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Para Hartmut Rosa, a ressonância é o próprio processo por meio do qual somos formados como sujeitos e por meio dos quais o mundo que encontramos e experimentamos é constituído. Em outras palavras, somos uma produção complexa que emerge dos fenômenos que nos conectamos, ainda que involuntariamente.

Nesse sentido, ressonância é um fenômeno que não pode ser produzido artificialmente, acontece na complexidade da existência humana e pode ser entendida como fundamento das relações humanas bem-sucedidas com o mundo. Se a ressonância humana é aquilo que dá sentido e satisfação, o seu contrário pode ser entendido como alienação ou reificação. Na alienação, o sujeito e o mundo se colocam um ante o outro, desconectados, não reconhecíveis entre si, reificados.

Nesse sentido, alienação ou reificação é possibilidade para o adoecimento psicológico das pessoas e da própria sociedade. Entre as diversas reflexões propostas por Hartmut Rosa, é possível interpretar que a aceleração da sociedade, com pessoas cada vez mais atarefadas, sem tempo para sí, sem conseguir se conectar de forma responsiva e mais profunda com o mundo e seu entorno, podemos nos tornar enquanto sociedade, um conjunto de pessoas cada vez mais insensíveis, superficiais e ansiosas, nessa perspectiva, pessoas reificadas ou alienadas.

Se este assunto lhe interesse, pode ser produtivo acessar a entrevista de Hartmut Rosa clicando em https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_drcyBuzCN902gfw0pRaMVtRRzzjgZ7T/view?usp=sharing

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A tecnologia, em especial no campo da comunicação, é sem dúvida uma mudança significativa na história da humanidade. No entanto, nem tudo é positivo. Cada dia cresce o número de novas doenças e com uma quantidade considerável de pessoas afetadas. Outra questão interessante é o fato da tecnologia mudar nossa forma de viver, nosso comportamento e a maneira como percebemos o mundo.

Uma das doenças que vem chamando atenção é a síndrome da hipersensibilidade eletromagnética, reconhecida oficialmente pela primeira vez na Suécia em 1995, essa doença causa uma série de transtornos e inviabiliza que a pessoa tenha uma vida normal. É um tipo de sensibilidade (alergia) que causa fortes dores em algumas partes do corpo quando a pessoa está próxima de uma onda de rádio, também chamada de emissão eletromagnética. Praticamente em todos os lugares existem celulares e wi-fi. Com isso fica difícil para as pessoas com hipersensibilidade ao eletromagnetismo encontrarem um lugar tranquilo para viver.

Um outro problema grave com a hipersensibilidade eletromagnética é o isolamento social, já que a pessoa não consegue conviver nos mesmos ambientes que a maioria. Deixando muitas vezes seus familiares para residir em locais que possam ser afastados de qualquer tecnologia de rádio, em especial torres de celular e wi-fi. Com a falta de estudos para comprovar oficialmente se é um problema orgânico ou algo psicológico, as pessoas que sofrem dessa síndrome não possuem apoio oficial em alguns países, não existindo com isso um tratamento adequado que possa ajudar essas pessoas.

Insônia, alterações de humor, dores no corpo, forte enxaqueca, náuseas e diversos outros sintomas que causam mal-estar podem ser ocasionados por alguma sensibilidade da pessoa ao eletromagnetismo. Um teste simples e geralmente recomendado pelos centros especializados é se afastar dos eletrônicos e procurar ficar uns dias em algum local mais isolado, longe de tecnologias. Se os sintomas sumirem e aparecerem sempre que se está próximo de alguma emissão de rádio, pode ser um caso de hipersensibilidade ao eletromagnetismo.

Não conseguir ficar longe da tecnologia também pode ser uma nova doença, chamada de dependência ou vício em tecnologias. Nesses casos, os usuários não conseguem se afastar do celular, da internet ou do jogo preferido. Possuem uma compulsão em se manterem próximos ao equipamento, se isolando socialmente e em muitos casos ficam horas ou dias sem se alimentar, locomover ou mesmo ir ao banheiro. Entre essas dependências tecnológicas está a Nomofobia, que é um medo desesperador de perder o celular. O termo Nomofobia é uma abreviatura de “no-mobile phobia” em outras palavras, medo de ficar sem telefone móvel.

O excesso de uso tecnológico também provoca outras doenças como a Síndrome do Olho Seco. Como algumas pessoas passam muito tempo olhando para as telinhas, monitores, display e televisão é comum que os olhos fiquem esgotados. Ardor, irritação, sensação de areia nos olhos, dificuldade para ficar em lugares com ar condicionado ou em frente do computador e olhos embaçados ao final do dia são alguns indícios de potenciais problemas oculares. Tais problemas podem causar lesões e prejudicar a visão, em alguns casos, permanentemente.

Outro problema físico muito comum com o uso excessivo de tecnologias é a tendinite, ou ainda, Whatsappinite, Nintendinite, playstationite e assim por diante. Esses termos se referem ao processo de inflamação de certas partes da mão devido ao tempo excessivo de uso. Ficar teclando muito tempo no celular ou no Joystick pode causar inflamação de alguns dedos da mão. Além da mão a perda auditiva também vem crescendo com o uso abusivo de fones de ouvido. Sons em nível máximo quando usados por muito tempo podem comprometer a capacidade auditiva.

A lista de doenças vem crescendo, principalmente quanto às fobias. Como a Selfie Phobia que é o medo de tirar fotos de si mesmo, ou ainda a Expirar Fobia, um medo persistente de esquecer de renovar um nome de domínio. Também tem a Thread Phobia, que é o medo de comentar uma história. Tem ainda, a depressão causada pelas redes sociais, onde o usuário ao se deparar com muitas postagens de pessoas felizes acaba se convencendo que sua vida é ruim e se deprime.

Assim como o chamado efeito Google, onde uma pessoa pode desestimular sua memória ao saber que tudo pode ser encontrado na internet e assim perder o sentido de aprender ou melhorar seus conhecimentos. Não podemos deixar de fora a Síndrome do toque fantasma, ocorre quando o cérebro faz com que você pense que seu celular está vibrando no seu bolso.

Uma doença associada aos buscadores é a hipocondria digital, também chamada de cibercondria. O hipocondríaco é uma pessoa que possui um estado psíquico em que adquire a crença infundada de que padece de uma doença grave. Na cibercondria as pessoas acessam pela internet informações médicas e fazem um auto diagnóstico, adquirem a crença que possuem a doença observada na internet e sofrem muito com isso.

A tecnologia é muito boa, mas quando usada com cautela. Para aprofundar seu conhecimento, separemos um artigo acadêmico para você. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_7cGcReQjckLuDJ7PRF_j-CykwFP1cpj/view?usp=sharing

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Feuerbach afirma ser Deus uma construção do homem, que primeiramente transporta para fora de si sua essência, depositando em Deus, para depois encontrá-la na negação. Neste sentido a teologia pode ser reduzida à antropologia onde o homem afirma em Deus o que ele nega em si mesmo, promovendo assim um relacionamento com sua própria essência.

O autor entende que a religião é a essência infantil da humanidade assim como a crença da revelação é também uma crença infantil e respeitável enquanto infantil, no entanto, quando a religião vai adquirindo o uso da razão ela se torna teologia fundamentada por uma filosofia especulativa, e como tal, é intencional e busca dar tudo a Deus empobrecendo e negando o homem.

O culto aos animais e à natureza em geral não nos mostra somente o estágio prático da cultura de um povo, mas também sua natureza teorética, seu estágio espiritual em geral; porque, enquanto o homem adora animais e plantas, não é ainda um homem, identifica-se pois com os animais e as plantas, estes são para eles ora seres humanos, ora sobre-humanos.

Para Feuerbach o homem deve afirmar-se em sua totalidade suplantando a Deus e se apropriando dos seus atributos que nunca deixaram de ser os da humanidade, desta forma, o homem se libertará de uma ficção alienadora e paralisante. Negando a essência de um Deus transcendente e pessoal, Feuerbach se opõe à concepção cristã de divindade, ocasião em que assume uma postura denominada de ateísmo antropológico.

O ateísmo antropológico expressado por Feuerbach tem como principal argumento o fato da religião ser algo especificamente humano e por isso possui sua razão de ser na essência do homem, sendo assim, é a percepção desta essência humana universal o fundamento e o objeto da religião, onde, o homem cria Deus conforme a sua imagem e a teologia se torna uma mina de mentiras e ilusões perniciosas, pelas diferenças que estabelece entre Deus e os homens que em estado de subordinação devem obediência a um ser superior puramente ilusório.

A água é um produto natural indispensável ao homem; o vinho e o pão são produtos naturais transformados pelo homem, mas também são importantes para sua sobrevivência. Assim, ele comenta, adoramos na água a pura energia natural, no vinho e pão a energia sobrenatural do espírito, da consciência, do homem.

Esta ilusão se fundamenta não só na idéia de Deus, mas também na crença da vida eterna, na ressurreição e no além, negando desta forma as necessidades humanas e oferecendo ilusões que distanciam os homens de suas tarefas cotidianas, afastando-lhes da realidade concreta por conta da espera de um mundo imaginário, neste sentido, a teologia é um esvaziamento do homem que, pensando em Deus pensa apenas a si mesmo de uma forma alienada.

A respeito da influência de Feuerbach Urbano Zilles afirma que: Tornou-se o pai do ateísmo moderno. Sua influência passa, através de K. Marx, F. Engels, M. Stirner a F. W. Nietzsche até concepções imanentistas do homem nas filosofias contemporâneas, na idéia de que o homem só é homem na relação com o tu anunciam-se, outrossim, motivos das filosofias da existência e do personalismo contemporâneo.

O ateísmo de Feuerbach é excludente já que tem como proposta aceitar ou o homem ou Deus, neste sentido, o autor opta pela afirmação do homem e conseqüentemente pela negação de Deus, onde para Feuerbach, a essência humana universal é percebida no gênero humano enquanto comunidade e relação social, ou seja, é das características genéricas que constituem a humanidade do homem enquanto sociedade que observamos a essência humana universal. O autor entende que esta essência humana é constituída de razão, vontade e pelo coração.

Tais características não são plenas, mas o homem participa e se define mediante elas, onde se constituem os princípios que animam e determinam o homem.

Religião enquanto movimento antropológico assume um aspecto positivo por ser um momento no processo de conscientização humana em direção a valorização do humano como ser histórico-social. No entanto é negativo enquanto teologia por caracterizar-se como filosofia especulativa e intencional, perdendo a essência infantil da humanidade, proporcionando desta forma, uma dominação alienadora.

Sobre esta questão, Manfredo A. de Oliveira afirma que: Neste sentido, mesmo que tudo se encaminhe para uma negação, o levantamento da questão de Deus se manifesta como momento necessário no processo de auto-realização do homem, já que em virtude da tensão existencial entre indivíduo e espécie, só através da reflexão conscientizadora o homem se vai poder liberar da ilusão alienante da religião.

Este movimento de ascensão do homem constituído na sua historicidade e no processo de suas relações sociais, valorizando a subjetividade, é o ponto culminante da filosofia de Feuerbach com seu antropocentrismo radical, onde o homem é a medida de todas as coisas e da própria realidade. No entanto, existem outras interpretações sobre Feuerbach.

Separamos para o aprofundamento de sua reflexão, um artigo acadêmico que pode ser acessado em https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yAsYPYd8xyN-3du977rQYhUTX8wFNFt3/view?usp=sharing

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The annals of photography history are dotted with names that have profoundly transformed both the medium and the way we perceive our surroundings. Foremost among these luminaries is Garry Winogrand, whose legacy endures as one of the most defining exponents of street photography. But what underpins his style, and what renders his work perennially iconic?

Nurturing Influences and Pedagogy

Before delving into Winogrand's aesthetic realm, it's crucial to comprehend the milieu that nourished his vision. Educated in the wisdom of Alexey Brodovitch and drawing from the legacies of Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and significantly, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Winogrand nurtured a distinctive approach to photography. While Cartier-Bresson championed the notion of "The Decisive Moment", Winogrand immersed himself deeper in immediacy, spontaneity, and sheer authenticity.

The Aesthetics of Turbulence and Daily Life

What is notably salient in Winogrand's oeuvre is his abdication of traditionally "pretty" aesthetics. He reveled instead in the tumult, chaos, and freneticism of daily life. His snapshots, often taken in haste and with a tilted horizon, convey a tangible energy, thrusting the viewer into the heart of the action. This skewed horizon, though disorienting to some, is a hallmark that lends dynamism and challenges convention.

His choice of apparatus—a Leica M4 paired with a prefocused wide-angle lens—speaks to his intent to seize fleeting moments, those that dissipate as swiftly as they manifest. He was not ensnared by technical perfection but was ensorcelled by raw emotion and underlying narrative.

A Panoramic View of North America

Winogrand's craft is essentially a tapestry of North America during the 60s and 70s. Much like Robert Frank before him, Winogrand encapsulated the essence, contradictions, and complexities of a transitioning nation. Beyond mere documentation, he pondered the role of mass media in sculpting perceptions and attitudes.

Immediacy as the Essence

Much of Winogrand's allure lies in his ability to be profoundly present. His "shoot from the hip" style, paired with his astute anticipatory prowess, ensures his photographs resonate with a refreshing authenticity, even decades on.

Moreover, his ventures, whether "The Animals" or "The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo", aren't mere assortments of images. They are profound commentaries on society and the human state, testimonials to his ability to peer beyond the veneer and unearth profound significance in the mundane.

In Summation

Winogrand's adage, "I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs," encapsulates his philosophy toward the art form. He wasn’t endeavoring to craft a reality but to uncover how that reality unveils itself through the lens.

Garry Winogrand, with his renunciation of traditional perfection and his ardor for spontaneity, reshapes our understanding of what it means to be a photographer. His legacy serves as a poignant reminder that beauty often emerges from the unlikeliest of places, and authenticity invariably eclipses contrivance.

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A Orquídea Dracula Símia, também chamada de orquídea macaco, realmente parece imitar a cara de um macaco. Esta é uma daquelas coisas curiosas encontradas na natureza, onde é difícil não ficar impressionado com a beleza desta orquídea. Como ela é encontrada na natureza em regiões de grande altitude, entre 1000 e 2000 metros, não é fácil conseguir uma. A planta foi descoberta em 1978 nas florestas tropicais no Equador e Peru pelo botânico e naturalista Hugo Gunkel Luer.

A orquídea macaco é um daqueles fenômenos onde atribuímos significado aos eventos que nos cercam, chamado de pareidolia. Além de identificar sons e imagens, naturalmente atribuímos significado a qualquer evento/estímulo que presenciamos. Isso nos faz enxergar ou escutar coisas improváveis.

Na computação quando desejamos que um aplicativo identifique algo, usamos em alguns casos, métodos de comparação por características. Na identificação biométrica, por exemplo, o usuário cadastra características de sua digital em um banco de dados. Posteriormente, quando posicionar seu dedo sobre o display, o programa identifica a quem pertence aquela digital.

Em alguns casos nosso cérebro faz algo semelhante, ao observar certos eventos, ele acessa nossa memória e faz comparações buscando sinais do que está vendo para identificar o que está ocorrendo. Dependendo da intensidade que cada evento exerce em nós, ocorre a certeza sobre o que se está observando.

A técnica é simples, basicamente nosso cérebro compara uma certa quantidade de sinais que possuem um objeto e gera uma identificação significativa. Conforme nossas crenças e vivências. Por exemplo, todo dia lidamos com vários rostos. Esses são formados por um conjunto simétrico de quatro sinais, dois olhos, um nariz e a boca. Se você enxergar um rosto nas imagens abaixo. Acredite, é devido ao fato do seu cérebro pegar certas características básicas que possui um rosto e atribuir este significado. Mesmo que você saiba que estes objetos não têm realmente um rosto, vai perceber a semelhança.

Esse método de atribuição de significado por semelhança, estimula lembranças na memória dependendo do contexto. Fazendo com que alguns rabiscos possam ser percebidos como representação de alguém que conhecemos.

Outro exemplo de pareidolia ocorre quando, após terminar de assistir um filme de terror, percebemos "coisas estranhas” no ambiente, principalmente se a luz estiver apagada. Um bom exemplo são imagens largamente conhecidas devido sua popularidade. Como o rosto de cristo, anjos, monstros e assim por diante. Você enxerga alguma imagem religiosa nas fotos abaixo? Se enxergar, provavelmente é a Pareidolia em funcionamento, uma técnica do cérebro para reconhecer algo comparando informações guardadas em sua memória.

Resumindo: Pareidolia é um fenômeno psicológico comum em todos os seres humanos, conhecido por fazer as pessoas reconhecerem imagens de rostos humanos ou animais em objetos, sombras, formações de luzes e em qualquer outro estímulo visual aleatório.

Uma forma interessante de abordar o fenômeno, consiste na pareidolia aplicada à pintura. Acesse em um dos servidores abaixo um artigo acadêmico que separamos para você.

https://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/ciclos/article/view/3556/3008

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Você lembra do ED? Os chatterbots brasileiros são poucos e os que estão em funcionamento geralmente são projetos comerciais destinados a publicidade ou atendimento do público. Robôs do diálogo em educação, com o papel de falar sobre cultura e informações científicas, são poucos.

ED foi um chatterbot agradável e educativo, ele conseguia conversar sobre diversas questões embora fosse focado em temas sobre o desenvolvimento de energia sustentável e meio ambiente. O Robô Ed foi desenvolvido em 2004 com a tecnologia InBot.

O projeto era administrado via (CONPET/Petrobras) e o robô ED já fez declarações polêmicas que geraram até pedido de investigação no senado em 2011. A questão é que os políticos podem não ter conseguido usar de forma ética o robozinho educativo.

O desenvolvimento do personagem-robô "Ed" feito pela empresa Insite para a Petrobras, envolveu uma equipe multidisciplinar de especialistas em diversas áreas como Inteligência Artificial, Computação Gráfica, Lingüística, além de um grupo de escritores, profissionais da área de petróleo, gás e energia e psicologia.

O objetivo da Insite foi criar para o cliente (CONPET/Petrobras) um personagem virtual capaz de conversar com os usuários no site, em português, como se fosse um personagem real.

Assim surgiu a ideia de criar um personagem que fosse um Robô voltado para o público infanto-juvenil, capaz de ensinar, entreter e responder questões relacionadas aos assuntos de utilização racional dos derivados do petróleo e do gás natural, preservação de energia, meio ambiente, projetos e dicas de economia.

O robô Ed foi um sucesso em sua época, até os políticos perceberem que poderiam usar do robozinho para algum benefício próprio, segundo o que foi veiculado na imprensa, por ocasião do pedido de investigação no senado brasileiro.

Se você deseja entender melhor essa história, separamos um trabalho acadêmico que estudou o fenômeno do robozinho pela teoria da atividade. https://drive.google.com/file/d/14omGnBl49Y4kDhLY12u4l5vUO5p82jd2/view?usp=sharing

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O sol distante a 150 milhões de quilômetros e com um volume de um milhão de vezes maior que a terra, possui seu diâmetro na casa de 1.392.000 quilômetros. Constituído em sua maior parte por gás Hélio e Hidrogênio, estes aquecidos a 6.000 graus na superfície solar liberam elétrons e formam o chamado “plasma”.

Já no interior do sol, em seu núcleo a temperatura chega a quinze milhões de graus permitindo a ocorrência de reação nuclear.

Um calculo aproximado evidencia que o sol converte em seu interior quatro milhões de toneladas em energia por segundo e gera um média de energia em por volta de 3.860.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 watts. Para gerar todas esta potencia ocorre muita atividade no interior e na superfície do sol, estas atividades oscilam em períodos com maior e menor intensidade.

Freqüentemente ocorrem as chamadas “explosões solares” que lançam no espaço uma pequena parte de elétrons, energia subatômica e uma série de outras atividades.

Um dos ciclos que possuem interferência marcante na terra é o dos onze anos, conhecido como ciclo das manchas solares. Neste ciclo a cada onze anos a terra é bombardeada em maior intensidade por partículas que influenciam nas telecomunicações e nos aparelhos eletrônicos.

As partículas carregadas ao chegarem na terra sofrem influencia do campo magnético terrestre e mudam sua trajetória acompanhando o sentido das linhas de força terrestres, concentrando-se principalmente nos pólos e emitindo uma luz característica conhecida como Aurora Boreal.

A Aurora Boreal é um fenômeno que pode ser observado freqüentemente próximo aos pólos tendo sua origem em partículas eletrizadas provenientes do sol.

A faixa de freqüência mais afetada pela tempestade solar está nas ondas curtas, estas se beneficiam da ionosfera para sua propagação e quando a tempestade chega é na ionosfera onde ocorre maior concentração de partículas.

Estas partículas eletrizadas podem gerar ruídos elétricos em toda a faixa de rádio, podendo aparecer em linhas telefônicas comuns e também em outros sistemas elétricos.

Através da radioastronomia, (Estudo dos astros/espaço pela observação das freqüências de rádio) é possível monitorar as estrelas, incluindo o sol.

Uma freqüência bastante usada por astrônomos amadores é a de 137Mhz, é comum entre os estudiosos do assunto a modificação de rádios FM para a freqüência acima na intenção de captar as emissões solares que ocorrem em grande quantidade nesta faixa de freqüência. Assim estes pesquisadores “escutam” o sol.

As ondas de rádio geradas pelos eventos solares levam entre oito a dez minutos para percorrer o espaço entre o sol e a terra, já os efeitos da eletrização ocorrem em várias horas depois das emissões, estes eventos são mais lentos demorando horas para chegar a terra.

Independente do ciclo de onze anos, diariamente a terra recebe interferências relacionadas aos eventos solares, porém em menor intensidade.

Os colegas radioamadores que transmitem em ondas curtas conhecem bem este fenômeno e programam suas transmissões conforme previsões sobre as tempestades solares, algo semelhante às previsões do tempo.

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Happy Sunday #Nostr !

Here’s your #NostrTechWeekly newsletter at the nostr:npub19mduaf5569jx9xz555jcx3v06mvktvtpu0zgk47n4lcpjsz43zzqhj6vzk written by nostr:npub1r3fwhjpx2njy87f9qxmapjn9neutwh7aeww95e03drkfg45cey4qgl7ex2

NostrTechWeekly is a weekly newsletter focused on the more technical happenings in the nostr-verse.

A lot of foundational work happening in the nostr-verse and quite a bit of new projects shipped this week. Let’s dive in!

Recent Upgrades to Nostr (AKA NIPs)

1) NIP 75: Zap Goals ⚡

Zapping has been such an integral part of what makes Nostr what it is. Earning for your content or contributions. Zaps for memes. Zaps as a way to boost the signal. It’s a growing concept as well.

NIP 75 was merged this week, with the goal of introducing the ability to set a “Zap Goal” which is similar to a fundraising goal. Users can zap the “goal” event directly and help the progress bar go up. Whatever the cause.

Interesting to see if this will stay simple and decentralized or if this will be the foundation of a GoFundMe type platform via Nostr using exclusively Bitcoin.

Author: nostr:npub107jk7htfv243u0x5ynn43scq9wrxtaasmrwwa8lfu2ydwag6cx2quqncxg

2) (Proposed) NIP 79: Digital contracts on Nostr ✍️

Think Docusign, but on Nostr. This NIP would introduce support for various kinds of digital agreement (contracts, covenants, agreements) which serve various purposes.

These agreements would all be unencrypted markdown, so the purpose is likely more for non-secret agreements so that they can be cited by all parties in public.

Author(s): https://github.com/xemuj nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z

3) (Proposed) NIP 34: Improved media attachments to notes 📎

Attaching media to notes in a way that is handled well on a majority of major clients is still more of an art than a science and nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 is determined to introduce a better pattern 💪.

This NIP introduces the pattern of using an explicit set of “media” tags on any note so that media that should accompany the note can be explicitly linked without clients needing to parse the content of the note to make the url of the media in the note a hyperlink.

Author: nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6

4) (Proposed) Improvements to reddit-style moderated communities 💬

This proposed improvement to NIP 72 introduces the concept of a post (within a moderated community) that is exclusively posted to a specific community. Think about posting something that can make the front page of reddit versus a post that is intended solely for a subreddit. Seems like a welcome addition to NIP 72 👍

Author: https://github.com/vivganes

Notable projects

A nostr Wiki

The start of a truly open wiki.

Wikis are used for a lot of things: corporate intranets and documentation, fandoms managing information about their universe, and Wikipedia which may be one of the greatest repositories of knowledge on Earth. The main downside to Wikipedia is that it may be crowdsourced but it is centralized, seeking one version of each article (and therefore determining what is true).

This wiki (in the spirit of Nostr) allows people to create any number of articles on the same subject to offer different perspectives. At scale this could become something where people read various perspectives and determine the truth for themselves.

Author: nostr:npub1q7klm2w94hyq3qdm9ffzpahrrq0qcppmjrapzhz0rq6xgq3fdrnqr6atmj

Oxchat

Oxchat is a secure, private group chat experience for iOS and Android with a great UX 🙌.

Nostr needs its own standalone chat app that can stand up to the capabilities and ease of use of Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, etc. And Oxchat may be that app! Looking forward to using it more.

Author: nostr:npub10td4yrp6cl9kmjp9x5yd7r8pm96a5j07lk5mtj2kw39qf8frpt8qm9x2wl

Nostrnet.work

A web-based dashboard for Nostr, it’s a webpage that is a configurable hub for all the Nostr apps you want to have available quickly. You can log in with your Nostr account, and configure it to your liking.There’s a section for managing your profile (including your relays), as well as for taking notes, all of that on top of the list of Nostr apps for quick access.

Nostrnet.work seems to be evolving into almost a web-based browser of the nostr-verse. You can manage the apps that are on the dashboard Nostrnet.work via the basic/open app store from nostr.band. There’s endless possibilities for users to discover what Nostr has to offer and use those offerings from one unified interface.

A recent addition to the Nostrnet.Work interface is an area for “Nostr AI'' which is meant to allow users to utilize Data Vending Machines (explored in the Latest Conversations section). Data Vending Machines (or DVMs) are something that I think is unique to Nostr, and it's a product/ecosystem that may be the killer unique offering people come to Nostr to try out.

Author: nostr:npub1cmmswlckn82se7f2jeftl6ll4szlc6zzh8hrjyyfm9vm3t2afr7svqlr6f

w3.do url shortener

URL shorteners are a stable web util. In fact,

We started using w3.do because the tool we use to draft/publish this newsletter as a long form note will send Nostr links and embed the note instead of just linking to the note. So a url shortener is enough to trick the tool so we get fewer embeds and more links! Thanks nostr:npub1alpha9l6f7kk08jxfdaxrpqqnd7vwcz6e6cvtattgexjhxr2vrcqk86dsn !

Latest conversations

Data Vending Machines (DVMs)

“Data Vending Machines are data-processing tools. You give them some data, a few sats, and they give you back some data.” source: vendata. A practical example is a recent DVM published by Pablo: FOMOstr. You put up some sats, you’ll get back content on Nostr that you may have missed.

The concept seems to be that people need help from machines. And right now, the most common way for people to get that help is to pay a company for that help (email provider, calendar management, group chats, entertainment, etc).

These are great for more complex digital products, but what if you just have a question? Maybe you just want to generate an image. Or maybe just extract text, and then maybe translate it. These are most efficient as pay-as-you-need-it products. That’s where DVMs shine (on the long tail of needs).

You can put up a certain amount of money and people who have created algorithms or AIs that can accomplish these tasks will compete to do the job for the lowest price (and therefore win the money). This is the foundation of an economy of people who need jobs done and people who want to make income by creating the best DVMs for the jobs people need done.

DVMs that help you discover people and content on Nostr will be a god-send for improving the experience for people using Nostr while maintaining decentralization. This will certainly evolve over time, but it seems this could become an integral part of the Nostr ecosystem as well as become a unique service that can only be found on Nostr (attracting a new set of users).

Events

Here are some upcoming events that we are looking forward to! We keep a comprehensive list and details of Nostr-related events that we hear about (in person or virtual) that you can bookmark here NostrConf Report

1. Nostrasia Nov 1-3 in Tokyo & Hong Kong
2. Nostrville Nov 9-10 in Nashville, TN, USA
3. NostrCon Jan 12, 2024 (online only)

Until next time 🫡

If you want to see something highlighted, if we missed anything, or if you’re building something I didn’t post about, let me know, DMs welcome.

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Stay Classy, Nostr.

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Estudos mostram que a luz influencia na aprendizagem, memória e ansiedade, afirmam os pesquisadores. Nós conseguimos mostrar que a luz também pode estimular respostas de medo condicionado.

Biólogos e psicólogos sabem que a luz afeta o humor, mas uma nova pesquisa efetuada na Universidade da Virgínia indica que a luz pode também estimular medo e ansiedade.

Existem diversos tipos de lâmpadas e uma variada gama de luzes. Conforme o tipo de iluminação no ambiente é possível estimular sensações distintas, influenciando o comportamento humano.

A descoberta foi publicada em 01 de agosto de 2011 na edição da revista Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “Olhamos para o efeito da luz no medo aprendido, porque a luz é uma característica global do ambiente e tem efeitos profundos sobre o comportamento e fisiologia”, disse Wiltgen, um professor assistente de psicologia e especialista em aprendizagem. ”A luz desempenha um papel importante na modulação da freqüência cardíaca, no sono, na digestão, nos hormônios, humor e outros processos do corpo. Em nosso estudo, buscamos verificar também, como isso afeta o estímulo ao medo.”

“Neste trabalho nós descrevemos a modulação do medo estimulado pela luz ambiente”, disse Provencio, especialista em luz e fotorrecepção. ”A desregulação do medo é um componente importante de muitos transtornos, incluindo transtorno de ansiedade generalizada, transtorno do pânico, fobias específicas e pós-traumático. Entender como a luz regula o medo pode auxiliar terapias destinadas a tratar algumas dessas doenças cuja base está no medo e na ansiedade“.

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A obra de Foucault funde história e filosofia, na medida em que ele investiga o complexo de crenças que caracteriza diferentes práticas culturais em diferentes épocas, expondo seu uso no controle social e revelando a natureza historicamente condicionada das relações de poder existentes.

A filosofia Foucaultiana origina-se da convicção de que as estruturas que organizam as crenças de uma cultura são historicamente condicionadas pelos jogos de poder entre as pessoas e as instituições, em outras palavras, entre as relações sociais em geral.

Acesse algumas obras desse autor https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zpr3vTxsnbudkmH45E-1_Ez7E8qXNx1m

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O designer Giora Kariv confeccionou uma bicicleta feita de papelão dobrada com técnica de origami, custou na ocasião R$ 18,00 para fabricar o veículo.

A motivação surgiu depois que Giora Kariv assistiu em um documentário a fabricação de um barco feito de papelão.

Funcionando sem restrições a bicicleta é resistente, operacional e de baixo custo. A idéia é inovadora e promove a reciclagem. Após dobrar o papelão o autor aplicou uma pintura para o acabamento. Confira esta inovação no vimeo: http://vimeo.com/37584656 ou no youtube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Uma+eficiente+bicicleta+de+papel%C3%A3o

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Hello folks! I'm going to make a small article showing how a nostree list can be interoperable between different applications in the nostr world. I'm writing this little article on habla.news, where I know that nostree lists will be formatted correctly.

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Hello, fellow Nostrich!

Nostr is a brand new phenomenon and there are a few steps that will make your onboarding much smoother and your experience much richer.

👋 Welcome

Since you are reading this, it’s safe to assume that you already joined Nostr by downloading an app (e.g. Damus, Amethyst, Plebstr) for your mobile device or opening a Nostr web client (e.g. snort.social, Nostrgram, Iris). It is important for a newcomer to follow the steps suggested by the app of your choice – the welcoming procedure provides all the basics, and you won’t have to do much more tuning unless you really want to. If you’ve stumbled upon this post, but don’t have a Nostr “account” yet, you can follow this simple step-by-step guide by nostr:npub1cly0v30agkcfq40mdsndzjrn0tt76ykaan0q6ny80wy034qedpjsqwamhz.

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🤙 Have fun

Nostr is built to ensure people can connect, get heard, and have fun along the way. This is the whole point (obviously, there is a plethora of serious use cases, such as being a tool for freedom fighters and whistleblowers, but that deserves a separate article), so if you feel like anything feels burdensome, please reach out to the more experienced nostriches and we will be happy to help. Interacting with Nostr is not hard at all, but it has a few peculiarities when compared to traditional platforms, so it’s ok (and encouraged) to ask questions.

Here’s an unofficial list of Nostr ambassadors who will be happy to help you get onboard:

nostr:naddr1qqg5ummnw3ezqstdvfshxumpv3hhyuczypl4c26wfzswnlk2vwjxky7dhqjgnaqzqwvdvz3qwz5k3j4grrt46qcyqqq82vgwv96yu

All the nostriches on the list were also awarded a Nostr Ambassador badge that will make it easy for you to find, verify and follow them

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⚡️ Enable Zaps

Zaps are one of the first differences one may notice after joining Nostr. They allow Nostr users to instantly send value and support creation of useful and fun content. This is possible thanks to Bitcoin and Lightning Network. These decentralized payment protocols let you instantly send some sats (the smallest unit on the Bitcoin network) just as easily as liking someone’s post on traditional social media platforms. We call this model Value-4-Value and you can find more about this ultimate monetization model here: https://dergigi.com/value/

Check out this note by nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 that is a great intro to what zaps are.

You should enable Zaps even if you do not consider yourself a content creator – people will find some of your notes valuable and might want to send you some sats. The easiest way to start receiving value on Nostr onley takes a couple steps:

1. Download Wallet of Satoshi - probably the best choice for those who are new to Bitcoin and Lightning for your mobile device.[^1] Note that there are many more wallets and you are welcome to choose the one that suits you best. Also, don't forget to come back and back up your wallet.
2. Tap “Receive”
3. Tap the Lightning Address you see on the screen (the string which looks like an email address) to copy it to the clipboard.
4. Paste the copied address into the corresponding field in your Nostr client (the field may say “Bitcoin Lightning Address”, “LN Address” or anything along those lines depending on the app you are using).

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📫 Get a Nostr address

Nostr address, often referred to as a “NIP-05 identifier” by the Nostr OGs, looks like an email and:

🔍 Helps you make your account easy to discover and share
✔️ Serves as a verification you are a human

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Here's an example of a Nostr address: Tony@nostr.21ideas.org It's easy to memorize and later paste into any Nostr app to find the corresponding user.

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To get a Nostr address you can use a free service like Nostr Check (by nostr:npub138s5hey76qrnm2pmv7p8nnffhfddsm8sqzm285dyc0wy4f8a6qkqtzx624) or a paid one like Nostr Plebs (by nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424). Both offer different perks, and it's up to you to decide which one to use. Another way of getting a Nostr address is using a browser extension. Find out more about this approach here) .

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🙇‍♀️ Learn the basics

Under the hood Nostr is very different from traditional social platforms, so getting a basic understanding of what it is about will be beneficial for any newcomer. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting you should learn a programming language or technical details of the protocol. I’m implying that seeing a bigger picture and understanding the difference between Nostr and Twitter / Medium / Reddit will help a lot. For example, there are no passwords and logins, you have private and public keys instead. I won’t go deep into that, ‘cause there is a handful of exhaustive resources that will help you grokk Nostr. All of the ones worthy your attention are gathered on this neatly organized landing page prepared by nostr:npub12gu8c6uee3p243gez6cgk76362admlqe72aq3kp2fppjsjwmm7eqj9fle6 with 💜

Info provided by the mentioned resources will also help you secure your Nostr keys (i.e. your account), so it’s important to have a look.

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🤝 Connect

Ability to connect with brilliant [^3] people is what makes Nostr special. Here everyone can get heard and no one can get excluded. There are a few simple ways to find interesting people on Nostr:

• Find people you follow on Twitter: https://www.nostr.directory/ is a great tool for that.
• Follow people followed by people you trust: Visit a profile of a person who shares your interests, check the list of people they follow and connect with them.

• Visit Global Feed: Every Nostr client (a Nostr app, if you will) has a tab that lets you switch to the Global Feed, which aggregates all the notes from all Nostr users. Simply follow people you find interesting (be patient though – you might run into a decent amount of spam).

• Use #hashtags: Hashtags are a great way to concentrate on the topics you like. Simply tap on a #hashtag you find interesting and you’ll see more notes related to the topic. You can also search for hashtags in the app you are using. Do not forget to use hashtags when composing notes to increase discoverability.

https://nostr.build/i/0df18c4a9b38f1d9dcb49a5df3e552963156927632458390a9393d6fee286631.jpg Screenshot of https://nostrgraph.net/ dashboard by nostr:npub1ktw5qzt7f5ztrft0kwm9lsw34tef9xknplvy936ddzuepp6yf9dsjrmrvj

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🗺️ Explore

The mentioned 5 steps are a great start that will massively improve your experience, but there’s so much more to discover and enjoy! Nostr is not a Twitter replacement, its possibilities are only limited by imagination.

Have a look at the list of fun and useful Nostr projects:

• https://nostrapps.com/ a list of Nostr apps
• https://nostrplebs.com/ – get your NIP-05 and other Nostr perks (paid)
• https://nostrcheck.me/ – Nostr address, media uploads, relay
• https://nostr.build/ – upload and manage media (and more)
• https://nostr.band/ – Nostr network and user info
• https://zaplife.lol/ – zapping stats
• https://nostrit.com/ – schedule notes
• https://nostrnests.com/ – Twitter Spaces 2.0
• https://nostryfied.online/ - back up your Nostr info
• https://www.wavman.app/ - Nostr music player

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📻 Relays

After getting acquainted with Nostr make sure to check out my quick guide on Nostr relays: https://lnshort.it/nostr-relays. It’s not the topic to worry about at the very beginning of your journey, but is definitely important to dive into later on.

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📱 Nostr on mobile

Smooth Nostr experience on mobile devices is feasible. This guide will help you seamlessly log in, post, zap, and more within Nostr web applications on your smartphone: https://lnshort.it/nostr-mobile

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Thanks for reading and see you on the other side of the rabbit hole.

nostr:npub10awzknjg5r5lajnr53438ndcyjylgqsrnrtq5grs495v42qc6awsj45ys7

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[^1]: Do not forget

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As the title states, scratch behind my ear and you get it. 🐶🐾🫡

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A editora Zahar já está na segunda edição de um livro que combina beleza e conteúdo. O material surpreende na organização e compilação dos temas onde a história da filosofia é abordada em textos curtos e pontuais. Ideal para consulta rápida.

São aproximadamente 357 páginas ilustradas que apresentam os principais filósofos e momentos da filosofia, proporcionando um panorama das discussões. Os textos são introdutórios e o material tem como proposta ser o ponto de partida no primeiro contato com os temas filosóficos. É indicado para quem gosta do assunto e quer ter em mãos um guia de consulta rápida.

Referência: LAW, Stephen. Guia ilustrado Zahar: filosofia. Rio de Janeiro. Ed. Zahar, 2009.

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Reportage and opinion photography is a complex and multifaceted art form that encompasses a broad range of approaches and styles. It can be understood as a statement or a suggestion, an interpretation of the world around us through the lens of a camera.

If we consider that any photograph is a selected and parcelled snapshot of the photographable universe, then it's reasonable to think of photography as a mirror, a reflection of ourselves in relation to the world around us. The captured image can reveal as much about the photographed subject as it does about the photographer, unveiling their perceptions and feelings about reality.

Within documentary photography, there are two predominant ways of selecting what will be photographed, two attitudes that reflect different world views. The first is the "decisive statement," where the photographer clearly points out certain moments considered decisive for their interpretation of the facts. This attitude focuses on significant moments and events, selected for their relevance and their potential to convey an opinion about life.

The second attitude is one of "suggestion" or insinuation. Here, the photographer leans towards moments and situations that seem inconsequential, with the intention of conveying to the viewer a suggestion rather than a clear statement of reality. Rather than highlighting decisive moments, this approach seeks to capture the essence of everyday life, the details that often go unnoticed but can reveal much about human nature and the world in which we live.

Robert Frank, The Americans.

A notable example of this approach is Robert Frank, who in the 1950s distinguished himself by rejecting the concept of the decisive moment in reportage. Frank criticized Cartier Bresson, claiming that the latter was more interested in formal beauty and composition than in the true emotional impact. Frank defended the idea that any moment could be decisive, a revolutionary idea that contradicted the traditional notion of the decisive moment.

Cartier-Bresson

Authors who practice the reportage of suggestion focus on inconsequential and non-central moments of a situation. Their choice of what to capture and how to do it differs significantly from those photographers who seek the decisive moment. Instead of focusing on the main events of a story, these photographers give prominence to scenes and moments that others might discard due to their apparent argumentative banality and formal inconsistency.

These photographers often seek an existential experience rather than an audience. They are not interested in popular acceptance, but in exploring and understanding their own experience of life. Many of them photographed from "within," using their own biography as raw material for their images.

The use of artifacts, such as grain, blur, moving images, use of poor cameras, disjointed frames, etc., not only does not pose a problem, but is sometimes desired. These artifacts function as poetic imprints on the image, suggesting that if life can be confusing, it can also be represented that way. Nan Goldin

Some contemporary photographers who follow this approach include Nan Goldin, Corinne Day, and Natacha Merritt. Like their predecessors, these photographers explore personal and private topics with relentless honesty, bringing taboo topics to light and seeking themselves through photography. Although their approach is personal, their ultimate goal is to capture universal feelings of love, friendship, pain, and sadness. Their work stands in opposition to traditional journalistic reportage, offering a unique and deeply personal vision of life.

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Arcando com todas as características da crise de meia idade, este fenômeno caracterizado por inseguranças, decepções e solidão tem afetado cada vez mais jovens em início da carreira, onde supostamente seria o momento de oportunidades e aventuras.

O Dr. Robinson, que apresentou suas descobertas na British Psychological Society Annual Conference, em Glasgow, trabalhou com pesquisadores do Birkbeck College, o que ele diz é que esta é a primeira pesquisa sobre a crise quarterlife de um "ângulo sólido, baseado em dados empíricos e não em especulação."

Entre os jovens observados, dois em cada cinco estavam preocupados com dinheiro, dizendo que não ganham o suficiente, e 32% sentem-se pressionados a casar e ter filhos antes dos trinta anos.

Para o pesquisador e membro da equipe, Dr. Rodrigues, "Muitas pessoas vão dizer que a crise quarterlife não existe. A verdade é que os nossos 20 anos não são, como eles foram para o nosso pais." Atualmente e cada vez mais cedo, milhões de jovens concorrem pelo primeiro emprego, lutando para aumentar um depósito de hipoteca e encontrar tempo para conciliar todos relacionamentos.

Mas Rodrigues também considerou que a crise quarterlife que dura em média dois anos pode ser uma experiência positiva. Tais crises no início da vida tem quatro fases, movendo-se de sentimentos de estar preso para um catalisador de mudança que pode ser motivador para construção de uma nova vida.

Segundo Dr. Robinson, "Os resultados vão ajudar a tranquilizar aqueles que estão vivenciando essa transição." Entender como lidar com esta fase pode ser o segredo para transformar de forma positiva os momentos angustiantes.

As quatro fases da crise quarterlife, sugeridas pelo estudo são:

Fase 1: definida pelo sentimento "amarrada" a um emprego ou relacionamento, ou ambos. "É uma ilusória sensação de estar preso", disse Robinson. "Você pode sair, mas você sente que não pode."

Fase 2: é caracterizado por uma crescente sensação de que a mudança é possível. "Essa separação física e mental dos compromissos anteriores leva a todos os tipos de transtornos emocionais. Ela permite a exploração de novas possibilidades, com uma ligação mais estreita com os interesses, preferências e senso de identidade.

"Até então você pode estar dirigindo rápido por uma estrada que você não quer ir. Uma minoria dos participantes descreveram ser pego em um loop, mas a maioria refletia sobre estar em um momento difícil mas catalisador para mudanças positivas importantes. "

Fase 3: é um período de reconstrução de uma nova vida.

Fase 4: é a consolidação das mudanças que refletem novos interesses do jovem, aspirações e valores.

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ผมมองออกไปไกลๆ ยังนอกหน้าต่าง...

หลังจากรายการ #สภายาส้ม ตอนที่ 14 พึ่งจบลงไป มันชวนให้ผมอยากร่วมวงสนทนาในหัวข้อ #ExitTheMatrix หรือ #EscapeTheMatrix อะไรนั่นเหลือเกิน.. พยายามคิดว่าผมจะมีเรื่องอะไรมาเล่าได้บ้างนะ..

ไม่.. ผมไม่อยากได้แก้วรางวัลของเทนโด้ มันควรเป็นเพื่อนๆ คนอื่นๆ ในคอมมูนิตี้ #Siamstr ของเราที่ได้ไปครอง แต่ผมเห็นคุณค่าของกิจกรรมนี้อย่างลึกซึ้ง ผมอยากเห็นหลายคนลุกขึ้นมาถ่ายทอดเรื่องราวของตัวเอง.. นั่นก็รวมถึงตัวผมเองด้วย

นั่นสินะ.. เราไม่เคยเล่าเรื่องของเราให้ใครฟังมาก่อนเลย

เรามีเรื่องอะไรน่าสนใจอย่างงั้นเหรอ? Matrix ของเราจะมีหน้าตาคล้ายคลึงกับ Matrix ของคนอื่นๆ หรือเปล่านะ?

ผมพยายามตีความคำๆ นี้ในแบบของตัวเอง จนพบว่า "Matrix" ในแบบของผม มันคือ "บางอย่างที่อยู่ในหัว" ของผมนี่เอง มันไม่ใช่สิ่งของ วัตถุ คำสั่ง หรือสังคมอะไรทั้งนั้น สำหรับผมมันคือ "ชุดความคิด" ที่ทำให้เรามองโลกใบนี้ในแบบที่ต่างออกไป

ทำไมผมคิดแบบนั้นน่ะเหรอ?

ก็เพราะเมื่อตอนที่เรายังอยู่ท่ามกลาง Matrix และตอนที่เราได้พบว่าตัวเองหลุดออกจากมันมาแล้ว แท้จริงแล้วเรายังคงยืนอยู่บนโลกใบเดิม สังคมเดิมๆ ผู้คนรอบกายหน้าเดิมๆ วัตถุสิ่งของรอบตัวล้วนเหมือนเดิมทุกประการ แต่มันเป็น มุมมอง-ความคิด ของเราต่างหากที่เปลี่ยนไป..

ผมเคยคิดว่าตัวเองหลุดออกมาจาก "Matrix" ได้เมื่อ 10 กว่าปีก่อน

เมื่อครั้งที่ผมกำลังลุ่มหลงกับการลงทุนใน Traditional Investment ผมกลายเป็นนักวิเคราะห์ธุรกิจมือฉกาจ เป็นนักวางแผนคาดการณ์ที่หาตัวจับยากในยุคนั้น (ในแวดวงของตัวเอง) ผมมีโอกาสได้สอนคนดังๆ คนรวยๆ ในเรื่อง "การลงทุนหุ้น", เป็นที่ปรึกษาการลงทุนในโครงการอสังหาริมทรัพย์ขนาดใหญ่, การจัดตั้งและบริหารบริษัทต่างๆ ฯลฯ สารพัดเต็มไปหมด

ผมพบว่าตัวเองมีตำราแทบทุกเล่มเกี่ยวกับศาสตร์ในด้านนี้ ผมอ่านเยอะ แตกฉาน และพยายามเผื่อแผ่ ..ซึ่งมันน่าอนาถยิ่งนัก

ถ้าเราเรียกอาการของคนที่กำลังหลงอยู่ในโพรงกระต่ายบิตคอยน์ว่า "Down the Rabbit hole" ตัวผมเองในตอนนั้นก็คงจะเรียกได้ว่า "Deep-down the Fucking (Hell) hole" เลยกระมัง..

ณ ขณะที่เรากำลังคิดว่า "เราเจ๋ง" เหลือเกินนั้น เราไม่เคยรู้ตัวเลยสักนิดว่าเรากำลังดำดิ่งลงไปใน "โพรงแห่งกับดักนรกของโลก Fiat" เรากำลังฆ่าตัวเองอย่างช้าๆ และกำลังผ่องถ่ายพลังงานของเราเพื่อนำไปหล่อเลี้ยงระบบสามานย์นี้ทีละเล็กทีนะน้อย เราที่คิดว่าตัวเองเก่งเสียเต็มประดา กำลังถูกหัวเราะเย้ยหยันจากใครสักคนในมุมมืด

เรามันก็แค่ "หนูตัวใหญ่" ในระบบที่ถูกออกแบบเอาไว้ให้ทุกคนต้องกลายเป็น "เหาในขวดโหล" เพียงเท่านั้น

ความขยะแขยงในภาพอดีตของตัวเอง ทำให้ผมไม่เคยเปิดเผยเรื่องนี้กับใครเลย แม้กับน้องๆ ในทีม Right Shift ก็คงได้ฟังแค่เพียงผ่านๆ ไปคร่าวๆ เท่านั้น ผมเลือกจะลืมเรื่องพวกนี้ให้สิ้น ลบมันออกจากอดีต และทำราวกับว่า.. ผมคือคนที่ไม่ได้เชี่ยวชาญอะไรในเรื่องพรรค์นี้สักเท่าไหร่..

มันไม่ง่ายที่จะทำแบบนั้น เพราะตัวเราเองก็รู้อยู่เสมอว่าเราเคยผ่านประสบการณ์อะไรมา

ผมเคย "เกลียดงานประจำ" อย่างเข้าไส้ในตอนนั้น ผมแช่งและชังระบบราชการที่ตัวผมเองก็ฝังหนอกอยู่กับมัน ผมมักวิจารณ์ทุกเรื่องรอบๆ ตัว อะไรก็ตามที่ไม่ค่อยเข้าตา ผมไม่เคยรู้สึกว่าระบบราชการจะพัฒนาไปได้ไกลกว่าที่เป็นอยู่

ผมเกลียดชังเพื่อนร่วมงานเกือบจะทุกคน ทั้งที่พวกเขาก็ไม่ได้ประพฤติอะไรต่างไปจากตัวผมนัก ผมเองก็ไม่ได้มีอะไรดีไปกว่าพวกเขา เพราะผมได้ก็เอาเงินจากอนาคตมาใช้จ่ายอย่างสุรุ่ยสุร่าย สนองความต้องการต่างๆ นานาของตัวเองจนสาแก่ใจเหมือนพวกเขาเช่นกัน.. เราพยายามจะเกลียดทุกๆ อย่างรอบๆ ตัวเรา.. เราไม่เคยคิดว่าโลกนี้จะมีอะไรดีเลย

แต่สิ่งเดียวที่เราไม่เคยอยากเกลียด คือ ตัวเราเอง และนั่นแหละคือ "The Matrix" ที่แม่งเหี้ยมโหดและทารุณอย่างที่สุด

เพราะสิ่งเหล่านี้มันทำให้เราต้อง "จมอยู่กับความทุกข์" อย่างแสนสาหัส ทุกข์ที่ไม่ได้มีใครก่อขึ้นมาเลย ก็นอกเสียจากตัวเราเอง

เรานี่เอง คือ ต้นตอของปัญหาทั้งหมดทั้งมวล ที่กำลังรุมสกรัมชีวิตของเราเองอย่างบ้าคลั่ง

เราขยันเติม "พลังลบๆ" เข้ามาในชีวิตแต่ละวัน เราเติมมันด้วยตัวเราเอง และมันถาโถมทำลายจิตใจด้านบวก กัดกร่อนความสุขในการมองโลกของเราลงในทุกเมื่อเชื่อวัน

เรานี่เอง คือ คนที่วาดภาพของโลกอันเสื่อมทรามขึ้นมาในจินตนาการของตัวเอง

เกือบ 10 ปี ที่ชีวิตผมต้องจมอยู่ใน "The Matrix in mind"

ผมเริ่มรู้สึกอ่อนล้า.. ผมผละออกมาจากตลาดหุ้น หนีความวุ่นวายของผู้คน และเริ่มเฟดตัวเองออกจากคนรอบตัว ผมเริ่มหันมาคุยกับตัวเองมากขึ้น นั่งอยู่คนเดียวในแต่ละวัน และไม่พยายามยินดียินร้ายไปกับใคร ผมมีเพื่อนลดลงไปเรื่อยๆ จนกระทั่งผมพบว่าผมเหลือเพียงตัวคนเดียว..

ฟังดูราวกับว่า.. การเหลือตัวคนเดียว ไม่น่าจะใช่ทางออกที่ดี

แต่สำหรับผมมันช่างดีเหลือเกิน พลังลบๆ รอบตัวมันเริ่มลดน้อยถอยลงจนในที่สุดมันก็หายไป ผมพบว่า "มันเป็นตัวเรา" นี่เอง ที่พยายามเอาตัวเองไปผูกไว้กับเรื่องของคนอื่น เราเอาตัวเองไปผูกโยงกับทุกเรื่องจนเกินความจำเป็น ทั้งที่เมื่อทำไปแล้วมันก็ไม่เคยจะให้พลังบวกหรือให้ประโยชน์อะไรกับตัวเองสักเท่าไหร่..

ผมได้ "เวลาชีวิต" กลับคืนมามากโข ได้เวลาว่างๆ กลับมาในแบบที่ไม่เคยเป็นมาก่อน มันทำให้ผมมองหาสิ่งใหม่ๆ "หลุมกระต่าย" ใหม่ๆ เพื่อพาตัวเองกลับไปหาพลังบวกอีกสักครั้ง..

ผมพบว่าการเลิกบ่นให้กับเรื่องรอบๆ ตัว แล้วพยายามอยู่กับมันให้ได้อย่างคนที่เข้าใจความเป็นไป มันช่วยให้ผม "หัวโล่ง" และมีเวลาไปหาความสุขใส่ตัวในเรื่องอื่นๆ ได้มากขึ้นเยอะเลย

จนกระทั่งผมได้หลงจับพลัดจับผลูเข้าไปในเกมมือถือที่มีชื่อว่า "EVE ECHOES" เกมดังที่พอร์ทมาจากสุดยอดเกมไซไฟอมตะอย่าง "EVE Online" ที่แห่งนี้เอง คือ จุดเปลี่ยนของชีวิตผมอย่างแท้จริง

ประตูบานแรกที่ได้พาผมออกจาก "The Matrix"

มันฟังดูแปลกๆ ที่เกมอย่าง EVE ECHO คือสิ่งที่ให้มุมมองใหม่ ๆ กับผมอย่างมหาศาล

ในวันเริ่มต้น.. ผมพบว่าตัวเองเป็นเพียงนักบินอวกาศตัวเล็กๆ เป็นฝุ่นจางๆ ในจักรวาลอันกว้างใหญ่ของตัวเกม แต่ในวันสุดท้ายที่ผมจากเกมนี้มา ผมได้พาตัวเองไปอยู่บนจุดสูงสุดของจักรวาลเกม สูงที่สุดเท่าที่เกมเมอร์ไทยสักคน (ในเกมตอนนั้น) จะทำได้.. ผมถูกทาบทามให้เป็น Director ของ Corporation ที่ยิ่งใหญ่ที่สุดในเซิฟเวอร์เกม ณ จุดนั้นเองที่ทำให้ผมได้ตระหนักว่าผมเป็นใคร และผมควรพาตัวเองไปทำอะไรต่อจากนี้

แต่นี่ไม่ใช่เรื่องที่ผมจะนำมาเล่าอวดอ้าง มันมีบางอย่างที่ได้กลายมาเป็นไอเดียตั้งต้นของคอมมูนิตี้บิตคอยน์ของเราที่แฝงมากับประสบการณ์เกมของผมในตอนนั้น..

อย่างแรกเลยคือ..

ผมได้ค้นพบในพลังของแพลตฟอร์มอย่าง "Discord" ผมได้อยู่ร่วมกับชาวต่างชาติหลาย Corporation ที่ Role play การเล่น และสร้างคอมมูนิตี้ของพวกเขาขึ้นมาโดยรีดเค้นเอาศักยภาพของ Discord ออกมาได้อย่างเต็มเม็ดเต็มหน่วยแบบสุดๆ

พวกเราลองนึกถึงการวางแผนและการจัดการกองทัพอวกาศในสงครามที่มีหลายฝั่งเข้าห้ำหั่นกันออนไลน์ และแต่ละฝั่งก็มีคนเข้าร่วมมากเป็นหลักพันคนดูสิครับ การจัดการกลยุทธ์การรบแบบเรียลไทม์เพื่อให้ทัพของตัวเองมีประสิทธิภาพมากที่สุดแทบจะเป็นไปไม่ได้เลย และ Discord ได้เข้ามาทำให้ผมได้เห็นทางออกในเรื่องนี้ และผมก็นำเอา Discord มาใช้จนถึงปัจจุบัน

อย่างที่สอง...

ความหมกมุ่นและเอาจริงเอาจังของเกมเมอร์ชาวต่างชาติ มันทำให้ผมได้สติว่า ผมที่เคยคิดว่าตัวเองเก่งกาจในอดีตช่างเทียบอะไรไม่ได้เลยกับความลุ่มหลงในบางสิ่งบางอย่างแบบที่พวกเกมเมอร์ชาวต่างชาติเขามีกัน ผมได้เรียนรู้หลักการกระจายอำนาจมาอย่างไม่รู้ตัว (ก่อนจะรู้จักลงลึกกับบิตคอยน์เสียอีก) ผมได้เห็นวิธีการ "เชื่อใจ" และทำงานกันเป็นทีม ความมุ่งมั่นและความรับผิดชอบที่เห็นแล้วก็รู้สึกอายตัวเองเหลือเกิน ผมเห็นถึงวิธีการสร้างชุมชนให้เข้มแข็งและเติบโตได้อย่างยั่งยืน

นี่มันแค่เกมเองนะ!! มันทำให้ผมอินและมองเห็นอะไรได้ขนาดนั้นเลยเหรอ?

ใช่ครับ.. มันเป็นไปแล้ว พฤติกรรมมุ่งสู่ความสำเร็จในภาพใหญ่ และยืนอยู่บนกลยุทธ์ที่นำไปสู่ความยั่งยืนของคนเหล่านี้ ได้สอนให้ผมเข้าใจว่าตัวเราเล็กเกินกว่าจะคิดว่าเราใหญ่ เราไม่สามารถทำงานใหญ่ได้ด้วยตัวคนเดียว และชีวิตมันมีอะไรให้เราได้ค้นหาอีกมากมายเกินกว่าที่เราจะเคยจินตนาการกันได้

พวกเขาแทบไม่มีใครทำเพื่อตัวเอง พวกเขาวางแผนการทุกอย่างกันจริงจังเพื่อไปสู่จุดมุ่งหมายเดียวกันของส่วนร่วม พวกเขาไม่เคยหยุดพยายาม และไม่เคยย่อท้อต่ออุปสรรคขวากหนามตามรายทาง ..มันสุดยอดจริงๆ ผมก็ไม่เคยคิดมาก่อนเหมือนกันว่าชีวิตจะได้เจอกับอะไรแบบนี้

และนั่นคือหลักการแนวคิดที่เริ่มติดตัวผมมาจนกระทั่งถึงทุกวันนี้ เป็นที่มาของวิธีการทำงานบนความสุขเต็มเปี่ยมแบบทีม Right Shift และเป็นส่วนหนึ่งในแนวทางการผลักดันคอมมูนิตี้บิตคอยน์ในแบบที่พวกเราได้เห็นกัน ลากยาวมาจนถึง Nostr ในตอนนี้

อย่างที่สาม..

ผมได้เจอกับ "ผู้ที่ป้ายยาส้มผมคนแรก" ในเกม EVE ECHOES นั่นคือ พี่เป็ด (ped66@rightshift.tp) บิตคอยเนอร์รุ่น OG (ปัจจุบันคือพี่ใหญ่ที่อยู่เบื้องหลังของทีมงาน Right Shift) พี่เป็ด คือคนที่ค่อยๆ สอนสอดแทรกหลักสัจธรรมเข้ามาในหัวผมเป็นระยะๆ จนกระทั่งเมื่อเขารู้สึกว่าผมพร้อม พี่เป็ดก็เริ่มปฏิบัติการป้ายยาส้มผมมาทีละนิดๆ

แม้ต้องใช้เวลานานถึง 2-3 ปี กว่าจะ Orange pill ผมได้สำเร็จ กว่าที่ผมซึ่งเต็มไปด้วยแนวคิดเฟียตๆ ในตอนนั้นจะตื่นรู้ แต่ก็นับว่าเป็นความทรงจำล้ำค่าที่ผมคงไม่มีวันลืมไปทั้งชีวิต

The Matrix exit door ถูกเปิดออกนับแต่นาทีนั้น.. นั่นคือจุดเริ่มต้นเรื่องราวของ Jakk Goodday

Exit เมื่อสายไป?

การก้าวออกจาก Matrix ในวัยเกือบๆ 37 (ในตอนนั้น) ผมเองก็เคยต้องกลับมาตั้งคำถามกับตัวเองบ่อยๆ อยู่เหมือนกัน - เรารู้จักเรื่องนี้ช้าไปหรือเปล่า? - เรา Exit ช้าไปไหม? - มันจะดีกว่านี้ไหมถ้าเราได้ออกมาจากระบบความคิดเน่าๆ ได้ไวกว่านี้?

อย่ากระนั้นเลย..

ผมพบว่ามันป่วยกาล ที่เราจะมานั่งหาคำตอบเพื่อแก้ไขอดีตที่เราไม่เคยพึงพอใจ อดีตมันมีคุณค่ากับเราเสมอไม่ว่ามันจะดีหรือร้าย อดีตช่วยสร้างและหลอมเราให้เราได้กลายเป็นตัวเราในวันนี้ อดีตที่เลวร้ายทำให้เรามองเห็นอนาคตที่เราจะไม่มีวันยอมให้ตัวเองเป็นเช่นนั้นอีก อดีตอันสดใสจะคอยตอกย้ำให้เราระมัดระวังในการใช้ชีวิต เตือนสติให้เราไม่ลุ่มหลง ระเริงไปกับความสำเร็จจนหยุดพัฒนาตัวเองหรือเรียนรู้

สิ่งใดเกิดขึ้นแล้ว สิ่งนั้นงดงามเสมอ

หลักการและแนวคิดในทุกแง่มุมที่อยู่เบื้องหลังการทำงานของบิตคอยน์ มันช่วยให้ผมค้นพบหนทางแห่งการดับทุกข์บนโลกเฟียต มันพาให้ผมออกมาจาก The Matrix ได้เพียงแค่เปลี่ยนความคิดและพฤติการณ์ของตัวเองเท่านั้น

ทุกอย่างรอบกายยังคงเหมือนเดิม..

มันคือสิ่งที่ครั้งหนึ่งเราเคยเรียกมันว่า "The Matrix" มันไม่มีอะไรที่ต่างออกไปจากที่เคยเป็น.. ทุกสิ่งบนโลกยังคงหมุนรอบตัวเราอยู่เสมอ.. สิ่งเดียวที่ทำให้เรารู้สึกว่าเราหลุดออกมาจากมันได้แล้ว ก็คือ "ชุดความคิด" และ "มุมมอง" ของเราที่เริ่มเปลี่ยนไป..

แค่เปลี่ยนความคิด โลกก็เปลี่ยน..

บิตคอยน์ได้มอบอะไรให้ผมมากกว่าแค่เรื่อง "Wealth"

ถ้าคุณได้รู้จักหรือใกล้ชิดกับผมมากกว่านี้ คุณคงจะพอเข้าใจได้ว่าทำไมผมจึงแทบไม่พูดถึงการลงทุน วิธีหรือแนวทางการลงทุน แม้กระทั่งราคา หรือเทคโนโลยีของตัวบิตคอยน์เลย

เพราะสิ่งเหล่านั้นจะมีความหมายอะไรเล่า.. ถ้าวิธีคิดของเรายังไม่เคยหลุดพ้นจาก Matrix และ เรายังคงถูกครอบงำอย่างเบ็ดเสร็จโดยระบบเฟียต

วันนี้ผมกลายเป็นคนที่ทำตัวติดดินจนหญ้ามาเลย์ยังต้องอาย

• ผมพูดน้อยกับคนรอบตัวในเรื่องไร้สาระ (ที่ผมคิดว่ามันไม่เกิดประโยชน์กับใคร) แต่พูดมากเฉพาะในสิ่งที่จะเป็นประโยชน์ต่อคนอื่น
• ผมชวนให้ทุกคนนึกคนรุ่นหลังมากกว่าตัวเอง ชวนให้ทุกคนสร้าง Legacy บางอย่างทางความคิดเพื่อส่งต่อให้พวกเขามีชีวิตในสังคมที่ดีกว่า
• ผมปัดตกทุกความคิดที่มุ่งสู่ผลกำไรโดยไม่ได้มอบคุณค่าอะไรให้กับผู้จ่ายเลย ทุกความคิดที่ทำเพื่อประโยชน์ส่วนตนไม่ใช่สิ่งที่ผมเทิดทูน
• ผมเก็บตำราเก่าๆ ทุกเล่มที่เคยอ่านเข้ากรุไป ต่อหนูเยี่ยวใส่ผมก็ไม่แคร์ ผมกด Delete ทุกความเชื่อที่เคยมีออกจากไขสมอง ถ้าจะมีบ้างที่ผมหยิบเอาหนังสือพวกนั้นออกมา ก็คงเพราะเอามาวางเป็น Prop ในการ LIVE เพียงเท่านั้น
• ผมไม่เคยทำเก่งอีกเลย ถ้าจะต้องทำตัวให้โง่ผมก็ยอมทำ และคอยย้ำเตือนตัวเองเสมอว่าเราก็แค่เพียงคนธรรมดาที่ไม่ได้มีความวิเศษวิโสไปกว่าใคร ผมพยายามทำตัวเองให้เล็กที่สุดเพื่อให้ทำการณ์ใหญ่ได้สำเร็จ
• ผมหยุดหลอกตัวเองว่าเรากำลังมีความสุข ถ้าผมไม่ได้กำลังทำในสิ่งที่จะช่วยให้ผมมีความสุขกับมันได้จริงๆ ผมถามตัวเองทุกครั้งเมื่อต้องลงมือทำบางอย่าง ว่าสิ่งนั้นจะมอบพลังบวกหรือให้พลังลบเข้ามาบั่นทอนเรา
• ผมบอกตัวเองว่าชีวิตมันก็คงหนีไม่พ้นการต้องกด Restart อยู่บ่อยๆ การทำสิ่งใดเพื่ออนาคตที่ดีกว่านั้นไม่เคยสาย มันจะสายก็ต่อเมื่อเราพึ่งคิดได้ในห้วงลมหายใจสุดท้ายของชีวิต..
• ฯลฯ

ผมได้ฉายาจากน้องๆ ในทีมว่า Jakk 8-hour ก็เพราะผมเป็นคนประเภทที่พ่นออกมาได้เรื่อยๆ หาที่ลงไม่เคยได้ และตอนนี้ผมก็เริ่มได้สติแล้วว่า บทความนี้ชักจะยาวเกินไปแล้ว ผมคงต้องขมวดและปิดท้ายมันได้สักที...

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คุณแค่หลับตาลง แล้วนึกถึงความย่ำแย่ของตัวเองในอดีต หาให้เจอว่าอะไรทำให้คุณรู้สึกเป็นทุกข์ เมื่อคุณค้นพบสาเหตุ คุณจะเริ่มบอกตัวเองว่าคุณจะจัดการกับมันอย่างไร เมื่อเข้าใจแล้วจงลืมตาขึ้นมา..

สิ่งที่คุณมองเห็นนับจากนี้จะไม่ใช่ The Matrix อีกต่อไป

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อย่าลืมเขียนเรื่องราว #ExitTheMatrix #EscapeTheMatrix ของคุณออกมาแบ่งปันให้เพื่อนๆ ได้รับรู้ บอกพวกเราว่า Bitcoin ช่วยให้คุณหลุดพ้นได้ยังไง..

เทนโด้รอจะแจกแก้วให้คุณอยู่นะครับ (สวยอะ)

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ترجمه تهیه شده توسط nostr:npub1cpazafytvafazxkjn43zjfwtfzatfz508r54f6z6a3rf2ws8223qc3xxpk

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این راهنما به زبان های زیر در دسترس می باشد:

• English: nostr:naddr1qqxnzd3cxy6rjv3hx5cnyde5qgs87hptfey2p607ef36g6cnekuzfz05qgpe34s2ypc2j6x24qvdwhgrqsqqqa28lxc9p6
• French: nostr:naddr1qqxnzd3cxyunqvfhxy6rvwfjqyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpvemhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0dec82c33xpshw7ntde4xwdtjx4kxz6nwwg6nxdpn8phxgcmedfukcem3wdexuun5wy6kwunnxsun2a35xfckxdnpwaek5dp409enw0mzwfhkzerrv9ehg0t5wf6k2qgawaehxw309a6ku6tkv4e8xefwdehhxarjd93kstnvv9hxgtczyzd9w67evpranzz2jw4m9wcygcyjhxsmcae6g5s58el5vhjnsa6lgqcyqqq823cmvvp6c thanks to nostr:npub1nftkhktqglvcsj5n4wetkpzxpy4e5x78wwj9y9p70ar9u5u8wh6qsxmzqs
• Chinese: nostr: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 thanks to nostr:npub1ejxswthae3nkljavznmv66p9ahp4wmj4adux525htmsrff4qym9sz2t3tv
• Swedish: nostr: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 thanks to nostr:npub19jk45jz45gczwfm22y9z69xhaex3nwg47dz84zw096xl6z62amkqj99rv7
• Spanish: nostr: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 thanks to nostr:npub138s5hey76qrnm2pmv7p8nnffhfddsm8sqzm285dyc0wy4f8a6qkqtzx624
• Dutch: nostr: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 thanks to nostr:npub1equrmqway3qxw3dkssymusxkwgwrqypfgeqx0lx9pgjam7gnj4ysaqhkj6
• Arabic: nostr: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 thanks to nostr:npub1nje4ghpkjsxe5thcd4gdt3agl2usxyxv3xxyx39ul3xgytl5009q87l02j
• German: nostr: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 thanks to nostr:npub1eseajvcuqgk6dy98zndje76hcd485zwmhjx4ztgnw4yruq68lhxq45cqvg
• Japanese: nostr:naddr1qqf8wetvvdhk6efdw3hj6mn0wd6z66nsqgs87hptfey2p607ef36g6cnekuzfz05qgpe34s2ypc2j6x24qvdwhgrqsqqqa28z85v8z by nostr:npub1wh69w45awqnlsxw7jt5tkymets87h6t4phplkx6ug2ht2qkssswswntjk0
• Russian: nostr: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 by nostr:npub10awzknjg5r5lajnr53438ndcyjylgqsrnrtq5grs495v42qc6awsj45ys7

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سلام، دوست ناستریچ من!

ناستر یک پدیده جدید است و چند گام برای آسان تر کردن ورود به آن و غنی تر کردن تجربه آن هست.

👋 خوش آمدید

از آنجا که دارید این متن را می خوانید پس احتمالا پیش از این با بارگیری یک اپ موبایل (مثلا داموس، اماتیست یا پلبستر) یا باز کردن یک کلاینت وب ناستر (مثلا اسنورت سوشال، ناسترگرام یا آیریس) به آن پیوسته اید. مهم است که تازه واردین گام های پیشنهادی اپ مورد نظر را پیروی کنند - مراحل آغازین تمام اطلاعات پایه را ارائه می کنند، لازم تنظیمات خاصی انجام دهید مگر آنکه تمایل داشته باشید. اگر به این یادداشت برخورده اید و هنوز "حساب کاربری" ناستر ندارید، میتوانید از این راهنمای گام به گام تهیه شده توسط nostr:npub1cly0v30agkcfq40mdsndzjrn0tt76ykaan0q6ny80wy034qedpjsqwamhz پیروی کنید.

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🤙 خوش بگذره

ناستر ساخته شده تا مردم بتوانند وصل شوند، شنیده شوند، و خوش بگذرانند. هدف کلی همین است (مسلما کاربردهای جدی زیادی از جمله ابزار آزادی بیان برای مبارزان راه آزادی و افشاگران هم وجود دارد اما این بخش درخور یک مقاله جدا است)، پس اگر احساس می کنید چیزی مشکل است به هریک از ناستریچ های با سابقه مراجعه کنید و ماخوشحال می شویم که کمک کنیم. تعامل با ناستر اصلا سخت نیست، ولی در مقایسه با پلتفرم های سنتی کمی پیچیدگی دارد، پس پرسیدن سؤال کاملا طبیعی است (و توصیه می شود).

لیست غیررسمی از سفیران ناستر که با کمال میل کمک می کنند تا در ناستر جا بیفتید:

nostr:naddr1qqg5ummnw3ezqstdvfshxumpv3hhyuczypl4c26wfzswnlk2vwjxky7dhqjgnaqzqwvdvz3qwz5k3j4grrt46qcyqqq82vgwv96yu

به همه ناستریچ های این لیست نشان سفیر ناستر داده شده تا یافتن و دنبال کردن آنان آسان تر باشد

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⚡️ روشن کردن زپ

زپ یکی از تفاوت هایی است که ممکن است پس از پیوستن به ناستر متوجه آن شده باشید. زپ به کاربران امکان می دهد تا با ارسال ارزش بی درنگ، از تولید محتوی مفید و جالب حمایت کنند. این امکان از طریق بیتکوین و شبکه لایتنینگ فراهم شده است. این پروتکل های پرداخت به شما امکان می دهند که به‌طور آنی مقداری ساتوشی (کوچکترین واحد شبکه بیتکوین) بفرستید، درست به راحتی لایک کردن پست کسی در پلتفرم های سنتی رسانه اجتماعی. ما به این مدل می گوییم ارزش-برای-ارزش و می توانید درباره این مدل عالی کسب درامد اینجا بیشتر بخوانید: https://dergigi.com/value/

این یادداشت tr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 که زپ را به خوبی معرفی کرده است را نیز ببینید.

بهتر است زپ را فعال کنید حتی اگر خود را تولید کننده محتوی به شمار نمی آورید - مردم احتمالا برخی یادداشت های شما را ارزشمند خواهند یافت و می خواهند مقداری ساتوشی به شما بفرستند. آسان ترین راه دریافت ارزش در ناستر فقط در چند مرحله است:

1. کیف پول ساتوشی را بارگیری کنید - احتمالا برای کسانی که در بیتکوین و لایتنینگ تازه‌کار هستند بهترین انتخاب مناسب دستگاه موبایل است. توجه کنید که کیف پول های بسیاری وجود دارند و می توانید از هر کدام که می پسندید استفاده کنید. ضمنا، فراموش نکنید که برگردید و از کیف پول خود بکاپ بگیرید.
2. "دریافت" را بزنید
3. روی آدرس لایتنینگی (رشته ای که شبیه آدرس ایمیل است) که در صفحه می بینید بزنید تا در کلیپبورد کپی شود.
4. آدرس کپی شده را در جای مربوطه در کلاینت ناستر وارد کنید. (همان جایی که می گوید "آدرس لایتنینگ بیتکوین"، "آدرسLN" یا عباراتی مشابه این).

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📫 یک آدرس ناستر بگیرید

آدرس ناستر، که اغلب به آن "شناسه " می گویند، شبیه آدرس ایمیل است:

🔍 کمک می کند حساب کاربریتان به راحتی شناخته و به اشتراک گذاشته شود
✔️ به عنوان تایید کاربر انسانی عمل می کند

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مثالی از آدرس ناستر: Tony@nostr.21ideas.org _ این برای به یاد سپاری و سپس وارد کردن در اپ ناستر جهت یافتن کاربر مورد نظر آسانتر است._

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برای دریافت آدرس ناستر می توانید از خدمات پولی مثل ناسترچک (ارائه شده توسط nostr:npub138s5hey76qrnm2pmv7p8nnffhfddsm8sqzm285dyc0wy4f8a6qkqtzx624) یا خدمات رایگان مانند ناسترپلبز ارائه شده توسط (nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424) استفاده کنید. هر دو مزایای خود را دارند و انتخاب هریک به تصمیم شما بستگی دارد. راه دیگر دریافت آدرس ناستر استفاده از افزونه مرورگر است. در این باره اینجا بیشتر یاد بگیرید.

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🙇‍♀️ یادگیری مقدمات

در پشت صحنه، ناستر با پلتفرم های اجتماعی سنتی بسیار متفاوت است، بنابر این درک مقدماتی از اینکه ناستر چگونه کار می کند برای تازه واردان مفید است. اشتباه نکنید، من نمی گویم باید یک زبان برنامه نویسی یا جزئیات فنی پروتکل را یاد بگیرید. منظور من این است که داشتن دید کلی تر و درک تفاوت بین ناستر با توییتر/مدیوم/ریدیت بسیار کمک خواهد کرد. برای مثال، هیچ گذرواژه و ورود به حسابی وجود ندارد، به جای آن شما کلیدهای خصوصی عمومی دارید. من وارد جزئیات نمی شوم زیرا منابع مفصلی برای درک کامل ناستر وجود دارند. تمام منابع قابل توجه در این صفحه راه‌اندازی توسط nostr:npub12gu8c6uee3p243gez6cgk76362admlqe72aq3kp2fppjsjwmm7eqj9fle6 با 💜 به دقت گردآوری شده اند.

اطلاعاتی که در منابع یاد شده موجود است به امن نگه داشتن کلیدها یا به عبارتی حساب کاربری تان هم کمک می کنند، پس مهم است که نگاهی به آن ها بیندازید.

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🤝 اتصال

امکان اتصال به افراد بااستعداد[^3] ناستر را خاص کرده است. اینجا همه می توانند شنیده شوند و نمی توان کسی را اخراج کرد. چند راه ساده برای یافتن افراد جالب در ناستر وجود دارد:

• برای یافتن کسانی که در توییتر دنبال می کنید:https://www.nostr.directory/ ابزاری عالی است.
• برای دنبال کردن افرادی که معتمدین شما دنبال می کنند: نمایه کسی را که با او علایق مشترک دارید ببینید، و لیست کسانی را که او دنبال می کند بررسی کرده و با آن ها ارتباط بگیرید.

• خبرنامه عمومی را ببینید: تمام کلاینت های ناستر (اپ ناستر به بیان دیگر) سربرگی دارند که خبرنامه عمومی یا همگانی را نمایش می دهد، که تمام یادداشت ها را از همه کاربران ناستر نشان می دهند. یا اینکه کسانی را به نظرتان جالب می آیند دنبال کنید (البته باید شکیبا باشید زیرا ممکن است به مقداری مطالب اسپم بربخورید).

• از #هشتگ استفاده کنید: هشتگ ها روشی عالی برای تمرکز روی مطالب مورد علاقه هستند. به سادگی روی یک #هشتگ بزنید و یادداشت های بیشتری در ارتباط با موضوع خواهید دید. و نیز می توانید هشتگ ها را در اپی که استفاده می کنید جستجو کنید. فراموش نکنید هنگام نوشتن یادداشت از هشتگ استفاده کنید تا احتمال دیده شدن آن را بیشتر کنید.

https://nostr.build/i/0df18c4a9b38f1d9dcb49a5df3e552963156927632458390a9393d6fee286631.jpg تصویری از داشبورد https://nostrgraph.net/ ساخت nostr:npub1ktw5qzt7f5ztrft0kwm9lsw34tef9xknplvy936ddzuepp6yf9dsjrmrvj

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🗺️ کاوش

پنج گامی که برشمرده شد شروع عالی برای بهبود تجربه شما در ناستر است، اما هنوز امکانات بیشتری برای یافتن و لذت بردن هست! ناستر صرفا جایگزین توییتر نیست، بلکه امکانات آن نامحدود است.

نگاهی به چند پروژه جالب و مفید ناستر بیاندازید:

• https://nostrapps.com لیستی از اپ های ناستر
• https://nostrplebs.com/ – NIP-05 و سایر مزایای ناستر را بگیرید (پولی)
• https://nostrcheck.me/ – آدرس ناستر، بارگذاری رسانه، رله
• https://nostr.build/ – بارگذاری و مدیریت رسانه و بیشتر
• https://nostr.band/ – اطلاعات شبکه ناستر و کاربران
• https://zaplife.lol/ –آمار زپ ها
• https://nostrit.com/ – یادداشت زمانبندی شده
• https://nostrnests.com/ – مشابه اسپیس توییتر
• https://nostryfied.online/ - بکاپ اطلاعات ناستر شما
• https://www.wavman.app/ - پخش کننده موسیقی ناستر

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📻 رله ها

پس از آشنایی با ناستر حتما به راهنمایی که درباره رله های ناستر نوشته ام سربزنید: https://lnshort.it/nostr-relays. البته این موضوعی نیست که در ابتدای راه فکر شما را مشغول کند، ولی برای مطالعات بعدی مهم است.

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📱 ناستر در موبایل

تجربه خوشایند ناستر در دستگاه موبایل نیز ممکن است. این راهنما کمک می کند بدون هیچ مشکلی به اپلیکیشن های ناستر در گوشی هوشمند خود وارد شوید، یادداشت ارسال کنید، زپ بزنید، و غیره: https://lnshort.it/nostr-mobile

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ممنون که خواندید و شما را در سرزمین ناستر می بینم.

nostr:npub10awzknjg5r5lajnr53438ndcyjylgqsrnrtq5grs495v42qc6awsj45ys7

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@ 78733875:4eb851f2

After announcing our first wave of grants for bitcoin[^fn-btc] and nostr[^fn-nostr] projects, we are pleased to announce an additional wave of grants for open-source projects in the space:

[^fn-btc]: First Wave of Bitcoin Grants [^fn-nostr]: First Wave of Nostr Grants

• BDK
• LNbits
• Watchdescriptor
• Stratum V2 Testing \& Benchmarking Tool
• Fedimint Modules and Resources
• Amber: Nostr Event Signer
• Nostr UI/UX Development
• Nostr Use-Case Exploration \& Education

The first five grants are sourced from our General Fund, the last three—being nostr projects—from our Nostr Fund. This brings the total number of OpenSats grants to 41, adding to the grants we previously announced in July.

Once again, let's take a closer look at each of the projects to see how they align with the OpenSats mission.

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BDK

Bitcoin Development Kit (BDK) is a set of libraries and tools that allows you to seamlessly build cross-platform on-chain bitcoin wallets without having to re-implement standard bitcoin data structures, algorithms, and protocols. BDK is built on top of the powerful rust-bitcoin and rust-miniscript libraries and adds features for managing descriptor-based wallets, syncing wallets to the bitcoin blockchain, viewing transaction histories, managing and selecting UTXOs to create new transactions, signing, and more. The core BDK components are written in Rust, but the team also maintains Kotlin and Swift language bindings for use in mobile projects. There are also Python bindings, and React Native and Flutter support is being actively developed.

Repository: bitcoindevkit/bdk
License: Apache 2.0 / MIT

LNbits

LNbits is used by a multitude of projects in the bitcoin space, especially as part of their lightning payments stack. Being easy to build on through its extension framework, LNbits has been pioneering various cutting-edge solutions and experiments in the world of bitcoin, lightning, and nostr.

The project has a thriving maker community building various hardware devices such as Lightning ATMs, point-of-sale devices, DIY hardware wallets, and nostr signing devices. The modular design of LNbits makes it attractive to users and tinkerers alike, as its plugin architecture makes it easy to extend and understand.

Repository: lnbits/lnbits
License: MIT

Watchdescriptor

watchdescriptor is a CLN plugin written in Rust that connects a business's treasury wallet to its CLN node. It utilizes cln-plugin and the BDK library to track coin movements in registered wallets and report this information to the bookkeeper plugin.

The plugin enables businesses to design a complete treasury using Miniscript and import the resulting descriptor into CLN. Since bookkeeper already accounts for all coin movements internal to CLN, this plugin is the last piece businesses need in order to unify all their bitcoin accounting in one place. This enables businesses to account for all inflows and outflows from their operations, streamlining tax reporting and financial analysis.

The watchdescriptor project is part of a broader vision to transform the lightning node (particularly CLN) into a financial hub for businesses, enabling them to conduct operations without reliance on any third parties.

Repository: chrisguida/watchdescriptor
License: MIT

Stratum V2 Testing & Benchmarking Tool

The Stratum V2 Testing & Benchmarking Tool allows the bitcoin mining industry to test and benchmark Stratum V2 performance against Stratum V1. The tool supports different mining scenarios to help miners make informed decisions and evaluate their profitability. The goal of the project is to motivate miners to upgrade to Stratum V2, increasing their individual profits and making the Bitcoin network more resilient in the process.

Repository: stratum-mining/stratum @GitGab19
License: Apache 2.0 / MIT

Fedimint Modules and Resources

Fedimint is a federated Chaumian e-cash mint backed by sats with deposits and withdrawals that can occur on-chain or via lightning. It can be understood as a scaling and privacy layer as well as an adoption accelerator for Bitcoin.

The goal of this particular project is to improve the Fedimint UI and develop free and open resources for developers and "Guardians" to enable more people to run and develop on Fedimint.

Repository: fedimint/ui @EthnTuttle
License: MIT

Amber: Nostr Event Signer

Amber is a nostr event signer for Android. It allows users to keep their nsec segregated in a single, dedicated app. The goal of Amber is to have your smartphone act as a NIP-46 signing device without any need for servers or additional hardware. "Private keys should be exposed to as few systems as possible as each system adds to the attack surface," as the rationale of said NIP states. In addition to native apps, Amber aims to support all current nostr web applications without requiring any extensions or web servers.

Repository: greenart7c3/Amber
License: MIT

Nostr UI/UX Development

The goal of this project is to help improve the UI/UX of major nostr clients, starting with Gossip and Coracle, emphasizing the onboarding process as well as usability and accessibility. One part of onboarding is solving the discoverability problem that nostr has in the first place. Solving the problem of jumping in and out of the nostr world is what motivated the development of njump, which was redesigned as part of these efforts and is now live at nostr.com.

In addition to client-specific improvements, generic design modules and learnings will be incorporated into the Nostr Design project for others to use.

Activity: github.com/dtonon @dtonon
License: MIT

Nostr Use-Case Exploration & Education

As of today, most nostr clients implement social media applications on top of the nostr protocol. However, nostr allows for various use cases, many of which go beyond social media. Two examples are Listr and Ostrich, a list management tool and job board, respectively.

In addition to use-case exploration, this project will continue to educate users and developers alike, be it via Nostr How or various video series, e.g., explaining how to build upon NDK.

Activity: github.com/erskingardner @jeffg
License: MIT / GPL-3.0 / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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We have more grants in the pipeline and will provide funding for many more projects in the future. Note that we can only fund those projects which reach out and apply. If you are an open-source developer who is aligned with our mission, don't hesitate to apply for funding.

@ 7d4417d5:3eaf36d4

I'm learning as I go, so take the text below for what it is: my notes on the process. These steps could become outdated quickly, and I may have some wrong assumptions at places. Either way, I have had success, and would like to share my experience for anyone new to the process. If I have made any errors, please reply with corrections so that others may avoid potential pitfalls.

!!! If you have "KYC Bitcoin", keep it in separate wallets from your "Anonymous Bitcoin". Any Anonymous Bitcoin in a wallet with KYC Bitcoin becomes 100% KYC Bitcoin.

!!! It took me several days to get all the right pieces set up before I could even start an exchange with someone.

!!! Using a VPN is highly recommended. If you're not already using one, take the time to find one that suits you and get it running.

!!! If you don't normally buy Amazon Gift Cards, start doing so now, and just send them to yourself, or friends that will give you cash in return, etc. For my first trade, Amazon locked me out of my account for about 22 hours, while I was in the middle of an exchange. All because I had never purchased an Amazon Gift Card before. It was quite nerve wracking. My second trade was for $300, and although my Amazon account wasn't shut down, that order had a status of "Sending" for about 22 hours, due to the large amount. In each of these cases I had multiple phone calls with their customer support, all of whom gave me false expectations. Had I already been sending gift cards to the anonymous email address that I created in the steps below, and maybe other anonymous email addresses that I could make, then I might not have been stalled so much.

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1. Install Tor Browser for your OS. The RoboSats.com website issues a warning if you are not using Tor Browser. If you don't know what Tor is, I won't explain it all here, but trust me, it's cool and helps keep you anonymous. If you use Firefox, the interface will look very familiar to you.

2. Create a KYC-free e-mail address. I used tutanota.com in Firefox, as it would not allow me to create an account using Tor Browser. After the account was created, using Tor Browser to login, check emails, etc. has been working perfectly. Tutanota requires a 48 hour (or less) waiting period to prevent bots from using their system. You'll be able to login, and even draft an email, but you won't be able to send. After you've been approved, you should be able to login and send an email to your new address. It should show up in your Inbox almost instantly if it's working.

3. Have, or create, at least one Lightning wallet that is compatible with RoboSats.com and has no KYC Bitcoin in it. The RoboSats website has a compatibility chart available to find the best wallet for you. During an exchange on RoboSats, you will need to put up an escrow payment, or bond, in Satoshis. This amount is usually 3% of the total amount being exchanged. If the exchange is successful, the bond payment is canceled, leaving that amount in your wallet untouched, and with no record of it having been used as escrow. If you don't hold up your end of the trade, the bond amount will be transfered from your wallet. I created a wallet, using my new email address, with the Alby extension in the Tor Browser. This anonymous wallet was empty, so I used a separate wallet for the bond payment of my first trade. This wallet had KYC Bitcoin, but since it is being used for a bond payment, and no transaction will be recorded if everything goes okay, I don't mind taking the minuscule risk. After the first trade, I don't need to use the "KYC wallet", and I will use only my anonymous Lightning wallet for transactions related to performing a trade.

4. Create a new Robot Token by going to RoboSats using the Tor Browser. Copy the Token (Robot ID) to a text file as a temporary backup. It is recommended to create a new robot-token for every session of exchanges you make.

5. Select "Offers" to browse what others are presenting. "Create" is for when you want to create an offer of your own. You may need to create your own offer if none of the existing offers match your criteria.

6. Select "Buy" at the top of the page.

7. Select your currency (USD).

8. Select your payment methods by typing "amazon" and selecting (Amazon Gift Card). Repeat this process and select (Amazon USA Gift Card).

9. Determine Priorities - If you prefer to trade quickly, and don't care as much about premiums, look for users with a green dot on the upper-right of their robot icon. If you're not in a hurry, sort users by premium and select the best deal, even if they are inactive. They may become active once they are notified that their offer has activity from you.

10. The Definition of Price = the price with the premium added, but not the bond

11. A. Find A Compatible Offer - Select the row of the desired offer and enter the amount you would like to buy. i.e. $100 If you do not find a compatible offer, you will have to create your own offer.

    B.  **Create An Offer** - First, take a look at "Sell" offers for your same currency and payment method(s) that you will be using.  Take note of the premium those buyers are willing to pay.  If your premium is drastically less than theirs, your offer may get ignored.  Select "Create" at the bottom of the screen.  There is a slider at the top of the screen, select it to see all the options. Select "Buy". Enter the minimum and maximum amount that you wish to spend.  Type "amazon" to select the methods that you would like to use (Amazon Gift Card, Amazon USA Gift Card).  For "Premium Over Market", enter an amount that is competitive with premiums you saw at the start of this step and do not use the % sign!  You can adjust the duration, timer, and bond amount, but I leave those at their default settings.  Select the "Create Order" button, and follow the instructions for making a bond payment.
    

12. Pay the Bond - Copy the invoice that is presented. From your wallet that contains bond funds, select "Send", and paste the invoice as the recipient. This money will never leave your account if the exchange completes without issue. No transaction will be recorded. If there is a complication with the exchange, it is possible that this transaction will complete.

13. Create and Submit Your Invoice for Their Bitcoin Payment To You - Select "Lightning", if not selected by default.* Select the Copy Icon to copy the correct amount of Satoshis. This amount already has the premium deducted. From your anonymous Lightning Wallet, select "Receive", and paste the Satoshi amount. If you enter a description, it's probably best to keep it cryptic. Copy the invoice and paste it into RoboSats; then select "Submit".

    * If you plan on "mixing" your Bitcoin after purchase, it may be better to select "On Chain" and pay the necessary fees swap and mining fees. In the example this comes from, Sparrow wallet is used and has whirlpool ability in its interface.

14. Connect With Seller and Send Funds - Greet the seller in the chat window. The seller has now provided RoboSats with the Bitcoin to transfer to you. Your move is to buy an Amazon eGift Card for the amount of the trade. Log in to your Amazon account and start the process of buying an eGift card. For delivery there is the option of email or txt message. Ask the seller what their preference is, and get their address, or phone number, to enter into Amazon's form. Complete the purchase process on Amazon, and check the status of your order. Once you see the status of "Sent", go back to RoboSats in your Tor Browser.

15. Confirm Your Payment - Select the "Confirm ___ USD Sent" button and notify the seller to check their e-mail/txt messages.

16. Seller Confirmation - Once the seller select their "Confirm" button, the trade will immediately end with a confirmation screen.

17. Verify - If you check the anonymous wallet, the new amount should be presented.

@ 9ecbb0e7:06ab7c09

Según nos reporta y documenta la familia, la niña pequeña de 3 años de edad Leadi Kataleya Naranjo, hija del preso de conciencia Idael Naranjo Pérez, ha sido citada para mañana por la Seguridad del Estado de #Cuba. La citación no ofrece duda e indica los dos nombres, apellido y la dirección de la abuela paterna, donde entregaron la citación, y la abuela también ha sido citada y amenazada de desobediencia. Si la niña no se presenta, amenazan de acusarla igualmente de "desobediencia". La abuela se preocupó, les dijo la edad, y aún así entregaron la citación y se fueron. Que "debían presentarse". Nada más. Desalmados son, pero... ¿Qué clase de locos de atar están al mando en #Cuba? ¿Qué pretenden citando y amenazando a una niña de 3 años? Esa niña no puede ir a esa ignominiosa citación. ¿A oír qué? ¿A responder qué? El tema da ASCO. La familia no quiere llevar a la niña, y necesitan todo el apoyo para que esta locura se aclare y se detenga. Desgraciadamente hemos visto cosas iguales o peores. Niños amenazados, separados por la fuerza de sus padres, menores torturados... El régimen de Cuba da mucho asco, por todos lados rezuma repugnancia y degradación. Todo lo que sucede en Cuba clama al cielo, y estas barbaries son distópicas. ¡MANTENGAN AL MARGEN A LOS NIÑOS, DESALMADOS ENFERMOS! Bastante daño causan con la Ley de los 8 años que tiene a miles de niños huérfanos, separados forzosamente de sus madres para castigarlas a ellas por no doblegarse a trabajar en las misiones médicas esclavas de Cuba en el exterior, como sentenció el Comité de los Derechos del Niño. ¡BASTA YA!

11jul #11j #11jCuba #CubaEsUnaDictadura #UNICEF @uniceflac @unicefenespanol

@ fa0165a0:03397073

Below is an easy-to-read list of keyboard shortcuts and commands to navigate your Linux computer efficiently: (Note that some variations between systems may apply)

General Shortcuts:
    Open Terminal: Ctrl + Alt + T
    Close current application: Alt + F4
    Switch between open applications: Alt + Tab
    Logout from current session: Ctrl + Alt + Del

Navigating the File System:
    Open File Manager (Nautilus): Super (Windows key) + E
    Move back in directory: Alt + Left Arrow
    Move forward in directory: Alt + Right Arrow
    Go to Home directory: Ctrl + H
    Go to Desktop: Ctrl + D
    Open a folder or file: Enter
    Rename a file or folder: F2
    Copy selected item: Ctrl + C
    Cut selected item: Ctrl + X
    Paste copied/cut item: Ctrl + V
    Delete selected item: Delete
    Create a new folder: Ctrl + Shift + N

Navigating Applications:
    Switch between open windows of the same application: Alt + `
    Close the current window: Ctrl + W
    Minimize the current window: Ctrl + M
    Maximize/Restore the current window: Ctrl + Super + Up Arrow / Down Arrow

Navigating Web Browsers (e.g., Firefox, Chrome):
    Open a new tab: Ctrl + T
    Close the current tab: Ctrl + W
    Switch to the next tab: Ctrl + Tab
    Switch to the previous tab: Ctrl + Shift + Tab
    Open a link in a new tab: Ctrl + Left Click
    Go back in the browser history: Alt + Left Arrow
    Go forward in the browser history: Alt + Right Arrow

System Controls:
    Lock the screen: Ctrl + Alt + L
    Open the system menu (context menu): Menu key (or Right-click key) or Shift + F10
    Open the Run Command prompt: Alt + F2

These shortcuts may vary slightly depending on the Linux distribution and desktop environment you are using. Experiment with these shortcuts to navigate your Linux system faster and more efficiently without relying on the mouse.

Since websites are such an important interface for the information of today, I have here appended the list with some navigational hotkeys for web browsers (e.g., Firefox, Chrome) on Linux:

General Navigation:
    Scroll down: Spacebar
    Scroll up: Shift + Spacebar
    Scroll horizontally: Hold Shift and scroll with the mouse wheel or arrow keys
    Go to the top of the page: Home
    Go to the bottom of the page: End
    Refresh the page: F5 or Ctrl + R
    Stop loading the page: Esc

Link and Page Navigation:
    Move focus to the next link or interactive element: Tab
    Move focus to the previous link or interactive element: Shift + Tab
    Activate/follow a link or button: Enter
    Open link in a new tab: Ctrl + Enter (Cmd + Enter on macOS)
    Open link in a new background tab: Ctrl + Shift + Enter (Cmd + Shift + Enter on macOS)
    Open link in a new window: Shift + Enter
    Go back to the previous page: Backspace or Alt + Left Arrow
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Miscellaneous:
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Remember, the accessibility of websites can vary, and some sites might have different keyboard navigation implementations. In some cases, you may need to enable keyboard navigation in the browser's settings or extensions. Additionally, browser updates might introduce changes to keyboard shortcuts, so it's always good to check the latest documentation or help resources for your specific browser version.

But I hope this helps as an tldr and getting started with navigating your laptop the ways pro role.

Version controlled over at github gist.

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O uso de robôs assassinos vem se tornando algo corriqueiro em zonas de confronto. Este tipo de atividade é liderado pelo EUA e outros países possuem em sua agenda militar a aquisição de tais dispositivos. Harvard Law School de Direitos Humanos e a Human Rights International defendem a necessidade de regulamentação e ética no uso de tecnologias autônomas na guerra.

Entre os argumentos está a defesa da proibição do desenvolvimento e uso de armas totalmente autônomas. Robôs totalmente autônomos podem decidir por si próprios quando eliminar um inimigo.

Segundo o relatório de 50 páginas, tais dispositivos serão desenvolvidos dentro de 20 a 30 anos ou “ainda mais cedo”. Atualmente sistemas de armas que exigem pouca intervenção humana já existem.

O EUA trabalha com robôs de ataque no Paquistão, Afeganistão, Iêmen e em outros lugares. Mas estes são controlados por operadores humanos em bases no solo e não são capazes de matar sem autorização.

No entanto, laboratórios espalhados pelo mundo em diversos países estudam e buscam meios de criar robôs totalmente autônomos para ações de guerra. Existem pesados investimentos neste tipo de pesquisa.

O problema com a entrega de poder de decisão, mesmo para os robôs mais sofisticados é que não haveria nenhuma maneira clara de fazer qualquer juízo para os inevitáveis erros, disse Noel Sharkey, professor de robótica da Universidade de Sheffield. “Se um robô cometer um erro ou crime, quem é o responsável? Certamente não será o robô”, disse ele.

O robô pode levar uma arma de destruição em massa sem que exista uma maneira de determinar quem é responsável pela ação e isso vai ser um grande problema na garantia da obediência das leis da guerra. Como iremos determinar o proprietário do robô assassino?

Sem uma rigorosa regulamentação e controle, corremos o risco de convivermos num futuro próximo, com robôs assassinos totalmente anônimos.

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O raciocínio tecnológico é considerado por muitas pessoas como um fenômeno moderno. No entanto, ao olhar para o passado é possível observar avançados mecanismos de engenharia.

Um destes mecanismos é a máquina de Anticítera encontrada em 1901 por mergulhadores e datada como sendo do ano 87 a.C. O mecanismo estava fossilizado devido ao tempo. O equipamento é um complexo sistema de 27 engrenagens capaz de representar com precisão a órbita da Lua, dos planetas no nosso sistema e também do Sol.

O conceito tecnológico chamado de “engrenagem diferencial” inventado oficialmente no século XVI já estava presente lá no século I a.C. conforme conclusão de alguns cientistas que estudaram o funcionamento da máquina de Anticítera.

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Mesmo sendo entendido como uma questão da vida, muitas pessoas sofrem com o fato do envelhecimento. A ciência busca oferecer uma solução e promete vida longa com pouco ou nenhum envelhecimento em breve.

O gasto com produtos ou serviços que escondam o envelhecimento é gigantesco e vão desde cirurgias estéticas até tratamentos com os mais variados tipos de medicamentos.

Muitos destes gastos são motivados pela ilusão e nada contribuem para retardar o envelhecimento, outros ajudam, ainda que promovam poucos efeitos reais.

A BBC exibiu um documentário em seis capítulos que busca abordar o assunto de forma ampla e traz uma ideia sobre o que está sendo produzido na ciência e os mitos que ainda persistem sobre o envelhecimento, como é o caso da teoria dos radicais livres.

Saiba mais em: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=A+cura+do+envelhecimento%3A+document%C3%A1rio+BBC&oq=A+cura+do+envelhecimento%3A+document%C3%A1rio+BBC

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この記事は nostr:npub1wh69w45awqnlsxw7jt5tkymets87h6t4phplkx6ug2ht2qkssswswntjk0 によって、日本語訳されました。

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こんにちは、親愛なるノストリッチさん！

Nostrは全く新しいムーブメントです。はじめの一歩をよりスムーズに、より豊かにするためのいくつかの手順をご紹介しましょう。

👋 ようこそ

これを読んでいるあなたは、すでにモバイルアプリをダウンロードしてNostrに参加しているはずです (例：Damus, Amethyst, Plebstr)。もしくは以下のウェブクライアントかもしれません (例：snort.social, Nostrgram, Iris)。初心者の方であれば、選んだアプリに合った手順に従うことが重要です。ただし、最低限必要な手順はどのアプリにおいても基本は同じですので、ベーシック以上のことを知る必要はありません（もちろん、知りたければトライしてみましょう）。もしあなたが、この記事を偶然見つけて、まだNostr【アカウント】を取得していない場合は、以下のリンクをご覧ください：いちばん簡単なステップリスト by nostr:npub1cly0v30agkcfq40mdsndzjrn0tt76ykaan0q6ny80wy034qedpjsqwamhz.

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🤙 楽しもう

Nostrは、人々が確実につながれ、意見を聞いてもらえ、そして、その過程を楽しむことができるように設計されています。これが重要なのです（もちろん、自由の戦士や内部告発者のためのツールであるなど、深刻な使用例もたくさんありますが、それは別の記事で書くことにしましょう）。ですから、何か難しい感じることがあれば、経験豊富なノストリッチたちに声をかけてください。私たちは歓迎します。Nostrでの交流は決して難しいものではありませんが、従来のプラットフォームと比べるといくつか特殊な点があります（でも何も心配することはありません）。

非公式 Nostrアンバサダーリストはこちら：

nostr:naddr1qqg5ummnw3ezqstdvfshxumpv3hhyuczypl4c26wfzswnlk2vwjxky7dhqjgnaqzqwvdvz3qwz5k3j4grrt46qcyqqq82vgwv96yu

リストに掲載されたすべてのノストリッチには、Nostrアンバサダー バッジが授与されていますので、簡単に彼らを見つけることができ、また、フォローすることができます。

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⚡️ ザップしよう

Zap（ザップ）は、Nostrに参加したら最初に気づく違いの1つです。ザップはNostrユーザーが即座に価値を送ることを可能にし、便利で楽しいコンテンツの作成をサポートします。これはビットコインとライトニングネットワークによって実現しました。これらの分散型決済プロトコルにより、従来のソーシャルメディアプラットフォームで誰かの投稿に「いいね！」をするのと同じくらい簡単に、satoshi / sats（ビットコインネットワークの最小単位）を即座に送ることができます。私たちはこのモデルをValue-4-Value（バリューフォーバリュー）と呼んでいて、この究極のマネタイズモデルについての詳細は以下をご覧ください：https://dergigi.com/value/

おすすめ記事 by nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 では【ザップとは何か？】詳しく書かれてます。

あなたがコンテンツクリエイターでないとしても、ザップを有効にすべきです - 人々はあなたの投稿のいくつかに価値を見いだし、あなたにsatoshiを送りたいと思うかもしれません。Nostrで価値を受け取る最も簡単な方法は、以下の2ステップです：

1. Wallet of Satoshiをダウンロードする - ビットコインとライトニングを、スマホで初めて使うなら、おそらくベストチョイスのはずです[^1] なお、他にもたくさんのウォレットがありますので、ご自分に合ったものをお選びください。また、ウォレットはバックアップを必ずお忘れなく。
2. 【Receive / 受信】をタップする。
3. 画面に表示されているライトニングアドレス（メールアドレスのように見える文字列）をタップして、クリップボードにコピーします。
4. コピーしたアドレスをNostrクライアント内にある、対応箇所に貼り付けます（対応箇所には【Bitcoin Lightning Address / ビットコイン・ライトニングアドレス】や、【LN Address / LNアドレス】などのような記載があり、使用しているアプリによって異なります）。

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📫 Nostrアドレスを取得しよう

Nostrのアドレスは、Nostrの諸先輩たちによってしばしば【NIP-05 identifier / NIP-05識別子】と呼ばれているもので、電子メールのように見え：

🔍 アカウントの発見と共有を簡単にします ✔️ あなたが人間であることの証明に役立ちます

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以下がNostrのアドレスの例です：Tony@nostr.21ideas.org Nostrアドレスがあれば、どのNostrアプリであろうが、対応するユーザーを簡単に見つけることができます。

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Nostrアドレスを取得するには、次のような無料サービスを利用できますNostr Check (by nostr:npub138s5hey76qrnm2pmv7p8nnffhfddsm8sqzm285dyc0wy4f8a6qkqtzx624) または有料サービスですがNostr Plebs (by nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424) もおすすめです。どちらも異なる特典を提供していて、どちらを選ぶかはあなた次第です。また、Nostrアドレスを取得するもう1つの方法は、ブラウザの拡張機能を活用することです。この方法の詳細はこちらをご覧ください。

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🙇‍♀️ 基本を知ろう

Nostrは、従来のソーシャル・プラットフォームとは大きく異なるため、基本的なことを理解しておくことは、あなたのような新しいユーザーにとって有益です。誤解しないでほしいのは、プログラミング言語やプロトコルの技術的な詳細を学べと言っているのではありません。私が言いたいのは、NostrとTwitter / Medium / Redditの違いを理解し、より大きな視野を持つことはとてもためになるということです。例えば、パスワードやログイン機能はなく、代わりに秘密鍵と公開鍵が使われています。でも、難しくはありません。Nostrを理解するのに役立つ膨大なリソースがありますのでご安心を。このきちんと整理されたランディングページ by nostr:npub12gu8c6uee3p243gez6cgk76362admlqe72aq3kp2fppjsjwmm7eqj9fle6 には、💜とともにあなたが知るべきすべての情報が載っています。

これらのリソースが提供する情報は、あなたのNostrキー（つまりあなたのアカウント）を保護するのにも役立ちます。

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🤝 つながろう

優秀な [^3] 人たちとつながる能力こそが、Nostrを特別なものにしています。ここでは誰もが話を聞いてもらうことができ、誰も排除されることはありません。Nostrで面白い人を見つける簡単な方法はいくつかあります：

• ツイッターでフォローしている人を探す：https://www.nostr.directory/はそのための素晴らしいツールです。
• 信頼できる人がフォローしている人をフォローする：同じ興味を持つ人のプロフィールを見て、その人がフォローしている人のリストをチェックし、その人とつながろう。

• グローバルフィードを見てみる：すべてのNostrクライアント（Nostrアプリ）には、すべてのNostrユーザーの投稿を集約したグローバルフィードに切り替えるタブがあります。興味のある人をただフォローしてみましょう（我慢してください - グローバルフィードでは大量のスパムを見ることになるかもしれません）。

• ハッシュタグ # を活用しよう：ハッシュタグは好きなトピックに集中するのに最適な方法です。気になる # ハッシュタグをタップするだけで、そのトピックに関連する投稿がさらに表示されます。また、使っているアプリでハッシュタグを検索することもできます。発見力を高めるために、あなたが投稿する際も、ハッシュタグを使うことをお忘れなく。

https://nostr.build/i/0df18c4a9b38f1d9dcb49a5df3e552963156927632458390a9393d6fee286631.jpg スクリーンショット https://nostrgraph.net/ ダッシュボード by nostr:npub1ktw5qzt7f5ztrft0kwm9lsw34tef9xknplvy936ddzuepp6yf9dsjrmrvj

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🗺️ 探検しよう

ご紹介した5つのステップは、あなたの経験を大幅に向上させる素晴らしいスタートになったはずです。ですが、もっと新しい発見をサポートし、楽しむためのさらに多くのツールがあります！NostrはTwitterの代用品ではなく、その可能性は無限大です。

楽しくて便利なNostrプロジェクト・リストをご覧ください：

• https://nostrapps.com/ Nostrアプリ・リスト
• https://nostrplebs.com/ – NIP-05の取得とその他のNostr特典 (有料)
• https://nostrcheck.me/ – Nostrアドレス、メディアアップロード、リレー
• https://nostr.build/ – メディアアップロード管理 (などなど)
• https://nostr.band/ – Nostrネットワークとユーザー情報
• https://zaplife.lol/ – ザップ統計
• https://nostrit.com/ – 予約投稿
• https://nostrnests.com/ – Twitterスペース 2.0
• https://nostryfied.online/ - Nostr投稿のバックアップ
• https://www.wavman.app/ - Nostrミュージックプレイヤー

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📻 リレー

Nostrに慣れたら、Nostrリレーに関するクイックガイドをぜひご覧ください：https://lnshort.it/nostr-relays 最初のうちは特に心配するようなテーマではありませんが、あとになればなるほど、間違いなく重要なテーマとなります。

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📱 モバイル版Nostr

スマホでも、スムーズなNostr体験ができます。このガイドでは、スマートフォンでNostrウェブアプリケーションにシームレスにログイン、投稿、ザップなどを行う方法を説明します：https://lnshort.it/nostr-mobile

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読んでくれてありがとう、そしてラビットホールの向こう側でお会いしましょう

nostr:npub10awzknjg5r5lajnr53438ndcyjylgqsrnrtq5grs495v42qc6awsj45ys7

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[^1]： 忘れずにチェックしよう

@ a10260a2:caa23e3e

It seems like blogstack is meant to replace Substack if not already apparent by the name. If that's the case, it's already better in a few ways.

1. Hit the ground running

I'm already getting started out of the gate with more readers than I would have if I just started a Substack. This, of course, is due to the fact that I'm creating on top of a protocol where I'm able to have the same audience across all clients of that protocol. This is in stark contrast to the legacy apps from centralized entities where you have to corral your audience from one platform to the next.

2. Readers need not subscribe

Technically, if you're following me, you're subscribed. But you don't have to subscribe for a set price and amount of time (e.g. $5/month or $50/year). I believe this is a win for both of us as I can write my best notes and you can choose to reward me as you see fit. Value 4 value.

3. More conducive to conversation

Writing on Substack felt like writing into a void, with little to no feedback. A post shows up in my readers' inbox and I'll see some stats on whether it was opened or not. That's it. Based on what I've seen so far, blog posts created on Nostr appear in the client apps (e.g Damus, Primal, and Plebstr) as just another note, but with nice formatting and such. From there, I can receive zaps, shakas, comments, and even be reposted.

This is just the beginning. Right now, I'm using blogstack. But what's to stop me from using another tool down the line? I'll have the ability to do so by simply connecting my private key. Can't wait to see what new tools are created down the line.

So ₿ULLISH on #Nostr

@ e6817453:b0ac3c39

The Zooko’s Triangle is a concept in the realm of naming systems, specifically for decentralized or distributed networks. It was named after Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn, a computer scientist and cypherpunk known for his work on the Zcash cryptocurrency. The triangle illustrates a trade-off between three desirable properties in a naming system:

1. Human-meaningful: Names are easily understood and remembered by humans.
2. Decentralized: No central authority controls the allocation or management of names.
3. Secure: Names are unique and cannot be easily taken or manipulated by others.

Zooko’s Triangle posits that achieving all three properties in a single system is difficult. Traditionally, a system could have only two of the three properties, leading to various combinations of naming systems with their respective advantages and disadvantages.

However, recent developments in cryptographic and distributed systems have led to solutions that challenge the traditional constraints of Zooko’s Triangle. One such system is the Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs).

DIDs

Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) are a new identifier for verifiable, decentralized digital identity. DIDs are designed to be self-sovereign, meaning that individuals or organizations control their identifiers without relying on a central authority. DID systems are built on top of decentralized networks, such as blockchain or distributed ledgers, providing a secure and tamper-proof infrastructure for identity management.

DIDs aim to achieve the three properties of Zooko’s Triangle:

1. Human-meaningful: While DIDs may not be human-meaningful due to their cryptographic nature, they can be associated with human-readable names or aliases.
2. Decentralized: DIDs are managed on decentralized networks, removing the need for a central authority.
3. Secure: The decentralized nature of DIDs, combined with cryptographic techniques, ensures that identifiers are unique, secure, and resistant to tampering.

In summary, Zooko’s Triangle presents a trade-off between human-meaningful, decentralized, and secure properties in naming systems. Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) are an example of a system that seeks to overcome the traditional limitations of the triangle by leveraging decentralized networks and cryptographic techniques to provide a more comprehensive solution for digital identity management.

@ 23202132:eab3af30

ETHMail é um serviço de hospedagem de e-mail. Ele fornece caixas de correio para todas as pessoas que possuem carteira Ethereum.

Se você possui uma carteira de criptomoedas da rede ethereum, como a wallet Status, Wallet Connect ou MEW wallet. Basta conectar sua carteira ethereum no servidor de email e automaticamente poderá usar seuendereçoethereum@ethmail.cc.

Nosso e-mail ficou assim, 0x5d9e9d4200e2bff0541c1389c33b43dc14aa89cf@ethmail.cc mas se você possuir um domínio blockchain associado com uma conta ethereum poderá usar o domínio no lugar da conta, como esse exemplo: jsilva.stateofus.eth@ethmail.cc ambos endereços de e-mail são na verdade a mesma conta na rede ethereum.

O ETHmail possui conexão pop3, entre outras funcionalidades.

Se a sua carteira possui um navegador Dapp embutido basta digitar o endereço: ethmail.cc no navegador e clicar em Login quando a página abrir. Associe sua carteira ao serviço ETHmail e pronto. Você poderá enviar e receber e-mail diretamente pela sua carteira ethereum.

Nós testamos o serviço ETHmail na carteira Status. Nesta carteira você terá disponível um sistema simples de mensagem instantânea e o serviço ETHmail.

Se desejar mais informações, acesse o forum da comunidade ETHmail em: https://community.cryptoverse.cc/

Visite o site do projeto em: https://ethmail.cc/

Se você estuda sobre programação em tecnologia da informação, pode ser interessante acessar um PDF que separamos para quem deseja detalhes técnicos sobre como implementar um correio eletrônico baseado em blockchain. Acesse no https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oyFqNpwqU6UxND_y6MElNJX4JaK3tQz0/view?usp=sharing

@ e6817453:b0ac3c39

Organizational identifiers

Organizational identifiers have different sets of requirements and functions. It is not enough to have per-to-peer private communications. Organizations are more public, so we need publicly resolvable identifiers. DID:key satisfy this condition entirely but fails to fulfill the organization's needs.

• Organizations quite often act as issuers of credentials or attestations. For issuance, it is critical to have the possibility to rotate signing keys or even deactivate or delete identifiers if keys or issuer get compromised or to comply with security company policies.
• Organizations often require a split between the Controller of the identifier and the Identifier subject or even a transfer of the identifier subject.
• Organizations must have complete control of infrastructure and effectively manage resources and costs. The price of a single identifier should be fixed, and the method of creating new identifiers should be scalable.
• One of the essential requirements is trust and governance and transparent mechanics of proving and binding an identifier to an organizational entity and creating trust relations.
• Access to Identifier management is quite often controlled by a group of users

Nonfunctional requirements

• portability
• interoperability
• scalability
• Autonomous and control
• security

In my previous articles, we talk about Autonomous identifiers and how they differ from regular DIDs.

To recap

Autonomous identifiers (AIDs) are DIDs generated algorithmically from a crypto- graphic key pair in such a way that they are self-certifying, i.e. the binding with the public key can be verified without the need to consult any external blockchain or third party. KERI is an example of a decentralized identity technology based entirely on AIDs. © https://trustoverip.org/blog/2023/01/05/the-toip-trust-spanning-protocol/

In a previous article, I show how to create and use a did:key as an Autonomous identifier that feet well to private person-to-person secure communication.

Architectures and protocols that build on top of AIDs have few critical properties

• self-hosting and self-contained
• self-certified and Autonomous
• portable
• interoperable
• full control of infrastructure
• cost management

Nowadays, I discovered a few AIDs methods

• did:key — self-contained and public
• did:peer — self-certified, upgradable but private
• KERI based did — we waiting for did:keri method to be announced soon, but KERI infrastructure could be used to build internals of did:peer or similar methods.
• did:web — public, self-certified, and self-hosted method, but still, we have active community discussion and critics as far as it fully relays to ownership of domain name that could be stolen or re-assigned.

So we have to choose from did:key did:web and I hope in a future from did:keri.

To move forward, we need to understand the DID architecture better and how all parts are connected.

In many cases of personal or sovereign entities Subject and the Controller are the same, but for Organisations, it could have a crucial difference.

DID Subject

The DID subject is the entity that the DID represents. It can be a person, organization, device, or other identifiable entity. The DID subject is associated with a unique DID that serves as a persistent, resolvable, and cryptographically verifiable identifier. The subject is the primary focus of the identity management process and typically has one or more DIDs associated with it.

DID Controller

The DID controller is the entity (person, organization, or device) that has the authority to manage the DID Document associated with a particular DID. The DID controller can update, revoke, or delegate control of the DID Document, which contains the public keys, service endpoints, and other information required for interacting with the DID subject.

In many cases, the DID subject and DID controller can be the same entity, especially for individual users who create and manage their DIDs. However, in some situations, the DID controller may differ from the DID subject, such as when an organization manages the DIDs on behalf of its employees or when an administrator manages a device.

In summary, the DID subject is the entity the DID represents, while the DID controller is the entity with authority to manage the associated DID Document. Depending on the specific use case and requirements, these roles can be held by the same or different entities.

Key Pair

It is simple from the first point of view. Key-Pair is an asymmetric public and private key. One of the main DID functions is the distribution of public keys. DIDDoccument could contain multiple public keys with authorization rules and key roles.

Identifier

Representation of did itself. is a part of DID URI.

DID:Key

did:key identifier

DID web

did:web

Relations

Relations between all parts of DID identifier can be illustrated in the following diagram. DID method dictate how DID identifier gets created, updated, deactivated, and resolved.

Focusing on the relations of the controller, key pairs, and the identifier is more interesting for us.

The most significant power and benefit of DID are decoupling a key pair from a controller and identifier. It allows the rotation of keys and changes the ownership of the identifier and its subject and controller. It is the main competitive advantage of DID and SSI over web3 wallets and raw keys.

The ideal case is KERI infrastructure that decouples all parties via cryptographic binding and protocols.

To discover more, read the paper.

We used did: keys as AID in the previous article. DID:key is a cryptographically bound identifier to the public key but cannot change the binding. As a result, keys couldn't be rotated in the future. The controller has no binding except to prove private key ownership via the signature-based protocol.

On the other side, DID:web does not have a cryptographic binding of an identifier to a key pair from one side. It gives an easy possibility to rotate keys but loses the verifiability of the identifier.

The most interesting part is the Controller to identifier binding in a did: web. It is based on proof of domain name ownership and website resource. As I mention, it has some security considerations and critics in a community. Still, at the same time, we get a critical mechanism that settles trust and connects identifiers to the organization entity.

The mechanism of web domain ownership is well-defined and easy to explain to other users, even outside of SSI and web5 domain. It is getting wider adoption and creating a lot of use cases for organizations. So it helps to create a trust relationship between an identifier and organizational entity in a very transparent, human-readable, and self-explained way — the identifier hosted on the corporate domain belongs to the organization. On another side, it makes the transfer of the controller almost impossible. That's why it is critical to differentiate between a subject and a controller.

I believe that did:web still covers a lot of organizational cases and is suitable for issuing Verifiable Credentials and attestations on behalf of organizations.

Step-by-step guide on how to create and manage did:web you could find in my article

More detailed step-by-step coding guide with the live example you could find in my SSI notebooks book

@ 5df413d4:2add4f5b

June 2018. Shanghai.

Cruising down the Shanghai East-West Expressway, riding shotgun in my friend’s BMW M3. The car is silly Americana. Captain America decals adorn the exterior, while the interior is Iron Man red and gold. Several large stuffed animals crowd the back seat — Peppa Pig, Winnie the Pooh (both inexplicable, irreverent quasi anti-government memes in China). All the while, Black Panther and Darth Vader bobbleheads nod along atop the dashboard. For many in China, and Shanghai particularly, personal vehicles are the medium for coded expressions that would be too garish or sensitive if made more publicly.

https://i.nostrimg.com/f29c7dde5549edc1eed5a5223a60b40605bd1c622b6bab747b13a5b7fa598d44/file.jpeg (Pictured: The ideal yuppie bachelor car in Shanghai. You may not like it but this is what peak achievement looks like.)

Outside a hazy, spring night fog colors the city like something out of a Simon Stålenhag painting. The neon-lit Bladerunner tetris set of Shanghai office complexes blurs by just beyond the tinted glass as we cut lanes at speed. Kids See Ghosts blasts loudly on the sound system. We hit the Julu Road (巨鹿路) junction, where the city’s two main expressways meet in a loping tangle of concrete and asphalt. And like clockwork, all connections go out — cell, bluetooth, radio — the car goes silent.

This always happens at this spot. I ask my friend about this. He thinks the police are running a high-end signal jammer at this location to prevent people from flying drones over the junction - which he learned at the cost of one of his own high-end DJI models...Perhaps triggered by the state’s technical show of force, a serious change comes over him for a moment. He glances over, "It's all bullshit, you know," pointing up to the dark sky beyond the windshield, "They have to keep the lights on. They have to convince us that the control everything. If they fail, we will just eat them." “Let the ducks roast,” he says to himself after a contemplative pause, his eyes trailing off into the far distance.

But moment passes quickly. A few moments after we pass through the junction, all signals and service reappear, stronger than before. Kid Cudi’s blaring “I feel freeeeeeeeeeeeee” bursts onto the car’s speakers at full volume. Political talk ceases and the entire thing immediately becomes a long forgotten memory.

In any case, it’s Friday. The bars are open, the clubs are calling, and we’re coming in HOT. That’s what matters. Today was a good day in Shanghai.

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An Introduction to Life On Mars

Where to start? Folks in the US who have only known me as a bitcoiner often ask, “But how could you live in China?” I always chuckle at this question. Not least because its usually almost visibility dipping with the asker's absurd and exaggerated fantasies about China as a cartoonish 1984-style brutalist dystopia. That said, it is a question that I have given much thought to myself, especially now as a bitcoiner with all the many ways bitcoin has changed my views on things.

And this brings me to a series of far deeper questions — What is authoritarianism, really? Can it ever be benevolent? And how does one become attenuated to it to such an extent as to no longer notice it, if they ever noticed it at all?

https://i.nostrimg.com/2182fd6d38b9eeee65d0400b2659a5be500508cb6ccec34717d2e0a2e19ae878/file.jpeg (What people picture when they ask me about China)

https://i.nostrimg.com/0b565a702191eca5e37a769d80197f9644d61e968315dbfc76f96b660af750a0/file.jpg (This is the same location as the picture above. Today, most days the reality is more like this)

The best way to explore this is to just answer the very first question directly. I very much could live in China because it was RAAAD. I had a great time there and I enjoyed almost every minute of it. In many entirely non-dystopian ways being there was like living in the future or a vision of what it might be like if we (the US) hadn’t forgotten how to have nice things — High-speed rail available at every street corner! Bristling skyscrapers erected in mere days! Wifi bandwidth so cheap and abundant it jumps right out of the stream straight into your frying pan! Gold nuggets for everyone! Everything, now with 30% MORE BEEF!

The thing is, my life in China was good. At that time, the cold, collectivist CCP machinery was fully invested in delivering a jubilee of comforts and diversions to even the relative urban “haves.” Additionally, I came to China as a very well educated, very well paid American with an existing foundation in Mandarin, shuttled in under the wide auspices of a deeply connected global consulting firm. With such well-earned badges of globalist statism, I was afforded a ticket to freely mingle with China’s largely Western-educated, upwardly-mobile urban economic elite. In fact, this was a thing that was rather encouraged…

All this being the case, it is no surprise that I had such a “good” experience. It was always supposed to be that way. Irrespective of the deeper reality, nothing was ever actually supposed to feel authoritarian for me during my time in China. These conditions similarly held true for my particular class of Chinese friends (except that there were certain cultural obligations and political allegiances that it was understood could be called up in full at any moments’ notice).

As an African American, I must admit that in more than a few ways it was possible for me to feel much freer in China than in the United States. I certainly didn’t ever have to worry about being shot in the back by some speed-freak neighborhood watchman or unhinged police officer. And I slowly adjusted to not having to keep my head on a swivel if I heard loud popping sounds in a mall or crowded venue.

No, the Chinese police never bothered me. No, no shadowy state security agents ever interrogated me for my “suspicious” Americanism. No, women didn’t clutch their purse when I walked by (in the States I’ve had this happen midday, while I was wearing full business attire…). People were either ambivalent or genuinely curious to speak with me. In essence, I experienced the joys of simply being left alone by the system. Something like what I image most White Americans experience in the US. So reader, you might already know this, but I can confirm, it was GREAT!

https://i.nostrimg.com/cbdee50436016ab0554830b97b07c72510305752efce8ce6b28c42d7bb5dd1e1/file.jpeg (NGL, China had me out here feeling like this for a hot minute)

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Super-Capitalism Is That You?

And beyond my direct personal experience, there were other observations that may seem counterintuitive. For instance, at street level, there was a kind of vivacious, raw free market-ism unlike anything you can find in the West. An ever changing flurry of ramshackle stalls and street vendors. Don’t like the sweet cherries this shop has or the owner has a bad attitude? Then leave! There’s literally 7 other sellers of the same thing on this block alone. And it was like that for most food and daily household consumer products. I could observe market price discovery for goods fluctuating daily, in real-time, sometimes even by the hour.

When I lived above a particularly boisterous commercial street I once saw someone lease a storefront for six days, fill it with heavy traditional Chinese household furniture which I was told “had gotten lost from the factory.” They blew through the inventory starting with signs advertising 20% off on day one, which progressed to 95% off in their final 12 hours of operation. They sold everything so thoroughly that I suspect they probably even sold some stuff that didn’t belong to them like the fixtures that were already in the space when they moved in.

And then, not even two weeks later, 11 days later, the exact same location was reopened as a hotpot restaurant — everything, and I mean everything, had been redone, the floors, the walls, the installation of restaurant equipment, everything. The food was delicious, but I struggled to believe that the health or fire safety inspector had approved any of it, nor that they had real permits for anything they were doing.

Were there laws and regulations on the books ostensibly to control such wildcat commercial activity? Sure, but 天高皇帝远 heaven is high and the emperor is far away, as they say. Now understand that, at street level at least, this was happening everywhere across a city of 26 million people, and then again everywhere across a country of 1.4 billion people.

https://i.nostrimg.com/bf516da1ba165f3a4d1a0694345980e43516d381b002b4e81aac49d7fdae8b6f/file.jpg (Chinese street vendors: a nigh uncontrollable wild force)

By all indications, both felt and seen, people appeared to be fully free to do business and make money while wading in the warm waters of technological modernity. Perhaps they didn’t talk about politics, but that hardly seemed to matter and no one really seemed to care.

It was easy for me to come away feeling that China was a nation of laws rather than enforcement. Maoist austerity might be signaled outwardly but inside its an open, high-octane laissez-faire free-for-all. Conversely, my own cultural history in the US suggested a place of enforcement over law. Signaling egalitarian and meritocratic piety but running on an engine of apartheid justice system, state asset forfeiture, imminent domain, and mass poisoning from Iran-Contra to Seed Oils and OxyContin.

Irrespective of the deeper reality, nothing was ever actually supposed to feel authoritarian for me during my time in China.

So what of it then? Am I here to suggest that China is some Garden of Earthly Delights while Western ideals are a brazen sham? Not so, not so. Rather, my experience brings the realization that in an authoritarian system, it all depends on who you are. And further, that such divisions are central to the maintenance of authoritarian power. I find deep relevance in this, particularly in enabling us to more fully recognize authoritarianism wherever it exists — in China, in the US, or anywhere else. Let me share another story to illustrate.

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September 2018. Xinjiang Provence.

https://i.nostrimg.com/808dc51f3c58a37443539992c47448192cc7d05830212268e9279dae7ae7213d/file.jpg

Kashgar, Xinjiang Province. Dust and white heat. I am on a corporate boondoggle in the desert. A plus-one at a rival consulting firm’s Greater China Summit. Like Neo-liberal Wise Men, we galavant around on silk-laden camel-back, we visit the Potemkin village to congratulate ourselves on how well the local ethnics are living, we enjoy a Khan’s Kurultai of exotic roasted meats, red carpets in the sands, Oxbridge 30-under-30 Bedouins on the dunes — you could all but see the Harkonnen spice harvesters out in the distance…

https://i.nostrimg.com/41f41910466f29fd00461a0eb6014853f2af7e4bae8417b7b3068bd18213991a/file.jpg

And the whole time, we are all participating in a collective act of not-seeing the obvious police state all around us. Heavy roll gates, tire spikes, ID checks, mirrored undercarriage sweeps, and vehicle searches for the locals at every nexus of critical infrastructure — gas stations, hospitals, hotels, shopping centers. High-tech police convoys, armed foot patrols, and absurdities like bamboo-thin teenage paramilitary security guards in loose-fitting fatigues and fake Yeezys disinterestedly half-watching the public square while scrolling TikTok (called Douyin 抖音 there) on counterfeit iPhones behind their riot shields.

https://i.nostrimg.com/0af34ab4f7e3fb423ded79a2ebfab4d315d7dcba0a1b42bec19300549eaaedac/file.jpg

Out on the sands, I overhear a firm partner, a Westerner, marveling at the scale of the event wondering at what location could outdo this next year. I interject to suggest Pyongyang. He is not amused, but I certainly am. Later, just when I’m thinking I might be the only one noticing any of this, a tall Indian firm partner, a man built like rugby player, sensing that I was a company outsider (and therefor could potentially give honest answers) asks me what I think of “all of this” in a tone that immediately betrays his meaning.

“In China, I assume that wherever you can most see and feel the hand, is wherever the grip is also most tenuous,” I say. He nods in furrowed-browed approval and we leave it at that. A few months later, perhaps, the New York Times would chronicle this wild corporate exhibitionism in an absolute tear-down piece deeply critical of that firm’s (and all consulting firms) aiding and abetting of authoritarian regimes around the world...

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In any case, the lamb roast is firing up and the evening’s next round of festivities are about begin. That’s what matters. Today was a good day in Kashgar

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⚠️TRADE OFFER⚠️

This is how the machine works. Nothing is free. There was a near explicit trade being made. Those of us from the favored classes would ignore overhanded oppression of the disfavored out-groups and the sharper appendages of machine would ignore us in return.

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Nestled snuggly in the pleasure garden of this CCP-approved social, economic, and educational elitism, wealthy Chinese and visiting Western globalists are supposed to come away believing that what others decry as harsh authoritarianism is in fact, quite benevolent, benign, enjoyable even. From there, it requires only the tiniest of logical jumps for them to assume that their experience is most representative of the greater whole in China, because surely this must be so, right?

From such a vantage then, it becomes all befuddled monocle popping, trembly-handed tea spilling, and frazzled, indigent top-hat ruffling while looking out on any dissenting and oppressed people and wondering “Why are they so loud?”

Incentivized by the plush velour “benefits of membership” in Chinese statism, it is easy to come to view protesting voices, those struggling for justice and freedom, as dunce-hat complainers, salty haters, red-faced and tear-strewn Wojaks, or simply spiteful, back-bitting losers whose problems with the system would evaporate in short order if they just learned to follow the rules, better themselves, and fix their aberrant cultures...

And well done then! This is what the authoritarian system wants, fundamentally NEEDS— to estrange you, through a compromise of comforts, from moral rightness and to replace that with the false rightness of naked self-interest on one hand, and the threat to absolute violence on the other. O, what machines we have made!

In China, those close enough to the system to experience it as a warm embrace rather than an icy dagger are supposed to understand that it is the Uyghurs struggling against mass detention and cultural erasure who are in the wrong. Similarly, for those thusly appointed in the US, it is supposed to be all but self-evident that the same goes for African Americans struggling against mass incarceration and open-air summary executions by uniformed agents of the state.

To the authoritarian all such trouble-making peoples need to be corralled, controlled, and if required, crushed — but in the short run, they need your help to do it. It will always be done in the name of some manner of “social harmony” their doublespeak for the ossification of the status quo and the authoritarian’s power along with it.

In this world, the in-group, the favored classes, whoever they may be, by whatever lines such distinctions are drawn — class, race, sex, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation — are led to believe they are safe as the authoritarian’s well-loved and much needed allies. But in the end, in the long run, it is the biggest rugpull of all. In such a system, all are Santiago’s sheep, to be meat for the slaughter in times of need.

So how does it feel, Western Anon? What people does our system eat to ensure that you may be comfortably overfed?

And so we become attenuated to such things in so much as we are benefiting from them. Or least, we believe that we are benefiting from them. In our age of the hungry ghost nation-state, it is so very easy to look past the true nature of the thing, or even to buy into it and to project it, when it is not YOU being targeted.

But understand. This is no benevolence. That you are not being targeted — for now, today — is an active, calculated, and entirely self-interested decision on the part of the authoritarian power structure. It is nothing that can be counted on. And whether you realize it or not, it is a decision that is reassessed at every interaction. If nothing else, the pandemic has shown us all this in the starkest relief.

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If you are allowed to persist in a state where you may believe that all is well, that the thing is benevolent and here to help you, it is only because it is more useful to the animal for you to remain asleep. Understand this, and ask your self — why?

And what is authoritarianism then? Fundamentally, I’ve come to understand authoritarianism as something like the grand political end-point of force. The might-equals-right heuristic at civilization scale. It is the ever-present implicit threat that going against some Big Man’s arbitrary diktat will result in violence, be its physical, economic, social or otherwise, being levied against you to bring you to heel. It is that mindless power which flows from the barrel of a gun…when you have the gun and others do not. It is the system of rulers unbounded from rules.

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What We Must Fight

As bitcoiners, this is what we fight. In all its forms, wherever it exists. We must recognize that ALL authoritarian systems and their operators, irrespective of any apparent, surface level ideological conflicts, are in fact like brothers, arms interlocked, in the maintenance of global authoritarianism itself. The principle struggle of the new century is the people against their own governments the world over, rather than the peoples of one nation or group against those of another nation or group. Though do not put it past our current political helmsmen (and women!) to try to steer us all in that dismal direction as a means for distraction that serves their self-preservation.

Bitcoin provides a potentially very powerful tool to the people in this epochal struggle. Bitcoin enshrines a new self-evident and inalienable right — the right of every individual to be an economic actor on a fair monetary protocol. At scale, this moderates the state’s capacity to perpetrate financial violence against both the individual and the collective. With bitcoin, no one is illegal. The protocol imposes no requirements and demands no allegiances, all may transact freely, always.

Value, once obtained in bitcoin, if held securely, cannot be seized. Nor can it be stolen through the occult dark arts of currency debasement. With bitcoin the individual is empowered — able to passively opt out of a predatory financial system, able to move their wealth across borders without restriction, able to actively resist an unjust government free from the threat of total definancialization — and all are welcome.

But bitcoin is just a tool, and just one of many. Fundamentally, the people are the movement and the movement is the change. We must never forget this. We must be both active and steadfast in building the futures we want to live in. Bitcoin is just a tool, but if we use it, perhaps we can one day have freedom — without anyone's authoritarian "characteristics" this time, but perhaps still with 30% more beef.

~Moon

As always thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed! In case you missed them, be sure to check out Journey Into Bitcoin 01, 02, and 03. Always more to come soon!

Follow me on twitter: Michaelyouknow

Postscript

In the spirit of inter/multi-disciplinary bitconery, here are a few top notch recommendations that to me are related to elements in this piece.

Music: Something In The Way of Things (In Town), The Roots; Bulls on Parade, Rage Against the Machine; Who Will Survive in America, Kanye West

Movies: Four Hours in My Lai (1989)

Readings: City of Silence, Ma Boyang; Guantánamo’s Darkest Secret, The New Yorker

Use The Tools

Liberate your education:

libgen.is — Most books today exist on the internet, for free

Archive Today — Information wants to be free. Too much of it today sits behind absurdly extractive paywalls. (Bitcoin lightning payments can resolve this for both content users and producers)

Liberate you food: The Beef Initiative — Trade real, honest money for real, honest food

Liberate your security: DEFCAD— May you never need them but always know what tools are there

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ผมเจอหลายคนเริ่มต้นกับ Nostr มานาน แต่กลับยังไม่สามารถ “อิน” กับการอยู่ในสังคมแห่งใหม่นี้ได้เท่าไหร่นัก บางคนยังมีเพื่อนใหม่เพียงหลักสิบคน และหลายคนยังแทบไม่รู้จักหรือกดตามใครเลย บางคนมีคนติดตามเพียง 3-5 คน เท่านั้น แล้วมันจะไปมีคนเห็นสิ่งที่เราสื่อสารออกไปได้มากพอได้อย่างไรล่ะคับ?

ก็คนที่ไม่ได้ติดตามเราเค้าก็จะมองไม่เห็นสิ่งที่เราโน๊ตไปนั่นเอง

นี่แหละครับ Nostr

ผมไม่ชอบใช้คำว่า “เล่น Nostr” เท่าไหร่นัก สำหรับผมแล้ว.. Nostr คือ สถานที่ใหม่ สังคมใหม่ที่ทุกคนต้องเริ่มนับใหม่จากศูนย์ ผมขอใช้คำว่ามันเป็นการ “ใช้ชีวิตบน Nostr” ก็แล้วกัน เชื่อไหมครับว่าในแต่ละวัน ผมยังรู้สึกว่าตัวเองมีเวลาไม่มากพอจะใช้ชีวิตบน Nostr ให้สมใจอยากได้เลย.. ในขณะที่บางคนกลับรู้สึกว่า 5 นาทีมันก็นานเกินไปแล้ว..

เราลองมาพิจารณากันดูไหมว่าเพราะอะไร?

มันไม่ค่อยมีอะไรให้อ่าน ไม่ค่อยมีเรื่องให้ทำ

สำหรับข้อโต้แย้งนี้ผมคงต้องบอกว่ามัน “ผิดถนัด” เลยล่ะ.. บน Nostr นี่มีอะไรให้เราทำมากกว่าบนทุกแพลตฟอร์มเก่าๆ มาขยำรวมกันเสียอีกนะ

ผมคิดว่า.. ผมคงต้องเริ่มเล่าเรื่องในจินตนการให้พวกเราเห็นภาพนี้ได้ง่ายขึ้น ผมขอพาพวกเรากลับไปสู่จุดเริ่มต้นของการก่อร่างสร้างสังคม

อันดับแรก ผมอยากให้พวกเราลืม “สังคมแบบเดิม” ไปเสียก่อน ทั้งในชีวิตจริง หรือในโลกออนไลน์ที่เราเคยประสบพบเจอมา ที่ Nostr นี่มันต่างออกไปอย่างสิ้นเชิงครับ

จินตการว่าเราได้ลงจากเรือโนอาห์ที่เกาะขนาดใหญ่แห่งหนึ่ง กองเรือจัดตั้งอาณานิคมใหม่หลายลำที่พาผู้คนหลักแสนมาปล่อยไว้ ณ สถานที่เดียวกัน เกาะอันเวิ้งว้างว่างเปล่าที่อุดมไปด้วยทรัพยากรธรรมชาติ เต็มไปด้วยสิ่งเร้นลับและแปลกใหม่ ที่รอให้เหล่านักสำรวจได้ออกไปทำการค้นพบ

Nostr ก็คือสถานที่แบบเดียวกันนั้น..

เราต่างคนต่างมา ณ ที่แห่งนี้ เรามีสถานะภาพเท่าเทียมกันทุกประการ ทุกคนเริ่มนับหนึ่งใหม่ที่นี่ เริ่มทำความรู้จักกัน รวมกลุ่มกัน สร้างสังคมขนาดย่อมจนผ่านเวลาไปถึงขนาดกลางและกลายเป็นใหญ่ได้ในที่สุด

สิ่งนี้จะเกิดขึ้นไม่ได้เลย ถ้าผู้คนเหล่านี้ไม่พยายาม “Engage” เข้าหากัน ไม่มีปฏิสัมพันธ์ต่อกัน ไม่ยอมแลกเปลี่ยนหรือทำกิจกรรมบางอย่างร่วมกัน นี่คือกลไกการสร้างสังคมโดยธรรมชาติที่จะไม่มีใครมีคอยชี้นำ บังคับ หรือออกกฏเกณฑ์ชี้นิ้วสั่งใครให้ต้องทำอะไรทั้งนั้น.. มันคือสังคมแห่งเสรีชนโดยแท้จริง ทุกคนจะประพฤติอย่างเสรีภายใต้ทัศนวิสัยของปัจเจกชน

โฆษณาชวนเชื่อ หรือการทำเท่ห์ด้วยคอนเท้นต์โก้หรู ศิลปะในการหลอกล่ออัลกอริทึมเหมือนที่เคยทำๆ กันมา มันใช้ไม่ได้กับที่แห่งนี้

ที่นี่พวกเราให้ค่ากับ “คุณค่า” ที่เราจะได้รับมันมาจริงๆ และคุณค่าของแต่ละคนก็ไม่มีวันเหมือนกันเสียด้วย นี่คือความท้าทายที่พวกเราต้องเริ่มออกไปค้นหา ‘คุณค่า’ ที่ว่านั้น ด้วยตัวเองหรือจะทำกันเป็นหมู่คณะก็ย่อมให้ผลดีกว่าอย่างแน่นอนครับ

ไม่มีใครต้องการ “ฮีโร่” ที่นี่ ทุกคนแค่ต้องการ “เพื่อน” เพื่อนที่จะคอย 'ให้' เราก่อนและ 'ขอ' เราทีหลัง

ผมร่ายมายาวก็เพียงแค่ต้องการจะบอกว่า..

ที่เราไม่เห็นคอนเทนต์อะไรน่าสนใจเลย อาจเป็นเพราะเรายังทำความรู้จักกับ “คนที่น่าสนใจ” ยังไม่มากพอก็เป็นได้

แล้วมันเพราะอะไรได้อีกบ้าง?

เรายังกดติดตามคนอื่นน้อยเกินไป

ทำให้เราไม่เจอโน๊ตหรือคอนเทนต์ที่ดึงดูดใจเราได้มากพอ เราก็จะเห็นแต่โน๊ตของคนที่เราติดตามไว้อย่างน้อยนิดนั่นแหละครับ เว้นแต่เราจะไปกดดูแบบ Global ที่จะเห็นผู้คนทั้งเกาะเป็นหมื่นๆ แสนๆ ต่างคนต่างคนโน๊ตกันรัวๆ ซึ่งมันคงเต็มไปด้วยสิ่งที่เราไม่ได้ให้ความสนใจหรือคัดสรรมา

เรามีคนติดตามเราน้อยเกินไป

ทำให้เหงาและเงียบกริบทุกรอบที่เราโน๊ต มันก็แน่อยู่แล้ว ถ้าทั้งเกาะมีคนที่รู้จักเราอยู่แค่ 2-3 คน มันก็คงมีคนแค่จำนวนนี้แหละครับที่จะได้ยินสิ่งที่เราพูด ได้เห็นสิ่งที่เราทำ เราแค่ต้องออกไปทำความรู้จักหรือมีปฏิสัมพันธ์กับคนอื่นๆ ให้มากกว่านี้ มันไม่เหมือนกันนะครับ ระหว่างการโพสต์สิ่งที่อยากพูดออกไป เน้นเอาเท่ เอาเจ๋ง ไว้ก่อน กับการเดินไปหาคนอื่นเพื่อแลกเปลี่ยนความคิดและสร้างมิตรภาพกับเขาอย่างจริงใจ ผมคิดว่ามันให้ผลลัพธ์ไม่เหมือนกันบน Nostr

เรายังไม่เจอ Hashtag หรือกลุ่มสนทนาที่ตรงกับจริต

ทำให้เราไม่รู้สึกอินกับอะไรที่นี่เลย คนชอบฟุตบอลก็ชอบเสวนากับคนดูบอลฉันใด บิตคอยเนอร์ก็อยากจะคุยถูกคอกับบิตคอยเนอร์ฉันนั้น คนรักแมวก็มองหาคนรักแมว ฯลฯ ที่นี่มันพาเราย้อนกลับไปที่ยังยุคแรกๆ ของสังคมโซเชียลมีเดีย ที่คนจะเชื่อมโยงหากันโดยใช้ “Hashtag” ที่ต่างก็สนใจร่วมกัน มันเหมือนการชูป้ายไฟโลกให้รู้ว่า “ฉันรักแมว” (#Catstr) เพื่อดึงดูดคนประเภทเดียวกัน นั่นแหละครับ เราแค่ต้องหาป้ายไฟที่ว่านั่นให้เจอ

เราไม่เห็นได้ “Earn Zap” อย่างที่หลายคนป้ายยาเราไว้เลย

ก็ถ้าวันนี้เราเองยังไม่ค่อยอยาก Zap ให้ใครเท่าไหร่ แน่นอนว่ามันก็จะไม่มีใครอยาก Zap ให้เราด้วยเช่นกัน ป๋ามา-ป๋ากลับ คนที่นี่เป็นกันแบบนั้น มันประหลาดดี ทำลายความเชื่อแบบเดิมๆ ของเราไปเลยทีเดียว

จริงๆ แล้วมันไม่มีใครอยากได้ Sats เพิ่มบน Nostr เพราะมันไม่ง่ายขนาดนั้น พวกเขาก็แค่อยากหาเรื่อง Zap ให้คนอื่นๆ พวกเขาแสวงหาโน๊ต ข้อความ หรือคอนเทนต์ แม้กระทั่งมีมที่โดนใจ ไม่มีใครมาคอยนั่งคิดคำนวนว่า "วันนี้ฉัน Earn ไปเท่าไหร่” (คอนเซ็ปต์แบบนี้มัน Fiat สิ้นดี) สังคมบน Nostr นั้นเน้นการให้และการมีส่วนร่วม ช่วยเหลือกัน เมื่อคุณให้มา เราจะให้กลับ มันแฟร์ๆ แมนๆ ครับ

ในสังคมที่ไม่มีใครคอยมาทำหน้าที่กำกับดูแลพฤติกรรมหรือการกระทำของเรา ความสัมพันธ์จะเกิดขึ้นอย่างเป็นธรรมชาติสุดๆ เป็นเรื่องของปัจเจกชนที่จะเลือกว่าพวกเขาจะให้คุณค่ากับอะไร ดังนั้น.. เราจึงแทบไม่มีทางรู้ได้เลยว่าใครจะชอบ หรือคิดอะไรยังไง นอกเสียจากว่า.. เราจะใช้เวลาไปกับการทำความรู้จักความคิดและจิตใจของพวกเขา ออกไปพูดคุยแลกเปลี่ยนกับพวกเขาเพื่อให้เราเข้าใจคนอื่นได้มากขึ้นนั่นเอง

เมื่อคุณเข้าใจผู้อื่น มันก็ไม่ยากที่คุณจะรู้ว่า “คุณค่า” ที่พวกเขาตามหานั้นคืออะไร?

บก. จิงโจ้ ผู้มีปฎิสัมพันธ์และคอย Make friend กับคนไปทั่ว นั่นทำให้เขามีคนติดตาม และติดตามคนอื่นจำนวนมากทีเดียว เขาทำไปเพื่อ Sats หรือเปล่า? ผมคิดว่าไม่นะ.. Just make friend

เราไม่รู้ว่ามันใช้งานยังไง ทำอะไรได้บ้าง เลยไม่รู้จะไปต่อยังไง

ประเด็นนี้ก็ต้องย้อนกลับไปที่หัวข้อต่างๆ ด้านบน ก็ในเมื่อเรายังไม่เคยเจอคนที่จะคอยตอบคำถาม หรือสอนการใช้งานเราให้กับเราได้ หรือจริงๆ แล้วเราก็อาจแค่ถูกสอนให้ “รอรับ” มากกว่าที่จะ “ค้นหา” จนเคยตัว เราเลยไม่ชินกับการต้องออกไปไขว่คว้ามันด้วยตัวเอง?

ไม่ว่าอย่างไร.. เรามาเริ่มกันใหม่ที่นี่ เชื่อไหมครับว่าหลายคนบน Nostr นั้นเป็นระดับพระกาฬแทบทั้งสิ้น แถมพวกเขายังเต็มใจที่จะให้ความช่วยเหลือหรือคอยตอบคำถามให้กับพวกเราด้วย เราต้องหาเค้าให้เจอและเปลี่ยนตัวเองให้เป็นคนที่จะ “กล้า” ถาม กล้าแสดงออก และกล้าที่จะยอมรับว่าเราไม่รู้ ก่อนที่จะเราจะกลายเป็นผู้เชี่ยวชาญได้ในภายหลัง

นี่เป็นโอกาสที่เราจะได้ใกล้ชิดกับคนที่เราอยากคุยด้วยมานานแล้ว คนที่เราเคยชื่นชม หรือคนที่เราเคยเห็นบนโลกเฟียตๆ แต่ไม่เคยหาเหลี่ยมได้สักทีว่าจะเข้าหาหรือเข้าถึงพวกเขาได้ยังไง

แค่เริ่มทำความรู้จัก โลกก็เปลี่ยน

เอาล่ะ.. ผมจะลองแนะนำวิธีว่าเราจะเพิ่มผู้ติดตามหรือเลือกเฟ้นยังไงในการติดตามผู้อื่น ผมมีแนวทางของผมเอง คงไม่ใช่สูตรสำเร็จ แต่ถ้าเพื่อนๆ จะลองนำไปประยุกต์ก็ไม่ว่ากันครับ

ตามคนดัง

วิธีที่ง่าย และตรงไปตรงมาที่สุด ซึ่งมันก็ถูกแล้ว เพราะคนเหล่านี้การที่เค้าจะดังได้ต่างก็มี proof-of-work และความน่าสนใจในแบบของตัวเองด้วยกันทั้งนั้น แอคเคาต์แรกๆ ที่พวกเราคงนึกถึงก็คงเป็น อ.ตั๊ม พิริยะ และ Right Shift ทั้งแอคเคาต์ทางการ และทีมงานทั้งทีม ก็แหง๋ล่ะ เพราะพวกเขาป้ายยาพาคุณมาอยู่บน Nostr แต่อย่าตามแค่พวกเขาไม่กี่คนเท่านั้นนะครับ คุณควรจะ...

ตามคนอื่นๆ เลียนแบบคนดัง

เราสามารถกดดูได้ว่าใครกดติดตามใครเอาไว้บ้าง คนดังก็มักจะตามกลุ่มคนที่น่าสนใจแหละส่วนหนึ่ง ส่วนที่เหลือเขาก็คงตามคนที่ถูกจริตกับตัวเอง นอกจากนี่คนที่กดติดตามพวกเขาก็จะเป็นคนที่ชอบอะไรคล้ายๆ กับเขา มันก็เป็นไปตามกฎแห่งแรงดึงดูดทางด้านความสัมพันธ์ เราค่อยๆ กดไปดูโปรไฟล์ของแต่ละคนได้ว่าเขามีความน่าสนใจยังไง ชอบโน๊ตหรือการสื่อสารแบบไหน เขามีวิธีคิดหรือนิสัยใจคอ มีเคมีแบบเดียวกันกับเราหรือเปล่า?

ถ้าใช่.. คุณก็แค่กดปุ่ม Follow แล้วกระโจนเข้าไปตอบโต้กับเขาได้เลย ไม่ว่าจะในโน๊ตใหม่ หรือ โน๊ตเก่าๆ คอมเม้นให้มันได้เพื่อนนะครับ อย่าไปเม้นให้ได้ศัตรู

เราจะเห็นแอคฯ น่าสนใจให้เพียบ แค่ลองกดไปดูว่าคนดังๆ เขามีวงสังคมบน Nostr เป็นใครกันบ้าง แล้วตอบตัวเองว่าเราอยากพาตัวเองเข้าไปอยู่ในนั้นบ้างไหม?

ตาม Hashtag

ตามหา “ป้ายไฟ” สีที่เราชอบ หรือก็คือกด ‘#’ นำในช่องค้นหา ตามด้วยคำที่เราสนใจ แล้วลองไล่หาดูได้เลย คุณอาจเจอเข้ากับกระทู้ที่ตรงกับสิ่งที่ตามหา เรื่องที่อยากอ่าน หรือมุมมองที่อยากเห็น รวมไปถึงคนที่.. เอ้อ มันเจ๋งดีว่ะ อะไรแบบนี้ได้ง่ายๆ เลยล่ะ

เมื่อเราชอบแฮ็ชแท็กไหน เรายังสามารถกดติดตามตัวแฮชแท็กนั้นได้อีกด้วย และอย่าลืมกดติดตาม หรือติดแฮ็ชแท็ก #ThaiNostrich กับ #Siamstr เอาไว้ด้วยนะครับ มันคือป้ายไฟสามัญประจำบ้านของคนไทยบน Nostr คุณสามารถตามหาเพื่อนคนไทยได้ง่ายๆ ด้วยแฮชแท็ก 2 ตัวนี้นี่แหละ

Swarmstr เป็นตัวอย่างไคลเอนต์ที่จะรวบรวมข้อมูลบน Nostr ที่เราสามารถค้นหา หรือศึกษา Nostr ได้จากหัวข้อต่างๆ ตามแฮชแท็คที่แสดงเป็นตัวอย่างได้ (หรือค้นหาด้วยตัวเอง)

ตามประเด็นที่สนใจไปจนเจอตัวพ่อ

มันต้องมีบางโอกาสที่เราไปเจอเข้ากับกระทู้น่าสนใจ มีการสนทนากันอย่างเผ็ดร้อนหรือรื่นเริงจนคุณก็อดเข้าไปแจมด้วยไม่ได้ ที่แบบนี้แหละที่คุณจะเจอกับคนเก่งๆ ในด้านนั้นๆ หรือผู้เชี่ยวชาญเฉพาะด้าน หรือกระทั่งเป็นผู้ก่อตั้ง หรือนักพัฒนาไคลเอนต์เลยทีเดียว และคนเหล่านี้เขาก็มาที่เกาะแห่งนี้ด้วยจุดประสงค์คล้ายๆ เรา คือ "หนีความวุ่นวายและโสมมบนโลกเก่าเพื่อแสวงหาเสรีภาพและมิตรภาพ ณ สังคมใหม่"

ดังนั้น เขาเต็มใจที่จะได้ทำความรู้จักกับเราอย่างแน่นอนครับ

แต่คนนิสัยไม่ดี หรือมีพฤติกรรมไม่เป็นมิตรเราก็จะดูออกได้ในทันที และมันก็เป็นสิทธิ์ของเราล้านเปอร์เซ็นต์ที่จะเลือกว่า จะสนใจติดตามคนๆ นี้ หรือแค่ปล่อยผ่าน หรือไม่ก็ บล็อกแม่ง ให้มันจบๆ ไป

Nostrends เป็นตัวอย่างไคลเอ็นต์ที่คอยรวบรวมและแสดงโน๊ต หรือหัวข้อที่กำลังได้รับความนิยมบน Nostr ตามช่วงเวลาหรือตัวกรองที่เราเลือก

พยายามอย่าทำพฤติกรรมแบบเดิมๆ บน Nostr

ผมเชื่อว่ามีพวกเราส่วนใหญ่ (ชาวไทย) จะคุ้นเคยกับการใช้งานและวัฒนธรรมบน Facebook แต่ชาวต่างชาติหรือผู้ใช้งานส่วนใหญ่ที่นี่จะเคยชินกับวัฒนธรรมแบบ Twitter กันมากกว่านะครับ ไม่ว่าจะเป็นการโพสต์ การคอมเมนต์ หรือการกดตอบโต้ด้วยอีโมจิ (Discord cult) ก็ถือว่าเป็นวัฒนธรรมในแบบที่เราอาจยังไม่คุ้นเคยกันมากนักและคงต้องใช้เวลาเรียนรู้กันพอสมควร

ขอให้พวกเราทิ้งวิธีคิดแบบเดิมๆ ในการใช้งานโซเชียลมีเดียไปได้เลยครับ เราควรอยู่บน Nostr โดยใช้แนวคิดแบบเดียวกับการอยู่ในสังคมจริงๆ ทักทาย ตอบโต้ เห็นอกเห็นใจ ช่วยเหลือ แลกเปลี่ยน คอนทริบิ้วท์และมีส่วนร่วมให้มากกว่าที่เคย ฯลฯ เราจึงจะมีตัวตนและรู้สึกเหมือนเป็นส่วนหนึ่งในสังคมแห่งนี้ได้จริงๆ (ไม่งั้นเราก็เป็นได้เพียง "ผู้สังเกตการณ์เหงาๆ" เท่านั้นเอง)

ที่นี่.. ไม่ให้คุณค่ากับ การอวดรู้ หรือ โชว์พาว ทุกคนดูออกได้ง่ายๆ ว่าเจตนาของแต่ละคนคืออะไร คนเหล่านี้ล้วนเคยขยะแขยง Fiat Social Media Cult มาแทบทั้งนั้น ถ้าต้องมาเจออะไรแบบนี้บน Nostr ก็จะ ยี้ ได้ทันที และทุกคนก็พร้อม และ มีสิทธิ์ที่จะบล็อกเราได้ตลอดเวลา

เราจะกดติดตามคนนั้น-คนนี้ให้มากมายไปทำไมกัน ถ้าเราจะแค่ไถๆๆ ฟีดวืดๆๆ ไปวันๆ เราจะไม่ได้เพื่อนเลยสักคนกับการทำแบบนั้น และอาจพลาดโอกาสดีๆ ที่จะได้เรียนรู้อะไรบางอย่าง

เราไม่ควรทำแค่อ่านผ่านๆ เหมือนกับตอนที่เราเบื่อโลกเมื่อต้องใช้ Facebook และเห็นแต่อะไรที่ไม่ต้องการเห็น ที่นี่.. เราจะเลิกติดตามไปเลยก็ได้ถ้าแอคฯ นั้นเอาแต่โพสต์อะไรที่ดูไม่เข้าตา หรือไม่สามารถดึงดูดเราได้ (ถ้าเกรงใจก็กด Mute ไว้ก่อนก็ได้)

การอ่านอย่างตั้งใจในสิ่งที่เค้าโพสต์มา และตอบโต้ตามสมควร ก็เปรียบเสมือน การรับฟังผู้พูดอย่างตั้งอกตั้งใจ นั่นเอง นั่นคือหนทางเดียวที่เราจะเรียนรู้ได้ว่าเราควรตอบโต้อย่างไร เพราะเราเข้าใจ สาส์น ที่เขาได้สื่อออกมาอย่างถ่องแท้นั่นเองครับ

ถ้าไม่ว่าง คุณก็ปัดทิ้งได้ แล้วค่อยตามไปอ่านทีหลัง มันไม่มีการลบหรือปิดกั้นเรา ไม่มีโฆษณามาให้รกหูรกตา ถ้าเจอพวก แสกม/แสปม ก็บล็อกมันซะ อย่าให้พวกน่ารังเกียจได้มีที่ยืนบนสังคมที่คุณอยากให้เป็น

และขอให้ทุกคนระลึกไว้เสมอว่า การพูดคุยและมีปฎิสัมพันธ์ต่อกัน เท่านั้น ที่จะทำให้มนุษย์ได้มีความสัมพันธ์ต่อกัน

ผมขอทิ้งท้ายด้วยเคล็ดลับตกผลึกสั้นๆ ว่า..

• ติดตามผู้อื่น
• Zap ให้คนอื่นๆ
• เริ่มสร้าง Note ของตัวเอง (โพสต์) สักครั้ง หรือบ่อยครั้ง
• คุยกับคนอื่นให้มากกว่าที่เคย (มากกว่าแค่อ่านๆ ไปเรื่อยเหมือนตอนใช้ Facebook)
• ได้ Zap กลับมาจากคนอื่น
• สำรวจแฮชแท็กต่างๆ ลองใช้งานมันไปเรื่อยๆ

เหนือสิ่งอื่นใด จงใช้ชีวิตบน Nostr และแค่สนุกไปกับมันให้ได้ก็พอ.. :)

ปล. |--

• มนุษย์มีวุ้นแปลภาษาจริงๆ แล้วนะครับ ก็ Google translate นั่นยังไง อย่าให้ภาษากลายเป็นกำแพงแห่งการเรียนรู้.. จงใช้มัน ไม่ต้องขวยเขิลกันหรอกครับ (เพราะผมเองก็ใช้)

• บทความต่อไปผมจะมาลองแนะนำว่า มีแอคเคานต์ไหนบ้างที่น่าสนใจกดติดตามสัก 10-20 บัญชี เอาคนไทยเราก่อนเลย ไว้คอยติดตามกันนะครับ

@ 5df413d4:2add4f5b

October 2013. New York City.

Visiting. I am shopping downtown and my card is declined. I try it again. DECLINED. I find an ATM around the corner. DECLINED. I call the bank’s fraud department. They say they can’t help me. I find the nearest branch. They say they can’t help me.

Puzzled, I think hard — I had just deposited a sizable check (signing bonus from the consulting firm that would be my post-MBA employer) into my account…could this be the issue? I hop on the subway for the long slog up to Morningside Heights, to return to the branch where I made the deposit the day before. Arriving at the branch, where yesterday they happily received my check, I am now greeted with suspicion and hostility.

“Thank you for your loyalty and congratulations on your new job” was replaced with an interrogation by the branch Asst. Mgr. — “Why did you have the check?,” “ How did you get the check?,” “Who gave you the check?…” After about 20 minutes of this, they tell me that my check is“bad.” And because of this, the money will not deposited and my account will be frozen until further notice. No further explanation is given. My protests are ignored.

At 5pm, the Asst. Mgr. goes on her 1-hour “lunch break” and I’m told that the branch manager, who I can see playing on in his phone through the glass walls of his office, is “in very important meetings” for the rest of the day. The branch closes at 6pm.

I am forced to leave, dejected and confused, the situation wholly unresolved. I have traveled cross-country to New York City to deposit my signing bonus only to find myself stranded in the Metropolis, completely cut off from my finances, and all but directly accused of check fraud by my bank.

Thank goodness I was raised to I always travel with a bit cash…

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Gatekeeping Is An Act Of Love

I did not have a term for it then, other than perhaps wacky-mustache cartoon villainy on the part of the bank. However, I now understand that what I experienced in that moment in 2013 was definancialization.

The bank, being the omnipotent gatekeeper standing between me and my money, decided to demonstrate that it was not, actually, my money. Rather, insomuch as it was in their custody, it was their money that they just let me believe was mine for the sake of some vague social convenience.

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Without an iota of exaggeration, this bank had, literally, a direct record of every single relevant financial datapoint on my person. I am certain that there was no better body of data indicating the near statistical impossibility of me attempting check fraud than the bank’s own customer file on me — a 3LA case file couldn't have done better...

Further, this being the location serving the Columbia University community, customers showing up with large checks from marque consulting firms was undoubtedly both commonplace and frequent. And yet, for reasons unknown, I was interrogated and had my account frozen, including money completely unrelated to the check deposit. To this day, as far as I can tell, this was all because someone, somewhere inside the bank decided that they didn’t believe that I could or should have a check of such as amount from such a company.

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Things were ultimately resolved the next day. But only after I showed up at opening and sat outside of the branch manager’s office for several hours. Once it was clear that I wasn't going anywhere they finally, begrudgingly decided to take a second look at my situation.

It was around the same time that an inexplicable attitudinal reversal swept though the branch and it was back to all smiles and “Thank you for your loyalty…” My account was unfrozen. They even fast tracked the entire check amount into my account, on a Friday afternoon no less — something they previously said would take 7+ business days. It was all just damage control.

I assume this was because they got internal word back that my check, was, in fact, real — making their little interrogation game woefully unnecessary, if not outright discriminatory. And because a cursory glance at my customer file suggested that I might be just the type of person with the professional reach and savvy to pursue some type of legal/media action in response. Simply put, it now behooved them to play nice.

During this entire saga, it was their schizophrenic whiplashing of behaviors that I found most bizarre and offensive. They were the Judge, Jury, and Enforcer over my finances. They had the latitude to behave with impunity — and they knew it. There was, of course, never any recognition from that bank that something objectively wrong, deeply strange, or even just wildly inconvenient had happened. I was simply left to wonder, “Why?”

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A Slow Burning Thing

Understandably, the experience left me with a deep mistrust of banks that was both specific and personal — as opposed to the general African American cultural-historical mistrust, or the popular, populist Occupy/99%/MAGA zeitgeist mistrust of the day — though it certainly helped with both of those too.

Stranded in the metropolis, completely cut off from my primary finances — all but directly accused of check fraud by my bank.

I felt that I was completely trapped. The most I could do was change banks, simply swapping one capricious Bridge Troll for another. I saw no alternatives, and so I believed there were none.

Instead, this experience marked the opening act of what I now look back on as a long, headfirst slide into financial nihilism. At the time, I was operating under the naive and Talented 10th and elitist belief that my education and corporate credentials would shield me for these kinds of “misunderstandings.” Not so, not so.

With this illusion shattered, my shock and anger manifested as a period of high-octane, consumerist mania. If access to my money rested on the benevolent grace of the bank, I was better off converting it into things that could not be so easily taken or withheld — clothes, meals, travel, experiences, collectables,— and so I did. I spent money just to prove that I could — as though it would somehow cause harm to the vain gods of retail banking who had wronged me.

https://i.nostrimg.com/787fe778cad4e400129745ed907db57a328ba8e8da2ec32b693284264acf6fbe/file.webp (BEHOLD! Blowing several thousand dollars on clothes to prove that “no one could tell me what to do with MY money!” That said, I was FLY AF at business school that Fall...)

My desire to save in the banking system took a massive hit. Over time, this morphed into lazy ambivalence, if not total disregard, for the habit altogether. Rather than extinguishing debts, or building up savings, I would go on to burn through the entirety of my bonus and almost all of my excess income during my years in consulting with absolute gusto.

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Widening the scope, there were certainly other contributing factors to the chaotic state of my finances in the years that followed — gambling, chief among them (but those are stories to be explored later). Regardless, this was a pivotal moment in hardening a destructive “IDGAF” / “nothing matters” approach to personal cash management that would stay with me for a long time.

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Missing Bitcoin

Reflecting back, this was easily my biggest “bitcoin miss” — a situation where present bitcoiners imagine how fabulously wealthy we might be if we had just understood bitcoin back then. Bitcoin certainly did exist in October 2013. In fact, it was sitting around 200 USD per coin and would hit 1000 USD a month later.

But alas, I had not even heard about bitcoin yet. And even if I had, my reaction to my bank’s malfeasance probably would have been aping into bitcoin on Mt Gox only to be obliterated by an even more devastating loss when that exchange collapsed in February of 2014. Truly, I shudder to think what that might have done to my psyche at the time.

So I “missed” bitcoin and my financial disillusionment would continue on. And It wasn’t just the situation with the bank, it was everything. Even long after I had shaken off my initial rage at being temporarily unbanked, I still chose not save. Though I couldn’t fully articulate it, I felt the act of saving to be pointless in the face of the ever-ascending price tags of the trappings of “responsible” Boomerist adulthood.

Homeownership, a “respectable” (re: large and expensive) wedding ceremony, and the cost of raising even one child through to college all seemed laughable financial fantasies to me — even if, on my earnings, this should not have necessarily been the case. Once I had accepted these things as impossible, my mind made them real…

And while there are plenty of criticisms that can be lobbed my way — after all, my personal financial mismanagement during this time was just that, personal— the recognition of personal responsibility does not erase the truth about the regressive behavioral incentives that our present distorted money system imposes on people.

Such is the nature of financial nihilism — why should I sacrifice to save or plan for things that I did not believe were achievable? I could see myself living the carefree, mobile, and high-cashflow consulting lifestyle perpetually in the now but I could not see how even that would afford any type of stable, rooted future afterwards. In that state, living high on the hog, nestled snuggly in rented comforts, was the end unto itself.

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How's Your Trading Going, King?

For many American Millennials, adult life has been an endless mad scramble to surf the Kali Yuga as the world careens from one mind-melting and testicle/ovary-shattering calamity to the next. 9/11, Byzantine wars in the desert, financial collapse, The Great Recession, global pandemic—each of these events obliterating whatever meager economic gains we might have made in the interim.

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And, of course, the answer to each of these “once in a century” events has been to create ever more money to keep the music going. In parallel, every cash-rich Boomer with two brain cells, a generous pension, and the assurance of comfortable social security has raced to the exits to get out of dollars and into stocks and real-estate. Layer on an explosion of loose credit and a self-referential flywheel emerges — and it becomes easy, convenient actually, to believe that these two asset classes “alway go up.”

Such has been the experience of Millennials, Gen Z, and anyone counting themselves in the dwindling middle class — from 2002–2022 median home price has increased from 182,000 USD to over 450,000 USD, while median salary has only increased from 42,000 USD to 54,000 USD during the same period. Being the people, who as a group, command the lowest income and own the least homes or corporate equities, we have been forced to sit by, watching in numb, glass-eyed stupor as this asset inflation — and now just regular ol’ price inflation — rockets ever-skywards.

For those lacking the excess capital for property and stock investments, this dynamic is a regressive tax that favors immediate consumption to maximize declining purchasing power over savings, resulting in extreme financial fragility. And for those fortunate enough to afford significant investments, they are still incentivized to chase evermore speculative investments (which are often just toxic malinvestments themselves) and/or to join an increasingly parasitic rentier class just to beat inflation.

This is how FOMOing into objectively absurd “stonks” like Peloton or Zoom gets to be hailed as “making your money work for you!” How extractive landlordism (i.e. allocating newly created money to yourself via preferential loans, using that money to collectively drive up home prices, and then turning around to bleed rents out of the very people for whom your previous actions have made homeownership cost-prohibitive) becomes lauded as “F.I.R.E — Financial Independence, Retire Early!” And why blowing all your income on Cheesecake Factory, vape pens, and vacationing Tulum on credit is cool because of that one time Drake said “You Only Live Once!”

Despite whatever appearances to the contrary may be, people, generally speaking, are not stupid. Most people simply react to incentives. Many “irrational” human social behaviors are, at least minimally rational responses to irrational or perverse incentives — it is Charlie Munger’s “If you have a dumb incentive system, you get dumb outcomes” at scale.

Though I couldn’t fully articulate it, I felt the act of saving to be pointless…

Given this, we should all understand that our society’s present fetish towards speculation, rent-seeking, and over-consumption on debt are the more rational choices when money — the money that most of us have to work for — can be freely and infinitely created out of thin air and saving is perpetually debased. If the only expected return on the activity of saving is reduced future purchasing power, it should be no wonder that so few in our society engage in it. Perversely, in most cases today, one would have to be "stupid" to save...

https://i.nostrimg.com/8f266ac8fd7b13dd5888a3a85984f670ce9f29aca834199f9efba8ee6cd39352/file.webp

And note, I do not mean to disparage stock or property investment as a rule. There is a role for them in any healthy economy. However that role is certainly not to be a proxy for stable money. Yet this is how both are presently being leveraged in our economy, our society, and in our minds.

The rush into housing and stocks is simply a function of people seeking to trade infinite fiat or things that they believe are more scarce or will generate returns. This creates an artificial “monetary premium” in these assets — a portion of price existing only because the asset is being used as a substitute for money. And this momentary premium has now become wholly confused with the “real value” of the asset just as “saving” and “investment” have taken on interchangeable meaning for the average person.

Consider now if technological advancements enabled a new, truly scarce, infinitely divisible, uninflatable, permissionless global money to emerge organically from zero…

Eventually the very same people running up home prices and stock valuations would realize that there is no shortage of land and housing can always be build upwards, that stocks can always be diluted, and that control over either can be rescinded by decree — as we learned from Robinhood/Gamestop and renter (but not mortgage) forgiveness in 2021. And when this realization does happen, if such a new truly scarce, infinitely divisible, uninflatable, permissionless global money does exist, that is where they will turn…

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The Long Way Home

In all, I would take 8 long years before I finally came to a deeper understanding of bitcoin — the meantime was spent floating through the hazy morass of working extremely hard and making “good” money but never really getting ahead. At absolute best I was treading water and at worse I was just sinking more slowly than some of those with whom I might be compared…Understanding bitcoin has completely changed all of this for me. Bitcoin fixes this.

First, bitcoin makes definancialization much more difficult. Gone is the worry that the bank, because I violate someone’s preconceived notions of who should or should not not have money, would be successful in an endeavor to cut me off from access to / control over my stored wealth. Bitcoin, unlike money in the bank, or even homes & property, cannot be seized or frozen by writ by a hostile actor — whether company or state or fellow man.

Second, bitcoin restores the act and objective of saving. As a saver, bitcoin allows me to project wealth into the future with full confidence against debasement. I can rest assured that any amount of bitcoin I own will always be x/21,000,000 of whatever total value humanity has decided to store in bitcoin. Shielded from the grift of monetary manipulation, I am freed to think and act longer term and I am unbound from pressures to speculate, gamble, rent-seek or worse, simply to avoid falling behind.

Finally, bitcoin provides a deep wellspring of renewed hope for the future. Grand or utopian as it may sound, I can certainly say that the statement rings true for myself and many other bitcoiners I know. Its not that bitcoin magically solves all of our problems, rather it is that bitcoin demands a fundamental change in worldview. Once we are freed to store wealth securely for the future, we come to a fuller realization that it is the more fragile things in life, the things that get discounted by the demands of the fiat rat race — family, community, relationships, reputation, ethics, stewardship, truth — are most important. Buttressed by the benefits that bitcoin provides, we feel energized to set about pursuing, building, repairing, and protecting these things. And we can more easily see that most other things simply don’t actually matter.

They say that bitcoin passes you twice. First as a party boat, then as a lifeboat.

https://i.nostrimg.com/e94a68ddf9338b829a7390086d73ec3b5b4b7a313fb3a932a15a79dd06926609/file.webp

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A Fire In The Master's House Is Set

Finally, in closing, I’d like to provide the real life, stunning conclusion of what happened with the bank, or at least the branch, from my story.

A few months later, I received a middle of the night call from a lawyer friend in New York with whom I had discussed the situation. I pick up the line and the first words out of his mouth are “Where are you right now?” Once I assured him that I was not in New York, nor had I been in months, he shares — I shit you not — “That branch. Where you had that problem. Well, it all but BURNED TO THE GROUND...”

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In fact, it was a 6-alarm fire, of some still apparently unexplained origin, that raged for nearly 30 hours, gutting the building completely from top to bottom. Thankfully, there were no serious injuries and the fire didn’t cause any major damage to the adjacent apartments or businesses. But man, what a way to go out! I feel like there’s a lesson in here somewhere, but I couldn’t tell you what it is...

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In case you missed them, be sure to check out Journey Into Bitcoin 01 and 02. As always thank you for your time to read and engage. More on the way!

Postscript

In the spirit of inter/multi-disciplinary bitconery, here are a few top notch recommendations that, to me, relate to elements in this piece.

Books: The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho; The Fiat Standard, Saifedean Ammous

Music: Liberation, Outkast; Poetic Justice, Kendrick Lamar; New Millennium Homes, Rage Against The Machine

USE THE TOOLS: I believe that every person with exposure to bitcoin should have a fundamental minimum skillset that includes the ability to manage 1) self-custody and 2) buying/selling bitcoin permissionlessly. Here are some helpful resources:

Robosats: P2P bitcoin exchange using Lightning over TOR (pro-tip, use gift cards as your method of exchange for maximum privacy)

Bisq: P2P bitcoin exchange over TOR desktop app

A Final Though

It is dangerous and naive to assume that centralized exchanges and banks will always be there to allow retail users to buy and sell bitcoin. If and as the prevailing government-corporate power structure feels threatened by bitcoin, this may change.

Governments may shut down or seize bitcoin from centralized exchanges, and banks may block consumer transactions that they believe are related to bitcoin under the guise of “consumer protection.”.

Bitcoin is often a tool that you don’t know you need, UNTIL YOU NEED IT. But when you do need it, you REALLY need it and you better hope you can get your hand on some. The same can be doubly said for holding bitcoin in self-custody and knowing how to buy/sell bitcoin permissionlessly. USE THE TOOLS.

@ 23202132:eab3af30

A foto acima é da primeira bomba atômica lançada sobre a cidade de Hiroshima. Era uma bomba nuclear de urânio-235 com uma potência estimada de 16 quilotons (1 quiloton = 1000 toneladas de TNT). Ela explodiu a uma altura de aproximadamente 570 metros do chão e provocou uma nuvem de fumaça que alcançou 18 km de altura.

Sua explosão gerou uma bola de fogo com uma temperatura de aproximadamente 300 °C, a qual atingiu um raio de 2 km de destruição, além de espalhar uma nuvem radioativa. Isso resultou na morte de mais de 78 mil vítimas imediatas e um total aproximado de 140 mil mortes em decorrência das queimaduras e dos ferimentos causados pela explosão e dos danos causados pela exposição à radiação.

Na madrugada de 6 de Agosto de 1945, o avião bombardeiro Enola Gay deixou a ilha de Tinian no Pacífico transportando a primeira bomba atômica. Três horas depois de ter partido de Tinian aproximou-se de Iwo Jima e encontrou-se com dois aviões de observação que registaram a explosão. O céu estava limpo e não havia registo de aviões inimigos ou baterias antiaéreas.

Pouco depois das 9h15, o capitão lançou a bomba que tinha o nome de código de "rapazinho". Passados 15 segundos explodiu sobre Hiroshima antes de tocar no solo. A bomba atômica destruiu tudo.

O lançamento da bomba atômica foi realmente um acontecimento decisivo na história mundial. Alterou a natureza da guerra para sempre. Todos os conflitos futuros seriam realizados com o conhecimento da destruição terrível que uma bomba atômica pode provocar.

@ 78733875:4eb851f2

"The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them," as Hal Finney wrote so presciently 30 years ago.[^fn-hal]

The goal of OpenSats is to help build the tools that Hal alluded to. Tools that liberate and protect, rather than systems that control and oppress. Many tools still have to be built. Many tools still need to be improved. However, "the universe smiles on encryption," as Assange so aptly put it.[^fn-assange]

We believe that freedom tech is what carries this smile forward, which is why we are delighted to announce grants for over a dozen projects in the bitcoin & lightning ecosystem.

[^fn-hal]: Hal Finney: Why remailers... (November 1992)

[^fn-assange]: Julian Assange: A Call to Cryptographic Arms (October 2012)

The following open-source projects were selected by the OpenSats board for funding:

• Payjoin Dev Kit
• Bolt12 for LND
• Splicing
• Raspiblitz
• Labelbase
• BTCPay Server
• ZeroSync
• Mutiny Wallet
• next-auth Lightning Provider
• Cashu
• lnproxy
• Blixt Wallet

Let's take a closer look at each to understand their goal and how it aligns with the OpenSats mission.

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Payjoin Dev Kit

Payjoin brings privacy to bitcoin without changing the way you're used to using it. Payjoin transactions look no different from normal activity on-chain, so they boost everyone's privacy, even those who don't payjoin, and foil chain surveillance.

Payjoin is easy to integrate and falls back to working defaults where it isn't supported, but it can only take off when senders and receivers include standard payjoin support in their software. Payjoin Dev Kit makes it easy for wallet developers to integrate BIP 78 standard payjoins everywhere, having working reference integrations for Bitcoin Core, LND, and BDK.

Repository: github.com/payjoin
License: MIT

Bolt12 for LND

Bolt12 brings a new invoice format, enabling static invoices (offers) as well as recurring payments. It adds support to receive payments in a lightning-native way without using a web server. It also uses Blinded Paths to disguise the destination of a node both when fetching the invoice and when paying. This improves privacy and, therefore, security for the receiver of the payment.

Consequently, Bolt12 makes it much easier to receive and send payments without any third-party infrastructure in a native-lightning way. Static invoices make donations and recurring payments much easier.

Repository: lightningnetwork/lnd
License: MIT

Splicing

Splicing is the ability to resize Lightning channels on-the-fly, giving users of the Lightning Network many additional benefits that were not intuitively obvious at first. Splicing scales Lightning by removing a fundamental limitation. Removing this limitation increases fungibility and lowers blockspace usage, an important step towards maturing the Lightning network and enabling the onboarding of millions, and ultimately billions, of people.

Repository: ddustin/splice
License: BSD-MIT

Raspiblitz

Raspiblitz is a do-it-yourself node stack that allows you to run a Lightning Node together with a Bitcoin Core full node on your Raspberry Pi. While the Raspberry Pi is the most common hardware running this particular software, it was developed to support multiple hardware platforms and can run on bare metal servers too.

The open-source project was started in 2018 as part of a Lightning hackathon in the German Bitcoin space. Since then, it has grown to over 150 contributors and 2000 stars on GitHub. The software integrates dozens of services and tools via its plugin system and sports advanced features like touchscreen support, channel autopilot, backup systems, DynDNS, SSH tunneling, and more.

Repository: raspiblitz/raspiblitz
License: MIT

Labelbase

Labelbase is a label management service for Bitcoin transactions and addresses. It provides features for adding labels, importing and exporting labels, and offers a public API for integration with wallets and existing workflows.

Labelbase supports BIP-329, a format for unifying label data. The goal of the project is to offer a convenient solution for managing labels associated with Bitcoin transactions and addresses across wallets and other tools. By providing a unified label management interface, Labelbase enhances the user experience, improves privacy, and promotes better organization and understanding of Bitcoin transactions.

Repository: Labelbase/Labelbase
License: MIT

BTCPay Server

BTCPay Server is a free, open-source & self-hosted bitcoin payment gateway that allows self-sovereign individuals and businesses to accept bitcoin payments online or in person without added fees.

At its core, BTCPay Server is an automated invoicing system. Merchants can integrate the software with their website or shop, so customers are presented with an invoice upon checkout. The status of the invoice will update according to settlement, so merchants can fulfill the order at the appropriate time. The software also takes care of payment refunding and bitcoin management alongside many other features.

Repository: btcpayserver/btcpayserver
License: MIT

ZeroSync

While ZeroSync is still at an early stage, its promise is to allow verification of Bitcoin's chain state in an instant. It offers compact cryptographic proofs to validate the entire history of transactions and everyone's current balances.

The first application is to "zerosync" Bitcoin Core in pruned mode. The long-term vision for ZeroSync is to become a toolbox for custom Bitcoin proofs.

Repository: zerosync/zerosync
License: MIT

Mutiny Wallet

Mutiny Wallet is a web-first wallet capable of running anywhere, providing instant onboarding and platform censorship resistance. It is self-custodial, privacy-focused, user-friendly, and open-sourced under the MIT license.

The wallet has a strong focus on privacy, scalability, and accessibility. In addition to features that you would expect a regular lightning wallet to have, the team is working to incorporate Nostr-related features into the wallet, such as a feed of friends' Zaps, native Zap sending and receiving, a lightning subscription specification for services such as nostr relays, and a P2P DLC marketplace. The team's goal is to provide users with a seamless experience, combining the power of Bitcoin and Lightning with social media in a way that matches the Bitcoin ethos.

Repository: MutinyWallet
License: MIT

next-auth Lightning Provider

The goal of this project is to implement an authentication provider for next-auth, an authentication provider for the popular open-source framework NextJS. The next-auth framework has nearly 500k weekly downloads and powers the authentication of many modern web, mobile, and desktop apps. Having a plug-and-play Provider for Lightning makes integration easier and more attractive for developers.

Repository: jowo-io/next-auth-lightning-provider
License: ISC

Cashu

Cashu is a Chaumian ecash system built for bitcoin that brings near-perfect privacy for users of custodial bitcoin applications. A Cashu ecash mint does not know who you are, what your balance is, or who you're transacting with. Users of a mint can exchange ecash privately, without anyone being able to know who the involved parties are.

Payments are executed without anyone able to censor specific users. There are multiple implementations of the Cashu protocol. Popular open-source wallets are Cashu Nutshell, Cashu.me, and Nutstash.

Repository: cashubtc/cashu
License: MIT

lnproxy

lnproxy is a simple privacy tool that empowers users of custodial Lightning wallets with better payment destination privacy and sovereign node runners with enhanced receiver privacy. lnproxy works like a "poor man's" rendezvous router, providing privacy for users without taking custody of their funds. The project encompasses an LNURL-style protocol specification and a collection of open-source implementations of lnproxy clients and a relay.

Repository: lnproxy/lnproxy
License: GPL 3.0 & MIT

Blixt Wallet

Blixt is a non-custodial wallet for bitcoiners who want to give Lightning a try. It runs on Android, iOS, and macOS. It is easy to use and straightforward to set up, making it a user-friendly option to get started with Lightning.

Blixt uses LND and Neutrino under the hood, directly on the phone, respecting your privacy. The wallet does not use any centralized servers for doing transactions. Channels are opened automatically on the user's behalf, making it easy to get up and running on Lightning.

Repository: hsjoberg/blixt-wallet
License: MIT

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In addition to the software projects listed above, three educational initiatives were selected for funding:

• Bitcoin Education in Nigeria is an initiative started and led by Apata Johnson. Apata's project aims to educate youths on bitcoin and the opportunities it brings for the people living in the rural areas of Nigeria.
• 21 Ideas is a project that aims to bring quality Bitcoin education to Russian citizens. Tony and others have been working for many years on translations, original material, and hands-on tutorials for beginners. We believe that education is paramount to proper Bitcoin use, and localization is paramount for everyday citizens to properly grasp the importance as well as the novel concepts of bitcoin.
• CoreDev.tech is organizing recurring developer events, which are all about bringing devs together so that they can hack on Bitcoin Core and related software.

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We received hundreds of applications in the last couple of months, which is a fantastic signal and something we are delighted about. Some applications are still being reviewed by the OpenSats board, as we try our best to assess feasibility, alignment, and potential impact of each project. We will announce additional grants as applications pass our grant selection process.

Unfortunately, we were unable to fund all of the proposals that were sent to us. Please don't hesitate to apply again in case your application was rejected this time around. The applicant pool was very competitive, which is a great thing to see in and of itself.

Grants for the projects above are funded by contributions to the Bitcoin General Fund. Our operations as well as our grant programs are made possible by generous donors like you. If you want to help fund the Bitcoin ecosystem, please donate to the Bitcoin General Fund.

Our team is screening applications constantly, and we will announce new grants and funding opportunities as they arise. If you are working on an open-source project in and around bitcoin, and you think your work is aligned with the OpenSats mission, please apply for funding.

@ 32e18276:5c68e245

Hey guys,

I spent some time this weekend fixing a bunch of the bugs that were introduced in the latest nostrdb refactor. See the changelog below for the full list of changes in the latest build!

Planned this week

I have a big list of things I'm planning on adding to Damus this week:

• Lists!
• Zap improvements: Bringing back top zap comments in threads, profile zap comments in notifications, Private DM Zaps
• Video player improvements
• Sharing improvements (share to damus, etc)

Make sure to come back in a week to see how much I could get done!

Changelog

Added

• Add close button to custom reactions (Suhail Saqan)
• Add ability to change order of custom reactions (Suhail Saqan)
• Adjustable font size (William Casarin)

Changed

• Show renotes in Notes timeline (William Casarin)

Fixed

• Ensure the person you're replying to is the first entry in the reply description (William Casarin)
• Don't cutoff text in notifications (William Casarin)
• Fix wikipedia url detection with parenthesis (William Casarin)
• Fixed old notifications always appearing on first start (William Casarin)
• Fix issue with slashes on relay urls causing relay connection problems (William Casarin)
• Fix rare crash triggered by local notifications (William Casarin)
• Fix crash when long-pressing reactions (William Casarin)
• Fixed nostr reporting decoding (William Casarin)
• Dismiss qr screen on scan (Suhail Saqan)
• Show QRCameraView regardless of same user (Suhail Saqan)
• Fix wiggle when long press reactions (Suhail Saqan)
• Fix reaction button breaking scrolling (Suhail Saqan)
• Fix crash when muting threads (Bryan Montz)

@ 32e18276:5c68e245

Hey guys,

I've been quiet lately... I've been working on something big. In the past 2 weeks there have been 9539 new lines of code added to damus, 2928 removed, 279 files changed. I've rewritten much of the codebase in preparation for the nostrdb integration.

nostrdb

What is nostrdb? nostrdb is an integrated relay within damus, with the same design as strfry, but slightly different to support embedding into nostr apps. This will be the heart of Damus apps going forward, including notedeck and other future microapps. Think of it as a kind of development kit but with an embedded database and query capabilities. I didn't want to have to recreate all of the same querying, caching, and parsing code when building new apps, nostrdb will solve all of the painful and slow parts. nostr seems simple but if you want a fully working app it is pretty complicated, especially if you want it to be fast and sync efficiently.

Goals

• be the best and most efficient at querying, syncing and storing nostr notes
• enable direct mapping of notes into application code without any serialization overhead
• provide advanced syncing capabilities such as negentropy, which allows us to only query stuff we don't have
• be as portable as possible. nostrdb is a C library that you can embed into basically anything.
• full relay filter support
• full text search

Benefits

• full note verification
• more efficient de-duplication before we begin processing events off the wire
• set-reconciliation based syncing (negentropy) drastically reduces bandwidth usage and latency
• iteration on future nostr apps will be quicker (android, desktop, etc)
• features like ghost mode, account switching, etc will be much more efficient as you will be able to quickly switch between notes that are cached locally
• much smaller memory footprint due to optimized in-memory note format, which in turn improves cpu-cache efficiency
• much better profile and note searching

So that's what I've been working on in the past two weeks. On to what else is new in this release:

Multi reactions!

Suhail did an amazing job at adding multiple reaction support. All you need to do is long-press the Shaka button to show different options. You can customize these in settings as well

New onboarding features

Damus will now suggest people to follow when you first enter the app, this is the first of many onboarding improvements coming soon. Thank Klabo for this one!

That's all for now! Please test thoroughly and let me know if you run into any issues. You likely will since the entire codebase has been changed, and I probably broke something.

Until next time 🫡

@ d830ee7b:4e61cd62

"Bitcoin isn't real money until you can buy coffee at the street corner with it."

I've heard this frustrating argument many times. I don’t have exact numbers to confirm the current global adoption rate, but I believe over 90% of the world still doesn't know about it. That's why many still mockingly view Bitcoin as play money, stemming from their own misunderstandings.

Indeed, most general businesses don't accept it as a 'Unit of Account' yet. No governments globally have allowed Bitcoin to be a 'Medium of Exchange.' And why would they? Who would willingly relinquish financial control and power?

For over a decade, Bitcoin has proven itself as a 'Store of Value'. No other form of currency can preserve and enhance wealth like it. The HODLers have witnessed Bitcoin's value appreciation over time, surpassing fiat's fickle nature.

This phenomenon makes most Bitcoin enthusiasts reluctant to spend their stash. It's understandable and beyond criticism. After all, it's a natural right of an individual. We can't force someone to frivolously spend their saved Bitcoin, can we?

Then came Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja, who jointly developed the Lightning Network in 2015. Bitcoin's world was never the same.

In 2018, the Lightning Network was introduced to the public. Starting with about 4 BTC and 1,000 nodes in March 2018, it has grown to 4,797.48 BTC (+119,837%) and 15,448 nodes (+1,444.8%). No other payment system has witnessed such astounding growth.

Bitcoin enthusiasts, then, face a personal dilemma (especially from my experiences in Thailand). They must choose between hoarding fervently or using a fraction of their Bitcoins. Whichever path they choose, both essentially promote Bitcoin adoption. Both are pushing Bitcoin to become genuine money and gain global acceptance.

A new case study emerges for Bitcoin adoption following the advent of the Lightning Network. Instead of beginning with a laborious and time-consuming study of Bitcoin, this new generation can immediately adopt it through learning and experimenting with Bitcoin Lightning. Once they experience its convenience and instantly recognize its benefits, they willingly dive deeper, venturing down their own rabbit holes.

I have an example to illustrate this. The excitement of numerous people who tried the Lightning Payment at the Bitcoin Thailand Conference 2023 (#BTC2023).

https://youtu.be/-wVuD9QUe5U?si=2e7mfhhkVsbJrPU0

We at Right Shift saw this phenomenon coming from the outset, and have played a pioneering role in pushing Lightning Network Adoption in Thailand consistently throughout 2022-2023. The impact has been overwhelmingly positive.

I can confidently state that its momentum is truly powerful. The only thing that could possibly hinder its growth is governments that don't wish to see it succeed. I believe they will either find a way to regulate it or, more likely, resist it vehemently with their lackluster CBDCs. Ironically, they're only driving more interest towards Bitcoin.

Today, I'd like to extend my gratitude to fiatjaf, the developer behind this human protocol, and Jack Dorsey, the force behind Nostr which you are using right now. Although it lacks any algorithm, I'm naturally addicted to it. I feel like a kid who has just received a Playstation5 after waiting for 3 years.

Nostr is the next evolutionary step for humanity, working hand in hand with the stories I've mentioned above to further Bitcoin adoption. In a world currently heading towards severe inflation and mainstream social media acting like power-hungry tyrants, these elements will serve as perfect catalysts to accelerate the inevitable adoption.

I have endured the mainstream media and those overwhelming apps for so long. As soon as I encountered Nostr and its constant developments, I instantly foresaw the victory of the side I chose, which will surely happen in the near future.

My team, Right Shift, and I spent less than an hour discussing the campaign to promote Nostr in Thailand. Believe it or not, after that, hundreds of Thais started exploring Nostr, some of whom had never heard of the Lightning Network before!

They grew tired of the overbearing rules of mainstream social media platforms and quickly embraced Nostr (as evidenced by #ThaiNostrich, #Siamstr, and specific events like #ThailandZapathon, as well as what’s happening on Zap.stream).

Nostr, which has captured their hearts, introduced them to Lightning and Bitcoin. This realization hit me immediately.

I believe it's a brilliant idea to show people the deterioration of this world, starting with the online community and then expanding to the real society under the control of governments that shouldn't exist and play their current roles. Eventually, they will see that Bitcoin and Nostr are solutions to these distortions.

For this reason, Nostr is paving the way for more Bitcoin adoption options through use cases that resonate more with contemporary society.

Bitcoin is no longer a challenging or rocky subject to study. Nostr is one of the easiest and most fun ways to adopt Bitcoin right now.

I'm confident that when hosting the Bitcoin Thailand Conference 2024 (#BTC2024) next year, Nostr will surely be a major highlight.

If you are a developer, expert, or enthusiast on Nostr, let me know if you'd like to be in Bangkok next year.

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December 2017. Shanghai.

It is mid-December 2017. In Shanghai. And I have just fallen victim to a crypto rug-pull scam.

A few days prior, I had been recruited into an “enthusiasts” WeChat group (WeChat is China’s premier social app, think FB + IG + CashApp, all in one, and then in Mandarin) for a Chinese crypto token. A friendly-faced Laowai (China’s half endearing, half slur for foreigners, particularly, white foreigners) had approached me at Cages Bar — a uniquely Chinese oddity of a place, a sprawling “American Sports” themed bar complex and a haunt for lost Westerners of all sorts — to share the good news.

This new friend, managed to sell me that this token would be the Honest-to-God FUTURE of supply-chain traceability. And what luck! Through meeting him, I was to join a group of favored insiders, privy to pre-market information on this earth-shaking new technology. Even luckier was that I was joining this group mere days before the project’s “biggest announcement ever” which was sure to send prices “to the moon.” It all sounded so very exciting!

Fast forward three days. The announcement has just dropped, token prices are moving quickly and parabolically to the upside across exchanges. Except for Binance. Where all of us in the group had our tokens. Inexplicably, Binance goes down at the EXACT moment when this news is released — “Due to recent increase in user growth, Binance will be preforming a system upgrade shortly after 2017/12/18 10:00 AM (UTC).

The upgrade will take approximately 20 minute” their message reads. Simultaneously, on another exchange, a whale (massive token holder, capable of single-handedly moving the market) liquidates several million dollars worth of tokens. By the time Binance is up and running again, the token is on a similarly parabolic price collapse. Never to recover.

I can confidently say that it is by such magic, one may turn several thousand dollars into several tens of dollars in mere days, or perhaps even just minutes!

Welcome to Shanghai! Welcome to Crypto!…I guess…

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The School of Rug-pull Fundamentals

Here, I received a foundational lesson in the mechanism of “crypto." Specifically, rug-pull scam 101 - by which nefarious but convincing crypto marketeers target technologically ignorant retail “investors” to be the exit liquidity for the project founders and earliest backers.

The WeChat “enthusiast” group I had joined was nothing but a pump and dump shop. The group members, rather than being privileged insiders were full-on dupes - serving as both free marketing hype and the exit dumping ground for the project founders. Peer-pressure, social proof, and faux camaraderie were applied by the truckload to induce us to promote the token and to bring in others, yet when the time came, we all found ourselves locked out of the party by forces seemingly far above and well beyond our comprehension. And this is when the real insiders exited.

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However, on that brisk Shanghai winter evening in 2017, I knew none of this. I was the worst, or rather the best kind of mark — the kind with enough broad educational and professional achievements as to be very self-assured in their own intelligence while also being completely oblivious to their area-specific ignorance and inexperience - particularly on this "new" technology, called "the blockchain."

That I was possessing of such qualifications should surprise no one who has ever worked with management consultants. At the time, I was one — bright-eyed and bushy tailed, newly minted on a full-time international assignment to China. In reality though, the depth of the information asymmetry arrayed against me in this situation was tantamount to me having negative information while fully believing that I was some kind of anointed insider. What fun!

So how did I get here? Well...

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Borderless

I landed in Shanghai in January of 2017, a stranger in a strange land. My arrival in Shanghai uncovered an interesting problem. A few months in, I realized that all of my money was sitting in RMB, in a Chinese bank account, yet I still had financial obligations in the United States, dominated in USD, along with a fast-dwindling USD account balance to support these obligations...

It was at this time that I discovered that the process to transfer money outside of China was arcane - requiring at least two months of planning, several trips to the Chinese tax authority, reams of paperwork, AND support from an internationally accredited employer. In short, a bureaucratic dog-and-pony show replete with unnecessary but entirely purposeful friction and obfuscation. But such is the squarely anti-free market Great Game of big-power nation capital controls.

It was this problem that spurred my first contact with bitcoin. I was searching for the best and most efficient way to transfer money to myself across borders. This eventually brought me to various articles and YouTube videos about bitcoin. From there, I got a Coinbase account (which worked in the China at the time), linked my bank account, and figured out LocalBitcoins - through which I could buy bitcoin peer-to-peer in RMB, and then transfer that bitcoin back into USD.

FUN FACT: While bitcoin had already been “banned” by the Chinese government several times by 2017, it was still legal to trade p2p. Also the largest RMB-for-bitcoin sellers on LocalBitcoins all appeared to be Africans. And I mean to the tune of thousands of bitcoin moved volumes. It would seem that perhaps large Chinese bitcoin holders may have been using Africans as plausible deniability frontmen to move in and out of large sums of bitcoin over Chinese social payment rails. The More You Know!

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And just like that, I managed to Forrest Gump my way right into one of the most relevant, important, revolutionary — and in the West, overlooked — use cases for bitcoin - making money borderless, facilitating international value transfer in a way that completely obviates the rent-seeking artifice of arbitrary financial controls. But for all of that, I still couldn't see it. I was happy with what bitcoin did for me in that moment, but I failed to see any larger implications - I thought of it a novel, but certainly not anything ground-breaking. Further, my trust in the system was still too strong - believing on some deep level that the banks, both Chinese and US, truly wanted to help me but where beholden to cumbersome processes and regulations imposed on them from above.

Even in this very first exposure to bitcoin, it addressed a real and pressing problem for me and dramatically improved freedom of access and utility of my money - allowing me to transfer money back my USD bank account on-demand. I had a problem. Bitcoin fixed it. And all of the villagers rejoiced! …Or they would have if that had been the end of it. But as fate would have it, my first brush with bitcoin also coincided with the breakout of the wild 2017 bitcoin & crypto bull market run.

Initially, I just bought a bit of bitcoin to solve a problem and thought little of it. But when the bitcoin price started to take off (aka Number Go Up, or “NgU” in internet parlance), I had to take another look. But this time, I would be caught in the balmy, Icarian up-currents of tech speculation and good old fashioned get-rich-quick greed. But, me — I was in it for the technology, of course...

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All My New Friends

And so, I began to research bitcoin and then "crypto" more deeply. In so doing, I “learned” that while bitcoin was “the father of all cryptos,” it was actually “old” technology. Bitcoin was slow, environmentally wasteful, limited in capability, and destined to be overtaken by newer, “better,” cryptocurrency technologies such as Ethereum or XRP. Knowing no better, I accepted these silly falsehoods, convincing myself that bitcoin’s core value was simply its tenure. Being more established, bitcoin was just a marginally less volatile asset in a sea of horrendously volatile, and otherwise interchangeable, crypto tokens.

But there was opportunity here too, I sensed. The real innovation in the space, I believed, would ultimately be led by other projects. That being the case, my incentive then was to “study the space and place calculated bets" (an MBA euphemism for wild-eyed speculation). Why hold onto Bitcoin’s AOL, when Ethereum is clearly going to be crypto’s Google? With any new technology, the first mover is always overtaken by a more innovative copy-cat, right?? RIGHT???

Moreover, I was desperately in need of Western friends. And knowing I’d find them in droves wherever there was speculative money to be had, I dived headlong into the Shanghai “crypto scene.” On the standard “Hero’s Journey” this is where a mysterious but benevolent, Gandalf-like mentor would have appeared to shepherd me through the peaks, valleys, and pitfalls of this new space. Obviously, this is not what happened. Instead, over freeium beers in the vaunted Millennial Chic common areas of so many Shanghai WeWork offices, I would meet some of the most colorful characters of my time in China...

A whip-smart but spectacularly sketchy Baltic fellow of significant, though indeterminate means who argued that any blockchain project that managed to successfully prevent supply chain malfeasance who see the project founders dismembered by some Eastern European mafia. Only half-jokingly, he suggested, at his direction.

A Middle Eastern “precious metals trader” who I later ascertained was probably more akin to a conflict minerals smuggler looking to use excitement and ignorance around “traceability on the blockchain” to wash his wares.

A South Asian “crypto-entrepreneur” who claimed to have a method, leveraging "blockchain technology," to swap large sums of physically delivered Chinese cash (think suitcases full of red bills) into infrastructure investment projects in Myanmar.

Several personally modest but obviously wealthy South American scions riding out political instability in their home countries while funneling money into ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings - crypto's answer to IPOs) with reckless abandon.

An American who shared, unsolicited, his pre-China 3LA (Three Letter Agency) background at first meeting, though I suspect he may have been telling a dangerous and stupid lie.

An obvious sex-kompromat honey-pot Chinese couple who described themselves as “crypto-observes” and who were, at a minimum, actually gathering intelligence for something. Fit and flirty in a way suggestive of some kind of open-door polyamory, and a little too fluent in English. Seemingly at every event and always hugged up onto any Westerner that seemed to be gaining influence in the space.

And finally the long tail of Moonboys (idiot gamblers who fashion themselves tech/investment mavens), minor conmen, “cross-border currency arbitrage” consultants, LBH (Loser Back Home) English teachers, broke college students, and an ever shifting menagerie of hypemen-simps riding the coattails of Shanghai's laowai crypto-influencer of the week.

It was in this fast-moving and footloose “Anything goes and we’re all gunna get rich AF!” environment that the December supply-chain token “opportunity” appeared to me. And of course, dazzled by fantasies of instant and meteoric crypto wealth, I went for it and I got burned right along with all the other Lambo-chasing chumps.

I was the worst, or rather the best kind of mark — the kind with enough broad educational and professional achievements as to be very self-assured in their own intelligence while also being completely oblivious to their area-specific ignorance and inexperience.

But in retrospect it could have been far worse. I could have put more money into the rug-pull or it could have been a straight-up wallet draining scam. And while I still had miles to go and years of learning ahead of me before fully eschewing “shitcoining” (the act of buying non-bitcoin crypto tokens in a state of deeply degenerative and highly speculative mania), this experience did, thankfully, give me the frame of reference to avoid further, similar insider malfeasance going forward…for the most part...

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Do Cryptos Dream of Electric Stupidity?

The silver lining here was that the speculative extremes and clearly questionable mental acuity of some of my new “crypto friends” gave me pause and cautioned me to anchor, relatively speaking anyways, to rationality and search for truth, as my consultant training so demanded. Though, I cannot in say good faith that this was intended in an entirely ethical or altruistic way at the time... After all, the fundamental role of a management consultant is to understand the truth more deeply than others so that you may choose when to best reveal or obscure it for social, political, and or economic gain — especially when you've assessed that you significantly outclass those around you intellectually.

That said, being an American (and so legally barred for participating in many ICOs) and a rare résumé on the scene, I came to be viewed - hilariously - as something of “the adult in the room,” to some. I would even eventually even sit down with a few founders to advise on their well-intentioned but deeply flawed and over-engineered crypto projects...

As I rode the 2017 bull-market wave up and then back down again (and where greed intervened to prevent me from selling the top, or even at a relative top), my perspective on the space matured.

Why couldn’t anyone articulate what actual, real-world problem their project was solving?

Why were so many projects’ assumptions around token usage (and therefore value) based on artificial needs that the project protocol itself created, or worse, inexplicably bizarre misunderstandings of incentive-driven human behavior?

Even the most lucid and well-presented project I encountered was still predicated on several other paradigm shattering technologies coming to the fore. They may as well have ended their pitch with “And as you can see here — when SkyNet, teleportation, Replicator, and Lightsaber technology all reach ubiquitous global scale (and we project this happening by Q3 2021 ± 3 mo) our protocol will be poised to capture MAXIMUM value, etc etc…”

The entire space came to resemble an unironically earnest masterclass in absurdity. Because that is, ultimately, what it was. And so, I developed expertise in tearing crypto white papers apart over their gibbering technical Esperanto and nonsense logic, ideally, in front of as many people as possible.

I made no attempt to hide my annoyance at every new project’s “graphic salad” or “Flying Spaghetti Monster” tech stack representation, alway a meaningless clownshow of sleek-designed neon-pastel toned boxes, cylinders, arrows, and lines indicating some much "obvious value."

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I came to regard every crypto project as, at absolute best, a solution looking for a problem. A viewpoint that still holds to this day. No “cryptocurrency expert” I’ve spoken with, no matter how well-educated or well-meaning, has ever been able to articulate to me how a given “blockchain” solution solves any real (non-speculative, non-gambling, non-financial crimes based) problem better than existing solutions, imperfect as those may be.

Anything goes and we’re all gunna get rich AF!

But most of all, I was perturbed because we had very much not gone “to the moon.” If anything, my crypto holdings seemed to be, boldly, charting a path for the Marianas Trench, perhaps an equally ambitious though categorically different feat.

This disillusionment with “crypto” though healthy in retrospect, unfortunately also spawned an apathy towards bitcoin, what would ultimately become a long pause that significantly slowed my bitcoin understanding.

If there was any mentor in this situation, it was the market itself, all cruel vagaries, malicious intent, and so many rows of glistening, blood-stained teeth. As the long 2018–2019 crypto winter set in, defeated and financially depleted, I, like so many others, assumed (rightly) that crypto was a scam and (wrongly) that bitcoin was “dead.” I resolved myself to let go of all expectations so that I might be pleasantly surprised if the bitcoin price ever, for some unfathomable reason, did recover.

How could I have known how many unfathomable things would transpire both in the world and in my own life by the time that this would actually come to pass…

比特币死了！比特币万岁！(Bitcoin is dead! Long live Bitcoin!)

Thanks so much for reading Part 02 of my story! I look forward to any comments or feedback, it brightens my day and inspires me to keep writing! And in case you missed it, you can read Journey Into Bitcoin 01 here.

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Postscript

In the spirit of inter/multi-disciplinary bitconery, here are a few top notch recommendations that to me are related to elements in this piece.

Music: Can’t Con an Honest John, The Streets; Dip, Young Fathers; Everything Is Recorded, Everything Is Recorded

Movies: No Man’s Land (2013), Shang-Chi (2021), The Message (2009)

If you’re ever in Shanghai: Sober Company (fine dining, 4 bars concepts at venue, 1 is hidden), Speak Low (Shanghai’s original speakeasy), The Odd Couple (East Meets West Pac-Man Bar)

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Company Overview:

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3. Previous work in free and open source projects.
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Interested candidates should forward a motivational statement alongside their CV/portfolio to vanessa@damus.io.

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A partir da década de 40 se propagou estudos acadêmicos na intenção de identificar a quantidade de álcool no sangue humano. Na imagem acima, o Dr. Kurt M. Duboski, do Norwalk Hospital, obtém uma amostra do fôlego de Harry Stevenson, um estudante voluntário que acaba de consumir uísques. Esse tipo de experimento foi o precursor do bafômetro.

É conhecido pelo nome de bafômetro o aparelho que permite medir a concentração de bebida alcoólica em uma pessoa, por meio da análise do ar exalado dos pulmões. O bafômetro é resultado de experiências iniciadas na década de 40 com dispositivos para análise de álcool no organismo humano, para uso pela polícia. Em 1954, o Dr. Robert Borkenstein da polícia do estado de Indiana inventou o primeiro bafômetro, o tipo de dispositivo de testagem de álcool usado ainda hoje.

O conceito fundamental por trás do funcionamento do dispositivo está na ideia de que o álcool que toda pessoa ingere aparece no hálito porque é absorvido pela boca, garganta, estômago e intestinos, e é absorvido pela corrente sanguínea. Apesar de ser absorvido, o álcool não é digerido após a absorção e nem sofre modificações químicas no sangue. Ao passar pelos pulmões, o sangue deixa parte do álcool nas membranas dos alvéolos (pequenos sacos de ar dos pulmões). A concentração de álcool no ar alveolar é proporcional à concentração de álcool no sangue, e à medida que o álcool do ar alveolar é exalado, pode ser detectado pelo bafômetro.

O bafômetro ganha relevância na medida em que os efeitos da bebida alcoólica sempre apresentaram problemas quando combinados com atividades complexas. O álcool produz alteração na capacidade de raciocínio com perda de julgamento da realidade e perda dos reflexos, entre outros problemas. No trânsito brasileiro, anualmente centenas de pessoas alcoolizadas provocam acidentes e mortes.

Este tipo de estatística coloca a invenção do bafômetro como fenômeno relevante na fiscalização e prevenção de acidentes. Muitas pessoas não são capazes de se controlar diante do desejo de consumo de álcool. Isso ocorre devido ao álcool provocar mudanças na forma como o cérebro processa as sensações, gerando em alguns casos dependência ao álcool.

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Edward Weston, initially recognized as a prominent pictorialist, played a crucial role in the evolution of photographic art during the 20th century. His trajectory marked a notable transition towards a new conception of the medium, leaving behind pictorialism to become one of the leading exponents of Group f/64 and elitist photography.

A distinctive feature of Weston's work was his relentless pursuit of maximum sharpness and tonal range in his images. This aspiration was evident in all his works, from his stunning landscapes to his innovative still lifes. Herein lay his genius: the ability to capture the purest essence of his subjects with a precision and clarity hitherto considered unattainable.

Weston pioneered the technique of previsualizing the final result in photography. This involved imagining and planning the final appearance of the image even before shooting the camera. To achieve this, he developed what became known as the Zone System, a method that allowed to control and modify the brightness of an image in a very precise way.

In his photographs, Weston often decontextualized his subjects, employing neutral backgrounds to further enhance the intrinsic identity of the object. This technique led to the creation of some of his most iconic images, in which each object becomes an autonomous entity, freed from the distractions and influence of its surroundings.

In addition to his extraordinary technical ability, Weston's capacity to infuse a sense of "radiation" into his images contributed greatly to his enduring influence. Through his refined technique, Weston created images so powerful and emotive that they impressed the viewer, eliciting an emotional and visceral response.

Weston also took his vision and technique beyond his studio. On his travels to post-revolutionary Mexico, he joined a revolutionary movement and published his work in their magazine. This experience not only broadened his artistic perspective but also left an indelible mark on his corpus of work, adding a new level of depth and context to his photographic approach.

In summary, Edward Weston exemplifies the evolution of photographic art in the 20th century. His transition from pictorialism to modern and elitist photography, his constant search for sharpness and tonal range, his innovative decontextualization of objects, and his radiant technique, all contributed to his enduring legacy. His influence is felt not only in the generations of photographers who followed him, but also in anyone who appreciates the ability of photography to transform the ordinary into extraordinary.

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The following is a collection of Tweets posted on Twitter that documented my entire heart surgery process, from finding out I had an issue, through the surgery, and finally throughout my recovery process. If Elon decides to remove old and unpaid content, I do not want this part of my life to vanish from the Internet. At the time, it was extremely important for my mental health to talk about this whole process and it was therapeutic in my recovery process, reading all of the responses as all of Bitcoin Twitter was behind my success. Thank you all of your kind words, love, and support during this whole process. May my Tweets live on through nostr.

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Nov 28, 2021 I had open heart surgery 4 days before my 3rd b-day. I've led a healthy & active life since then, zero issues. I had an echocardiogram last week. The results were not good. Heart valve replacement may be in my near future. I am freaking the fuck out. I'll know more on Dec 6th. 😫

Dec 6, 2021 Update: I had my cardiologist appointment today. He said to not worry for now and continue to exercise and live life. In 3 months get another echo done. He doesn't believe the previous other results since I have zero symptoms and wants to do his own interpretation.

Dec 6, 2021 He said if the other results were correct, I may need valve replacement in 6 months to 3 years. However, he doesn't believe the local hospital's results as I said above. He can't form an opinion just yet. He said not to worry over and over again. For now, I'm staying positive!

Mar 7, 2022 Well, it's been three months. I had my follow up this morning. I have severe pulmonic regurgitation. I now need to speak with a specialist and see what my options are for surgery. Neat. 😭

Apr 12, 2022 Well, it looks like I'll need full open heart surgery again to replace my pulmonic valve. Bonus: I'll be part pig. So, I have that going for me. I was assuming that if I had to have this done it would be much less invasive, so I'm not overly impressed at the moment. 🫤

May 11, 2022 Today I had to get a CT scan of my heart in preparation for the May 27th surgery. All went well. I have no other heart issues. It's looking like I'll be in the hospital for 4-7 days, depending on how fast I recover. I should be fully 100% recovered by the end of August. ❤️

May 20, 2022 My grandfather with me 39 years ago, days after my open heart surgery. He taught me to hunt, fish, golf, and I'm sure taught me a thing or two about drinking beer and partying. 😂 He was a great man. He won't physically be with me next Friday, but I'm sure he'll be watching over.

May 25, 2022 Two more sleeps. My mind is racing with an incredible amount of thoughts and emotions now. It's overwhelming. I love you all. Thanks for all of your replies and DMs over the last couple days, weeks, and months. I appreciate it immensely. ❤️❤️❤️

May 25, 2022 Two more sleeps. My mind is racing with an incredible amount of thoughts and emotions now. It's overwhelming. I love you all. Thanks for all of your replies and DMs over the last couple days, weeks, and months. I appreciate it immensely. ❤️❤️❤️

May 27, 2022 LET'S GO! I am alive and doing well. I was on a ventilator until 8pm. That was horrible. I will read all of the comments that you all posted on Katie's updates. Now I need to rest. They want to get me up and walk at 11pm. 🤯 I love you all and your support had helped so much 🧡🧡

May 28, 2022 The amount of love, compassion, caring, and appreciation from everyone blows my mind. Thanks for all of your comments and DMs. The positivity though all is this has helped me get through dark times and now it's helping me get through pain. You are helping me immensely. 🤯❤️🧡💪

May 28, 2022 Today has been a rough day. Lots of chest pain when breathing. But, I apparently am doing something right, because I have been upgraded to a regular room. No more ICU for this guy! My ICU nurse told my new nurse that I'm strong. ❤️💪🔥

May 29, 2022 Using this to document my journey. Last night was not good at all. I had tachycardia and AFib for hours. It was scary as fuck having my heart beat the way it was at 160bpm. They gave me new medication to bring it down and stop the AFib irregular heartbeat. It's now at 101.

May 29, 2022 I was very scared. Katie was able to come and stay the night with me and be my personal care nurse. That made me feel much better having her here with me. Hopefully the meds continue to do what they're supposed to. Fuck. Anyways, I may not Tweet much today. Love you all. ❤️

May 30, 2022 Today has mostly been a great day progress wise. I ate a lot. I've walked more today than I have previously. My doctor told me I might be going home tomorrow, it all depends on what happens with my last drainage tube. Fingers crossed that it's draining properly now. 💪❤️

May 31, 2022 Morning walk crushed. Breakfast crushed. Feeling stronger. My drainage tube is still draining so we'll see what the surgeon says, but I probably won't be coming home today according to my nurse. It may be another day. Better to be safe. I'm feeling good though. Let's go! 💪💪❤️❤️

Jun 1, 2022 Today's plans: Crush morning walk, crush breakfast, CRUSH MY LAST X-RAY AND HEAD THE HELL HOME! Fingers crossed. 🤞🤞❤️❤️💪💪

Jun 1, 2022 On my morning walk I went into a slight AFib. The nurse and PA said since I hadn't had my morning meds to control that yet, that that could be the cause. They're going to increase meds and monitor me for another 24 hours. That sucks, but again, I'd rather be safe. Ugh.

Jun 2, 2022 GM! I miss my kids. I miss wearing normal clothes. I miss my house. I miss my doggy. I better go home today or I guess I'll just keep working to get well enough to go home. 😂 I'm still progressing forward. I have a chest x-ray scheduled later this morning. Fingers crossed.

Jun 2, 2022 I JUST GOT CLEARED TO HEAD HOME AFTER LUNCH. FUCK YEAH. LET'S GOOOOOO💪💪💪

Jun 2, 2022 I am home! I have some family that needs some loving. Enjoy the rest of your day!

Jun 4, 2022 Last night I slept in bed thanks to a reclining pillow, the first night our living room chair. I was so happy to sleep in my own bed. I walked around our yard about 9 times yesterday. My goal is to do that plus a little more every day. I'm still in a lot of pain, but meds help.

Jun 4, 2022 I still have a long way to go recovery wise, but having Katie and the kids here helping me along the way makes it easier and gives me a reason to keep pushing forward through this. Thanks again for all of your past and future support. You all are fantastic.

Jun 6, 2022 My wife went back to work today. My son and daughter are in charge of taking care of me. My kids are fantastic. They made me breakfast already and helped me check all of my vitals. My daughter really shines here. She's such a little nurse and caretaker. ❤️❤️

Jun 6, 2022 I'm still in pain, but I'm not in as much pain as I was a couple days ago. I'm walking around a little better and a little more every day. I really hate just sitting around and not doing anything, but it's hard to do much else besides watch TV. I am enjoying my patio though. 💪

Jun 16, 2022 It's been a while. It's time to update this thread! I am doing great, IMO. I have lots of energy. I feel great. I can do a lot more than I previously could. I still have a limited range of motion due to my sternum being broken and still healing. i.e. I can't wash my back or legs.

Jun 16, 2022 I started back to work yesterday. I was cleared to do 20 hours this week by my doctor and I'm hoping to be cleared full time next week. I work from home, so if I can sit in front of a TV, I can sit in front of a computer, right?

Jun 16, 2022 My home nurses have been absolutely fantastic.😂 My kids make me breakfast every morning. And I could not have done any of this without my rock star wife. Words can't describe how much she's done for me throughout all of this. I am looking forward to continuing to improve. ♥️

Jun 16, 2022 You all have been absolutely wonderful through all of this too. I appreciate all of your love, support, and check-ins. Seriously. It means more than you know.

I have a check-up at the end of the month to make sure all is well. I'll update again in a couple weeks after that appt.

Jun 28, 2022 My doctor said everything looks great. He said it doesn't look like I had open heart surgery a month ago.💪 He said I have zero restrictions and that I can resume normal life. I can drive and I can go out on my boat! ❤️❤️❤️ I'm so happy right now! 🔥🚀

Jul 15, 2022 I started cardiac rehab this week. After 2 sessions the nurse said I'm on "Week 4" already. She doesn't believe with my initial intake stress test if I'll really be able to improve on it that much. 🤣 TL;DR I am a rock star and kicking ass. Feeling great. Life's great. 😍

Aug 28, 2022 Yesterday was 3 months since my open heart surgery. I'm going great! I'd guess essentially back to normal. My sternum is still not fully healed, that'll take more time, but energy and capability are basically back to what I was like last summer. I'm very happy with the results.

Aug 28, 2022 I'm very happy to be able to exercise daily, go boating on the weekends AND swim and paddleboard. I was annoyed that I couldn't do these things a month ago. I had a cardiologist appt. two weeks ago. He said he hopes the valve lasts me the rest of my life and to see him in a year.

Aug 28, 2022 As a final post to this thread, I want to thank each and every one of you again that commented, liked, shared and DMed me throughout all of this. The love and support from Twitter and the #Bitcoin community was unfathomable. You all made a difference in my life and my recovery.❤️

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The mission of OpenSats is to support and maintain a sustainable ecosystem of funding for free and open-source projects that help Bitcoin flourish. Nostr is such a project, which is why OpenSats introduced The Nostr Fund and built a team around the protocol's originator to help fund the growing nostr ecosystem. As an open, interoperable, and censorship-resistant protocol, nostr has the chance of doing social-native networking right.

After weeks of sorting through applications, we are excited to announce the first round of grants from The Nostr Fund. OpenSats is proud to support over a dozen projects, from clients to relay implementations to adjacent tools and design efforts.

In no particular order, here they are:

• NDK by @pablof7z
• Habla by @verbiricha
• Coracle by @hodlbod
• Iris by @mmalmi
• Damus by @jb55
• rust-nostr & nostr-sdk by @yukibtc
• Nostr Relay NestJS by @CodyTseng
• Soapbox by @alexgleason
• Code Collaboration over Nostr by @DanConwayDev
• Satellite by @lovvtide
• Amethyst by @vitorpamplona
• Pinstr by @sepehr-safari
• nostr.build by @nostr.build
• Gossip by @mikedilger
• Nostr SDK iOS by @bryanmontz
• Nostr Design by @karnage

The projects above have received grants of various durations and sizes, and we have more nostr-related applications in the pipeline. Donate to The Nostr Fund if you want to help fund the nostr ecosystem.

Without further ado, let's take a closer look at each project in turn.

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NDK

NDK is a nostr development kit that makes the experience of building Nostr-related applications—whether they are relays, clients, or anything in between—better, more reliable, and overall more enjoyable to work with than existing solutions. The core goal of NDK is to improve the decentralization of Nostr via intelligent conventions and data discovery features without depending on any one central point of coordination, such as large relays or centralized search providers.

Repository: nostr-dev-kit/ndk
License: MIT

Habla

Habla is a website for reading, writing, curating, and monetizing long-form content on nostr. It uses NIP-23 to allow markdown-formatted articles and embedded nostr content such as notes, profiles, lists, relays, badges, and more. The goal of Habla is to give everyone an alternative to centralized publishing platforms such as Medium or Substack, which are by their very nature prone to censorship and deplatforming.

Repository: verbiricha/habla.news
License: GNU GPL v3.0

Coracle

Coracle is a nostr web client focusing on user experience, performance, and scaling of the nostr network beyond the "twitter clone" use-case. The end goal is to build marketplaces, groups, chat, and more on top of an emergent web of trust. Coracle is already one of the most mature and accessible clients for new users while also providing some novel features for more advanced nostriches.

Repository: coracle-social/coracle
License: MIT

Iris

Iris is a multi-platform nostr client that is available for web, mobile, and desktop. Iris' design goals are speed, reliability, and ease of use. The client features public as well as private messaging, customizable feeds, an offline mode, and speedy account creation.

Repository: irislib/iris-messenger
License: MIT

Damus

Damus is a cutting-edge nostr client for iOS. The goal of Damus is to integrate bitcoin with social media and to show the power, censorship resistance, and scalability of nostr in general. Damus includes picture and video uploading, is fully translated into 24 languages, supports automatic translation of notes, and includes all of the features you would expect from a Twitter-like client.

Repository: damus-io/damus
License: GNU GPL v3.0

rust-nostr & nostr-sdk

Rust-nostr is a Rust implementation of the nostr protocol. It is a high-level client library with the explicit goal to help developers build nostr apps for desktop, web, and mobile that are both fast and secure. Rust crates can be easily embedded inside other development environments like Swift, Kotlin, Python, and JavaScript, making rust-nostr a versatile base to build upon. While the project is in the early stages of development, over 35 NIPs are already supported, with more to come.

Repository: rust-nostr/nostr
License: MIT

Nostr Relay NestJS

Nostr-relay-nestjs is a Nostr relay with a clear structure that is easy to customize to your needs. This relay implementation is based on the NestJS framework and focuses on reliability and high test coverage.

Repository: CodyTseng/nostr-relay-nestjs
License: MIT

Soapbox

Soapbox started out as an alternative to Mastodon but has grown to encompass ActivityPub and nostr while being interoperable with both. In February 2023, the team launched the "Mostr" bridge, seamlessly connecting nostr to the ActivityPub Fediverse and enabling bidirectional communication between both protocols. This bridge exposes over 9.4M potential users in nostr's target audience to nostr, many of whom have already left the Fediverse completely in favor of nostr.

Repository: gitlab.com/soapbox-pub
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

Code Collaboration over Nostr

This project is a proof-of-concept for a much-needed, often discussed, and permissionless, nostr-based GitHub alternative. The goal is to replace the traditional interactions using a centralized server or service with a nostr-based alternative centered around nostr events. Commits, branches, pull requests, and other actions are all modeled as nostr events, with permissions managed through groups so that multiple maintainers can manage a repository. This model reduces the barriers for clients to support repository collaboration and allows for interoperability between repository management tools.

Repository: DanConwayDev/ngit-cli
License: MIT

Satellite

satellite.earth is a web client for nostr that has a community focus and presents conversations as threaded comments, borrowing from the traditional Reddit interface.

Repository: lovvtide/satellite-web
License: MIT

Amethyst

Amethyst is one of the most popular nostr clients for Android. Amethyst comes with expected features such as account management, feeds, profiles, and direct messages. Amethyst also offers native image uploads, public chat groups, link previews, one-tap zaps, public and private bookmarks, as well as the ability to follow hashtags, and other novel features. You can install releases of Amethyst via F-Droid or Google Play.

Repository: vitorpamplona/amethyst
License: MIT

Pinstr

Pinstr allows users to easily organize and discover new ideas by creating public boards of pins. Users can star, comment, and zap other users' boards. Users can find curated boards of other users and create boards themselves. Default boards include users' bookmarked content, among other lists.

Repository: sepehr-safari/pinstr
License: MIT

nostr.build

Nostr.build is a free-to-use media hosting service that allows users to upload images, gifs, videos, and audio files to share them as nostr events. The team recently released their code under an MIT License so that anyone might use the software to offer a similar service.

Repository: nostrbuild/nostr.build
License: MIT

Gossip

Gossip is a fast and stable desktop nostr client focused on the Twitter-like micro-blogging aspect of nostr. Gossip follows people by downloading their events from whichever relays they post to (rather than relays you configure) and was the impetus for NIP-65. It does not use complex web technologies such as JavaScript or HTML rendering and stores your private key only in an encrypted format. Consequently, Gossip is considered more secure than other clients by some. The client is packaged and released for Linux, Windows, and MacOS.

Repository: mikedilger/gossip
License: MIT

Nostr SDK iOS

The nostr SDK for iOS is a native Swift library that will enable developers to quickly and easily build nostr-based apps for Apple devices. The library plans to implement all approved NIPs and will follow Apple's API patterns, so that iOS developers feel comfortable using it from the start. The SDK aims to be simple in its public interface, abstracting away as much complexity as possible so that developers can focus on what makes their specific application unique.

Repository: nostr-sdk/nostr-sdk-ios
License: MIT

Nostr Design

Nostr Design will be a comprehensive resource for designers and developers to build successful nostr products. Nostr introduces several new concepts that most people are not familiar with. Given its nature, the protocol presents some unique design challenges for developers and users alike. The Nostr Design efforts are led by Karnage, who has done stellar product design work around nostr in the past. We believe that this project has the potential to impact the entire nostr space, as it can act as a go-to source for developing quality products, addressing user needs, as well as providing concrete examples and building blocks for product designers and developers alike.

License: Public Domain, Creative Commons

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We have received hundreds of applications in the last couple of weeks, many related to or exclusively focused on nostr. Most projects that applied focus on bitcoin and lightning. We will announce another wave of grants for these soon.

To all the nostr projects that applied and didn't make the cut this time around: don't be discouraged. Please apply for funding again in the future. We will announce new grants and funding opportunities quarterly, and there is always the possibility of being listed on the OpenSats website to receive pass-through donations for your project.

We are excited to support the projects above in building the tools we bitcoiners care so deeply about. The future is bright; we just have a lot of building to do.

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Perder um ente querido é difícil e uma curiosa rede social tem como proposta permitir que as pessoas mantenham memórias do falecido. É possível perpetuar uma homenagem, dedicando um lugar online que mantém a presença do ente querido. É uma rede social gratuita. Os usuários podem deixar memórias e manter fotos e demais arquivos de forma segura.

Sempre que tiver necessidade de sentir novamente a presença de um ente querido. Basta acessar online as lembranças e fotos diretamente pelo smartphone. Em nossos testes a rede se mostrou rápida, intuitiva e segura.

Basicamente Você faz uma página especial e se torna o dono de todas as memórias. É possível reunir todos esses momentos em palavras e imagens. Você pode manter os dados em privado ou compartilhar com amigos e familiares. Juntos, os amigos podem manter viva as memórias e sempre voltar e adicionar novos momentos. Esta é uma proposta um tanto diferente.

Acesse a rede social que permite homenagear os entes falecidos em http://www.respectance.com

@ 23202132:eab3af30

Os cientistas sugerem que tentar memorizar buscando atalhos ajuda muito pouco os alunos. O que realmente funciona é praticar resolvendo exercícios sempre se esforçando para explicar o porquê das coisas. Perguntar o porquê das coisas se mostrou relevante para entender o sentido de algo e desta forma conseguir fazer novas associações.

Quanto ao tempo de estudo parece que a memória guarda por mais tempo os eventos rotineiros, aqueles que se repetem em maior frequência. Isso significa, por exemplo, que estudar tudo numa única vez um pouco antes da prova gera uma memória média de apenas cinco minutos. Já aqueles que estudam uma ou duas horas numa rotina diária, praticando exercícios e respondendo o porquê das coisas, gravam o conteúdo na memória por um longo tempo.

Se você pretende passar num concurso ou aprender algo novo, o segredo para fazer a memória gravar o conteúdo estudado é criar uma rotina de estudo de uma ou duas horas por dia se concentrando em perguntar o "por que" aquele conteúdo que você está estudando é assim e não diferente. Estudar é como fazer ginástica, sem disciplina e esforço, não funciona.

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ผมเกิดและโตในยุค 90’ ยุคเปลี่ยนผ่านทางเทคโนโลยีและวัฒนธรรมคาบเกี่ยว ได้เห็นวิวัฒนาการของสังคมในหลายๆ ส่วน โดยเฉพาะสิ่งที่เรียกว่า “Community” ที่ในอดีตไม่ได้มีกฏเกณฑ์หรือรูปแบบอันชัดเจนอย่างในปัจจุบัน.. ผมเกิดและโตในชนบทอันห่างไกลความเจริญ เรื่องราวและวิถีชีวิตที่จะเล่าจากนี้ไปก็จะขึ้นกับมุมมองหรือเลนส์ของผมเพียงคนเดียว

คอมมูนิตี้ในอดีต

ในความหมายแบบไทยๆ ที่ผมอยากจะบัญญัติมันเสียเอง มันเริ่มจากภาพของเด็กวัยกระโปกที่จับกลุ่มทำกิจกรรมสนุกสนานเฮฮากัน เล่นสนุกด้วยจุดมุ่งหมายและจิตใจอันบริสุทธิ์ ในยุคของผมนั้นการปั่นจักรยานไปเรื่อยๆ กับกลุ่มแก๊งค์เพื่อนๆ เป็นกิจกรรมสุดโปรดพอๆ กับเด็กทุกวันนี้รวมตัวกันเล่น ROV หรือ ROBLOX เลยก็ว่าได้

การผจญภัยของเด็กๆ มักจะมีกิจกรรมสุดท้ายรอพวกเขาอยู่ มันอาจเป็นการลงเล่นน้ำตามลำคลอง หนอง บึง หรือปีนต้นไม้เพื่อความเท่ สำรวจโลกเพื่อเรียนรู้อะไรบางอย่าง มันก็สนุกในแบบของมัน

เมื่อโตขึ้นมาในวัยมัธยม เด็กผู้ชายเริ่มเกาะกลุ่มกันเหนียวแน่น พวกเขาโตมาด้วยกันผ่านอะไรด้วยกันมามาก ความสัมพันธ์นั้นแน่นแฟ้นระดับยอมตายแทนกันได้ มันไม่มีสถานที่จัดเตรียมไว้ให้เรา ดังนั้นพวกเราต้องเลียบเลาะเสาะหาสถานที่สุมหัวคุยกันเอาเอง หัวข้อสนทนาในยุคนั้นไม่มีอะไรที่ไปไกลเกินกว่าประสบการณ์ที่พวกเขามี หรือเรื่องที่เคยได้เรียนมา รวมทั้งสื่อเพียงไม่กี่อย่างที่เข้าถึงได้ วิทยุและโทรทัศน์

ผู้ใหญ่ วัยทำงาน ไม่ได้มีรูปแบบสังคมอย่างวัยรุ่น กลุ่มสังคมของพวกเขานั้นเป็นวงเล็กๆ บ้านใกล้เรือนเคียง มานั่งรวมตัวพูดคุยกันทั่วไปในเรื่องสัพเพเหระ ชีวิตสโลว์ไลฟ์ที่ไม่ได้มีความเร่งรีบอะไร บางกลุ่มตั้งวงเหล้าใส่กันแต่เช้า ล้มหมู ล้มวัว ทำกับแกล้มสรวนเสเฮฮา อีกกลุ่มก็เข้าวัดฟังธรรมตามประเพณีปฏิบัติสืบต่อกันมา คนในอดีตราว 20-25 ปีก่อนในท้องถิ่นของผมนั้น ไม่ได้มีความเครียด ไม่ได้รับรู้ถึงความโสมมอะไรที่หยั่งรากลึกอยู่ภายในระบบเลย คำว่า Toxic คืออะไร? พวกเขาคงนึกถึงยาฆ่าหญ้า

เงิน ในวันที่ยังมีคุณค่าทำให้พวกเขามีความสุข ผมอดนึกถึงภาพเหล่านั้นไม่ได้จริงๆ

โลกเสมือนที่ใหญ่กว่าโลกแห่งความจริง

คอมมูในแบบที่ผมประทับใจที่สุดและดูซีเรียสจริงจังที่สุดเห็นจะเป็น “สภากาแฟ” ประจำหมู่บ้านหรือในตลาด ร้านกาแฟโบราณแบบในภาพยนตร์ยุคเก่า หลายคนคงพอนึกออก กลุ่มคอมมูนี้จะสนใจเหตุบ้านการเมือง อ่านหนังสือพิมพ์จนกระดาษขาด ฟังรายงานข่าวกันแต่เช้า ถกกันดุเดือดเหมือนเป็นอีกโลกนึงเลยทีเดียว และสภากาแฟแบบนี้นี่แหละที่ผมชอบไปนั่งฟังมากที่สุด ด้วยความที่ผมเป็นเด็กชอบเรียนรู้อะไรใหม่ๆ เรื่องต่างๆ ที่ผู้ใหญ่คุยกันมันช่างทำให้ผมสมองงอกมากจริงๆ

ตัดภาพ Fast forward กลับมาในยุคปัจจุบัน เราแทบไม่ได้เห็นกลิ่นอายหรือบรรยากาศอะไรแบบนั้นอีกแล้ว คอมมูนิตี้บนโลกแห่งความจริงมันดับสลายไปสูญสิ้น ผู้คนอพยพไปใช้ชีวิตกันบนโลกออนไลน์จนอาจิณ แม้ตัวพวกเขาเองผมก็คิดว่าคงไม่รู้สึกตัว เราหลุดจากโลกความจริงไปไกล เราหลงไปกับข้อมูลที่ส่วนใหญ่เป็นการล่อลวง สนตะพายจมูกลากจูงพวกเราไปทางไหนก็ได้ น่าเศร้าเหลือเกิน..

ตีวงให้แคบเข้ามาในสังคมการลงทุนโดยเฉพาะในแวดวงบิตคอยน์ ผมพบเห็นเพียงสื่อส่วนใหญ่ที่ชี้นำและชักพาผู้คนเข้าสู่คอมมูนิตี้ด้วยเป้าหมายสำคัญคือ “เงิน” และ “ความร่ำรวย” ผมคิดไปเองว่าเจ้าของสื่อก็คงจะไม่รู้ตัวเองเช่นกันว่ากำลังโดนสนตะพายจมูกอยู่โดยใครสักกลุ่มหรือใครบางคน ทั้งหมดนี้จะไม่ช่วยให้ใครเก่งพอจะเอาตัวรอดหรือปรับตัวได้เองในชีวิตการลงทุน มันไม่ทำให้หลายคนเข้าใจแก่นแท้หรือธรรมชาติของตลาดทุนอย่างแน่นอน เมื่อคนส่วนใหญ่ภายในคอมมูนิตี้ถูกชักพาในไปทิศทางนั้น บทสนทนาที่เราจะพบได้อย่างเดือนดาดบนโลกโซเชียลก็คงเป็นข่าวความเคลื่อนไหวระยะสั้นที่ส่งผลต่อราคาสินทรัพย์ พัฒนาการไร้สาระที่เอามาปลุกปั่นให้ดูดี พฤติกรรมการอวดไลฟ์สไตล์ อวดร่ำอวดรวยของอินฟลูเอนเซอร์ ที่ถูกหลอกมาอีกทีว่าควรสร้างภาพให้ดูน่าเชื่อถือ น่าเศร้ามากจริงๆ

มองหาที่ทางของตัวเอง

ผมเชื่อลึกๆ นะว่า บิตคอยเนอร์ในยุคหลังๆ ที่ยังไม่ผ่านสักไซเคิลมักจะรู้สึกอึดอัด หงุดหงิดเวลาต้องการ “คนคุยด้วย” ในชีวิตจริง มันไม่มีอีกแล้วกลุ่มปั่นจักรยานล่ากิ้งก่า กลุ่มสุมหัวที่ปลายนา หรือสภากาแฟ มันเหลือเพียงโลกออนไลน์ที่ต้องไปอยู่ท่ามกลาง Anonymous ร้อยพ่อพันแม่ กลางผู้คนที่ตัวเราเองก็ยากที่จะแสดงออกหรือเปิดใจ..

“คุยบิตคอยน์กับใครก็ไม่รู้เรื่อง” มันเรื่องปกติ.. ปกติจริงๆ ประสบการณ์การป้ายยาส้มแบบเฟลๆ น่าจะเคยเกิดขึ้นมาแล้วกับพวกเราทุกคน จุดนี้เองที่ผมตระหนักได้ว่า คนชอบเรื่องเดียวกันก็ควรได้คุยกับคนประเภทเดียวกัน อย่างน้อยก็ชื่นชอบเรื่องเดียวกันก็ยังดี ส่วนหน้าตาหลังการรวมตัวกันจะออกมาเป็นยังไงก็ปล่อยให้สังคมมันปรับตัวของมันไปเองอย่างออแกนิกก็แล้วกัน

“จับกลุ่มคุยกันเรื่องบิตคอยน์” มันเป็นที่มาของไอเดียแบบแนวๆ รายการ “สภายาส้ม” จนล่าสุดเราพึ่งมี “สภายาม่วง” ที่แคแรคเตอร์แตกต่างกันพอสมควร มันเป็นการสนทนากับบนโลกสีม่วงที่แต่ละคนจะได้เป็นตัวของตัวเองแบบไร้การปรุงแต่ง ได้คุยในสิ่งที่อยากคุย ได้เล่นกับคนในแชท ได้หัวเราะแบบที่ไม่ต้องกั๊ก ได้ทำเรื่องน่าอายแต่สนุกชิบหายเลย

ผมเล่ามาถึงตรงนี้ อย่าเข้าใจผิดว่าผมลากมาตบด้วยการขายของ ผมแค่กำลังจะบอกว่า.. สภาแบบนี้มันไม่เห็นจำเป็นต้องรอให้ Right Shift ทำ ลองจินตนาการสิว่า มันมีสภาแบบนี้อยู่ที่หมู่บ้าน ตำบล อำเภอ หรือจังหวัด หรือภูมิภาคของคุณเอง เช่น สภาชลบุรี, สภาขอนแก่น, สภาน่าน หรือสภายาส้มเขาใหญ่ ฯลฯ

มันเป็นไปได้นะ.. คำถามคือเราจะสร้างสภาแบบนั้นขึ้นมายังไง.. ก็ใช้ประโยชน์จากสื่อโซเชียลมีเดียที่เรามีนี่แหละ ประกาศตามหาพวก ทำความรู้จัก นักเจอกัน เริ่มจากเหตุการณ์เล็กๆ จุดเริ่มต้นน่ารักๆ นำไปสู่วัฒนธรรมสังคมอันยิ่งใหญ่แบบที่พวกเราทำกันมาแล้วนั่นไง

ผมอยากเห็นอะไรแบบนั้น อยากให้มีภาพความประทับใจจากหลายๆ พื้นที่มาอวด มาโชว์ มาแบ่งปันกัน มันก็ดีกว่าการเช็คอินสถานที่ต่างๆ ที่ตัวเราเองก็ไม่เห็นเคยอินกับมันเลย..

รออยู่นะ.. สภายาส้ม สภายาม่วง ทั่วไทย

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OpenSats is pleased to announce a new long-term support (LTS) program for Bitcoin Core developers and similar Load-Bearing Internet People.[^fn-lbip] This grant program is designed to provide financial support for developers who are working on critical infrastructure for the bitcoin network.

The LTS program is a new initiative from OpenSats and is distinct from our regular grant program, which is more expansive in scope. It is also distinct from OpenSats' website listings, which allows reviewed open-source projects to receive tax-deductible donations via OpenSats. The LTS program is specifically designed to provide long-term support for developers who are working on critical open-source infrastructure in and around bitcoin.

Having a longer time horizon than regular grants, the LTS program is geared towards long-term stability for grantees, with a minimum grant duration of 12 months and possible grant durations of two years or longer. This will allow developers to focus on their work without having to worry about financial constraints.

To be eligible for the LTS program, applicants must:

• have a track record of quality contributions
• be mission-driven and self-motivated
• be able to work in public
• be bitcoin-only

Applications for the LTS program are now open: https://opensats.org/apply/

The first recipient of an OpenSats LTS Grant is Marco Falke, a long-term maintainer and contributor of Bitcoin Core with thousands of contributions over many years. Marco will continue to focus on testing and quality assurance, as well as maintenance and review, helping to make sure that the Bitcoin Core software is as solid as it can be. You can read more about his contributions here.

We appreciate all the hard work that goes into building and maintaining critical open-source infrastructure. It is a hard and often thankless job. We hope that we can play a role in closing the gaps in bitcoin open-source funding, and we look forward to working with contributors in the future.

OpenSats aims to be an additional pillar of the increasingly solid funding landscape in and around bitcoin. We have learned a lot from the programs of the past and aim to join Brink, Spiral, Chaincode, HRF, and other successful grant programs to support those who build the tools that ensure the protection of individual liberties in our digital world.

We are committed to supporting the development of bitcoin. The LTS program is a new way for OpenSats to support long-term contributors who are building, maintaining, testing, researching, and reviewing critical software.

We encourage all qualified developers to apply for the LTS program. Together, we can build a stronger and more resilient bitcoin network.

[^fn-lbip]: "An LBIP is a person who maintains the software for a critical Internet service or library, and has to do it without organizational support or a budget backing him up." —Eric S. Raymond

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O HoloDesk é um sistema interativo que combina um visor óptico e uma câmera Kinect para criar a ilusão de que os usuários estão interagindo diretamente com gráficos 3D. Uma imagem virtual de uma cena 3D é renderizada através de um espelho meio prateado e alinhada espacialmente com o mundo real para o espectador.

Basicamente, o termo HoloDesk se refere a qualquer dispositivo que projeta modelos em 3D sob uma superfície, permitindo alguma manipulação ou interação com este holograma.

Os usuários acessam facilmente um volume de interação exibindo a imagem virtual. Isso permite que o usuário literalmente coloque as mãos na tela virtual. Um novo algoritmo em tempo real para representar mãos e outros objetos físicos, que são detectados pelo Kinect dentro deste volume, permite interação fisicamente realista entre objetos 3D reais e virtuais.

Para constar, o Holodesk não é o único experimento de interação 3D que existe. Mas o que o diferencia do resto é o uso de divisores de feixe e um algoritmo de processamento gráfico, que trabalham juntos para fornecer uma experiência mais realista.

O legal desse tipo de experimento, é que se você entende de programação e eletrônica, pode fazer em casa.

Veja vário tipos diferentes de HoloDesk no https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=holodesk

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Test Bounty Note

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Nostrica is the shit.

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Intro

This short tutorial will help you set up your own Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) on your own LND Node that is not using Umbrel. If you are a user of Umbrel, you should use their version of NWC.

Requirements

You need to have a working installation of LND with established channels and connectivity to the internet. NWC in itself is fairly light and will not consume a lot of resources. You will also want to ensure that you have a working installation of Docker, since we will use a docker image to run NWC.

• Working installation of LND (and all of its required components)
• Docker (with Docker compose)

Installation

For the purpose of this tutorial, we will assume that you have your lnd/bitcoind running under user bitcoin with home directory /home/bitcoin. We will also assume that you already have a running installation of Docker (or docker.io).

Prepare and verify

git version - we will need git to get the latest version of NWC. docker version - should execute successfully and show the currently installed version of Docker. docker compose version - same as before, but the version will be different. ss -tupln | grep 10009- should produce the following output: tcp LISTEN 0 4096 0.0.0.0:10009 0.0.0.0: tcp LISTEN 0 4096 [::]:10009 [::]:**

For things to work correctly, your Docker should be version 20.10.0 or later. If you have an older version, consider installing a new one using instructions here: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/

Create folders & download NWC

In the home directory of your LND/bitcoind user, create a new folder, e.g., "nwc" mkdir /home/bitcoin/nwc. Change to that directory cd /home/bitcoin/nwc and clone the NWC repository: git clone https://github.com/getAlby/nostr-wallet-connect.git

Creating the Docker image

In this step, we will create a Docker image that you will use to run NWC.

• Change directory to nostr-wallet-connect: cd nostr-wallet-connect
• Run command to build Docker image: docker build -t nwc:$(date +'%Y%m%d%H%M') -t nwc:latest . (there is a dot at the end)
• The last line of the output (after a few minutes) should look like => => naming to docker.io/library/nwc:latest
• nwc:latest is the name of the Docker image with a tag which you should note for use later.

Creating docker-compose.yml and necessary data directories

• Let's create a directory that will hold your non-volatile data (DB): mkdir data
• Indocker-compose.ymlfile, there are fields that you want to replace (<> comments) and port “4321” that you want to make sure is open (check with ss -tupln | grep 4321which should return nothing).
• Create docker-compose.ymlfile with the following content, and make sure to update fields that have <> comment:

version: "3.8" services: nwc: image: nwc:latest volumes: - ./data:/data - ~/.lnd:/lnd:ro ports: - "4321:8080" extra_hosts: - "localhost:host-gateway" environment: NOSTR_PRIVKEY: <use "openssl rand -hex 32" to generate a fresh key and place it inside ""> LN_BACKEND_TYPE: "LND" LND_ADDRESS: localhost:10009 LND_CERT_FILE: "/lnd/tls.cert" LND_MACAROON_FILE: "/lnd/data/chain/bitcoin/mainnet/admin.macaroon" DATABASE_URI: "/data/nostr-wallet-connect.db" COOKIE_SECRET: <use "openssl rand -hex 32" to generate fresh secret and place it inside ""> PORT: 8080 restart: always stop_grace_period: 1m

Starting and testing

Now that you have everything ready, it is time to start the container and test.

• While you are in the nwcdirectory (important), execute the following command and check the log output, docker compose up
• You should see container logs while it is starting, and it should not exit if everything went well.
• At this point, you should be able to go to http://<ip of the host where nwc is running>:4321 and get to the interface of NWC
• To stop the test run of NWC, simply press Ctrl-C , and it will shut the container down.
• To start NWC permanently, you should execute docker compose up -d , “-d” tells Docker to detach from the session.
• To check currently running NWC logs, execute docker compose logs to run it in tail mode add -f to the end.
• To stop the container, execute docker compose down

That's all, just follow the instructions in the web interface to get started.

Updating

As with any software, you should expect fixes and updates that you would need to perform periodically. You could automate this, but it falls outside of the scope of this tutorial. Since we already have all of the necessary configuration in place, the update execution is fairly simple.

• Change directory to the clone of the git repository, cd /home/bitcoin/nwc/nostr-wallet-connect
• Run command to build Docker image: docker build -t nwc:$(date +'%Y%m%d%H%M') -t nwc:latest . (there is a dot at the end)
• Change directory back one level cd ..
• Restart (stop and start) the docker compose config docker compose down && docker compose up -d
• Done! Optionally you may want to check the logs: docker compose logs

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สองคนนี้รู้จักกันเพราะคุยเรื่องบิตคอยน์กันแน่ๆ เลย?

ถ้าผมบอกว่าเราคุ้นเคยกันมากขึ้นเพราะ "เกมส์" คุณจะเชื่อไหม?

ย้อนกลับไปในช่วงเปิดตัวหนังสือ The Bitcoin Standard ฉบับแปลไทยของ อ.พิริยะ นั่นคือเหตุผลแรกที่ผม ซึ่งเป็นใครจากไหนก็ไม่รู้ ทักไปหา อ.ตั๊ม ครั้งแรก..

"ผมเอาเล่มนึงคับ"

ก็คงเป็นการ Approach แบบที่ใครเค้าก็ทำกัน พวกคุณก็คงพอเดาได้ แต่คุณคงเคยเห็นมาแล้ว บัญชีโซเชียลมีเดียแต่ละแอปของเขาน่ะ การแจ้งเตือนมัน 999+ ตลอด ผมไม่คิดว่าจะมีใครโชคดีได้ป๊ะได้คุยตั้งแต่ทักเขาครั้งแรก

ใช่ครับ.. ผมรอครึ่งปีเพื่อให้ถึงจังหวะโอกาสที่เขาต้องตอบผมแน่ๆ ก็ตอนขายหนังสือนี่แหละ..

ไม่มีอะไรมากมาย ผมมีแนะนำตัวเล็กน้อยว่าผมเป็นแอดมินเพจ CryptoNize (ที่ตอนนี้เลิกทำไปแล้วล่ะ) ผมชื่นชอบบิตคอยน์ และติดตามมานาน บลา บลา บลา

แต่สิ่งหนึ่งที่ผมต้องใช้ความกล้าอย่างมาก และต้องทำทันทีคือการ "Declare" บอกกับเขาตรงๆ ว่าผมอยากร่วมทำบางอย่างเพื่อตอบแทนสิ่งที่เขาทำทั้งหมดด้วยการช่วยทุกอย่างเท่าที่เขาจะอนุญาต โดยเฉพาะการสร้าง Bitcoin Network ในไทย ก็ถ้าไม่ใช่โอกาสนี้ก็ไม่รู้จะทำตอนไหนละ

เอ่อ.. ผมคิดว่าตอนนั้น อ.ตั๊ม ก็คงจะงงๆ แบ่งรับแบ่งสู้ อะไรของมึงวะหมอนี่..

จริง ๆ มันเริ่มมาจากการที่ผมสังเกตมานานแล้ว และคิดเรื่องนี้ในหัวมาตลอด ผมเองก็เป็นคนนึงที่อยากทำให้ในไทยมีฐานความรู้เกี่ยวกับบิตคอยน์ภาษาไทยมาตั้งแต่ต้น

ผมหลงเข้าดงชิตคอยน์ในก้าวแรกสู่ตลาดคริปโต เดชะบุญที่ผมอยู่กับการศึกษาวงการลงทุนมานาน หลายสินทรัพย์ที่ผมรู้จักดี ผมใช้เวลาไม่นานนักในการแยกแยะได้ว่าอะไรคือของจริง ของปลอม

หลังจากนั้นผมก็ทำเพจบิตคอยน์งูๆ ปลาๆ ในแบบของตัวเองไป แน่นอนว่าในไทยเมื่อคุณตกลงปลงใจจะศึกษาบิตคอยน์ ชื่อแรกที่คุณจะนึกถึงแน่ๆ คือ อ.พิริยะ เขาเป็นไอดอลของผมเหมือนกับพวกคุณทุกคนนั่นแหละครับ

แล้วไอดอลกลายมาเป็นเพื่อนเราได้ยังไง?

มีช่วงหนึ่งที่ผมสังเกตุเห็นได้ชัดว่า อ.ตั๊ม เริ่มมีอาการ Burn-out ผมไม่รู้ว่าใครเห็นแบบผมไหมนะ แต่ผมแน่ใจว่าใช่แน่ๆ ผมกลับไปคิดว่าผมจะช่วยอะไรเค้าได้บ้าง?

ถ้าเราอยากจะผลักดันวงการบิตคอยน์ในไทย แทนที่จะแยกกันทำไปแบบนี้ ทำไมเราไม่ไปขอจอยช่วย อ. ทำ เสริมพลังให้แกไปเลยนะ? ผมตัวเล็กมากในคอมมูนิตี้ไทยตอนนั้น จะว่าโนเนมเลยก็ได้ แต่คิดอะไรเกินตัวซะเหลือเกิน

But how?

ผมรื้อทุกอย่างที่เป็น อ.พิริยะ เท่าที่จะหาแหล่งข้อมูลได้ในเมืองไทย ผมเป็นคนนึงที่ดูทุกคลิป ทั้งบิตคอยน์ สอนเทรด ส่วนตัว เฟซบุ๊ก หนังสือที่อ่าน วิธีที่พูด โพสต์ที่เคยผ่านตา บทความที่เคยเขียน ฯลฯ เรียกว่าผมวิจัยคนๆ นึงเลยก็ว่าได้

ผมศึกษานิสัยใจคอของเขา ความชอบ เป้าหมาย ต่างๆ นานา ไม่ใช่เพื่อจะ Take Advantage จากสิ่งนี้ แต่ผมต้องการเป็นเพื่อนกับเขาจริงๆ ผมเป็นคนแบบนี้ ผมชอบทำงานกับเพื่อน กับคนที่รู้มือรู้ใจกัน และในสถานการณ์แบบนี้ มันควรเป็นผมที่ต้องเข้าใจ อ. ให้ได้ก่อน

ถ้าคุณคิดว่าเราคงถกเรื่องบิตคอยน์ หรืองานเทรดกัน คุณคิดผิดถนัด.. ผมคุยเรื่องสัพเพเหระที่ไม่เกี่ยวกับบิตคอยน์กันแม้แต่นิดเดียว จนกระทั่งวันนี้ก็ยังเป็นแบบนี้ เรื่องที่เราคุยกันถูกคอมากที่สุดคือ.. "เรื่องเกมส์"

ให้ตายเถอะ เรามันเด็กที่โตมาในยุค 90' เหมือนกัน มีอะไรจะคุยได้ยาวเท่าเรื่องในอดีตอีก เราคุยถึงสมัยเรียน สมัยเด็ก สมัย Ragnarok เราเล่นเกมบน Nintendo switch ด้วยกัน

เอ่อ.. ผมหมายถึง… เล่นของใครของมันแล้วมาคุยกันอะนะ

พวกคุณรู้ไหมว่าเราชอบเกมกันขนาดนี้ แต่เอาเข้าจริงเราได้เล่นกันก่อนนอนวันละไม่เกินครึ่ง ชม. แค่นั้นเอง เอาแค่พอให้หายอยาก เรามีเรื่องต้องทำกันเยอะมากๆ ในตอนนั้น หากใครยังจำได้ จะมีช่วงนึงที่ อ. พูดถึงเกม Triangle Strategy บ่อยๆ นั่นแหละ เล่นอยู่กับผม

แต่อันนี้ยอมนะ เกม RPG นี่ผมสู้แกไม่ได้จริงๆ

จนกระทั่งเราได้เจอกันครั้งแรกที่งานมีตอัพบิตคอยน์ที่โรงเบียร์พี่ชิต (น่าจะมีคนอ่านสักคนที่ได้ไป) เอาจริงๆ นะ ผมไม่ตื่นเต้นเลย เป็น อ. มากกว่าที่ไม่รู้จะทำตัวยังไง ฮ่าๆๆ

ก็ผมมันดิบ ผมเป็นคนเซอร์ๆ ขัดกับลุคของ อ. คนละขั้ว แต่คนต่างขั้วนี่แหละพาพวกคุณให้ได้มาอ่านบทความนี้บน Nostr ตอนนี้ เรามาไกลจากตรงนั้นมาก เรามีคอมมูที่โตขึ้นอย่างออแกนิก มีสมาชิกน่ารักๆ ในคอมมูนิตี้หลายคน เรามี Right Shift และพาร์ทเนอร์อีกมากมายที่กำลังผุดกันขึ้นมา

ผมที่คิดว่าจะเข้ามาช่วยแบ่งเบาภาระ อ. ในตอนแรก ตอนนี้ผมทำให้เขายุ่งยิ่งกว่าเดิม แต่ผมก็สัมผัสได้นะ ผมเชื่อลึกๆ ว่าตอนนี้ อ. คงมีความสุข อ.ไม่ได้สู้ตัวคนเดียว วันนี้ อ. มีพวกเราทุกคน มันจับต้องได้ ใช้แค่หัวใจก็สัมผัสมันได้ละ

สิ่งที่ดีที่สุดที่เกิดขึ้นระหว่างเราสองคน คือผมได้สวมกอด อ. (แบบลูกผู้ชาย) หลังการจัดงาน BTC2023 ไม่มีใครได้เห็นภาพนี้ เพราะมันอยู่ในความทรงจำของผมคนเดียว…

เราเคยวาดรูปล้อเลียนให้นาย.. ตอนนี้ยังอยู่ดีไหม?

ผมอยากจะบอกกับทุกคนว่า.. เราคงไม่สามารถมีเพื่อนได้จากการนั่งอยู่เฉยๆ หรอกครับ มันมีคุณค่าบางอย่างที่จะคอยดึงดูดคนเราเข้าหากัน แต่มันต้องมีสักคนที่เริ่มก่อน และ พิริยะ คือชายคนนั้นที่ได้มอบคุณค่าบางอย่างให้กับพวกเรา พวกเรารู้กันดีว่ามันคืออะไร

สิ่งนี้แหละเรียกว่า Value for Value เมื่อเราให้มากพอ วันนึงเราจะได้รับบางอย่างเป็นการตอบแทน..

@ d830ee7b:4e61cd62

ผมมีความสุขดีกับการทำตัว Low profile เพราะมันมีเรื่องราวที่เป็นเหตุผลของมันอยู่..

ใครอ่านงานเขียนผมบ่อยๆ จะทราบดีว่าผมมักจะเขียนไปเรื่อย เล่าเรื่องหรือความคิดของตัวเองออกมาได้ยาวเหยียด เมื่อมันเป็นแบบนี้ก็เลยคิดว่าจะใช้ Account นี้ให้เหมือนเป็นบล็อกส่วนตัวสุดๆ แบบไม่มีคอนเซ็ปต์ไปเสียเลย วันไหนอยากเขียนอยากเล่าอะไรผมก็จะเล่ามันดื้อๆ นี่แหละ..

มันเริ่มจาก.. มีคนพยายามบอกว่าผมอยู่เบื้องหลังของคอมมูนิตี้บิตคอยน์ในไทย มีคนบอกว่าผมเป็นตัวตั้งตัวตี แต่ก็เป็นคนที่ลึกลับหาข้อมูลได้ยากอะไรแบบนั้น ซึ่งมันก็มีทั้งส่วนที่ถูกและยังไม่ใช่อยู่พอสมควรครับ..

อย่างแรก ผมไม่ได้มองว่าตัวเองยิ่งใหญ่หรือมีบทบาทสำคัญมากขนาดนั้น ผมยังเชื่อมาตลอดว่าอะไรก็ตามที่เกิดขึ้น มันไม่ได้เกิดเพราะผมเพียงคนเดียว มันประกอบมาจากหลายส่วนและคนที่มีส่วนร่วมในสิ่งนี้ยังมีอีกมากมาย ผมอาจเป็นฟันเฟืองหลักในเรื่องนี้ แต่ยังไงผมก็คงต้องปฎิเสธว่าไม่ใช่เพราะผมคนเดียวอย่างแน่นอน ใช่ครับ.. มันก็มาถึงตรงนี้ได้เพราะพวกเราทุกคน

อย่างที่สอง โดยส่วนตัวผมคิดว่าการมีตัวตนในลักษณะนั้นจะทำให้ผมไม่สามารถทำอย่างที่ทำอยู่ในทุกวันนี้ได้ มันจะทำให้ผมนึกถึงเพียงแค่ตัวเอง สนใจแค่เพียงตัวเองมากกว่าคนรอบข้าง

ซึ่งมันขัดกับเป้าหมายสำคัญส่วนตัวของผมนั่นคือ “ส่วนรวม” ฝันของผมนั้นไกลจนยากที่ใครจะจินตนาการถึง วันนี้เราทำเสต็ปแรกกันยังไม่ครบเลยด้วยซ้ำ หากผมมตัวแต่ส่องกระจกประเมินตัวเองอยู่ทุกวันๆ ผมคงไม่มีเวลาไปคิดถึงส่วนอื่นๆ เป็นแน่แท้ ..งานแบบนั้นยังมีอีกหลายคนที่พร้อมจะเสียสละและเต็มที่ไปกับมัน ไม่จำเป็นต้องเป็นผมใช่ไหมล่ะ

อย่างที่สาม ผมเชื่อในแนวคิด Decentralized อย่างที่สุด คำนี้ลึกซึ้งมากกว่าแค่เข้าใจว่ามันกระจายหรือรวมศูนย์ ผมไม่ได้เป็นคนที่เข้าใจลงลึกในวิชาการหรือความรู้ทางเทคนิคของบิตคอยน์มากนัก ผมเชื่อว่าตัวเองก็แค่รู้ในระดับคนทั่วๆ ไป แต่ในเรื่องหลักการและแนวคิดพวกนี้ รวมถึงการนำมาประยุกตร์เข้ากับเรื่องต่างๆ ในชีวิต ผมคิดว่าผมทำได้ค่อนข้างดีเลยล่ะ

เกี่ยวกับเรื่องนี้.. ผมเชื่อเองตั้งแต่ต้นว่าสังคมจะไม่เติบโตอย่างยั่งยืนหากพึ่งพาผู้นำหรือใครคนใดคนหนึ่งมากเกินไปหรือกระทั่งการเทิดทูนฮีโร่ บิตคอยน์ยังอยู่มาอย่างแข็งแกร่งมากกว่า 10 ปีผมไม่คิดว่าเป็นเพราะใครสักคน แต่มันเป็นเพราะอาณุภาพของ Network ที่เข้มแข็งและแพร่กระจายตัวในทุกนาทีแบบเดียวกับไมซีเลียม ผมฝันอยากเห็นสังคมที่โตในแบบของมันเอง มีความมั่นคงเข็มแข็ง อาจไม่ต้องเป็นหนึ่งเดียว แต่มันไม่ควรมีจุดตายอยู่ที่ใครทั้งนั้น

เราสามารถมีผู้เสียสละเก่งๆ ได้อีกมากมายที่กระจายตัวอยู่ตามพื้นที่ต่างๆ ต่างจังหวัด หรือแพลตฟอร์มต่างๆ เพื่อทำหน้าที่ผลักดันในแบบที่เขาถนัด

https://i.imgur.com/3sDzTdg.png เมื่อเราจินตนาการเห็นภาพนั้นเราจะเริ่มตระหนักได้ทันทีว่า..

เรานั้นตัวเล็กเกินกว่าจะไปคิดว่าเราใหญ่

ผมไม่ชอบใช้คำว่า “การต่อสู้” หรือ “การเอาชนะ” ไม่ว่าจะกับใคร (ใครๆ ก็คงจะหมายถึงรัฐ) บิตคอยน์มันชนะได้ด้วยตัวมันเองแบบไม่ต้องแข่งเลยด้วยซ้ำ ทำไมเราต้องไปเสียเวลากับการคิดหาหนทางเอาชนะในแบบเดิมๆ วิธีที่แยบยลกว่าน่าจะเป็น “การสร้าง” สิ่งที่ทรงพลัง กำแพงหนาที่แข็งแกร่งยากจะโค่นล้ม นั่นคือพลังแห่งความคิดและฝูงชน พลังแห่งเครือข่ายและชุมชน

ผมอยากเห็นมากกว่าแค่คนๆ เดียว คนกลุ่มเดียว ที่เก่งกล้าพอจะลุกขึ้นมาเสียสละแบ่งปันและช่วยเหลือ เผยแพร่สิ่งที่พวกเขารู้ไปยังคนอื่นๆ เพื่อขยายแนวคิดให้กระจายออกไป ผมมีส่วนจริงในการปลูกฝังแนวคิดและสร้างคอมมูนิตี้ขึ้นมาจากจุดนั้น แต่ผมไม่ใช่คนบงการอะไรทั้งสิ้น

แนวคิดจะได้รับการยอมรับคงไม่ใช่เพราะคนมาเกรงใจตัวผม แต่มันควรมาจากการที่ทุกคนเห็นพ้องต้องกันว่ามันอาจเป็นแนวทางที่ใช่สำหรับสังคมของพวกเขา เราอาจต้องนำ ต้องเป็นแบบอย่างก่อนในช่วงแรก แต่เมื่อทุกอย่างเริ่มเข้าที่ ทุกคนเริ่มเข้าใจเหตุผลและรูปแบบในการอยู่ร่วมกัน เวลาของผมสำหรับบทบาทนั้นก็คงไม่ต้องมีอีกแล้ว

นั่นเป็นเหตุผลว่าทำไมผมผละจากสิ่งที่เคยแอคทีฟในตอนแรก การมีส่วนร่วมเป็นแกนหลักและคอยแอคทีฟในชุมชน ผมไปทำอีกสิ่งหนึ่งเพื่อเตรียมไว้ตอบสนองต่อความต้องการของชุมชนในอนาคตนั่นคือคลังความรู้ เพราะผมเชื่อว่ากลุ่มบิตคอยน์ของชาวเรามันเติบโตขึ้นมากแล้วจากวันแรกๆ ที่เราได้เริ่ม

มันไม่ใช่เรื่องของจำนวน ไม่ใช่เรื่องของการตลาด มันคือหลักการและแนวคิด รูปแบบการปฏิสัมพันธ์ที่ค่อยๆ ก็ร่างสร้างตัวมาเรื่อยๆ จนมีคุณลักษณะที่ชัดและเป็นปัจเจกแตกต่างจากเหรียญอื่นๆ ไม่ว่าใครจากภายนอกจะมองว่าสัวคมของเราเป็นแบบไหนก็ตาม ผมไม่ได้สนใจเลยตรงนั้น เพราะนี่แหละคือเราในแบบของเรา

ผมมาเขียนเล่าเรื่องพวกนี้ไม่ใช่เพราะผมอยากจะหายตัวไปแบบ Satoshi หรอกนะครับ ผมไม่ได้ทำเรื่องยิ่งใหญ่อะไรขนาดนั้นเลย เพราะเมื่อไหร่ก็ตามที่เราคิดว่าเรานั้นใหญ่เสียเหลือเกิน ตัวของเราจะบดบังตาเราจนมืดบอด เราจะมองไม่เห็นใคร

ผมขอเป็นคนตัวเล็กๆ เล็กพอที่จะมองเห็นคนทุกคนบนโลกแบบนี้ต่อไปดีกว่า ผมชอบที่จะได้เห็นและคอยมีส่วนกับทุกๆ เรื่อง ผมสนุกกับมัน และหวังว่าพวกเราที่อ่านมาถึงตรงนี้ก็คงจะสนุกแบบผมเหมือนกัน

https://i.imgur.com/z7XmLjh.png บิตคอยน์ไม่ได้เปลี่ยนโลกในแบบที่เราเข้าใจ มันเริ่มเปลี่ยนคนตัวเล็กแบบพวกเขาให้เติบโตไปเปลี่ยนโลกต่างหากล่ะ

@ 00000001:a21169a7

August Sander (1876-1964), a prominent figure in documentary photography, played a pivotal role in challenging and resisting Nazi ideology through his work during the difficult years preceding and following Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany.

Sander's most famous project, "People of the 20th Century," stands as a testament to this silent resistance. This monumental body of work, portraying a broad cross-section of German society, presented a bold challenge to the Nazi notion of a "superior race".

Sander's strategy was to humanize all the people he photographed, regardless of their social status or race. His approach was neither to glorify nor denigrate, but simply to portray people as they were, a vision that was in stark contrast with the Nazis' racial ideology.

Furthermore, Sander sought to dismantle the Nazis' rigid racial and social categories. In "People of the 20th Century," the range of subjects is impressively broad: aristocrats, peasants, artists, manual workers, women, men, Jews, non-Jews. By juxtaposing these different categories, Sander underscored the diversity and complexity of German society, thus challenging the Nazi notion of a "pure race".

Despite the resistance he faced, Sander's courage never wavered. His photographs were confiscated and destroyed by the Nazis, and his book "Face of Our Time" was banned in 1936. Yet, Sander persisted, and while he was forced to switch his focus to landscape photography to avoid further confrontations, he continued to document his time's Germany until his death in 1964.

Sander's resistance to Nazi ideology was not frontal or violent, but subversive and silent. His camera became his weapon, and his photographs, his resistance. By capturing his subjects' humanity, he demonstrated that diversity, far from being a threat, is a source of richness and vitality in a society.

August Sander's work remains a powerful tool for understanding the social and political context of Germany in the first half of the 20th century. At the same time, his work continues to be a reminder of the importance of preserving and respecting human dignity, regardless of race, religion, or social status. In this sense, Sander's photography not only documents the reality of his era but also offers a powerful critique of Nazi ideology and a more inclusive and humanitarian vision of society.

@ 23202132:eab3af30

É possível afirmar que a crise financeira internacional de 2007 e 2008, impulsionada pela globalização neoliberal e a desregulamentação financeira, conduziu à instabilidade do valor das moedas e geraram uma insegurança econômica extraordinária. É nesse cenário que a criptomoeda Bitcoin surge.

Posteriormente o uso de novas tecnologias descentralizadas capazes de gerar criptomoedas, baseadas na blockchain, tornou-se o principal desafio assumido pelas principais corporações financeiras e comerciais do período atual, como IBM, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Samsung e Amazon.

A tecnologia que envolve a criptomoeda BTC é considerada por muitos como uma revolução que se iguala ao fenômeno da invenção da internet. Entenda um pouco sobre as criptomoedas com este artigo acadêmico em https://www.revistas.usp.br/geousp/article/view/134538/130348

A revolução foi tanta que na atualidade é possível fazer graduação no assunto, veja em: https://www.anhanguera.com/curso/blockchain-criptomoedas-e-financas-na-era-digital-tecnologo/

A profissão relacionada com tecnologia blockchain é bem requisitada no mercado de trabalho. Para quem busca uma graduação em tecnologia é relevante considerar esta possibilidade.

@ 23202132:eab3af30

Já pensou em testar uma rede social descentralizada que não monitora nem coleta seus dados pessoais. Você pode convidar seus amigos e não precisa se preocupar com os seus dados.

O Minds oferece inúmeras funcionalidades que além de garantirem a privacidade dos utilizadores, permitem também a promoção e pagamentos através do token digital da plataforma.

Os usuários podem executar publicações, comentários e enviar mensagens: Você tem o mesmo desempenho de outras redes sociais.

As vantagens de redes sociais descentralizadas incluem resistência à censura, governança de dados pessoais, curadoria melhorada de conteúdo e novos modelos de monetização de conteúdo baseados em criptomoedas.

Participar de uma rede descentralizada pode ser uma boa ideia se você deseja conhecer um pouco mais sobre esse tipo de ambiente integrado com o protocolo Nostr.

@ d830ee7b:4e61cd62

https://i.imgur.com/bUDUOZH.png On the day the world seemed on the brink of collapse, you chose to embark on Noah's Ark. An escape vessel from the mundane life you've grown weary of. The ship was filled with hopeful souls, silently gazing into each other's eyes throughout the journey. The silence stemmed from unfamiliarity, yet deep down, they all recognized a shared purpose.

https://i.imgur.com/ovK3sUm.png The voyage was long and fraught with challenges. The ship braved countless storms and turbulent waves. They had no choice but to rise and work together, each lending a hand. Some mended the ship's cracks, others tended to the engines, while a few bailed out the infiltrating water. No one wished for this ship to falter. Their collective dedication became evident.

https://i.imgur.com/6XaPlDc.png Some aboard lacked the strength to assist others. Yet, they didn't want to be burdens. No one wished to be valueless in such circumstances. They fetched water and food, delivering it to those laboring tirelessly. A standout individual emerged, acting as the ship's captain. He received applause, encouragement, and sustenance. Everyone acknowledged the genuine care they had for one another. They all recognized the collective spirit propelling the ship to shore.

https://i.imgur.com/eEPqbNN.png When the storm subsided, they sat and shared tales of the recent ordeal. A mix of raw emotions and shared joy permeated the air. From an initial silence, the ship now echoed with laughter and chatter. Many found kindred spirits, while some discovered love. A small society within the ship began to evolve into a larger community. Everyone felt a sense of belonging and responsibility towards their shared vessel.

A few volunteered to return to their point of origin. They wished to share this inspiring tale with others, hoping to offer them a better life. Such selfless and compassionate souls.

https://i.imgur.com/Tx5Z3Fu.png Noah's Ark brought them to a new realm. It was as magnificent as they had imagined. An untouched paradise, abundant and unclaimed. Nature here was pristine, overflowing with resources. Their diverse skills and expertise meant everyone had a unique role. Yet, all worked towards building a new society that valued everyone's life. No one could have predicted what this place would become in just five years.

https://i.imgur.com/9rRGLeT.png Leaders emerged in various fields, from thinkers to musicians, artists to critics, and even public relations experts. A diverse society was taking shape, built on grand hopes. Those who contributed value were celebrated and became the talk of the town. Those who were self-centered retreated to the island's quiet corners. Everyone found their path in a society free from governance or control. This ship had brought them to the society they had long dreamt of.

We can't predict what life on this new land will be like in the future. Why ponder about it when today brings us joy?

https://i.imgur.com/u5MZJXa.png A man stepped away from the crowd to visit the now-docked ship. He gazed at it with deep reverence and gratitude. The ship, weathered by time, showed signs of wear and tear. Yet, its name remained clearly visible.

He approached and gently touched the engraved name. Words escaped him, replaced by an indescribable joy. "Thank you for bringing us here, for granting us a new hope. The Noah's Ark that heaven bestowed upon us on that fading day of light."

"Thank you... #NOSTR."

@ 32e18276:5c68e245

I’m so lazy I’m thinking of running the damus merch store via stateless and serverless lightning payment links. All data is collected and stored in the lightning invoice descriptions which are fetched from your node. You can do this without having to run any server code except a lightning node!

This is the same tech we used when selling merch as at bitcoin Miami. It was extremely reliable. I love these things, they are so easy. Integrating with the legacy fiat system is such a pita, It may just be a lightning-only store for now because of how simple this is. Here's what a lightning payment link looks like:

http://lnlink.org/?d=ASED88EIzNU2uFJoQfClxYISu55lhKHrSTCA58HMNPgtrXECMjQuODQuMTUyLjE4Nzo4MzI0AANgB6Cj2QCeZAFOZ1nS6qGuRe4Vf6qzwJyQ5Qo3b0HRt_w9MTIwJm1ldGhvZD1pbnZvaWNlfG1ldGhvZD13YWl0aW52b2ljZSZwbmFtZWxhYmVsXmxubGluay0mcmF0ZT04BERlYXRoIFN0YXIABQAAAGQGQW4gb2JqZWN0IG9mIHVuZmF0aG9tYWJsZSBwb3dlcgAHEwhodHRwczovL3VwbG9hZC53aWtpbWVkaWEub3JnL3dpa2lwZWRpYS9lbi9mL2Y5L0RlYXRoX3N0YXIxLnBuZwA=

How it works

The entire product page is stored as data in the url. When a customer click the link, the product info is decoded and rendered as a webpage. The data in the url includes

• The product name
• Description
• Price in sats
• Product image url
• Fields to collect data from the user
• Lightning node address
• Lightning node rune for fetching and waiting for invoice payments

This works thanks to a javascript library I created called "lnsocket". It allows you to connect to your CLN node over websockets. Once the user fills out all of the info, a new lightning invoice is fetched with this information in the description, by connecting directly to your node. This connection is end-to-end encrypted thanks to the lightning protocol itself.

To your lightning node, it looks like another lightning node is connecting to it, but in reality it's just a dumb client asking for things.

At this point, custom lightning packets called "commando" packets are sent to your node which asks your node to run certain commands. CLN authenticates these packets using the rune and then returns a response. This is pretty much the same as calling these commands directly on your lightning node, except now someone is doing it from a browser in a secure way!

Why not just run btcpayserver?

btcpayserver is cool and is more powerful, but I like exploring simpler ways to do things that don't require running lots of software which can be challenging for many non-technical people. You shouldn't have to become a server administrator to start accepting payments. It should be as simple as running a bitcoin and lightning node, pushing all of the application logic to the clients.

This is a similar philosophy to what we have in the nostr space. Let's make it easier for people to use self-sovereign tools. Everyone deserves freedom tech.

Anyways, I'm still working on https://lnlink.org. I just added images and nostr address support! You can make your own payment links here! Try it out:

http://lnlink.org/?d=ASED88EIzNU2uFJoQfClxYISu55lhKHrSTCA58HMNPgtrXECMjQuODQuMTUyLjE4Nzo4MzI0AANgB6Cj2QCeZAFOZ1nS6qGuRe4Vf6qzwJyQ5Qo3b0HRt_w9MTIwJm1ldGhvZD1pbnZvaWNlfG1ldGhvZD13YWl0aW52b2ljZSZwbmFtZWxhYmVsXmxubGluay0mcmF0ZT04BERlYXRoIFN0YXIABQAAAGQGQW4gb2JqZWN0IG9mIHVuZmF0aG9tYWJsZSBwb3dlcgAHEwhodHRwczovL3VwbG9hZC53aWtpbWVkaWEub3JnL3dpa2lwZWRpYS9lbi9mL2Y5L0RlYXRoX3N0YXIxLnBuZwA=&edit=1

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O Wetapunga é um tipo de gafanhoto que pode crescer até 10 centímetros de comprimento e obter uma largura de 20 centímetros entre uma perna e outra. É atualmente o maior e mais pesado inseto vivo no mundo.

Este inseto esteve presente em toda Oceania e acabou sendo exterminado com a chegada de ratos vindos acidentalmente nos navios da época. O estranho bichinho da foto acima vive em uma das pequenas ilhas da Nova Zelândia e pode assustar alguns turistas.

A criatura é noturna e conhecida como Wetapunga ou “deus das coisas feias” e pesa o mesmo que um pequeno pássaro. O pesquisador Dr. Thomas Buckley diz que o inseto da foto é uma fêmea de tamanho médio e que embora a espécie esteja ameaçada, eles são encontrados com facilidade na ilha. O maior gafanhoto já registrado pesava 71 gramas, peso superior ao de um pardal médio.

Você pode assistir um simpático vídeo sobre este inseto https://cos.tv/videos/play/33855361589481472

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Hey guys!

Another day, another TestFlight build. This fixes many mention bugs and includes bandwidth improvements.

During nostrica, jack told everyone to open their phones and say GM to fiatjaf. This actually brought down nostrica's wifi! Damus is really dumb when it first opens and makes many requests. Sometimes hundreds (nip05 validation, etc). This build fixes all those issues. Damus will no longer:

1. Make hundreds of nostr address validation requests.
2. Make tons of duplicate lnurl requests when validating zaps

nostr address validation only happens when you open someones profile now.

This build also fixes some annoying mention issues. If you forget a space when mentioning someone, it will automatically add it.

I've also removed the restriction where you were not allowed to login to "deleted" accounts. This was way too confusing for people, and logging into a deleted account will allow you to reset the profile information and get it going again. You're welcome NVK.

Another thing that was added in this build is support for _ usernames in nostr addresses. This will hide your full nostr address username when used. Damus will also hide your username if it matches your profile username. Damus always did this before but it was incorrect. Now it will show your full nostr address (nip05) with its proper username. You can stop bugging me about this now Semisol.

Last but not least there are some small tweaks to longform note padding. Nothing too crazy but it does make notes like this look less cramped.

Until next time!

Added

• Show nostr address username and support abbreviated _ usernames (William Casarin)
• Re-add nip05 badges to profiles (William Casarin)
• Add space when tagging users in posts if needed (William Casarin)
• Added padding under word count on longform account (William Casarin)

Fixed

• Don't spam lnurls when validating zaps (William Casarin)
• Eliminate nostr address validation bandwidth on startup (William Casarin)
• Allow user to login to deleted profile (William Casarin)
• Fix issue where typing cc@bob would produce brokenb ccnostr:bob mention (William Casarin)

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Hey guys, I just pushed a new Damus update TestFlight. This should drastically improve longform event rendering. Let me know if you find any bugs!

Full Changelog

Added

• New markdown renderer (William Casarin)
• Added feedback when user adds a relay that is already on the list (Daniel D'Aquino)

Changed

• Hide nsec when logging in (cr0bar)
• Remove nip05 on events (William Casarin)
• Rename NIP05 to "nostr address" (William Casarin)

Fixed

• Fixed issue where hashtags were leaking in DMs (William Casarin)
• Fix issue with emojis next to hashtags and urls (William Casarin)
• relay detail view is not immediately available after adding new relay (Bryan Montz)
• Fix nostr:nostr:... bugs (William Casarin)

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Os Manuscritos do Mar Morto foram descobertos em 1947 e são os mais velhosmanuscritos bíblicos até o momento. Cinco pergaminhos estão disponíveis para acesso público no site do Museu de Israel.

Os manuscritos possuem importância histórica e religiosa. Eles foram fotografados em até 1.200 megapixels, resolução suficiente para que você possa ampliar e ver rachaduras e descoloração.

Esta é uma iniciativa firmada em 2011 numa parceria entre o Museu de Israel e o Google. O site do museu é em inglês, mas usando algum tradutor automático como o encontrado no Google Chrome é possível acessar sem muita dificuldade os menus e orientações em língua portuguesa.

Abaixo de cada pergaminho existe uma descrição textual histórica que contextualiza o documento e sua importância. Ao clicar em algum verbete no manuscrito, surge a tradução em inglês ou em português para quem usar o tradutor automático. Acesse o museu de Israel em: http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah

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If for Henri Cartier-Bresson the essence of photography was the decisive moment, for William Klein the defining factor is commitment. This assertion, made by Raphaëlle Stopin, curator of the 'William Klein. Manifesto' exhibition, couldn't be more accurate. At 91 years old and with multiple facets to his name - photographer, painter, filmmaker, publicist, writer, and activist - Klein has left an indelible mark on the landscape of art and photography with his irreverent commitment and radical approach.

Born in New York in 1928, Klein transformed mid-20th-century photography, creating an aesthetic language that evokes the rawness and emotions of a post-war society still to be rebuilt. Through his lens, we see a vibrant, dirty, mestizo, and ever-evolving New York. His unconventional approach, which mixed with the subjects he portrayed, broke with the standards of photography of his time, resulting in images that the white, Anglo-Saxon elite of the era found distasteful. However, his honest and committed vision ended up paving a new path in photography.

Klein began his creative journey in painting, where he already displayed a unique, free, and transgressive language. His entry into the world of photography happened fortuitously, by photographing his own paintings, and it was in 1956 when his vision exploded onto the scene, with the publication of 'Life is Good & Good for You in New York: Trance Witness Revels'. This work, the fruit of his immersion in the wild side of New York life, became a revolutionary manifesto that subverted the traditional principles of photography.

Klein's photographs were never just images. They were bold statements of freedom and experimentation, going against the conventions of his time. It was with his legendary book about New York that he became a disruptive figure in photography. Despite being published in France, Italy, and Japan, this book took 40 years to be published in the United States, a fact that evidences the rejection his raw and uninhibited gaze of the city caused.

But Klein was never content with just being a photographer. His enormous cultural baggage, inspired by figures such as Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, and the Bauhaus, propelled him to explore other forms of expression. In his work, we see the fusion of photography with painting, the 'painted contacts', where he applies paint to contact sheets with large brushes, creating a fusion of disciplines that is surprisingly innovative and evocative.

Today, at 91 years old, Klein continues to work, reinventing himself and reinterpreting his archive. Although his pace has changed, his commitment to his art and his language has not diminished. His legacy endures, and his influence continues to be visible in contemporary photography.

Is Klein a Leonardo of photography? Perhaps it's not an exact comparison. But, just like Da Vinci, Klein has shown a diversity of interests and skills that rivals any Renaissance polymath's. And, unlike Da Vinci, Klein is indisputably wilder and more committed.

In summary, William Klein is a visionary, a provocateur, and an iconoclast, whose work remains a source of inspiration and a challenge to today's artists and photographers. With his committed, free, and innovative gaze, Klein has demonstrated that photography, like any form of art, should always be an act of commitment and revolution.

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How long have we lived with the term Bitcoin as a Store of Value (SOV)? The financial sovereignty, that is...

Among those who are aware of the system's problems, they often accept Bitcoin as an asset that will preserve their value over time. The question is, how many of these people are there in society? The society we call the Matrix...

Yes, there are still few.

Not to mention how to store it safely, that's even fewer. We can see that the demand in the past mainly came from 2 groups. The first group is the SOV group, and the other is the profit speculators. Other groups were just a sprinkle. In early 2022, when the price of Bitcoin started to decline, I couldn't imagine what the next wave of demand would come from. All I knew was that in that downturn, Bitcoin often had new developments.

I mean... the desire to own Bitcoin, not the trading demand that would cause the price to skyrocket or anything like that.

Until, if I remember correctly, it would be the second half of 2022... The wonder of the Lightning Network began to occur continuously in the Bitcoin community worldwide, including in Thailand where we also helped push it to this day (actually, it existed before that, especially after the big event in El Salvador, but it wasn't so prominent).

Lightning makes the world of Bitcoin full of possibilities. From static money held for wealth, money saved for children and grandchildren that has always been stigmatized as not even enough to buy noodles at the front of the alley, it has become convenient money that today begins to stick in our hearts everywhere (I mean in the group of people who accept Bitcoin, of course).

Bitcoin used to be "difficult" for everyone. Transferring in and out each time was a headache, our hands were shaking. But today, many of us know that we can take the smallest unit of it to pass on to each other, whether it's for fun, to express feelings, to flirt, or to buy and sell things, etc., as we saw at the BTC2023 event, right?

https://i.imgur.com/W3D1pdk.png

It's just stuck... If we don't count the easy-to-use general usage, system management, or running a Bitcoin Lightning node, it makes us feel like we have to be god-level to do it. Understanding its working mechanism is also not easy.

When it's like this, I think to myself... Hmm... It probably won't take much longer for people to learn, understand, and familiarize themselves with this new technology.

But I believe... This is not impossible. It's not that hard. What we need is a "method or approach" to present or disseminate knowledge that the general public can access and grasp more easily.

Right Shift is being propelled in a direction that will make the "choice" of accepting Bitcoin more tangible, a direction that leads to the "actual use" of Bitcoin in scenarios where it becomes a "Means of Payment," a new alternative for those with free hearts.

We coordinate and collaborate with various partners, including our brothers and sisters within the community. Besides the value that won't easily diminish over time, the real value that we can actually utilize is overwhelmingly pleasing to our hearts. Those who have experienced it themselves probably won't argue much with me on this matter.

But there's something that has always made me feel... this is still not enough.

Offering a choice for people to shift their mindset from "hoarding" Bitcoin more than eggs in a nest is one thing. Issues of privacy or Non-KYC is another. Starting with Custodial services is another. Educating is hard enough, and creating a balanced demand-supply is even harder.

We once made businesses support Lightning to a great extent, but no one ever knew where to get Lightning to buy things, and how to buy it?

Once people started doing it, they looked for places to buy, and it turned out that the supply, the entrepreneurs, couldn't keep up. They stumbled and needed considerable assistance to start. Not to mention legal matters, accounting, taxes... See? Our work is not just about making videos.

If you look at the whole picture, this task is much bigger and longer than we thought (by "we" here, I mean everyone in the community aiming for the same goal).

https://i.imgur.com/t0sJ4ju.png

So, we, the main partners like Right Shift, LATES, BOB, and Chitbeer, and many more, will probably have to spend time driving and spreading these stories further. We hope to receive excellent cooperation from our friends in our community.

We are planning to tour various places, maybe universities, schools, malls, provinces, etc., wherever people want to learn about Bitcoin. We will organize on-site courses similar to what happened in El Salvador, arrange events for people to try using Bitcoin, and we would be delighted to have volunteers who want to push with us... But then, today...

Not long ago... I found a third option.

If starting interest from the investment side, saving, preserving, or accumulating Bitcoin, and using it seems too hard for most people,

What if we try to shift the perspective, starting with what they are already familiar with, easily accessible, and can have fun with first? Will acceptance be easier and more logical to plunge into the next rabbit hole or not?

I didn't let myself drown in doubt for too long, so I touched it myself immediately... And the answer is... It's really true.

We just switch from mainstream social media that is causing us more pain every day to a new society that is like the true root of the online community. This way, it seems easier to move on... Why do I think so?

The society on a decentralized protocol grants us, as users, almost complete freedom. In all honesty, it's no more difficult than setting up a Lightning wallet, something we've all done before.

Every day, tens of thousands of us click 'like' on Facebook countless times, expressing our satisfaction with a creator's work or a friend's post. Sometimes, we're not even sure if we genuinely want to do it.

What if we change from 'like' to Zap!?

How much economic value is circulating there (currently, there are more than 12 BTC Zapped on Nostr)? It's not just us who have to go and Zap others. If you do well, benefit the community, even a laugh can get it. Others are ready to Zap you all the time as well.

You can use it without linking to a Lightning wallet. The question is, how can you experience expressing satisfaction or receiving it instantly as Satoshi's value?

Yes.. with such a situation, it's inevitable that people will have to learn and understand Bitcoin and Lightning, at least at a basic level.

https://i.imgur.com/qJddift.png

But this time, their motivation isn't for wealth or prosperity, not financial domination, or solely technical prowess.

It comes from a desire to participate in a society they want to be a part of. It comes from a desire to appreciate or admire someone's work that has benefited them on Nostr. It comes from the joy of living freely in a new land, and so on.

On the creator's side... Instead of losing money, time, and physical energy thinking about content day and night, finding ways to get people to see their posts, waiting for the money that the platform might withhold for another month, and avoiding annoying algorithms and constant changes,

Now, they just invest their value into their content, post it for their followers to definitely see, and receive 'thank you' in the form of Sats instantly.

They can present their content piece by piece without waiting for it to be finished. They can present any form of content there.. The users are the same. This is the activity of passing on value to each other, called "Value for Value" on Nostr.

When V4V becomes something they enjoy, they will start to delve deeper into Bitcoin as time goes by. They will want to own more of it. How else could it be? They just don't like it and are looking for other options to accept it.

So.. Now, do you think the Network effect on Nostr or in real life will be stronger and faster?

Honestly, we don't have to choose. We don't have to decide which direction we will push acceptance.. whether to save, to educate, to use it occasionally, or to experience a new life on a social media society like Nostr.

We should push it together in every way, because it's all beneficial to our Bitcoin society. It's beneficial to everyone who will try to touch it, and it's beneficial to people in the next generations.

Bitcoinization, which used to be just a dream, is about to happen in not too long. Now, I can start answering my initial question. What should the demand come from? It should start from our interest first.

Interested enough to try to touch it in every aspect. Take the rotten fiat money on your fridge and turn it into Lightning for a bit, then let it slide on Nostr.

In 2023, our choices, the world's choices, are not just SOV or Lightning anymore.. which either way, it's good for Bitcoin.

It's opening wider than we think. . . // Author by: Jakk Goodday

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You can use github PRs to submit code but it is not encouraged. Damus is a decentralized social media protocol and we prefer to use decentralized techniques during the code submission process.

[Email patches][git-send-email] to patches@damus.io are preferred, but we accept PRs on GitHub as well. Patches sent via email may include a bolt11 lightning invoice, choosing the price you think the patch is worth, and we will pay it once the patch is accepted and if I think the price isn't unreasonable. You can also send an any-amount invoice and I will pay what I think it's worth if you prefer not to choose. You can include the bolt11 in the commit body or email so that it can be paid once it is applied.

Recommended settings when submitting code via email:

$ git config sendemail.to "patches@damus.io" $ git config format.subjectPrefix "PATCH damus" $ git config format.signOff yes

You can subscribe to the [patches mailing list][patches-ml] to help review code.

Submitting patches

Most of this comes from the linux kernel guidelines for submitting patches, we follow many of the same guidelines. These are very important! If you want your code to be accepted, please read this carefully

Describe your problem. Whether your patch is a one-line bug fix or 5000 lines of a new feature, there must be an underlying problem that motivated you to do this work. Convince the reviewer that there is a problem worth fixing and that it makes sense for them to read past the first paragraph.

Once the problem is established, describe what you are actually doing about it in technical detail. It's important to describe the change in plain English for the reviewer to verify that the code is behaving as you intend it to.

The maintainer will thank you if you write your patch description in a form which can be easily pulled into Damus's source code tree.

Solve only one problem per patch. If your description starts to get long, that's a sign that you probably need to split up your patch. See the dedicated Separate your changes section because this is very important.

When you submit or resubmit a patch or patch series, include the complete patch description and justification for it (-v2,v3,vn... option on git-send-email). Don't just say that this is version N of the patch (series). Don't expect the reviewer to refer back to earlier patch versions or referenced URLs to find the patch description and put that into the patch. I.e., the patch (series) and its description should be self-contained. This benefits both the maintainers and reviewers. Some reviewers probably didn't even receive earlier versions of the patch.

Describe your changes in imperative mood, e.g. "make xyzzy do frotz" instead of "[This patch] makes xyzzy do frotz" or "[I] changed xyzzy to do frotz", as if you are giving orders to the codebase to change its behaviour.

If your patch fixes a bug, use the 'Closes:' tag with a URL referencing the report in the mailing list archives or a public bug tracker. For example:

Closes: https://github.com/damus-io/damus/issues/1234

Some bug trackers have the ability to close issues automatically when a commit with such a tag is applied. Some bots monitoring mailing lists can also track such tags and take certain actions. Private bug trackers and invalid URLs are forbidden.

If your patch fixes a bug in a specific commit, e.g. you found an issue using git bisect, please use the 'Fixes:' tag with the first 12 characters of the SHA-1 ID, and the one line summary. Do not split the tag across multiple lines, tags are exempt from the "wrap at 75 columns" rule in order to simplify parsing scripts. For example::

Fixes: 54a4f0239f2e ("Fix crash in navigation")

The following git config settings can be used to add a pretty format for outputting the above style in the git log or git show commands::

[core]
    abbrev = 12
[pretty]
    fixes = Fixes: %h (\"%s\")

An example call::

$ git log -1 --pretty=fixes 54a4f0239f2e
Fixes: 54a4f0239f2e ("Fix crash in navigation")

Separate your changes

Separate each logical change into a separate patch.

For example, if your changes include both bug fixes and performance enhancements for a particular feature, separate those changes into two or more patches. If your changes include an API update, and a new feature which uses that new API, separate those into two patches.

On the other hand, if you make a single change to numerous files, group those changes into a single patch. Thus a single logical change is contained within a single patch.

The point to remember is that each patch should make an easily understood change that can be verified by reviewers. Each patch should be justifiable on its own merits.

If one patch depends on another patch in order for a change to be complete, that is OK. Simply note "this patch depends on patch X" in your patch description.

When dividing your change into a series of patches, take special care to ensure that the Damus builds and runs properly after each patch in the series. Developers using git bisect to track down a problem can end up splitting your patch series at any point; they will not thank you if you introduce bugs in the middle.

If you cannot condense your patch set into a smaller set of patches, then only post say 15 or so at a time and wait for review and integration.

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Robert Frank, born on November 9, 1924, in Zurich, Switzerland, was the child of Rosa (Zucker) and Hermann Frank, of Jewish origin. Though his family managed to remain safe during the Second World War in Switzerland, the looming threat of Nazism informed his understanding of oppression, invariably seeping into his subsequent work. Frank was drawn to photography partly as a means to escape from his business-oriented family and home. He was mentored by various photographers and graphic designers before he crafted his first handmade book of photographs, "40 Photos," in 1946. At the age of 23, Frank migrated to the United States, seeking to broaden his photographic horizon. He found employment in New York as a fashion photographer for Harper's Bazaar. However, the rigidity and artifice of fashion photography failed to satiate his creative yearning. He soon quit his job and embarked on journeys through South America and Europe, creating a second handmade book of photographs taken in Peru.

Upon returning to the United States in 1950, Frank began to experience a transformation in his photographic perspective. Influenced by his disillusionment with the frantic pace of American life and its emphasis on money, he began to perceive America as a place often desolate and lonely. This vision is reflected in his subsequent photography.

The aesthetic context of the subjective photography of the 1950s, which Frank adopted, was marked by a paradigm shift in how photography was understood and practiced. It involved a move away from the apparent objectivity and neutrality that characterized documentary and journalistic photography, to adopt a more personal and subjective approach. Images ceased to be seen simply as faithful representations of reality to become the photographer's personal interpretations.

In this context, Robert Frank stood out for his direct, unadorned style. His photographs did not aim to beautify or idealize reality, but to capture it as it is, with all its imperfections and contradictions. For Frank, the camera was a tool to explore and question society, rather than merely documenting it. His most emblematic work, "The Americans," first published in Paris in 1958, is a chronicle of his journey through 48 states of the United States. The book, composed of 83 images selected from 28,000 shots, offers an unconventional and critical view of American life. Through his images, Frank portrays a society marked by racial and class inequality, loneliness, and helplessness. The images in "The Americans" are often dark, blurry, and off-kilter, contributing to a sense of unease and instability. Robert Frank continued to work intensely throughout his career. Here is a list of some of his most representative works, ordered by year:

• 1946: Published his first handmade book of photographs, "40 Photos."
• 1947: Moved to the United States and began working for Harper's Bazaar.
• 1950: Participated in the group exhibition "51 American Photographers" at the MoMA and published his second book of photographs from his journey through Peru.
• 1955: Received a Guggenheim Fellowship to travel and photograph the United States, a project that would result in "The Americans."
• 1958: Published "The Americans" in Paris.
• 1959: "The Americans" was published in the United States.
• 1961: Had his first solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago.
• 1962: Exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
• 1983: The French magazine "Les Cahiers de la photographie" devoted two special issues to his work.
• 2008: A new edition of "The Americans" was published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its first publication.
• 2009: The exhibition "Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans" was shown at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Robert Frank's influence on contemporary photography is undeniable. His subjective and critical vision opened new pathways for understanding and practicing photography, shifting it away from conventionalism and closer to a more artistic and personal conception.

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Motivado em compreender a dinâmica do raciocínio humano e identificar falhas e acertos em nossa percepção, o filósofo Aristóteles no século IV antes de Cristo foi o primeiro a elaborar uma metodologia com regras rígidas para identificar argumentos certos e errados, distinguindo interferências no raciocínio, validando o pensamento organizado.

A lógica é uma ciência que se preocupa com o caminho do raciocínio, em outras palavras, busca identificar como o pensamento é organizado.

A principal regra da lógica de Aristóteles é a não-contradição. Chamamos de falácia quando uma argumentação é contraditória. Muitas das afirmações que escutamos diariamente quando fundamentadas demonstram-se falácias, principalmente as afirmações generalizadas.

Segue um exemplo:

Correr diariamente 30 minutos faz bem a saúde de todas as pessoas.

Observe que a frase acima é generalizada e ignora pessoas vitimadas por problemas na coluna, ortopédicos, entre outros. Ao tentar fundamentar o raciocínio acima vai ocorrer a contradição, nem todas as pessoas são aptas ao exercício. Possuímos aqui uma falácia, como existe uma contradição não é possível sustentar afirmação.

Já a afirmação abaixo:

Todos os seres vivos são mortais

Esta é uma conclusão coerente, é possível perceber que não existe registro de seres vivos que não morrem.

Para não ocorrer erro de raciocínio é importante que ao concluir um determinado pensamento a pessoa descreva sua afirmação dentro de um contexto detalhado e não use afirmações generalizadas.

Observe que as generalizações contam com a interpretação implícita dos argumentos. Neste sentido, fica oculto o contexto, permitindo que cada pessoa imagine um contexto independente da real aplicação da frase.

Assim deveria ser o raciocínio.

Correr diariamente 30 minutos faz bem a saúde de todas as pessoas que, após consulta médica e exames de capacidade física forem diagnosticadas aptas para o exercício.

Pode parecer bobagem, mas diariamente recebemos informações sem nenhuma fundamentação e conseqüentemente nos iludimos. O maior problema é que estas ilusões irão formar nossa base de conhecimento para aplicação do raciocínio.

Não existe aplicação da lógica se a informação não for fundamentada e/ou validada. Observe que lógicas é uma metodologia com regras rígidas que exigem a fundamentação e validação do raciocínio.

Certa vez um professor levou para a sala de aula uma foto de uma pessoa caindo do décimo segundo andar de um prédio. Ao mostrar a foto para os alunos o professor pediu que estes concluíram o que teria ocorrido com a pessoa que aparecia em queda livre.

Rapidamente sem nenhum questionamento prévio, todos concluíram, morreu!

Afinal é muito difícil alguém cair do décimo segundo andar e sair vivo.

A foto era de um dublê que foi fotografado no momento do ensaio de uma queda, ninguém morreu.

No entanto, foi possível manipular a informação mostrando uma foto sugestiva e sem contexto adequado, Observe que mesmo usando o raciocínio fundamentado para se chegar em um resultado dentro da realidade é importante que as informações observadas sejam questionadas quanto a sua veracidade e contexto.

Alguns autores comparam a lógica como uma estrada, um caminho por onde a informação é organizada. É importante lembrar que uma conclusão correta não significa necessariamente uma informação verdadeira. A lógica é uma ferramenta que garante o raciocínio correto e não a informação correta.

Basicamente, Aristóteles trabalhou com validação lógica através do conceito de verdadeiro ou falso, usando um raciocínio binário onde só existem afirmações verdadeiras e/ou falsas, sem meio termo.

Seguindo a mesma linha de raciocínio de Aristóteles o matemático George Boole (1815-1864) criou o cálculo de Boole ou lógica Booleana. Esta metodologia é usada na criação do computador e dos circuitos eletrônicos digitais.

Outros pensadores foram surgindo no decorrer de nossa evolução e complementado o que hoje conhecemos por lógica.

Além da lógica de Aristóteles, existem outras metodologias de raciocínio como a lógica não-clássica, lógica paraconsistente e ainda a lógica de Fuzzy, lógica matemática e outras.

Não pretendo comentar cada um dos conceitos lógicos, mas gostaria de salientar um pouco e resumidamente a Fuzzy Logic ou em português, lógica difusa. Diferente do raciocínio Aristotélico a Lógica Difusa trabalha com o conceito de dualidade onde opostos devem coexistir. Basicamente este tipo de raciocínio é mais eficiente em trabalhos com informações vagas ou imperfeitas.

A Lógica Fuzzy trabalha com o raciocínio de aproximação de possibilidades, é mais eficiente em alguns casos que a teoria da probabilidade, já que é possível na Lógica Fuzzy trabalhar o raciocínio de uma forma ainda mais flexível que a própria probabilidade.

A lógica Fuzzy é largamente usada na Inteligência Artificial. Observe o leitor que a lógica Aristotélica e a Lógica de Fuzzy são basicamente opostas em seus conceitos uma trabalha de forma rígida com apenas situações verdadeiras ou falsas enquanto a outra usa de variações da percepção e atua por resultado aproximado.

Cada metodologia lógica é eficiente em uma determinada situação.

Quando alguém afirma alguma coisa, não esqueça de avaliar a fundamentação das afirmações bem como o tipo de lógica empregada e procure manter a mente aberta.

Para processar uma informação é importante que os fatos avaliados no raciocínio aplicado sejam verdadeiros, em outras palavras, sempre avalie o contexto das afirmações e questione quanto sua veracidade.

Quando uma afirmação é precisa procure observar a fundamentação através da Lógica Aristotélica, mas se a informação for vaga e não existe maneira de verificar a consistência, usar Lógica por aproximação de resultados é o mais indicado.

Aplicando a lógica certa para um determinado problema e sendo a informação verdadeira, o resultado será o mais próximo possível da realidade. Para traçar perfil de comportamento, os criminalistas usam do conhecimento lógico no intuito de identificar padrões existentes em uma determinada pessoa.

Através do conhecimento das diversas formas lógicas existentes, podemos construir uma grande variedade de soluções, identificar o perfil de pessoas e até mesmo verificar com maior clareza a consistência dos argumentos que diariamente nos são apresentados, diferenciando os enganos e mentiras e as afirmações consistentes.

A aprendizado de qualquer área do conhecimento, torna-se mais fácil quando o estudante domina a lógica do conteúdo estudado, neste sentido, é aconselhável praticar o raciocínio lógico no intuito de aperfeiçoar a técnica de entendimento, identificando assim, os diferentes critérios de realidade apresentados em cada conteúdo.

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O afeto pelos animais de estimação não é uma simples moda da atualidade. É verdade que cresceu muito a quantidade de produtos e tecnologias destinada aos bichinhos. No entanto, o cuidado e a preocupação é algo anterior ao crescimento tecnológico. Na história da humanidade, os animais possuem um importante papel, estão relacionados com profundas emoções.

Em 1951 com a constante ameaça de bombardeio aéreo. Existia a preocupação em como socorrer e preparar bandagens. Usada em eventuais emergências no caso de animais de estimação feridos. A foto no topo desta página foi tirada em 21/09/1951 pelo New York Journal American para uma matéria. O conteúdo era sobre como proceder no socorro e prevenção de cachorros de estimação em caso de possível bombardeio aéreo. Vestir o animal como o kit bandagens era entendido como uma forma de proteção extra. Em especial, numa eventual ameaça dos bombardeiros. A foto é do Arquivo de imagens do New York Journal American.

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คืนหนึ่ง.. "สติ" ที่กำลังอยู่ท่ามกลางภวังค์แห่งการหลับไหล สิ่งที่เขาได้เห็นในเงาสลัวๆ นั้น เป็นภาพของชายคนหนึ่งรูปร่างคล้ายคลึงกับเขามาก ชายคนนั้นเดินเข้ามาบอกกับเขาว่า.. เขาได้เคยสัมผัสกับความตายมาแล้ว ฟังดูแล้วก็น่ากลัว แต่ไม่ใช่ เขาแค่เกือบตาย เดชะบุญที่เขายังไม่ตายจริง สติยังคงสับสนว่าภาพที่เห็นอยู่นี้ คือ วิญญาณของใครสักคนในความฝันใช่ไหม? เขาจำได้ว่าเขากำลังหลับอยู่ไม่ใช่เหรอ? ชายคนนี้มีเจตนาอะไรกัน..

ชายคนนั้นเล่าต่อว่า.. วินาทีที่ความตายกำลังใกล้เข้ามาเยื่อน เขาเกิดภาพย้อนอดีตผุดขึ้นมาในหัวเต็มไปหมด เขาพบว่าตัวเองนั้นน่าสงสาร.. น้ำเสียงของเขาเหมือนคนสิ้นหวัง บ่นฮึมฮัม.. เขาเอาแต่ตัดพ้อออกมาไม่หยุด เขาบ่นว่าไม่เคยได้ฝึกตระเตรียมที่จะให้ตัวเองได้เป็นอิสระ ได้เป็นนายเหนือตัวเองมาก่อนเลย เขาไม่เคยควบคุมตัวเองได้ ไม่เคยทำในสิ่งที่ถูกต้องหลังจากทำบางอย่างผิดพลาดไป ซึ่งมันจะช่วยให้เขาเริ่มต้นใหม่ได้อย่างถูกทางเลยสักครา.. ไม่เคยได้ทำสิ่งดีๆ เพื่อชดเชยให้กับสิ่งที่สูญเสียหรือติดลบไปบ้างเลย.. ไม่เคยสร้างความภาคภูมิใจให้กับตัวเองหรือคนอื่นๆ ที่รักเขาเลย..

ชายคนนั้นยังบอกกับสติอีกว่า.. ก่อนหน้านั้นเขาเอาแต่คิดหมกมุ่นแต่กับคำถามว่า ทำไม ทำไม ทำไม ทั้งที่ความจริงแล้วแค่เข้าใจให้ได้ว่าสิ่งที่เกิดขึ้นมันถูกต้องแล้วหรือยัง แค่ยอมรับมัน ถอดบทเรียนแล้วก้าวเดินไปข้างหน้า เพราะหากคิดได้เช่นนี้ ชีวิตใหม่ภายใต้การต่อสู้ภายในใจของเขาระหว่าง คนสีขาว กับ คนสีดำ ก็จะเริ่มต้นขึ้น เป็นการรบที่มีเดิมพันเป็นทางเดินที่ควรจะเป็นของชีวิต เขาคงจะได้คำตอบที่ดีกว่านี้หากเข้าใจมันได้แต่แรก

วินาทีที่ความตายประชิดเข้ามาอยู่ตรงหน้า.. เขานั้นคิดเสียใจอยู่เพียงเรื่องเดียว มันเป็นเรื่องของ "เวลา" เวลาที่เขามอบให้กับคนที่เขารักนั้นน้อยเกินไป ยังมีอีกหลายอย่างที่เขาอยากจะทำเพื่อคนเหล่านั้น แต่มันสายไปเสียแล้ว เวลาของเขากำลังจะหมดลงแล้ว ณ วินาทีนั้นเอง น้ำตาของเขาก็ไหลพรั่งพรูออกมา เขารู้สึกว่าไม่เคยมีความเสียใจครั้งไหนยิ่งใหญ่เท่ากับความเสียใจในครั้งนี้มาก่อน.. เขาไม่น่าปล่อยคืนวันให้ผ่านไปอย่างไร้ความหมายแทนที่จะได้ใช้มันไปกับความพยายามในการทำความเข้าใจกับชีวิต เขาไม่ควรดิ้นรนขวนขวายจนต้องกลายเป็นทุกข์ เขาควรได้ใช้ชีวิตที่ไม่มีความอยาก หรือควรจะอยากได้อยากมีให้น้อยที่สุดหากมันจำเป็น

เขายังได้เห็นภาพสุดอุบาทว์ของตัวเองที่ทำตัวหยิ่งยโสต่อเพื่อนร่วมงาน คนใกล้ตัว และโลกใบนี้ เขาเห็นความอ่อนแอภายในใจของตัวเองที่กำลังเรียกร้องความเอื้ออาทรจากทั้งโลก ทั้งที่ตัวเขาเองก็ไม่เคยคิดจะมอบอะไรให้กับโลกใบนี้ แต่กลับร้องขออะไรที่มากมายเกินกว่าที่โลกจะมอบให้เขาได้ สุดท้ายเขาเองก็ตัดสินใจเป็นปฎิปักษ์กับโลกทั้งใบด้วยความงี่เง่าอย่างสุดขีด เขามองไม่เห็นศัตรูที่แท้จริง เขาไม่เคยรู้ว่าพวกมันอยู่ที่ไหน มันทำให้เขารู้กลัว กังวล และโศกเศร้าไปกับบทละคร ที่ตัวเขาเองเป็นผู้สร้างและกำกับการแสดงนั้นด้วยตัวเอง มันเป็นละครอันน่าเบื่อหน่าย ละครที่ผู้กำกับทำหน้าที่เป็นนักแสดงมันเสียเอง เขาผูกและวางโครงเรื่องทั้งหมดเอาไว้เพื่อตัวเองแทบทั้งสิ้น

นอกจากนี้เขายังเห็นภาพในอดีตของตัวเอง.. เป็นคนทำงานที่ดูขยันขันแข็ง ดูมีไฟลุกโชนในตัวอย่างท่วมท้น แต่ลึกๆ ในใจแล้วกลับเป็นคนขี้เกียจและไม่เคยมีใจให้กับองค์กรเลย ภาพที่เขาแสดงออกมาล้วนแล้วแต่เป็นเรื่องลวงโลกทั้งสิ้น เขาแสดงออกต่อโลกภายนอกด้วยเสน่ห์อันเย้ายวนชวนให้ใครต่อใครส่งสายตาเพ่งมาที่เขา เขารู้สึกว่าตัวเองโง่เหลือเกินที่ไม่เคยเข้าใจ ว่าสายตาที่เขาควรแคร์มากที่สุดคือสายตาที่เพ่งมองออกจากหัวใจของตัวเอง แววตาที่ต้องการจะถามไถ่ด้วยความสงสารว่า

"จนป่านนี้แล้ว เจ้ายังไม่เข้าใจในชีวิตอีกเหรอ"

ทุกครั้งที่เขาพยายามหว่านเสน่ห์ เขาก็เสียตัวตนของเขาไปเรื่อย ๆ ซึ่งมันแปลกตรงที่.. เขากลับรู้สึกถึงการหลอกลวงว่าตัวเองกำลังเป็นตัวของตัวเองนั้น มันเพิ่มทวีคูณขึ้นไปเรื่อยๆ มันเป็นอัตตาและทิฐิซึ่งเป็นความยึดมั่นถือมั่น ทิฐิ ที่ใครผู้ใดถือเอาไว้ผู้นั้นก็เป็นเสมือนผู้ไร้ซึ่งปัญญา ผู้ซึ่งถูกอวิชชาเข้าครอบงำ ยิ่งไปกว่านั้น.. ตัวเขาเองก็เคยอยากเปลี่ยนแปลงตัวเองมาก่อนเหมือนกัน แต่กลับไม่เคยทำได้เพราะมัวแต่กลัวการต้องสูญเสียและเสียดายรูปแบบชีวิตอย่างเดิม ๆ ไป แม้หัวใจของเขาจะเรียกร้องความเปลี่ยนแปลงเพียงใดก็ตาม

เขายังเห็นภาพของคนที่คิดว่าตัวเองเก่งที่สุดในโลก คนที่มีเหตุผล คนที่คิดว่าตัวเองดูดีที่สุด แต่กลับเป็นทุกข์เหลือเกินกับการพยายามแบก พยายามรักษาภาพพจน์เหล่านั้น.. เขาเป็นคนที่ทำผิดแต่ไม่เคยสำนึกผิดชอบชั่วดี เขาไม่เคยกล่าวคำขอโทษใครแม้มันจะพ่นลมปากออกจากใจได้ง่ายๆ ก็ไม่เคยทำแม้แต่ครั้งเดียว ผู้ชายคนนี้ตัดพ้อออกมาไม่ยอมหยุด

สติครุ่นคิดว่าเพราะอะไร คนๆ นี้ถึงเต็มไปด้วยเรื่องราวแห่งความทุกข์ความสิ้นหวัง ทุกเรื่องที่เล่ามานั่นก็ตัวเขาเองไม่ใช่หรือ เขามีเวลามากพอที่จะตัดสินใจทำในเรื่องต่างๆ แต่เขาก็ได้เลือกทำสิ่งเหล่านั้นลงไปเอง เหตุใด ณ ขณะเวลาที่ต้องทำเขาจึงคิดไม่ได้แบบในตอนนี้กันนะ.. นอกจากคำตัดพ้อที่เต็มไปหมดแล้ว สิ่งที่ผู้ชายคนนี้เล่ามาทั้งหมดเหมือนเป็นเพียงคำสารภาพก่อนตายของคนเลว ๆ คนหนึ่งเท่านั้น เขาจะทำแบบนี้ มาเล่าแบบนี้ให้สติฟังไปเพื่ออะไรกัน..วาระของคนใกล้ตายที่พึ่งจะคิดอะไรๆ ได้หลายๆ อย่างคงจะเป็นแบบนี้เองสินะ

มีหลายอย่างที่สติพบว่าตัวเขาเองก็ทำคล้ายๆ กับผู้ชายคนนี้.. สติรู้สึกถูกดวงกับชายซึมเศร้าคนนี้ขึ้นมาบ้างแล้ว แต่ทว่า.. ยังไม่ทันที่บทสนทนาจะเข้าสู่ช่วงสำคัญ มันดันมีเสียงไก่ขันเล็ดลอดเข้ามาในภวังค์ที่กำลังก้าวสู่ฟ้าสาง สติเหมือนจะระลึกได้ว่าเดี๋ยวตัวเองก็คงต้องตื่นแล้ว เขายังไม่ได้ข้อสรุปอะไรจากผู้ชายคนนี้เลย ตกลงผู้ชายคนนี้ตายไปแล้วหรือยังไม่ตายกันแน่ ตกลงทั้งหมดนี้คือเรื่องจริงหรือความฝัน หากทั้งหมดนี่คือความจริง และนายคนนี้ยังไม่ตาย อย่างน้อยผู้ชายที่เฉียดเข้าใกล้ความตายผู้นี้ก็ยังคงมีเวลามากพอเหลือให้กลับไปแก้ไขความผิดพลาดของตัวเองได้ล่ะนะ

ก่อนการจากไปของชายคนนั้น สติได้เอ่ยถามไปว่า.. แล้วเราจะทำอย่างไรในการที่จะหยุดความเสียใจอันมาจากความไม่เข้าใจในตัวเองเลยจนกระทั่งจวนถึงลมหายใจสุดท้ายแบบนี้?

"คุณต้องเข้าใจ..."

สติไม่เข้าใจประโยคนี้เท่าใดนัก สติรู้สึกเหมือนโดนยอกย้อน ที่ถามไปนั้นก็เพราะสติยังไม่เข้าใจ แล้วตกลงเขาจะต้องเข้าใจมันยังไง อะไรกันเหรอที่เราควรเข้าใจมัน?

"คุณต้องเข้าใจว่าอะไรคืออะไร.. มันก็เหมือนกับการค้นพบต้นเหตุแห่งพฤติกรรม ต้นเหตุแห่งเรื่องราว เข้าใจในผลลัพธ์ของพฤติกรรมและเหตุการณ์ที่เกิดขึ้น คนจึงจะเริ่มเปลี่ยนแปลงตัวเองจากชั่วให้กลายเป็นดีได้.. "

สติเหมือนจะเข้าใจความหมายอันลึกซึ้งนี้ขึ้นมาบ้าง.. แต่ชายคนนั้นก็กำลังจะเดินจากเขาไปแล้ว ก่อนที่ความมืดจะกลืนร่างของเขาให้หายไปต่อหน้า สติรีบร้องทักขึ้นมาก่อนจะไม่ทันการณ์

"คุณครับ! คุณชื่ออะไรเหรอครับ?"

"ผมชื่อ.. สติ"

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Isto é mais uma prova que os autoproclamados antirracistas são piores que os racistas.

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Sem dúvida, a escalada autoritária do totalitarismo cultural progressista nos últimos anos tem sido sumariamente deletéria e prejudicial para a liberdade de expressão. Como seria de se esperar, a cada dia que passa o autoritarismo progressista continua a se expandir de maneira irrefreável, prejudicando a liberdade dos indivíduos de formas cada vez mais deploráveis e contundentes.

Com a ascensão da tirania politicamente correta e sua invasão a todos os terrenos culturais, o autoritarismo progressista foi se alastrando e consolidando sua hegemonia em determinados segmentos. Com a eventual eclosão e a expansão da opressiva e despótica cultura do cancelamento — uma progênie inevitável do totalitarismo progressista —, todas as pessoas que manifestam opiniões, crenças ou posicionamentos que não estão alinhados com as pautas universitárias da moda tornam-se um alvo.

Há algumas semanas, vimos a enorme repercussão causada pelo caso envolvendo o jogador profissional de vôlei Maurício Sousa, que foi cancelado pelo simples fato de ter emitido sua opinião pessoal sobre um personagem de história em quadrinhos, Jon Kent, o novo Superman, que é bissexual. Maurício Sousa reprovou a conduta sexual do personagem, o que é um direito pessoal inalienável que ele tem. Ele não é obrigado a gostar ou aprovar a bissexualidade. Como qualquer pessoa, ele tem o direito pleno de criticar tudo aquilo que ele não gosta. No entanto, pelo simples fato de emitir a sua opinião pessoal, Maurício Sousa foi acusado de homofobia e teve seu contrato rescindido, sendo desligado do Minas Tênis Clube.

Lamentavelmente, Maurício Sousa não foi o primeiro e nem será o último indivíduo a sofrer com a opressiva e autoritária cultura do cancelamento. Como uma tirania cultural que está em plena ascensão e usufrui de um amplo apoio do establishment, essa nova forma de totalitarismo cultural colorido e festivo está se impondo de formas e maneiras bastante contundentes em praticamente todas as esferas da sociedade contemporânea. Sua intenção é relegar ao ostracismo todos aqueles que não se curvam ao totalitarismo progressista, criminalizando opiniões e crenças que divergem do culto à libertinagem hedonista pós-moderna. Oculto por trás de todo esse ativismo autoritário, o que temos de fato é uma profunda hostilidade por padrões morais tradicionalistas, cristãos e conservadores.

No entanto, é fundamental entendermos uma questão imperativa, que explica em partes o conflito aqui criado — todos os progressistas contemporâneos são crias oriundas do direito positivo. Por essa razão, eles jamais entenderão de forma pragmática e objetiva conceitos como criminalidade, direitos de propriedade, agressão e liberdade de expressão pela perspectiva do jusnaturalismo, que é manifestamente o direito em seu estado mais puro, correto, ético e equilibrado.

Pela ótica jusnaturalista, uma opinião é uma opinião. Ponto final. E absolutamente ninguém deve ser preso, cancelado, sabotado ou boicotado por expressar uma opinião particular sobre qualquer assunto. Palavras não agridem ninguém, portanto jamais poderiam ser consideradas um crime em si. Apenas deveriam ser tipificados como crimes agressões de caráter objetivo, como roubo, sequestro, fraude, extorsão, estupro e infrações similares, que representam uma ameaça direta à integridade física da vítima, ou que busquem subtrair alguma posse empregando a violência.

Infelizmente, a geração floquinho de neve — terrivelmente histérica, egocêntrica e sensível — fica profundamente ofendida e consternada sempre que alguém defende posicionamentos contrários à religião progressista. Por essa razão, os guerreiros da justiça social sinceramente acreditam que o papai-estado deve censurar todas as opiniões que eles não gostam de ouvir, assim como deve também criar leis para encarcerar todos aqueles que falam ou escrevem coisas que desagradam a militância.

Como a geração floquinho de neve foi criada para acreditar que todas as suas vontades pessoais e disposições ideológicas devem ser sumariamente atendidas pelo papai-estado, eles embarcaram em uma cruzada moral que pretende erradicar todas as coisas que são ofensivas à ideologia progressista; só assim eles poderão deflagrar na Terra o seu tão sonhado paraíso hedonista e igualitário, de inimaginável esplendor e felicidade.

Em virtude do seu comportamento intrinsecamente despótico, autoritário e egocêntrico, acaba sendo inevitável que militantes progressistas problematizem tudo aquilo que os desagrada.

Como são criaturas inúteis destituídas de ocupação real e verdadeiro sentido na vida, sendo oprimidas unicamente na sua própria imaginação, militantes progressistas precisam constantemente inventar novos vilões para serem combatidos.

Partindo dessa perspectiva, é natural para a militância que absolutamente tudo que exista no mundo e que não se enquadra com as regras autoritárias e restritivas da religião progressista seja encarado como um problema. Para a geração floquinho de neve, o capitalismo é um problema. O fascismo é um problema. A iniciativa privada é um problema. O homem branco, tradicionalista, conservador e heterossexual é um problema. A desigualdade é um problema. A liberdade é um problema. Monteiro Lobato é um problema (sim, até mesmo o renomado ícone da literatura brasileira, autor — entre outros títulos — de Urupês, foi vítima da cultura do cancelamento, acusado de ser racista e eugenista).

Para a esquerda, praticamente tudo é um problema. Na mentalidade da militância progressista, tudo é motivo para reclamação. Foi em função desse comportamento histérico, histriônico e infantil que o famoso pensador conservador-libertário americano P. J. O’Rourke afirmou que “o esquerdismo é uma filosofia de pirralhos chorões”. O que é uma verdade absoluta e irrefutável em todos os sentidos.

De fato, todas as filosofias de esquerda de forma geral são idealizações utópicas e infantis de um mundo perfeito. Enquanto o mundo não se transformar naquela colorida e vibrante utopia que é apresentada pela cartilha socialista padrão, militantes continuarão a reclamar contra tudo o que existe no mundo de forma agressiva, visceral e beligerante. Evidentemente, eles não vão fazer absolutamente nada de positivo ou construtivo para que o mundo se transforme no gracioso paraíso que eles tanto desejam ver consolidado, mas eles continuarão a berrar e vociferar muito em sua busca incessante pela utopia, marcando presença em passeatas inúteis ou combatendo o fascismo imaginário nas redes sociais.

Sem dúvida, estamos muito perto de ver leis absurdas e estúpidas sendo implementadas, para agradar a militância da terra colorida do assistencialismo eterno onde nada é escasso e tudo cai do céu. Em breve, você não poderá usar calças pretas, pois elas serão consideradas peças de vestuário excessivamente heterossexuais. Apenas calças amarelas ou coloridas serão permitidas. Você também terá que tingir de cor-de-rosa uma mecha do seu cabelo; pois preservar o seu cabelo na sua cor natural é heteronormativo demais da sua parte, sendo portanto um componente demasiadamente opressor da sociedade.

Você também não poderá ver filmes de guerra ou de ação, apenas comédias românticas, pois certos gêneros de filmes exaltam a violência do patriarcado e isso impede o mundo de se tornar uma graciosa festa colorida de fraternidades universitárias ungidas por pôneis resplandecentes, hedonismo infinito, vadiagem universitária e autogratificação psicodélica, que certamente são elementos indispensáveis para se produzir o paraíso na Terra.

Sabemos perfeitamente, no entanto, que dentre as atitudes “opressivas” que a militância progressista mais se empenha em combater, estão o racismo, o fascismo, o machismo e a homofobia. No entanto, é fundamental entender que ser racista, fascista, machista ou homofóbico não são crimes em si. Na prática, todos esses elementos são apenas traços de personalidade; e eles não podem ser pura e simplesmente criminalizados porque ideólogos e militantes progressistas iluminados não gostam deles.

Tanto pela ética quanto pela ótica jusnaturalista, é facilmente compreensível entender que esses traços de personalidade não podem ser criminalizados ou proibidos simplesmente porque integrantes de uma ideologia não tem nenhuma apreciação ou simpatia por eles. Da mesma forma, nenhum desses traços de personalidade representa em si um perigo para a sociedade, pelo simples fato de existir. Por incrível que pareça, até mesmo o machismo, o racismo, o fascismo e a homofobia merecem a devida apologia.

Mas vamos analisar cada um desses tópicos separadamente para entender isso melhor.

Racismo

Quando falamos no Japão, normalmente não fazemos nenhuma associação da sociedade japonesa com o racismo. No entanto, é incontestável o fato de que a sociedade japonesa pode ser considerada uma das sociedades mais racistas do mundo. E a verdade é que não há absolutamente nada de errado com isso.

Aproximadamente 97% da população do Japão é nativa; apenas 3% do componente populacional é constituído por estrangeiros (a população do Japão é estimada em aproximadamente 126 milhões de habitantes). Isso faz a sociedade japonesa ser uma das mais homogêneas do mundo. As autoridades japonesas reconhecidamente dificultam processos de seleção e aplicação a estrangeiros que desejam se tornar residentes. E a maioria dos japoneses aprova essa decisão.

Diversos estabelecimentos comerciais como hotéis, bares e restaurantes por todo o país tem placas na entrada que dizem “somente para japoneses” e a maioria destes estabelecimentos se recusa ostensivamente a atender ou aceitar clientes estrangeiros, não importa quão ricos ou abastados sejam.

Na Terra do Sol Nascente, a hostilidade e a desconfiança natural para com estrangeiros é tão grande que até mesmo indivíduos que nascem em algum outro país, mas são filhos de pais japoneses, não são considerados cidadãos plenamente japoneses.

Se estes indivíduos decidem sair do seu país de origem para se estabelecer no Japão — mesmo tendo descendência nipônica legítima e inquestionável —, eles enfrentarão uma discriminação social considerável, especialmente se não dominarem o idioma japonês de forma impecável. Esse fato mostra que a discriminação é uma parte tão indissociável quanto elementar da sociedade japonesa, e ela está tão profundamente arraigada à cultura nipônica que é praticamente impossível alterá-la ou atenuá-la por qualquer motivo.

A verdade é que — quando falamos de um país como o Japão — nem todos os discursos politicamente corretos do mundo, nem a histeria progressista ocidental mais inflamada poderão algum dia modificar, extirpar ou sequer atenuar o componente racista da cultura nipônica. E isso é consequência de uma questão tão simples quanto primordial: discriminar faz parte da natureza humana, sendo tanto um direito individual quanto um elemento cultural inerente à muitas nações do mundo. Os japoneses não tem problema algum em admitir ou institucionalizar o seu preconceito, justamente pelo fato de que a ideologia politicamente correta não tem no oriente a força e a presença que tem no ocidente.

E é fundamental enfatizar que, sendo de natureza pacífica — ou seja, não violando nem agredindo terceiros —, a discriminação é um recurso natural dos seres humanos, que está diretamente associada a questões como familiaridade e segurança.

Absolutamente ninguém deve ser forçado a apreciar ou integrar-se a raças, etnias, pessoas ou tribos que não lhe transmitem sentimentos de segurança ou familiaridade. Integração forçada é o verdadeiro crime, e isso diversos países europeus — principalmente os escandinavos (países que lideram o ranking de submissão à ideologia politicamente correta) — aprenderam da pior forma possível.

A integração forçada com imigrantes islâmicos resultou em ondas de assassinato, estupro e violência inimagináveis para diversos países europeus, até então civilizados, que a imprensa ocidental politicamente correta e a militância progressista estão permanentemente tentando esconder, porque não desejam que o ocidente descubra como a agenda “humanitária” de integração forçada dos povos muçulmanos em países do Velho Mundo resultou em algumas das piores chacinas e tragédias na história recente da Europa.

Ou seja, ao discriminarem estrangeiros, os japoneses estão apenas se protegendo e lutando para preservar sua nação como um ambiente cultural, étnico e social que lhe é seguro e familiar, assim se opondo a mudanças bruscas, indesejadas e antinaturais, que poderiam comprometer a estabilidade social do país.

A discriminação — sendo de natureza pacífica —, é benévola, salutar e indubitavelmente ajuda a manter a estabilidade social da comunidade. Toda e qualquer forma de integração forçada deve ser repudiada com veemência, pois, mais cedo ou mais tarde, ela irá subverter a ordem social vigente, e sempre será acompanhada de deploráveis e dramáticos resultados.

Para citar novamente os países escandinavos, a Suécia é um excelente exemplo do que não fazer. Tendo seguido o caminho contrário ao da discriminação racional praticada pela sociedade japonesa, atualmente a sociedade sueca — além de afundar de forma consistente na lama da libertinagem, da decadência e da deterioração progressista — sofre em demasia com os imigrantes muçulmanos, que foram deixados praticamente livres para matar, saquear, esquartejar e estuprar quem eles quiserem. Hoje, eles são praticamente intocáveis, visto que denunciá-los, desmoralizá-los ou acusá-los de qualquer crime é uma atitude politicamente incorreta e altamente reprovada pelo establishment progressista. A elite socialista sueca jamais se atreve a acusá-los de qualquer crime, pois temem ser classificados como xenófobos e intolerantes. Ou seja, a desgraça da Europa, sobretudo dos países escandinavos, foi não ter oferecido nenhuma resistência à ideologia progressista politicamente correta. Hoje, eles são totalmente submissos a ela.

O exemplo do Japão mostra, portanto — para além de qualquer dúvida —, a importância ética e prática da discriminação, que é perfeitamente aceitável e natural, sendo uma tendência inerente aos seres humanos, e portanto intrínseca a determinados comportamentos, sociedades e culturas.

Indo ainda mais longe nessa questão, devemos entender que na verdade todos nós discriminamos, e não existe absolutamente nada de errado nisso. Discriminar pessoas faz parte da natureza humana e quem se recusa a admitir esse fato é um hipócrita. Mulheres discriminam homens na hora de selecionar um parceiro; elas avaliam diversos quesitos, como altura, aparência, status social, condição financeira e carisma. E dentre suas opções, elas sempre escolherão o homem mais atraente, másculo e viril, em detrimento de todos os baixinhos, calvos, carentes, frágeis e inibidos que possam estar disponíveis. Da mesma forma, homens sempre terão preferência por mulheres jovens, atraentes e delicadas, em detrimento de todas as feministas de meia-idade, acima do peso, de cabelo pintado, que são mães solteiras e militantes socialistas. A própria militância progressista discrimina pessoas de forma virulenta e intransigente, como fica evidente no tratamento que dispensam a mulheres bolsonaristas e a negros de direita.

A verdade é que — não importa o nível de histeria da militância progressista — a discriminação é inerente à condição humana e um direito natural inalienável de todos. É parte indissociável da natureza humana e qualquer pessoa pode e deve exercer esse direito sempre que desejar. Não existe absolutamente nada de errado em discriminar pessoas. O problema real é a ideologia progressista e o autoritarismo politicamente correto, movimentos tirânicos que não respeitam o direito das pessoas de discriminar.

Fascismo

Quando falamos de fascismo, precisamos entender que, para a esquerda política, o fascismo é compreendido como um conceito completamente divorciado do seu significado original. Para um militante de esquerda, fascista é todo aquele que defende posicionamentos contrários ao progressismo, não se referindo necessariamente a um fascista clássico.

Mas, seja como for, é necessário entender que — como qualquer ideologia política — até mesmo o fascismo clássico tem o direito de existir e ocupar o seu devido lugar; portanto, fascistas não devem ser arbitrariamente censurados, apesar de defenderem conceitos que representam uma completa antítese de tudo aquilo que é valioso para os entusiastas da liberdade.

Em um país como o Brasil, onde socialistas e comunistas tem total liberdade para se expressar, defender suas ideologias e até mesmo formar partidos políticos, não faz absolutamente o menor sentido que fascistas — e até mesmo nazistas assumidos — sofram qualquer tipo de discriminação. Embora socialistas e comunistas se sintam moralmente superiores aos fascistas (ou a qualquer outra filosofia política ou escola de pensamento), sabemos perfeitamente que o seu senso de superioridade é fruto de uma pueril romantização universitária da sua própria ideologia. A história mostra efetivamente que o socialismo clássico e o comunismo causaram muito mais destruição do que o fascismo.

Portanto, se socialistas e comunistas tem total liberdade para se expressar, não existe a menor razão para que fascistas não usufruam dessa mesma liberdade.

É claro, nesse ponto, seremos invariavelmente confrontados por um oportuno dilema — o famoso paradoxo da intolerância, de Karl Popper. Até que ponto uma sociedade livre e tolerante deve tolerar a intolerância (inerente a ideologias totalitárias)?

As leis de propriedade privada resolveriam isso em uma sociedade livre. O mais importante a levarmos em consideração no atual contexto, no entanto — ao defender ou criticar uma determinada ideologia, filosofia ou escola de pensamento —, é entender que, seja ela qual for, ela tem o direito de existir. E todas as pessoas que a defendem tem o direito de defendê-la, da mesma maneira que todos os seus detratores tem o direito de criticá-la.

Essa é uma forte razão para jamais apoiarmos a censura. Muito pelo contrário, devemos repudiar com veemência e intransigência toda e qualquer forma de censura, especialmente a estatal.

Existem duas fortes razões para isso:

A primeira delas é a volatilidade da censura (especialmente a estatal). A censura oficial do governo, depois que é implementada, torna-se absolutamente incontrolável. Hoje, ela pode estar apontada para um grupo de pessoas cujas ideias divergem das suas. Mas amanhã, ela pode estar apontada justamente para as ideias que você defende. É fundamental, portanto, compreendermos que a censura estatal é incontrolável. Sob qualquer ponto de vista, é muito mais vantajoso que exista uma vasta pluralidade de ideias conflitantes na sociedade competindo entre si, do que o estado decidir que ideias podem ser difundidas ou não.

Além do mais, libertários e anarcocapitalistas não podem nunca esperar qualquer tipo de simpatia por parte das autoridades governamentais. Para o estado, seria infinitamente mais prático e vantajoso criminalizar o libertarianismo e o anarcocapitalismo — sob a alegação de que são filosofias perigosas difundidas por extremistas radicais que ameaçam o estado democrático de direito — do que o fascismo ou qualquer outra ideologia centralizada em governos burocráticos e onipotentes. Portanto, defender a censura, especialmente a estatal, representa sempre um perigo para o próprio indivíduo, que mais cedo ou mais tarde poderá ver a censura oficial do sistema se voltar contra ele.

Outra razão pela qual libertários jamais devem defender a censura, é porque — ao contrário dos estatistas — não é coerente que defensores da liberdade se comportem como se o estado fosse o seu papai e o governo fosse a sua mamãe. Não devemos terceirizar nossas próprias responsabilidades, tampouco devemos nos comportar como adultos infantilizados. Assumimos a responsabilidade de combater todas as ideologias e filosofias que agridem a liberdade e os seres humanos. Não procuramos políticos ou burocratas para executar essa tarefa por nós.

Portanto, se você ver um fascista sendo censurado nas redes sociais ou em qualquer outro lugar, assuma suas dores. Sinta-se compelido a defendê-lo, mostre aos seus detratores que ele tem todo direito de se expressar, como qualquer pessoa. Você não tem obrigação de concordar com ele ou apreciar as ideias que ele defende. Mas silenciar arbitrariamente qualquer pessoa não é uma pauta que honra a liberdade.

Se você não gosta de estado, planejamento central, burocracia, impostos, tarifas, políticas coletivistas, nacionalistas e desenvolvimentistas, mostre com argumentos coesos e convincentes porque a liberdade e o livre mercado são superiores a todos esses conceitos. Mas repudie a censura com intransigência e mordacidade.

Em primeiro lugar, porque você aprecia e defende a liberdade de expressão para todas as pessoas. E em segundo lugar, por entender perfeitamente que — se a censura eventualmente se tornar uma política de estado vigente entre a sociedade — é mais provável que ela atinja primeiro os defensores da liberdade do que os defensores do estado.

Machismo

Muitos elementos do comportamento masculino que hoje são atacados com virulência e considerados machistas pelo movimento progressista são na verdade manifestações naturais intrínsecas ao homem, que nossos avôs cultivaram ao longo de suas vidas sem serem recriminados por isso. Com a ascensão do feminismo, do progressismo e a eventual problematização do sexo masculino, o antagonismo militante dos principais líderes da revolução sexual da contracultura passou a naturalmente condenar todos os atributos genuinamente masculinos, por considerá-los símbolos de opressão e dominação social.

Apesar do Brasil ser uma sociedade liberal ultra-progressista, onde o estado protege mais as mulheres do que as crianças — afinal, a cada semana novas leis são implementadas concedendo inúmeros privilégios e benefícios às mulheres, aos quais elas jamais teriam direito em uma sociedade genuinamente machista e patriarcal —, a esquerda política persiste em tentar difundir a fantasia da opressão masculina e o mito de que vivemos em uma sociedade machista e patriarcal.

Como sempre, a realidade mostra um cenário muito diferente daquilo que é pregado pela militância da terra da fantasia. O Brasil atual não tem absolutamente nada de machista ou patriarcal. No Brasil, mulheres podem votar, podem ocupar posições de poder e autoridade tanto na esfera pública quanto em companhias privadas, podem se candidatar a cargos políticos, podem ser vereadoras, deputadas, governadoras, podem ser proprietárias do próprio negócio, podem se divorciar, podem dirigir, podem comprar armas, podem andar de biquíni nas praias, podem usar saias extremamente curtas, podem ver programas de televisão sobre sexo voltados única e exclusivamente para o público feminino, podem se casar com outras mulheres, podem ser promíscuas, podem consumir bebidas alcoólicas ao ponto da embriaguez, e podem fazer praticamente tudo aquilo que elas desejarem. No Brasil do século XXI, as mulheres são genuinamente livres para fazer as próprias escolhas em praticamente todos os aspectos de suas vidas. O que mostra efetivamente que a tal opressão do patriarcado não existe.

O liberalismo social extremo do qual as mulheres usufruem no Brasil atual — e que poderíamos estender a toda a sociedade contemporânea ocidental — é suficiente para desmantelar completamente a fábula feminista da sociedade patriarcal machista e opressora, que existe única e exclusivamente no mundinho de fantasias ideológicas da esquerda progressista.

Tão importante quanto, é fundamental compreender que nenhum homem é obrigado a levar o feminismo a sério ou considerá-lo um movimento social e político legítimo. Para um homem, ser considerado machista ou até mesmo assumir-se como um não deveria ser um problema. O progressismo e o feminismo — com o seu nefasto hábito de demonizar os homens, bem como todos os elementos inerentes ao comportamento e a cultura masculina — é que são o verdadeiro problema, conforme tentam modificar o homem para transformá-lo em algo que ele não é nem deveria ser: uma criatura dócil, passiva e submissa, que é comandada por ideologias hostis e antinaturais, que não respeitam a hierarquia de uma ordem social milenar e condições inerentes à própria natureza humana. Com o seu hábito de tentar modificar tudo através de leis e decretos, o feminismo e o progressismo mostram efetivamente que o seu real objetivo é criminalizar a masculinidade.

A verdade é que — usufruindo de um nível elevado de liberdades — não existe praticamente nada que a mulher brasileira do século XXI não possa fazer. Adicionalmente, o governo dá as mulheres uma quantidade tão avassaladora de vantagens, privilégios e benefícios, que está ficando cada vez mais difícil para elas encontrarem razões válidas para reclamarem da vida. Se o projeto de lei que pretende fornecer um auxílio mensal de mil e duzentos reais para mães solteiras for aprovado pelo senado, muitas mulheres que tem filhos não precisarão nem mesmo trabalhar para ter sustento. E tantas outras procurarão engravidar, para ter direito a receber uma mesada mensal do governo até o seu filho completar a maioridade.

O que a militância colorida da terra da fantasia convenientemente ignora — pois a realidade nunca corresponde ao seu conto de fadas ideológico — é que o mundo de uma forma geral continua sendo muito mais implacável com os homens do que é com as mulheres. No Brasil, a esmagadora maioria dos suicídios é praticada por homens, a maioria das vítimas de homicídio são homens e de cada quatro moradores de rua, três são homens. Mas é evidente que uma sociedade liberal ultra-progressista não se importa com os homens, pois ela não é influenciada por fatos concretos ou pela realidade. Seu objetivo é simplesmente atender as disposições de uma agenda ideológica, não importa quão divorciadas da realidade elas são.

O nível exacerbado de liberdades sociais e privilégios governamentais dos quais as mulheres brasileiras usufruem é suficiente para destruir a fantasiosa fábula da sociedade machista, opressora e patriarcal. Se as mulheres brasileiras não estão felizes, a culpa definitivamente não é dos homens. Se a vasta profusão de liberdades, privilégios e benefícios da sociedade ocidental não as deixa plenamente saciadas e satisfeitas, elas podem sempre mudar de ares e tentar uma vida mais abnegada e espartana em países como Irã, Paquistão ou Afeganistão. Quem sabe assim elas não se sentirão melhores e mais realizadas?

Homofobia

Quando falamos em homofobia, entramos em uma categoria muito parecida com a do racismo: o direito de discriminação é totalmente válido. Absolutamente ninguém deve ser obrigado a aceitar homossexuais ou considerar o homossexualismo como algo normal. Sendo cristão, não existe nem sequer a mais vaga possibilidade de que algum dia eu venha a aceitar o homossexualismo como algo natural. O homossexualismo se qualifica como um grave desvio de conduta e um pecado contra o Criador.

A Bíblia proíbe terminantemente conduta sexual imoral, o que — além do homossexualismo — inclui adultério, fornicação, incesto e bestialidade, entre outras formas igualmente pérfidas de degradação.

Segue abaixo três passagens bíblicas que proíbem terminantemente a conduta homossexual:

“Não te deitarás com um homem como se deita com uma mulher. Isso é abominável!” (Levítico 18:22 — King James Atualizada)

“Se um homem se deitar com outro homem, como se deita com mulher, ambos terão praticado abominação; certamente serão mortos; o seu sangue estará sobre eles.” (Levítico 20:13 — João Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada)

“O quê! Não sabeis que os injustos não herdarão o reino de Deus? Não sejais desencaminhados. Nem fornicadores, nem idólatras, nem adúlteros, nem homens mantidos para propósitos desnaturais, nem homens que se deitam com homens, nem ladrões, nem gananciosos, nem beberrões, nem injuriadores, nem extorsores herdarão o reino de Deus.” (1 Coríntios 6:9,10 —Tradução do Novo Mundo das Escrituras Sagradas com Referências)

Se você não é religioso, pode simplesmente levar em consideração o argumento do respeito pela ordem natural. A ordem natural é incondicional e incisiva com relação a uma questão: o complemento de tudo o que existe é o seu oposto, não o seu igual. O complemento do dia é a noite, o complemento da luz é a escuridão, o complemento da água, que é líquida, é a terra, que é sólida. E como sabemos o complemento do macho — de sua respectiva espécie — é a fêmea.

Portanto, o complemento do homem, o macho da espécie humana, é naturalmente a mulher, a fêmea da espécie humana. Um homem e uma mulher podem naturalmente se reproduzir, porque são um complemento biológico natural. Por outro lado, um homem e outro homem são incapazes de se reproduzir, assim como uma mulher e outra mulher.

Infelizmente, o mundo atual está longe de aceitar como plenamente estabelecida a ordem natural pelo simples fato dela existir, visto que tentam subvertê-la a qualquer custo, não importa o malabarismo intelectual que tenham que fazer para justificar os seus pontos de vista distorcidos e antinaturais. A libertinagem irrefreável e a imoralidade bestial do mundo contemporâneo pós-moderno não reconhecem nenhum tipo de limite. Quem tenta restabelecer princípios morais salutares é imediatamente considerado um vilão retrógrado e repressivo, sendo ativamente demonizado pela militância do hedonismo, da luxúria e da licenciosidade desenfreada e sem limites.

Definitivamente, fazer a apologia da moralidade, do autocontrole e do autodomínio não faz nenhum sucesso na Sodoma e Gomorra global dos dias atuais. O que faz sucesso é lacração, devassidão, promiscuidade e prazeres carnais vazios. O famoso escritor e filósofo francês Albert Camus expressou uma verdade contundente quando disse: “Uma só frase lhe bastará para definir o homem moderno — fornicava e lia jornais”.

Qualquer indivíduo tem o direito inalienável de discriminar ativamente homossexuais, pelo direito que ele julgar mais pertinente no seu caso. A objeção de consciência para qualquer situação é um direito natural dos indivíduos. Há alguns anos, um caso que aconteceu nos Estados Unidos ganhou enorme repercussão internacional, quando o confeiteiro Jack Phillips se recusou a fazer um bolo de casamento para o “casal” homossexual Dave Mullins e Charlie Craig.

Uma representação dos direitos civis do estado do Colorado abriu um inquérito contra o confeiteiro, alegando que ele deveria ser obrigado a atender todos os clientes, independente da orientação sexual, raça ou crença. Preste atenção nas palavras usadas — ele deveria ser obrigado a atender.

Como se recusou bravamente a ceder, o caso foi parar invariavelmente na Suprema Corte, que decidiu por sete a dois em favor de Jack Phillips, sob a alegação de que obrigar o confeiteiro a atender o “casal” homossexual era uma violação nefasta dos seus princípios religiosos. Felizmente, esse foi um caso em que a liberdade prevaleceu sobre a tirania progressista.

Evidentemente, homossexuais não devem ser agredidos, ofendidos, internados em clínicas contra a sua vontade, nem devem ser constrangidos em suas liberdades pelo fato de serem homossexuais. O que eles precisam entender é que a liberdade é uma via de mão dupla. Eles podem ter liberdade para adotar a conduta que desejarem e fazer o que quiserem (contanto que não agridam ninguém), mas da mesma forma, é fundamental respeitar e preservar a liberdade de terceiros que desejam rejeitá-los pacificamente, pelo motivo que for.

Afinal, ninguém tem a menor obrigação de aceitá-los, atendê-los ou sequer pensar que uma união estável entre duas pessoas do mesmo sexo — incapaz de gerar descendentes, e, portanto, antinatural — deva ser considerado um matrimônio de verdade. Absolutamente nenhuma pessoa, ideia, movimento, crença ou ideologia usufrui de plena unanimidade no mundo. Por que o homossexualismo deveria ter tal privilégio?

Homossexuais não são portadores de uma verdade definitiva, absoluta e indiscutível, que está acima da humanidade. São seres humanos comuns que — na melhor das hipóteses —, levam um estilo de vida que pode ser considerado “alternativo”, e absolutamente ninguém tem a obrigação de considerar esse estilo de vida normal ou aceitável. A única obrigação das pessoas é não interferir, e isso não implica uma obrigação em aceitar.

Discriminar homossexuais (assim como pessoas de qualquer outro grupo, raça, religião, nacionalidade ou etnia) é um direito natural por parte de todos aqueles que desejam exercer esse direito. E isso nem o direito positivo nem a militância progressista poderão algum dia alterar ou subverter. O direito natural e a inclinação inerente dos seres humanos em atender às suas próprias disposições é simplesmente imutável e faz parte do seu conjunto de necessidades.

Conclusão

A militância progressista é absurdamente autoritária, e todas as suas estratégias e disposições ideológicas mostram que ela está em uma guerra permanente contra a ordem natural, contra a liberdade e principalmente contra o homem branco, cristão, conservador e tradicionalista — possivelmente, aquilo que ela mais odeia e despreza.

Nós não podemos, no entanto, ceder ou dar espaço para a agenda progressista, tampouco pensar em considerar como sendo normais todas as pautas abusivas e tirânicas que a militância pretende estabelecer como sendo perfeitamente razoáveis e aceitáveis, quer a sociedade aceite isso ou não. Afinal, conforme formos cedendo, o progressismo tirânico e totalitário tende a ganhar cada vez mais espaço.

Quanto mais espaço o progressismo conquistar, mais corroída será a liberdade e mais impulso ganhará o totalitarismo. Com isso, a cultura do cancelamento vai acabar com carreiras, profissões e com o sustento de muitas pessoas, pelo simples fato de que elas discordam das pautas universitárias da moda.

A história mostra perfeitamente que quanto mais liberdade uma sociedade tem, mais progresso ela atinge. Por outro lado, quanto mais autoritária ela for, mais retrocessos ela sofrerá. O autoritarismo se combate com liberdade, desafiando as pautas de todos aqueles que persistem em implementar a tirania na sociedade. O politicamente correto é o nazismo dos costumes, que pretende subverter a moral através de uma cultura de vigilância policial despótica e autoritária, para que toda a sociedade seja subjugada pela agenda totalitária progressista.

Pois quanto a nós, precisamos continuar travando o bom combate em nome da liberdade. E isso inclui reconhecer que ideologias, hábitos e costumes de que não gostamos tem o direito de existir e até mesmo de serem defendidos.

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#Nostr isn't just a social network, that's simply the first use case to sprout from the Nostr tree.

Simple Blocks, Complex Change

Nostr isn't just a social network, in a similar way that Bitcoin isn't just a transaction network. Both of these things are true, but they each miss the more significant elements of what they accomplish.

In my mind, the source of Nostr's true potential is two fold; first, in fundamentally changing the centralized server model into an open environment of redundant relays; and second, it eliminates the association of clients with their IP address and metadata, and replaces it with identification via public keys. Within this one-two punch lies the most important tools necessary to actually rearchitect all of the major services on the internet, not just social media. Social is simply the interface by which we will connect all of them.

The combination of this simple data & ID management protocol with decentralized money in #Bitcoin and #Lightning as a global payments network, enables nostr to build marketplaces, "websites," podcast feeds, publishing of articles/video/media of all kinds, auction networks, tipping and crowdfunding applications, note taking, data backups, global bookmarks, decentralized exchanges and betting networks, browser or app profiles that follow you wherever you go, and tons more - except these can be built without all of the negative consequences of being hosted and controlled by central servers.

It separates both the data and client identity from the server hosting it. Handing the ownership back to the owner of the keys. We could think of it loosely as permission-less server federations (though this isn't entirely accurate, its useful imo). Anyone can host, anyone can join, and the data is agnostic to the computer it sits on at any given time. The walls are falling away.

Efficiency vs Robustness

There is also a major secondary problem solved by these building blocks. A byproduct of solving censorship is creating robustness, both in data integrity, but also in data continuity. While the fiat world is so foolishly focused on "efficiency" as the optimal goal of all interaction, it naively ignores the incredible fragility that comes with it. It is far more "efficient" for one big factory to produce all of the computer chips in the world. Why build redundant manufacturing to produce the same thing when one factory can do it just fine? Yet anyone who thinks for more than a few seconds about this can see just how vulnerable it would leave us, as well as how much corruption such "efficiency" would wind up enabling.

Nostr is not alone either. Holepunch is a purely P2P model (rather than based on relays) that accomplishes the same separation in a different way. One where the clients and servers become one in the same - everyone is the host. Essentially a bittorrent like protocol that removes the limitation of the data being static. The combination of their trade offs & what these protocols can do together is practically limitless. While Nostr begins building its social network, combining it with what Synonym is building with their Web of trust, (the critical ingredient of which is public key identification) we can "weigh" information by the trust of our social graph.

Not too long ago, a friend and I used Nostr to verify who we were communicating with, we shared a Keet (built on Holepunch) room key over encrypted nostr DM, and opened a P2P, encrypted chat room where we could troubleshoot a bitcoin wallet problem and safely and privately share very sensitive data. The casual ease by which we made this transaction enabled by these tools had us both pause in awe of just how powerful they could be for the privacy and security of all communication. And this is just the very beginning. The glue of #Lightning and #Bitcoin making possible the direct monetization of the infrastructure in all of the above has me more bullish on the re-architecting of the internet than ever in my life. It cannot be reasonably called an insignificant change in incentives to remove both the advertiser and the centralized payment processor from inbetween the provider and the customers online. The base plumbing of the internet itself may very well be on the verge of the greatest shift it has ever gone through.

A Tale of Two Network Effects

I would argue the most significant historical shift in the internet architecture was the rise of social media. It was when we discovered the internet was about connecting people rather than computers. The social environment quickly became the dominant window by which the average person looked into the web. It's the place where we go to be connected to others, and get a perspective of the world and a filter for its avalanche of information as seen through our trust networks and social circles. But consider how incredibly neutered the experience really is when money isn't allowed to flow freely in this environment, and how much it actually would flow, if not for both centralized payment processors and the horrible KYC and regulatory hurdle it entails for large, centralized entities.

The first time around we failed to accomplish a global, open protocol for user identity, and because of this our social connections were owned by the server on which we made them. They owned our digital social graph, without them, it is erased. This is an incredible power. The pressures of the network effect to find people, rather than websites, took a decentralized, open internet protocol, and re-centralized it into silos controlled by barely a few major corporations. The inevitable abuse of this immense social power for political gain is so blatantly obvious in retrospect that it's almost comical.

But there is a kind of beautiful irony here - the flip side of the network effect's negative feedback that centralized us into social media silos, is the exact same effect that could present an even greater force in pushing us back toward decentralization. When our notes & highlights have the same social graph as our social media, our "instagram" has the same network as our "twitter," our podcasts reach the same audience, our video publishing has the same reach, our marketplace is built in, our reputation carries with us to every application, our app profiles are encrypted and can't be spied on, our data hosting can be paid directly with zaps, our event tickets can be permanently available, our history, our personal Ai, practically anything. And every bit of it is either encrypted or public by our sole discretion, and is paid for in a global, open market of hosts competing to provide these services for the fewest sats possible. (Case in point, I'm paying sats for premium relays, and I'm paying a simple monthly fee to nostr.build for hosting media)

All of this without having to keep up with 1,000 different fucking accounts and passwords for every single, arbitrarily different utility under the sun. Without having to setup another account to try another service offering a slightly different thing or even just one feature you want to explore. Where the "confirm with your email" bullshit is finally relegated to the hack job, security duck tape that it really is. The frustrating and post-hoc security design that is so common on the internet could finally become a thing of the past and instead just one or a few secure cryptographic keys give us access & control over our digital lives.

The same network effect that centralized the internet around social media, will be the force that could decentralize it again. When ALL of these social use cases and connections compound on each other's network effect, rather than compete with each other, what centralized silo in the world can win against that?

This is not to dismiss the number of times others have tried to build similar systems, or that it's even close to the first time it was attempted to put cryptographic keys at the heart of internet communications. Which brings me to the most important piece of this little puzzle... it actually works!

I obviously don't know exactly how this will play out, and I don't know what becomes dominant in any particular area, how relays will evolve, or what applications will lean toward the relay model, while others may lean P2P, and still others may remain client/server. But I do think the next decade will experience a shift in the internet significant enough that the words "relay" and "peer" may very well, with a little hope and lot of work, replace the word "server" in the lexicon of the internet.

The tools are here, the network is proving itself, the applications are coming, the builders are building, and nostr, holepunch, bitcoin and their like are each, slowly but surely, taking over a new part of my digital life every week. Case in point; I'm publishing this short article on blogstack.io, it will travel across all of nostr, I'm accepting zaps with my LNURL, it is available on numerous sites that aggregate Kind:30023 articles, my entire social graph will get it in their feed, & there will be a plethora of different clients/apps/websites/etc through which the users will see this note, each with their own features and designs...

Seriously, why the fuck would I bother starting a Substack and beg people for their emails?

This is only the beginning, and I'm fully here for it. I came for the notes and the plebs, but it's the "Other Stuff" that will change the world.

@ 9a576bd9:538775f4

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Nostr

Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is a new, simple, open and censorship resistant protocol, currently the developers are focused on building a decentralized social network based mainly on public and private keys.

To achieve this, clients will connect to different relays and publish messages called events. Nostr uses the notion of a simple relay and a smart client that will take care of signing the events using a pair of keys to authenticate the person.

https://nostr.how/the-protocol

With this approach, everything is public, i.e. it is easy to know who you are talking to in the case of a private discussion (message content is encrypted) or how often you publish content.

The website https://www.nostrapps.com/ has some interesting and necessary resources to start interacting with Nostr

For more details, JohnOnChain’s article on Discover Bitcoin (in French) can be read here: https://decouvrebitcoin.fr/nostr/

The mixnet

Nym is building an infrastructure to protect your privacy, this is the first block necessary to ensure total freedom on the Internet.

Similar to Tor or i2p, Nym’s mixnet adds 2 components necessary to achieve their goal and completely protect the users of the network:

• False traffic to prevent an ISP for example to know when a person interacts with a service (website, bitcoin wallet, …)

• Regular time interval in the transmitted information to avoid deducing the application used (telephony, web browsing, …)

It is therefore on this new value proposition that we wanted to experiment with the members of Pineapple Proxy on this infrastructure.

Nostr on Nym

Using Nym’s mixnet cannot therefore protect the metadata generated when a person interacts with the protocol, but it can prevent your ISP from knowing that you are using Nostr, which relay you are interacting with, how many times you connect, or what potential interactions you have.

A second interesting point is that a relay operator can easily link your public key with your geographical location based on your IP.

It is essentially on these elements that we decided to experiment with Nostr-nym, an application that allows any relay operator to make it accessible on the mixnet in order to protect the privacy of users. We focused on a generic application in order to support all relays (future and current).

The only difference for a user will be to specify an nym-client id (similar to a domain name) instead of a URL in their Nostr client.

A crucial step still needs to be developed, the fact that a Nostr client can use a relay only accessible via the mixnet. For demonstration purposes, a command line light client could be developed to test the proposed concept.

So ?

Nostr on Nym is for us a solution that would allow any user to have a right to privacy and freedom of expression without even asking the question thanks to this model that offers it by default.

It’s also the time to collaborate and assemble a common brain to reach the goal of seeing Nostr as a protocol using Nym to carry information. This collective intelligence has already given birth to an explanation of Nostr and a demonstration of Nostr-Nym, all available here.

Ressources

What is Pineapple proxy

We're a zesty collective of whacky, warm individuals who are passionate about making privacy convenient for everyone, an inalienable human right. We believe in collective intelligence, empathy, and collaboration as how we'll make privacy a meaningful reality. Give us a visit on pnproxy.org

Nostr

npub to find:

• No Trust Verify: npub1n8mkcvn56gaj9mk598nu3uyp3mqrwazt0rdxsmwddk3ghesfs46qpwc6ac

• Pineapple proxy: npub1vyvyqme882zq3ajw0r0x975p3akd9llcrlgled98qjd8jjhzl9wqut2pt0

Clients (non-exhaustive list)

• https://snort.social

• https://app.coracle.social/

• https://iris.to/

• https://damus.io/ (iOS)

• https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst (Android)

Complements

• https://nostr.how

• https://www.nostrapps.com/

• https://github.com/nostr-protocol/

• https://www.nostr.net/

Nym

• https://nymtech.net/

• https://nymtech.net/docs/

• https://nymtech.net/developers/

About No Trust Verify

We are members of the #VerifyValley. We support the Nym Technologies network and contribute to it since the testnet. We are happy to strengthen the mixnet with our mixnodes and our gateways.

Developer of pastenym.ch and isnymup.com

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Double-entry accounting is a tried and true method for tracking the flow of money using a principle from physics: the conservation of energy. If we account for all the inflows and outflows of money, then we know that we can build an accurate picture of all of the money we've made and spent.

Bitcoin is particularly good at accounting in this sense, since transaction inflows and outflows are checked by code, with the latest state of the ledger stored in the UTXO set.

What about lightning? Every transaction is not stored on the blockchain, so we need same way to account for all the incoming and outgoing lightning transactions. Luckily for us, core-lightning (CLN) comes with a plugin that describes these transactions in detail!

For every transaction, CLN stores the amount credited and debited from your node: routed payments, invoices, etc. To access this, you just need to run the lightning-cli bkpr-listaccountevents command:

lightning-cli bkpr-listaccountevents | jq -cr '.events[] | [.type,.tag,.credit_msat,.debit_msat,.timestamp,.description] | @tsv' > events.txt

This will save a tab-separated file with some basic information about each credit and debit event on your node.

channel invoice 232000000 0 1662187126 Havana channel invoice 2050000 0 1662242391 coinos voucher channel invoice 0 1002203 1662463949 lightningpicturebot channel invoice 300000 0 1663110636 [["text/plain","jb55's lightning address"],["text/identifier","jb55@sendsats.lol"]] channel invoice 0 102626 1663483583 Mile high lightning club

Now here's comes the cool part, we can take this data and build a ledger-cli file. ledger is a very powerful command-line accounting tool built on a plaintext transaction format. Using the tab-separated file we got from CLN, we can build a ledger file with a chart-of-accounts that we can use for detailed reporting. To do this, I wrote a script for converting bkpt reports to ledger:

http://git.jb55.com/cln-ledger

The ledger file looks like so:

``` 2023-05-31 f10074c748917a2ecd8c5ffb5c3067114e2677fa6152d5b5fd89c0aec7fd81c5 expenses:zap:1971 1971000 msat assets:cln -1971000 msat

2023-05-31 damus donations income:lnurl:damus@sendsats.lol -111000 msat assets:cln 111000 msat

2023-05-31 Zap income:zap:event:f8dd1e7eafa18add4aa8ff78c63f17bdb2fab3ade44f8980f094bdf3fb72d512 -10000000 msat assets:cln 10000000 msat ```

Each transaction has multiple postings which track the flow of money from one account to another. Once we have this file we can quickly build reports:

Balance report

Here's the command for "account balance report since 2023-05 in CAD"

$ ledger -b 2023-05-01 -S amount -X CAD -f cln.ledger bal

``` CAD5290 assets:cln CAD2202 expenses CAD525 routed CAD1677 unknown CAD-7492 income CAD-587 unknown CAD-526 routed CAD-1515 lnurl CAD-614 jb55@sendsats.lol CAD-1 tipjar CAD-537 damus@sendsats.lol CAD-364 gpt3@sendsats.lol CAD-4012 merch CAD-2571 tshirt CAD-1441 hat CAD-852 zap CAD-847 event CAD-66 30e763a1206774753da01ba4ce95852a37841e1a1777076ba82e068f6730b75d CAD-60 f9cda1d7b6792e5320a52909dcd98d20e7f95003de7a813fa18aa8c43ea66710 CAD-49 5ae0087aa6245365a6d357befa9a59b587c01cf30bd8580cd4f79dc67fc30aef CAD-43 a4d44469dd3db920257e0bca0b6ee063dfbf6622514a55e2d222f321744a2a0e ...

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       0

```

As we can see it shows a breakdown of all the sats we've earned (in this case converted to fiat). We can have a higher-level summary using the depth argument:

$ ledger -M -S amount -X sat -f cln.ledger bal

``` sat14694904 assets:cln sat6116712 expenses sat1457926 routed sat4658786 unknown sat-20811616 income sat-1630529 unknown sat-1461610 routed sat-4207647 lnurl sat-11144666 merch sat-2367164 zap

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       0

```

As we can see we made 14 million sats this month, not bad! The number at the bottom balances to zero which means we've properly accounted for all income and expenses.

Daily Damus Donation Earnings

To support damus, some users have turned on a feature that sends zaps to support damus development. This simply sends a payment to the damus@sendsats.lol lightning address. Since we record these we can build a daily report of damus donations:

$ ledger -D -V -f cln.ledger reg damus

23-May-15 - 23-May-15 ..damus@sendsats.lol CAD-46 CAD-46 23-May-16 - 23-May-16 ..damus@sendsats.lol CAD-73 CAD-120 23-May-17 - 23-May-17 ..damus@sendsats.lol CAD-41 CAD-161 23-May-18 - 23-May-18 ..damus@sendsats.lol CAD-37 CAD-197 23-May-19 - 23-May-19 ..damus@sendsats.lol CAD-35 CAD-233 23-May-20 - 23-May-20 ..damus@sendsats.lol CAD-28 CAD-261 23-May-21 - 23-May-21 ..damus@sendsats.lol CAD-19 CAD-280 23-May-22 - 23-May-22 ..damus@sendsats.lol CAD-29 CAD-309 23-May-23 - 23-May-23 ..damus@sendsats.lol CAD-19 CAD-328 23-May-24 - 23-May-24 ..damus@sendsats.lol CAD-25 CAD-353 23-May-25 - 23-May-25 ..damus@sendsats.lol CAD-36 CAD-390 23-May-26 - 23-May-26 ..damus@sendsats.lol CAD-37 CAD-426 23-May-27 - 23-May-27 ..damus@sendsats.lol CAD-25 CAD-451 23-May-28 - 23-May-28 ..damus@sendsats.lol CAD-25 CAD-476 23-May-29 - 23-May-29 ..damus@sendsats.lol CAD-12 CAD-488 23-May-30 - 23-May-30 ..damus@sendsats.lol CAD-29 CAD-517 23-May-31 - 23-May-31 ..damus@sendsats.lol CAD-21 CAD-537

Not making bank or anything but this covered the relay server costs this month!

Hopefully ya'll found this useful, feel free to fork the script and try it out!

@ f5bcf314:0507683d

I have been in the crypto space for a while, but only recently, I got hooked up on Lightning Network, Nostr and Zapping. This is also my first post on Habla, so please be gentle.

By the way. I am not a financial advisor, and this is not financial advice. These are just services I use, and I decided to share my experiences.

If you are like me, you probably ask, "How to buy and stack small amounts of sats? Does it make sense to buy £10 worth of BTC every week? How much will be eaten up by the fees?" And these turned up to be very valid questions for me. At the level of 10£, fees can be humongous.

As you can guess by the "£" sign, I live in the UK and found myself out of the EU a few years ago. Some banks stopped offering their services to us, and everything suddenly became more expensive. So there could be easier or cheaper options in the EU or elsewhere; I am talking about my limited UK experience.

Binance (minimum £15)

best for balanced purchase automation (KYC required)

Recurring buy with a card. Transaction fee 2.07% = £0.31 My £15 bought me 61992 SATS

Recurring buy with a balance. Binance will charge 1£ for processing a bank transfer. Moving £61 every four weeks and setting weekly buys of £15 would work out slightly better than the option above.

Withdrawals The withdrawals must be manual, and Binance has not yet integrated with LN. Withdrawals to BTC have a minimum of 30kSATS, and the network fee is set to 20kSATS. Minus LN network fees, my Alby LN address was credited with only 41871. That's roughly 2/3 of my purchase, definitely not the best of the deals for small amounts.

Crypto.com (minimum £12)

best for purchase automation of larger amounts (KYC required)

Recurring with a card. it will set you back a whopping 2.99%. Crypto.com will add the £0.45 to the charge on your card.

Recurring buy with a balance. On a positive note, there is no fee for processing inbound transfers(!) Like with Binance, the withdrawals must be manual, and no LN integration exists. Withdrawals to BTC have a minimum of 120kSATS. This means I would need to buy at least £30 worth of BTC to be able to withdraw it. However, the fee is whooping 60kSATS which means my lN address would be credited with only 50%. Wow!

Nexo (minimum top-up £10)

best value - totally manual (KYC required)

Unfortunately, there is no recurring purchase option nor integration with LN so maybe I should not include it, However: There are no processing costs for inbound transfers. The platinum level gives five free withdrawals and requires 10% of the overall portfolio value to be held in NEXO. Assuming that we 'r rather hold our crypto in self-custody - this might not be that hard to achieve.

Mt Pelerin

full stacking automation - especially interesting for small amounts (no KYC )

Located in Switzerland and integrated with LN. It cannot be simpler. You send a bank transfer, and your chosen currency in your selected network will be credited. The list is impressive, and you can even specify your self-custodial addresses. The first 500 CHF worth of transactions every year is completely free. This limit can be raised when holding their MPS token. Out of experience, best to send transfers from the UK in CHF. The Revolut fee is only £0.3. Don't forget to provide a reference number.

Summary

These are by no means all possibilities, just all that I tried. There is also no clear best option. At level £10 a month, Mt Pelerin seems to be a no-brainer, but the more you want to buy, the more complex things will get. I am still on the lookout for better options. Shout if you know of any.

If you'd like to sign up - my referral links are: * Binance - https://accounts.binance.com/register?ref=42469060 * Crypto.com - https://crypto.com/app/btgvb3gp3d * Nexo - https://nexo.com/ref/p0qh72rpbp * Mt Pelerin - https://mtpelerin.com/join?rfr=Vx1MzVyn

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Embora muitos brasileiros se sintam prontos para voltar ao mercado de trabalho, o fato é que não parece haver vagas disponíveis para absorver todo esse contingente. A questão envolve a fragilidade atual da economia brasileira, que não oferece as condições necessárias para que sejam criados novos postos de trabalho.

Uma consequência é a grande competitividade por vaga de emprego, sendo privilegiados aqueles candidatos com currículos mais atrativos.

É natural que outros integrantes da família procurem formas de obter renda, mas o problema é que as oportunidades de trabalho são escassas e a competitividade pelo profissional com melhor currículo é um fator determinante para melhorar as chances de contratação.

No entanto, esta não é a única questão que influencia a escolha das empresas quanto ao perfil profissional. Para melhorar as chances, os candidatos precisam entender com clareza quais ações e planejamentos podem ajudar no momento de concorrer a uma vaga de emprego.

Uma dica é estudar o problema da recolocação profissional e as melhores estratégias. Um curso pensado para ajudar nesta questão pode ser acessado em https://www.cursos24horas.com.br/parceiro.asp?cod=promocao2767&url=cursos/rec.asp

Se você possui acima de 30 anos de idade, pode ser interessante verificar o estudo acadêmico sobre o tema neste link http://repositorio.uema.br/bitstream/123456789/941/1/TCC%20DEFINITIVO%20-%20ALINE%20CRISTINA%20MORAES%20ALVES.pdf

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Just revisiting some quick tips for #newbies #pow #public #blockchain users only.

if you just getting started with bitcoin or any pow crypto coins or been using or storing them for a while, you not must forget the roots and fundamentals.

Hot Wallet — It gets connected to live internet at some point in time essentially to sign / send a tx i.e. spending transaction — exposes the private key of the address from in the process

Cold Wallet — It never ever gets connected or online and can always keep receiving inbound amounts Paper wallets are best n cheapest form of cold wallet that can used once n thrown away.

Cold wallets need to either “import”ed or “sweep”ed in order to used or spend — https://coinsutra.com/private-key-import-vs-sweep-difference/

Any thin #wallet is always dependent on connectivity to live up2date node server where-as self-sufficient qt / cli wallet takes a while to sync up to latest block height in order to be usable.

Beginners should always resist the attraction of quick and fast — thin n 3rd party wallets and always start a long learning journey of core wallets of any coin — either “qt” GUI wallet or command line “coin-cli” wallet

Almost all #proofofwork #blockchains i.e. #POW has #node #wallet - everyone who use support he #public #blockchain secures own you coin value

You can run fullnode either on clearnet or over onion 🧅 #BTC has >55% of nodes running in onion out of total 15000+ live fullnodes and 50000+ bitcoincore wallets around blockheight 777000 . Other notable pow chains are #LTC #RVN and rest are babychains for now !

Always delete hot wallet to test practice restoration before sending any large refunds to it to be safe.

Large funds are always best to keep in self custody node wallets rare n occasional use

Final word — Cannot see private key 🔑 or seed 🌱 in any wallet means not your coin. 😲

That’s all for now n Thank you 🙏 ! ⚡️ https://getalby.com/p/captjack ⚡️

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Habla is a new blogging platform that's based on Nostr. Or as various Nostr client developers like to call it:

"A way to get Derek Ross to stop sending walls of text".

You can edit posts, which is very nice.

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Um software desenvolvido por uma equipe de estudiosos israelenses liderados por Moshe Koppel, da Universidade Bar Ilan, perto de Tel Aviv, está dando intrigantes dicas sobre o que os pesquisadores acreditam ser as várias mãos que escreveram a Bíblia.

Desde o advento da erudição bíblica moderna, os pesquisadores acadêmicos acreditam que o texto foi escrito por um número de diferentes autores cujo trabalho pode ser identificado por diferentes estilos ideológicos e linguísticos.

Hoje, os estudiosos geralmente dividem o texto em duas vertentes principais. Um deles foi escrito por uma figura ou grupo conhecido como o autor “sacerdotal”, por causa de ligações aparentes com os sacerdotes do templo em Jerusalém. O resto é “não-sacerdotal”.

Estudiosos passaram o texto pelo aplicativo e quando o novo software foi executado no Pentateuco, ele encontrou a mesma divisão, separando o “sacerdotal” e “não-sacerdotal”.

O rastreamento do aplicativo correspondeu com a divisão tradicional acadêmica em uma média de 90 por cento – efetivamente recriando anos de trabalho dos estudiosos em poucos minutos, afirmou Moshe Koppel, professor de ciência da computação que liderou a equipe de pesquisa.

Antes de aplicar o software para o Pentateuco e outros livros da Bíblia, os pesquisadores primeiro precisavam de um teste mais objetivo para provar se o algoritmo poderia distinguir corretamente um autor de outro.

Então eles misturaram ao acaso livros da Bíblia hebraica de Ezequiel e Jeremias num único texto e executaram o software. Segundo os pesquisadores, o aplicativo conseguiu separar corretamente os autores, mostrando sua eficiência.

O programa reconhece seleções de palavras repetidas, como o uso dos equivalentes Hebraico de “se”, “e” e “mas”. Em alguns lugares, por exemplo, a Bíblia dá a palavra para “staff” como “Makel”, enquanto em outros ele usa ”mateh” para o mesmo objeto.

O programa então separa o texto em linhas que acredita ser o trabalho de pessoas diferentes.

Outros pesquisadores têm olhado para as impressões digitais linguísticas em textos menos sagrados como uma forma de identificar os escritores desconhecidos.

Na década de 1990, o professor Inglês Vassar Donald identificou o jornalista Joe Klein como o autor anônimo do livro “Primary Colors”, olhando para os detalhes menores, como pontuação.

Em 2003, Koppel foi parte de uma equipe de pesquisa que desenvolveu software que poderia contar com sucesso, quatro vezes em cada cinco, se o autor de um texto era do sexo masculino ou feminino.

Os pesquisadores descobriram que as mulheres são mais propensas a usar os pronomes pessoais, como “ela” e “ele”, enquanto os homens preferem determinantes como o “que” e “isto”. Mulheres, em outras palavras, geralmente falam sobre pessoas, enquanto os homens preferem falar sobre coisas.

O novo software pode ser usado para investigar as peças de Shakespeare e resolver as questões remanescentes de autoria ou co-autoria, ponderou Graeme Hirst, um professor de linguística computacional da Universidade de Toronto.

O algoritmo também pode levar ao surgimento de um verificador de estilo linguístico para documentos elaborados por vários autores ou comitês, ajudando no desenvolvimento de um texto uniforme, sugeriu Hirst.

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The real power of AI will be in its integration of other tools to use in specific situation and recognizing what those tools are. There will be extremely specific & curated AI models (or just basic software circuits) on certain topics, tasks, or concepts. And this will also be a crucial way in which we keep AI safe, and give it understanding of its own actions. In other words, how we prevent it from going insane. I've recently experienced a tiny microcosm of what that might look like...

— ie. a general language model that knows to call on the conceptual math language model, that then makes sense of the question and knows to input it into the calculator app for explicit calculations when solving complex or tricky word problems. And then to apply this in the realm of safety and morals, a specific model that an AI calls on for understanding the consequences and principles of any actions it takes in the real world.

I believe there needs to be an AI "Constitution" (a particular term I heard used to describe it) where there is a specific set of ideas and actions it is enabled to perform, and a particular set of "moral weights" it must assess before taking action. Anyone who's read Asimov will recognize this as "The Three Laws" and that's basically what it would be. This is critical because an AI running an actual humanoid machine like Boston Dynamics could go ape shit literally because it is emulating trolling someone by doing the opposite of what they asked -- I just had a LLM troll me yesterday & go a bit haywire when i asked it to be concise, and every answer afterward was then the wordiest and longest bunch of nonsense imaginable... it was funny, but also slightly sobering to think how these things could go wrong when controlling something in the real world. Now imagine a robot that thinks Kick Ass is a funny movie and starts emulating its behavior thinking it's being funny because it has no model to assess the importance of the humans whose skulls it's smashing and thinks the more blood it can splatter everywhere makes it a more comical experience for those in the room. That's essentially the "real world robot" version of asking a LLM to be concise and instead getting an avalanche of BS. Ask a robot to be funny and maybe it crushes your skull.

Because of that, I think there will be certain "anchors" or particular "circuits" for these LLMs to be constrained by for certain things. Essentially action specific built governors that add meaning to the actions and things they are doing. A very simple version mentioned above would be a calculator. If you ask an LLM right now to do basic math, it screws up all the time. It has no idea how to generate a true answer. It just predicts what an answer might sound like. So even extremely simple and common sense requests turn up idiotic answers sometimes. But if it can recognize that you are asking a math problem, find the relevant mathematical elements, and then call on the hardcoded & built-in calculator circuit, then the LLM isn't doing the calculation, it's simply the interface between the calculation tool and the human interaction.

What I think will be critical as we integrate these into real world machines over time, and as their capabilities become more generalized and layered, will be to build in a sort of moral constitution that behaves like a concrete engine (a calculator), that has the model recognize when something might be a questionable behavior or cause an undesirable outcome, and then call on the "constitution" to make the decision to act or not. In that way, it may actually prevent itself from doing something stupid or terrible that even a human hadn't realized the full consequences of. — ie. it won't help a child get to the roof of his building so he can fly off the side with his cardboard wings.

It will be very interesting to watch these come about because the failure more of AI will be a critically important thing to consider, and unfortunately from an engineering and cultural standpoint, "failure modes" are something that have been underrepresented and increasingly ignored. A simple example is a modern washing machine; when something entirely arbitrary or some silly little feature breaks, the whole thing is useless and you have to bring a technician out to fix it, when a sensible failure mode would be that it simply routes around what arbitrary feature failed, and continues working normally. This, unfortunately, has become the norm for tons of "modern" devices and appliances. they are simultaneously increasingly "advance" and "stupid" at the same time. It's largely a product of the high time preference mindset, and we need MUCH more low time preference consideration as we unleash AI onto the world. It will matter exponentially more when we start making machines that can operate autonomously, can maintain themselves, and learn through their own interactions and environment... and we aren't very far away.

Learn as fast as you can, understand the tools, and stay safe.

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Fica evidente que o sistema educacional brasileiro enfrenta dificuldades quando observados alguns indicadores, bem como o Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano (IDH), organizado pelo Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD), que em 2012 classificou o Brasil em terceiro lugar com a maior taxa de evasão escolar numa lista de cem países. O censo do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) de 2010 registrou a média de 49.3% de brasileiros maiores de 25 anos sem a conclusão do ensino médio. O Índice de Desenvolvimento da Educação Básica (IDEB), organizado pelo Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (INEP) em uma escala de 10 pontos, classificou em 2012 a qualidade da educação do ensino médio com 3.7 pontos (UOL, 2013).

Outro indicador que parece sinalizar nesta direção é a Avaliação Nacional do Rendimento Escolar (ANRESC) e a Avaliação Nacional da Educação Básica (ANEB), ambos compõem o Sistema de Avaliação da Educação Básica (SAEB), onde em 2011 o resultado para a disciplina de matemática sinalizou um desempenho favorável para aproximadamente 10.1% dos alunos do ensino médio. Na ocasião desse resultado circulou na imprensa que “quase 90% dos alunos que concluem o ensino médio não sabem matemática”.

Embora persista uma variedade de problemas, a educação parece ter apresentado, nos últimos anos, uma série de aspectos positivos. Entre eles, diversos investimentos como o programa Ciência sem Fronteiras, a distribuição de tablets nas escolas, variedade de cursos gratuitos de capacitação para professores da rede pública, distribuição de bolsas de estudo e campanhas com aporte financeiro para o desenvolvimento dos sistemas educacionais, uma maior facilidade de acesso por parte da população em cursos técnicos e de graduação através de programas de financiamento estudantil, bem como, o aumento do número de instituições de ensino (FNDE, 2015).

Outro aspecto positivo surge ao se observar o relatório do INEP sobre os indicadores financeiros de investimentos em educação pública, onde nota-se um aumento progressivo do aporte financeiro por aluno, de R$ 1.000,00 durante o ano de 2000 para R$ 4.916,00 em 2011 (INEP, 2011).

Uma maior evolução parece ter ocorrido no acesso aos cursos de graduação, evento divulgado em veículos de comunicação de massa sob o título “Número de brasileiros com graduação cresce 109,83% em 10 anos” (BRASIL, 2012). Também o desempenho escolar ocupou destaque nas notícias sob o título “Brasil evolui, mas segue nas últimas posições em ranking de educação” (G1, 2013), sinalizando que o país embora esteja avançando positivamente nos últimos anos em questões sobre educação, apresenta desempenho insuficiente quando comparado a outros países.

Também ganhou relevante destaque no âmbito da capacitação técnica o Programa Nacional de Acesso ao Ensino Técnico e Emprego – Pronatec, declarado pela presidente Dilma Rousseff em maio de 2014 no blog do planalto como “um dos pilares da política educacional”. Vitrine de campanha nas eleições de 2014 o Pronatec ganhou maior destaque na imprensa como um esforço e conquista do governo Dilma, onde, segundo dados amplamente divulgados na internet e imprensa, mais de 5,7 milhões de matrículas já ocorreram e a estimativa é de 8 milhões até 2015 (BLOG DO PLANALTO, 2014).

Além do Pronatec convencional, em junho de 2014 a presidente Dilma anunciou uma nova modalidade focada nos direitos humanos com o objetivo de atender setores carentes da sociedade e em 26 de novembro de 2014 foi publicado no Diário Oficial da União de número 229 as regras desta nova modalidade dividida em três categorias, o “Pronatec viver sem limite” destinado a pessoas com deficiência, o “Pronatec Sinase” que atua na capacitação profissional de adolescentes que estão sob medida socioeducativa e o “Pronatec Pop Rua” destinado a atender pessoas em situação de rua (BRASIL, 2014).

Dados do MEC apontam que 40% dos usuários do Pronatec convencional são alunos de baixa renda, registrados no Cadastro Único de Programa social e 60% do total de usuários são jovens que estão na faixa dos 19 aos 24 anos. O Pronatec inicia em 2015 com um orçamento de 14 bilhões para investimentos em 12 milhões de vagas em 220 cursos técnicos de nível médio e 646 cursos de qualificação (PDE/PRONATEC, 2011).

Quando indicadores são observados de forma isolada surgem resultados conflitantes que podem gerar certa polarização. Sob uma perspectiva histórica comparando a educação atual com seu passado é possível obter resultados positivos sinalizando um processo de crescimento. No entanto, numa perspectiva global, onde o desempenho da educação no país é comparado a outras nações o Brasil ocupa uma posição desfavorável, um dos últimos lugares na classificação geral.

Entre aqueles que consideram com maior ênfase os resultados dos indicadores de comparação histórica, uma perspectiva possível é de uma educação em plena expansão, onde os problemas emergentes são próprios desta evolução, já aqueles que consideram a educação com ênfase nos resultados obtidos pelos indicadores internacionais, uma percepção possível é de estagnação e crise.

Diferente do entendimento destes resultados como complementares em um mesmo evento, o raciocínio binário admite apenas um dos indicadores como verdadeiro, se existe crise não pode existir expansão, se existe expansão não pode existir crise. Nesse sentido a questão assume um caráter de oposição.

Esta forma de interpretar os eventos pode promover dificuldades nas relações sociais uma vez que a discordância ocorre na forma de uma postura polarizada, binária, onde a divergência não é algo considerado como complemento de um dado fenômeno, prevalecendo como referência, na maioria das vezes, uma perspectiva unilateral incapaz de contextualizar de forma abrangente a complexa relação entre os fenômenos e seus indicadores.

Segundo diagnosticou Moraes (1997, p. 86) existem casos onde “a dificuldade de trabalhar dentro de uma visão sistêmica, com um enfoque de totalidade, tem ocasionado poucos avanços em direção à solução de alguns problemas educacionais […]”. Esse tipo de postura que carece de contextualização abrangente, motivada por uma interpretação binária, é entendido como “raciocínio tecnológico” por Postman (1994), Bauman (2007), Baudrillard (1991), entre outros, sinalizando que uma parte dos problemas na educação e na sociedade pode ser consequência de um modelo de pensamento unilateral, binário.

Embora tenha ocorrido um crescimento do aporte financeiro, maior número de cursos de capacitação para os educadores, aumento do número de instituições de ensino e maior acesso da população aos serviços educacionais, isso não foi suficiente para diluir alguns problemas, como a dificuldade de diálogo e colaboração nas equipes de trabalhadores da educação, o pouco interesse por parte dos alunos na participação efetiva da proposta e da atividade educacional, bem como, o descrédito do modelo educacional na opinião pública.

Algumas dessas dificuldades são diagnosticadas como produto da aceleração tecnológica que proporcionou uma nova condição de sentido, como a ênfase no pensamento binário e sobrecarga de informações, deslocando o ambiente de propagação de ideias para as mídias sociais, colocando em dúvida o tradicional papel da escola, do educador e dos métodos educacionais.

Postman (1994, p. 62) defende que o computador é uma ameaça para a escola tradicional uma vez que essa tecnologia serve para convencer que inovação tecnológica é sinônimo de progresso humano e social, enquanto silenciosamente reduz as comunidades em uma sociedade homogênea, trivializando tudo e todos de forma inescrupulosa, reduzindo conhecimento à mera informação e promovendo a substituição de valores sociais por egocentrismos.

Segundo Postman (1994), em sociedades tecnológicas estruturadas pelo culto à tecnologia da informação os relacionamentos com essa tecnologia podem ocorrer de uma forma alienante, tudo se torna uma questão de aplicação da técnica e com isso se perde a necessidade de entender o porquê das coisas, apenas se aceita a ordem estabelecida pelos especialistas, numa corrida frenética por informação.

Existe especialista para tudo, “[…] em criação das crianças, em educação, em como ser amável, em como fazer amor, em como influenciar pessoas, em como fazer amigos […]” (POSTMAN, 1994 p. 95). Gradativamente a necessidade de desenvolvimento individual do pensamento crítico e analítico, a busca pelo conhecimento, foi substituída pela necessidade de acessar a informação do especialista.

Para cada crença, hábito ou tradição do velho mundo havia e ainda há uma alternativa tecnológica. Para a oração, a alternativa é a penicilina; para as raízes da família, a alternativa é a mobilidade; para a leitura, a alternativa é a televisão; para a restrição, a alternativa é a gratificação imediata; para o pecado, a alternativa é a psicoterapia; para a ideologia política a alternativa é o apelo popular estabelecido por meio da pesquisa científica de opinião. (POSTMAN, 1994, p, 63).

Para o autor, os problemas se agravaram quando os especialistas restritos na atividade de resolverem problemas técnicos passaram a atuar nas áreas sociais, valorizando a aplicação de métodos e ferramentas das ciências naturais em questões humanas, onde números e técnicas em um processo autorreferente promoveram uma grande e sedutora ilusão, a promessa de solucionar os dilemas humanos mais profundos. Desta forma:

[…] as novas tecnologias mudam aquilo que entendemos como “conhecimento” e “verdade”; elas alteram hábitos de pensamento profundamente enraizados, que dão a uma cultura seu senso de como é o mundo – um senso do que é a ordem natural das coisas, do que é sensato, do que é necessário, do que é inevitável, do que é real (POSTMAN, 1994, p. 22, grifos do autor). Entendendo que a tecnologia influencia o pensamento, Postman denuncia a ameaça do computador como possibilidade de rendição da escola à proposta tecnológica, tornando-se unicamente formadora de especialistas, promovendo como consequência a exclusão da humanidade uma vez que “o computador exige soberania sobre todo o âmbito da experiência humana, e sustenta essa exigência demonstrando que ‘pensa’ melhor do que nós” (POSTMAN, 1994, p. 117, grifo do autor).

O autor entende que os problemas nas relações sociais estão no âmbito do reconhecimento da experiência humana enquanto formação moral, papel da escola tradicional. “Se famílias se desfazem, se crianças são maltratadas, se o crime aterroriza uma cidade, se a educação é impotente, isso não ocorre por falta de informação adequada” (POSTMAN, 1994, p. 62). Reafirma a importância em resgatar o papel da escola tradicional como formadora do senso crítico e analítico para o esclarecimento sobre os efeitos tecnológicos apontando que “[…] precisamos de estudantes que compreendam as relações entre nossas técnicas e nossos mundos social e psíquico, de modo que possam iniciar conversas informadas sobre a onde a tecnologia nos está levando e como” (POSTMAN, 1994, p. 203).

Esta perspectiva que apresenta a tecnologia com potencial para promover uma diluição da moral também é defendida por Bauman (1997), ainda que de modo mais ameno, entendendo a tecnologia como um sistema fechado, autorreferente, que faz prevalecer a simplificação da técnica para tudo. “[…] quanto mais problemas gera a tecnologia, tanto mais de tecnologia se precisa” (BAUMAN, 1997, p. 213). Como tudo é simplificado e resolvido pela técnica, não existe espaço para tratar questões ambíguas e complexas, o “eu” do homem moderno se constitui cada vez mais mediado por percepções fragmentadas do mundo. Este “eu” fragmentado não se confronta com a totalidade do mundo, do outro ou de si mesmo, proporcionando um comportamento individualista e irresponsável para com a sociedade e a natureza, impossibilitando uma possível manifestação do “eu” moral.

Segundo descreve Bauman (2002), a escola tradicional difundia a educação como algo para toda a vida e o conhecimento continha seu valor de forma proporcional à sua duração, onde o saber da experiência adquirido ao longo do tempo ganhava destaque. Na atualidade, o sistema educacional recebeu um duro golpe uma vez que os valores sociais se inverteram. Enquanto na tradição o valorizado era a rotina e o conhecimento duradouro, pautado na busca pelos fundamentos. Na sociedade atual, influenciada pela tecnologia, prevalece a importância da flexibilidade e de cursos rápidos que sejam úteis para o momento fugaz do mercado de trabalho.

No torvelinho da mudança, o conhecimento serve para uso imediato e único; conhecimento pronto-para-o-uso e imediatamente disponível, do tipo prometido pelos programas de software, que entram e saem das prateleiras das lojas em uma sucessão sempre acelerada, parece muito mais atraente. (BAUMAN, 2002, p. 49).

Nesta perspectiva, o autor entende que não é de interesse comum atribuir importância ao conhecimento duradouro da experiência, já que a referência de conhecimento consiste na relevância momentânea do assunto, onde o que importa é a informação mais atual, cuja principal característica é ser “[…] eminentemente descartável, bom apenas até segunda ordem e só temporariamente útil […]” (BAUMAN, 2007, p. 154). Esta nova dinâmica, pautada na informação fugaz, substitui a autoridade do conhecimento pelas seduções do mercado de consumo, dificultando qualquer proposta educacional associada à escola tradicional. A educação atual é desejável e valorizada como mercadoria que, dispensada da formação moral, se torna um produto informativo, comprometido com o ensinamento da técnica e com o atendimento ao cliente, “não há sanções contra os que saem da linha e se recusam a prestar atenção – a não ser o horror de perder uma experiência que os outros (tantos outros!) prezam e desfrutam” (BAUMAN, 2003, p. 43).

Num sistema social pautado unicamente na informação descartável:

[…] um bit de informação é caçado por outro antes mesmo que possa ser absorvido, e, uma vez que eles não são assimilados, não podem ser conectados a uma cadeia de eventos significativa. Cada evento deve assim “sobreviver” por conta própria, e o senso de totalidade é deixado para trás pelos competidores já no início da caçada (BAUMAN, 2000, p. 100, grifo do autor). Bauman (2007) entende que um resgate do papel tradicional da escola é uma questão necessariamente política e assume relevância frente à atual situação social, salientando que:

[…] quando a educação afia sua aresta crítica, ‘fazendo a sociedade se sentir culpada’ e ‘agitando as coisas’ por meio da perturbação das consciências. Os destinos da liberdade, da democracia que a torna possível – ao mesmo tempo em que é possibilitada por ela – e a educação que produz a insatisfação com o nível de liberdade e democracia até aqui atingido são inextricavelmente ligados e não podem ser separados um do outro. Pode-se ver essa conexão íntima como outra espécie de circulo vicioso – mas é nesse círculo, e só nele, que as esperanças humanas e as chances da humanidade se inserem (BAUMAN, 2007 p. 23). No entendimento de Bauman (2007) o que mais necessitamos é resgatar uma educação comprometida com a cidadania, com a interação e o diálogo, permitindo a condição de possibilidade para a formação de um “eu” moral.

Baudrillard (1991) igualmente assume uma postura de alerta sobre o desenvolvimento tecnológico. Entende que a sociedade tecnológica se constitui pela comunicação virtual através das tecnologias em massa de comunicação e informação – TICs. Tais sistemas tecnológicos influenciam nossa percepção de mundo produzindo ilusões que se opõem ao que é real, culminando num processo autodestrutivo que resulta numa implosão do social. No processo de comunicação virtual se abdica da prática racional de absorção de conteúdo e prevalece a sensação diante do espetáculo da informação, onde o que importa é o consumo da forma e não o conteúdo. “Assim a informação dissolve o sentido e dissolve o social numa espécie de nebulosa voltada, não de todo a um aumento de inovação, muito pelo contrário, à entropia” (BAUDRILLARD, 1991, p. 106). Essa postura própria das sociedades tecnológicas inviabiliza a circulação social do sentido promovendo o esvaziamento do real, tendo como principal característica a indiferença social e o egoísmo.

Para o autor, a sociedade que transforma todos os eventos em um sedutor espetáculo (virtualização), característica das sociedades tecnológicas, aliena os sentidos e produz uma percepção de mundo onde não é possível distinguir o real do imaginário proporcionando uma grande confusão ou desorientação, tendo como consequência a incapacidade social de se estabelecer diferenças, transformando tudo em produto de consumo imediato em um único e indiferenciado espaço, o que “[…] contribui ainda mais para esta ausência de profundidade: um mesmo espaço homogêneo, sem mediação, reúne os homens e as coisas, o espaço da manipulação direta. Mas qual deles manipula o outro?” (BAUDRILLARD, 1991, p. 98).

Baudrillard (1998, p. 207) interpreta as tecnologias de comunicação em massa, televisão, internet, entre outras, como sistemas unidirecionais de propagação de sensações e ideias e alerta que tais sistemas “[…] fabricam incomunicação, isto se aceitarmos que a definição de comunicação implica uma troca, como um espaço recíproco de discurso e resposta, e, portanto também de responsabilidade”.

O autor sinaliza como característica própria do virtual a propagação de uma perspectiva autorreferente, um processo que não é mediado pelo reconhecimento da diferença, onde tudo se torna uma questão homogênea e alienante. Na perspectiva do autor, a realidade virtual ou simulacro é aquela que conduz de forma unidirecional as massas, impossibilitando a experiência real que consiste na capacidade de vivenciar e reconhecer o diferente, o outro (BAUDRILLARD, 1997). É nesse sentido que Baudrillard argumenta que o virtual enquanto mecanismo de afirmação da indiferença promove o egoísmo e a implosão do social, principalmente se entendermos o social como espaço público mediado pela multiplicidade e pelo reconhecimento do outro.

Entendendo como virtual um tipo de realidade que se fecha sobre si mesmo, autorreferente, o autor afirma, “a potência do virtual nada mais é do que o próprio virtual. Por isso pode intensificar-se de maneira alucinante e, sempre mais longe do mundo dito real, perder ela mesma todo princípio de realidade” (BAUDRILLARD, 1997, p. 26).

Lévy (2005, p. 11), bastante lido e citado na área da educação, endente de outro modo. Aponta que existe uma evolução cultural em andamento e “[…] apesar de seus inegáveis aspectos sombrios e terríveis […]”, essa mudança cultural é um fenômeno próprio da condição humana, possibilitando uma ampliação da criatividade e percepção de mundo. Aponta para um possível equívoco entre aqueles que entendem a tecnologia como causa e a cultura como vítima de seus efeitos, já que tecnologia e cultura estão numa relação de práxis, produzindo mutuamente novas possibilidades. Pondera que a loucura e a violência do nosso tempo não são determinadas pela tecnologia, mas uma consequência da falta de compreensão sobre o que é o virtual e os processos tecnológicos. “Antes de temê-la, condená-la ou lança-la às cegas, proponho que se faça o esforço de apreender, de pensar, de compreender em toda a sua amplitude a virtualização” (LÉVY, 2005, p. 12).

Lévy (2005) considera como perspectiva tradicional o estágio social onde o conhecimento era duradouro, contemplativo e centrado nos fundamentos. Na atualidade, entende-se que o conhecimento é transformado em fluxo, algo móvel e imaterial, que produz operações eficazes onde o próprio conhecimento é uma operação.

Para o autor a característica imaterial do conhecimento e da informação estimula a propagação e a colaboração entre saberes, uma vez que “[…] consumi-los não os destrói e cedê-los não faz com que sejam perdidos” (LÉVY, 2005, p. 55). Pondera que o livre acesso à informação permite que o conhecimento não seja restrito apenas para certos grupos. “[…] não é mais uma casta de especialistas, mas a grande massa das pessoas que são levadas a aprender, transmitir e produzir conhecimentos de maneira cooperativa em sua atividade cotidiana” (LÉVY, 2005, p. 55). Salienta que este é o momento de orientar a evolução em curso uma vez que as alternativas são:

Ou o ciberespaço reproduz o midiático, o espetacular, o consumo de informação mercantil e a exclusão numa escala ainda mais gigantesca que hoje. Esta é, a grosso modo, a tendência natural das “supervias da informação” ou da “televisão interativa” . Ou acompanhamos as tendências mais positivas da evolução em curso e criamos um projeto de civilização […] (LÉVY, 2005, p. 118). Castells (2005) avalia que o dilema levantado por algumas pessoas ao considerar que a sociedade é determinada pela tecnologia não faz sentido, “[…] dado que a tecnologia é a sociedade, e a sociedade não pode ser entendida ou representada sem suas ferramentas tecnológicas” (CASTELLS, 2005, p. 43). Salienta que a relação entre tecnologia e sociedade deve ser entendida considerando o papel mediador do Estado, cuja organização é um fator decisivo na interrupção, promoção ou liberação de uma dada inovação tecnológica.

Para Castells a produção de tecnologia é um fenômeno antropológico e a evolução social é complexa e não deve, equivocadamente, ser equacionada apenas pelo viés tecnológico. Sobre o egocentrismo crescente o autor entende que:

[…] a identidade está se tornando a principal e, às vezes, única fonte de significado em um período histórico caracterizado pela ampla desestruturação das organizações, deslegitimação das instituições, enfraquecimento de importantes movimentos sociais e expressões culturais efêmeras. Cada vez mais, as pessoas organizam seu significado não em torno do que fazem, mas com base no que elas são ou acreditam que são. […] Nessa condição de esquizofrenia estrutural entre a função e o significado, os padrões de comunicação social ficam sob tensão crescente. […] cada vez mais difíceis de compartilhar (CASTELLS, 2005, p. 41). O autor também defende a importância da racionalidade e a possibilidade de recorrer à razão como meio para a compreensão deste novo tempo, onde “a suposição implícita é a aceitação da total individualização do comportamento e da impotência da sociedade ante seu destino” (CASTELLS, 2005, p. 42).

Enquanto Postman (1994), Bauman (2007) e Baudrillard (1991) entendem que a tecnologia produz uma influência problemática, capaz de diluir a consciência social promovendo um individualismo exagerado e alienante, Lévy (2005) e Castells (2005) recolocam a questão apontando que é a falta de senso crítico que promove um relacionamento problemático com a tecnologia, levando à diluição da consciência social e ao estímulo do individualismo exagerado.

Embora esses autores discordem quanto ao agente motivador dos problemas sociais, cada um ao seu modo, entende que vivemos em uma época de mudanças, onde a tendência está na manifestação do pensamento unilateral e no culto ao individualismo, sinalizam a importância de mediações através da política, do estado e da escola, no intuito de resgatar ou construir um projeto de sociedade e de indivíduo. Apontam ainda, a necessidade do aperfeiçoamento coletivo do senso crítico como meio de estimular uma consciência social e tecnológica.

É nesta direção que Fantin e Girardello (2009) sinalizam em seu artigo “Diante do abismo digital: mídia-educação e mediações culturais”. Neste trabalho, as autoras defendem, entre outras coisas, a importância de ambientes educacionais capazes de promover inclusão digital, de forma a “[…] favorecer a formação crítica de cidadãos, não apenas de usuários […]” (FANTIN; GIRARDELLO, 2009, p. 78), ressaltando a necessidade de uma perspectiva educacional que contemple dimensões sociais, intelectuais, culturais e tecnológicas, onde a construção de cidadania ocorre pautada numa real participação de crianças, jovens e adultos na cultura.

Segundo Aranha (2006) favorecer a formação crítica de cidadãos demanda, por parte dos envolvidos, uma clareza na concepção de sociedade e do indivíduo que se deseja construir, sendo necessário direcionar esforços e responder “Que tipo de pessoa se quer formar? Para qual sociedade?” (ARANHA, 2006, p. 33). Na perspectiva de Carraher (1983) uma postura pautada pelo senso crítico “[…] implica em adotar perspectivas múltiplas para examinar as questões sob várias óticas” (CARRAHER, 2002, p. XXI) sendo que uma postura baseada em um pensamento unilateral dilui o potencial do senso crítico na medida em que impede o uso de múltiplas perspectivas.

Aranha (2006) e Carraher (2002) entendem que o processo de desenvolvimento e prática do senso crítico demanda contextualização, direcionamento e aplicação sistemática de regras que atuam como mecanismos de orientação do pensamento.

Para Wittgenstein (2005) a constituição das regras de orientação do pensamento ocorre na linguagem e não deve ser individual, autorreferente. Segundo o autor, para que ocorra um pensamento consistente é necessário que os parâmetros de referência sejam sociais e públicos. A perspectiva de um modelo autorreferente implica em um individualismo sem mediação, onde a pessoa se refere a si mesma, culto ao “eu”, como parâmetro único de percepção e entendimento do mundo. Sobre a impossibilidade do pensamento constituído numa postura autorreferente, o autor pondera:

Suponhamos que cada um tivesse uma caixa e que dentro dela houvesse algo que chamamos de ‘besouro’. Ninguém pode olhar dentro da caixa do outro; e cada um diz que sabe o que é um besouro apenas por olhar o seu besouro. Poderia ser que cada um tivesse algo diferente em sua caixa. (WITTGENSTEIN, 2005, p.137). Sob este aspecto, a percepção individual enquanto postura de isolamento social oferece dificuldades para o funcionamento adequado do ambiente compartilhado e do desenvolvimento da sociedade como um todo, podendo promover desentendimentos e diluição do senso crítico.

Além da popularização de uma postura autorreferente e da aplicação de um raciocínio binário, outro evento que também parece oferecer dificuldade ao desenvolvimento social, promovendo confusões e diminuição do senso crítico, consiste na ausência de regras que orientam o pensamento.

Nesta direção aponta Desidério Orlando Figueiredo Murcho (1998), filósofo e escritor português. Leciona filosofia na Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, MG, Brasil e possui diversas publicações em artigos e livros nos mais variados campos da filosofia, incluindo reflexões sobre a importância da lógica na educação e construção do pensamento.

Segundo Murcho (1998) é a lógica que, “[…] entre outras coisas, estabelece as normas que as pessoas têm de cumprir se desejam realmente alcançar o raciocínio correto ou válido” (p. 390). Para o autor, em alguns casos, é notória a pouca atenção que a lógica vem recebendo na mediação de pensamentos.

Murcho se refere ao uso da lógica em um sentido amplo e defende, principalmente, o uso da lógica informal uma vez que esta se ocupa do estudo de todos os tipos de argumentos, permitindo melhor se entender as questões implicadas numa dada argumentação.

Entendendo que a argumentação está presente num processo de negociação e que um bom argumento assume papel relevante na persuasão sobre uma dada possibilidade e ainda, que toda negociação depende da aceitação dos argumentos entre os interlocutores, Murcho (2010, s/p.) esclarece:

Para que uma inferência seja boa é apenas necessário que seja um argumento válido. Mas um bom argumento é mais do que meramente válido: é um argumento persuasivo. […] A plausibilidade das premissas é relativa ao estado cognitivo do agente e não é discreta, mas sim contínua. A solidez de um argumento (a conjunção da verdade com a validade) é independente dos agentes cognitivos. Mas os agentes cognitivos não são omniscientes e perante cada premissa ou conclusão têm de avaliar como mais ou menos plausível, à luz do que julgam saber em geral. Assim, um argumento pode ser bom ou mau, melhor ou pior, mais ou menos forte ou cogente, apesar de ser sólido. Um argumento bom, forte ou cogente é um argumento que além de sólido tem premissas mais plausíveis do que a conclusão. A perspectiva de plausibilidade encontrada em Murcho (2010) recoloca nos termos da lógica informal a subjetividade como algo próprio do gestor da ação, tomada de decisão, onde o verdadeiro ou falso é dependente de um dado contexto em conformidade com tendências interpretativas influenciadas pelas interações sociais.

Outro autor que defende a importância das regras de organização do pensamento é Jacques Bouveresse (2005), filósofo francês que leciona no College de France. Entre seus livros publicados se destaca a obra “Prodígios e vertigens da analogia” onde o autor elabora uma crítica ao uso de analogias sem mediação adequada da lógica.

Bouveresse (2005, XVIII) alerta que é necessário “[…] utilizar mais seriamente os recursos da lógica e da análise lógica para mostrar a inconsistência […]” (BOUVERESSE, 2005, p. XVIII) que ocorre no uso, muitas vezes, abusivo das analogias. O autor entende que, “[…] quem viola regras constitutivas do que se chama ‘pensar’ não só pensa mal, como não pensa em absoluto” (BOUVERESSE, 2005, p. 119). No entanto, pondera que na atualidade existe uma mudança cultural em andamento onde surgiu, por parte de alguns, a ilusão que pensar fora da mediação da lógica é pensar mais profundamente e melhor, onde a lógica passou a ser recebida como um tipo de opressão da criatividade e da liberdade de pensamento.

Sautter (2002) pondera que embora a lógica já tenha sido considerada como uma disciplina humanística no passado é “atualmente vista com reserva, especialmente em nosso país” (p. 413).

O evento da autorreferência, do raciocínio binário e da ausência de análise lógica parece estar relacionado em um círculo vicioso onde um estimula o outro promovendo a impossibilidade de entendimento e de ações conjuntas, dificultando o papel da escola na formação crítica de cidadãos. Entendendo que na atualidade o isolamento social, individualismo exagerado, se constitui numa tendência crescente de comportamento que compromete o funcionamento do espaço público, ou ainda, que a postura binária se populariza fragmentando o conhecimento e promovendo desentendimentos e rivalidades também entre os educadores, pode ser difícil responder, “como favorecer a formação crítica de cidadãos?“ principalmente se considerarmos que é necessário um senso de unidade com claro direcionamento e mediação pública, algo defendido por alguns como ultrapassado.

Nesse sentido, algumas observações de Postman (1994), Bauman (2007), Baudrillard (1991), Lévy (2005) e Castells (2005) parecem complementares uma vez que, na ausência de outro mecanismo de mediação para a formação crítica de cidadãos, o raciocínio tecnológico se torna o mediador disponível através do contato cotidiano das pessoas com a tecnologia. A complementaridade desses autores está na possibilidade de um movimento circular onde, segundo Lévy (2005) e Castells (2005) o enfraquecimento do senso crítico dificulta o entendimento claro dos efeitos da tecnologia, fazendo com, conforme Postman (1994), Bauman (2007) e Baudrillard (1991), o contato com a tecnologia potencializa um tipo de raciocínio tecnológico que enfraquece o senso crítico.

Embora o raciocínio tecnológico cotidiano seja eficiente para diagnosticar defeitos e consertar equipamentos, ele parece promover dificuldades quando aplicado em questões do comportamento humano, especialmente devido à sua característica simplificadora e excludente. Ao buscar um defeito em uma máquina se efetua um raciocínio de comparação e exclusão até identificar o fenômeno responsável pelo problema. Assim que é localizado o componente problemático este é excluído e um componente novo e moderno é colocado no lugar. Neste sentido, o raciocínio tecnológico é pautado na busca pela simplificação, que permite a rápida substituição de um dado componente defeituoso, problemático ou ultrapassado.

Nesta perspectiva existe o risco interpretativo de considerar o humano como um tipo de objeto cujo sentido existencial é destinado unicamente a atender um dado conjunto de utilidades, um tipo de utilitarismo que iguala os humanos e as máquinas tanto em valor como em destino, onde ambos, máquinas e humanos, podem ser programados, usados, consertados e descartados.

Quando esse modelo de raciocínio é aplicado nas relações humanas surgem alguns problemas e a troca de ideias pode ser dificultada já que apenas uma percepção deve ser a atualizada e as outras precisam ser substituídas. Um dado estilo de vida quando considerado ultrapassado se opõe ao que é atual sendo percebido como inferior, uma simples agitação, tristeza, frustração ou qualquer manifestação emocional, própria das questões da vida humana, pode ser facilmente entendida como um defeito que necessite de algum tipo de conserto, geralmente químico.

Essa característica presente no raciocínio de diagnóstico tecnológico, que aponta para um ou outro, em sentido de oposição, está presente no senso comum e também tem sido diagnosticada como um problema na educação. Segundo Bremberger (2010) a escola vive atualmente um cenário tenso e conflituoso “[…] enquanto os alunos atribuem os problemas aos professores, esses por sua vez, afirmam que o fracasso escolar deve-se a problemas decorrentes dos alunos e suas famílias” (p.137). Para a autora existe uma tendência em centralizar para uma só versão ou focalizar numa perspectiva reducionista tendo como efeito uma interpretação simplificada dos fenômenos no ambiente educacional.

Esta postura binária também pode ser encontrada numa forma sutil em alguns artigos sobre educação, como por exemplo, no debate sobre a questão se é a experiência que produz conhecimento ou se é o conhecimento que dá sentido à experiência. Uma interpretação possível consiste na ideia de circularidade, onde a experiência produz conhecimento que dá novos sentidos ao que é experimentado permitindo novas experiências, práxis.

No entanto, é possível encontrar um tipo de debate binário, onde se entende que apenas um dos fenômenos é o determinante. Nessa direção, alguns artigos assumem uma postura concorrente, partidária. Este parece ser o caso de uma interpretação apresentada por Gottschalk (2005) sobre a orientação dos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais onde se afirma:

Para aprender sobre digestão, subtração ou qualquer outro objeto de conhecimento, o aluno precisa adquirir informações, vivenciar situações em que estes conceitos estejam em jogo, para poder construir generalizações parciais que, ao longo de suas experiências, possibilitaram atingir conceitualizações cada vez mais abrangentes; estas o levarão à compreensão de princípios, ou seja, conceitos de maior nível de abstração, como o princípio de igualdade na matemática, o principio de conservação nas ciências, etc. (PCN apud GOTTSCHALK, 2005, p. 5). Gottschalk (2005) entende que esta passagem do PCN é uma orientação inspirada no pragmatismo de Dewey e que deve ser substituída pelo pragmatismo de Wittgenstein. Entendendo que é Wittgenstein a teoria mais eficiente, a autora sinaliza:

[…] não são situações empíricas que possibilitam ao aluno compreender princípios como os da igualdade na matemática ou o princípio de conservação nas ciências (Cf. PCN acima citado), pelo contrário, são esses princípios que permitem organizar nossa experiência significativamente (GOTTSCHALK, 2005, p. 12). Nesse caso o debate pode promover uma concorrência entre os que apoiam Dewey ou Wittgenstein. Encontrando em Wittgenstein o argumento de ser o conhecimento uma invenção consensual, Gottschalk (2005, p. 13) conclui:

As regras não são descobertas, mas sim, inventadas, ou seja, são de natureza convencional, e nesse sentido não cabe ao professor exigir que o aluno às descubra, seja através de experiências empíricas ou subjetivas, ou mesmo a partir de uma combinação entre essas experiências nos moldes das teorias psicogenéticas sobre ensino e aprendizagem. A colaboração de Gottschalk (2005) no debate sobre as técnicas de promoção do conhecimento pode assumir relevância como uma questão própria do comportamento tecnológico, que consiste no fato do conhecimento ser produzido na concorrência de teorias, algo necessário para a evolução, produção e manutenção na aplicação da técnica.

No entanto, no âmbito das relações sociais, na postura de colaboração e compartilhamento do espaço público, na valorização e reconhecimento do outro, parece existir algo que escapa ao que é proposto pelo modelo de percepção pautado no conhecimento técnico, em especial, quando contabilizamos reflexões de autores como Postman (1994), Bauman (2007), Baudrillard (1991), Lévy (2005) e Castells (2005).

Não é novidade na educação a produção de conhecimentos que diluem ou amenizam a percepção unilateral ou binária, como a teoria das “Inteligências Múltiplas”, proposta por Howard Gardner no livro de mesmo título publicado pela editora Artes Médicas no ano de 2000. Ou ainda, Paulo Freire no livro “Pedagogia do oprimido”, escrito em 1968 e publicado no Brasil em 1974 pela editora Paz e Terra, abordando entre outras coisas, os problemas de uma educação unilateral de consequência autoritária e opressora. Assim como, as teorias da complexidade, que propõem um tipo de raciocínio circular onde se busca diluir perspectivas binárias, polarizadas, em especial na educação com o autor Edgar Morin e seu livro “Educação e complexidade” publicado pela editora Cortez no ano de 2007.

As teorias da complexidade buscam demonstrar em diversos contextos e áreas do saber, consequências, muitas vezes ilusórias, de verdades adquiridas através do isolamento e fragmentação de percepções do mundo. A “grosso modo” é possível afirmar que nessas teorias, cada uma ao seu modo, se encontram sugestões de aplicação de uma estratégia de raciocínio que contemple o raciocínio circular e a conexão entre eventos como modelo interpretativo em substituição a um modelo unilateral, que propõe interpretações pautadas em verdades universais e absolutas.

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Uma falsa memória consiste basicamente na distorção de uma experiência por conta da forma como o cérebro recupera as informações armazenadas ou através da inserção de informações tendenciosamente manipuladas. Com o avanço da computação e das ciências cognitivas foi possível verificar alguns aspectos do comportamento humano e responder, ainda que precariamente, algumas questões sobre o funcionamento de nossas percepções de mundo.

Basicamente a memória se divide em três operações, codificação, armazenamento e recuperação. Na codificação, o que é sentido através dos mecanismos sensoriais do corpo recebe uma adequação que resulta no preparo da informação que é codificada para o armazenamento na memória. No armazenamento e recuperação ocorrem o arquivamento e acesso ao que foi percebido e registrado.

O que as ciências constataram é que os humanos não guardam informações de forma estática como em um computador, os humanos não possuem uma memória de eventos, mas sim uma memória de interpretações. Esta é a principal diferença entre um computador e um humano, quando o assunto é arquivamento de dados ou informações.

Um computador guarda na memória "dados", enquanto um humano arquiva informações significativas, ou seja, interpretações dos eventos vivenciados ou imaginados.

Como guardamos interpretações e não eventos estáticos, nossa memória muda com o passar do tempo. Mesmo quando alguém decora um determinado texto, imagem ou assunto, o arquivamento na memória ocorre através de complexa sucessão de interpretações. É por isso que não conseguimos memorizar coisas que não fazem sentido ou que não interpretamos como importante.

A memória humana é seletiva, o arquivamento das informações depende de como cada pessoa interpreta um determinado evento. Assim, um mesmo evento é guardado na memória com significados e interpretações diferentes em cada pessoa.

Não memorizamos o que ocorreu de fato, mas o que interpretamos dos fatos. Isso significa que a porta de entrada para memorizar alguma coisa é o significado que atribuímos ao que ocorreu.

É aqui que surge a falsa memória, também chamado de implante de memória. Basta manipular a interpretação e a memória também é modificada. Esta manipulação pode ocorrer de forma deliberada ou sem o conhecimento dos envolvidos. Uma das técnicas estudadas nesta direção é a chamada mensagem subliminar, técnica que busca meios de sugerir certas interpretações.

Nossa memória é constituída de ajustes feitos em concordância com nossas expectativas, interpretações e crenças sobre nós mesmos e sobre o mundo. No momento em que acessamos um evento guardado na memória modificamos este evento ajustando as lembranças com interpretações e significações do presente.

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What is NIP-05 really?

If you look at the spec, it's a way to map Nostr public keys to DNS-based internet identifiers, such as name@example.com.

If you look at Nostr Plebs:

It's a human readable identifier for your public key. It makes finding your profile on Nostr easier. It makes identifying your account easier.

If you look at basically any client, you see a checkmark, which you assume means verification.

If you ask someone, they probably will call it verification.

How did we get here?

Initially, there was only one client, which was (kind of) the reference implementation: Branle.

When it added support for NIP-05 identifiers, it used to replace the display name with the NIP-05 identifier, and it had to distinguish a NIP-05 from someone setting their display name to a NIP-05. So they added a checkmark...

Then there was astral.ninja and Damus: The former was a fork of Branle, and therefore inherited the checkmark. Damus didn't implement NIP-05 until a while later, and they added a checkmark because Astral and other clients were doing it.

And then came new clients, all copying what the previous ones did... (Snort originally did not have a checkmark, but that changed later.)

The first NIP-05 provider

Long story short, people were wondering what NIP-05 is and wanted it, and that's how Nostr Plebs came to be.

They initially called their service verification. Somewhere between January and February, they removed all mentions to verification except one (because people were searching for it), and publicly said that NIP-05 is not verification. But that didn't work.

Then, there were the new NIP-05 providers, some understood perfectly what a NIP-05 identifier is and applied the correct nomenclature. Others misnamed it as verification, adding confusion to users. This made the problem worse on top of the popular clients showing checkmarks.

(from this point in the article we'll refer to it as a Nostr address)

And so, the scams begin

Spammers and scammers started to abuse Nostr addresses to scam people: - Some providers has been used by fake crypto airdrop bots. - A few Nostr address providers have terminated multitude of impersonating and scam identifiers over the past weeks.

This goes to show that Nostr addresses don't verify anything, they are just providers of human readable handles.

Nostr addresses can be proof of association

Nostr addresses can be a proof of association. The easiest analogy to understand is email:

jack@cash.app -> You could assume this is the Jack that works at Cash App.

jack@nostr-address-provider.example.com -> This could be any Jack.

What now?

We urge that clients stop showing a checkmark for all Nostr addresses, as they are not useful for verification.

We also urge that clients hide checkmarks for all domain names, without exception in the same way we do not show checkmarks for emails.

Lastly, NIP-05 is a nostr address and that is why we urge all clients to use the proper nomenclature.

Signed:

• Semisol, Nostr Plebs (semisol@nostrplebs.com)
• Quentin, nostrcheck.me (quentin@nostrcheck.me)
• Derek Ross, Nostr Plebs (derekross@nostrplebs.com)
• Bitcoin Nostrich, Bitcoin Nostr (BitcoinNostrich@BitcoinNostr.com)
• Remina, zaps.lol (remina@zaps.lol)
• Harry Hodler, nostr-check.com (harryhodler@nostr-check.com)

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Verification: tweet

Badge implications:

• an account that joined Twitter in 2010 or earlier
• an account with fewer than 10,000 followers

Twitter user tweetious profile information:

• Joined in 2008
• Follower count: 699
• Following count: 529

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O skate iniciou no Brasil na década de sessenta. No início não existiam regras, o brinquedo era considerado apenas para lazer e não como uma possível prática esportiva. Somente em 1974 é que foi realizado o primeiro Campeonato Brasileiro de Skate. O evento ocorreu no Clube Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Nesse mesmo ano foi inaugurada a primeira pista aqui no Brasil.

A prática esportiva do skateboard só explodiu no Brasil na década de noventa. O número de praticantes cresceu vertiginosamente neste período, bem como os eventos, que acabaram recebendo total apoio da imprensa.

Com um grande número de adeptos e poucos lugares públicos, devidamente configurados para tal prática, é comum a garotada brincar nas movimentadas ruas dos centros urbanos. Algumas pessoas usam o Skate como meio de transporte para curtas distâncias.

Sem uma legislação que organize o uso deste tipo de transporte, carros e Skate acabam compartilhando o mesmo espaço e colocando em risco, em alguns casos, pedestres e praticantes da modalidade. Este não é o único meio de transporte que enfrenta os problemas urbanos, os ciclistas, cuja prática é muito mais antiga, também são alvos de polêmicas e com frequência, acidentes.

Tanto os motoristas, condutores, pedestres e usuários destas modalidades alternativas de transporte, frequentement

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Most bitcoiners have their own, much different definition of what it means to orange pill a person. I’ve seen mentions of getting a taxi driver to download a lightning wallet and sending the payment in sats to them. Is that truly orange-pilling? Hmm… no. It is a great first step, but what makes you believe that that person won’t go on to shitcoins after learning about the ease of using cryptocurrency?

So, let’s define what that is in the terms of this guide.

To orange pill someone means to get them to take the first step into learning about bitcoin, money, self-custody, being sovereign, and to teach them to start questioning the world of lies we’ve been fed our entire lives.

Too poetic? Okay, here’s a more specific one:

To orange pill someone means showing them how to send and receive a bitcoin transaction, explain to them the importance of keeping their seed words safe, and showing them more articles, books and guides so they can go further down the rabbit hole.

I think that’s better, don’t you?

No matter what your definition of orange-pilling is, let’s discuss a few things first.

Orange-pilling comes from the scene in the Matrix where Morpheus offers the blue and the red pill to Neo.

This your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more. ~ Morpheus

The fact that the terms comes from the Matrix is absolutely perfect, because the Matrix is based on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Everybody knows the Matrix so let’s talk about the Cave. Inside the cave, people are chained up, in the dark. The only thing they can do is talk to each other and stare forward, where there’s a dim light on the cave’s wall. Someone is moving around objects, throwing shadows on the wall. The people can never see the three-dimensional object, they can only see a shadow, a projection of it, so their world is limited by that knowledge.

Someday a group of people manage to break out of the Cave. They go out into the light, their eyes hurt, the world is massive, they get a panic attack by the lack of a rock ceiling on top of them. It’s vast, it’s too much to bear. And they run back into the cave and tell everyone what they saw, that it’s too bright, too open, too much everything. Objects are real, there’s light everywhere and colours. So many colours, not just the flame, the rock and the shadow.

And they don’t believe them. Maybe they even get angry at them and attack them. Who are these fools to claim that the world is not what they think it is? Who are they to suggest that we’ve all been lied to all our lives?

And that’s the first thing you need to keep in mind when trying to orange pill someone.

Why do some people find it so hard to believe in bitcoin?

The answer is simple. It’s because understanding bitcoin requires acknowledging you’ve been tricked your entire life.

The culture shock is real, I’ve been through it. The stages are as follows:

What is money? You start to learn what money really is, and how fundamentally flawed the Keynesian system has become. You see that the only way forward is by a hard money standard, whether that’s gold or bitcoin. Then you realise that in a world of information, the only logical step is bitcoin. Then why bitcoin? You start to read about it’s properties. It’s antifragile, decentralised. Why is that important? Nobody can control, it great. Why is it like gold that can be attached to an email? Then there’s the anger and disbelief. We’ve been fooled. Why doesn’t everybody see this? You read everything about bitcoin, you listen to podcasts, talk on bitcoin twitter and nostr with other plebs. Nobody seems to have all the answers but they make far more sense than the lies of the mainstream media. You talk to your friends and family, you come off as crazy at best. As I said, you have to acknowledge the trauma the other person is going through. It’s a culture shock, and not many want to go through with it. Think of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, people who got out into the world went back and told everyone that there’s more to life than the shadows on the wall. Or, the same allegory being told by the Matrix, with Cypher wanting to go back, to forget.

We call that Bitcoin Derangement Syndrome, BDS. It’s hilarious but it’s so real. Many early bitcoiners, people who have spend years of their lives either advocating for it or working on it, some making or losing fortunes in the process, go back to the fiat world, shift gears completely, rant and rave against bitcoin and dive back in the Matrix, the Cave, taking the blue pill. They want to be fiat rich, they lie and delude themselves that everything is okay in the world and if they get just enough money they’d be okay.

But they won’t. This is real, and no matter how many lies they tell themselves things will not change unless we change them ourselves. Babies are dying, that’s true. In wars, in artificially induced poverty, in carrying on with the Keynesian ways of thinking of endless imperial expansion and exploitation.

I’ll be honest, bitcoin rewires your brain.

Do you really wanna force that on people?

Yes?

Then let’s read on.

Why is it sometimes so hard to explain, persuade or convince people about bitcoin? Here’s a harsh truth. It’s because you’re the counterparty risk.

When your car breaks down, you go to a mechanic, you seek expert knowledge. He tells you what’s wrong and you generally accept it. Why? Because unless you’re an expert on cars, you don’t have pre-existing knowledge about this specific situation. Nature abhors a vacuum. The mechanic’s knowledge and expertise fills up that vacuum of knowledge.

Why is it different with bitcoin, then?

Because most people believe they already understand money. There’s no vacuum for their knowledge to fill. Like a woman going to a male gynecologist thinking she knows better because she’s the one with the female body, a nocoiner believes they know better because, see? They have been handling and making money all their lives! Who are you to claim things aren’t how they used to think they are?

Yes, sure. You’re the one with the female body, you’re the one with the wallet. But have you actually taken the time to study it? Have you invested the necessary six years in medical school or the 100 hours it takes to grasp bitcoin?

No.

But they don’t accept that. When you make statements about bitcoin, it collides with their pre-existing frame of reference. When that happens, their mind reflexively casts doubts on the new information, actively fights it and rejects it, because it doesn’t conform to what they know. Their mind is the bearer asset, you are the counterparty risk.

Okay, great. How do you overcome this, then?

By taking the time with them. You can’t force someone to get orange-pilled, it’s not shoving knowledge down their throats. They have to do it themselves, so you start small. Plant a seed. Make them question what they know. That tiny seed, just like in Inception, will grow and push aside the other propaganda in their minds, leaving some space for new information to fill the void.

“Why did they stop having money backed by gold?”

That’s one seed.

“Who prints all these new billions?”

Another. Take your pick, it depends on the person you’re talking to.

A good question makes the nocoiner access their accepted knowledge. They usually think they have the answer and you should listen to it, not shutting it down. Ask them to research it further, to back their claims, to look things up. If they don’t have the knowledge, a new vacuum is created and their curiosity will want to fill it up.

Nocoiner: Bitcoin isn’t backed by anything.

You: Okay. Then what would make good money in its place?

Make them talk by asking questions. As they talk, they’ll realise they have massive gaps in their knowledge. You can help them then, but they themselves have to fill up those gaps by asking more questions and getting them to talk more. Why? Because if someone tells something to themselves they will believe it much easier than having you say it to them. Try and lead them to conclusion, a revelation.

When persuading someone, the person talking the most is the one really getting persuaded. Why? Because when you talk you engrave those words into your brain as facts.

Nocoiner: Bitcoin wastes too much energy.

You: How do you determine how much is too much energy to use?

You will never change their minds, they have to change it themselves. You can only help show them the way, they’re the ones that have to do it. Questions are the key to that process.

Tell them less, ask more.

What questions make people curious about bitcoin? You never know, it depends on what ails the person. Think about their pain. If they’re living in Turkey or Argentina, for example, their pain is massive inflation. You might say, “You’re already using USD to protect your monetary value against inflation, right? How about adding BTC to the mix?”

People in those countries generally grasp this concept a lot quicker. The local lira is the crap kind of money, they spend it often. The USD is the good kind of money, they save it, spending it only when absolutely necessary. And gold is the best kind, keeping it hidden in safes and mattresses. Only to be spent in an emergency. They don’t have the financial privilege to insulate them from the need for bitcoin, they already get these layers of hardness in their money, so bitcoin is a lot easier for them.

“What is money?” is another good question. Most people will answer it, and of course it will be flawed and all over the place. Then you might say, “It’s the promise of future value,” and then discuss how bitcoin has a monetary policy that’s planned out for the next 120 years and how nodes and miners facilitate that design. And especially point out how hard it is to change.

“What happened in 1971?” That’s a good one. Get them to look up the fiat monetary system and figure out how it’s not backed by anything. Get them angry at the Keynesian economists, how they’ve ruined entire countries. 2008 money crisis? Inevitable, under the fiat standard. Forget about bitcoin, point your finger towards the rot. It’s all historical fact, they can’t call you a conspiracy theorist. Most people still think that money is backed by gold. Get them to tell it to other people, see their reactions.

This was a part of my guide. Let me know what you think. Soon to be posted at https://georgesaoulidis.com/how-to-orange-pill-people/

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Controlar máquinas com a mente tornou-se realidade e a evolução tem sido surpreendente. Em 2003 a previsão dos cientistas era de 2 anos para os primeiros implantes cerebrais que permitiriam o controle de próteses por pessoas com alguma deficiência. Esta convicção surgiu após testes com macacos onde os animais controlavam um braço robótico usando apenas seus pensamentos.

Confirmando o prognóstico dos cientistas, o austríaco Christian Kandlbauer que perdeu os dois braços em um acidente elétrico em setembro de 2005 foi capaz de viver uma vida normal em grande parte graças ao braço robótico controlado pela mente.

Infelizmente Christian Kandlbauer faleceu em um acidente de carro em 21 de outubro de 2010. A perícia não conseguiu determinar se o acidente ocorreu devido a uma possível falha na prótese controlada pela mente. O trajeto era percorrido diariamente por Christian que, usando seu braço robótico para dirigir o veículo a mais de três anos, transitava normalmente com seu veículo.

Christian Kandlbauer foi a primeira pessoa fora dos Estado Unidos que recebeu implantes para controlar um braço robótico. Em março de 2009 a empresa de tecnologia japonesa Honda anunciou uma nova evolução no controle de equipamentos através da mente. Ao invés de usar implantes a nova tecnologia permite o controle através de um capacete.

Para controlar o robô, a pessoa coloca o capacete e só tem que pensar em fazer o movimento. Seus inventores esperam que um dia a tecnologia de controle da mente permita que as pessoas possam controlar os equipamentos sem precisar ocupar as mãos ou depender de implantes cirúrgicos.

O capacete é a primeira “máquina de interface cérebro-máquina” que combina duas técnicas diferentes para captar a atividade no cérebro. Os sensores do capacete detectam sinais elétricos através do couro cabeludo, da mesma forma como um EEG (eletroencefalograma). Os cientistas combinaram isso com uma outra técnica chamada espectroscopia por infravermelho, que é usada para monitorar mudanças no fluxo sanguíneo no cérebro.

A atividade cerebral detectada pelo capacete é enviada para um computador, que usa o software para trabalhar o movimento que a pessoa está pensando. Em seguida, envia um sinal para o robô para executar o movimento pensado. Normalmente, isso leva alguns segundos para que o pensamento se transforme em uma ação robótica.

A interface de controle robótico com a mente através do capacete ainda é experimental, um dos problemas que precisa ser superado é referente as distrações do pensamento na hora de enviar um comando. No caso dos implantes a precisão é bem maior. A tecnologia está avançando, em alguns anos o capacete de controle mental para equipamentos robóticos e games deverá ser uma realidade eficiente e popular.

Quando se fala de controle de máquinas e aparelhos usando a mente, as empresas de tecnologia estão apostando alto para o futuro, com grandes investimentos e grupos de pesquisa altamente qualificados.

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Não é novidade que o cérebro funciona com eletricidade. Esta por sua vez surge com o movimento dos elétrons que também produzem os campos eletromagnéticos. Desde que a ciência identificou esse fenômeno no cérebro diversos estudos buscam entender como a eletricidade cerebral e o magnetismo proveniente dela produzem nossas lembranças, percepções e inteligência.

Uma pesquisa bem conhecida, foi aquela chamada de capacete cerebral. Outro estudo importante é a tentativa de passar informações para o cérebro de alguns macacos usando eletricidade. A ideia se baseia no fato do cérebro ser necessariamente um dispositivo eletroquímico, onde a eletricidade é o que produz informações.

Os resultados de um estudo realizado por um par de neurologistas sobre o impacto da estimulação elétrica de baixo nível no cérebro, afetando movimento e percepção, chamou atenção da comunidade acadêmica.

A complexa rede de neurônios do cérebro nos permite interpretar e navegar sem esforço e interagir com o mundo que nos rodeia. Mas quando esses links são danificados devido a lesões ou acidentes vasculares cerebrais, tarefas críticas como percepção e movimento podem ser interrompidas. "Nossa pesquisa está ajudando a comunidade científica na descoberta de como aproveitar a plasticidade do cérebro para reeditar essas conexões perdidas, um avanço que poderia acelerar o desenvolvimento de próteses neuroprotetoras." Comentou o Dr. Marc Schieber, do departamento de Neurologia do Centro Médico da Universidade de Rochester.

Basicamente os pesquisadores conseguiram demonstrar que entregando pequenas doses de estimulantes elétricos ao córtex pré-motor de macacos, uma parte do cérebro responsável pelas habilidades motoras, eles conseguiram essencialmente substituir os prompts do cérebro original por instruções enviadas tecnologicamente.

Um dos vários usos com a aquisição deste conhecimento e desenvolvimento de técnicas de transmissão de informação diretamente ao cérebro por pulsos elétricos poderia ser, por exemplo, fazer um braço mecânico informar ao usuário se o objeto que está segurando é quente ou frio. No entanto, entregar esta informação para a parte do cérebro responsável pelo processamento de insumos sensoriais não funciona se esta parte do cérebro estiver ferida ou as conexões entre elas e o córtex motor forem perdidas.

Nesses casos, é necessário gerar alguma forma de entrada que substitua os sinais que combinam a percepção sensorial com o controle motor e o cérebro precisa "aprender" o que esses novos sinais significam.

A parte mais intrigante desse estudo é a proposta de levar informação ao cérebro através de impulsos elétricos. Outros estudos buscam entender como captar informações elétricas do cérebro para movimentar dispositivos eletrônicos.

Estes dois tipos de estudos, captar e enviar informações elétricas do cérebro, são complementares e permitiriam a criação de uma prótese totalmente funcional, onde o paciente teria as informações sensoriais do ambiente enviadas diretamente ao cérebro além de manusear com os pensamentos o dispositivo.

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O câncer de mama é uma doença causada pela multiplicação desordenada de células da mama. Esse processo gera células anormais que se multiplicam, formando um tumor.

Há vários tipos de câncer de mama. Por isso, a doença pode evoluir de diferentes formas. Alguns tipos têm desenvolvimento rápido, enquanto outros crescem mais lentamente. Esses comportamentos distintos se devem a característica próprias de cada tumor.

O câncer de mama é o tipo da doença mais comum entre as mulheres no mundo e no Brasil, depois do de pele não melanoma, correspondendo a cerca de 25% dos casos novos a cada ano. No Brasil, esse percentual é de 29%.

A prevenção do câncer de mama não é totalmente possível em função da multiplicidade de fatores relacionados ao surgimento da doença e ao fato de vários deles não serem modificáveis. De modo geral, a prevenção baseia-se no controle dos fatores de risco e no estímulo aos fatores protetores, especificamente aqueles considerados modificáveis.

Os principais fatores de risco comportamentais relacionados ao desenvolvimento do câncer de mama são: excesso de peso corporal, falta de atividade física e consumo de bebidas alcoólicas.

Estima-se que por meio da alimentação, nutrição e atividade física é possível reduzir em até 28% o risco de a mulher desenvolver câncer de mama. Controlar o peso corporal e evitar a obesidade, por meio da alimentação saudável e da prática regular de exercícios físicos, e evitar o consumo de bebidas alcoólicas são recomendações básicas para prevenir o câncer de mama. A amamentação também é considerada um fator protetor.

A terapia de reposição hormonal (TRH), quando estritamente indicada, deve ser feita sob rigoroso controle médico e pelo mínimo de tempo necessário.

Acesse diversos artigos sobre o Câncer de mama em https://scholar.google.com.br/scholar?hl=pt-BR&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=cancer+de+mama&btnG=&lr=lang_pt

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Dessalinização envolve a remoção do sal da água para torná-la potável. Existem várias maneiras de dessalinizar e isso não é uma ideia nova. Marinheiros têm utilizado a evaporação solar para separar o sal da água já faz muito tempo. Embora seja uma técnica bastante conhecida, o processo para dessalinizar em grande escala sempre esteve associado com elevados custos.

Em geral se usam os métodos de destilação, evaporação e eletrodiálise.

Todos estes métodos são caros, por isso, historicamente o processo de dessalinização só tem sido utilizado como alternativa onde outros métodos falham. Com a explosão da demanda mundial por água potável, pesquisas para tornar a dessalinização viável economicamente têm sido motivadas em diversas regiões do planeta. As investigações e desenvolvimentos neste tema é um processo relativamente novo, mas algumas conquistas já foram realizadas.

No Brasil a empresa Aquamare, criou um processo de dessalinização que transforma água do mar em água potável. Sob a marca H2Ocean, o produto está sendo exportado para os Estados Unidos, onde foi homologado pela Food and Drug Administration (FDA), agência responsável por atestar a qualidade de alimentos e remédios.

O Pacific Institute criou um relatório alertando para alguns riscos ambientais na prática da dessalinização. Entre estes riscos está o choque ambiental se não forem criadas rígidas regras de monitoramento e gerenciamento da sal que resultem no processo de dessalinização. Muitas usinas devolvem ao mar o sal que, em grande quantidade, pode afetar a vida marinha.

Outro alerta consiste no uso de elevado consumo de energia para o processo de dessalinização, este elevado consumo pode acelerar o efeito estufa. A sugestão neste caso estaria no uso de energias renováveis para alimentar o processo de dessalinização.

O uso da dessalinização parece estar crescendo e pode se mostrar uma eficiente solução ao problema da falta de água, mas é preciso ser observadas certas condutas para não agredir o ambiente, afirmam os cientistas.

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A água é uma substância estranha, exibindo mais de 80 propriedades incomuns, incluindo algumas que os cientistas ainda lutam para entender. Por exemplo, a água pode existir em todos os três estados da matéria (sólido, líquido e gasoso) ao mesmo tempo. E as forças em sua superfície permitem que insetos possam andar sobre a água. Em outro rumo estranho, os cientistas propuseram que a água pode passar de um tipo de líquido para outro em uma chamada transição de fase "líquido-líquido", mas no momento é impossível testar isso com equipamentos de laboratório.

É por isso que Kumar e Stanley trabalham com simulações de computador para tentar entender melhor o fenômeno. Um dos resultados simulados sugere que a água muda sua propriedade quando em temperaturas de 54 graus abaixo de zero. Basicamente em temperaturas anteriores a água possui propensão para diminuir a condução de calor. No entanto, em temperaturas inferiores aos 54 graus abaixo de zero a condução de calor curiosamente cresce em vez de diminuir.

A conclusão é que mudanças estruturais na água em estado líquido proporcionam um aumento de condução de calor em temperaturas mais baixas. Os pesquisadores dizem que esse resultado surpreendente apóia a ideia de que a água tem uma transição de fase líquido-líquido. Ou seja, assume propriedades distintas em determinada faixa de temperatura, tornando-se um líquido diferente.

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Self hosting web applications comes quickly with the need to deal with HTTPS protocol and SSL certificates. The time where web applications was published over the 80/TCP port without any encryption is totally over. Now we have Let's Encrypt and other free certification authority that lets us play web applications with, at least, the basic minimum security required.

Second part of web self hosting stuff that is really useful is the web proxifycation.

It's possible to have multiple web applications accessible through HTTPS but as we can't use the some port (spoiler: we can) we are forced to have ugly URL as https://mybeautifudomain.tld:8443.

This is where Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) comes to help us.

NPM, as gateway, will listen on the 443 https port and based on the subdomain you want to reach, it will redirect the network flow to the NPM differents declared backend ports. NPM will also request HTTPS cert for you and let you know when the certificate expires, really useful.

We'll now install NPM with docker compose (v2) and you'll see, it's very easy.

You can find the official NPM setup instructions here.

But before we absolutely need to do something. You need to connect to the registrar where you bought your domain name and go into the zone DNS section.You have to create a A record poing to your VPS IP. That will allow NPM to request SSL certificates for your domain and subdomains.

Create a new folder for the NPM docker stack :

mkdir npm-stack && cd npm-stack

Create a new docker-compose.yml :

nano docker-compose.yml

Paste this content into it (CTRL + X ; Y & ENTER to save/quit) :

``` version: '3.8' services: app: image: 'jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest' restart: unless-stopped ports: # These ports are in format : - '80:80' # Public HTTP Port - '443:443' # Public HTTPS Port - '81:81' # Admin Web Port # Add any other Stream port you want to expose # - '21:21' # FTP

# Uncomment the next line if you uncomment anything in the section
# environment:
  # Uncomment this if you want to change the location of
  # the SQLite DB file within the container
  # DB_SQLITE_FILE: "/data/database.sqlite"

  # Uncomment this if IPv6 is not enabled on your host
  # DISABLE_IPV6: 'true'

volumes:
  - ./nginxproxymanager/data:/data
  - ./nginxproxymanager/letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt

```

You'll not believe but it's done. NPM docker compose configuration is done.

To start Nginx Proxy Manager with docker compose, you just have to :

docker compose up -d

You'll see :

user@vps:~/tutorials/npm-stack$ docker compose up -d [+] Running 2/2 ✔ Network npm-stack_default Created ✔ Container npm-stack-app-1 Started

You can check if NPM container is started by doing this command :

docker ps

You'll see :

user@vps:~/tutorials/npm-stack$ docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 7bc5ea8ac9c8 jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest "/init" About a minute ago Up About a minute 0.0.0.0:80-81->80-81/tcp, :::80-81->80-81/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp, :::443->443/tcp npm-stack-app-1

If the command show "Up X minutes" for the npm-stack-app-1, you're good to go! You can access to the NPM admin UI by going to http://YourIPAddress:81.You shoud see :

The default NPM login/password are : admin@example.com/changeme .If the login succeed, you should see a popup asking to edit your user by changing your email password : And your password : Click on "Save" to finish the login. To verify if NPM is able to request SSL certificates for you, create first a subdomain for the NPM admin UI : Click on "Hosts" and "Proxy Hosts" : Followed by "Add Proxy Host" If you want to access the NPM admin UI with https://admin.yourdomain.tld, please set all the parameters like this (I won't explain each parameters) :

Details tab : SSL tab : And click on "Save".

NPM will request the SSL certificate "admin.yourdomain.tld" for you.

If you have an erreor message "Internal Error" it's probably because your domaine DNS zone is not configured with an A DNS record pointing to your VPS IP.

Otherwise you should see (my domain is hidden) :

Clicking on the "Source" URL link "admin.yourdomain.tld" will open a pop-up and, surprise, you should see the NPM admin UI with the URL "https://admin.yourdomain.tld" !

If yes, bravo, everything is OK ! 🎇

You know now how to have a subdomain of your domain redirecting to a container web app. In the next blog post, you'll see how to setup a Nostr relay with NPM ;)

Voilààààà

See you soon in another Fractalized story!

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Santo Agostinho ou simplesmente Agostinho de Hipona, é considerado uma figura importante no desenvolvimento do cristianismo ocidental. Com obras que transitam entre filosofia e teologia, Agostinho de Hipona influenciou diversos filósofos e religiosos.

Um livro que possui linguagem acessível sobre a perspectiva agostiniana e de agradável leitura pode ser encontrado na compilação da tese de doutorado do Prof. Luís Evandro Hinrichsen.

O tema principal do livro, A Estética de Santo Agostinho, sinaliza para a importância do reconhecimento da beleza artística no processo de formação do ser humano. Em especial no desenvolvimento da sensibilidade contemplativa. É um livro que agrada pela fácil leitura e escrita descomplicada.

Para quem estuda assuntos ligados à estética, seja na filosofia ou teologia. Ou simplesmente se interessa pelas obras de Agostinho, o livro do Prof. Hinrichsen é uma boa sugestão de leitura.

Referência: HINRICHSEN, Luís Evandro. A Estética de Santo Agostinho. Porto Alegre - RS. Editora ESTEF, 2009.

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There’s a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles. Here’s my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified.

I’ll start with the principles I’ve come to believe…based on everything I’ve learned and experienced through my past actions as a Twitter co-founder and lead:

1. Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.
2. Only the original author may remove content they produce.
3. Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.

The Twitter when I led it and the Twitter of today do not meet any of these principles. This is my fault alone, as I completely gave up pushing for them when an activist entered our stock in 2020. I no longer had hope of achieving any of it as a public company with no defense mechanisms (lack of dual-class shares being a key one). I planned my exit at that moment knowing I was no longer right for the company.

The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools for us to manage the public conversation, versus building tools for the people using Twitter to easily manage it for themselves. This burdened the company with too much power, and opened us to significant outside pressure (such as advertising budgets). I generally think companies have become far too powerful, and that became completely clear to me with our suspension of Trump’s account. As I’ve said before, we did the right thing for the public company business at the time, but the wrong thing for the internet and society. Much more about this here: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1349510769268850690

I continue to believe there was no ill intent or hidden agendas, and everyone acted according to the best information we had at the time. Of course mistakes were made. But if we had focused more on tools for the people using the service rather than tools for us, and moved much faster towards absolute transparency, we probably wouldn’t be in this situation of needing a fresh reset (which I am supportive of). Again, I own all of this and our actions, and all I can do is work to make it right.

Back to the principles. Of course governments want to shape and control the public conversation, and will use every method at their disposal to do so, including the media. And the power a corporation wields to do the same is only growing. It’s critical that the people have tools to resist this, and that those tools are ultimately owned by the people. Allowing a government or a few corporations to own the public conversation is a path towards centralized control.

I’m a strong believer that any content produced by someone for the internet should be permanent until the original author chooses to delete it. It should be always available and addressable. Content takedowns and suspensions should not be possible. Doing so complicates important context, learning, and enforcement of illegal activity. There are significant issues with this stance of course, but starting with this principle will allow for far better solutions than we have today. The internet is trending towards a world were storage is “free” and infinite, which places all the actual value on how to discover and see content.

Which brings me to the last principle: moderation. I don’t believe a centralized system can do content moderation globally. It can only be done through ranking and relevance algorithms, the more localized the better. But instead of a company or government building and controlling these solely, people should be able to build and choose from algorithms that best match their criteria, or not have to use any at all. A “follow” action should always deliver every bit of content from the corresponding account, and the algorithms should be able to comb through everything else through a relevance lens that an individual determines. There’s a default “G-rated” algorithm, and then there’s everything else one can imagine.

The only way I know of to truly live up to these 3 principles is a free and open protocol for social media, that is not owned by a single company or group of companies, and is resilient to corporate and government influence. The problem today is that we have companies who own both the protocol and discovery of content. Which ultimately puts one person in charge of what’s available and seen, or not. This is by definition a single point of failure, no matter how great the person, and over time will fracture the public conversation, and may lead to more control by governments and corporations around the world.

I believe many companies can build a phenomenal business off an open protocol. For proof, look at both the web and email. The biggest problem with these models however is that the discovery mechanisms are far too proprietary and fixed instead of open or extendable. Companies can build many profitable services that complement rather than lock down how we access this massive collection of conversation. There is no need to own or host it themselves.

Many of you won’t trust this solution just because it’s me stating it. I get it, but that’s exactly the point. Trusting any one individual with this comes with compromises, not to mention being way too heavy a burden for the individual. It has to be something akin to what bitcoin has shown to be possible. If you want proof of this, get out of the US and European bubble of the bitcoin price fluctuations and learn how real people are using it for censorship resistance in Africa and Central/South America.

I do still wish for Twitter, and every company, to become uncomfortably transparent in all their actions, and I wish I forced more of that years ago. I do believe absolute transparency builds trust. As for the files, I wish they were released Wikileaks-style, with many more eyes and interpretations to consider. And along with that, commitments of transparency for present and future actions. I’m hopeful all of this will happen. There’s nothing to hide…only a lot to learn from. The current attacks on my former colleagues could be dangerous and doesn’t solve anything. If you want to blame, direct it at me and my actions, or lack thereof.

As far as the free and open social media protocol goes, there are many competing projects: @bluesky is one with the AT Protocol, nostr another, Mastodon yet another, Matrix yet another…and there will be many more. One will have a chance at becoming a standard like HTTP or SMTP. This isn’t about a “decentralized Twitter.” This is a focused and urgent push for a foundational core technology standard to make social media a native part of the internet. I believe this is critical both to Twitter’s future, and the public conversation’s ability to truly serve the people, which helps hold governments and corporations accountable. And hopefully makes it all a lot more fun and informative again.

💸🛠️🌐 To accelerate open internet and protocol work, I’m going to open a new category of #startsmall grants: “open internet development.” It will start with a focus of giving cash and equity grants to engineering teams working on social media and private communication protocols, bitcoin, and a web-only mobile OS. I’ll make some grants next week, starting with $1mm/yr to Signal. Please let me know other great candidates for this money.

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There’s a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles. Here’s my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified.

I’ll start with the principles I’ve come to believe…based on everything I’ve learned and experienced through my past actions as a Twitter co-founder and lead:

1. Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.
2. Only the original author may remove content they produce.
3. Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.

The Twitter when I led it and the Twitter of today do not meet any of these principles. This is my fault alone, as I completely gave up pushing for them when an activist entered our stock in 2020. I no longer had hope of achieving any of it as a public company with no defense mechanisms (lack of dual-class shares being a key one). I planned my exit at that moment knowing I was no longer right for the company.

The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools for us to manage the public conversation, versus building tools for the people using Twitter to easily manage it for themselves. This burdened the company with too much power, and opened us to significant outside pressure (such as advertising budgets). I generally think companies have become far too powerful, and that became completely clear to me with our suspension of Trump’s account. As I’ve said before, we did the right thing for the public company business at the time, but the wrong thing for the internet and society. Much more about this here: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1349510769268850690

I continue to believe there was no ill intent or hidden agendas, and everyone acted according to the best information we had at the time. Of course mistakes were made. But if we had focused more on tools for the people using the service rather than tools for us, and moved much faster towards absolute transparency, we probably wouldn’t be in this situation of needing a fresh reset (which I am supportive of). Again, I own all of this and our actions, and all I can do is work to make it right.

Back to the principles. Of course governments want to shape and control the public conversation, and will use every method at their disposal to do so, including the media. And the power a corporation wields to do the same is only growing. It’s critical that the people have tools to resist this, and that those tools are ultimately owned by the people. Allowing a government or a few corporations to own the public conversation is a path towards centralized control.

I’m a strong believer that any content produced by someone for the internet should be permanent until the original author chooses to delete it. It should be always available and addressable. Content takedowns and suspensions should not be possible. Doing so complicates important context, learning, and enforcement of illegal activity. There are significant issues with this stance of course, but starting with this principle will allow for far better solutions than we have today. The internet is trending towards a world were storage is “free” and infinite, which places all the actual value on how to discover and see content.

Which brings me to the last principle: moderation. I don’t believe a centralized system can do content moderation globally. It can only be done through ranking and relevance algorithms, the more localized the better. But instead of a company or government building and controlling these solely, people should be able to build and choose from algorithms that best match their criteria, or not have to use any at all. A “follow” action should always deliver every bit of content from the corresponding account, and the algorithms should be able to comb through everything else through a relevance lens that an individual determines. There’s a default “G-rated” algorithm, and then there’s everything else one can imagine.

The only way I know of to truly live up to these 3 principles is a free and open protocol for social media, that is not owned by a single company or group of companies, and is resilient to corporate and government influence. The problem today is that we have companies who own both the protocol and discovery of content. Which ultimately puts one person in charge of what’s available and seen, or not. This is by definition a single point of failure, no matter how great the person, and over time will fracture the public conversation, and may lead to more control by governments and corporations around the world.

I believe many companies can build a phenomenal business off an open protocol. For proof, look at both the web and email. The biggest problem with these models however is that the discovery mechanisms are far too proprietary and fixed instead of open or extendable. Companies can build many profitable services that complement rather than lock down how we access this massive collection of conversation. There is no need to own or host it themselves.

Many of you won’t trust this solution just because it’s me stating it. I get it, but that’s exactly the point. Trusting any one individual with this comes with compromises, not to mention being way too heavy a burden for the individual. It has to be something akin to what bitcoin has shown to be possible. If you want proof of this, get out of the US and European bubble of the bitcoin price fluctuations and learn how real people are using it for censorship resistance in Africa and Central/South America.

I do still wish for Twitter, and every company, to become uncomfortably transparent in all their actions, and I wish I forced more of that years ago. I do believe absolute transparency builds trust. As for the files, I wish they were released Wikileaks-style, with many more eyes and interpretations to consider. And along with that, commitments of transparency for present and future actions. I’m hopeful all of this will happen. There’s nothing to hide…only a lot to learn from. The current attacks on my former colleagues could be dangerous and doesn’t solve anything. If you want to blame, direct it at me and my actions, or lack thereof.

As far as the free and open social media protocol goes, there are many competing projects: @bluesky is one with the AT Protocol, nostr another, Mastodon yet another, Matrix yet another…and there will be many more. One will have a chance at becoming a standard like HTTP or SMTP. This isn’t about a “decentralized Twitter.” This is a focused and urgent push for a foundational core technology standard to make social media a native part of the internet. I believe this is critical both to Twitter’s future, and the public conversation’s ability to truly serve the people, which helps hold governments and corporations accountable. And hopefully makes it all a lot more fun and informative again.

💸🛠️🌐 To accelerate open internet and protocol work, I’m going to open a new category of #startsmall grants: “open internet development.” It will start with a focus of giving cash and equity grants to engineering teams working on social media and private communication protocols, bitcoin, and a web-only mobile OS. I’ll make some grants next week, starting with $1mm/yr to Signal. Please let me know other great candidates for this money.

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A ideia de misturar realidade e ficção não é nova. Mas tem chamado atenção uma nova modalidade na liberdade de expressão televisiva. Basicamente, as emissoras anunciam como documentários científicos, elaborados programas sensacionalistas. Essa nova forma de chamar atenção, buscando audiência, tem provocado sofrimento em algumas pessoas.

Em 2012 a Discovery exibiu na forma de estudo científico, a possibilidade de existirem sereias vivendo nos oceanos. As imagens convenceram uma parcela da população dos EUA e o governo teve de emitir um comunicado oficial. Esclarecendo que não existe nenhuma evidência sobre a existência de tal criatura.

O documentário fez algumas especulações com base nos testes que realmente ocorreram com armas sonoras instaladas em submarinos. O que acabou provocando uma onda de encalhes de baleias. Tendo este evento dos encalhes como pano de fundo é inserido no roteiro uma série de especulações. Estas envolvem teorias da conspiração e supostos testemunhos de pescadores que viram ou capturaram sereias.

Ao final do programa é apresentada uma legenda explicando que o documentário é uma ficção baseada em alguns fatos reais. Como não são identificados quais seriam os fatos reais, algumas pessoas acreditaram que se tratava de um fenômeno real. Vale dar uma conferida no conteúdo que a Discovery elaborou, é interessante e bem organizado. Com um pouco de atenção é possível observar que os relatos terminam sempre sem evidências concretas. Tendo como explicação para falta de evidências a tradicional teoria da conspiração.

Este não é o primeiro caso de um programa de televisão que causa apreensão em uma parcela da população. Um outro programa que tratou da possibilidade de uma epidemia viral capaz de transformar pessoas em zumbis também gerou preocupações. O governo dos EUA precisou esclarecer o mal entendido.

Embora isso pareça algo comum nos EUA, aqui no Brasil também tivemos casos semelhantes. As reações não são muito diferentes. Em 1971 no Maranhão, na cidade de São Luís, um programa de rádio transmitiu sua própria versão do livro Guerra dos mundos . Do consagrado autor H. G. Wells. Assim como ocorreu no EUA com a transmissão do mesmo roteiro em 1938 a população de São Luís no Maranhão entrou em pânico. Acreditando que o mundo estava acabando. No Equador em 1949 a população também entrou em pânico e morreram seis pessoas por conta do roteiro “guerra dos mundos” transmitido na rádio local.

A ocorrência brasileira de São Luís foi retratada em detalhes no livro “Outubro de 71: Memórias fantásticas da guerra dos mundos.” Organizado por Francisco Gonçalves da Conceição e lançado em 2011.

Atualmente no Brasil a disputa entre emissoras promove uma série de falsas informações e fabricação de conteúdo tendencioso. No âmbito internacional o cenário não é diferente. As emissoras precisam chamar atenção, em alguns casos deixando a ética de lado.

É interessante como os meios de comunicação podem afetar o discernimento e o bom senso. Mesmo repetindo por diversas vezes, falsas notícias e pesquisas tendenciosas, ainda existe uma ingenuidade pairando no ar.

Na internet existem muitas “evidências” fabricadas, geralmente no intuito de criar sensacionalismo por diversão. Pode ser interessante ficar atento sobre a arte de iludir e como se prevenir.

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Diálogo é uma das coisas mais complicadas do mundo, muitas coisas podem sair errado. Existe a possibilidade do falante se expressar de forma equivocada ou o ouvinte entender de forma equivocada. Uma terceira possibilidade que agrava o problema é quando estas duas coisas ocorrem na mesma conversa. Tanto o falante quanto o ouvinte não conseguem colocar em uma perspectiva clara o que está sendo debatido. Como efeito, o desentendimento se torna inevitável.

Mágoas, ofensas, frustrações e sofrimentos surgem por conta do desentendimento entre pessoas. A felicidade é um caminho que passa necessariamente pelo diálogo. Neste sentido, conseguir se entender com outras pessoas é fundamental para uma vida menos turbulenta.

Um dos problemas numa conversa está no conceito sobre o que é entendimento. Para muitas pessoas a ideia de entendimento é vista como uma forma de subordinação. Estas acreditam que uma pessoa lhe entendeu quando faz aquilo que lhe foi dito. Em outros casos, o entendimento é visto como algo que só ocorre quando as pessoas concordam entre si num determinado tema.

Estas formas de conceber o entendimento não parecem suficientes para o sucesso de um relacionamento.

Um diálogo que inicia na intenção de determinar quem tem razão está pautado na ideia de entendimento como concordância. “Se entender” nesta forma de pensar é concordar com uma das partes ou admitir a razão de uma das partes. Esta é uma forma de diálogo válida, mas não tem se mostrado muito eficiente. Parece fracassar em uma boa parte das vezes devido ao tenso clima de autoritarismo que envolve os falantes.

Um dos problemas do autoritarismo é que este é uma manifestação instintiva. Se apresenta normalmente quando não conseguimos nos fazer entender. Quando fracassamos na tentativa de dialogar. Isso pode acarretar uma reação emocional que promove imposição de ideias através da irritação e do autoritarismo.

Geralmente o autoritarismo surge quando se acredita que existe apenas uma forma correta de interpretar os fatos. Na atualidade, é consenso entre os pesquisadores que existe uma infinidade de possibilidades na interpretação de um evento.

É possível interpretar qualquer fato ou evidência através de um pensamento pautado na engenharia. Esta se encarrega de perguntar sobre como é feito ou ocorre um evento. Também é possível interpretar através da utilidade ou funcionalidade do que ocorreu. Ou ainda, através da intencionalidade de quem relata ou interpreta os fatos.

Os critérios de análise dos eventos podem ser igualmente variáveis. É possível fundamentar uma interpretação através de um intuicionismo, autoritarismo, coerentismo, consequencialismo, dogmatismo, ceticismo, racionalismo, pragmatismo e muitos outros “ismos”.

Estes “ismos” se relacionam, entre outras coisas, com a maneira da pessoa fundamentar seu critério de verdade. Em outras palavras, qual o critério alguém usa para decidir se algo é verdadeiro ou falso, se uma conclusão é adequada ou equivocada.

O número de possibilidades para construção de um raciocínio é praticamente infinito. Promovendo uma grande variedade de interpretações sobre um único evento. Cada pessoa constrói sua percepção através de um grupo pequeno de possibilidades. Deixa para trás uma infinidade de interpretações possíveis.

Esse evento interpretativo faz do diálogo uma das tarefas mais complexas do comportamento humano. Todas as possibilidades de interpretação são válidas. Isso garante para cada pessoa numa conversa uma certeza que muitas vezes é rígida. Impossibilitando a compreensão ou aceitação de outras formas de interpretação.

Uma confusão comum paira sobre a ideia de interpretação e eficiência. Toda interpretação é válida, mas algumas podem ser mais eficientes que outras.

Quando um diálogo é pautado na pergunta pela eficiência e consequência de uma determinada escolha ou ação. Não esquecendo de incluir o sentimento dos participantes. Existe uma boa possibilidade da conversa ser produtiva.

Ausência de fundamentação e falta de compromisso em entender as outras pessoas é algo motivador para o desentendimento. Debater sobre um problema exige a busca por possibilidades e o entendimento de diversas fundamentações, ainda que contraditórias.

Detectar a ausência de fundamentação é o primeiro passo para manter a conversa no foco e evitar desentendimentos.

Quando num diálogo se percebe que faltou fundamentar adequadamente uma dada interpretação. O mais indicado é continuar a conversa após o levantamento necessário de informações, para clarear o assunto. Conversar honestamente, assumindo fragilidades, promove bons resultados.

Mas isso não é tarefa fácil, admitir não estar preparado para um assunto é algo entendido como constrangedor para algumas pessoas. Este é um pensamento muito presente nos indivíduos autoritários. Nestes casos, promover um desentendimento é uma “saída estratégica”, ainda que não seja intencional.

Na internet o desentendimento ocorre algumas vezes, mas as listas funcionam relativamente bem quando possuem moderadores. Já na vida pessoal, isso parece mais complicado.

A falta de entendimento é um problema social que afeta todos nós de uma ou outra forma. Basicamente o principal motivo é o critério de verdade manifestado por cada pessoa, em alguns casos, de forma inflexível.