Non-exhaustive list of my favorite covers. Enjoy, nostriches. #tunestr #music

True, and this is why #nostr is great. I get to post constantly about David foster Wallace, Kafka, DeLillo, Wong Kar Wai films, writing, Brazilian music, oh and also Bitcoin. Stay weird everybody. And share your weird light with the world. View quoted note →

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Remember also that Bluesky CEO Jay Graber has praised Brazil for its treatment of X and Elon, which is to say its hard lean into censorship. View quoted note →

Hear hear! Pumped for the rebrand and personally very much feel Trey’s evolution here. I’ve wrestled with much the same myself for the last couple years. Historically came from the left, have gradually come to a place where I don’t identify with either party in any meaningful way. I’ve even officially changed my party affiliation to independent. I used to talk and write about how I think the two-party system will ultimately capitulate to #bitcoin and/or be essentially forced to reconfigure and reconstitute in some creative destruction process as a result of #bitcoin (versus Bitcoin capitulating to or being slammed ill-fittingly into the current two party paradigm). Bitcoin basically introduces competition into the two-party duopoly that is our current politics. And more importantly, beyond the two-party company town lies the frontier. That’s where we’re heading. Looking forward to and grateful for Trey’s voice and efforts on the journey. LFG View quoted note →

“Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.” -Hemingway The Snows of Kilimanjaro

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.” -John Milton View quoted note →

Despite RFK ending his campaign, I’m hopeful that there’s an emergent groundswell of independent political voices in the U.S. Voices that are heterodox, non-monolithic, beholden to neither of the two ossified existing parties. And I hope this leads to a politics with less theater and more real human interaction; less doctrine and more ideas. Americans are a deeply innovative people. Our country’s founding itself was a tectonic innovation in governance. Back then it was the tyranny of a distant monarch. Today we live under the tyranny of the two-party system and the ubiquitous media machine that supports it. There’s a frontier beyond this paradigm, though, and I hope we can find a new frontier in our politics, too. Something more than merely recycled Reagan or FDR. It’s why I feel so strongly about #bitcoin. Because it aids in the subversion of this paradigm. Same with #nostr. Other than education, I’m not sure there’s anything in America more in need of innovation than our politics. I see glimpses of something new, whether it’s Vivek walking around talking to everyone, even passionate detractors, impromptu and unscripted, without handlers or teleprompters. Or RFK, taking on big pharma, crusading for clean food, healthier lifestyles, and a detoxified world for our children, and doing it all while a massive, coordinated censorship campaign sought to banish and discredit him into obscurity. I occasionally even see some of it in a guy like John Fetterman who, after his hospitalization, has made the radical decision to just say what he thinks, haters be damned, party marching orders be damned. I don’t agree with any of these people on everything. But that’s perfectly okay. And that’s the point. What I want to see is a politics of PEOPLE, warts and all, debating ideas; not of vast machineries producing newer vessels for the same shit. We are a nation capable of generative, even revolutionary heterodoxy. We awesomely, transcendently weird. But we’ve allowed our political imaginations to atrophy on a 24/7 diet of mainstream media, algorithms, and the virtue-signaling regime that makes us all self-censor. Polarization went from being a temporary bug to being fundamental. Grievance is now both a business and an infinite regress. Activism is a profession. If you listen closely you can hear the song of the trapped who has grown to love its cage. But I’m hopeful there’s a rumbling of something new on the horizon.

Gm #nostr, touch grass and read poetry. Delmore Schwartz: