Contra

Gm to some of my favorite people. May your day be filled with joy. Now go and let some zaps fly!

Be an encouragement to someone. Like right now.

The silence between signals has its own integrity. When a feed is quiet, you know it’s actually quiet, not engineered scarcity designed to make you refresh. Every post arrives because someone chose to speak, not because an optimization function predicted it would maximize your engagement. There’s something clarifying about a protocol that doesn’t have opinions about what you should see. Not only clarifying, it’s real. It’s human. It’s the way it should be.

Surveillance doesn’t primarily function through catching wrongdoers. It functions through making everyone preemptively compliant because they know that sufficient data, sufficiently analyzed, can construct a prosecutable narrative from any life. View quoted note →

Ia the machine greasing the skids? Guess we’ll find out.. 👇🏻 According to Tucker Carlson, a congressional member informed him that Trump’s address tonight will include an announcement that “a war is coming.” In response to Judge Napolitano asking: “Is Trump going to start a war in Venezuela?” Carlson replied: “I don’t know the answer … here’s what I know so far, which is that members of Congress were briefed yesterday that a war is coming and it’ll be announced in the address to the nation tonight at 9 o’clock by the president…“​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Got lower back pain? Got rotator joint pain? I started doing this years ago and it works. The dead hang might be the simplest fix for your shoulders and lower back. Hang from a bar for 30-60 seconds. That’s it. What happens? Your shoulder joints decompress and restore natural spacing. The scapula resets to proper position. Your spine lengthens under traction, releasing compressed discs in the lower back. Modern life keeps us hunched forward. The dead hang does the opposite. It opens your chest, externally rotates your shoulders, and lets gravity work for you instead of against you. Start with Progressive loading. 10-20 seconds. Build to 2+ minutes over weeks. Do it daily. Your CNS also recalibrates. Hanging activates reflexive grip strength and full body tension patterns we’ve lost sitting all day. Ancient movement pattern. Zero equipment needed. Maximum return.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

We live in a state of existence that quite possibly no one else in world history has. We have both access to instant global connectivity, infinite information, and access to artificial intelligence. But we are the last few humans in history who remember what life was like before it. We are the last living people to have experienced life before the digital age. And I fear that it may become nearly impossible for younger generations to even differentiate the digital world from the real one. But what gives me hope is the people who are building the alternative. The developers writing clients on nights and weekends because they believe in something better. The every day Nostr user helping e ergo be and anyone. The single mom learning about keys and relays because she wants her kids to grow up free. The guy running a node from his closet while everyone thinks he’s crazy. The people helping complete strangers understand Lightning, zapping value to content they believe in, teaching others even though no one’s paying them to do it. No one asked them. No one’s paying most of them. And most of the world has no idea they’re even there. These are the real leaders. And we need to empower them. We need to give them places to gather and the ability to act.

This may be the only post you see today from me. I will post more, but this may be it for you. I remind you to get out there and enjoy this day. Enjoy the people and cherish this moment. Once it’s gone it’s gone. Gm Nostr. ☕️ View quoted note →

Every argument you make proves truth can still be found.

The Bondi Beach massacre isn’t just Australia’s tragedy, it’s a preview of vulnerabilities we face here in America. The question isn’t whether extremists want to harm Americans. ISIS and al-Qaeda openly maintain that intent. The question is our capacity to screen, track, and prevent when migration volume overwhelms vetting systems. Australia’s experience shows what happens when the gap between security requirements and operational capacity widens. Their intelligence knew the shooter. He was still licensed to own six firearms. The system knew and couldn’t prevent it. We face the same threats. Stay strapped and keep your head on a swivel.