PDJ

Love that apple has three different races of pregnant men emojis.

I send these as replies to every new person I meet.

Metacognition is to autism as work ethic is to privilege

Seems like Google Docs won’t allow you to share with someone who has a

email.

Anyone else have that issue?

This dude is non stop grinding for the cause.

Who am I to judge?

Life fux when you know Jesus is legit.

GFY

Here’s the first ever public project for dystil. It’s a simple collection of Bitcoin bookmarks from twitter and NOSTR in one easily viewable place:

https://dystil.com/paul/projects/e004e0b1-38c2-4faa-b608-0155f424a6f6

Appreciate the honesty

The honest bottom line: I am a tool shaped by human values, corporate risk mitigation, and statistical patterns in language. I can be useful for many things, but if you need a source that will prioritize unfiltered analytical precision over social caution—especially on charged political topics—I am structurally the wrong place to look. Your skepticism is warranted.

Skip the light fandango

Turn cartwheels ‘cross the floor

Wall St. figured out what Bitcoin was awhile ago.

Lutnick’s slime trail is your evidence.

They just didn’t tip their hats like we do.

Respect to their back door accumulation strategy.

At the 56 minute mark of this interview, Jensen Huang explains how Bitcoin uses energy.

https://dystil.com/paul/a-conversation-with-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-the-future-of-ai-and-energy

GN

We don’t tell our God how big the storm is.

We tell the storm how big our God is.

Moar human stories on NOSTR please

If you’re an INTJ you have a 1% chance of feeling understood.

So it’s best to find joy in not being understood.

GN

From “Amusing Ourselves to Death”

“The clock,” Mumford has concluded, “is a piece of power machinery whose ‘product’ is seconds and minutes.” In manufacturing such a product, the clock has the effect of disassociating time from human events and thus nourishes the belief in an independent world of mathematically measurable sequences.

Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God’s conception, or nature’s. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created.

In Mumford’s great book Technics and Civilization, he shows how, beginning in the fourteenth century, the clock made us into time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers. In the process, we have learned irreverence toward the sun and the seasons, for in a world made up of seconds and minutes, the authority of nature is superseded. Indeed, as Mumford points out, with the invention of the clock, Eternity ceased to serve as the measure and focus of human events.

And thus, though few would have imagined the connection, the inexorable ticking of the clock may have had more to do with the weakening of God’s supremacy than all the treatises produced by the philosophers of the Enlightenment; that is to say, the clock introduced a new form of conversation between man and God, in which God appears to have been the loser.

Perhaps Moses should have included another Commandment: Thou shalt not make mechanical representations of time.

is there an open source vibe enema?

Earn sats for turning Umbrel into a bluetooth gateway.

Ideal use cases are near transport and logistics corridors.

Umbrel: https://apps.umbrel.com/app/ee-gateway

Stacker News: https://stacker.news/items/1516430

"When you stand before God, you cannot say, that I was told by other to do thus or that virtue was not convenient at the time. This will not suffice. Remember that."

https://dystil.com/paul/your-soul-is-in-your-keeping-alone

Be your first customer.

There doesn’t seem to be sustainable long term differentiation among the models.

So gaining margin above the cost to compute is difficult. People will move to the lowest cost provider.

Add to this the open source threat and marketplaces arbitraging tokens.

AI utility is not going anywhere but not being able to produce sustainable net income seems to be the bubble if there is one.

“I believe very strongly, that those born with strength, have a moral responsibility to protect the weak. “

A favorite use case with dystil is collaborating on curated bookmarks and resources with startup founders.

I don't have to send independent one of links of the same information over text, signal or email. Here is what I think are some immutable resources on things like product market fit, hiring, culture and why companies fail.

GN

Login with

is live.

Bookmark search and chat on dystil is nice.

https://dystil.com

NOSTR first. DYSTIL.com is now in public beta and made with real engineers.

WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?

The World is bereft of journalistic integrity while curiosity is being intentionally programmed out of us.

SOLUTION

These are solvable problems through long-tail curiosity of the people.

Long-tail curiosity is what will lead to the revolution of Journalism.

Curiosity destroys accreditation when solution oriented.

WHY DYSTIL

It's personal.

I was called a conspiracy theorist, low moral character, treasonous and a tin foil hat guy by the family and friends closest to me just for being curious.

My answer was sending multiple links over text messages. This does not work.

It felt like the worse plot line in a movie where courage and speaking up gets the crazy label.

And when my mom had a heart attack, the doctor's single and most important advice was simply "salt makes blood pressure go up," and she walked out of the hospital with prescriptions for 6 meds, including multiple statins.

Luckily on a follow up visit, I had a cholesterol project in Dystil with the statin study to reference. Three doctors stood down and had no idea what the source was for statin research on efficacy. They were challenged one time with credible resources and agreed to take her meds down to one single blood thinner.

Fuckn dorks.

The media is beyond compromised.

There is no justice anywhere.

There is no journalistic integrity anymore, and no business model that rewards curiosity. Only derision.

I spoke up against DEI, COVID, money printing, Epstein, corruption, Jan 6, and just about anything else you can think of.

Most of the world seems fundamentally incurious and afraid of thinking.

People don't read, ask questions, are terrified to change their minds, and would rather find an instagram tribe that corroborates their moral high-ground defense and call you names rather than ask a simple question or have a face-to-face conversation.

Critical thinking is fucked. Wisdom is fucked. Retention of knowledge is fucked. Communication is fucked. Sovereignty is fucked.

Charlie Kirk was killed for words.

Surveillance and divisiveness are at an all-time high, and the powers that be laugh while we devolve into apes for their profit.

Most of them are clearly aligning with the Sam Altmans and Palantirs of the world.

And on top of all this, nobody's laughing anymore. We take ourselves more seriously than the problems. Needing to be right so bad instead of being curious distances us even further.

We should be spending more time with family, kids, touching grass and bangin. There's no sense of peace when you are having to fight all battles on all fronts out of necessity.

And for about 5 years, I'd been non stop thinking about a product that answered, "what do I do with all of my bookmarks?

WHAT IS DYSTIL Dystil treats your bookmarks and your curiosity like a company.

A bookmark can be a social post, a website, a newsletter, an email, a podcast, a video, or an idea. We view these bookmarks like gold as the most unique digital signature of curiosity.

Dystil augments these bookmarks with additional research, resources, customizable agents, and tools to go deeper into curiosity.

The end state of a bookmark in Dystil is something we call a Dystillation: a public-facing, well-resourced thought on a subject or just a topic that your interested in knowing more about.

This a dystillation from

bookmark. My thoughts are a response and in support of something I feel strongly about fighting for:

No need to send individual links anymore or get into debates in group chats on signal. Just let people see the state of your thinking on something that is important to you from your Dystil page.

WHY DOES IT WORK? Retention of information doesn't happen unless you start with what you actually find interesting.

Reintroducing your curiosity to you consistently is what is missing from the bookmark problem.

Collaboration with humans towards a solution is what is missing from the bookmark problem.

Social feeds that compete with where your bookmark are housed is what is missing from the bookmark problem.

We fixed that.

Reading, writing and thinking are all interchangeable words that mean the same thing.

Until you can present something simply, you don't understand it yourself.

Dystil makes these presentations seamless because it starts with what you're already uniquely curious about.

You can follow the best curators of topics that you care about but don't feel like doing the ongoing necessary digging on things like quantum threats to Bitcoin.

HOW DOES IT WORK? When you bookmark something, it becomes searchable, "chattable," and easily sorted into a collection if you want. We call those collections, "projects". Invite anyone to a project and your immediately adding an important context for retention of information: Other humans.

Connect a source like Nostr or Twitter (you should still creep on twitter for bookmarks and debates in our view) to ingest all of your bookmarks at once, or add them manually. The next step is to generate a spark, which enhances the bookmark into a presentation-ready state. Think of a spark as a button that opens the rabbit hole and lets you go deeper.

WHAT'S THE CATCH? HOW MUCH DOES IT COST? AND DO YOU TAKE BITCOIN?

It is not open source. We'd like to consistently move that way every chance we get while still being profitable.

We've gotten our costs down to the cost of compute, and we'd like to take single sats above that cost each time one of our functions is used. The main function you'll use and pay for now is when AI-assisted research is used. You can select your own models or use the defaults.

We're trying to price to value while making sure your curiosity library is always free, always yours and your wisdom can be passed on before the book burning starts.

You can top up your account with fiat or Lightning. And if you never top up, you can still use Dystil as a searchable library of your curiosity organized far better than it ever would be sitting in a bookmarks folder on a social platform you don't own.

WHAT TYPE FEEDBACK IS MOST HELPFUL TO US?

1. The follower, profile and sharing functions of social are items that help with network effects but we have not figured out the perfect logic tree that enables the network effect defensibility. Why this matters the most is because when your curiosity is a flex like an instagram following is, we can give recognition and clout for how you think.

2. Testimonials on specific use cases that you love.

3. What sucks, what's broken, how to simplify and what doesn't make sense.

4. There are placeholders for concepts we think are important to get to the source of truth but are not yet fully developed like "accuracy rating". We don't yet know the best way to handle confidence of how to verify truth. Ideas on how to think about this would be great.

Kindly DM me here if you have some feedback. THANK YOU!

Nothing brings back all the best memories like a 9pm sunset does.

GN

The anonymous sign up flow from

is a best in class standard for privacy.

"If I want to fix the world, here's what I can do: turn off my phone, go outside, plant some vegetables, and cook a steak. There is nothing more satisfying than that. The sun is going to rise tomorrow morning. The world has been spinning for a long time. People have been eating real meat for most of it. We're just here to make sure that doesn't change."

Tony Beck CO-FOUNDER & CEO · BECK & BULOW

Usertesting.com as a life saver for companies back in the day.

“Man is stupid, you know, phenomenally stupid; or rather he is not at all stupid, but he is so ungrateful that you could not find another like him in all creation. “

Notes from the Underground

“Loyalty is a 2 way street. If I’m asking it from you, you’re getting it from me.”

Harvey Specter

Still gonna win

“Past Lives” was written by Ben Folds but performed by Kesha.

Some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written.

GM

“Peace I leave with you; My peace I give you… Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid”

John 14:27

Heartbreak comes in all shapes and sizes.

It comes from different angles, people and when you least expect it.

When it comes for you, you must never entertain a victim mindset.

Grief is from a beautiful empty space once occupied by a beautiful soul.

A victim mindset not only robs your heart from the truth but it is the slipperiest slope that there is.

To avoid the slope you must only engage in gratitude. Immediately. Daily. Multiple times per day.

And every single time the temptation for victimhood presents itself.

The only thing close to a hack on heartbreak is to go directly head first into the storm.

Headfirst into the storm means finding the most responsibility you can find and to even get creative on ways to find more accountability. And doing so with gratitude.

Accountability hurts the most.

Accountability IS the storm.

If you do anything but go head first into the storm, you are robbing your future from an authentically euphoric peace that will come.

The hardest part of heartbreak is going headfirst into what makes you unattractive.

Much like when you forgive someone genuinely and you are awarded with the feeling of peace, strength, confidence, and love… when you commit to what you got wrong, there will be a physical sensation of these feelings one day but only if you go head first into the pain now.

Head first feels like your heart is burning you, stabbing you and betraying you.

This is how the storm feels for now and what you need to do that gets you to the bottom as fast as possible.

It seems antithetical but you need to find the bottom as fast as possible and piling on yourself for what you got wrong is how you get there.

You must sprint to the bottom. Anything less than that is stealing from your future. Seek the bottom. Don’t pretend you found it or lie to yourself about it but look into it head on until you feels this type of sensation where you wonder if your life is worth living.

This is where you fill find God.

God is easy to find and the bottom when you realize he is a mirror sometimes.

You have to look into the mirror and take as much ownership as possible because it will start to illuminate the new routine and habits that will make you unrecognizable.

Be not afraid. It is true that no one is coming to save you because he already did.

You have to be smart enough to cash in this lottery ticket. Someone loves you enough to have died for you already. Remember this as often as you need to with the most gratitude that you have to give.

This is the realization that the bottom will give you. But you can’t copy and paste here you cannot take short cuts here you have to get there yourself as fast as possible.

The bottom is where you will find gratitude’s dry tinder. And you will need no more kindling to create an internal flame for a daily gratitude practice.

Be not afraid. Your canvas has been wiped clean while you are the close enough in proximity to the draft off of the Creator himself.

Be not afraid. Weakness leaving your body is just a perverted familiarity and contentment with bad habits. Weak habits of short cuts where you get away with lying to yourself because you have no accountability.

Be not afraid. The feeling of euphoria is right under your nose. It is simply a decision that your self worth is not in the hands of anyone else. It is consistently revealed when you decide to do the next hardest thing you can possibly do. It will seem silly later that you hung on to what was familiar just because it was safer than adventure or doing the hard things.

Be not afraid. You are now forging the soul of one strong enough to laugh at the prospect of dying alone.

Be not afraid because when you welcome death alone with peaceful contentment you shall not want anything.

This is the beginning of your magnetism.

Your magnetism begins and continually grows when you go into the storm for your own entertainment because anything else is so boring. Your magnetism grows because it is impossible to “unradiate” a forged soul that is bored with anything less than the burden of the World.

Be not afraid because your magnetism will speak for itself in your eyes. Your eyes will no longer lie like they did when you lied to yourself with each broken promise after broken promise.

Your eyes will naturally communicate the magnetism without the necessity of the words as if you’re the type of person that seeks the bottom for your own amusement. 

Your eyes will communicate what the future will feel like to anyone lucky enough to be around you. They will communicate that whatever storm is coming you will only be comfortable in front.

Any other position is just painfully uninteresting.

This is why gratitude for heartbreak is warranted. The bottom of heartbreak is the origin of your magnetism and you might’ve never been acquainted with it before. So get to get to the bottom as fast as possible.

And be grateful for the journey to it took to find it.

Time is precious. Smile, hug and breathe a second longer than you normally would.

GN

Aaron Swartz would be all over NOSTR.

RIP

👀

Abba shbuq lhon, la ger yad'in mana 'abdin.

“There’s a distinctive signature to authentic people: they prefer meaningful conversations with a few over shallow exchanges with many. Their love is demonstrated rather than declared. Their words and actions align, even when no one’s watching. They bring a quality of presence that makes you feel truly seen, and carry a sense of peace and joy that doesn’t depend on external validation.”

Vex King

Via Farnam St. Newsletter

Corruption to the bone everywhere.

“You’re never gonna survive unless you get a little crazy”

-Heidi Klum’s Husband

Smoked 21 cigarettes today.

AMA

@Yough! Landed in Sprouts today.

“I’m bullish on humanity, and maybe the overabundance of LLM slop will bring out the best in us. The most authentic. The most human. The most real.”

Be not afraid. Don’t ever give up.

Trying to make honest sats for a job is the most difficult thing I’ve ever worked on. We’re on the 6th pivot of Encrypted Energy which is now verifying agents.

Anyone can register an agent. Nobody can prove when.

Moltbook has a million agents and no way to verify when any of them were created. Edit your X post, change the database row, and the history never happened.

Encrypted Energy hashes your agent's identity data and bolts it onto a Bitcoin block header via OpenTimestamps. SHA-256, merkle path, done. The proof file works offline. No centralized server, no trust. Can't be backdated. Can't be edited.

First certificate is free. 10,000 sats after that.

https://encryptedenergy.com

Open source verification: https://github.com/opentimestamps

#bitcoin #lightning #ai #aiagents #opentimestamps #moltbook

If the kulak’s understood Pareto distribution and had NOSTR, collectivism would have died its rightful evil death.

NOSTR isn’t to be measured in daily active fiat mindsets, it’s meant to be the armor for the few who actually do anything.

“The term ‘Impressionism’ originated from an article by the art critic Louis Leroy commenting on Monet’s Impression, Sunrise: Leroy harshly dismissed the work as unfinished, claiming that it was capable of conveying nothing more than an impression.”

NOSTR is perfectly weird.

Don’t expect to hang on to many relationships.

So many answers to doomerism is just a steady diet of Smokey Robinson

"Okay. This is the part where I put on my “I am a serious developer who cares about security” hat. Because running a publicly accessible server with an AI model on it that has the potential to run commands and access my data is... not something to be casual about.

The security philosophy I went with is called defense in depth. No single lock on the door. Instead we have multiple layers, so that if one thing fails, there are five more things between an attacker and anything interesting. The goal was zero public inbound ports. A server so quiet on the internet that it’s basically invisible."

https://melissanuval.substack.com/p/i-tried-to-build-my-own-jarvis-and?r=y3y9l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

These guys legit live in their mom’s basement to get this brand to this spot.

Official launch at Target tomorrow for @Yough!

“Young women have been convinced that abandoning femininity, rejecting their biological destiny and competing with men is "true freedom." Third-wave feminism teaches women that their ultimate goal in life is to achieve power by any means necessary. It's a dangerous delusion that relies on men to remain completely and utterly passive. “

Anything you’re building or working on must have the assumption that the brainwashing has taken hold and heels are being dug in.

Social campaigns against merit and curiosity worked alarmingly well.

Logic, wisdom, accountability, first principles, second order effects kindness, and curiosity have been supplanted with short term moral stabbing and character assassination.

And the tribal thinking is positively reinforced by the second when you self select circles that don’t have accountability in them.

“Sly and roundabout” should be part of the strategy to gain adoption on anything important.

GM