The Predator's Pedestal
The state is not society's protector but its predator, surviving through ideology and intellectual capture, growing through war, vulnerable to withdrawn consent.
[Original] Listing some cool and/or controversial accounts on nostr. trying to put people in here with different viewpoints and vibes to keep it as hollistic as possible for debates, arguments, reasons, discussions, controversies and contradictions. open to suggestions as well.
The state is not society's protector but its predator, surviving through ideology and intellectual capture, growing through war, vulnerable to withdrawn consent.
Garland turns Blossom blob storage into a virtual drive on your device. Your Nostr key is your password. No accounts, no cloud lock-in.
GrapheneOS plus Zapstore, Amber, Citrine, Amethyst, and White Noise creates the first phone free from corporate control over your digital life.
Wars persist because each generation consents to fight them; a generation that refused would be history's last to die in trenches.
Services no longer need to see data to compute on it. Cryptographic and hardware primitives make that contract a deployed reality.
Zero-knowledge proofs let Nostr users prove they're trusted without revealing their identity, enabling anonymous rate-limiting and reputation-gated relay access.
When AI handles compilation and patching tasks, source-based computing finally escapes the domain of experts, ending decades of binary distribution monopoly.
Testing earbuds, wired mics, and USB-C wireless systems revealed the Yealink BH71 as the best mobile podcast solution for GrapheneOS.
Decentralization does not prevent the adversary from acting against you. It ensures that his action accomplishes nothing.
Nextcloud can't sync busy times across separate instances. This bash script uses CalDAV to share availability between multiple Nextcloud servers without exposing event details.
FIPS makes your Nostr npub a routable network address, unifying identity across social and infrastructure layers in a single self-sovereign keypair.
Public debt differs fundamentally from private debt: politicians pledge our wealth, bondholders knowingly invest in future theft, so repudiation restores justice.
Learned helplessness is the default response to prolonged state control; recovery requires demonstrating agency through deliberate action, not accumulating more theory.
Replace DVM request/response overhead with simple replaceable events. Publishers maintain feed lists, clients just subscribe. No round trips, no privacy leakage
Six protocol specs define how the Marmot Protocol delivers fully encrypted group messaging on Nostr without centralized servers or metadata leaks.
Nobody asks who will bake the bread because markets already do it excellently; the roads question reveals statist capture of imagination.
Three bash scripts to queue, cancel, and run Wasabi coinjoin payments from terminal - with smart denomination suggestions for maximum privacy.
Medieval merchants and diaspora communities built functional legal systems without states; their principles can now govern disputes in cyberspace.
Hoarding is not low time preference; only lending expresses it. Wealth lowers time preference via diminishing marginal utility, not the reverse.
The latest iteration of Garland, a privacy-preserving distributed storage system built on Nostr and Blossom, using erasure coding for durability and single-key recovery.