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Hey Nostr! It’s App Store release day for Damus. Thanks again to our loyal Purple subscribers for helping us continue to improve the UX and pointing out important changes and fixes. Highlights of Version 1.12:

Added

• Render Gif and video files while composing posts (Swift Coder)
• Add profile info text in stretchable banner with follow button (Swift Coder)
• Paste Gif image similar to jpeg and png files (Swift Coder)

Changed

• Improved UX around the label for searching words (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Improved accessibility support on some elements (Daniel D’Aquino)

Fixed

• Fixed issue where the "next" button would appear hidden and hard to click on the create account view (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Fix non scrollable wallet screen (Swift Coder)
• Fixed suggested users category titles to be localizable (Terry Yiu)
• Fixed GradientFollowButton to have consistent width and autoscale text limited to 1 line (Terry Yiu)
• Fixed right-to-left localization issues (Terry Yiu)
• Fixed AddMuteItemView to trim leading and trailing whitespaces from mute text and disallow adding text with only whitespaces (Terry Yiu)
• Fixed SideMenuView text to autoscale and limit to 1 line (Terry Yiu)
• Fixed an issue where a profile would need to be input twice in the search to be found (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Fixed non-breaking spaces in localized strings (Terry Yiu)
• Fixed localization issue on Add mute item button (Terry Yiu)
• Replace non-breaking spaces with regular spaces as Apple's NSLocalizedString macro does not seem to work with it (Terry Yiu)
• Fixed localization issues in RelayConfigView (Terry Yiu)
• Fix duplicate uploads (Swift Coder)
• Remove duplicate pubkey from Follow Suggestion list (Swift Coder)
• Fix Page control indicator (Swift Coder)
• Fix damus sharing issues (Swift Coder)
• Fixed issue where banner edit button is unclickable (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Handle empty notification pages by displaying suitable text (Swift Coder)

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Introduction

The aim of ELI5 (explain me like I'm 5) is to explain difficult things simply. This is urgently needed in our high-tech world, because only by understanding the technologies can we use them properly and develop them further.

I'm starting my series with Nostr, a relatively new internet protocol. What the hell is an Internet protocol? In formal terms, it is an international standard that has ensured that the Internet has been working pretty well for over 30 years. It is the language in which computers communicate with each other and which you also use every day, probably without realizing it. http(s) transports your request to a server (e.g. Amazon), and html ensures that a nice page is created on your screen from the data supplied. A mail is sent to the mail server with smtp and retrieved from it with imap, and since everyone uses the standard, this works with every app on every operating system and with every mail provider.

And with an e-mail address like roland@pareto.space, you can even move at any time, no matter where. Cool, that's state of the art! But why doesn't this work with chat, for example, is there no protocol? Yes, it's called IRC (Internet Relay Chat → remember the name), but it's hardly ever used. The reasons for this are not technical, but rather apps such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, TikTok and others have deliberately created incompatibilities and user dependencies in order to maximize profits.

Since the standard protocol is not used, each app has its own, and we need a handful of apps to exchange information with everyone we know. A mobile phone number is a prerequisite for every account, allowing app manufacturers to track users comprehensively and earn up to USD 30 per account per month by selling the information. The user is no longer the customer, he is the product! Advertising SPAM is the least of the problems with this business model. Servers with millions of user data are a “honey pot”, so they are often hacked and the access data sold. In 2024, the Twitter account of then President Joe Biden was also hacked and no one knew who had written the messages (nor did they before), meaning that the authenticity of the content is not guaranteed with any of these providers. In the same year, the founder of Telegram was taken into custody in France because he refused to build backdoors into his software. Now, to protect “our democracy”, practically anyone can read what information they exchange with whom, e.g. which shampoo certain politicians use.

Why Nostr?

And anyone who actually believes they can practice freedom of expression on social media will quickly find themselves in the situation of Donald Trump (who was president at the time), whose Twitter account was shut down in 2021 (cancel culture). The user data, i.e. their profile, contacts, documents, images, videos and audio files - no longer belong to them anyway but are the property of the platform operator; read the terms and conditions. But no, not a good idea, there are hundreds of pages and they are constantly being changed. So everyone uses apps whose technology they don't understand, whose rules they don't know, where they have no rights and which steal the results of their actions. What would the five-year-old say if his older sister offered to “manage” all his toys and then hand them over if he was good? “You must be crazy”, and with that the toddler proves he has more sense than the majority of adults.

Conclusion: no standards, no data, no rights = no future!

How does Nostr work?

The developers of Nostr realized that the server-client concept had turned into a master-slave concept. The master is synonymous with centralization and becomes the “single point of failure”, which inevitably makes systems dysfunctional. In a distributed peer2peer system, there are no longer any masters but only equal nodes (relays) on which the information is stored. By storing information redundantly on several relays, the system is more resilient in every respect. It is not only nature that has successfully used this principle for millions of years, the Internet was also designed in this way (the ARPAnet was developed by the US military for use in war situations with massive disruptions). All nostr data is stored on relays and the user can choose between public (usually free) and private relays, e.g. for closed groups or for the purpose of data archiving. As documents are stored on several relays, unique document names (URIs = identifiers) are used instead of URLs (locators), making broken links a thing of the past, as are deletions / losses.

Each document (called an event) is signed by the owner, making it authentic and tamper-proof and can only be deleted by the creator. A key pair consisting of a private (nsec) and public key (npub) is used for this, as known from mail encryption (PGP). This represents a Nostr identity that can be supplemented with a picture, name, bio and a readable Nostr address (e.g. roland@pareto.space ), which is all that is needed to use all the resources of the Nostr ecosystem. And this now consists of over a hundred apps with different focuses, e.g. for personal encrypted messages (DM → OxChat), short messages (Damus, Primal), blog posts (Pareto), meetups (Joinstr), groups (Groups), images (Olas), videos (Amethyst), audio chat (Nostr Nests), audio streams (Tunestr), video streams (Zap.Stream), marketplaces (Shopstr) and much more. Registration is done with a single click (single sign-on) and ALL user data is available to the apps (profile, data, contacts, social graph → followers, bookmarks, comments, etc.), in contrast to the fragmented data silos of the present.

Summary: one open standard, all data, all rights = great future!

Why is Nostr the future of the internet?

“Don't build your house on someone else's property” also applies to the Internet - for all app developers, artists, journalists and users, because their data is also valuable. Nostr guarantees ownership of the data and overcomes its fragmentation. Neither use nor creative freedom is restricted by excessive license and usage conditions. Passive users become active participants through interaction, co-creators in a sharing economy (Value4Value). Open source finally restores trust in software and its providers. Open standards enable developers to cooperate more and develop faster, while guaranteeing freedom of choice for users. Which brings us back to our five-year-old for the last time. Children love Lego more than anything, especially the maxi box “Classic”, because it allows them to live out their imagination to the full in terms of combinations. Adults then give them the far too expensive theme packs, with which you can only build one solution according to the instructions. “What's wrong with my parents, when did they take a wrong turn?” the children rightly ask themselves. But the image can be polished up again if they show their children Nostr, because even five-year-olds understand the advantages.

The new Internet is decentralized. The new Internet is self-determined. Nostr is the new Internet.

\ More infos: https://nostr.net/\ Quick start: https://start.njump.me/

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A seguir, veja como instalar e configurar o Privoxy no Pop!_OS.

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1. Instalar o Tor e o Privoxy

Abra o terminal e execute:

bash sudo apt update sudo apt install tor privoxy

Explicação:

• Tor: Roteia o tráfego pela rede Tor.
• Privoxy: Proxy avançado que intermedia a conexão entre aplicativos e o Tor.

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2. Configurar o Privoxy

Abra o arquivo de configuração do Privoxy:

bash sudo nano /etc/privoxy/config

Navegue até a última linha (atalho: Ctrl + / depois Ctrl + V para navegar diretamente até a última linha) e insira:

bash forward-socks5 / 127.0.0.1:9050 .

Isso faz com que o Privoxy envie todo o tráfego para o Tor através da porta 9050.

Salve (CTRL + O e Enter) e feche (CTRL + X) o arquivo.

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3. Iniciar o Tor e o Privoxy

Agora, inicie e habilite os serviços:

bash sudo systemctl start tor sudo systemctl start privoxy sudo systemctl enable tor sudo systemctl enable privoxy

Explicação:

• start: Inicia os serviços.
• enable: Faz com que iniciem automaticamente ao ligar o PC.

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4. Configurar o Navegador Firefox

Para usar a rede Tor com o Firefox:

1. Abra o Firefox.
2. Acesse Configurações → Configurar conexão.
3. Selecione Configuração manual de proxy.
4. Configure assim:
   • Proxy HTTP: 127.0.0.1
   • Porta: 8118 (porta padrão do Privoxy)
   • Domínio SOCKS (v5): 127.0.0.1
   • Porta: 9050
5. Marque a opção "Usar este proxy também em HTTPS".
6. Clique em OK.

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5. Verificar a Conexão com o Tor

Abra o navegador e acesse:

text https://check.torproject.org/

Se aparecer a mensagem "Congratulations. This browser is configured to use Tor.", a configuração está correta.

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Dicas Extras

• Privoxy pode ser ajustado para bloquear anúncios e rastreadores.
• Outros aplicativos também podem ser configurados para usar o Privoxy.

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Im Jahr 2000 hat ein Team von Sozialwissenschaftlern eine Reihe von strukturierten Interviews geführt mit Personen, welche regionale Lösungen zur Nutzung von lokal vorhandener Energie umgesetzt hatten, z.B. die Stromrebellen aus Schönau im Schwarzwald. Wir fragten sie:

Was sind die Besonderheiten Ihres Projekts? Wie haben Sie andere Menschen motiviert und mobilisiert, sich an dem Projekt zu beteiligen? Wie haben Sie andere Menschen überzeugt und wie haben Sie Schwierigkeiten bei der Verfolgung Ihrer Ziele überwunden? Welche Faktoren haben zum Erfolg des Projekts geführt? Welche Rolle spielten die Medien bei der Verbreitung der Idee? Gab es Konsequenzen des kollektiven Handelns für die Gemeinschaft? Gab es Veränderungen im Grad der Identifikation der Menschen mit ihrem Dorf? Hat sich das Gemeinschaftsgefühl während des Projekts verändert?

Wir haben auch erfragt, ob die Befragten mit dem Umstellungsprozess im Dorf zufrieden sind und was sie anders machen würden, wenn sie die Möglichkeit hätten, es noch einmal zu tun. Ziel war es, aus den Erfahrungen aus solchen Projekten zu lernen und diese in unserem Projekt "Energiewendedörfer" anzuwenden. Darüber hinaus haben wir versucht, Gesetzmäßigkeiten zu finden und zu formulieren, die erfolgreiche kollektive Handlungsprozesse im Allgemeinen kennzeichnen.

Unter den in verschiedenen Initiativen wiederholt genannten Erfolgsfaktoren befand sich die Aussage: Wir waren erfolgreich, weil wir uns für und nicht gegen etwas engagiert haben. Wenn das Ziel des Projekts positiv und konstruktiv formuliert wird, führt das weiter als wenn man Gegner, seien es Personen oder Unternehmen benennt, gegen die man zu agieren plant. In Schönau etwa, einem Schwarzwald-Städtchen nannte sich nach dem Tschernobyl-Unfall die die daraus motivierte Initiativgruppe für regionale Energie "Eltern für eine atomenergie-freie Zukunft" und nicht "Eltern gegen die Nuklearenergie". Über dieses Framing der eigenen Aktivitäten wurde zu Beginn der Initiative in Schönau intensiv diskutiert. Man wurde sich einig, dass die PRO-Formulierung eine positive Lebensauffassung stützt, dass die "Pro-Haltung" dahinter Assoziationen zur konstruktiven Konfliktlösung, zu Liebe, zu Hilfe für die Menschen und zur Erhaltung der Natur weckt, während die "Kontra-Haltung" oft einen destruktiven Charakter hat und im besten Falle einen Mißstand erfolgreich bekämpft, aber keine Alternative in die Welt bringt.

Am Erfolg der EWS Schönau, heute einer Genossenschaft mit 13.597 Mitgliedern, lässt sich der Erfolg dieser positiven Einstellung erkennen. Die EWS bietet heute landesweit Energie an, welche nicht auf fossilen Importen beruht sondern die aus Energiequellen in den Regionen unseres Landes gewonnen wird. Das Modell der EWS ist damit ein wesentlicher Baustein der Regionalgesellschaft und stand sicherlich auch Pate bei vielen der ca. 800 Energiegenossenschaften im Land, welche in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten entstanden sind.

Die Anwendung des Erfolgsfaktors PRO statt KONTRA in den eigenen Projekten hat vermutlich zum Erfolg der 200 Energiewendedörfer im Land beigetragen, welche in unseren Teams nach dem Jahr 2000 initiiert worden waren.

Zum Abschluss ein kurzer Blick auf die besondere Situation der vergangenen fünf Jahre. Die Ereignisse seit 2020 haben in Deutschland und auch weltweit eine gewaltige Bewegung gegen die Maßnahmen von Regierungen ausgelöst, welche auf Einschränkung von Menschenrechten sowie medizinische Zwangsmaßnahmen abzielten. Dadurch wurde eine Kontra-Haltung erzwungen für alle Menschen, die den Abbau demokratischer Strukturen sowie Einschränkungen der Verfügung über die eigene Gesundheit nicht zulassen wollten. Hier waren Kontra-Aktivitäten von Montagsspaziergängen bis hin zu Großdemonstrationen sicherlich notwendig und haben möglicherweise Schlimmeres wie einen allgemeinen Impfzwang verhindert.

Dennoch habe ich nach längerer Überlegung die Formulierung oben PRO statt KONTRA belassen. Denn es geht hier um die Psychologie des Wandels hin zur Regionalgesellschaft. Aktivitäten gegen Angriffe auf bisher Erreichtes sind sicher wichtig, sie können sogar in politisch heissen Phasen überlebenswichtig werden. Auch meine Tochter und ich sahen Anfang der 2020er den Bundestag durch den Sprühregen von Wasserwerfern. Doch wenn wir in der Grundhaltung im KONTRA bleiben, wird die gesellschaftliche Evolution hin zu einer fairen Regionalgesellschaft um keinen Deut vorankommen.

Sollten Sie zu denen gehören, die langjährig im Widerstand gegen Angriffe auf die Würde und Rechte der Völker unserer Welt aktiv waren: Mein allergrößter Respekt für Ihr Engagement. Spätestens, wenn Sie ein Ausbrennen Ihrer Energie wahrnehmen - versuchen Sie es einmal mit PRO :-)

Das Titelfoto zeigt Michael Sladek, 2024 verstorbener Initiator der EWS. Danke Michael, für den gewaltigen Impuls, den Du im Kreise der Schönauer Engagierten mit Deinem Lebenswerk der Regionalgesellschaft geschenkt hast.

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The Death of Qualitative Thought

This started off as a message to some friends. I was trying to convince them why it was important that we read Hannah Ardent’s “The Human Condition”. As the message continued to spiral I had to choose another medium to share it with them.

“I'd ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, to have that love for her, be there forever, through anything, through cancer. And you wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in the hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes, that the terms "visiting hours" don't apply to you. You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much.” - Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting

We are on the precipice of a torrent of political and economic change. The global economy is struggling; France can't balance its budget and ousted the prime minister in response, Germany has bungled their energy policy resulting in VW shutting down factories for the first time in its history, contributing to the Chancellor losing a non confidence vote. Both countries have far right parties poised to take leadership, and both these far right parties have advocated for stepping out of the EU. If such an event were to take place it could be the end of the Euro, the second most powerful currency in the world will have been created and destroyed in under 30 years. The UK is in the process of exacerbating their energy woes whilst dealing with a stagnant economy. Likewise, Canada's economy is struggling and the economic minister quit in dramatic fashion due, in part, to terrible budget management. This led to the Canadian prime minister resigning shortly after. China is in a similar economic position and is still trying to stimulate its economy while tensions with the US mount. The US itself is economically resilient and the coming administration’s aggressive approach to economic growth has further bolstered enthusiasm in their economy. This strategy coupled with tariffs will cause inflation to reappear internationally and batter struggling families further. Trump is known to follow an aggressive form of Reganomics that can be understood better as "number go up"; doing whatever it takes to push the economy higher, assuming this will solve society’s woes. Behind Trump stands J.D. Vance and the "Counter Elite", led by Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. Although Musk takes all the attention, it is really Thiel who has the foresight and political cunning to make changes happen. Thiel has been vocal about his opinion on the global economic situation and America’s place in it for quite a while. He has been sounding alarms about economic stagnation, through over regulation, for years. The motto of his venture fund echoes these concerns: "We were promised flying cars, instead we got 140 characters". His main concern being if we constrict growth - increased violence is inevitable. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will be the "counter elites" first step in reducing government involvement in all facets of society.  This new technocracy will display a plethora of metrics to justify their decisions, being STEM oriented individuals. It is important to keep in mind that although these numbers are intended to reflect something from reality, divergences between the metric and what it is intended to measure frequently occur (Campbell’s law). The use of market indices, for example, as a measure of quality of life, is something we frequently see that deviates from most people’s experience. It loses sight of the underlying human issues we are trying to solve. The tech elite frequently display this lack of qualitative understanding; the Cyber Truck or Meta's venture into VR worlds gives a stark display of this. The explanation for the lack of qualitative understanding could be as simple as the inherent societal bias we have between what San Francisco residents would call "Shape Rotators" vs "Wordcels". These terms reflect a general societal view that the humanities carry little to no value, and all decisions should only be made through explicit cause and effect relations. We have been looking at the world through this narrow lens since the 80s, earlier if you ask Hannah Arendt, and the "number go up" approach is only doubling down on this perspective. This world view might be what is the cause of our predicament in the first place. We may have reached a local maximum in terms of moving forward as a society with this strategy, a point of diminishing returns, yet we don't consider others. Our view of the world is only becoming more myopic and our tactics to approach it is becoming more aggressive.

Since Ronald Regan and Milton Freidman pushed "trickle down economics", with their compatriot Margaret Thatcher in the UK, every leader has skewed more to the right. Bill Clinton was far more pro business than democratic presidents prior to him. This trend has only continued. Every President and CEO uses the market as arbiter of success, which employs Friedman's idea that the shareholders are the primary concern (campaign contributors are essentially shareholders) and everything else is secondary. Donald Trump is only refining and pushing these strategies further. He has already signalled tax cuts for the richest people in the country and that he will drop the corporate tax rate to 15%. The market’s exuberance is used to justify these decisions. He has no view of his own of where the country should go, only parroting Regan's campaign slogan, which in itself has no vision of the future.

Trump has been recruited by the tech billionaires since their economic perspectives are aligned. The tech elite have applied the "number go up strategy" to their companies for decades, “hockey stick” growth curves are the only true indicator of success in the industry. Politically they were very liberal, accepting, and sometimes advocating for higher taxes to help state programs. This optimistic hands off approach obviously hasn't worked as San Francisco has become infested with social and political strife, far exceeding issues that comparably sized cities have. Unsurprisingly this has triggered a complete reversal of the tech elites previous views on governance. Now as the tech billionaires enter the political game, they are keen to apply their successful approach in tech to government. Their first application of this strategy will be with the "Department of Government Efficiency", meant to help reduce regulations that are hindering business development.

Silicon Valley has been an ideal case of the benefits of deregulation. The digital world provided a permissionless environment for anyone to build and distribute products. With successes like Google, venture capital funds threw enormous resources behind youthful intelligent founders, and reaped enormous rewards. Building a startup became a common phrase, and achieving the “hockey stick” growth curve became a common dream.Other areas of the world began trying to imitate this model seeing the prosperity it brought to the region. More and more talented youths entered into Computer Science or Computer engineering hoping to join a large software company with generous compensation packages, or founding their own company. Other more regulated industries provided fewer and fewer opportunities as lucrative as tech. This reinforced the perception that tech was the only path to social mobility, and more so, that any field outside STEM is not a valuable investment. The humanities were seen as antithetical to tech, believed to provide zero economic value. This bias is prevalent throughout our society, it is particularly prevalent in San Francisco where the term “wordcel” is used to describe those who prefer to pursue knowledge in the humanities. 

What we lost in this was the benefits of qualitative thinking which is more pronounced in the humanities. This is where people learn to analyze things that don’t have clear numerical solutions, to see problems from a multitude of perspectives, to understand that some issues have no clean resolutions, to contemplate what it means to exist and be conscious of your own existence. Humanities are where we learn what the human condition is and how we can improve it. Qualitative thinking allows us to actually consider what we are doing and where we are going. Sean Monahan in his essay “The counter elite won the meme war” captures the lack of qualitative understanding at the core of the tech elite: “the homes of tech billionaires and hundred millionaires I’ve seen (online and otherwise) aren’t much better: generically white and minimal, rectilinear shapes in monochromatic fabrics. You get the sense you are in a third-world luxury hotel that didn’t know you were supposed to hire an interior designer”. Living by the “Number go up” strategy leaves one devoid of taste and depth. It comes painfully obvious, as Sean says of the tech elite: “On a basic level, both their fantasies and realities fail to inspire.” We can plainly see this in the everyday functioning of the companies found in San Francisco over time, as more companies provided high economic output but lower societal value.

This single minded approach to politics and economics has left us bereft of any vigour. San Francisco is overrun with Will Huntings who chose the corporate path. Every aspect of our life has become a cold calculation, even dating has become a numbers game, setting filters and preserving likes. We are left longing for depth and a purpose to pursue that no amount of rigorous number manipulations will provide a substitute for. Leopold Aschenbrenner, part of the super alignment team at OpenAI, mentioned on podcast that he won't spend any money on consumption till he can buy literal galaxies. This comment made me think of Zaphod Beeblebrox, from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, when he awakes on a planet of gold and is overcome with awe, but only a short while earlier he travelled the galaxy on a machine that made the impossible probable and could only think to use it to gain more wealth. What value is a planet of gold when we can’t appreciate the wonders around us?

Even Peter Thiel, the undercover Wordcel who constantly ridicules many fields because they aren't shape rotatory enough, states in his essay "Straussian moment" that the assumption of each individual being a rational economic actor was upended on September 11th. A foundational shift in our society is required to account for this change in our understanding, yet we continue to pursue economics and politics in the same manner, only more aggressively, as if this will produce different results.

What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing. — Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition.

FIN

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The Bellamy salute is a palm-out salute created by James B. Upham as the gesture that was to accompany the Pledge of Allegiance of the United States of America, whose text had been written by Francis Bellamy. It was also known as the "flag salute" during the period when it was used with the Pledge of Allegiance. Bellamy promoted the salute and it came to be associated with his name. Both the Pledge and its salute originated in 1892. It was also known as the "flag salute" during the period when it was used with the Pledge of Allegiance. Bellamy promoted the salute and it came to be associated with his name. Both the Pledge and its salute originated in 1892. Later, during the 1920s and 1930s, Italian fascists and Nazi Germans adopted a salute which was very similar, attributed to the Roman salute, a gesture that was popularly believed to have been used in ancient Rome.[1] This resulted in controversy over the use of the Bellamy salute in the United States. It was officially replaced by the hand-over-heart salute when Congress amended the Flag Code on December 22, 1942.

~ Bellamy salute - Wikipedia

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/859191

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Einleitung\ \ Schwierige Dinge einfach zu erklären ist der Anspruch von ELI5 (explain me like I'm 5). Das ist in unserer hoch technisierten Welt dringend erforderlich, denn nur mit dem Verständnis der Technologien können wir sie richtig einsetzen und weiter entwickeln.\ Ich starte meine Serie mit Nostr, einem relativ neuen Internet-Protokoll. Was zum Teufel ist ein Internet-Protokoll? Formal beschrieben sind es internationale Standards, die dafür sorgen, dass das Internet seit über 30 Jahren ziemlich gut funktioniert. Es ist die Sprache, in der sich die Rechner miteinander unterhalten und die auch Sie täglich nutzen, vermutlich ohne es bewusst wahrzunehmen. http(s) transportiert ihre Anfrage an einen Server (z.B. Amazon), und html sorgt dafür, dass aus den gelieferten Daten eine schöne Seite auf ihrem Bildschirm entsteht. Eine Mail wird mit smtp an den Mailserver gesendet und mit imap von ihm abgerufen, und da alle den Standard verwenden, funktioniert das mit jeder App auf jedem Betriebssystem und mit jedem Mail-Provider. Und mit einer Mail-Adresse wie roland@pareto.space können sie sogar jederzeit umziehen, egal wohin. Cool, das ist state of the art! Aber warum funktioniert das z.B. bei Chat nicht, gibt es da kein Protokoll? Doch, es heißt IRC (Internet Relay Chat → merken sie sich den Namen), aber es wird so gut wie nicht verwendet. Die Gründe dafür sind nicht technischer Natur, vielmehr wurden mit Apps wie Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, TikTok u.a. bewusst Inkompatibilitäten und Nutzerabhängigkeiten geschaffen um Profite zu maximieren.

Warum Nostr?

Da das Standard-Protokoll nicht genutzt wird, hat jede App ihr eigenes, und wir brauchen eine handvoll Apps um uns mit allen Bekannten auszutauschen. Eine Mobilfunknummer ist Voraussetzung für jedes Konto, damit können die App-Hersteller die Nutzer umfassend tracken und mit dem Verkauf der Informationen bis zu 30 USD je Konto und Monat verdienen. Der Nutzer ist nicht mehr Kunde, er ist das Produkt! Der Werbe-SPAM ist noch das kleinste Problem bei diesem Geschäftsmodell. Server mit Millionen von Nutzerdaten sind ein “honey pot”, dementsprechend oft werden sie gehackt und die Zugangsdaten verkauft. 2024 wurde auch der Twitter-Account vom damaligen Präsidenten Joe Biden gehackt, niemand wusste mehr wer die Nachrichten verfasst hat (vorher auch nicht), d.h. die Authentizität der Inhalte ist bei keinem dieser Anbieter gewährleistet. Im selben Jahr wurde der Telegram-Gründer in Frankreich in Beugehaft genommen, weil er sich geweigert hatte Hintertüren in seine Software einzubauen. Nun kann zum Schutz "unserer Demokratie” praktisch jeder mitlesen, was sie mit wem an Informationen austauschen, z.B. darüber welches Shampoo bestimmte Politiker verwenden. 

Und wer tatsächlich glaubt er könne Meinungsfreiheit auf sozialen Medien praktizieren, findet sich schnell in der Situation von Donald Trump wieder (seinerzeit amtierender Präsident), dem sein Twitter-Konto 2021 abgeschaltet wurde (Cancel-Culture). Die Nutzerdaten, also ihr Profil, ihre Kontakte, Dokumente, Bilder, Videos und Audiofiles - gehören ihnen ohnehin nicht mehr sondern sind Eigentum des Plattform-Betreibers; lesen sie sich mal die AGB's durch. Aber nein, keine gute Idee, das sind hunderte Seiten und sie werden permanent geändert. Alle nutzen also Apps, deren Technik sie nicht verstehen, deren Regeln sie nicht kennen, wo sie keine Rechte haben und die ihnen die Resultate ihres Handelns stehlen. Was würde wohl der Fünfjährige sagen, wenn ihm seine ältere Schwester anbieten würde, alle seine Spielzeuge zu “verwalten” und dann auszuhändigen wenn er brav ist? “Du spinnst wohl”, und damit beweist der Knirps mehr Vernunft als die Mehrzahl der Erwachsenen. \ \ Resümee: keine Standards, keine Daten, keine Rechte = keine Zukunft!

\ Wie funktioniert Nostr?

Die Entwickler von Nostr haben erkannt dass sich das Server-Client-Konzept in ein Master-Slave-Konzept verwandelt hatte. Der Master ist ein Synonym für Zentralisierung und wird zum “single point of failure”, der zwangsläufig Systeme dysfunktional macht. In einem verteilten Peer2Peer-System gibt es keine Master mehr sondern nur gleichberechtigte Knoten (Relays), auf denen die Informationen gespeichert werden. Indem man Informationen auf mehreren Relays redundant speichert, ist das System in jeglicher Hinsicht resilienter. Nicht nur die Natur verwendet dieses Prinzip seit Jahrmillionen erfolgreich, auch das Internet wurde so konzipiert (das ARPAnet wurde vom US-Militär für den Einsatz in Kriegsfällen unter massiven Störungen entwickelt). Alle Nostr-Daten liegen auf Relays und der Nutzer kann wählen zwischen öffentlichen (zumeist kostenlosen) und privaten Relays, z.B. für geschlossene Gruppen oder zum Zwecke von Daten-Archivierung. Da Dokumente auf mehreren Relays gespeichert sind, werden statt URL's (Locator) eindeutige Dokumentnamen (URI's = Identifier) verwendet, broken Links sind damit Vergangenheit und Löschungen / Verluste ebenfalls.\ \ Jedes Dokument (Event genannt) wird vom Besitzer signiert, es ist damit authentisch und fälschungssicher und kann nur vom Ersteller gelöscht werden. Dafür wird ein Schlüsselpaar verwendet bestehend aus privatem (nsec) und öffentlichem Schlüssel (npub) wie aus der Mailverschlüsselung (PGP) bekannt. Das repräsentiert eine Nostr-Identität, die um Bild, Namen, Bio und eine lesbare Nostr-Adresse ergänzt werden kann (z.B. roland@pareto.space ), mehr braucht es nicht um alle Ressourcen des Nostr-Ökosystems zu nutzen. Und das besteht inzwischen aus über hundert Apps mit unterschiedlichen Fokussierungen, z.B. für persönliche verschlüsselte Nachrichten (DM → OxChat), Kurznachrichten (Damus, Primal), Blogbeiträge (Pareto), Meetups (Joinstr), Gruppen (Groups), Bilder (Olas), Videos (Amethyst), Audio-Chat (Nostr Nests), Audio-Streams (Tunestr), Video-Streams (Zap.Stream), Marktplätze (Shopstr) u.v.a.m. Die Anmeldung erfolgt mit einem Klick (single sign on) und den Apps stehen ALLE Nutzerdaten zur Verfügung (Profil, Daten, Kontakte, Social Graph → Follower, Bookmarks, Comments, etc.), im Gegensatz zu den fragmentierten Datensilos der Gegenwart.\ \ Resümee: ein offener Standard, alle Daten, alle Rechte = große Zukunft!

\ Warum ist Nostr die Zukunft des Internet?

“Baue Dein Haus nicht auf einem fremden Grundstück” gilt auch im Internet - für alle App-Entwickler, Künstler, Journalisten und Nutzer, denn auch ihre Daten sind werthaltig. Nostr garantiert das Eigentum an den Daten, und überwindet ihre Fragmentierung. Weder die Nutzung noch die kreativen Freiheiten werden durch maßlose Lizenz- und Nutzungsbedingungen eingeschränkt. Aus passiven Nutzern werden durch Interaktion aktive Teilnehmer, Co-Creatoren in einer Sharing-Ökonomie (Value4Value). OpenSource schafft endlich wieder Vertrauen in die Software und ihre Anbieter. Offene Standards ermöglichen den Entwicklern mehr Kooperation und schnellere Entwicklung, für die Anwender garantieren sie Wahlfreiheit. Womit wir letztmalig zu unserem Fünfjährigen zurückkehren. Kinder lieben Lego über alles, am meisten die Maxi-Box “Classic”, weil sie damit ihre Phantasie im Kombinieren voll ausleben können. Erwachsene schenken ihnen dann die viel zu teuren Themenpakete, mit denen man nur eine Lösung nach Anleitung bauen kann. “Was stimmt nur mit meinen Eltern nicht, wann sind die denn falsch abgebogen?" fragt sich der Nachwuchs zu Recht. Das Image lässt sich aber wieder aufpolieren, wenn sie ihren Kindern Nostr zeigen, denn die Vorteile verstehen sogar Fünfjährige.

\ Das neue Internet ist dezentral. Das neue Internet ist selbstbestimmt. Nostr ist das neue Internet.

https://nostr.net/ \ https://start.njump.me/

Hier das Interview zum Thema mit Radio Berliner Morgenröte

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-yxc36-17bb4be

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This article by Milosz Matuschek first appeared in German on Freischwebende Intelligenz

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Last night, while you were fast asleep, someone turned 883 dollars into 310,000 dollars in just a few hours. Not me, unfortunately. Trump launched his own memecoin with the abbreviation $TRUMP, which has since skyrocketed to a double-digit billion dollar valuation.

Trump (and his pre-investors) are now billions richer on paper. It takes just a few minutes and no (more) development work to create such a coin within minutes. All it takes is a believing community to make it explode. If you were looking for proof of my thesis that the world is being memefied, here it is.

Us and them

We are currently experiencing a phase of power shifts: in money, in politics, in the media. Many people like what Trump and Musk are doing. They are creating more freedom of expression and removing Wokistan's basis for business. Amazon is scrapping diversity rules, Facebook is scrapping censorship (officially admitted). Tiktok land is burned down, the Chinese social media app disappears from the US. Isn't that censorship? Google and Facebook are now openly rebelling against EU opinion dictates, fact checkers etc. In addition to the Hindu Kush, our freedom of opinion is now also being defended (again, for how long?) from Silicon Valley. Brave new world.

You can think strategically: wonderful, that's what I wanted too; “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. But for how long? This is a change of power at the political top, nothing more.

Trump has promoted vaccination just like Biden; also with the lie that it prevents infection. Vote for your favorite PR artist!

Is that supposed to be our choice?

Elon Musk built mRNA vaccination lines for Curevac, is the Young Global Leader of the WEF 2008, has major holdings in Tesla from Blackrock-Vanguard & Co. and contracts with the Pentagon.

“One of us”, yes for sure....

I find that hard to believe and I wonder about those who find it easy to believe. Speaking of faith: a reader I hold in high esteem said she believes Musk and Trump are on a divine mission. Trump partying with Epstein? Musk in a Baphomet costume? The ways of the Lord are truly mysterious then...

The common enemy of the enemy can be useful, up to a point, but nothing more. Just because you fight the same thing, i.e. are against something, doesn't mean you are for the same thing. In my opinion, assuming that the interests of Trump, Musk & Co. are congruent with the interests of citizens would be a fatal misconception. There is nothing to suggest this. Trump has been totally for and then against many issues. Personnel decisions: often a casting round for a limited time, with hire & fire like “The Apprentice”. But he is so peaceable, wants to end wars like the one between Russia and Ukraine, or de facto the USA. At the same time, he is now reaching for Greenland and the Panama Canal. His words ooze the exceptionalism of the USA, the doctrine that as a US empire you can basically do anything you want. For strategic interests. For national security. A formula can always be found.

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How are wo going to score on the liberty scale?

“Believe little, question everything, think for yourself” is the beautiful title of a very readable book by Albrecht Müller, editor of Nachdenkseiten, and best summarizes my thoughts. As a journalist, I replace “little” with “nothing”. The journalist is not in the banking business. There you are allowed to believe (credit = he believes, latin). I don't think the issue of draining a swamp should be left to the frogs. Is Trump not a frog? “Anti-establishment", come on. Now the establishment is coming from the other side, the other side of the dialectic. The battle of good versus evil is entering a supposedly new round, releasing pressure from the cauldron of democracy, which is too important a façade to be allowed to fall.

The only pragmatic question that citizens should ask themselves is this: Will I have more net freedoms at the end of this political reorganization process than before? What will be given to me in reel but perhaps also taken away elsewhere? Anyone who draws hope from changes in the left-right scheme has always been disappointed by the steady reduction of freedoms in recent years and should rather look at the vertical axis of top vs. bottom. Hope is nice, but you should only ever rely on yourself.

It's nice if some people now get to know something different as a result of the change in the political weather and wake up. A book will soon be published about manipulation in the Tagesschau. The PEI has known about the side effects for years, but withheld the information and the republic was allowed to rail against footballer Joshua Kimmich in the meantime. One life lie after another will now fall, an exciting process. But it will mainly be cardboard comrades and useful idiots who will have to fall by the wayside, and there was hardly any shortage of them.

Waking up must not lead to the next dream world. Otherwise the critical movement was just a stirrup for the next seizure of power. But we need a movement of self-empowerment of the citizen, beyond politics, the media or Big Tech. Invest in everything, be it seminars, books, knowledge, Bitcoin or whatever increases your net freedom balance. Decentralized civil society only has a chance if free citizens form their own free block in cooperation with others, based on principles and not on the bunting of a party-political camp.

Everyone can decide for themselves and have a say in what form this can take. Where cooperation arises naturally, the idea was a good one. Ultimately, an idea is just a meme.

That was my meme five years ago. It's still true, but with Bitcoin a zero has been added.

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🧠Quote(s) of the week:

'For the love of God, Bitcoin is not a 'scam', and it is not 'going away'. Do yourself some good by honestly and thoroughly researching it, away from mainstream media nonsense. You can thank me and thousands of others on here later.'

'Do you actually understand what it means when the whole world tries to squeeze into a fixed supply digital asset that never gets diluted, is audited every 10 minutes, and trades 24/7 as the most liquid asset on earth? If you do, you’re holding on for dear life.' -Bitcoin For Freedom

🧡Bitcoin news🧡

After a short break from the recap, I am back. I got a new place and I had to focus on that project. Now before I start with this week's Weekly Recap I want to remind all the political larpers (Trump voters etc) of one thing:

THE PROMISE

1. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve

2. Free Ross day one

THE REALITY 1. 47M Wrapped BTC 2. Maybe free Ross later 3. 4.7M tron 4. 47M Ethereum 5. 4.7 M litecoin 6. Pardoned J6 participants

Oh, and he launched the biggest meme/shitcoin, and rug pulled the shit out of it.

On the 12th of January:

➡️Eighth consecutive positive adjustment on the horizon. We saw nine in 2021 and 17 in 2018. This is insane.

➡️A Santander Bank report highlights El Salvador’s booming tourism industry, fueled by Bitcoin adoption. The country announced 3.9M tourists in 2024—a 22% YoY increase and nearly double the levels seen between 2013-2016.

➡️Bitcoin mining difficulty increased by 0.6101% today. The network has programmatically adjusted to a new difficulty level of 110,451,907,374,649 hashes, ensuring the target block time remains stable as global computing power on the network fluctuates.

➡️We now have 7 states, and counting, pushing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Bill:

• New Hampshire
• Alabama
• Florida
• Pennsylvania
• Texas
• Ohio
• North Dakota

On the 13th of January:

➡️Italy's largest bank Intesa Sanpaolo has started buying Bitcoin, according to leaked internal emails which celebrate the "first transaction" of €1m for 11 Bitcoin.

➡️The number of Bitcoin addresses holding over 100 BTC has surged by 8.6% since Trump’s election in November.

➡️Ming Shing Group from Hong Kong just acquired 500 Bitcoin for $47M.

➡️Semler Scientific has acquired 237 BTC for ~$23.3 million at ~$98,267 per Bitcoin and has generated a BTC Yield of 99.3% since adopting our BTC treasury strategy in May 2024. As of 1/10/2025, we held 2,321  Bitcoin acquired for ~$191.9 million at ~$82,687 per Bitcoin.

➡️$11.5 trillion BlackRock says that Bitcoin adoption is outpacing the internet and mobile phones.

On the 14th of January:

➡️The Bitcoin network has 610,929x more hashing computational power than the combined total of the world’s top 500 supercomputers.

On the 16th of January:

➡️'Someone just moved 11,000 Bitcoin worth $1.1 BILLION around the world for ONLY $1.50 The world's most efficient monetary network.' - Pete Rizzo

➡️XRP is down 80% from its bitcoin all-time high in 2017. Just don't do shitcoins, it's that simple.

On the 17th of January:

➡️'They did it again! Bindseil and Schaaf published the article, 'Arguments Against a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve'.

It is a wild ride, reaching peak FUD. Maybe even so wild that they had to publish it in a newspaper and not as an ECB blog post. This is ultra bullish' - Dr. Jan Wüstenfeld

➡️Metaplanet's market cap closes above $1 billion for the first time since adopting a Bitcoin Standard.

➡️Jeroen Blokland: ‘Nearly one-fifth of all U.S. states are formally weighing whether to have public funds invest in Bitcoin.’ I am afraid and convinced at the same time that soon, the EU will be the only region still aiming to introduce a central bank digital currency. As a result, it will trigger more polarization, and Europe will lose the Bitcoin battle, just as it hopelessly lost the technology and AI battle.

➡️'ETH was supposed to become deflationary after the "merge" But now the supply is almost back to where it was BEFORE the merge If you're still falling for this shit, you deserve to get scammed.' -Rajat Soni

To make it even worse: 'The ETHBTC ratio is now lower than the day when Coinbase listed it in 2016. You would have been buying ETH at ~$13, but funny enough if you would have just bought and held Bitcoin, you would have actually outperformed it.' -Pledditor.

➡️ First union in Idaho bought Bitcoin.

➡️ California state officials embraced Bitcoin.

➡️Wyoming filed for Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill.

➡️Massachusetts filed for Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill. Up to 10% of the $9 Billion Commonwealth Stabilization Fund can be invested in Bitcoin

On the 18th of January:

➡️ Swiss Bitcoin advocates are pushing for the Swiss National Bank to add Bitcoin to the national reserves - Bloomberg They need 100,000 signatures to put it to a national vote.

➡️3.47M Bitcoin addresses hold more than 0.1 BTC. If you own one of them you’re set for life.

➡️Donald Trump dropped a meme coin instead of stacking Bitcoin for a Strategic Reserve. If the president of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA can launch and promote a memecoin, then essentially it's OK (and not shamed) for anyone/anywhere to do so. 

The grift to come is going to be unreal, even by CrApTo standards. A memecoin/shitcoin is a zero-sum* lottery.

There is no wealth creation. Every buy order is simply matched by a sell order. After an initial spike, the price eventually crashes and the last buyers lose everything.

That's the only thing I am going to share on the subject.

➡️Arizona Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill introduced

The State can invest up to 10% from:

1) State general fund - $28B 2) State retirement funds - $50B

➡️ Bitwise bought +$200 MILLION Bitcoin for its ETF today. The biggest single-day inflow since launching last year.

On the 19th of January:

➡️ Bitcoin Network System Explained in a Chart:

On the 20th of January:

➡️Bitcoin mining difficulty hits a NEW ALL-TIME HIGH.

➡️YouTube rival Rumble started buying Bitcoin for its balance sheet on Friday - CEO

➡️Bitcoin went up 20x in Trump's first term as President. 10x this time?

💸Traditional Finance / Macro:

👉🏽no news

🏦Banks:

👉🏽Global central banks now hold more Gold than at any point in the past 45 years. Something is brewing.

🌎Macro/Geopolitics:

On the 12th of January:

👉🏽Treasuries are entering their 6th year of the third great bond bear market of the last 240 years!

On the 16th of January:

👉🏽EU Commission allows Thierry Breton to take up a new job at Bank of America despite a rule that requires a two-year waiting period before starting lobbying jobs. There are no rules for these corrupt EU (you fill in the blank). The rules apply only to citizens, not to the Brussels elite, and certainly not if you belong to the French political elite.

In December I shared some news on the EU crusade against X. Let me explain this to you in simple terms.

Breton, a man preaching about the ‘rule of law’ and X, while breaching the rules he signed up to himself: ‘Code of Conduct EU Commissioners’. Now read that again. Bitcoin only. Defund politicians.

👉🏽'The Congressional Budget Office just lowered the US population forecast by 11 million, to 372 million in 2054. This implies 6.3% growth over the next 30 years instead of the 10.5% previously expected.

The agency also expects deaths to exceed births starting in 2033, 7 years earlier than in the 2024 estimates. Lower fertility rates and lower net immigration expectations were behind the outlook changes.

Are we heading into a demographic crisis?' - TKL

On the 17th of January:

👉🏽 Germany had 17 nuclear power plants. It shut them all down. Germany spent $1 Trillion for its energy revamp with the following results:

• It is now totally dependent on Russian gas, French nuclear power electricity, and coal (the most polluting fossil fuel)
• Its citizens pay the highest electricity price in Europe
• It causes several times more CO2 per kWh than France Go woke, go broke. $1T for ruining both its economy and environment. Wunderbar!

Just some data: In 2025, Europe is buying Russian gas at an unprecedented pace and spending billions of dollars on it, reports Politico. In the first 15 days of the year, the EU countries imported 837.3 thousand tons of Russian liquified natural gas (LNG).

Just to show you how fucked up things are in the EU. EU companies are backstabbed by their own policymakers.

'Europe's carmakers risk hefty bill for carbon credit from Chinese rivals.'

source: https://www.ft.com/content/677190d1-7d34-4506-a037-418baab67237

I read the article. It’mind-blowingng. It's like shooting a two-barrelled shotgun in your own nuts.

On this point, EU regulators are destroying an entire part of the economy (Car manufacturing + subcontractors) and are giving the keys to Chinese companies. Go woke, go broke. China is making new coal plants at a rate that cancels German / EU efforts 10X or maybe 100x over.

Now from an economic perspective: 'European equities are more or less where they were at the beginning of the century. Overregulation and bureaucracy throttling innovation, and belief in left redistribution nonsense instead of hard work and entrepreneurship have their price.' -Michael A. Arouet

👉🏽Treasuries have experienced their worst rolling 10-year return in 90 YEARS, now at -0.5%. People out here still stacking U.S. gov bonds instead of Bitcoin. Data: U.S. Treasury bonds: -42% - Bitcoin: +809% 'The “smart money” is buying 30-year treasury bonds with a nominal yield of 1.20% on the whim that another investor (or central bank) will buy it from them at a higher price.' -Dylan Leclair

On the 18th of January:

👉🏽Argentina has officially reached its first budget surplus in 14 years. Vamos!

Under Milei’s leadership, Argentina turned a $7.94B trade deficit in 2023 into a record-smashing $18-19B surplus in 2024, surpassing the previous high of $16.89B in 2009. His push to boost energy exports from the Vaca Muerta shale reserves and ramp up grain sales is paying off, making Argentina a global exporting powerhouse again. With inflation already down from nearly 300% to 117.8%, Milei’s economic reforms are proving their worth.

Argentinian President Javier Milei announces "Zero deficit is a reality...promises are fulfilled."

Let me refrain from the above:

➡️Less state

➡️Less government expenses

➡️Capitalism

➡️Free market

👉🏽Wealth exodus accelerated by 157% in 2024: One millionaire leaves Britain every 45 minutes under Labour — Telegraph

157% increase in the outflow of millionaires since Labour came to power - including losing over 10,000 millionaires & 12 billionaires. All these people created wealth in the U.K. through living and spending.

On the 19th of January:

👉🏽U.S. Housing Market 16.2% of Home Purchase Deals were canceled last month, the highest cancellation rate in history

If for some reason people still believe Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme, well that's their fault. Let me share with you the real Ponzi scheme.

The following chart summarizes the impact of demographics on European pension systems really well:

A ticking time bomb!

The regulatory burdens suffered by citizens are imposed by unelectable bureaucrats! Study Bitcoin.

🎁If you have made it this far I would like to give you a little gift:

Some fountain of Lyn Alden's wisdom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZlcrLZkNA8

Lyn Alden is a macro analyst, investment strategist, and the author of Broken Money. In this episode of What Bitcoin Did, they discuss the impact of fiscal policy on inflation, the Federal Reserve's constraints under fiscal dominance, and the role of tariffs in shaping the economic landscape. They also get into a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and what Donald Trump’s Administration will mean for Bitcoin.

Credit: I have used multiple sources!

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  Where do you send new users?

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Zwischen 2000 und 2010 war ich mit Teams aus Unis in Göttingen und Kassel mit der Initiierung und wissenschaftlichen Begleitung von 5 Energiewendedörfern im Göttinger Raum aktiv. Unsere Öffentlichkeitsarbeit trug dazu bei, dass das Modell solcher Dörfer in weiteren knapp 200 Dörfern im Land umgesetzt worden ist.

Hier finden Sie unsere Vorschläge, wie der Umbau eines Dorfes hin zu einem “Energiewendedorf“ angepackt werden kann. Wie kann eine Kommune die eigene Energieversorgung von importierten, meist fossilen Energieträgern auf regional verfügbare erneuerbare Energie umstellen? Den folgenden kurzen Beitrag schreibe ich als Appetitmacher für einen ausführlichen Leitfaden, welchen Sie im Netz hier nachschlagen können.

Der Start der Energiewende in einer Kommune ist eine Idee: Die Idee, dass und in welcher Form diese Transformation gelingen könnte. Wenn Sie oder eine Gruppe von Menschen Ihrer Kommune so eine Idee im Kopf haben, kommt es zunächst auf folgende Punkte an:

Sprechen Sie Bekannte/Freunde im Ort auf Ihre Idee hin an. Beginnen Sie damit, Menschen Ihrer Kommune zu kontaktieren, die Sie bereits gut kennen und von denen Sie sich vorstellen können, dass sie Ihrer Idee gegenüber offen sein könnten. Hier ist es noch nicht so wichtig, strategisch an Entscheidungsträger und potentielle MultiplikatorInnen zu denken – das folgt im nächsten Schritt. Hier geht es darum, dass Sie sich vergewissern, dass es im Ort eine Kerngruppe von guten Bekannten gibt, in deren Kreis Sie sich wohlfühlen und mit denen gemeinsam Sie Lust bekommen und Freude verspüren, die folgenden Schritte anzugehen.

Überlegen Sie gemeinsam, für welche Teile Ihrer Vision Experten im Ort vorhanden sind: Z.B. Finanzierung, Technik, Landwirtschaft, Verwaltung, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit. Sprechen Sie diese an. Bilden Sie informelle Arbeitsgruppen, die einzelne Aspekte des Vorhabens genauer checken. Die Gründung eines Energiewendedorfes ist eine Aufgabe, die viele unterschiedliche Kompetenzen fordert. Deshalb ist es empfehlenswert, die Arbeitsschritte in Themenfeldern zu gliedern und nach Möglichkeit Experten und Expertinnen für die einzelnen Bereiche als Unterstützer zu gewinnen. Zu technischen Fragen können ansässige Ingenieursbüros oder private BewohnerInnen mit Fachkenntnissen zurate gezogen werden. Insbesondere genossenschaftlich geführte Banken und deren Vertreter sind in der Regel offen für gemeinsame Projekte und können als mögliche Ansprechpartner zum Thema Finanzierung fungieren. Die Themen Verwaltung und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit lassen sich gut mit den Aufgaben der Kommune verknüpfen, weshalb es sich anbietet, auch die Gemeinde auf eine gemeinsame Projektabwicklung anzusprechen.

Inwieweit ist Bereitschaft der Menschen der Kommune für eine gemeinschaftliche Energieversorgung ausgeprägt? Wie kann man die Bereitschaft, bei dem Vorhaben aktiv mitzuwirken, fördern? Hier gibt es eine Vielzahl möglicher Aktivitäten – von gezielten informellen Gartenzaungesprächen bis zu schriftlichen Einwohnerbefragungen. Wichtig ist es nach unseren Erfahrungen, die Resonanz auf den Funken der Idee, der Vision in der Kommune herauszufinden. Sie können die Chance auf gute Resonanz erheblich steigern, wenn Sie sich die Erfolgsfaktoren bei bereits erfolgreich umgesetzten kommunalen Vorhaben anschauen, zum Beispiel Besuche bei Vorreiter-Kommunen, Einbindung der lokalen Presse oder gemeinsame Feiern.

Sprechen Sie Ihre Gemeinderäte, OrtsvorsteherInnen, BürgermeisterInnen und zuständige VertreterInnen der Kommunalverwaltung an. Stellen Sie die Chancen Ihrer Vision anhand von konkreten Beispielen dar. Um die Kommune einzubinden, ist es hilfreich, wenn Sie in Ihrer Gruppe überlegen, wer zu wem von den Anzusprechenden „einen guten Draht“ hat – und das Erstgespräch führt. Wenn keiner mit der fraglichen Person bekannt ist, informieren Sie sich im Vorfeld über diese Person.

Nun ermitteln Sie den aktuellen Bedarf an Strom, Heizenergie und Treibstoff. Wenn in Ihrer Kommune solche Daten bereits teilweise erhoben werden (z.B. für kommunale Betriebe, Gewerbebetriebe oder für Privathaushalte/-häuser), können Sie diese Daten als Grundstock verwenden. Unbekannte Bereiche sollten Sie schätzen, um einen möglichst genauen Überblick über den aktuellen Energiebedarf  vor Ort zu bekommen.

Was sich einsparen lässt, braucht man gar nicht erst erzeugen. Dieser Gedanke ist vor einem Umbau der Energieversorgung essentiell. Prüfen Sie, welchen Einspareffekt Sie durch Effizienzmaßnahmen (Häuser dämmen, effiziente Haushaltgeräte, neue Transportoptionen) erzielen können. Es dürfen dabei nicht die öffentlichen Gebäude und andere Nichtwohngebäude vergessen werden, da diese häufig noch unsaniert sind und entsprechend hohe Einsparpotenziale liefern. Im Gegensatz zu privaten Gebäuden können hier auf einen Schlag erhebliche Einsparungen erzielt werden. Auch veraltete Anlagentechnik und fehlerhaftes Nutzungsverhalten können den Energieverbrauch stark negativ beeinflussen und sollten untersucht werden.

Stellen Sie die Optionen an erneuerbaren Energien, welche sich bei Ihnen vor Ort bieten, zusammen. In vielen Bereichen kann man mehrere sinnvolle Flächen- oder Potentialnutzungen zusammendenken. Grundsätzlich sollte darauf geachtet werden, Ressourcen zu identifizieren, die nicht in Konkurrenz zu anderen Nutzungen treten. Zum Beispiel bei Bioenergie sollten Sie insbesondere Abfallbiomasse in Betracht ziehen (Details in unseren Handlungsempfehlungen unter "Reststoffe nutzen"). Oder bei Solarenergie sind nicht beschattete und nicht genutzte Südhänge/Dächer ideal.

Für Strom-, Kraftstoff- und Wärmeerzeugung sowie die Verteilung der Energie gibt es jeweils vielfältige Technologien. Hier kommt es darauf an, die für Sie passenden herauszufinden. Diese sollten erprobt, verlässlich und nachhaltig sein. Auch die Verteilung der Energie darf dabei nicht übersehen werden. Aus diversen regionalen Biomassen kann Strom, Wärme und Kraftstoff (für Gasmotoren) erzeugt werden. Diese Verfahren sind praxisreif. Technische oder biologische Anpassungen in der Anlage sind bei schwer vergärbaren Biomassen (z.B. Stroh) notwendig. Wind und PV-Anlagen erzeugen zunächst „nur“ Strom, der über technische Verfahren in Wasserstoff oder Methan umgewandelt werden kann. Auf diese Weise können die Sektoren Strom, Wärme und Verkehr über Verteilnetze verbunden werden. Diese Verfahren werden in Pilotanlagen getestet und zeigen die technische Machbarkeit auf. Die wirtschaftliche Machbarkeit ist z. Z. noch nicht gegeben und die Technik ist ebenfalls noch nicht „Stand der Technik“. In selbstverwalteten Dorfprojekten sollten nur solche Techniken zur Anwendung kommen, die erprobt (Stand der Technik), verlässlich und nachhaltig sind.

Wirtschaftlichkeit berechnen. Hier geht es einerseits um die einmaligen Kosten bei Anschaffung und Bau der Anlagenbestandteile, andererseits um die Abschätzung der Wirtschaftlichkeit nach Start der Anlagen. Um sich an aktuelle Kosten und Wirtschaftlichkeitsdaten heranzutasten, empfiehlt es sich, Kontakt mit anderen Kommunen aufzunehmen, welche bereits EE-Anlagen errichtet haben, die mit Ihren Plänen vergleichbar sind. Fragen Sie die InitiatorInnen oder derzeit Verantwortlichen nach diesen Daten – und nach ihrer Zufriedenheit mit den Anlagen! Manche Kommunen, die bereits erfolgreich Projekte umgesetzt haben, bieten auch Beratungen an. In der Regel kann eine solche Beratung auch gefördert werden.

Für eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung Ihres Projektes ist es wichtig, eine zuverlässige Finanzierung zu gewährleisten. Bei der Wahl der passenden Bank sollten dabei nicht nur die günstigsten Konditionen ausschlaggebend sein. Die Finanzierung von neuen Infrastruktur- und Energieanlagen beruht in der Regel aus einem Mix aus Eigenanteilen (z.B. Genossenschaftseinlagen), Krediten und Finanzierung aus Förderprogrammen. 

Nun ist die Gründung einer Vorgesellschaft mit geeigneter Rechtsform zu empfehlen, welche die Lieferverträge für Ressourcen sowie die Vorverträge für die Abnahme von Energieprodukten organisiert und zum Abschluss bringt. Da zu diesem Zeitpunkt die endgültige Entscheidung für den Bau der Energieanlagen noch nicht getroffen werden kann, ist eine Vorgesellschaft empfehlenswert, welche bei positivem Ausgang dieses Schrittes von der Betreibergesellschaft abgelöst wird.

Bei der Entwurfsplanung stehen Überlegungen zum Unternehmensrisiko sowie zur Rechtsform der Betreibergesellschaft im Mittelpunkt. Die Vorgesellschaft wird dann von einer Betreibergesellschaft abgelöst, z.B. in Form einer Genossenschaft oder GmbH. Die Entwurfsplanung legt die technischen Grundlagen für den Genehmigungsantrag sowie die Art der Ausschreibung fest. Technische Aspekte wie z.B. Bereitstellung der Biomasse, Auslegung der Wärmeverteilung und nicht technische Aspekte wie Kapitalbedarf, Wirtschaftlichkeit, Terminplan werden konkretisiert. Weitere Punkte sind die bautechnische Planung wie Kauf- oder Packverträge für benötigte Grundstücke, Grunddienstbarkeiten für die Energietrasse und die Verhandlung über Verträge zur Biomasselieferung und zur Energieabnahme. Für die Wahl der Rechtsform sollten Sie ausreichend Zeit einplanen, um die Vor- und Nachteile der jeweiligen Möglichkeiten gut einzuschätzen. Gegebenenfalls können dabei der Genossenschaftsverband, Juristen oder andere externe Berater herangezogen werden.

Die Betreibergesellschaft reicht den Bauantrag bei den zuständigen Behörden ein. Es empfiehlt sich, bereits geraume Zeit vor dem Zeitpunkt der Einreichung mit den Behörden Kontakt aufzunehmen, den Antrag anzukündigen und Vorabinformationen über Schwerpunkte der Antragsprüfung und lokale/rechtliche aktuelle Besonderheiten einzuholen.

Nach Genehmigung der Bauarbeiten kann überlegt werden, ob/welche der auszuführenden Arbeiten in Eigenregie übernommen werden können. Die anderen Arbeiten sind auszuschreiben und entsprechende Firmen werden nach Erfahrung und Kostengesichtspunkten ausgewählt.

Hurra, es wird gebaut. Hier wünschen wir Ihnen, dass alles planmäßig und mit wenig unvorhergesehenen Ereignissen abläuft.

Wenn Energieüberschüsse aus Ihrem Dorf in die Region abgegeben werden können, empfiehlt es sich, in der eigenen Region neue Gesellschaften zu gründen, welche die Verteilung und Vermarktung der EE-Energieflüsse in der Region übernehmen. Da für die Verbraucher zunehmend auch eine regionale Herkunft des Stroms wichtig wird, kann eine Vermarktung der Überschüsse in der Region attraktiv sein. Eine Betreibergesellschaft vor Ort stärkt dabei das Vertrauen der Kunden und hält die Wertschöpfung in der Region.

Der stetige Wandel hin zu regionaler Energieerzeugung steigert die Bedeutsamkeit von Stromnetzen in den niederen Spannungsebenen. Gehen diese in das Eigentum der Dörfer und Städte zurück, kann dieser Strukturwandel besser unterstützt werden. Erwerben also Dörfer und Städte die Konzessionen für diese Netze, können diese besser an den notwendigen Strukturwandel mit erneuerbaren Energien angepasst werden, da nun nicht mehr ausschließlich die Gewinnmaximierung im Vordergrund steht, sondern auch regionale und lokale Aspekte der Nachhaltigkeit im Geschäftsalltag stärker berücksichtigt werden. 

Sind Sie neugierig geworden auf weitere Details, Links zu konkreten Dörfern in Ihrer Region, die schon umgebaut haben? Dann schauen Sie auf die Plattform dieser Dörfer, wo Sie u.a. auf einer Landkarte alle Dörfer finden mit konkreten Infos. Viele dieser Dörfer sind genossenschaftlich organisiert. So können Sie nach Kontakt mit einigen solcher Dörfer abschätzen, welche konkreten Konstellationen sich bewährt haben und ggf. für Ihr Vorhaben gut passen.

Viel Erfolg wünscht Ihnen Peter Schmuck

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In a world drowning in Monopoly money, where people celebrate government-mandated inflation as "economic growth," it takes a special kind of clarity—nay, cynicism—to rise above the fiat circus. This is your guide to shedding your fiat f**ks and embracing the serene chaos of sound money, all while laughing at the absurdity of a world gone fiat-mad.

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1. Don’t Feed the Clowns

You know the clowns I’m talking about: central bankers in their tailored suits and smug smirks, wielding "tools" like interest rates and quantitative easing. Their tools are as real as a magician's wand, conjuring trillions of dollars out of thin air to keep their Ponzi economy afloat.

Rule #1: Don’t engage. If a clown offers you a hot take about the "strength of the dollar," smile, nod, and silently wonder how many cups of coffee their paycheck buys this month. Spoiler: fewer than last month.

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1. Turn Off the Fiat News

Do you really need another breathless headline about the next trillion-dollar deficit? Or the latest clickbait on why you should care about the stock market's emotional rollercoaster? Mainstream media exists to distract you, to keep you tethered to their illusion of importance.

Turn it off. Replace it with something sound, like the Bitcoin whitepaper. Or Nietzsche. At least Nietzsche knew we were doomed.

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1. Mock Their Inflationary Gospel

Fiat apologists will tell you that inflation is "necessary" and that 2% a year is a "healthy target." Sure, because a little robbery every year keeps society functioning, right? Ask them this: "If 2% is healthy, why not 20%? Why not 200%? Why not Venezuela?"

Fiat logic is like a bad acid trip: entertaining at first, but it quickly spirals into existential horror.

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1. Celebrate the Fiat Freakshow

Sometimes, the best way to resist the fiat clown show is to revel in its absurdity. Watch politicians print money like teenagers running up a credit card bill at Hot Topic, then watch the economists applaud it as "stimulus." It’s performance art, really. Andy Warhol could never.

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1. Build in the Chaos

While the fiat world burns, Bitcoiners build. This is the ultimate "not giving a fiat f**k" move: creating a parallel economy, one satoshi at a time. Run your Lightning node, stack sats, and laugh as the fiat circus consumes itself in a flaming pile of its own debt.

Let them argue about who gets to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic. You’re busy designing lifeboats.

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1. Adopt a Fiat-Free Lifestyle

Fiat-free living means minimizing your entanglement with their clown currency. Buy meat, not ETFs. Trade skills, not IOUs. Tip your barber in Bitcoin and ask if your landlord accepts Lightning. If they say no, chuckle and say, “You’ll learn soon enough.”

Every satoshi spent in the real economy is a slap in the face to the fiat overlords.

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1. Find the Humor in Collapse

Here’s the thing: the fiat system is unsustainable. You know it, I know it, even the clowns know it. The whole charade is destined to collapse under its own weight. When it does, find solace in the absurdity of it all.

Imagine the central bankers explaining hyperinflation to the public: "Turns out we can't print infinity after all." Pure comedy gold.

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1. Stay Ruthlessly Optimistic

Despite the doom and gloom, there’s hope. Bitcoin is hope. It’s the lifeboat for humanity, the cheat code to escape the fiat matrix. Cynicism doesn’t mean nihilism; it means seeing the rot for what it is and choosing to build something better.

So, don’t just reject the fiat clown show—replace it. Create a world where money is sound, transactions are sovereign, and wealth is measured in energy, not debt.

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Final Thought: Burn the Tent Down

Aldous Huxley once envisioned a dystopia where people are so distracted by their own hedonistic consumption that they don’t realize they’re enslaved. Sound familiar? The fiat clown show is Brave New World on steroids, a spectacle designed to keep you pacified while your wealth evaporates.

But here’s the punchline: they can only enslave you if you care. By rejecting their system, you strip them of their power. So let them juggle their debts, inflate their bubbles, and print their trillions. You’ve got Bitcoin, and Bitcoin doesn’t give a fiat f**k.

Welcome to the satirical resistance. Now go stack some sats.

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Die grauenvollste Aussicht ist die der Technokratie – \ einer kontrollierenden Herrschaft, \ die durch verstümmelte und verstümmelnde Geister ausgeübt wird. \ Ernst Jünger

«Davos ist nicht mehr sexy», das Weltwirtschaftsforum (WEF) mache Davos kaputt, diese Aussagen eines Einheimischen las ich kürzlich in der Handelszeitung. Während sich einige vor Ort enorm an der «teuersten Gewerbeausstellung der Welt» bereicherten, würden die negativen Begleiterscheinungen wie Wohnungsnot und Niedergang der lokalen Wirtschaft immer deutlicher.

Nächsten Montag beginnt in dem Schweizer Bergdorf erneut ein Jahrestreffen dieses elitären Clubs der Konzerne, bei dem man mit hochrangigen Politikern aus aller Welt und ausgewählten Vertretern der Systemmedien zusammenhocken wird. Wie bereits in den vergangenen vier Jahren wird die Präsidentin der EU-Kommission, Ursula von der Leyen, in Begleitung von Klaus Schwab ihre Grundsatzansprache halten.

Der deutsche WEF-Gründer hatte bei dieser Gelegenheit immer höchst lobende Worte für seine Landsmännin: 2021 erklärte er sich «stolz, dass Europa wieder unter Ihrer Führung steht» und 2022 fand er es bemerkenswert, was sie erreicht habe angesichts des «erstaunlichen Wandels», den die Welt in den vorangegangenen zwei Jahren erlebt habe; es gebe nun einen «neuen europäischen Geist».

Von der Leyens Handeln während der sogenannten Corona-«Pandemie» lobte Schwab damals bereits ebenso, wie es diese Woche das Karlspreis-Direktorium tat, als man der Beschuldigten im Fall Pfizergate die diesjährige internationale Auszeichnung «für Verdienste um die europäische Einigung» verlieh. Außerdem habe sie die EU nicht nur gegen den «Aggressor Russland», sondern auch gegen die «innere Bedrohung durch Rassisten und Demagogen» sowie gegen den Klimawandel verteidigt.

Jene Herausforderungen durch «Krisen epochalen Ausmaßes» werden indes aus dem Umfeld des WEF nicht nur herbeigeredet – wie man alljährlich zur Zeit des Davoser Treffens im Global Risks Report nachlesen kann, der zusammen mit dem Versicherungskonzern Zurich erstellt wird. Seit die Globalisten 2020/21 in der Praxis gesehen haben, wie gut eine konzertierte und konsequente Angst-Kampagne funktionieren kann, geht es Schlag auf Schlag. Sie setzen alles daran, Schwabs goldenes Zeitfenster des «Great Reset» zu nutzen.

Ziel dieses «großen Umbruchs» ist die totale Kontrolle der Technokraten über die Menschen unter dem Deckmantel einer globalen Gesundheitsfürsorge. Wie aber könnte man so etwas erreichen? Ein Mittel dazu ist die «kreative Zerstörung». Weitere unabdingbare Werkzeug sind die Einbindung, ja Gleichschaltung der Medien und der Justiz.

Ein «Great Mental Reset» sei die Voraussetzung dafür, dass ein Großteil der Menschen Einschränkungen und Manipulationen wie durch die Corona-Maßnahmen praktisch kritik- und widerstandslos hinnehme, sagt der Mediziner und Molekulargenetiker Michael Nehls. Er meint damit eine regelrechte Umprogrammierung des Gehirns, wodurch nach und nach unsere Individualität und unser soziales Bewusstsein eliminiert und durch unreflektierten Konformismus ersetzt werden.

Der aktuelle Zustand unserer Gesellschaften ist auch für den Schweizer Rechtsanwalt Philipp Kruse alarmierend. Durch den Umgang mit der «Pandemie» sieht er die Grundlagen von Recht und Vernunft erschüttert, die Rechtsstaatlichkeit stehe auf dem Prüfstand. Seiner dringenden Mahnung an alle Bürger, die Prinzipien von Recht und Freiheit zu verteidigen, kann ich mich nur anschließen.

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Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism (also known as Zen or Zen meditation), meditated for nine years, simply looking at a wall.

Nine years staring at a wall.

Good things take time. Don’t be afraid to take your time. Forget what Western society has taught us—here, we are slaves to time and productivity.

I believe one of the reasons the Western world is in decline is precisely because we lack the philosophical and religious structures that enable true freedom and focus on understanding.

Christianity is beautiful in its own way, but it simply isn’t as clear or rational as Eastern philosophy. As a result, it hasn’t managed to foster an environment for genuine seekers or free thinkers in the same way.

We need to take the time to think. The West doesn’t understand that.

Take your time. You are free to take your time. It's your time. Take as much time as you want, until you understand what you needed to understand.

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It was recently the tenth anniversary of the attack on Charlie Hebdo, France's best-known satirical magazine alongside the “Canard enchaîné”. The attack claimed the lives of 12 people, mainly cartoonists and journalists. Even then, it was a watershed moment, and not just in retrospect. Everyone wanted to show solidarity, everyone wanted to be “Charlie”, the phrase “Je suis Charlie” made the rounds memetically.

Charlie Hebdo was known for making fun of everything, including religions and Islam. “What is satire allowed to do? Everything.” So said Kurt Tucholsky, the famous publicist of the Weimar Republic, and that also applied to Charlie Hebdo. This magazine also dared to print Mohammed cartoons from “Jyllands Posten”. The solidarity of other newspapers with Charlie no longer went that far. They wanted to be Charlie, but rather without risk. The collective sign of solidarity fizzled out as lip service.

I was in Paris at the time and witnessed the mass demonstration live. Bernard Maris, a friend of Michel Houllebecq, also died in the attack. Houllebecq's book “Submission” was published on the same day. Coincidence? History and its synchronicities sometimes take wondrous paths.

On November 13, 2015, there was another attack at the Bataclan and around the Stade de France, among other places. Not long before, I was still living in Rue de la Fontaine au Roi in the 11th arrondissement, not far from Place de la République. My favorite café, the Café du Phare, was riddled with machine gun bullets, as was the pizzeria next door. I often sat in this café, writing books, academic texts and my first columns for the NZZ. At the time, I was teaching public law and fundamental rights at the Sorbonne in Paris, among other things, and dealing with issues relating to freedom of expression and artistic freedom on a daily basis.

I took it for granted that these constitutionally guaranteed values were just as important to the public (and especially other journalists) as their place in the constitutions of the West suggested. I was wrong, which was certainly also due to my legal glasses and “déformation professionelle”. At the time, I read more articles that emphasized respect for religions than the value of freedom of expression or artistic freedom. Looking back today, that was when the slippery slope that has led us into the realms of censorship, deletions, shadowbanning, fact-checkers, etc. began.

Freedom that is not used wears out and eventually disappears. Fighting to get it back is much more difficult than defending it. Back then, I wrote texts for newspapers rather sporadically, basically mainly when a topic was important to me and it remained underexposed.

The following text, which appeared in the NZZ at the time, was one such text.

You can find the German original version here.

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In the latest issue of “Charlie Hebdo” since the attack in Paris, the editors rub their eyes in amazement. What is wrong with this world? Politicians of all stripes, 50 heads of government and millions of citizens on the streets; Notre-Dame Cathedral is ringing its bells for atheists and the first people are thinking aloud about admitting anarchist cartoonists to the Paris Panthéon, the final resting place of Victor Hugo, Marie Curie and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. You can tell that the editorial team is a little uncomfortable with the collective need to cuddle up.

The worldwide wave of solidarity with “Charlie Hebdo” was overwhelming and important. “I am Charlie” became the collective outcry of the free world. The message is: “If you attack Charlie, you attack me”. What will remain of this when the dust settles? Will the continental plates of our order of freedom have shifted?

A rift trough the free world

Unfortunately, they did it long ago. The attack on “Charlie Hebdo” was an earthquake. But it ultimately only exposed once again what had already been clear and only slightly buried since the dispute over the publication of the Mohammed cartoons in the Danish newspaper “Jyllands-Posten” in 2005: there is a rift running through the free world, and the media landscape as an index of freedoms is showing it.

On the one hand, there are the courageous publications that do not deviate one iota from the Western achievements of freedom of the press, but which ultimately take the rap for it. And then there is the large remainder, for whom freedom seems to be first and foremost the right to remain silent. Magazines like “Charlie Hebdo” are the bad bank of the Western community of values. Charlie & Co. store the toxic papers that nobody wants on their books. The dividend of freedom, on the other hand, is paid out to everyone. If something happens, a declaration of solidarity follows at the minimum price.

Freedom folklore

The Charlie sympathy is to a not inconsiderable extent mere freedom folklore. A masked ball of the enlightened. The smoke from the attacks had barely cleared before the first German-language satirical magazines declared that they would refrain from printing cartoons of Mohammed. The Kalashnikov is the Titanic's iceberg (Note: "Titanic" is the main German satirical paper). American and British newspapers such as the “New York Times” and the “Independent” also waved goodbye and even refused to print the current cover of “Charlie Hebdo”.

This, mind you, in countries where freedom of expression is considered a cultural symbol and freedom as the “right of a soul to breathe”. The soul of freedom now found itself in a vacuum faster than you could shout “Allahu akbar!”. The Turkish newspaper “Cumhuriyet”, on the other hand, dared to do so. Our freedom is being defended in Turkey but no longer in New York or London? A topsy-turvy world.

Some people would like a more harmless satire these days. A satire without exaggeration, overstepping boundaries and disrespect for certain authorities. But the call for moderation means the elimination of its business basis. Satire does not demand approval and consensus. It is not a beauty contest.

When others decide for us

Anyone who refrains from using a caricature simply because it could be provocative, even blasphemous, is already adopting the thought structure and values of those who believe they are in the right when they respond with Kalashnikovs and rolling heads. People are either not proud of the achievement of satire or are not aware of their own rights, and perceive even something that is actually self-evident as an affront. If we ourselves do not know what we should stand for and why, then others have long since decided what we should stand for.

Certainly, no medium is forced to push the boundaries of our legal system on a daily basis. The notorious undercutting of our own standards, on the other hand, will cause them to shrink. Not immediately, but gradually. Until perhaps another standard is accepted at some point. The new censors will then no longer sit in ecclesiastical or secular palaces, as they did in the Middle Ages. But in tent cities in Yemen. Western society is gradually having the rug of its freedom order pulled out from under its feet. And instead of standing together, some people are asking if they can still help roll it up. But of course they still want to be “Charlie”.

Pseudo-security

Self-censorship and anticipatory obedience are a pseudo-safety net. Today it's the Mohammed cartoons. Tomorrow it will be critical reports on Islamism. Anyone who wants to carry out attacks will always find a reason. However, fundamental rights are not a fair-weather crop. Their true existence only becomes apparent when the storm hits. It is cynical to throw up one's hands in the hope that the angel of death will go to the neighboring editorial office.

“Charlie Hebdo” has decided against accepting such external content control. The editorial team also prints a Mohammed cartoon on the cover of the latest issue. Anyone who wonders whether this is wise has missed the point: if it were not done now, it would be the last time this happens in the Western newspaper landscape for a very long time. Those who remain silent agree with the new standard. And all this is happening now, in these hours and days!

It's crazy, but it has to be said: a small anarchic left-wing French newspaper, two-thirds of whose editorial office was bombed out last week, is currently standing almost alone on the front line of the Western world, defending a right it has fought for over 200 years, while machine guns are pointed at it. In the safe hinterland, on the other hand, far away from the impacts, the cardboard comrades fall over in rows at the first bang.

Our freedom is their freedom

At present, it is rightly said that the aim in future will be to win over the peaceful majority of Muslims to our side and not drive them into the hands of the extremists. Yes, many of them will find Muhammad cartoons outrageous or outrageous. But our freedom to think differently is also their freedom to think differently. Our freedom, as unpleasant as it may be to some, also protects moderate Muslims from being forcibly converted at gunpoint by their extremist co-religionists, as is currently happening thousands of times. That makes us allies.

We are currently experiencing a “Sebastian Haffner moment”. The chronicler of the Third Reich describes how he sits in the court library of the Berlin Court of Appeal in 1933 and witnesses the SA taking away all Jewish lawyers. Suddenly, a puffing SA man stands in front of him. “Are you Aryan?” Haffner, who had always rejected this category, answers “Yes” in surprise - and is left alone.

In his notes, he jots down the sentence: “Failed the first test!”

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@ 47f5dcf7:b16eadfa

The loss of sight is a grim tragedy. Are there words capable of describing the sorrow of once having been able to witness this world and all that it contains, bathed in it's wonderful colours, complimented by the symphony that the contrasts between them orchestrate; of having seen expressions on people's faces that sometimes amplify and sometimes betray the emotions of their person; of having had the agency of finding meaning in the beauty and forms of objects around you by virtue of the concepts you had read? If there are any words whose meaning can bear the burden, I am incapable of stringing them together.

Tennyson believed that "'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all". I reframe this line to ask you not about the experience of love, but the experience of sight; "Is it better to have sight and lost it, than to never have seen at all?" Whatever choice one prefers, the conclusion is still tragic. I ask this question not for the sake of literary flair, but because I do believe this is the predicament most of us find ourselves in without even being minutely aware of it.

Allah, in His infinite wisdom, has endowed His creation with senses on par with their purpose. The sunflower has no eyes, yet it tracks the sun, seeking the sunlight that will fuel it's photosynthesis, fulfilling it's purpose of growth. The animals possess eyes that are fine-tuned for their purpose of survival with predators having better depth perception and prey having a better field of vision. Humans also have eyes, but humans are not animals. While sharing the same basic requirements of the body, we have an intrinsic realisation that we were made for something more. If we were made for more, shouldn't our ability to see be greater than an animal's?

Allah has made our eyes capable of seeing realities deeper than the soul and greater than the expanse of the universe. Our eyes do not just serve to capture the sun-rays reflected from a towering snow-capped peak to create the image of a mountain in our brains. Rather, the eyes of the body and the eyes of the soul are meant to work in conjunction to generate an overwhelming sense of awe in our hearts that compels us to reflect on the magnificence of the One Who is capable of creating multitudes of these colossal mountains. That is true "sight". Bani Adam's purpose is to recognise, know, and submit to Allah willingly and we have been given eyes that serve that purpose. If our eyes cannot yet acknowledge Him in the objects and events around us, then our example is of those

"...hearts they do not understand with, eyes they do not see with, and ears they do not hear with. They are like cattle. In fact, they are even less guided! Such ˹people˺ are ˹entirely˺ heedless." (7:179)

In conclusion, all I can do is ask myself, "Can I see? Was I ever able to see? Or is it that I have lost the ability to see?" Allahu A'lam

@ 0f061fe4:944cdb2b

There are too many ways to build and test a project with CMake. On the other hand, there is too little knowledge out there about those ways. As a consequence, people wrap the CMake invocation in custom scripts written in Bash, Python, Typescript etc.

Just look at the Jenkins configuration in your company. Look at different implementations of GitHub actions/workflows for CMake. I bet what you will find is a complete framework with custom abstractions of core utilities, version control systems, the CMake command line, the actual build system, and more.

Looking at the commands that actually perform the steps for configuring, building, and testing, it is very likely that you see those:

sh mkdir -p $build_dir cd $build_dir cmake -G Ninja $source_dir ninja ninja test

I assume you know that CMake can create the build directory and provides an abstraction for invoking the actual build system. You should also know that the test target essentially just runs ctest. So you could simplify and generalize the above commands to this:

sh cmake -G Ninja -S $source_dir -B $build_dir cmake --build $build_dir ctest --test-dir $build_dir

But did you know that CTest already provides a command line abstraction to execute the three steps?

sh ctest --build-and-test $source_dir $build_dir \ --build-generator Ninja --test-command ctest

Don't ask me why the above command stops after the build step when --test-command ctest is omitted. After all, this mode is called "build and test", so just executing ctest would be a sane default when no test command is explicitly set by the user.

Anyway, there is more. CTest also provides abstractions for the version control system, coverage analysis, and memory ckecking. But here be dragons. There are, believe it or not, four different ways to configure CTest as a dashboard client:

1. CTest Command-Line
2. Declarative CTest Script (undocumented)
3. CTest Module
4. CTest Script

In the first approach, the command-line flag -D or a combination of -M and -T is used to control which steps to execute. The actual logic that is executed for those steps is controlled through a configuration file called DartConfiguration.tcl which is read from the current working directory.

Note that the documentation claims that this approach works in an already-generated build tree. This is not true in all cases. What is definitely needed, is that the source repository is already checked out.
While the source directory can be updated, it cannot be initialized with this approach. We will get back to those details later. For now, copy the following content into a file called DartConfiguration.tcl:

tcl SourceDirectory: Example BuildDirectory: Example-build UpdateCommand: git ConfigureCommand: cmake -G Ninja -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS_INIT=--coverage .. CoverageCommand:gcov MemoryCheckCommand: valgrind

Make sure that Example is a directory next to the DartConfiguration.tcl file and contains a local clone of a git repository. Then execute the following:

sh ctest -M Experimental \ -T Start \ -T Update \ -T Configure \ -T Build \ -T Test \ -T Coverage \ -T MemCheck

Observe in the output that ctest updates the repository to the latest revision, configures the project, builds it, runs the tests, analyzes the coverage, and finds some memory leaks.

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In the second approach, the DartConfiguration.tcl file is replaced with a file written in the CMake syntax:

cmake set(CTEST_SOURCE_DIRECTORY "/home/dpfeifer/Example") set(CTEST_BINARY_DIRECTORY "/home/dpfeifer/Example-build") set(CTEST_COMMAND "ctest") set(CTEST_CMAKE_COMMAND "cmake") set(CTEST_CVS_CHECKOUT "gh repo clone Example")

The name of the file does not really matter. I use the name CTestScript.cmake and invoke ctest like this:

sh ctest --script CTestScript.cmake --verbose

Remember that, with the previous approach, it was impossible to initialize the source directory? With this approach, it is possible via the CTEST_CVS_CHECKOUT variable. Despite the name, this variable can be used to checkout a repository with any version control system, as shown in the example. However, updating probably only works with CVS.

What is worse, is that this approach basically just handles the update, configure, and test steps. Yes, the project is not even built before running the tests. I wonder if anyone finds this useful.

Why am I even mentioning this approach when it is so barely useful? Because it can get in the way when you don't expect it. I will get back to that.

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The third approach also allows setting variables in the CMake syntax. Not in a separate file, but in the top level project's CMakeLists.txt file, right before include(CTest). This module internally calls configure_file to place DartConfiguration.tcl into the build tree.

Now, it becomes clear why the documentation claims that ctest may be invoked with command-line flags -D, -M, and -T in an already-generated build tree: Because the CTest module places DartConfiguration.tcl there. It also becomes clear under which circumstance it does not work as advertized: When the project does not include(CTest)!

But when a project does include(CTest), it will get several custom targets like ExperimentalCoverage that will execute ctest -D ExperimentalCoverage.

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The last approach uses the same file and command-line as the second one. The difference is that the build-and-test logic is scripted with CTest commands:

```cmake cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.14)

set(CTEST_SOURCE_DIRECTORY "/home/dpfeifer/Example") set(CTEST_BINARY_DIRECTORY "/home/dpfeifer/Example-build") set(CTEST_CMAKE_GENERATOR "Ninja") find_program(CTEST_GIT_COMMAND "git") find_program(CTEST_COVERAGE_COMMAND "gcov") find_program(CTEST_MEMORYCHECK_COMMAND "valgrind")

cmake_host_system_information(RESULT NPROC QUERY NUMBER_OF_LOGICAL_CORES)

if(NOT EXISTS ${CTEST_SOURCE_DIRECTORY}) set(CTEST_CHECKOUT_COMMAND "gh repo clone Example") endif()

ctest_start("Experimental") ctest_update() ctest_configure(OPTIONS -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS_INIT=--coverage) ctest_build(PARALLEL_LEVEL ${NPROC}) ctest_test(PARALLEL_LEVEL ${NPROC}) ctest_coverage() ctest_memcheck(PARALLEL_LEVEL ${NPROC}) ```

This is the only approach that can both initialize and update the source directory. It is also the only approach that allows you to execute the same step more than once. Imagine you want to use a multi-config generator and then run ctest_build for each configuration. It gives full control over the logic what steps to run under what conditions. Imagine you want to run the expensive memory checking only when the build finishes without warnings, as the warnings may already indicate memory issues. The possibilities are endless.

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How does ctest --script distinguish between "CTest Script" mode and the dreaded "Declarative CTest Script" mode?

At the beginning of the script, CTest implicitly sets the variable CTEST_RUN_CURRENT_SCRIPT to 1. Each of the ctest_* functions sets the variable to 0. When this variable is still 1 at the end of the script, CTest assumes that none of the ctest_* functions have been called. However, when the ctest_* functions are called from inside a scoped block, there may be cases when the variable is unchanged. In such cases, it is necessary to explicitly set(CTEST_RUN_CURRENT_SCRIPT 0).

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My recommendation to everyone who wants to setup a CI system for CMake projects is to use a CTest Script. For an example GitHub action built using a CTest script have a look at purpleKarrot/cmake-action.

The fact that there are so many different approaches to the same use case is an issue in my optionion. Also, the user experience of the CTest scripts needs to be improved. I have some ideas how those issues can be addressed. I will write about them in a follow up.

@ c3b2802b:4850599c

Vandana Shiva ist für mich die Verkörperung der Zeit des Wandels, in der wir leben. Wandel kommt in Gang, wenn die Einsicht reift, dass eine bestehende Machtkonstellation am Ende ihres Lateins ist. Und wenn Menschen deshalb eine neue Gesellschaft aufzubauen beginnen. Vandana Shiva vereint beides: Den Scharfsinn, die Symptome der alten Gesellschaft als Zeichen deren Unterganges zu erkennen - mit der Kraft, Kreativität und Energie für den Aufbau von ehrlichen, transparenten, fairen und von Respekt getragenen Gemeinschaften. Dabei erschöpft sich ihr Respekt nicht auf uns Menschen als Teil der Schöpfung, sondern erstreckt sich auf alle Wesen. Diese kopernikanische Wende hin zu einer ethisch tragfähigen Basis für ein freudvolles Zusammenleben auf unserem Planeten scheint mir die Aufgabe unserer Generation zu sein. Und Vandana Shiva hat ihr gesamtes Leben dieser Aufgabe mit Herz, Hand und Verstand gewidmet.

Ihr 2022er Buch „Terra Viva“ trägt biografische Züge. Wer sich für die schier endlose Vielfalt des Potentials in jedem von uns Menschenwesen interessiert, kann in diesem Buch im Spiegel des Lebens eines wunderbaren Menschen mit Freude und Gewinn nachvollziehen, wohin uns dieses Potential führen kann:

Die Autorin lasst uns teilhaben an ihrer Kindheit in den Wäldern am Rand des Himalaya Gebirges, wo ihre Liebe zu allem Leben begann. Als junge Frau erlebte sie die Abholzung dieser Wälder mit, sah die Auswirkungen auf ihre Heimat und die dort lebenden Menschen. Als fühlendes Wesen war ihr sonnenklar, was das Leben von ihr erwartet:

Die destruktiven Kräfte und Mächte, welche diese zerstörerischen Aktionen zu verantworten hatten, zur Strecke zu bringen und neue Gemeinschaften für die Zeit nach dem Zusammenbruch des ausgedienten alten Systems aufzubauen.

Vandana Shiva trat in den 1970er Jahren der Chipko-Bewegung bei und hat fortan bis zum heutigen Tag mit schier endloser Lebensenergie gegen die vielen Köpfe des sterbenden Drachens gekämpft. Mit ihren Worten bringt sie es so auf den Punkt:

„Der planetarische Notstand wurzelt in der industriellen, mechanistischen, militaristischen, anthropozentrischen, patriarchalischen Weltanschauung, die den Menschen als von der Natur getrennt und als anderen Wesen überlegen ansieht und sich anmaßt, sie zu besitzen, zu manipulieren und zu Profit- und Machtzwecken zu kontrollieren. Die Illusion von endlosem Wachstum und grenzenloser Gier verletzt systematisch die Integrität der Arten und die Grenzen des Ökosystems.“

Gleichzeitig hat sie zahllose neue Initiativen für die Zeit danach initiiert, gegründet oder mit ihrer Kraft bereichert: Neben der Rettung des Waldes erzählt sie in ihrem Buch von den Samen der Freiheit, welche Verbrechen wie die Gen-Piraterie ablösen. Und von Gemeinschaften, die Allgemeingüter wie Wasser oder Land nach kriminellen Aneignungsversuchen durch GATT und WTO zurückerobern, etwa in den 2020er Jahren die dritte Freiheitsbewegung Indiens. 600 Bauern starben in diesem Kampf den Märtyrertod. Am 19. November 2021 wurden drei Gesetzesentwürfe zurückgezogen, welche die Kleinbauern Indiens weiter stranguliert hätten.

Danke, liebe Vandana Shiva, für Dein bisheriges Lebenswerk!

Zuerst veröffentlicht auf dem Blog der Zukunftskommunen

@ c3b2802b:4850599c

Geboren wurde ich in ein gespaltenes Europa mit einem „eisernen Vorhang“, der zwei Gesellschaftsentwürfe säuberlich voneinander trennte. Da ich auf der Ostseite des Vorhangs aufwuchs, durfte ich den Großteil der Welt nicht bereisen und hatte so viel Zeit zum Nachdenken.

Mit 17 Jahren war mir klar, dass beide Gesellschaftsentwürfe keine wünschenswerte Zukunft bieten können. Weil die Zinsthematik, der mangelnde Respekt vor unserer Mitwelt, die wahren Gründe für Kriege und viele weitere zentrale Fragen unseres Lebens nicht thematisiert oder gezielt aus Diskussionen ausgeklammert wurden. Während meines Studiums der Psychologie an der Humboldt-Universität in Ostberlin wurde mir zudem klar: Auf beiden Seiten des Vorhangs wurden/werden Menschen mit kritischem Blick auf die eigene Gesellschaft benachteiligt. Seit 2020 dürfte eine wachsende Zahl an Menschen diese Einschätzung auch für das derzeitige System teilen.

Der Zusammenbruch des Ostblocks Anfang der 1990er Jahre brachte zwei Erfahrungen mit sich: Zum einen, dass Gesellschaftsentwürfe nicht für die Ewigkeit geschaffen sind und als Entwürfe natürlich scheitern können. Und zum anderen, dass wir Menschen beim Zusammenbrechen bestehender Systeme gut beraten sind, wenn wir vorher Alternativen ersonnen und zumindest in Keimzellen bereits erprobt haben. Das fehlte beim Zusammenbruch des Ostblocks, weswegen wir „Ossis“ quasi an das übriggebliebene System angeschlossen wurden.

Aktuell sind wir alle Zeitzeugen des Zusammenbruchs des 1990 übrig gebliebenen Systems. Den wirklichen Machthabern der heutigen Welt und den Heerscharen von deren willfährigen Lakaien fällt kaum noch etwas Konstruktives ein, um aus der globalen Multikrise hinzufinden zu einem anständigen Miteinander von Mensch und Schöpfung.

Als ein möglicher dritter Weg hat sich für mich ein Miteinander von überschaubaren Menschengruppen herausgestellt. Von Gruppen, welchen Vertrauen im Umgang miteinander wichtiger ist als Geld- und Machtkriterien, die von Idealen der Fairness und des Respekts vor der Schöpfung getragen sind, und die in den jeweils bewohnten Regionen den größtmöglichen Teil ihrer Bedürfnisse gemeinsam selbst vor Ort befriedigen. Welche also mit den verfügbaren Ressourcen der eigenen Region bauen und die benötigte Energie bereitstellen, sich von den Früchten der Region ernähren und auch Infrastruktur, Kultur und weitere Lebensbereiche vor Ort fair miteinander regeln und gestalten. Diese Art von Miteinander, welche in vielen Lebensbereichen punktuell zu beobachten ist, nenne ich in den Blogbeiträgen dieses Kanals „Regionalgesellschaft“.

In verschiedenen Rubriken wie „Erfolge der Regionalgesellschaft“, „Pioniere der Regionalgesellschaft“, „Publikationen zur Regionalgesellschaft“ werde ich Beiträge in die Runde geben, welche Inspirationen bieten können, wo es welche Keimzellen dieser neuen Gesellschaft gibt. In der Rubrik „Psychologie des Wandels“ werde ich über meine in ca. 3 Jahrzehnten gesammelten psychologischen Erfahrungen als Initiator und Moderator in Projekten der Regionalgesellschaft berichten.