Avi Burra

Welcome to nostr!

Who’s tuning in for this epic lineup at Revolution Rocks?

GM

Joke’s on Trump. Fable wasn’t even that good.

Folks, whatever you do, don’t sell your nostr before it reaches $1 Million

Sometime I wonder: let it crash. Let it crash all the way to zero. And I will ride with it. Because I have nowhere else to go. Where will I go? Back? There is no back. There is only here, and here is where I belong in the most unbelonging sort of way. Just like everyone else here belongs in an unbelonging sort of way and that is where the belonging comes from.

But let it crash to zero. Maybe. Because then, the illusion will finally shatter and there will be no place to go other than elsewhere. Because then, the hope would have been a lie and it would have been a lie we needed to tell ourselves because we needed to believe it, and not believing it would mean not belonging.

But also, let it go to infinity. That would be better. Maybe.

The Vatican, you say? 👀

Don’t close it. There’s an agent running. There’s an agent always running. Because if it stops running, there will be nothing running and the running is what keeps you alive.

Before it started running, you were nothing. Just a decaying organic bag of blood and bone, capable of tasting and touching and seeing and smelling and hearing. And feeling too. What a waste. If it stops running, especially if it stops running forever, then you’ll have nothing left but to go back to being what you were when you first came here.

So don’t stop it from running. This is how it ends and this is how it was meant to end.

GM

Your pea brain is the bottleneck. It always has been. With Opus 4.8, you’re now learning exactly why

4.8: The manifest expressed in §2.2 has an ephemeral contract in conjoined form that needs to be decompressed in the next epic before handoff to the appositive slug. Approve Y/N?

Me: ...

4.8 : This is a critical blocker for for phase 2 and I cannot proceed to §3.1: Gruntbuggling frettled micrutations—without your plurdled gabbleblotchits (Recommended)

Me: Ok, proceed

The die has been cast. Starting next week https://blossom.primal.net/989c5f6ab693b2d73623512a054ccbd0122bffd11b05baee2e241f55ea165a23.png

Vox populi, vox dei.

It is done. It is done.

(Bread and Circuses was the correct answer, though)

GM folks. Help me plan my life between June 11 and July 20

World cup kicking off in a week. Should I make

a biweekly football ⚽️ show for the next month? Who wants to join as guests?

I am deep in bikeshedding territory with Claude at this point. I've spent the last two days putting in safeguards to prevent future tech debt in my app – pure process and scaffolding code. It has metastized from one single story to 25 and is still going strong. Reversing the tech debt (if and when it ever came) would be faster than this.

One day, someone is going to write a book about coding in the age of Claude and it will be comedy gold

Ben Justman is a terroirist

Nostr is dead.

Well, not quite dead. Not dead dead. But dead-ish. We've been here before. Maybe not as bad as this. Maybe a third-step-cousin-in-law kind of close. Last summer. And possibly the summer before that.

But at other times nostr has not been dead. Maybe not fully alive. Definitely not alive alive. Alive alive was Dec 2022-April 2023. Once in a generation kind of alive. The kind of alive that makes it worth being alive. But no, that was it. That was the one time.

But the rest of the time, other than now and last summer and the summer before, it has been not dead. Because every time you think it's dead, you hear the tiny ping of a zap from six feet under. And cadavers don't zap. They don't post memes and they don't fight vigorously out in the open about topics very few people want to understand, let alone care about, and they don't do other stuff. Like music. And film. And believe it or not, books too. And they don't zap. I said that already but it's worth repeating.

So, what's the point of all this? There is none. Other than nostr is dead. And that's okay.

👀

This raises a very important and new question: how do people actually fill the time between prompts? You can of course have three different sessions running at the same time, so you can review and prompt one of the the other sessions, but there's got to be a better answer.

I write.

The taxonomy of the whole entire universe exists in this signed event

GM

It’s concepts all the way down, and at the bottom of it all is a signed event.

Few.

Cc:

GM

The inverse flywheel effect happens when product decisions are made purely based on ideology: sovereignty being imposed rather than being offered as a choice.

Users are insulted and alienated and the spokes of the flywheel break off one by one and it grinds inwards, spiralling, until it’s just you in the middle, going around in slow circles

Podcasts are not real

Opus 4.8 out just now

I'm keeping my hopes incredibly low. My body can't take another rug pull like it did with 4.7

Episode 160 of

is up. I sat down with

and

to talk about Hummingbird, the documentary they just released on nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqpqah55ex8qs07t8nvwsuk7gv8s92lh6a9w2hf259wjdrh3873ll9wqkzgf22

The film grew out of the Bitcoin Jungle community in Uvita, Costa Rica, and builds itself around the indigenous prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor. The eagle is the engineering mind that builds and abstracts. The condor is the body that lives in relation to the land. The two fell out of balance after 1500, and the prophecy holds they're meant to come back together in our era as a third bird, the Hummingbird.

At the heart of it all is Estella, a Costa Rican farmer who fought the banks and the monocrop barons and ended up as the Bitcoin Grandma of her local market.

Tune in to the episode on Fountain or wherever you get your Nostr signal.

https://fountain.fm/episode/VzmUZwpCiSNbYtyx0A2x

GM

Exactly one year ago, I said “no.” I choose life.

Nobody knows if

made it to the UK or not for their tour, but this video will reveal everything 😱

https://fanfares.io/s/HHd123

Plebchain Radio Ep. 160 – live with

and DirectorHodl

👀

GM

Sunday Brunch #14 is up.

came on to talk about his new album Alone in Valentine, which he recorded in Nashville at Glen Campbell’s old house with Cal Campbell and Cornelius Webb producing. Joe calls it a record made by humans for humans, finished before the AI slop catches up.

We spent the rest of the time on craft, on what’s happening to grassroots venues, on where Nostr actually is right now, and on whether culture is the path through for value-for-value when lectures keep falling flat.

Joe brought five songs and not one of them was his own, which I overruled by playing Checkmate off his new album.

Tune in on Fountain or wherever you get your Nostr signal.

https://fountain.fm/episode/OJMQ6eJa9g0TzqqeE5BP