JBN
John B Nevin

https://www.johnbnevin.com

I can see a sky with birds flying happily through the window from my desk. It is good.

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2025-07-10 03:18:53 UTC

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Yes more like client side filtering, and display priority. Could look only at reviews by strangers i suppose, or only strangers that list themselves as > 5 experience and within 2 hops. A system incentivizing trust relationships and accountability rather than fraudulent consensus building.

2025-07-10 01:10:27 UTC

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Zapstore and figuring out how reviews can be real people we trust not just bots and marketers.

2025-07-08 17:23:35 UTC

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Followed

2025-07-07 17:27:59 UTC

History is best viewed as the writings of those with agenda mixed with those avoiding beheading.
Not my history though. No one has so much as threatened to clip my fingernails, and my agenda (in retrospect, i guess) to be curing boredom comma trying to be funny comma reducing hierarchy induced anxiety despite a mild parental displeasure that long ago replaced any attempt to rationalize my behavior.
Wait what were we talking about?

2025-07-04 14:53:12 UTC

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This space can be redefined entirely if there were suddenly a demand for truly inspiring art from people who thoroughly understand value.

2025-07-04 14:33:40 UTC

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The premise seems to be that the primary function of debate is to persuade listeners rather than solidify participants' ideas. I agree though that the spark lasts longer in a free market of ideas, relatively free of, or at least not actively incentivizing bad actors, in which suffering caused by participation is minimal. I would add that attrition is proportional to the percentage of participants that are not authentic humans acting in good faith.

2025-06-30 20:09:39 UTC

A cross between Animusic, FLStudio, gears, windmills, ancient robotic machines, and water wheels, where water drips in time on varied surfaces to create predetermined musical patterns.

2025-06-30 19:59:27 UTC

More activities and events encouraging zapping for the sake of zapping.
Paint by numbers, Tetris, etc

2025-06-30 13:29:45 UTC

Feature: "Filter posts like this"

2025-06-26 13:27:10 UTC

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Client side filtering options are better. This is a tradeoff that creates a middle man we prefer to the middle man we already had. Not the ideal path to sustainability for nostr infrastructure providers.

2025-06-26 13:05:05 UTC

https://youtube.com/shorts/l8tou5JuhFk?si=HqUDqNqFthLMZk3w

2025-06-24 20:16:54 UTC

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Word

2025-06-24 20:08:59 UTC

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LoL

2025-06-24 19:31:22 UTC

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The first sound is atrocious, 'selves' sounds like sell, and the end very slightly again detectable affected speech. B+ shows promise and good concept, very timely, but vocal discipline and better eye work needed. Impressive if done in one take without script. Cringe if this was thought to be ready for the portfolio.

2025-06-23 15:56:31 UTC

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The point is that weight isn't the same as health, you can get stuck optimizing for a symptom that way. Body gains weight for good reasons too. It's the weigh in problem. If that's the limbo marker that's how low you gotta get.

2025-06-22 17:40:46 UTC

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Is it the same argument for Microsoft, Google, Apple, AOL, Dropbox, hosting providers, image hosts?
If so, I respect you for holding ground.
But the scale of the issue needs to be agreed.
They should be responsible for conceding the tradeoff involves a sacrifice of certainty, sovereignty, debatably, they are doing that already. Users should be aware of the sacrifice. Debatably you need to do what you are doing because their actions aren't sufficient to ensure that they are.
On the other side, you should be responsible for conceding that you are in the minority opinion. But arguing a principled position. It should be Agreed by both sides that your position is technically right! Your argument should be able to be focused on the fact that you believe those trade offs to be misguided.
And the minority position should have more respect than it does. All ideas begin there.
Then we can decide how cringe that is. I mean watching CNN at the airport is one thing but subscribing to Don lemon's fit bit is something else.

2025-06-22 17:14:29 UTC

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The past is of dubious relevance. Where do we go from here?, underrated.

2025-06-22 15:44:05 UTC

https://aegis.utxo.one/a40a411b0e08498457885c63d02ca739f21133c7b72c56258f9ef43d42d68a75.mp4

2025-06-22 07:19:19 UTC

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Reposting, my kids need to see this

2025-06-19 22:19:06 UTC

Conditions of early adoption market give advantage to those who don't require a self sustaining balance sheet in the near term. Thus crowd sourced reputation. And you, Norm, can imagine that with what we have already seen in the world. But the special ingredient, in this new open decentralized free nostr world: respect for the individual.
Early nostr reputation was based on prior relationships among early builders, and many early adopters accepted in full this bootstrapping set. But as variety of user base was introduced over time, 'multidimensional heat maps' were among the tools needed to visualize an organically developing landscape of trust.
And, of course, these man made efforts only reflected the ever changing reality. IRL efforts to uphold known humans as early adopters who might hold trustworthy sway over future direction had a downstream effect on the reputation system, as was the case when underfunded HiveTalk became undisputed champion by reputation and practical function alone, and when Sir Sleepy became Nostr's Apparel Czar, from which generations of gigsters would ultimately blossom.
And then there were the wildcards, the trolls, the jesters, and even those with antithetical agenda. They would all. Make up the tapestry. The mosaic. The smorgasbord even. That is nostr

2025-06-17 19:51:58 UTC

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Fact Check: Lacking contextual specifics while inviting reader to jump to conclusions.

2025-06-17 19:41:46 UTC

Or are you one of these people that thinks we shouldn't take action for the good of children

2025-06-17 00:10:07 UTC

Reverse contentfilter, local client(relay?) that requests(receives?) notes from public relays after they have been zapped by friends or friends of friends. Or a zap is the literal notification that a note should be re-stored to the type of relays that lots of people would then choose to use. Make a relay that only stores zapped notes global minus any npub not in the top 10 known irl decent humans and 3 hops of followers, and recommend that relay as a spam and unmentionables free onboarding relay.

2025-06-16 19:26:40 UTC

Tell kids where to go, or create places, to show them how things used to be.
Nostalgia as a service

2025-06-16 02:10:47 UTC

Open shared educational mnemonic templates for learning and remembering undisputed consensus knowledge. Effectively a historical record and universal curriculum, with the arguments at the edges closely matching civilization relevance, and with survival duration a metric that would have more fidelity to truth.

2025-06-15 22:12:18 UTC

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I believe the argument is that tribes and clans were limited in their ability to Schreiber social consensus at scale and provide for the rights of the weak. That the ability to defend claims is available to some, naturally, by virtue of their ability, but with a state, it is then available to more, meaning justice for those less able.

2025-06-15 20:08:43 UTC

Once per day a random 60 seconds of your life obsessively critiqued by world class behaviorists, all angles

2025-06-12 21:31:00 UTC

Nostr: probably nothing, now what were you saying about newspapers, payphones, personal checks, network television, tenured credentialism, labotomies

2025-06-12 00:45:26 UTC

So obvious that it went without saying, but unsaid for so long, it was forgotten. Only mindless ritual tradition remained-- the original builders were gone.

2025-06-11 20:46:54 UTC

One thing I like about JBP is he seems to have a piece of paper somewhere that lists "a) experience b) language c) the pen d) time ... therefore write and say almost anything reasonably supported by experience" and so he leverages all platforms to scale reach and effect and then Russel Brand says, same, but twice as fast, and others similarly because, well, because action is better than inaction, I suppose is a good way to look at it, asks for action begets good inspired action, you might say

2025-06-08 11:30:31 UTC

SNEER AT BAD JAZZ; DANCE WITH GOOD

2025-06-06 19:11:19 UTC

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'Subscribe' = choose preset or customize new zapping pattern, using quantity, repeatfrequency, repeatinstances, or zap pattern defined by a formula/graph, or by an external dynamic ruleset or feed(zap pattern to be determined by winner of contest, or random number generator, or results of an event)

2025-06-05 20:53:17 UTC

Let me guess, we're all in the 'Epstein files', (some more than others), which grew over time to include any data that could be purchased or otherwise obtained from individuals, governments, corporations, markets, and devil is in the details. This would mean many surprises, many cases where truth is opposite of what is commonly thought.

2025-06-05 15:16:39 UTC

Group chats that require 100% vote to admit a new member or to boot an existing. Display those who have requested in and those who have been recommended by members for new membership, so that they can be voted on. Secession rights to stop notifications or for any reason.
Feels funny. Screenshot sharing would make it moot. Compartmentalized friendships and social asymmetry.

2025-06-04 23:08:10 UTC

A client that requires user to fact check something in their domain during login, then to rate the job someone else did on theirs.

2025-06-04 21:16:57 UTC

Something between the tabs I've opened to look at later this week, aggregation, and wot, is interesting

2025-06-04 01:01:20 UTC

Each day's round of GM with its own hashtag(?)date(?) And each mention to include also a reference to the actionable daily world changing act that you put into reality to lead by example.

2025-06-03 20:44:35 UTC

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No I just think we enter an era where global reach with credibility doesn't exist alongside evil.

2025-06-03 20:40:54 UTC

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4 of those are in my top 100

2025-06-03 04:13:23 UTC

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Could filtering be a request? 1 "view the npubs that searched for singles in your city" 2 "choose which npubs will receive yours"

2025-06-03 00:13:14 UTC

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Not psyop phoniness. Real social emotional disruption, peaceful, wistful, sad, but real. Masks drop, we share in emotional disturbance as we integrate the reality of the nature of many we've trusted and venerated. We'll learn that we needed to stand up for ourselves but in large part didn't, while surprising ourselves with our capacity to forgive those who seek true redemption, and healing ourselves with their lessons honestly shared. My generation will watch as its sons and daughters rocket past in all spectrums, unbound, unhindered, and free - it will be known as the last crisis, the last, ironically, because of global digital access and awareness. Now, though, with privacy rights guaranteed by design. Maybe

2025-06-02 22:50:44 UTC

Moving portraits of those who superficially would not be expected to exist peacefully together. Warm faces with wisdom and character enjoying each other despite external pressure to maintain artificial divisions of humanity.

2025-06-01 22:47:02 UTC

https://aegis.utxo.one/44bfd8609e9d7ab20d8f20adbf320c7ad36584e7f563823ca18b4dea590b0eaa.jpg

2025-05-31 18:03:18 UTC

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Or at least an Airbnb camping resort town vacation summer camp team building thing

2025-05-31 15:15:41 UTC

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So you see it? This is the libertarian platform 2028

2025-05-29 15:53:49 UTC

Gnu free, let me know if you need different dimensions
https://www.johnbnevin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/language-s.png

2025-05-29 15:21:19 UTC

Government would be so mad if it knew how much god I've found in bitcoin.

2025-05-28 20:26:25 UTC

Feature: Ability to signify that one's enterprise is currently self sustaining / positive sum, such that any charity involved, though still welcomed, can likely have more effect elsewhere.

2025-05-28 03:15:00 UTC

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What implications does this have if dividing sats by decimals, ultimately, anyway? That's a question, not an activist statement guised as one.

2025-05-25 18:19:22 UTC

https://tidal.com/browse/track/3029561?u

2025-05-24 16:44:39 UTC

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I agree we should aim to optimize as the best money, but would by default assume any concession of principle that aims to do so to be most likely to be short sighted. After all, we have principles because they predict outcomes better than forecasting. As to context, I'm not actually being adversarial to the specifics, only highlighting the generalized counter point for edification:
When 'rigid axiomatic rule prohibits' I agree let's not 'let perfect be the enemy of the good', but I would simply add that the cautionary counter point to *that* then is 'system failure and injustice often begin with rationalized concessions of principle'

2025-05-24 14:21:20 UTC

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I agree but would say that ackshually the sale is the side effect of getting information where it needs to go or matching need to solution, so a system like that would incentive and optimize for mutually beneficial transactions. I see and love the vision of wot curations and recommendations dynamically building shop pages in context.

2025-05-23 18:41:53 UTC

Feature: a protocol for defining recurring zap patterns. Zap post once. Zap mower twice/month until winter. Autopay with cosign. Rain fibbonacci fossly

2025-05-23 15:24:35 UTC

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Still, got it, love it!

2025-05-22 18:46:04 UTC

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Which is to say something true but not specific - the right thing to do still depends on the details. That this principle exists, relevant, but it shouldn't be a foot in the door for rationalizing what is not a good choice on its own merits.

2025-05-22 18:15:35 UTC

The reward for publishing false information
The degree to which it credibly can be redacted as an innocent mistake
The gullibility of the regulators (market)
The probability or average cost of enduring consequences
Cold calc bro

2025-05-20 16:08:58 UTC

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I'd say increase certainty. Certainty that relays saw the post, much less relatives and friends. Certainty that shadowcensor doesn't happen. Big picture of network helps. Oh, I'm looking at this cluster of notes over here. It's an objective global agreed view I can depend on, anxiety goodbye! Personally, I would (I think) post things 1/1000 people would enjoy forever, if I'm getting a fair shake. If I can't even be sure my fam can see it when i @ them, I lose interest. Disclaimer, I'm not a good test market like Gary, Indiana.

2025-05-15 21:07:49 UTC

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https://aegis.utxo.one/6298c0e034334c36bb8c35d8405d2c99d9db805a28df7c6603f43d0d9b6947a0.mp4
#nevent1q…mm04

2025-05-11 17:08:38 UTC

https://aegis.utxo.one/d08b1b95e3c06671bc1df940c4fa39d89ccc7e14e945ddb7f5249497077251b1.mp4

2025-05-08 13:16:03 UTC

'You want to know how much our efforts have become the fabric of humanity? Our nodes found 4 blocks in the 2020's. Sure, the reward itself is essentially a rounding error, and we operate bitcoin nodes at a loss. But underpinning the network on which our reborn phoenix freedom economy is based? Priceless. We think our customers will agree and support us through the next century as well. '

2025-05-07 19:33:27 UTC

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Don't do that then

2025-05-04 17:20:13 UTC

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Excellent defense, inauthentic fraudulence, when detected and easily distinguished, informs us of the nature of any antithetical agenda.

2025-05-04 03:56:37 UTC

https://aegis.utxo.one/e4570ead935e91e08f42f5154c8499d10afd7041dacefe02c3b8a6f53852d95e.mp4

2025-05-03 17:28:08 UTC

https://aegis.utxo.one/17c4a7dd3785978a8bea7322f7e02c870bd7b609b8071fb885b1f61f2ca3017d.mp4

2025-05-03 01:07:30 UTC

Empathy https://aegis.utxo.one/c2c8e9d535d4e1f8ab83aa7eb2a1150dc89afbfa66e89e4c8a764e8dab0526ae.mp4

2025-05-02 16:15:13 UTC

Feature: click on feed header to cycle through user defined preset algorithm. I.e. click notifications once to see all, twice to see today, three times to see only zaps. Click home once to see all twice to see irl friends, thrice fo sho

2025-05-02 16:05:35 UTC

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It's not economically viable in a one dimensional profit narrative. But these keynesians always fail to recognize dynamic system complexity, human action, irrational actors, bad faith actors. It only takes one buyer to make a sale.

2025-05-02 15:56:31 UTC

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No, libertarians who don't operate in cartoon would advocate that park shitting be regulated by something other than a centralized authority funded by theft, with a monopoly on force, using arbitrary and observability ineffective measures for doing so. (At the exclusion of other innovative solutions.)

2025-04-20 22:50:13 UTC

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Could onboard a new nostrie along with the viewers.

2025-04-18 13:25:02 UTC

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Zaps are not actionable data unless both parties are known individuals within the heuristics of my nostr access paradigm.

2025-04-13 17:26:22 UTC

A move toward localism, neighborly IRL connections, civic accountability, Pride in my Precinct.
Honed mastery among memesters in roasting motto, logo, and mission statement worshipping, top heavy, administrative state bureaucrats suit led micromanaging self appointed karma police HOA busybodies run rampant with their unchecked instabilities toxifying otherwise harmoniously productive mutually beneficial cooperative win win good times for the rest of us while we pitch in at the park library block party shared garage sale potluck friendlies

2025-04-10 22:57:10 UTC

Nostr use case: post assignment details, visible to providers after filter, who accept, or bid to accept. Wot review, did provider meet expectations? Reviews of reviews recursively.

2025-04-08 17:16:18 UTC

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That is really, really good. Sent to my kids. The UI is brilliant. Complete with a doom arc where account gets banned, and the perfectly matched UI requires apocalyptic gestures.

2025-03-28 02:25:45 UTC

'I love government,' Sunny reminisced whistfully.
'Government is force by definition. Whatever it has, it has taken.' Milt offered without obligation.
'Of course. I have sufficiently considered the tradeoffs. Being of sound mind, I rationally choose government.'. Sunny stated.
'Perhaps your focus cannot account for relevant unseen unmeasurables.' Milt responded
Sunny considered carefully before responding respectfully, 'Let us bravely discuss the matter, nuances, intricacies, subtleties, in our shared quest for ever widening understanding! I am eager to learn that which now eludes me -- the nature of my personal bias, or at least what of it your enlightened wealth of shareable experience, knowledge, and extraordinary depth of comprehension may illuminate of any blindnesses I carry, or illusions I hold!'
Conversations that must exist if the token libertarian's assumptive premises are sound. The logical conclusion of an aim to rationally maneuver freedom into existence through language.

2025-03-28 01:43:25 UTC

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Born or bored

2025-03-26 18:28:30 UTC

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Let's throw off all the algorithms and make this the most popular Nostr post of all time

2025-03-26 18:14:57 UTC

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I prefer user defined 'connections' with organically adopted consensus over a few commonly used to calculate WOT. i.e. 'this x NPUB marks y NPUB as 'restraining order' approximates an objective, useful measurement while not compromising freedom to 'follow' someone without implying trust.

2025-03-26 02:04:18 UTC

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Odds that any note created will be permanently stored in at least one place approaches 100%

2025-03-23 17:12:13 UTC

Maybe the interplay between free will and determinism is like a moebius strip.
If I make great decisions while course correcting as needed, I have a good chance of being ready to make the right choice in an important moment.
And then I can be grateful for what does not entirely feel like an independent decision in retrospect, and certainly was not one over which my control was the common thread that guided results.

2025-03-22 16:45:31 UTC

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It forces the population to adopt suboptimal workarounds that distort truth sensing and interaction among them. Which isn't a condition of being in control, but also wouldn't get 'this isn't working,' from censors.

2025-03-18 23:43:09 UTC

By measuring only the correlation between the angle of attention between two isolated subjects housed adjacently, one could (?) either demonstrate reasonable grounds for further study or rule out wide swaths of paranormal conjecture. IOW record the slope on two dimensions of the angle eyes point from pupil to focal point. Do humans in proximity tend to look up simultaneously? At some star? At each other? Toward a shared concern? Identical twin test next, with or without growing up together.

2025-03-18 22:49:56 UTC

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Yeah. Exactly. Most of us just want to learn words at the talking layer but if you want to break it down

2025-03-17 22:33:18 UTC

https://www.johnbnevin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20250317_172600-scaled.jpg

2025-03-13 22:22:23 UTC

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It's the most plausible rationalization for plunder.

2025-03-11 16:52:06 UTC

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refrigerator poetry vibe

2025-03-05 17:41:15 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/e0d23ce2beba673b634939ace60267e0cb40f433755d3cdadca71892527be86b.jpg
Bro. I need to mop

2025-03-03 21:36:47 UTC

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Any number of devices that see them can observe to match objective characteristics to send an open, publicly visible standard notification of agreement/disagreement as one of a multifactor authentication.

2025-03-03 16:12:19 UTC

https://www.johnbnevin.com/about/i-draw-cartoons/
https://www.johnbnevin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20250303_100136-1024x541.jpg

2025-02-26 14:13:18 UTC

One can create a music scene and develop a marketable image. And it even has precedence in the market. But it will be vulnerable to capture, suffer attrition in inverse proportion to enlightenment among listeners, and become an ever heavier cape over time. A character is more replaceable than an authentic individual. Loyalty to the man, or loyalty to the costume? Reflect self truly is to be best.

2025-02-24 20:50:59 UTC

A series of currency coins for circulation. All are the same size but vary in copper, silver, gold content. Standard design with small earth in center in most valuable metal. Serials for vanity addresses.

2025-02-23 21:53:29 UTC

https://www.johnbnevin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250223_154907.jpg
https://www.johnbnevin.com/about/i-draw-cartoons/

2025-02-23 17:43:58 UTC

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What I say is not what I am, much less how you interpret it. I think that's why trust systems with authentic-ated communication work best.

2025-02-23 16:28:34 UTC

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Do we have real numbers on that or just YouTube Spotify type numbers?

2025-02-23 16:18:36 UTC

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Big tithing would have us believe those things are separate. There is only experience, information, how we assimilate those into worldview, the language we choose to describe it, and the resulting actions we take.

2025-02-22 15:13:15 UTC

https://www.johnbnevin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Screenshot_20250222_091202_Brave.jpg
Yup, Elon is too moderate

2025-02-22 05:47:11 UTC

https://truthsocial.com/@Kash/114045632651546662

2025-02-21 17:49:31 UTC

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Where are said inactive npub unfollowers, pray tell, plz n ty, and gfy ?

2025-02-18 04:44:30 UTC

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Winstr Churchstrich: "You have muters? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

2025-02-17 03:14:05 UTC

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Great idea. Plus Zapsplits informed by wot, defense against answer farming only to reward to friends or sockpuppets.

2025-02-16 18:22:31 UTC

https://www.johnbnevin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250216_121802-scaled.jpg
Hey kids, didja know