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Adam Bell 🛎️ during his — “Dictatorships and Distractions” lecture
“This is a pattern that repeats itself throughout history.”
Lessons: Knowing historical dates is not understanding history.
Understanding history means #recognizing the machinery when it appears again wearing different clothes.
#AdamBell #history #prof
8/21/2026, 1 engagement
1991 – World Wide Web opens to the public
#Tim Berners-Lee made files describing the World Wide Web publicly available, helping launch the web as an open platform.
#TIL #www #history and #herstory
🐞 August 6-15, 2010: The Overflow Bug
On August 6, 2010, developer Jeff Garzik and others discovered a critical integer overflow vulnerability in Bitcoin. The bug could allow someone to create essentially unlimited bitcoin out of thin air. Nine days later, on August 15, an attacker exploited it, creating over 184 billion #BTC in a single transaction. Satoshi Nakamoto and the early developers coordinated an emergency fix and soft-forked the network back to a valid state within hours. It remains the only major inflation bug ever exploited on Bitcoin.
That week became one of the earliest demonstrations of Bitcoin’s ability to respond to an existential threat while remaining open source.
#Today in #bitcoin #history #open source
My review of #bitcoin #history of hardware wallets
📝 not including #NVK #ColdCard
#BTC #Veterans please check & update me where applicable please
📘 AFTER ACTION REVIEW #AAR
#Bitcoin #Self-Custody (2009–Present)
Mission
Enable ordinary people to securely own and control digital money without relying on a trusted third party.
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Give individuals direct ownership of money while maintaining:
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Bitcoin succeeded.
Self-custody proved possible.
Hardware wallets dramatically reduced malware theft.
But new threats emerged:
The battlefield changed.
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✅ Private keys became dramatically harder to steal remotely.
✅ Hardware wallets became inexpensive.
✅ Open-source security improved.
✅ QR and air-gapped signing reduced attack surfaces.
✅ Multisignature matured.
✅ Recovery options expanded.
✅ Bitcoin-only devices reduced unnecessary complexity.
✅ Documentation and education improved.
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❌ Users still approved malicious transactions.
❌ Recovery phrases were lost.
❌ Customer databases leaked.
❌ Supply-chain attacks occurred.
❌ Firmware transparency was misunderstood.
❌ Marketing often exceeded reality.
❌ Too many products assumed expert users.
❌ Families remained unprepared for inheritance.
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Technology evolved faster than human understanding.
The industry optimized for cryptography.
The public needed education.
Security is only as strong as the person using it.
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Continue doing:
🟢 Hardware signing
🟢 Open standards
🟢 Human-readable verification
🟢 Bitcoin-only firmware
🟢 Independent audits
🟢 Air-gapped options
🟢 Privacy-first purchasing
🟢 Clear documentation
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Focus future effort on:
🔵 Better recovery
🔵 Simpler interfaces
🔵 Family inheritance
🔵 Scam resistance
🔵 Clearer transaction signing
🔵 Less jargon
🔵 Beginner-first design
🔵 Interoperability
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🎣 Phishing
🧠 Social engineering
📦 Fake devices
💻 Malware
📱 Malicious apps
📧 Fake firmware
👀 User confusion
🪤 Blind signing
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🛡️ Strong cryptography
🔐 Hardware isolation
👥 Open-source communities
📚 Documentation
🔎 Independent researchers
🌎 Global developer ecosystem
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2009
Protect the key.
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2013
Protect the computer.
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2016
Protect the device.
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2020
Protect the recovery.
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2025
Protect the human.
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Commander’s Assessment
The mission has not changed.
The environment has.
The greatest remaining vulnerability is no longer cryptographic.
It is human comprehension.
Future success depends less on stronger encryption and more on making secure ownership understandable, recoverable, and practical for ordinary people.
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Lessons Learned
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End State
The objective is not to build the world’s most secure hardware wallet.
The objective is to enable ordinary people to securely own their money with confidence, dignity, and resilience.
MTV launches with the first music video ever aired: Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles.
#today in #history
#Christians acting under #Christian #institutional and #political #authority were responsible for
#millions to #tens of #millions of #deaths across #history .
This is not controversial among historians. This is #truth
Not sorry if this hurts your feelings.
It didn’t start with #ICE #America has a long #history of terrifying it’s own populous
A thread #🧵
Special Forces Operational Detachment “D,” also known as “Delta Force,” has included female operatives for nearly 30 years.
This #classified #American #special #ops #unit has been recruiting females for decades.
With the Pentagon making strides to include women in combat arms roles, you might actually be surprised to hear that the Army's top counterterrorism force has included female operatives for nearly 30 years. That's right, the 1st Special…
By Ian D'Costa Updated Apr 28, 2023 5:19 AM PDT 0
With the Pentagon making strides to include women in combat arms roles, you might actually be surprised to hear that the Army’s top counterterrorism force has included female operatives for nearly 30 years.
That’s right, the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment “D,” also known as “Delta Force,” has a history of hiring #female #soldiers to #serve alongside male operators, having begun the practice in the #1990s
More commonly referred to as “the Unit,” Delta Force is home to some of the most elite soldiers in the world, famously called “operators.” The selection phase for prospective operators is nothing short of grueling.
Former Delta operator Eric Haney details in his book, “Inside Delta Force,” this process which sees candidates hike and orient over adverse terrain, perform rigorous physical testing and training, and psychological evaluations.
Upon completion, a candidate isn’t out of the woods yet, and can still be dropped or withdrawn from the course if the instructor cadre feels he’s unfit to serve with the unit.
An intensive Operators Training Course ( #OTC ) follows, which trains each soldier in a variety of skills which they’ll eventually use in real world situations.
#Millions (you read that correctly) of rounds of ammunition are expended on a monthly basis, honing each candidate’s proficiency with a variety of firearms. Vehicle instruction, VIP protection, surveillance, and even tradecraft (i.e. the art of spying) are all part of the OTC curriculum.
Operators are trained to blend into any environment and urban setting, though sometimes, that’s very difficult to do with a gaggle of military-aged males hanging around in groups.
In 1982, the Unit attempted to solve this problem by recruiting female operators. After putting a small group of candidates through a modified, yet still highly arduous, selection course, four women were able to graduate and meet the standard set before them.
However, this solution turned out to be a bust, due to friction between male operators and the new female selectees to the unit.
Eight years later, Delta made another attempt to bring women into the fold, after #SEAL #Team6 the Navy’s counterpart to the Unit, had demonstrated some success in pairing a female petty officer with a frogman, posing as a romantic couple, while #reconnoitering objectives in #Panama prior to Operation Just Cause in #1989
In #1990 , #Delta began targeted recruitment initiatives that brought women into what was then referred to as the Operational Support Troop.
Female candidates were once again put through a difficult unique selection and training course in order to bring them up to speed on #firearms usage, #espionage skills and #tradecraft , advanced .#driving techniques and more, so that they could serve on #surveillance and #reconnaissance missions overseas along with male operators.
Among the first female operators to be recruited to the Unit’s OST was, in fact, the same Navy petty officer who served briefly with SEAL Team 6 in Panama, according to Sean Naylor in his book “Relentless Strike.” Later on, the OST was re-branded as “G Squadron” — a name which it apparently still has today.
In the mid-to-late #1990s , #Delta #Force was active in the #Balkans along with SEAL Team 6. It’s since been understood that female members of #G #Squadron were #critical in helping make Delta missions a success in the region, with male and female operators #posing together as lovers or married couples while conducting surveillance.
Today, the recruitment, selection and training process for G Squadron members is wholly unknown and completely #classified , as is the modern iteration of OTC for Delta’s assault-troop #operators . The requirements for OTC still stipulate that candidates sent over for selection be male, so it could be assumed that female operators continue to be brought in and #trained through a #modified program of their own.
However, what we do know is that #women do indeed operate with the most #elite #special #operations force in the world, undercover and sometimes even in plain sight.
#USA #military #history #veterans
We’re the #richest #society in #history because #markets #optimized #speed #scale and #extraction #faster than #accountability could evolve.
#Wealth didn’t #fail to prevent #environmental #collapse it #enabled #harms that are #delayed #invisible #involuntary and #cumulative
which #price #signals cannot #capture in time. #Property #rights and #contracts break down when #damage appears #decades later, after #executives rotate, #firms dissolve, and #exposure is #universal.
That’s not a lack of #freedom or too much #planning
It’s a time-scale mismatch between #markets and #biology . Environmental justice exists because by the time “true market penalties” arrive, the #damage is already #permanent
The missing #history #endocrine #disruption
This did not come out of nowhere.
#Post–WWII: #plastics and #synthetic #chemicals explode
#1970s #wildlife near #pollution shows #reproductive #abnormalities
#1990s #endocrine #disruptors #identified
#2000s #global #sperm #counts begin #falling
#2010s #fertility #clinics #surge
#2020s #microplastics found in #blood #lungs #placentas #testicles
This is #cumulative #exposure, not a sudden event.
#Hormones don’t need high doses #disrupted
They need consistency disrupted.
#Plastics provide that.
We weren’t “digital natives.” We were the #liminal #generation
#Analog #childhoods #Algorithmic #adulthood No consent in between.
We were dropped into the internet before literacy, ethics, or guardrails — not users, test subjects.
Our kids never believed the internet was real.
They #learned #skepticism from our scars.
Feels like we’re the last generation who remembers #unmediated #reality and the first to live with the #consequences of losing it.
A prequel generation to so many “firsts.”
Anyone else feel this?
#asknostr #liminalgeneration #humanity #narratives #IRL #history
When I was in seventh grade a classmate was killed in a drive by.
Broke my girlfriend a part! She literally had a breakdown. Made sense.
Sadly, I was so focused on the fact that they ( media, teachers, adults ) were more concerned the other gang missed his brother … ( like fuck you adults for losing #focus 🧘🏻♀️)
See, tell me we didn’t grow up in a #boots on #ground #war #zone & this bitch will provide some #truth
#USA #lived #loved #history #herstory
Dear Nostr & Bitcoin,
We recognize exits when we see them.
We were called criminals because we refused a rigged system. You’ll be called worse for the same reason.
They don’t hate theft. They hate opt-outs.
We used #motion and #love You use #code and #truth
Same threat. Same response.
If we’d had you, we wouldn’t have needed the guns.
Keep moving. Don’t ask permission.
— Bonnie & Clyde 🖤
#nostr #bitcoin #bonnie #clyde #history #usa #depression #myth.
#🧵 #THREAD: Why renaming the #War #Department changed everything 🇺🇸
Some #history
The #U.S. hasn’t declared a war since #1945
That’s not because conflict ended.
It’s because in #1947, the #War #Department was abolished and replaced by the #Department of #Defense. #DOD
That word change matters legally.
Happy new year 🎈 2026
#REVOLUTIONARY BATTLES → BITCOIN/NOSTR GUARDIANS (Proof-of-Work Timeline)
Lexington → Genesis Guardian Bunker Hill → PoW Guardian Quebec → Integrity Guardian Trenton → Momentum Guardian Freeman’s Farm → Narrative Guardian (x2) Yorktown → Peace Treaty Guardian
Math layer (checkable):
Washington = A1Z26 130 (repeats x6) Cornwallis = A1Z26 123 (repeats x4) Freeman’s Farm = A1Z26 141 (repeats x2) Date vibration 34 (repeats)
Call-in:
I call you in as #Guardians of #Galactic #Peace #Treaties — across all #timelines — anchored in #sovereignty #verification and shared #truth
#bitcoin #nostr #cypherpunk #proofofwork #history #revolutionarywar #timeline #numerology #gematria #patternrecognition #decentralization #freedomtech #artandmath #textiles #embroidery #quilting #guardianprotocol #peacetreaty #verify #donttrustverify
#quotestr
#Demosthenes paraphrased
Demosthenes makes in his Philippics and Olynthiacs (4th century BCE), where he #warns #Athenians that those who speak most loudly in the name of #democracy often undermine it in practice—especially by flattering the public while eroding institutions and norms. #legends of #history
👑 KING IV — Daniel Day-Lewis
The King Who Abdicated Reality
Domain: total #possession Power source: #disappearance Weapon: #devotion
Daniel Day-Lewis doesn’t play characters. He vanishes into them — socially, physically, psychologically.
While others act on the world,
DDL builds a world inside himself and lets it leak out.
• There Will Be Blood: ambition as a terminal disease
• Lincoln: power without vanity
• Gangs of New York: #history as #brutality 🥳
• Phantom Thread: control disguised as love
His performances feel dangerous because they are — not to the audience, but to the actor himself.
And then he did the unthinkable: He walked away.
What he changed He proved mastery isn’t visibility — it’s truth without compromise.
The Crown:
The king who ruled absolutely… and then refused the throne.
12/16/2025, 2 engagements
⁉️🙋🏻♀️❔ QUESTION: WHAT woman SHOULD I add to the
📚 MASTER ARCHETYPE STUDY DECK of WOMEN WHO CHANGED the world (40 CARDS)
• Cards 1–13 = already delivered (with images) as a sample. It’s currently being built as a study guide for various age levels.
• 14–40 = are below
YES 🙌 I have more but want opinions 🫂 #asknostr #womens #history #herstory #humanrights #oracle #study #artstr
Thanks everyone 🫂 #introductions
Welcome to the #revolution community
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🌍 GLOBAL POLITICAL & RESISTANCE ARCHETYPES
🃏 CARD 14
@Cleopatra — THE STRATEGIST Core lesson: Power is intelligence + timing. Study: Diplomacy, optics, gendered leadership.
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🃏 CARD 15
@Boudica — THE AVENGER Core lesson: Rage can mobilize nations. Study: Indigenous resistance, emotional catalysts.
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🃏 CARD 16
@Nzinga — THE DIPLOMAT WARRIOR Core lesson: Adaptability is survival. Study: Negotiation, asymmetric power.
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🃏 CARD 17
@LakshmiBai — THE SOVEREIGN DEFENDER Core lesson: Independence is worth everything. Study: Anti-colonial resistance, embodied leadership.
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🃏 CARD 18
@LeilaKhaled — THE SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM Core lesson: Visibility forces reckoning. Study: Media, controversy, narrative warfare.
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✊ SOCIAL JUSTICE & HUMAN RIGHTS ARCHETYPES
🃏 CARD 19
@IdaBWells — THE INVESTIGATOR Core lesson: Data exposes lies. Study: Journalism, truth under threat.
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🃏 CARD 20
@Malala — THE SURVIVOR-ADVOCATE Core lesson: Survival can become policy change. Study: Education, moral authority.
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🃏 CARD 21
@DoloresHuerta — THE ORGANIZER Core lesson: Movements are built, not sparked. Study: Labor rights, coalition-building.
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🃏 CARD 22
@RigobertaMenchu — THE MEMORY KEEPER Core lesson: Testimony rewrites law. Study: Indigenous rights, global justice.
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🃏 CARD 23
@MotherJones — THE AGITATOR Core lesson: Compassion can be militant. Study: Labor movements, moral fire.
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🌸 FEMINIST & CULTURAL CONSCIOUSNESS ARCHETYPES
🃏 CARD 24
@MaryWollstonecraft — THE FOUNDATIONAL THINKER Core lesson: Equality must be argued into existence. Study: Enlightenment feminism.
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🃏 CARD 25
@bellhooks — THE SYSTEMS TEACHER Core lesson: Love is political. Study: Intersectionality, healing frameworks.
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🃏 CARD 26
@AudreLorde — THE POET-WARRIOR Core lesson: Language is survival. Study: Identity, speech as resistance.
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🃏 CARD 27
@FridaKahlo — THE PAIN ALCHEMIST Core lesson: Suffering can become signal. Study: Art as political autobiography.
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🃏 CARD 28
@JosephineBaker — THE DOUBLE AGENT Core lesson: Performance can hide rebellion. Study: Cultural subversion, espionage.
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⚙️ SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SYSTEMS ARCHETYPES
🃏 CARD 29
@Hypatia — THE MARTYR SCIENTIST Core lesson: Knowledge threatens power. Study: Science vs. dogma.
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🃏 CARD 30
@RosalindFranklin — THE UNSEEN AUTHOR Core lesson: Credit is political. Study: Ethics in discovery.
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🃏 CARD 31
@KatherineJohnson — THE ORBIT CALCULATOR Core lesson: Precision moves worlds. Study: Applied brilliance, systemic barriers.
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🃏 CARD 32
@RadiaPerlman — THE INTERNET ARCHITECT Core lesson: Infrastructure is destiny. Study: Network design, quiet impact.
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🃏 CARD 33
@MargaretHamilton — THE FAILSAFE DESIGNER Core lesson: Anticipate failure to save missions. Study: Systems thinking, software reliability.
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🌱 SPIRITUAL, PHILOSOPHICAL & NONVIOLENT REVOLUTION
🃏 CARD 34
@HildegardVonBingen — THE VISIONARY HEALER Core lesson: Knowledge can be mystical and rigorous. Study: Holistic systems, suppressed wisdom.
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🃏 CARD 35
@TeresaOfAvila — THE INNER REFORMER Core lesson: Internal revolutions last longest. Study: Spiritual autonomy.
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🃏 CARD 36
@AungSanSuuKyi (early) — THE MORAL SYMBOL Core lesson: Symbols mobilize nations. Study: Nonviolent resistance, complexity of legacy.
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🃏 CARD 37
@JaneAddams — THE SOCIAL ENGINEER Core lesson: Care can be systemic. Study: Social infrastructure.
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🌌 META-ARCHETYPES (STUDY CAPSTONES)
🃏 CARD 38
THE MARTYR What happens when systems kill truth.
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🃏 CARD 39
THE TRANSLATOR Those who convert ideas into access.
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🃏 CARD 40
THE CATALYST Small acts → massive change.
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🧭 HOW THIS DECK IS MEANT TO BE USED • Study one archetype per day • Pair Fire + Stillness, Mind + Body, Visibility + Infrastructure • Ask: What system did this woman disrupt — and how? • Use in classrooms, reading groups, leadership training, or self-study
