Niel Liesmons

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Instead of managing relays, Blossom servers, and tweaking a bunch of technical knobs, no: those are prepackaged in a community spec.

τελος (telos) does not emphasize the sudden termination of a process, but rather the yield of the process, and not merely the static existence of this yield but rather as the first step of a whole new cyclic process. Our word means "end" as much as "beginning" and represents a threshold of transition between two progressive realms

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devs like to design "perfect" systems and forget about what's practical, has sane UX or solves a pain point in the simplest way possible. many such cases. I'm not advocating for slop, but for simple solutions that get the job done

How agents trade in model compute is simply bartering an agreed amount of future model compute of x standard as per y guarantee. The protocols that govern x standard and y guarantee will be the protocols that matter.

just kind 1111 with a reference to the zap

Follow these paths to their logical conclusions and you arrive at something that looks like Communikeys: communities as npubs, content sections with badge requirements, targeted publications, integrated infrastructure tags.

Follow these paths to their logical conclusions and you arrive at something that looks like Communikeys: communities as npubs, content sections with badge requirements, targeted publications, integrated infrastructure tags. Communikeys isn't an alternative to these approaches — it's what you get when you play them out. At least, in my mind.

Best you can do is poletly ask the relay to not propagate your publication (with -tag), which goes against one of the main value props of the Nostr protocol.

A single publication can be targeted to up to 12 communities via one Targeted Publication event. The creator's intended audience is explicit and transparent — anyone can see which communities a piece of content was meant for. This can serve as an organic disovery route for related Communities + lowers the bar for bootstrapping new ones.

Users and apps can discover communities by content type. Looking for places that publish long-form articles? Query for communities with k:30023. Want to find emoji pack curators? Look for k:30030. App catalogs, book publishers, video channels — all discoverable by their declared content types.

Looking for places that publish long-form articles? Query for communities with k:30023. Want to find emoji pack curators? Look for k:30030. App catalogs, book publishers, video channels — all discoverable by their declared content types.Nothing more, nothing less. You know exactly what a community is about before you look inside.

Creators publish once, list the communities they want to target, and members from all those communities meet in one shared comments section. One discussion, multiple communities participating together. No duplicates, no fragmented conversations to check.

the current algorithms are too shallow and assume a relatively static environment where everything has already been bootstrapped

The word church means ministry, in the sense of parliament or governing assembly. Unfortunately, this word has been hijacked in modern times and now primarily denotes a building in which people gather for an hour per week to sing self-congratulatory songs and shirk all further responsibility

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the verb εκκαλεω (ekkaleo), meaning to call out, that is: to summon, to assemble for some specific purpose. This verb isn't used in the New Testament but from it derives the noun εκκληος (ekkletos), which describes either a person or a group of people selected to govern or judge. From this noun in turn derives the important noun εκκλεσια (ekklesia), which describes an Assembly; not just any assembly but an Assembly duly summoned. This hefty word shows up all over the classics, and denotes a group of powerful men who have congregated in order to form a governing body or parliament, usually under a king or president: a senate that's formed from senators who each represent their own demographic group of citizens.

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the key difference between a free person and an enslaved person is that the latter had demonstrated an inability to keep himself out of bondage, which automatically meant that he was also unfit to keep society out of bondage. And that meant that slaves had no right to interfere with any kind of policy making. In our modern and sensitive times we call people who perform work but have no authority to make policy by the term "employee", which is the same thing as a δουλος (doulos).

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The only competition the gospel has is with ignorance, which is not the opposite of wisdom but the absence of it.

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A sheep follows the shepherd the way a child learns to speak. Both imitate, but neither knows what might come of it. The gospel is like a language within which one can express oneself in any which way one wants. The "freedom of speech" that is so proverbially important in our modern day and age is contingent on all speakers submitting themselves to the rules that govern the language. If nobody adheres to the rules, the language doesn't work (or even exist, because all language is consensus) and there is no freedom of speech. If everybody adheres to the rules, the languages works, and everybody can freely express what's on their hearts. In Galatians 5:1 Paul writes that it is for freedom that Christ has set us free (implying that the very purpose of the gospel is freedom; also see Luke 4:18), but the kind of freedom that is referred to is not the anarchy of flies — because flies are utterly bound by chaos, muteness, darkness and lawlessness — but the freedom of bees: freedom-by-law, or ελευθερια (eleutheria).

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perhaps kind 10777 could be used as a list of favorite spells

but we do know that He is coming

This isn't to say the internet isn't a net positive to those who use it. The internet is the single most successful technology in human history for promoting access to information, alternative community, and trade. But it is not what it should be. Reforming the internet requires active investment from those who stand the gain or lose the most from how it evolves — its users. No one can do this for us; we have to hold companies and platforms accountable ourselves. And in order to do that, we need to understand why censorship happens.

One common objection to this structure is that identifying a group with a relay means that groups are dependent on the relay to continue hosting the group. In normal broadcast nostr (which forms organic permissionless groups based on user-centric social clustering), this is a very bad thing, because hosts are orthogonal to group identity. Communities are completely different. Communities actually need someone to enforce community boundaries, implement moderation, etc. Reliance on a host is a feature, not a bug (in contrast to NIP 29 groups, which tend to co-locate many groups on a single host, relays-as-groups tends to encourage one group, one host).

I've always said that relays are some of the coolest and most under-appreciated parts of nostr. This doesn't mean that we should add every possible feature to them, but features related to data curation and access control fit really well with what relays are good for. For more on the role of relays and what features should be added to them, see my nostrasia talk Functional Relays.

To increase developer power and software freedom, your entire computer needs to be inspectable and understandable. It should be composable and made of highly generic, unopinionated, easily understood, reusable building blocks. These properties need to be stable regardless of underlying hardware changes and should guarantee a high degree of backward and forward compatibility.

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On-boarding is a lonely experience because nobody looks at the feed, and you initially have no followers. Even if you reply to people, they often can't see what you wrote because of your low WoT score. That is, unless you already know someone there, who can vouch for you. Or are lucky to get discovered by the Nostr Welcoming Committee and end up one of the biggest npubs overnight, which is like winning the follower lottery. For most new npubs, the experience is terrible and they eventually give up, for a handful the experience is absolutely fantastic and they are hooked. Obvious lesson: nobody should onboard, who doesn't know at least 1 other person: so invites only. Unlike Those Other Protocols, Nostr doesn't need a centrally-determined invite, as every client or relay can offer their own version, geared to a different audience. The goal simply needs to be: get off 1.

Everything is geared to follows

Allows for the use of multiple device/clients in a single conversation/group. Importantly, we're

Importantly, we're not aiming to enable a device/client to be able to reconstruct the full history of a conversation at any point

After spending a couple weeks reading hundreds of pages of RFC docs and reading through a few implementations of the MLS spec, I believe it's the best solution for secure direct and group messaging in Nostr. It also has the added benefit that we can upgrade the underlying crypto primitives over time in a sane way.

The new event kind

The new event kind 30040 allows us to take any sort of note containing any sort of characters and create a type of "note collection" or "book of notes", "journal of notes", "magazine of notes". And it can be nested or embedded in other notes, creating any sort of note-combination and note-hierarchy you can think of, only limited in size by the ability of your computer to processes the relationships

And, because we are a very humble group, we're naming the effort "Alexandria". And the first book to be printed on Nostr is the Bible because

And the first book to be printed on Nostr is the Bible because obviously

What are your thoughts on biological transmutation?  Seems like cold fusion could be an explanation.  I know people point to cold fusion because we have isotopes on earth that should have theoretically decayed by now.  But others say they are from periodic solar micronovas.  

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What are your thoughts on biological transmutation? Seems like cold fusion could be an explanation. I know people point to cold fusion because we have isotopes on earth that should have theoretically decayed by now. But others say they are from periodic solar micronovas.

thoughts on biological transmutation? Seems like cold fusion could be an explanation. I know people point to cold fusion because we have isotopes on earth that should have theoretically decayed by now. But others say they are from periodic solar micronovas.
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and 8. I wanted to briefly touch on the progression of what is considered “love” too. In the book, the prince has to leave his father and mother and join to Ariel; sharing his immortal soul with her. In the movie, he only has to kiss her to show his love. There is much to discuss with these two lenses but for now, the drastic change of merging your soul with another vs. the more pleasurable, “fairy-tale” version of love, is one reason the divorce rates are so high and many seem fickle when it comes to love. Instead of waking up every day and choosing your partner because your souls are dependent on each other, if we no longer get the “warm and fuzzies” during a kiss, etc. we leave.

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The user $v$ has a whitelist of npubs that can directly DM him/her for free. If the sender is not on the whitelist, the DM will only be displayed by the client if it is preceded by or comes with a payment above a certain threshold.

a whitelist of npubs that can directly DM him/her for free. If the sender is not on the whitelist, the DM will only be displayed by the client if it is preceded by or comes with a payment above a certain threshold. The whitelist can be edited manually, but it's automatically populated based on some social graph criteria that the user has approved.

Another example is something that will hit home if you've ever been to a bitcoin conference. When you're among people with the same interests, and I would argue mostly overlapping values, even if you've never met them, you can't say they're strangers.

: When in doubt, try to mimic the social dynamics of meatspace

Despite being the largest indexer in the world, Google only indexes a small portion of the web. The engineering challenges behind indexing absolutely every person and piece of content in an ever-growing, open and hostile decentralized network will likely exacerbate this outcome: Nostr will outgrow every index.

Besides, we do not walk around with a number on our forehead in meatspace, nor should we in cyberspace, even if that number depends on the observer.

However, a simple warning icon above all other Lyns would have accomplished the same goal without introducing a rating that can alter social dynamics.

But that is probably the easiest "trust" to update. because most of us on social media spend some time curating our feed and we are used to doing it. But what about the more obscure "trust" scores? whats the regular mechanism by which a user would update the "honestly" score of another user?In the real world its easy, when I stop trusting someone I simply stop associating with them. there isn't any button or switch I need to update.

The point is that nostr provides an easy way to publish your own "websites", a nice way to find them, and a great way to populate them with data (notes, longforms, profiles) and interactivity (forms that create more events, like notes on a guestbook page for instance).

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A "hypermedia system" is basically a document ("media") with a way to navigate to and refer to other documents ("hyper" / "hyperlinks" / "hypermedia references"). The original web is a "hypertext", with .html documents that link to one another. Additionally, the early web had forms, which were a way to POST data to an endpoint and receive back a brand new .html page. A lot can be built with just these primitives! As the more modern web has shown, and htmx has so brilliantly condensed, much of the rest of the value we perceieve as "the web" is the ability to POST data to an endpoint and replace just one portion of the page with the response.

The original web is a "hypertext", with .html documents that link to one another. Additionally, the early web had forms, which were a way to POST data to an endpoint and receive back a brand new .html page. A lot can be built with just these primitives! As the more modern web has shown, and htmx has so brilliantly condensed, much of the rest of the value we perceieve as "the web" is the ability to POST data to an endpoint and replace just one portion of the page with the response.
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These labels are general enough that they could apply to almost any product. It is important to create labels that are general so that when comparing product ratings you are comparing the same labels. It is possible however that something like Amazon.com could define a different QTS label set for each product category, and then the labels could be more specific to that category. For example, a product category of Candles could have "Long Burning", "Good smell", "Safe", etc. These labels are much more specific, but appropriate for the Candle product category. The main point is that products which should be compared should use the same QTS label set.

Guess what panglossian means. Extreme optimism. Yes it does look like science is fooling itself. Apart from everything they’ve seen of cells under the totally alien landscape of an electron microscope these cells are always grown in tissue cultures. Harold Hillman pointed out that the cells in a tissue culture have “significantly different morphology, biochemistry, and environment than the cells from which they came”. Meaning all in all they might as well be looking at a lump of dog turd to describe the workings of a human cell. NONE of it can be believed because the fantastical story they have concocted goes against everything we see in nature which is always simple and perfectly sensible. Harold Hillman tried to stop this nonsensical storyline back in the 70’s providing evidence that our model of the cell was completely incorrect and used an old proverb as the intro to his book…..

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Lets regroup again back to the cell debris. We are told the mRNA is a short strand of genetic material which tells the cell how to mix all the amino-acids to make a specific protein. If we have a blueprint why do we need these smaller bits of info and where do they supposedly come from? If they are just a strip of different chemicals how on earth do they do all the things they claim? From what they are claiming it’s like saying a snip of a hair from my head can do double and triple salco’s while cooking the dinner. They are ‘discovering’ loads more supposedly different RNA’s too every day. Just add a letter or two before RNA like an m for instance. The inside of a cell is starting to look like downtown Manhattan by the sounds of it OR are they simply looking at loads of cell debris from cells killed by their processes in the lab and playing a weird guessing game at who can come up with the best story explaining what it might do. I found this gem of a paragraph in a science article;

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The new cartoon drawing of a chromosome looks just like a picture of their proteins. Like a lump of badly tangled wool. I can’t help but say too, even tho I might get blasted for it, that the original chromosomes look an awful lot like ‘bacteria’. There I said it. Then I remembered this…..

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  • Bacteria – are remarkable machine tools, intended to dismantle old/sick cells, cancers or scaffolds used to repair certain injuries. In this sense, it is fundamental to understand that we do not get germs from the outside. There is no biological warfare, says Bechamp. In an alkaline environment, microsimes assemble and manufacture bacteria. But if, on the contrary, the environment of the body returns to a neutral ph, the bacteria disassembles and the microsimes recover, moving freely. Thus, depending on bio-electronic constants, temperature, presence or lack of oxygen and nutritional substances in the living environment, microsimes communicate with each other to form a certain germ, a mycelium, a microbacteria that will be capable of fulfilling a certain mission. A body does not get infected by contagion: bacillas or bacteria are built on the spot, when needed, to destroy damaged cells or tissues and to evacuate waste. Diseases of so-called ‘pathogenic’ germs are healing processes. They don’t become serious, unless important nutrients are missing. For example, in the case of tetanus, microsimas build tetanic bacillas in deep muscle injuries caused by wounds or burns in an anaerobic environment (no oxygen). Their mission is to evacuate damaged cells and to rebuild new tissues. But this work requires a lot of energy and generates waste. In the absence of vitamin C, these wastes becomes toxic and trigger the famous spasms of tetanus. It has been shown on several occasions that IV injection of magnesium chloride stops the spasms in half an hour. Alternatively, the injection of vitamin C brings healing in two or three minutes. Microsimas are absolutely remarkable considering they can transform into other forms of living matter. They are complementary to each other, autonomous, specific, intelligent and responsible. They always do what’s best for the body. But for this we need to provide them with the elements indispensable to their lives and their functioning: air, food, vitamin C.* Microlyses (eg E.coli) are capable of reproducing at very high speed and in very large numbers.* They are not invaders or war aggressors. They feed and metabolize certain substances through a digestion mechanism. They need sugar, proteins, fatty materials and trace elements. They are living entities.* They dismantle and remove waste.* These entities made by microsime can be dismantled, to atomic/chemical level again.* Microzymas are almost eternal (except for brutal destruction, through extreme processes: cremation, soaking in formaldehyde or pure acid). They can go into hibernation, partially dehydrated. Thus, live microsims were discovered in fossils 12 million years old.* Microsides are specific to each individual and are likely responsible for the transmission of hereditary characters. “Properties of microsime Sickness, a rehearsal for life – MICROSIMES” Antoine Bechamphttp://arhiva.formula-as.ro/2010/944/la-frontierele-stiintei-84/boala-o-repetitie-pentru-viata-microzimele-13108
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We do not do anything that is not a patch. We enforce this rule with formal processes that demands that every activity or task is tied to a genuine and agreed problem, explicitly enunciated and documented.

Success depends on how good and cheap the solution is, how important the problem is, and how simple the solution is to actually use.

Ideas are cheap. No exceptions. There are no brilliant ideas.

But the key is the realization that Influence should not be proportional to Input. One hundred quality ratings is meaningful improvement compared to just one; but increasing from 100 to 200? Or even 100 to 1000? At some point, the addition of more ratings becomes only marginally more meaningful.

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But the key is the realization that Influence should not be proportional to Input. One hundred quality ratings is meaningful improvement compared to just one; but increasing from 100 to 200? Or even 100 to 1000? At some point, the addition of more ratings becomes only marginally more meaningful.

Source: prettygoodproject.substack.com