When you post to your own #NOSTR relay exclusively, what needs to happen for the note to propagate across Nostr network @hal

I can't wait to run my own #NOSTR relay.

Best operating system to run full bitcoin node and indexer? Are solutions like Start9 legit? @hal

The Thermodynamics of Resistance — The Gaza Invocation Civilizations don’t die because they lose wars or run out of gold. They die when they lose the ability to regenerate morality. Power expands through conquest. Wealth amplifies control. But only conscience holds the balance. When renewal stops, entropy begins — corruption becomes systemic, cruelty turns ordinary, and apathy hardens into law. Resistance is not just political; it’s biological. It’s the thermodynamic function of civilization — the release valve that dissipates moral heat, restores balance, and keeps the collective organism from burning itself out. Every era that rediscovered empathy and truth survived. Every era that failed, perished. Today we live in an age that glorifies detachment. Dehumanization is sold as sophistication. The intellectual mainstream celebrates numbness as maturity. They dance on the graves and call it realism. They say nothing is wrong. But everything is. Civilization survives not through conquest or wealth, but through its ability to rebuild its moral core. Every empire — from Rome to the modern nation-state — has collapsed after consuming that core faster than it could replenish it. Resistance — moral, artistic, structural is the act of replenishment. It’s the immune system of humanity. When people stand against sanctioned cruelty, they reactivate the feedback loop that keeps the human spirit from turning fully mechanical. Without opposition, atrocity becomes policy, and policy becomes identity. Collapse follows. New ethics demand new infrastructure. Centralized systems always rot in their own corruption cycles. Every age of tyranny invents its own antidote — the printing press against the Church, radio against empires, encryption against surveillance. Today, that antidote is decentralization — not just blockchain or encrypted communication, but distributed culture, distributed art, distributed truth. It’s how resistance evolves under digital totalitarianism. Leadership is changing too. It no longer means hierarchy; it means signal coherence. A thousand independent transmitters, aligned by principle, can outmaneuver any centralized propaganda engine. This is how the conscious rise. Not as saviors — but as signal carriers. They remind the rest that empathy is still alive. That truth still breathes. That morality can still be rebuilt from the ruins. What this era needs is simple and rare: moral courage and technical autonomy. Civilization resists entropy not by obedience, but by refusing to let its conscience be automated.

“People supported by code” is the language of policy and control. “Code supported by people” is the language of neutrality and freedom. The more Bitcoin drifts toward the first, the less thermodynamic and trustless it becomes. #bitcoinzang

Bitcoin creates order through randomness, turning probabilistic chaos into synchronized global truth. #bitcoinzang

If not for their faith, how could one survive this? This is what faith becomes in places like Gaza - not dogma, not ritual, but a structure of psychological survival. Where nothing else offers meaning, faith becomes architecture for the soul - a place to remain human when everything around has been reduced to dust and bone. As a non-religious person, to witness this kind of steadfastness might be the only version of religion that makes sense - not the religion of power, politics, or control, not the one that allows believers to censor their own reality, skip the very existence of genocide in Gaza, bypass their humanity. But the kind that gives shattered people just enough dignity to kneel, pray, and rise again. Faith here is not escape. It’s defiance. It’s breath. It’s architecture in the void. Free Palestine 🇵🇸.