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Have you watched?

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Hummingbird is now on here for free!

If you want to learn more about it, donate to

, or support myself and

so we can make more films, you can do all that here: https://hummingbirdfilm.com

Today is the day -

premieres on the

channel shortly.

Thanks for the kind words

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Estella is someone who has spent her life protecting nature from being ruined by large companies. She is an incredibly wise woman.

A clip from

, coming out Saturday on

enjoyed this chat about our film

!

Loved the premiere of The Six Billion Dollar Man by

It's a great film that artfully conveys Assange’s personal struggle while skillfully weaving in his message about the need to preserve our freedom to tell the truth.

It shows how Bitcoin was critical to Wikileaks' functioning as an organization, and I hope this film helps a broader audience understand the relationship between monetary freedom and political freedom.

My understanding is that they will release the film for a lower cost in the future—I encourage you to part with some satoshis to check it out. I think broad cultural movements towards Bitcoin are going to be more crucial to Bitcoin going to the next stage than any treasury company or ETF... and it's projects like this that move that needle forward, but we gotta show up to make it happen.

After show discussion was inspiring nostr:nprofile1qqsttef06c3n69d9jk9rdn49xr3j3hmtzl83scz2rfnn92fxjttku4cpyfmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuv3sxgcrzvfh9eu8j730daekxctj94kxjmtpqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wdp6sqdmf9m

love everything about this story - definitely joining this afternoon

So happy Hummingbird got to play at

, thank you guys.

Much more with this project to come in the next month!

Our film Hummingbird: The Bitcoin Jungle Story is now live. Login with nostr and stream sats here:

https://indeehub.studio/film/hummingbird

Here is a little article about the making of our film Hummingbird. It’s been a long journey and we’re excited to let this thing fly!

Beyond excited to start getting this film out into the world.

What began as a journey to Costa Rica in 2021 led me to meeting

, and in 2023 we started to make this film about the eclectic and inspiring community surrounding

Creating it has been entirely a labour of love, stemming from a sense of purpose and vision to unite the holistically minded, the spiritual seekers, and the Bitcoiners.

Stay tuned for more info.

I’ll never understand how so many people see turning human beings into some kind of neuralink-maxxed half AI robot as the peak of human existence. Or a “singularity”. You’re literally evolving down with such things bro. Such an ugly ideology

Was a blast showing our film

alongside

and her film

in Austin this week! Thanks nostr:nprofile1qqswm62vnrsg8l9nek8gwt0yxrcz40mawjh9t542zhfx3mcnlglljhqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwdhx7un59eek7cmfv9kqp0trut ! nostr:npub1spdnfacgsd7lk0nlqkq443tkq4jx9z6c6ksvaquuewmw7d3qltpslcq6j7

If you’re in Austin swing by to catch a screening of

on Tuesday. It’s about life in

(and other things).

and I have been working on it for quite while, and it’s finally ready to come out (soon).

https://luma.com/jw7gnu8d

are there are fluent spanish speakers out there familiar with premiere pro? looking to create spanish subtitles for a project.

solid read

skate clip from 19 years ago

the body feeds on food, awareness feeds on thoughts

is modern dentistry a scam

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spiritual embryo cultivation

no amount of external validation will give you lasting internal peace

plz make a monitor I can hook a laptop up to

Something strange I’ve been thinking about is that with TV, radio, books—legacy media in general—you have one entity speaking to many. But with AI you have many people speaking to one entity. Seems consequential in a way I cannot yet formulate.

Been off caffeine and coffee for 8 months. Honestly don’t feel much different, other than missing that little boost in the morning. Happy to not have it in the routine anymore though, was definitely a bit addicted

adding some final voice over elements to our film Hummingbird, all about Bitcoin Jungle 🌴🏄🏼‍♂️

what would the real bitcoin city look like. what would people do

https://www.agatheringofbatteries.com

bitcoin river

Walking sign in Japan

our album comes out april 11th. mark it in your calendar 🔋🔋🔋

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“Bitcoin Is Beautiful” - a short film I made with

a couple years ago:

good times in the jungle

Pura vida

It’s nice having a nostr soulmate

Any plebs out there want to help design a website for a feature film doc about bitcoin jungle?

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Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/6aKe6lK1jzFFEcAE8CarSn?si=qVh-AQdSTD-V9ltYmszE6w&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A0cCYwCrUTWQaZLnKbpETCB

New song:

you know i love you already. out on @wavlake

https://wavlake.com/album/75cff646-19d9-4e61-86b0-15bbdfe1e849

Coming soon. 🎬

latest tunes. from new album #agatheringofbatteries still chargin’ up for spring release

It’s weird how people think it is some kind of sign of true religiosity to say they believe in God or believe in Christ or whatever it is. It’s like, okay? You believe in something. Meaning, you don’t know. You don’t know if it is actual, so you must believe. Believing in things is what children do, literally. They believe in Santa Claus. What does that really mean? It means they identify with the fabrications of their internal mental activity, probably from things that were planted into them by some else or a book. It means you’re stuck at the level of mind, which is not your spirit. It’s your mind, its ideas, its intellectualism, aka, not your spirit. From new agers to modern Christians, almost nobody I speak to these days really seems accept this concept that there is a direct experience to be had with an aspect of your being that you could only describe as spirit if you had the skill to soak into it directly, which very few humans have ever achieved, hense why remarkable people like Jesus, who could do it, are remembered forever. It is the idea that your spirit is literal, just like your physical body. It’s a literal thing that you can, under rare circumstances, absorb into entirely. In other words is “real”. Not a metaphor, not morality, not psychology, and definitely absolutely nothing to do with astrology, healing, past lives, dimensions, none of that. Mind goes away, body goes away, and all your ideas of God or whatever else are recognized as mostly pointless mental fabrications and your life is forever changed if you are to experience this aspect of reality for even 1 second. Therefore it’s much better to strive to “know” rather than believe. Believing is silly, there is something tangible to know directly, and it’s not easy to achieve!

This 20+ hour podcast series on Israel-Palestine really shook me. I feel as though understanding the origins of this situation is mandatory if a thinking person wants to have any sense of what is happening on the ground in our world today. It’s a terrible situation and the amount of propaganda drilled into the western minds’ brains that it’s all just some “crazy religious conflict” could not be further from the truth. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2pLd5KHmOO7axKd9gKz4WD?si=3n3C2Z0mSwOtbtLD_JPFOA

Sometimes the world just feels like a giant Walmart. What happened

With all the discussion around whether AI is self-conscious or not, the equally critical inquiry as to whether mannequins possess any semblance of awareness has been all but forgotten...

poem

The YouTube algo thinks I’m a women

Went for a coffee this morning and chatted with a store owner about his life in Egypt, and started to think about how one of the most pernicious aspects of the fiat system is how it causes the degeneration of culture.

Every couple of years they've had major currency devaluations by their central bank (due to taking on big loans from the IMF). This makes life more and more expensive for the locals there. It has become very difficult to buy a home. Think about a family living in a home for hundreds of years, past down through the generations, how much life has been lived in that. How much wisdom has been absorbed into the walls. And then all the sudden they're forced to sell so they can buy groceries. Much more is lost in that transaction than just the physical home. It contributes to the slow death of the story of the people.

Since there is a hollowing out of economic opportunity, the best and brightest decide to leave the country for greener pastures. While they bring aspects of their culture to wherever they emigrate to, parts of them inevitably fall away as their cultural identity slowly dissolves into the melting pots of the largely secular, developed world. So you have both an exodus and a thinning out of culture.

I find that quite sad because a place like Egypt has been around for such a long period of human history. Culture evolves alongside the demands of history, tuned to the challenges of earthly patterns of change. It is a loss that cannot be quantified.

everything is within walking distance, if you have the time 🚶

who are Uber drivers talking to on the phone?

The development of enduring qualities and skills is a lot more useful than having cool or emotionally loud “experiences” with anything regarding cultivating the mind, moving toward meditation…

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Most of the stories of miracles and strange abilities and things of that nature from Jesus and Buddha and people of the like are literal. They’re not metaphors for psychology. They’re just descriptions of what they did and things that happened. The human mind / body system is capable of much much more than most conceive of

My life-long ferver for intellectual study has ended almost entirely over the last six months 🤷🏼‍♂️. Funny how a switch goes off and you’re just done with something that was once a large part of your identity.

Also LED bulbs. Incandescent maximalism is the way

I don’t know if there is anything more fiat than plastic plants

If you’re in San Jose this weekend, you can see a screening of our new film in a real theatre! Bitcoiner run.

and I will do a Q&A via zoom afterwards. ⚡️

From a small meetup in Toronto to an epic Bitcoiner wedding in California what a journey it has been

are there any Bitcoiners out there that are butterfly keepers ?

Cheers to

for helping host a beautiful evening watching the first screening of the film

have been working on. What a great night!

It’s hilarious wearing a shirt that says Bitcoin out in public. Everyone stars at you, a lot seem triggered in some way

If you do something like qi gong or taiji or even the subtler aspects of yoga but have not gone through a specific process of opening the body, soaking the mind into the tissues and fascia, followed by consilidating the yin field around your lower abdomen to gather Qi, which is a multi-year process, you are pretty much just waving your arms around and it is more it less totally pointless aside from it being a light form of physical exercise. You don’t automatically have these things, it’s like someone going to the gym and trying to bench 300 pounds. There is a long process of conditioning and preporation to find the Qi and thicken it. Then when the channels in the hands open, the arm movements drag the Qi through the body, tonifying the organ systems

People in new age scenes seem to think you can “open your chakras” using your intention. They are just like, okay, I’m going to light some incense, focus my attention on my root chakra, relax, see what emotions come up, and then voila, I’ve “opened my root chakra”. It’s like, huh? What? Does nobody know what the actual signs were that someone had literally “opened their root chakra?” Like - mastery over all the elements of nature? Lol. Like, telekinesis, moving objects with your mind? Or how about the “laghima” siddhi - the ability to make your body weightless, basically, flying. Most people will read that and think it is silly, just some fanciful wishful thinking. But it’s really not, it’s a thing and has always been a thing. It’s just that our culture has become so degenerate and confused that we have lost contact with what a human being is and what it is capable of. Therefore I don’t personally think anyone on the planet today has literally opened any chakras at all, much less become “spiritually awakened” - a state of being that is so profound it would fundamentally change how the energy and consciousness of the person connects to reality, and simply being in this persons presence would warp time and space around you, much like the accounts of encountering Jesus or Buddha were talked about. However these days, in modern times you are “awakened” because you know a bunch of conspiracy theories or because you are aware of your emotions or because you eat a certain way? 🤔. Maybe, just maybe, it’s actually about something much much deeper and profound….

The idea of a guided meditation is a bit of an oxymoron. If you’re aware of anything coming through the sense gates, whether it’s a slow speaking voice or calm music, well, I mean you’ve literally failed to enter a “medititave state”, lol.

Discernment, underrated. Humility, underrated

I’ve been working on this film for a while with

. Check out the first trailer here…