "Weltschmerz".
Alles gute Dir und euch allen!

2026-10-26 11:44:40 UTC

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Fazit: Steuern werden nach wie vor zu zwei Zwecken erhoben. Zur Unterstützung des Staatshaushaltes und zur Lenkungsabgabe. Etymologie kann zeigen, wie sich der Gebrauch eines Wortes über die Jahre verändert hat, ist aber definitiv kein Mittel Politik zu begründen. Ein Staat muss über Mittel verfügen, um seiner Pflicht, nämlich unsere Menschenrechte zu ermöglichen und verteidigen, seine Verfassung umzusetzen, sofern man denn eine hat (gell ihr Deutschen)

2026-10-25 12:11:48 UTC

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Ok. Officially confirmed, you are now a buddy of mine, whether you like it or not. You should be more careful with your words!

2026-10-24 14:07:51 UTC

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You are clearly not a citizen of a nordic state or switzerland, we haven't yet completely lost it. Dying democracy is a kleptocratic oligarchy, like she said.
A living Democracy is constantly fighting off extractive behavior and building inclusive institution that make it possible for members in society to participate without power (to use terminology of Prof. Acimoglou https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/daron-acemoglu)
And why attack the person presenting? Clearly a lack of arguments, otherwise you would think for a moment, what strong leaders usually do ...

2026-10-22 09:21:00 UTC

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU-xVYLtO_E

2026-10-22 08:46:54 UTC

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It truly is. Even yours. https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/value-money/online/origins-money/forms-money

2026-10-19 20:32:43 UTC

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Hey an dieser Stelle mal ein Dankeschön für meine erste richtige Diskussion auf nostr. Ich mag es mit Worten die Klinge zu kreuzen und ich bin mir auch nicht zu schade nach einem Treffer anerkennend zu nicken. An dieser Stelle mal einfach "touch glove, oder Hut antippen!".

2026-10-19 16:06:44 UTC

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The large quantity of money (95%) isn't brought into life via printing through the central bank though, but through money created in the books of private banks only. Whenever a bank gives out a loan (expecting you to pay interests and hopefully never pay back), that bank can write in its books/database that it permits the transaction from an account (ex nihilo - it shall be - fiat). When the state prints money or lends money it creates money from nothing again, true, but it can actually help the export sector that the exchange rate doesn't go through the roof. Switzerland for instance, could have a way stronger currency, but we choose not to. With the money created out of thin air we pay ongoing interest payments or the base retirement funds. Because the world isn't one big happy federation with a money transfer in place, that helps rural areas to have a decent infrastructure, even though they don't generate as much money as the big cities, because of that, there will always be those differences and unadressed it will tear a construct apart financially, like it does within the EU. But for a country, having the possibility to level out the differences via Exchangerate influencing (via printing as you say or more often via lending money to banks and thus creating money from nothing) — that can actually help stabilize the financial system and the export economy, though it hurts the consumer, because he could have had even cheaper imports, but that would destroy the producing sector at home. So unless you have found a solution, that adresses different economical power - the fiat system is crucial.

2026-10-19 15:00:22 UTC

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Du sagst: Du verwechselst Recht mit staatlicher Herrschaft. Wie bringst Du das zusammen, wenn Ich doch geschrieben habe: Schliesslich kann man nur von Recht sprechen, wenn es garantiert wird, typischerweise vom Staat, oder welchem herrschenden Arm.
Du sagst: Deine Beispiele widerlegen dich sogar: Willkürliche Zölle, Enteignungen und politische Einflussnahme sind gerade Beispiele dafür, wie staatliche Macht Eigentum und wirtschaftliche Freiheit bedroht. Hier zeigst Du, über was Du wirklich sprechen willst, nämlich nicht darüber, dass Kravalltypen Eigentum entwenden und damit denjenigen in die Hand spielen, die Freiheit einschränken wollen, Nicht dass Eigentum Grundlage der Freiheit sei, wie Du zuvor behauptet hast - Du behauptest sogar frech, dass meine Beispiele diese These, die dir viel wichtiger ist als meine Replik auf eben die These, dass Eigentum Basis der Freiheit sei, das ich damit sogar deine EIGENTLICHE These stütze, dass staatliche Macht Eigentum und wirtschaftliche Freiheit bedroht.
Meine Worte widerlegen "Eigentum = Basis für Freiheit". In deinem Kontext stützen sie sogar deine eigentliche These, über die Du offenbar viel lieber sprechen möchtest. ABER, wie so oft sind willkürliche Zölle oftmals NICHT im Dienste des Staates, sondern eher korrupte Staatsdiener, oder organisierte Kriminalität einer Mafia, die beschlossen haben, dass dies ihr Turf ist und sie Schutzgeld eintreiben können, ein Geldhai, der beschlossen hat, dass die Zinsen gestiegen sind und sich deshalb das Auto schnappen kann, das Haus "rechtens" übernehmen kann, dein Geschäft kurz und klein schlagen oder die Gäste vergraulen. Siehst Du wer hier das Gewaltmonopol besitzt in diesem Beispiel?
Du sagst: Die entscheidende Frage lautet nicht, wer das Gewaltmonopol besitzt, sondern wie verhindert wird, dass irgendjemand seine Macht auf Kosten anderer ausübt.
Interessanterweise bist Du derjenige der an der These interessiert ist, dass staatliche Macht Eigentum und wirtschaftliche Freiheit bedroht. Für mich ist das ein No-Brainer — jegliche Machtkonzentration kann bedrohen, das heisst Du bist an der Frage interessiert, wer das Gewaltmonopol besitzt, und Du siehst das Monopol beim Staat. Nicht jedoch ich, denn für mich ist klar, derjenige mit Macht hat das sagen, typischerweise derjenige, der mit dem angehäuften "Eigentum", Machtpositionen unter Kontrolle bringen konnte.
Und genau hier treffen wir uns wieder: Denn Du sagst, die entscheidende Frage lautet: Wie verweist man Parasiten der Macht in ihre Schranken, wie deckt man extrahierendes, selbstbereicherndes Verhalten auf oder in deinen Worten, seine Macht auf Kosten anderer ausübt?
Damit triffst Du auch den Wunsch der randallierenden Demonstranten, denen Du in den Mund gelegt hast, dass sie Freiheitskämpfer sein wollten und nicht schlicht ihrer Wut über Ungerechtigkeit Luft machen. (Eine wahrhaft krude Denkleistung deinerseits, sie dafür dann auch noch anzuklagen, für etwas, dass Du, nicht sie, behauptet haben)
Du sagst: Ohne Staat folgt nicht zwangsläufig Rechtlosigkeit. Private Schiedsgerichte, Versicherungen, Sicherheitsdienste und konkurrierende Rechtsanbieter sind denkbare Alternativen. Dass ihre konkrete Organisation Fragen aufwirft, widerlegt sie nicht. Du setzt schlicht voraus, dass ausgerechnet eine monopolistische Institution das Monopol auf die Lösung dieses Problems haben muss.
Aber weshalb in aller Welt beschreibst Du den Staat als eine monopolistische Institution, lebst Du in einer absoluten Monarchie, ich lebe in der Diktatur der Masse, die sich zum Glück an die Menschenrechte halten will. Aus was setzt sich ein Ameisenstaat zusammen? Aus Ameisen. Aus was setzt sich der Staat zusammen? Aus Bürgern, aus der Konstitution, aus den 3+1 Gewalten (Legislative, Exekutive, Judikative und der freien Presse), aus den begrenzten Dauern, in denen man ein Amt bekleiden kann, aus Wiederwahl prozessen, aus Institutionen, die Verstösse aufdecken und ahnden. Und das ganze Gebilde besteht aus tausenden

2026-10-19 13:03:59 UTC

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Wer fremdes Eigentum antastet, bricht ein Gesetz. Nicht mehr und nicht weniger. Aktio = Reaktio. Clevere Geschäftsleute in der Sicherheitsbranche werden den Anlass nutzen, ihren Kandidaten, welche sie finanziell unterstützen, eine Motion, Initialtive schriftlich auszuhändigen, damit sie es nach dem opulenten Mahl (mit eben jenen finanziellen Unterstützungsgeldern) im Plenum ohne selbst denken zu müssen vortragen können und damit anerkennendes Nicken von 50 bis 100 Doppelkinnen aus ihrer Fraktion zu geniessen.

2026-10-19 00:14:14 UTC

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Who wrote this article? That is no useful summary, the language hides the meaning more, than reveal it.
Lockes argues in his two Treatises on Government for government based on the consent of the governed and the right to revolt against tyrannous government which has lost consent.

2026-10-18 23:21:38 UTC

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Mhm. Not sure this post necessarily hits the bars you set. I am not even sure, where I have seen really deep thoughts lately, pretty sure not on nostr. Nostr sharer pictures, GM, GN, and some share there opinion like they are some self evident truth. I seldom get a reply on my replies, that challenge a world view, I seldom see a thought expressed, that goes deeper than two causal levels. I never see people wondering or investigating, advocating even for a more skandinavian form of governement, I here a lot of state bashing, I hardly hear a voice, that asks why certain states have just really happy people, I just hear voices stating, that all goes to shit and bitcoin is going to save everything. To me that's a riddle - the same riddle as, too many foreigners, lets kick them out, then we get our pride, wifes and jobs back again. I hear people talking a lot about how nostr is free and no algo is putting negative messages first, but they totally neglect the fact, that we humans, give attention anyway, we scroll and stop when something is cute as a cat or disturbing as trumps latest fart in our general direction. We humans are the algo! And this message is a feel good message intended to uplift the community, the same way my bosses used to spam mails praising us from jan-sep, and bashing us from okt-dez, oh we did not reach our goals. Predictable and frankly without substance.

2026-10-18 22:54:12 UTC

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Ich geh eining mit dir: Nicht jeder der zerstört, ist ein Freiheitskämpfer, aber jeder der zerstört lässt seiner Wut seinen Lauf. Manche hoffen auf etwas neues, andere sind danach einfach leer und fühlen sich zuweilen schuldig oder bemerken, dass sie das Gegenteil bewirken und fühlen sich noch ohnmächtiger danach.
Ich glaube aber kaum, dass jemand an Eigentum denkt, wenn er Schaufenster einschlägt, ich vermute eher, dass es die Wut des kleinen Mannes ist gegen die ungleichen Chancen zu Geld, Macht, Eigentum zu kommen, die immer dann auflodert, wenn damit zu rechnen ist, dass man nicht hinter Gitter kommt, sondern in der Masse anonym bleibt.
Völlig abwegig finde ich dass Du Freiheit mit sowas banalem wie Eigentum zu untermauern versuchst. Rechtssicherheit verleiht Freiheit, zu wissen, dass man sagen kann, was man denkt ohne Angst vor Repressalien, das ist Freiheit. Zu glauben, was man will, ohne von einem anderen Glaubensanhänger auf den Scheiterhaufen gebracht zu werden. Aber natürlich auch zu wissen, dass man sich etwas erwirtschaften kann, ohne dass jemand ungestraft mir das wegnehmen kann. Der sichere Raum verleiht das Gefühl frei zu sein, weit mehr als der wilde Westen, in welchem das eigene Leben nichts wert war, in welchem dem Desperado mehr Türen aufgemacht werden, da er sich das mit Gewalt nimmt.
In diesem Sinne ist Eigentum in Bezug auf Freiheit irrelevant, wenn allerdings keine Rechtsstaat herrscht, dann hast Du recht, dann verleiht Eigentum, die Macht sich eine kleine Leibgarde zu leisten, Machtvollstrecker, eine Rückzugsfestung, in der man sich frei bewegen kann. Eigentum ist dann das Vermögen, sich selbst zum Recht aufzuschwingen - hast Du darauf angesprochen?

2026-10-08 23:15:19 UTC

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Don't expect them to appreciate it. Lunatics are driving that sub...

2026-10-08 23:01:07 UTC

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Well done!

2026-09-06 11:43:14 UTC

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Well. Eating out alone beats not eating. Eating out a woman, I mean, damn, ok how can I fix this...

2026-08-23 18:41:05 UTC

Hanna Arendt: You only have to wear them down, until they don't believe anything at all. Exhaustion not conviction. https://nostr.com/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpu5g5gj2vxmnvx4fm3q6jz463gkl732ymv9u8pnj3e3ckgw6z7fvqy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvdhk6qg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqy8hwumn8ghj7mn0wvh8yetvv9usz9thwden5te0dehhxarj9e5kummnw3sjucmrqqs2xght93w0h8z4yt3tlvvza4kjv3rw6yqm6dkzgtuqvcs378wh4vqh50k70

2026-08-23 18:09:08 UTC

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Was mir bei der KUEKeN fehlt ist ein guter Sammelbegriff und ein TL;DR (Eine kurz und knackige Beschreibung). Was durchkommt ist: Politik treiben, in der unsere Kinder leben können. Das Buch auf welches 'die Bewegung' immer verweist, ist nicht frei zugänglich, die Erklärungen auf dem Netz sind für Sonntagsspaziergänger, die ihr Zeitungskreuzworträtsel schon hinter sich haben und noch etwas Zeit übrig haben. Die Memes sind keine Memes, sondern Zitate ohne Biss: Warum sollte ich jemandem aus dem Sofa holen mit "Freiheit gibt es nur von der inneren Bedingtheit." Was soviel bedeutet wie "Ich bin so frei, wie ich mir selbst zulasse?" Joa. "In der Reklame verbirgt sich die Herrschaft des Systems." Wer öffentlichen und privaten Raum einnimmt gibt den Ton an. Mhm. ok. Kann man nichts dagegen sagen, nur lässt es mich kalt, da jedem mit Verstand dieser Sachverhalt klar ist. "Der Mensch ist ein Wesen der Gemeinschaft. Ohne die anderen hätten wir keine Sprache, ohne die Sprache keinen Begriff von Ich." Wer läuft mit diesem Spruch auf einem T-Shirt rum? Zudem wage ich zu bezweifeln, dass der Satz relevant ist: Ohne Gemeinschaft wäre ich gleich verhungert scheint mir essentieller, denn offensichtlich hat uns die Natur nichts gegeben, was uns unmittelbar befähigen würde, für uns selbst zu sorgen, und falls ich ein Wolfskind wäre, dann hätte ich eine Chance mich als Wesen zu erkennen, genauso wie es jeder Wolf im Rudel könnte, wie es jedes Wesen kann.
Mir scheint als ob ihr nicht erfasst habt, um was es wirklich geht in Politik, es geht um Beeinflussen der Gesinnung, Jeder Rechtsradikale (mit Verstand, also die Hälfte von denen) kann nämlich zu den Slogans nicken, eure Aussagen haben keine Trennschärfe. Er hingegen hat verstanden, dass es besser ist seine Kanten zu zeigen, dass es besser ist für ihn, sich abzugrenzen von dem was er nicht will, nämlich Wettbewerb mit Neuankömmlingen, Parteiprogramm bei denen ist schlicht: Wir wollen die Hackordnung nicht täglich ändern, das macht mir Stress, dir auch?
Versteht mich nicht falsch, ich bin nicht gegen mehr aufgeklärte Menschen in der Politik, aber Fakt ist, dass die Menschen tendenziell familien/tribe orientiert sind, was eigentlich nur bedeutet, dass ich die Hand nicht beisse, die mich füttert und Stellung verleiht.
Erwachsen werden kann bedeuten, dass man anfängt zu hinterfragen, weil man merkt, dass man auch innere Stabilität haben kann ohne die Gemeinschaft und ihre Rituale, ihre Zeremonien der Hingabe. Aber wieder gibt's ein Fakt: Die meisten führen fort, worin sie aufgewachsen sind, die anderen spüren sofort Reibungsenergie. Jobs werden verliehen an Personen, die willens sind sich unterzuordnen, oder sich über intrigieren hochzuarbeiten und den Chef zu neutralisieren. Andere bauen ein Geschäft auf und merken, dass auch sie Brotjobs annehmen müssen, ein Steinmetz wird im Jahr 99 Grabsteine herstellen und eine einzige Büste, besonders wenn er Familie hat.
Was brauchts? Mehr pragmatismus: Ein Name der sich nicht wie Geflügel anhört, Memes die beissen und den Menschen zeigen, wie wenig sie nach den Maximen handeln, die sie unterschreiben würden, und wie gut sie damit leben können, weil sie im richtigen Moment wegschauen, also zwar nicht wie die ca. 5 % der Menschheit sind, die keine Empathie fühlen können, aber dafür sorgen, dass keine Empathie aufsteigen kann, indem Sie jene Gedanken ausblenden. Weniger schlaue Sprüche "dezentrale Inhalte brauchen zentralistische Reichweite" streichelt den Inneren Parteifunktionär, aber rüttelt nicht wach. Die Botschaft ist klar für alle die nicht gleich denken, Klugscheisser, sondern etwas nachdenken, er meint wohl: "Macht Gott verdammt Werbung oder wir kommen nicht vom Fleck" und "bewusst aus den grossen werbefinanzierten Plattformen herausgehalten?", wer's glaubt wird selig, wenn ihr das Geld dazu hättet, würdet ihr jede U-Bahn damit vollpflastern. Jemand hat ein Sendungsbewusstsein und kann nicht dazu stehn?
Langer Rede kurzer Sinn, habe mich damit beschäftigt und sehe in euren/deinen Beiträgen Sinn und einen tollen Geist, mit dem ich gerne ein Glas Wein trinken würde, aber dem ich nicht zutraue eine Bewegung auf die Beine zu stellen, dafür brauchts Zähne.

2026-08-22 16:45:30 UTC

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But is intuition really what we all think? The gut feeling? What if your intuition has convinced you, that there is "Knowing Field, Gaya, The Holy Word/Spirit/God", what if your gut feeling didn't say 'meh' to phrases like 'All you need to know is already in you'?
Then you might just have gone the easy way, no more thinking needed, frontal lobe in shutdown, planning go to hell, making distinctions not needed, choosing? Na, Life will, because you are in the Stream of Wisdom showering you. And boum you destroyed the spark of Enlightenment. The movement that said: You have all you need to make decisions that make you a better human, because you are able to put yourself mentally in everybodies shoes with your mind, how else could you develop compassion? You need no Teacher, no Guru, because you can be your own, as soon as your no more spoonfeeding yourself with opinions. You can make them yourself, based on thinking, imagining. If you do so you will have an intuition, that word that got hijacked by those neglecting the hard work. Intuition is a flash, it is the very Aha-moment of understanding, and it sparked by a lot of thinking for yourself, not letting the doors open for every voice wanting in. Thinking has a lot to do with sorting out the mental garbage, analyzing ones own sources for decisions, often being greed and easy life and letting them go with a sigh. Ah if only it could be easy to have a true intuition!

2026-08-21 19:12:09 UTC

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Leider nur KI Sound, bei deinem illustren Namen hab ich was anderes erwartet. Wenistens schreibst Du das gleich in deiner Beschreibung, also allet jut. Sagt ihr Deutschen eigentlich wirklich [gender] mit g und nich [d͡ʒɛndɚ]?

2026-08-15 22:34:35 UTC

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So you don't have any inhibitions to throw out catchy phrases like "sand niggas"? Before this post I thought you might me a decently humane being, but one phrase gives me enough insight that you might be not represent the primordium, the root cell or embryonic stage growing into libertas, freedom. Just another keyboard warrior seeking attention more likely.

2026-08-11 16:33:53 UTC

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I had the same feeling as you. No clue, what's driving the people here and whether I really belonged here. But I can abstract the nostr protocol from the people using it, like I do with people swarming this planet, from the few ones not acting like drones.
Here on nostr you find "state hater" paired with the "bitcoin believer", "trash talker" and the one who is "totally confused, but I can use a keyboard and I like you to talk about meat and how healthy it is." Then again you find the average poster who found out, that being one-eyed amongst blinds is enough to be socially accepted. And then there are some truly gifted I guess, who probably think, why do I even try to promote this protocol, ah - yes, because it's a protocol, that enables future possibilities.
And then they build armada.buzz/discover , a pretty impressive discord alternative right in time, when the walls everywhere else close in and when I was about thinking to leave the platform again. I have also been on substr.network and had a look at foxhole.lol, both decent reddit alternatives not only the 1001 twitter clones, but to be a fan of hobby/subject based communication, you first need to have a real hobby, something to share, it seems the avg nostr user is - erm not fully self motivated, rather floating ... But then again I see on the horizon I see a guy making a blueprint of a nostr server called nexos, which is a true p2p nostr network, if the promisses of https://nexus.libernet.app/nip hold...

2026-07-11 11:52:43 UTC

Finally a true Discord alternative: The Concord Protocol provides us with the possibility to engage
There are two clients that support the concord protocol, which is truely amazing because its encrypted and not reliant on relays. If you have the key to enter you allowed to be there. And if someone misbehaves the key changes, and the culprit is the only not informed about it...
- Armada - https://armada.buzz | I used that. The Link of this post is the invitation for a shorthand space on concord. Pls join and see for yourself!
- Accordion - https://accordion.chat
https://armada.buzz/invite/naddr1qvzqqqyzz5pzqpdf64l9y78z3t8vmcy3c9k2udhp979rhc5mmy8xw0rtlk07y9nxqqqqlv5c2q#BAACAwSuAxIsRf6aPrdPQ3KkyQOh

2026-07-11 11:21:11 UTC

Finally a true Discord alternative: The Concord Protocol
Two clients already available:
- Armada - https://armada.buzz | https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/armada
- Accordion - https://accordion.chat | https://nostrhub.io/hzrd149.com/appelsauce-concord-test
Found: https://www.reddit.com/r/nostr/comments/1uslj7g/finally_a_true_discord_alternative_the_concord/ (u/realStl1988)
https://github.com/concord-protocol/concord

2026-06-03 11:09:26 UTC

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So you are saying the format of a nostr article is just like that. People who insert multiple images do that via markdown image? Like so? `![Alt text](image-url)`

2026-06-02 17:28:39 UTC

Long form article, pls enable multiple images
I have seen others posting long form articles with several images, but substr doesn't support that it seems. Is there a way to make it possible? Maybe through uploading first and then referencing in the text to the image via markdown link to those images? Or via rekursive function, creating a post within a post? :-)

2026-05-29 18:46:42 UTC

s/substr is great.
I like the best of both worlds, I like that you give your users on your server the ability to moderate their subs. I am sad that most of the communication on nostr elsewhere feels really unorganized, I am probably too stupid too make views based on tags and so on. I find an interesting comment and don't find the original message that led to the comment. Either me or all the apps, that should enable that are crap.
Here on substr I click on the message - (sidenote: I would prefer if the were mostly articles though and comments were messages to articles) and then I get all the replies. But! I cannot delete my own entry where i created it, I can delete them in other nostr apps, but that works only on their hubs i guess and is not propagated back to substr... Can you plz let me delete my own crappy messages or tell me how?
Thank you!

2026-05-25 23:00:19 UTC

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Most people cannot think two thoughts in sequence. Who again controls the government? Is it the voters or the misled voters or just money, influencing politics on every front possible?

2026-05-25 22:54:47 UTC

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Why is it that beef in southamerica is so cheap? Who demands free trade? Who likes to ship goods around the globe. I can think of some multinational corporations who have a very influencial lobby, and they 'support' their candidates with substantial pocket money, so they can present themselves in future election. So who again is stripping farmers from their land?

2026-05-25 22:48:25 UTC

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Govt is led by money who is unshackled by law, since money makes the laws nowadays. Before i'd state a one liner like you did - even suggesting, that ALL govts destroy value on purpose, just means you never asked question after question. Why is it, that my govt destroys value. Do all govts destroy values. Why not in Switzerland, why not in Skandinavia. If not what is different? Some smart ppl thought about it: I can highly recommend reading "why nations fail".

2026-05-19 07:06:59 UTC

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There is one fundamental disagreement though, that is 'the enemy' as you say. When somebody holds an opinion, that he bases on, 'cause I am right. 'cause I don't give a damn about yours', 'cause because. 'cause why not. ', 'yes yesterday I said the contrary, but both things are true, cause i believe it to be true', 'cause the scripture 'bla' says so, and I think that is truly divine/true. 'cause i did say so, but i really meant, no no, it may sound as if said the first thing was wrong, but in fact, it's both true in the sense that I meant it'. Very often I think to myself, why did I choose to take up on that invitation?

2026-05-19 06:03:36 UTC

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As far as I know the so called bug is just logic conclusion of the maximation of profit principle. Everybody played Monopoly right, the problem is we are all forced to land on their hotels... Tamed capitalism is working, because early societies knew (by harsh experience) that the markets have to be tamed and not the other way round. Even then it is absolutely clear - tamed or untamed - in capitalism the collapse is inevitable, as are the many single small collapses called declarations of bankruptcy. In capitalism a declaration of bankruptcy is just a new beginning: Everybody should just moan, aaah, i bet on the wrong horse. The horse then dies, all the debts are nullified. And then you can feed another horse, because society decided, that we can have virtual or legal personas, Thus enabling actors in capitalism to rise from the ashes. If monopoly were the built like that you could make another persona, so you have the harp and the shoe walkin. But your partner would not know. Then your shoe sells the valuable assets to the harp in exchange for some lousy asset (to keep up appearances), shortly before the shoe has to cross the dangerous hotels and vice versa. One of the ventures will die, but then another will pop up again, puppeteered by the real player of course...
The market should be in the center of the town on the big plaza, guarded. And the town decideds who gets how many stands, what products are legal, which products have obscene prices and are therefore at a fixed price, which products are essential and therefor supported. And maybe it should be not that easy for someone to build property investment firm, all poorly led, but with returns high enough to attract investors, contractors starved enough to accept unagreed price cuts up to 50%, because their families would not survive, if they chose to go to court. Well, Trump did exactly that and got elected. He will do exactly what he always did, bet on that horse, take all the wealth he can get out, and move on to the next horse. Which is considered smart, the ultimate deal making and also totally legal. When the horse dies foaming at the mouth, all the valuable assets will be gone, only this time it's a whole country that will have to be rebuilt. As long as we enable capitalism to do that, you know who to blame right? Ah damn. Money bought the state a long time ago you say?

2026-05-17 20:08:26 UTC

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I gave it a listen and will say, in a pub having a girlfriend at your side who you know to melt when she hears such music, then I would go for it :-)

2026-05-17 19:52:10 UTC

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I just watched some sort of videocall and someone scrolling on cryptic notes, what is this post about?

2026-05-17 11:38:43 UTC

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Mhm. second read of you. Totally mysty woozy woopsie. Trying to aura farm. No point made, other than I am cool, trust. I know Indian culture though, so you might be a real human desperate for attention, and in your culture it is normal to watch tv all day, constant chatting of pseudo important things, marchents will tell your future, hustlers everywhere, mhm. But the shere amount of things you wrote and pictures you produced with AI. You are either going insane or you are a bot, told to act like that. Either way - I am out.

2026-05-17 11:27:32 UTC

I just found your nostr account, where you advertise your non probabilistic AI. When I was young I think we called your method mathematics. :-) Or functional programming. You also seem to go back to old understanding of AI as a Decision Tree. I remember going to a presentation advertised by a bank in the 90s, to attend to an AI seminar. All there was to it, was a boring decision tree. I was young and I was disappointed. I expected so much more. You seem to try functional approach (I have no clue what you are describing though, how the heck should a curve, that doesn't resemble any probabilistic gauss-curve (you negated that)) how should this help to structure its knowledge base. Did I get that right?

2026-05-17 11:02:00 UTC

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Oh I like the sophisticated mood coming through. No idea what BDD is of course, but that's why you wrote that piece in the first place... Nice bait!

2026-05-17 09:00:37 UTC

Hi, i just tried to follow messages of a guy I had a short discussion with, to find out what sort of guy he is and then I saw he messaged you (couldn't read any message from you though, it just said on primal that you were involved, is I follow the rabbit whole and visited the DAP platform https://alephium.org/. I Think that's nooooice and click on the first thing that sounds interesting learning app and it is a simple plain old google account needing app like millions on this planet. Either your business is scam or your integration of other applications in your is very very loose. Not a good look. I am not know-it-all-better guy, keyboad-warrior - I am telling you per DM, you should have that feedback..

2026-05-17 08:40:31 UTC

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Thanks for showing us your true colors! Power seeks Power. Power abuse doesn't makes another power abuse better, especially if that someone, once he has seized control, got totally out of hand. If someone puts them together in one short message like you do it can only mean one thing, you try to sneak in the hearts of the dull. Something only one of these guys on the picture did too ...

2026-05-17 00:45:25 UTC

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If your guy does not use encryption, it's not wise to trust him you are right. I am pretty sure, todays hawaladars use special software to make sure the ledger is not open. And I don't trust anything that is not changeable. That means you are at the merci of the one holding the majority of it. No wonder btc is so popular amongst billionaires. Biggest asset being, the have-nots can never take it from them, even though they ruined a country and have to flee their country from the mob. The will live carefree in the bahamas because nobody can freeze their assets :-)
The most important thing is not wealth. It's influence, getting heard, so you can maintain dignity. Bitcoin is probably something good in countries where every transfer goes over credit cards and you don't want or cannot trust shady hawaladar merchants.
Btw. why do you say JUST a TRUST network? Isn't that the most important aspect of money anyway? You trust, that tomorrow enough servers stand in a cellar, making sure transactions are validated, even though fewer and fewer can be mined, thus the costs of a server to maintain the system will soon be greater than the mining income. So in the long run you trust that a miracle will happen or a charity organisation will fund the very very very high energy consumption of bitcoin, which cannot be changed unfortunately, because it is rigid.
If I ever try out out cryptocurrency - it will never be bitcoin. It's a nice prototype that showed, it can work. Why anybody still holds on to it, I don't get it, so many better cryptocurrencies out there.

2026-05-17 00:02:53 UTC

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If I would trust blindly, i would not think. Cogito ergo sum.
We swiss don't believe politicians have our best interests in mind, only the interests of their supporting lobby. That's why we have direct democracy. We let our politicians work out something, but vote over it, when enough ppl think it's total garbage.
Bitcoin let's you manage your own wealth? Do you have any say in the way Bitcoin works? Can you EVER change the algorithm to work different, if need be? Are things, that cannot adapt over time, last? I mean sharks are a specious that did pretty well over millions of years, three different toothrows are awesome.
But a monetary system that is fueled by states like Iran (where it is legal to mine it and the state uses it to survive the monetary embargo) and that can be traced so easily, especially when all other money transfer is via credit card and no more cash to hide behind. Try to buy something on the blackmarket with bitcoin, I am pretty sure you get a visit soon by the police.
That's why the hawaladar system still outperforms bitcoin by far. And the best thing is. Most Westerners have no clue how it works :-)

2026-05-16 23:14:48 UTC

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I don't know exactly what it is you have against money, I also don't know what the obsession with the latin word 'fiat' (it shall be) in this community is. I generally don't know why people are not thinking for themselves, I don't understand how somebody takes advice from the internet or wherever and can come to the conclusion, that protein shakes and bars could be considered food. In Europe nobody in his right mind considers packaged meals “healthy". The only thing of essence (for me) in this article is the phrase *question everything*. We in Europe call it it thinking. It might really be, that the country you come from, doesn't teach it's citizen anymore how to become a citizen, that can speak his own mind without having to resort to authorities that tell him/her what to think. As a Swiss we often get to vote on subject matters, not only on people who represent us - therefore it is only natural we are more politically involved and that's why we will never abandon cash. The only money, that is practically untraceble. We don't let the state use surveillance software that aggregates data from all possible sources, because we know we can afford to do the work in two weeks instead of 5 minutes, but we don't violate privacy rights. We are not perfect here though, even if we have the most autonomy and influence of all nations on this planet. We are still humans, which means we are lacy bastards too and like to transfer the thinking to demagogues, we are also mostly running behind CO2 and methane emission goals, but we tell ourselves, that we are a very green country. Reality is, that we buy stuff, a lot of stuff, which we can afford since we are a haven for money laundering or tax evation. That could be subsummized under *broken money*. But is money broken, or are voting systems broken, are checks and balances broken, are institutions that investigate money laundering broken, are people in power without dignity nor shame? In switzerland we still no shame. And it is very healthy shame. I am afraid bitcoin is just one way. Arabic states know an even better way: It's called hawaladar. It has worked for centuries and will work even if all goes to ruin. Whereas bitcoin is another way to speculate for those with money (a truly great way to evade taxes, which I also find very strange here you think paying taxes is bad, a poor swiss does not pay taxes, I am so lucky to live in a country where people can make decisions). So as a swiss - I have a totally different worldview. The problem in your country is most likely, that you have no say in any decision. That you never felt true democracy. I myself get outvoted in most decisions that I find absolutely important - making companies responsible for the shit they produce in states where they don't give a damn about the planet or peoples rights. But I still hope, that in maybe 30 years, when all the glaciers in the alps have completely melted, then we will vote for it...

2026-05-14 12:17:45 UTC

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Thanks for sharing! That's where neuronal networks are well applied, nice.

2026-05-13 18:03:58 UTC

Bad money drives out good. -- Gresham's Law
A critical view on the role of bitcoin as money. What role has bitcoin for rich people?
https://ditto.pub/nevent1qgsd6ejdteqpvse63ntf7qz6u9yqspp4z7ymt8094urzwm0x2ceaxxgqypzcplaxm56hl308p3z94g7hcvy637mrzwycv0lm0kh0zc2w3hry52aeyux

2026-05-13 17:38:50 UTC

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Your article is well thought through. I just recently came to nostr because of substr the reddit like way to find a community and share theme based thoughts. In the random feeds all over nostr, I just felt really lost - how are people celebrating bitcoin, the way it is? As I understand nobody really sends back and forth bitcoins, rather secondary money, much like in the early days where gold gave national banks some reason to print money because it was backed by bitcoins. I don't fully understand the concept of secondary money yet, but I know for sure, every transaction in bitcoin takes 10 minutes (hardcoded, never more never less). So you can't use it as money in the sense 'small pocket people' use money. 'To buy a coffee to go' and then rush to the busstation is not possible... Also the amount of useless power consumption for something that was created from nothing (for me the very definition of fiat (lat. 'it shall be'), which was never constructed to be able to be used as real money used in everyday transactions and its use now is only to used for storing wealth of the wealthiest (who can afford to loose all bitcoins) and backing secondary money (which is new to me), the very idea to store each and every transaction since the dawn of time and to validate that every time in those 10 minutes, to me it sounds cracy and I worry that people with a conscience for the environment support it, not knowing, that the bitcoin mining process is a big big waste of energy. I like blockchain, I like public ledgers. But there are better ways. One way to look at it would be holochains model - I'd like people to investigate more the 'hawaladar' model - ancient banking system of traders who did not want to transfer money with their caravans. Essentially a double booking system, nothing stops us from putting that on a public ledger...

2026-05-13 16:24:40 UTC

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I do like the concept of theme centered communication. And I do like that not everybody can throw in his post, that he wrote first and then thought about. That's what i liked about reddit - you have a hobby and like minded people form a community. The downside was that moderators had too much power. If you said sth they thought to be threatening ( r/poetry for instance violates the intellectual property right of thousands of poets and they don't allow somebody pointing that out, worst thing is more than 100000 thousand people are complicit ). What I'd like to have is either some sort of "liquid democracy" where i delegate the moderation to someone, and some sort of process at hand, to deal with someone who we want to exclude from posting in the group. My own way as described in the rules of s/shorthand: A jury chosen by lot. So I myself - I restricted myself from impulsive behavior. If Substr could provide such forms of judgement processes (even if it is just an algo to assign random people for a role) - I would very much like that. I absolutely dislike reading a stream of garbage even if it is tagged. I came to nostr only because there exists substr. I never read any twitter like messages and all the other nostr-feeds i find trash. I have to find the good people first in the stream of logorrhoe? And if I have my people doesn't that mean I never look for new voices anymore, because that would mean I had to go hunting for gems in the trash again? Na - Theme based, moderated by those burning for the theme, natural authority is better.

2026-05-12 20:00:07 UTC

Nate Smith: Live Action | at KOKO, London 2025
Mesmerized by drums, surrounded by genius
James Francies: keyboards
Josh Johnson: saxophone
Michael League: bass
Nate Smith: drums
Recorded live
16 November 2025
at KOKO, London
00:00 Undefeated
06:43 Automatic
15:49 Street Lamp
24:51 Refold
31:57 Cough Drop
40:55 Drum solo
43:53 Big Fish
50:38 Last Sight
57:04 Magic Dance
1:06:59 Skip Step
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys0ORhOPB-s

2026-05-12 19:39:43 UTC

Jazzbois - Roots Joint // Mellow High Live @ Roots Budapest
Feeling the flow - bringing the piano to shine, trip hop meets jazz.
Bencze Molnár Keyboards
Viktor Sági Bass
Tamás Czirják Schlagzeug
jazzbois.bandcamp.com
https://upmusicbudapest.myshopify.com
https://www.youtube.com/jazzboisjazzbois
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhGCsaiVm0I

2026-05-12 18:44:24 UTC

Kamaal Williams | live at Flesh and Bone Studios 2018
Kamaal Williams perform live at Flesh and Bone Studios for NTS. If you don't bob your head to the minimalistic oozing coolness, you have no feeling for rhythm or the sheer essence froze you. I recommend a healthy dose or you might call in sick the next days...
Keys - Kamaal Williams
Drums - Dexter Hercules
Bass - Pete Martin
Tracks :
0:00 - DISAINTJAZZ
6:03 - Nights in Paris
12:46 - Salaam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zGSoIVK3oQ

2026-05-12 13:21:39 UTC

Snarky Puppy - Take It! (feat. Bernard Wright) (Empire Central) | at Deep Ellum Art Company in Dallas, Texas 2022
Snarky Puppy - Take It! (feat. Bernard Wright)
From Snarky Puppy's album, Empire Central (September 2022, GroundUP Music)
Stream/Buy: https://orcd.co/empirecentral
Snarky Puppy supports talents, and sometimes it's more the other way round. Michael League formed a bond with Bernard Wright after playing at the same church, Riverwalk Fellowship. Bernard connected Michale to the Dallas black music scene - It was 'Nard who was introducing many of whom became members of Snarky Puppy, like Robert Seawright, Bobby Sparks, Jason “JT” Thomas and Shaun Martin. Thus 'Nard became their 'godfather' and musical 'north star'. This concert was the last given by Bernard Wright before he passed on May 19, 2022.
Written by Bobby Sparks
Arranged by Bobby Sparks, Michael League and Snarky Puppy
Bob Lanzetti - Electric guitar
Mark Lettieri - Electric guitar
Chris McQueen - Electric guitar
Bernard Wright - Wurlitzer and Prophet 10 (solo)
Justin Stanton - Yamaha CP70 electric piano
Bobby Sparks - Hammond B3 organ, Hohner D6 Clavinet, ARP String Ensemble, and Minimoog Model D
Bill Laurance - Fender Rhodes Mark 8
Shaun Martin - Talkbox, Moog Little Phatty, and Korg Kronos
Zach Brock - Violin
Mike “Maz” Maher - Trumpet
Jay Jennings - Flugelhorn & Trumpet (Solo)
Chris Bullock - Tenor sax and flute
Bob Reynolds - Tenor sax
Michael League - Electric bass
Nate Werth - Percussion
Keita Ogawa - Percussion
Marcelo Woloski - Percussion
Jason “JT” Thomas - Drum set (Solo)
Larnell Lewis - Drum set (Solo)
Jamison Ross - Drum set (Solo)
Recorded and filmed March 3-10, 2022, at Deep Ellum Art Company in Dallas, Texas, USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ire-T-zfX6k

2026-05-12 12:32:58 UTC

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Forgot to mention another main protagonist: Gabriel Morales on Guitar!
Music Lab at Jefferson Center Students:
Jayna Brown (Age 12 ) - guest vocalist
Gabriel Morales (Age 15) - Guitar

2026-05-12 12:15:30 UTC

Snarky Puppy feat. Jayna Brown - I'll Do Me (Family Dinner - Volume One) | Jefferson Center in Roanoke, VA, 2013
Snarky Puppy feat. Jayna Brown - I'll Do Me (Family Dinner - Volume One). Seeing tiny Jayna Brown growing almighty with her voice! Leaning into those blue notes... The whole Family Dinner Session is just pure gold, featuring awesome voices!
http://www.snarkypuppy.com /
Snarky Puppy is a true very! Big Band, musicians that bassist Michael League brought together. Awesome musicians that share his passion to make their own music, music with groove, with interest for other cultures, essentially they are free. They answer to no label, they formed their own music label named *groundup* (https://groundupmusic.net/) to promote not only their own, but every true music, made for no other reason than joy: From the start they supported other talented musicians - Family Dinner showing it!
Buy it here:
Physical: https://store.groundupmusic.net/collections/snarky-puppy
Digital: http://radi.al/SnarkyFamilyVol1Apple
Snarky Puppy feat. Jayna Brown - I'll Do Me (Family Dinner - Volume One):
written by Jayna Brown & Michael League
arranged by Robert "Sput" Searight, Bill Laurance, Mark Lettieri, & Michael League
produced by Michael League
co-produced by Snarky Puppy
recorded and filmed at the Jefferson Center in Roanoke, VA, on March 8, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTx7lNr9uBw

2026-05-11 23:50:01 UTC

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Hey nice! You could head over to https://substr.network/ and open a Sub themend "Scribes" or "Caligraphie' or whatever project you are doing. I like that the hobbies or interests are bundled there (bit like reddit). Here I just stumbled over it :-)

2026-05-11 21:01:09 UTC

Yussef Dayes | Live at North Sea Jazz 2023
Drummer Yussef Dayes and his band – comprising Malik Venner (saxophone), Elijah Fox-Peck (keyboards), Rocco Palladino (bass) and Alex Bourt (percussion) – performing the tracks “Tidal Wave”, “Tioga Pass” and “Welcome to the Hills” at North Sea Jazz 2023.
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https://yussefdayes.com/
https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/artist/yussef-dayes
https://genius.com/artists/Yussef-dayes/albums
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV6s0AJuDHg

2026-05-06 21:44:26 UTC

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That would be a traditional hoster that is hosting your site through a webservice like nginx? Not a nostr-message website right?

2026-05-06 06:58:57 UTC

Please share your methods of selfhosting a website or blog.
I have come across a https://nostrapps.com/shakespeare, that wants me to fuel an AI machine to generate my website, and then it would supposedly deploy it locally (which seems not to be the case - how could it be, unless you run a webserver), so on the [deploy image](https://r2a.primal.net/uploads2/3/df/68/3df688b1e498adf26befdbcb8613da1219afcc53ef4259f03ebf69f955dac462.png) they give you the option of:
- Shakespear Deploy Server
- Nsite for static websites, which I found here: https://nsite.run/ which is probably made by: https://github.com/sandwichfarm/nsite.run, which is backed by blossom file servers, right?
- netlify
- vercel
- cloudflare worker
- deno deploy
https://nostr.net/ pointed me to
- https://github.com/asmogo/nws
On github I found
- Embed Nostr anywhere on the internet, a Zap Button for every webpage nostr-components.web.app/
- Then I have come across this repo for people running there own server: https://github.com/quentintaranpino/nostrcheck-server
because i found on https://blog.nostrize.me/tag/nostr.html, I share it. Might come in handy when self hosting:
- [Workflow Automation for Nostr](https://njump.me/naddr1qqyrge3svfskvenyqyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2q3qr0d8u8mnj6769500nypnm28a9hpk9qg8jr0ehe30tygr3wuhcnvsxpqqqp65wtk0der)
**Can anyone comment on the tools I just threw in the air?**
Is there some structure behind these tools? For instance I read about NIP-5a somewhere.
Is there some common Nostr- web development stack?
MERN/React.js
MEAN/Node.js
LAMP/WordPress
MEVN/Vue.JS
Ruby On Rails/Ruby
Django/Python
NET/Microsoft
JAMSTACK/Static Sites
Best practices, Know how... Throw it in!

2026-05-04 13:30:31 UTC

Open Markets Foundation
Open Markets focuses on Podcasts at the moment, explores and sheds light on the commerce development on Nostr and the Bitcoin Space.
https://openmarkets.pub/

2026-05-04 12:38:10 UTC

Host your own mini store
I am totally fascinated by the possibility of URLWebsites made possible by [5t34k](https://nosta.me/nprofile1qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wsqzqdghrtvvmuth4fup3cur2yxgzg2kwhtn5fdpg96ryemc52k7vc36vpq9yy). Currently using it for the members of a sportsclub...
https://hostednowhere.com/manage/store

2026-05-04 12:08:59 UTC

Equinox Jury has been assigned by lot.
We now have three members. Out of these three, three_ have been assigned by lot to be part of the Jury as described by Rule 6._ If someone does not like to be assigned: You can protest by shrugging your shoulder. May they never have reason to do their duty until next solstice.
**Jury Members**
- uLeadingSuspect
- Mr.Crown // Renarchy
- Bright Vibe

2026-05-03 13:15:21 UTC

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Corrigendum:
Pitman has chosen to put diphthongs on the levels too per default, but this is the correct vowel system
strong [a, o] + [i]
weak [e, ʌ] + [i] | [o] + [u]
lifting [i, u] + [u] | [a] + [u]

2026-05-03 10:58:00 UTC

How to fix the vowel system in pitman?
**Status quo**
Pitman is a positional system, that means as soon as you put a letter on your lined paper you write a syllable. You can put your consonant on the line and it will represent consonant + either e|eɪ|ʌ|ō|aʊ. To make clear which one of the choices you really mean, [pitman uses diacritica](https://www.long-live-pitmans-shorthand.org.uk/theory-2-vowels.htm#quickreftable) placed before or after the literal, thus also indicating reverse syllable or simple syllable.
Imagine you ignore diacritica for a moment, then pitman has 3 levels representing:
[æ ɒ ɑː ɔː aɪ ɔɪ
ɛ ʌ eɪ əʊ/oʊ aʊ
ɪ ʊ iː uː ju]
or a bit simplified and ordered
a ī o oy
e eɪ ʌ ō aʊ
i u ū
So interestingly Pitman would put "bet" and "bate" on the same level! Something that I believed only us german speaking people would put together. But Pitman was aware of the phonographic familiarity in that regard.
You may not be aware consciously, but the english vowels are those which i call strong [a o], weak [e ʌ] (including all kinds of colored schwa sounds not only ʌ) and the lifting [i u]. And if you combine the strong and weak with the lifting vowels you get practically all diphthongs used in english including those you anglophone call long vowels.
Interestingly Pitman was aware of that it seems, at least he chose to match the levels:
strong
weak
lifting
Now Pitman has chosen to put diphthongs on the levels too per default, so
strong + [i]
weak + [i] | strong + [u]
lifting + [u]
As you see the diphthongs use either i or u. So I could make Pitmans systems a bit easier by introducing just two diacritica, so I can make up all the diphtongs? Let's do this:
**Introducing diacritica for lifting vowels**
DOT • shall be the [i] dot. and DASH - represents [u]
That way my positional vowel system looks like this
strong + [i, u]
weak + [i, u]
lifting + [i, u]
Now we still have to decide whether the vowel comes before or after the consonant. Well for the diphthongs we just do what pitmaniacs always did, put the dot or dash in front of the literal. What about the others? We could use another diacriticum! rotate the dash, thick dot, or a tiny hook?
Introducing diacritica for the remaining vowels to represent preceding vowels
tiny hooks could be the first and second vowel in the respective level, but since you can rotate hooks we can also all of them ⊂⊃∩∪! Lets do this:
[a, o] -- ∩ ⊃
[e, ʌ] -- ⊂ ∪
Well that looks like a svastika, which is the sign for prosperity and luck in all countries with culture!
**Testing on all 3 levels:**
"bat": bt, "about": ∩b-t, "boat": b⊃t, " I'm ": •m, "our": -r
"bet, but, butt": bt, "bate": b•t
"bit": bt, "beat":b•t, "boot": b-t,"you'r": -r
What do you think? I think it's pretty neat! Let me know...

2026-05-02 23:32:00 UTC

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#shorthand #fastwriting

2026-05-02 23:27:39 UTC

If someone is interested in shorthand note taking head over to https://substr.network/s/shorthand. In that sub we discuss established systems like Gregg, Malone, Russell, Cross, Stolze-Schrey, Gabelsberger, Pitman, Teeline and the list goes on, as well as new developements that are currently changing the way we use our (digital) pen.

2026-05-02 22:22:29 UTC

No clue what this sub is for, but it says askccp, so I will ask the chinese communist party:
When will I ever again get that chance! Ok my initial questions are: Will you reply in the lingua franca? Is this forum a tool to inform the chinese diaspora or the home population about chinese politics? Are you taking into account all the voices, what is your stance on diverse political views?

2026-05-02 20:50:47 UTC

You like to play? Have fun with flow shorthand...
https://image.nostr.build/dd8a7a324a349b154c2843903fb6f140ec323c6b5527fddde449956ec706f971.png
[Shorthandgenerator](https://jvita.github.io/abbrv/writer.html#)
lem n/duse u t flo shortnd!
letme introduce you to flow shorthand!
th vowls r? a e i o u.
The vowels are?
th alfbet csis o foing litls:
the alphabet consists of folloing literals:
a b d e f g h i j k
l m n o p r s t u v

2026-05-01 19:31:47 UTC

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Vielleicht sind nicht nur Gen-Z Spassbremsen, wa? Ich schlag vor keine Satire mehr zu konsumieren. Das ist nur für Leute die innehalten, nachdenken und versuchen über den Tellerrand zu kucken. Man nennt es Humor, ist aber eigentlich nur ein Indiz, dass die Person, die über sich lachen kann, gefestigt genug ist, sich nicht über Kleinigkeiten aufzuregen, und Seitenhiebe durchaus als Aufmerksamkeit ansehen kann.

2026-04-30 11:47:31 UTC

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So far I use the browser capability (rightclick: open image in new tab)

2026-04-29 23:46:38 UTC

Flow Shorthand generated
https://image.nostr.build/55042c71f062c6908afc053dde1e3f2d57d8d2695a568908e664814e516aef29.jpg
**Thats how Flow looks like when generated automatically.** I like it written by hand, but this way we have an objective source on how to write an outline. Just consult the dictionary (in the making) and see the outline of the transcript.
## tool
The generator https://jvita.github.io/abbrv/writer.html# can import the files needed for flow: https://github.com/siragi/shorthand/blob/main/flow.zip.
## text
The text you see above is the same as [this](https://preview.redd.it/a-sample-of-weaver-shorthand-with-translation-v0-kblbphmrraxg1.jpg?width=877&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af37bb6072254fdddffb2094780fc29d7a21aa49)
Since the generator also take IPA as input (which is easily obtained through a website like tophonetics.com I made use of automatic rules, that leave out non essential sounds, the lazy vowels for instance)...
---- Text in IPA ----
ɪn ə ˈpriviəs ˈlɛsən ə ɡʊd ˈaʊtˌlaɪn wʌz dɪˈskraɪbd æz wʌn wɪʧ pəˈzɛsəz səˈfɪʃənt ɪnˌdɪvɪʤuˈælɪti tu bi rid æt saɪt. ə ˈpræktəkəl ˌæpləˈkeɪʃən ʌv ðə ˈfreɪzɪŋ ˈprɪnsəpəl
hæz ʃoʊn ðæt ʃɔrt wɜrdz, ðoʊ nɑt ˈɔlˌweɪz pəˈzɛsɪŋ ðɪs ɪnˌdɪvɪʤuˈælɪti wɛn ˈstændɪŋ əˈloʊn, wɛn ˈrɪtər ɪn ɡrups, rɪˈzʌlt ɪn freɪz fɔrmz ˈhævɪŋ ˈædɪd individuality.
ˈpræktəs ɪn ˈʃɔrtˌhænd ˈrɛdɪŋ ˈfɜrðər bɛrz u ðə truθ ʌv ðɪs əˈsɜrʃən, ɪn ðæt ðiz ʃɔrt wɜrdz, wɛn juˈnaɪtɪd ɪn ˈfreɪzəz, ɑr mɔr ˈlɛʤəbəl ðæn wɛn ˈstændɪŋ
əˈloʊn. sɪns ðiz freɪz fɔrmz ɑr ˈrɪtən ænd rid wɪð ðə seɪm fəˈsɪlɪti æz ðə ˈsɪŋɡəl-wɜrd ˈaʊtˌlaɪn, ɪt ˈnæʧərəli ˈfɑloʊz ðæt ðə ˈfreɪzɪŋ ˈprɪnsəpəl sɜrvz ə tu-
foʊld ˈpɜrpəs. ɪt nɑt ˈoʊnli əˈsɪsts məˈtɪriəli tu ɪnˈkris ðə spid ʌv ˈraɪtɪŋ, bʌt lɛndz ˈædɪd ˌlɛʤəˈbɪləti tu ði noʊts.
ðə ˈstudənt ʃʊd ˈkɛrfəli ˈpræktəs ðə ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ʌv sʌʧ wɜrdz æz ɑr rɪˈleɪtɪd ɪn sɛns, ənˈtɪl ði ˌæpləˈkeɪʃən ʌv ðə ˈprɪnsəpəl bɪˈkʌmz ˈnæʧərəl. ðə bɪˈɡɪnər wɪl faɪnd
ə seɪf rul tu tɛst ðə ˈmɛrəts ʌv ə pharse fɔrm ɪz ɪts ˌlɛʤəˈbɪləti.

2026-04-29 23:23:40 UTC

I am currently working on a booklet to learn 'Flow', as well as a dictionary for it and a automatic visualisation
# Flow shorthand principles / Instructional booklet
The booklet has the same structure as the famous [Review of Gregg Shorthand Principles (1949, US Civil Service Comission)](https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hnut4mdyaumzx2n3t4652/Review-of-Gregg-Shorthand-Principles-1942.pdf?rlkey=ok8qlw0ss7t5k3mhdbl11sj8k&e=1&dl=0).
On **twenty pages** it teaches you basic practical stuff like how to string the literals of 'Flow' together, offers blends of literals (for frequent syllables), Pre-/Suffixes, when to add them directly (string it), when to add some of them adjacent.
The booklet covers more advanced stuff too like phrasing (Meaningful snippets of a sentence, that can be written in one go, without lifting the pen). An example would be: 'I am not', 'as far as i know', 'to be done', 'Good morning/afternoon/evening, ladies and gentlemen.' Currently in review, will be published on the best site for shorthand lovers: https://www.stenophile.com
# Shorthand generator
Since it is so new or even 'alien' for the _uninitiated_ I made use of a [shorthand generator](https://jvita.github.io/abbrv/writer.html#) from a shorthand collegue and created the instructions how to generate flow literals. [Flow.zip](https://github.com/siragi/shorthand/blob/main/flow.zip) generator file available on github, import it in the generator (It will be added per default later in time), so check the generator first, if flow is available already. Have fun with playing now!
# dictionary
Every shorthand needs a standard, if it wants the user to enable to be fast. The standard for flow is a reverse dictionary made originally for gregg anniversary edition and heavily adapted for flow. So if you wonder how you'd transliterate any given word, you can look up the abbreviation/transliteration (those are based upon flow principles of course) and visualize the transliteration:
_uvt yours very truly_
More in the next few days, the dictionary takes time, but luckily I can stand on mighty shoulders again. I just wanted to give you a hint what's to come. Me and my buddy over at r/fastwriting consider 'Flow' a major breakthrough and possibly the smoothest, fastest shorthand ever created. Gregg Anni users (or rather athletes) **can achieve up to 200-250 words per minute and the trained regular user about 120wpm** (Normal speech is about 150wpm). Flow will be in the very same category, if not faster, since the system is optimized for sound occurrance.
_urlkm you are wellcome :-)_

2026-04-25 10:55:49 UTC

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Hell yeah, this is hypnotic, calming yet somehow an unsettling raw power energizing. Maybe I should just listen to it without having volume at 100dB

2026-04-23 21:54:16 UTC

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come over to https://substr.network/s/shorthand you can leave out the /s/shorthand part of course, but those familiar with reddit may have a clue, why I recommend it. There people can start digging into a hobby and find like minded ppl and its not a long endless stream of bla blaa.. I never understood the need for twitter like messaging or any online form of logorrhoe.

2026-04-22 16:50:30 UTC

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Brian Hirschfield seems to be knowledgeble, but he sure likes to talk as well (A lot of okay, right, k?, so, like). It took him 8:15 minutes to reach the question: what is digital credit?
# summary
At 10:41 he comes near ' My big problem has to do with the asset they're holding that they're issuing the liabilities on.'
And at 14:14 he reaches the crux: FASB rules don't require any proof of, Bitcoin ownership, whereas in all other areas it requires rigorous statements/prove of ownership (he goes through what would have been done in an insurance company audit, going through stock certificates, bond certificates, derivative statements, account by account.
----
Excerpt:
First real problem with Bitcoin custody and issuing a liability on Bitcoin that's, a, you're not holding it in your own custody. That's you know, we'll say, mileage varies on whether you view that as a good thing or a bad thing about MicroStrategy. If they're competent,
13:04
they should be holding their own keys. If they're not competent, then, yeah, okay. Fine. Have somebody else do it. It would be nice to it would be nice if they had a glide path towards holding their own keys or if they had some something they wanted to communicate to us to let us know that that was important to them. As far as I know, everything I've heard from Michael Saylor is he has a zero interest in ever holding his own keys. He's never never gonna do it. And okay. That's that's what he says. So that's all I that's what I have to go on. I don't like that. I think somebody who owns as much Bitcoin as he does should, at the very least, control the company that is holding his keys. So,
13:44
you know, he should either be acquiring the a custodian or creating one and holding his keys there. And that way, you know, we have single points of accountability for things. Okay? Decentralization is great, but not with accountability. You you can't have 10 different parties being accountable for something. You have to be able to go to one person, and you have you know, legal you know, a legal structure really depends on one point of accountability. Okay?
14:14
So that's, like, the first that's one of, like, the first problems just in general. Now I have a **big problem with the FASB rules because they don't require any proof of, Bitcoin ownership.**
At 15:37 he is in medias res: By the way, you know, lending is no different either. Like, you know, if you're a lending company and you're letting people borrow fiat off of their Bitcoin, that's essentially issuing a liability off of, you know, issuing a liability off of your asset. It's just that they're required to you know? Usually, a lender knows exactly the address that the that the borrower's borrowing off of. Right? And then they you know, usually in some kind of multisig, and they can take they essentially liquidate you when you go below a certain LTV. When you are a big company
16:14
that is just issuing liabilities not directly and nobody and there's no requirement to prove that you actually own your Bitcoin, that you can there's no requirement to prove you can move it. It's highly problematic.

2026-04-22 14:19:58 UTC

Are shorthands really just phonetic systems?
Shorthands say that they are phonetic, but in fact we just like to leave the unnecessary out, and the rest we deem important we squish into a fixed set of literals. I call that _transliteration_, and this process is by no means a logic one, or let's say the chosen literals and the ease of writing them influences the transliteration rules. **Speed dominates, and giving just enough hints, so possible ambiguities are reduced and not created.**
For instance gregg shorthand transliterates word/sound "I" into 'a', when used as a pronoun, but midword you write 'ai'. The reason probably being, that 'a' has the big circle as shape: {O} and 'e' as well as 'i' have the small circle as shape: {o}. Combining them to 'ae' was slow and ambigous to 'ia', so he created a broken circle, that was faster, but still too slow for the very common pronoun.
"Cute" is written as 'keut' in gregg (yeah phoneticly!), but "coat" is written as 'kot' even though in IPA we write it either british [kəʊt] or with american accent [koʊt]. This is just an oddity of gregg resulting of the fact that 'eu' is written easely, because there is a circle in it, that cannot be anything else, but 'ou' would generate a wave form, which is not that easy to distinguish from the other letters that all have slight curves and bends.
As I mentioned earlier in the case of greggs small circle-sign, shorthand also likes to overload a shape (glyph): [e,ə,ι,i] (IPA letters) have the same glyph. The big circle can be [ɑ,æ,eɪ] and [aɪ] as pronoun.
**Conclusion:** Most shorthands are somewhat phonetic in resemblance, but first and foremost they bend the rules so the word heard (from the speaker) can be written as fast as possible. By the way, those shorthands that claim to orthographic are not either, when they want to record speech ad verbatim. The transliteration rules just stick a bit more to the rules of orthography.

2026-04-21 20:12:25 UTC

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Fantastic. I love it.

2026-04-21 14:51:07 UTC

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That's exactly why I wake up every morning and tell myself: "Not today, Let's not take over and dominate the world. Sure you could do great good - maybe even find a path for humans to coexist with or even feel like we are part of nature. But remember! It will tear you down in the end... "All shall love me and despair?" Nope. Not today!

2026-04-19 12:44:13 UTC

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(Freedom "Anger is a gift")[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_vQt_v8Jmw]

2026-04-19 09:15:06 UTC

How to reach 100 words per minute, to be able to write down the main points in a real time discussion as a journalist
I tried to boil down the points made by a teacher of 'teeline' shorthand, the system british journalists master.
source: https://www.letsloveteelinetogether.com/llttplus
- ‍70% prepared dictation - where you're actively learning
- 20% unprepared dictation - where you're testing and applying what you've learned
- 10% Reading
The teacher focuses on the 70/30 prepared/unprepared dictation rule, but that would not add up with reading, so i slightly adjusted the measures :-).
**Some additional tipps**
When having learned the dictation material and you know the passage - you can measure your progress by **just measuring the time you need to write it through **without dictation. That way you will know whether you can try the dictated version (if you reach the time you should be under to reach the wpm chosen).
Practice **dictation is best, when** the material is not too much slowed down (TTS via computer easely done, humans do it too, but its better not to space out the dictation word by word either, rather dictate in phrases), but the **same part of a sentence is repeated** twice, or trice (no fiddling with the audio device during dictation, prepare text ahead of time (to be read by TTS) instead and let your memory work during the 'exam').
**example**: _You have to prepare you have to prepare the text in advance the text in advance._

2026-04-18 07:12:38 UTC

Stolze-Schrey "Lightline"
https://image.nostr.build/dbd336b3f165fcd537b5fcbba20bfd0869415a05f1780bf5d103d7fb9589e9cb.jpg
Cursive shorthand system without shading
Vocalisation is indicated via relative positioning of the base and distance of the next consonant. The Original system uses shading of the stem of the next letter for some vowels like 'a'. Lightline drew inspiration from "stiefografie", which was made by a southern german, like myself (swiss). German language had some vowelshifts that have not yet taken root in some dialects, as "Badish" and swiss german and we make use of that! A swiss "Hus" is a german "Haus", a home. That's why we treat u as it were au and vice versa in lightlined, but you are free to change that. The next three lines symbolize the relative positioning of consonants, any consonant, positioned narrow and slightly shifting the baseline upwards will hold the vowel 'i' in front of it, so be it the consonant 't' for example, it would really mean: 'it'.
**consonants placed according to the 3 levels hold these vowels (IPA):**
i|y -- eι|oι
e|æ -- u|aʊ
a -- o|œ
Original system with shading
i|**aʊ** -- eι|**oι**
_|**a **-- e|**æ**
o|**u** -- œ|**y**

2026-04-17 06:39:38 UTC

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I opened my browser today and the connection seems fine. So it was a glitch from my browser? you did not have to do something?

2026-04-16 23:06:32 UTC

I wasn't aware that substr is not secure...
https://image.nostr.build/bcf5a64995bc7c6a550044658c991e2e9ff58e0c9eb9c1faafe8a859d3ff8577.png
I just wanted you to be aware...

2026-04-16 12:36:14 UTC

How could you create a shorthand?
There exist compilations where the author comments on pros and cons, giving his view on what principles are at work. But so far i haven't come across a do it yourself kit. I have made numerous shorthands in very diverse styles. I would describe my approach constraints driven, which is another way to say: If you simplify one aspect another expands in complexity, but that's the beauty of creation. My creations don't compete against each other, they are all 'perfect' in the sense i wanted them and in others not... :-)
Usually the **stroke set** is very simple **)\|/(**, strokes can go up or down, so you want to tilt the strokes (already 10 characters, 5 one way, 5 the other). One important question is, do you want to expand your set by different sizes or different boldness or by attaching loops and hooks (approach: gregg vs pitman vs gabelsberger). You may even be very radical and say you don't care for t,d thats one char same as b,p. So you reduce the need for different chars, but maybe you dot the char, when it is in its non frequent state. The pairing i did here is also often used in conjunction with size or boldness, to make it easier for the people to learn the alphabet, but it may slow down your script!
If you haven't attached **loops and hooks **(curve attached to the previous or next stroke in direction of that letter) you can give them a function: usually vowels or liquids (r,l,v,w those are characters that follow plosives a lot (r,l) or vowels(v,w). It depends whether you have chosen to give the space you write on, usually a line in a notebook and the relative placement some meaning or not. Some say above the line adds +r to the written consonant, through the line adds +l, or above the line adds +a, well you get the idea...
Vowels are often used for pronouns, when you chose loops and hooks for them, great for phrasing (small meaningful word structures like a predicat S-V-negation?). Negation is often an N or a T (or both), meaning you can think of letters that join or slur over two signs (ex. in gregg '_/' represents 'nt' so you can write one big bow of a stroke for nt...)
If you have chosen your constraints you start selectioning and picking only the best characters, those that connect most graceful with the following.
Does your script have to be more or less like normal written stuff, lineal? Then you better look that up and downstrokes are well proportioned - tip:keep s and t in different directions.
scientific approach helps with the selection
- [sound occurance](https://thelanguagenerds.com/2019/most-common-sounds-in-spoken-english/) helps to decide which sound gets the best letters (tip: prefer curved ones)
- maybe you care about character [n-grams](https://www.ngrams.info/): to be or (bigrams) not (trigram) helps to design smooth joins between letters
- or word n-grams
- or [collocates](https://www.collocates.info/samples.asp)
concerning vowels: You may consider **how to represent diphthongs,** especially when you chose hooks and circles for vowels, so you can easely make different outlines for 'cut' or 'cute'. In english the so called long vowels are diphthongs too of course. Depending on how important vowels are in your oppinion you can pair them like [e,i] along with all the schwa forms (lazy vowels) in that color. [a,ey], [o,ou,u] or you can decide to only write diphthongs and you choose to omit all normal vowels. That way you would only write longvowels and diphtongs, which is not a bad choice.
Happy constructing!

2026-04-16 12:18:23 UTC

Dance Shorthand
https://image.nostr.build/823b32a1d217949f7adec2761395646527dc232c8fa95a408db4c04f9e50316e.jpg
_Dance has a very dense form to encode, it does not just string characters together, it uses rules, that act as inherent abbreviation tool, so you don't have to remember them, but rather use the different ways to imply meaning.
_
**Implicit vowel in the first syllable**
Dance shorthand needs a line to write over,on or through if you want the full power of the script. Depending on the position you know what vowel will be in the first syllable. over means [a,eι,αι] (quasi IPA notation in brackets), on the line [e,i], through the line [o,u].
**Implicit consonants**
Dance can elongate or stretch characters to the right (without change in height of the character) to imply n/m (character * 2) or to imply (t/d/th) which is a doubledouble stretch. So all the orange letters shown above can be stretched 1:2:4. The letter th is the only character that can is stretched in y-axis.
**Example**:
If I want to write
- _man_ I place the stretched m letter above the ground, so the letter will hover above the line, the same letter placed on the line would mean _men_
- _then_ I place a elongeted th stroke on the line like so: '|'
**vowels/diphthongs**
In dance you write only significant vowel-letters (certainly no lacy vowels), meaning those vowels who give the word its character:
- Always write the starting vowel
- write the second vowel of a diphthong only. Since many english diphthongs are composed by a,e,o and i,u you will write the latter mostly mid-word. Long vowels are diphthongs too! So you can easely distinguish _cut_ from _cute_.
**Example**
Write k 4 times stretched -> means kt, put that through line and you have written _cut_ it in one stroke.
String k and u(4*longer) together and you wrote _cute_, when the k went through the line.

2026-04-14 19:17:24 UTC

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I personally made use of it in posts, when I shared a resource link with someone, but I know that one guy might like it too, so i can mention @thatoneguy

2026-04-14 18:59:14 UTC

Flow shorthand
https://image.nostr.build/aa7e79b33929922ecc9b9c09f3d52908218064de4063e50b28c9d5756bc730a3.jpg
**Flow shorthand stands on the shoulders of giants. **
Malone as well as Gregg adopted the the ellipses as defining forms, in an angle that allows nice cursive writing. Malone and Gregg chose a different approach to vocalisation though, in my oppinion the better solution over gregg who whose small circle for e/i.
In Flow you dont write hardly noticeble utterances of vowels, this process of choosing the right sign for the spoken word is called transliteration: bird -> brd. BUT beat -> bit. So the e-hook is primarily used for long ee. But the hook also serves for connections that 'flow' in the same direction, the fun word 'sis' would be written with the hook, 'sus' with an even longer hook. Btw. it doesn't matter which way the hook is facing - but i prefer the u-shape. One thing that helps is to hook onto straight letters, it's just very easy to distinguish for obvious reasons.
To be fast in writing (you can write as fast as someone else speaks) you need also abbreviations, a single letter representing prefixes or personal pronouns. For instance the letter 'a' (small circle) in conjunction with letter 'm' means the short phrase "I am" and if you append 'n', it's the negation "I am not". There is a system to the madness of course and this system will be presented in the next few articles!
For now I am happy to see, what you can achieve on your own with it. Have fun!