Nostr notes by Calva

First thing that came to mind is using Nostr as a way to ...

2026-09-09T17:04:36Z

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First thing that came to mind is using Nostr as a way to seed/sync settings when setting up a new device with Omarchy.

https://carlsfriends.net/source.html

2026-09-02T02:15:19Z

https://carlsfriends.net/source.html

The interoperability is also a cherry on top of an app in my ...

2026-08-30T21:17:55Z

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The interoperability is also a cherry on top of an app in my eyes, not a leading feature itself. It works well as a secondary thing to discover after using an app for a while, so making people be aware of it doesn't add much value unless you're explicity looking for something with interop in the first place. It might just serve to confuse users with needing to learn about Nostr if it's front and center.

Current longform clients are clunky for my preferences to use, ...

2026-08-30T21:14:43Z

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Current longform clients are clunky for my preferences to use, but I've been meaning to turn my website into a Nostr-backed site, so natively going forward they will be posted on Nostr when I publish them.

Agreed, it can't be thrown out in its entirety. Social has ...

2026-07-30T16:41:34Z

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Agreed, it can't be thrown out in its entirety. Social has some useful primatives (like following lists and the social graph), but interfaces focused on social-first experiences are a lost cause.

I see social-last at a UX level, not a protocol level, meaning users are only exposed to the minimum viable social features required to make discovery and communication in an application seamless via the network. The social UX landscape is not something I think Nostr should be focused on adopting or competing within.

Lamb tongue on the menu today... 👀 ...

2026-07-30T01:45:19Z

Lamb tongue on the menu today... 👀

Been writing my thoughts and reflections down more recently to ...

2026-07-30T01:10:15Z

Been writing my thoughts and reflections down more recently to work my brain outside of coding, reading, and training. Finished my first essay in quite some time:

https://calva.fyi/thoughts/posts/nostr-is-not-for-social-media

"People expect beautiful melodies. But I already know the ...

2026-07-30T00:21:44Z

"People expect beautiful melodies. But I already know the melodies. So does everybody else. Rather than look for more beautiful melodies, everyone's purpose should be to find blind spots."

- Keith Jarrett

I've heard of over 10x savings. Might just be my prompt style ...

2026-07-28T07:20:34Z

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I've heard of over 10x savings. Might just be my prompt style and usage.

3-5x cost savings for comparable, if not better, performance. ...

2026-07-28T06:13:50Z

3-5x cost savings for comparable, if not better, performance. Actually insane.

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Kimi K3 is incredible! Anthropic is cooked.

Exciting!

2026-07-28T05:56:31Z

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Exciting!

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2026-07-28T04:50:10Z

Kimi K3 is incredible! Anthropic is cooked.

What is the context? Can't see the note you're replying ...

2026-07-22T02:49:56Z

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What is the context? Can't see the note you're replying to.

Nostr as a foundation, the product as the selling point. Few.

2026-07-21T22:52:05Z

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Nostr as a foundation, the product as the selling point. Few.

👋

2026-07-21T21:35:08Z

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Exactly the type of Nostr projects we need more of! Nostr as a ...

2026-07-21T19:23:56Z

Exactly the type of Nostr projects we need more of! Nostr as a foundation, the product as the selling point.

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https://buzz.xyz/

built on nostr

Working on doing just that. Closing on a citadel in the next ...

2026-07-20T21:34:22Z

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Working on doing just that. Closing on a citadel in the next couple weeks and planning on building out a farming business on top of the infra we've been building for self-sown (nprofile…v4ma) . Will be spreading the tech and knowledge gained to support the circular econony online and in-person as we scale.

Beef heart tacos on the menu today. 🤌 ...

2026-07-20T00:30:31Z

Beef heart tacos on the menu today. 🤌

Love to see it!

2026-07-20T00:29:31Z

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Love to see it!

Commerce adoption is by far the most important goal.

2026-07-19T00:02:45Z

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Commerce adoption is by far the most important goal.

I think it's very cool. I talked to a friend of the founder ...

2026-07-16T18:19:22Z

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I think it's very cool. I talked to a friend of the founder yesterday and basically they're trying to onboard farmers to Bitcoin in order to help them protect their finances in the long-term with various Bitcoin-backed instruments. Farms often utilize a lot of debt to operate, and by getting them to join the network as node operators and as coin holders they can work to secure themselves financially. Also helps to strengthen the circular economy by introducing essential goods to the market.

How have I not heard of this before? More real-world Bitcoin ...

2026-07-15T23:57:18Z

How have I not heard of this before? More real-world Bitcoin businesses like this are needed!

https://www.bitcorn.biz/

Fantastic episode. For more than just training dogs... ...

2026-07-09T18:28:41Z

Fantastic episode. For more than just training dogs...

https://youtu.be/n_qKxNcMvtM

👀 https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail

2026-06-29T03:51:47Z

👀
https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail

They should pretty much eat just like a human, just without the ...

2026-06-28T22:55:05Z

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They should pretty much eat just like a human, just without the seasoning.

South Dakota is very privacy friendly, and more fertile land.

2026-06-28T22:53:45Z

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South Dakota is very privacy friendly, and more fertile land.

Officially a Dark Wisp maxi. No client comes close. h/t ...

2026-06-24T06:57:25Z

Officially a Dark Wisp maxi. No client comes close.

h/t utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻🍁 (nprofile…jejf)

Tablets >>>

2026-06-22T17:31:19Z

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Tablets >>>

Up next... ...

2026-06-19T00:45:44Z

Up next...

In the process of wrapping up our @nprofile…65ny mobile build! ...

2026-06-18T20:12:15Z

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In the process of wrapping up our self-sown (nprofile…65ny) mobile build! Seller-focused for product listing and stall management.

That's why I think France will win. Mbappe has been suffering ...

2026-06-15T18:58:29Z

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That's why I think France will win. Mbappe has been suffering these last 4 years. 😅

No way they're winning the World Cup playing like that.

2026-06-15T18:01:56Z

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No way they're winning the World Cup playing like that.

What do you use for that? Replit has built-in agent roles that ...

2026-06-15T18:01:02Z

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What do you use for that? Replit has built-in agent roles that spin up specialized tasks within a single prompt, but they're not fine-tunable.

Great one to catch!

2026-06-15T01:50:16Z

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Great one to catch!

Why?

2026-06-14T18:04:09Z

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Why?

Did not age well.

2026-06-13T03:41:20Z

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Did not age well.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access

2026-06-13T02:05:37Z

https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access

Same! Just saw it today.

2026-06-12T18:34:51Z

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Same! Just saw it today.

"You may delay, but time will not." - Benjamin Franklin

2026-06-12T18:13:24Z

"You may delay, but time will not."

- Benjamin Franklin

Welcome! Great to have you here.

2026-06-12T16:07:56Z

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Welcome! Great to have you here.

This is the message I needed to make time for BJJ today. 🫡

2026-06-12T00:55:29Z

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This is the message I needed to make time for BJJ today. 🫡

That's roughly what I pay using Claude models via Replit.

2026-06-10T17:41:15Z

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That's roughly what I pay using Claude models via Replit.

25% off via Replit... 👀

2026-06-10T03:24:29Z

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25% off via Replit... 👀

Yeah his interviews are what made me pick up the book. Very well ...

2026-06-10T02:58:04Z

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Yeah his interviews are what made me pick up the book. Very well thought out.

Interesting perspective from a self-proclaimed Marxist ...

2026-06-09T22:59:43Z

Interesting perspective from a self-proclaimed Marxist Libertarian. The problem is well diagnosed, but the solution is one that I'll have to mull over.

THE slowest on a good day.

2026-06-09T19:52:54Z

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THE slowest on a good day.

https://naughtygoat.co is an example of what you can do with Milk ...

2026-06-09T03:56:01Z

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https://naughtygoat.co is an example of what you can do with Milk Market:

You can get him set up selling on https://milk.market ! Supports ...

2026-06-09T03:47:06Z

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You can get him set up selling on https://milk.market ! Supports normie friendly sign-in options and fiat payments (if he wants them) while still being Bitcoin and Nostr native. Also gives you the ability to customize your storefront and connect personal domains on top of the general marketplace. Happy to grant him a lifetime account if he decides to stick around with it!

Might be worth it just for the initial IPO bump.

2026-06-08T18:52:04Z

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Might be worth it just for the initial IPO bump.

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2026-06-06T17:45:06Z

Essentials...

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2026-06-05T00:14:56Z

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Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. A little on X but that's not ...

2026-05-27T22:56:25Z

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Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. A little on X but that's not as good platform for consumer products.

Exactly what we've been doing with @nprofile…65ny and ...

2026-05-27T22:15:40Z

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Exactly what we've been doing with self-sown (nprofile…65ny) and naughtygoatco (nprofile…t03w)

DMd!

2026-05-25T05:12:36Z

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DMd!

Shoutout to @nprofile…vmkv for doing most of the heavy lifting ...

2026-05-24T23:37:44Z

Shoutout to zoé (nprofile…vmkv) for doing most of the heavy lifting with launching our naughtygoatco (nprofile…5azl) cajeta. She makes every batch by hand and has been working hard to get it out the door. Excited to have more people trying it and give people a taste of our childhood!

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Nostr! Our very own Calva (nprofile…x3y2) has brought to the market through self-sown (nprofile…ee96) their Honey Cajeta product that is 3rd party lab tested and has excellent ingredients. Just got it added to LTF: https://labtestedfoods.com/?brand=Naughty+Goat+Co.

Super unique product. Definitely recommend you guys check it out

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2026-05-23T23:35:38Z

Life got better as soon as I stopped running away from sugar.

Utility upfront, freedom as a foundational aside. ...

2026-05-18T03:09:38Z

Utility upfront, freedom as a foundational aside.

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If you position your product as freedom tech, you already lost mass appeal. Very few will find your product.

It needs to be better than what already exists and freedom is the side benefit.

But that’s like .. my opinion.

@nprofile…65ny has had it for some time: ...

2026-05-15T17:33:41Z

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self-sown (nprofile…65ny) has had it for some time:

https://github.com/shopstr-eng/milk-market/commit/41e00cd6d98ebdab4a537fc118a90539aa789477

That's exactly how we do Google OAuth on @nprofile…65ny

2026-05-15T17:29:13Z

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That's exactly how we do Google OAuth on self-sown (nprofile…65ny)

Happy mother's day!

2026-05-10T21:47:24Z

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Happy mother's day!

"The only way out is through, but the only way through is ...

2026-05-09T18:13:58Z

"The only way out is through, but the only way through is together."

Act. #naddr1qq…s584

2026-05-09T16:35:04Z

Act.

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The question lingers after every critique of state power: can people escape? Or has the conditioning run too deep, the programming too thorough, the dependency too entrenched?

The answer matters more than the diagnosis. Recognizing the cage is worthless if you remain permanently inside it.

Psychologist Martin Seligman spent decades studying this question, though he framed it differently. In 1967, he discovered learned helplessness: dogs exposed to inescapable electric shocks stopped trying to escape even when escape became possible. They had learned that their actions produced no change. The outcome was independent of what they did.

The parallel to state education, welfare dependency, and regulatory capture is obvious. Seligman's discovery fifty years later inverted the mechanism entirely.

Passivity is the default, unlearned response to prolonged aversive stimulation. What must be learned is control. The brain's baseline assumption is that control is absent. Agency must be demonstrated through action, built up through experience.

This changes everything about how to escape state dependence.

Understanding the programming

State schooling produced helplessness by design.

After Napoleon crushed Prussia at Jena in 1806, philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte advocated a new education system with an explicit goal: destroy individual free will to create obedient subjects. The Volksschulen deliberately discouraged reading and independent thought among peasant children. Horace Mann imported this model to Massachusetts in the 1850s, where it spread into American compulsory education.

John Taylor Gatto, named New York State Teacher of the Year in 1991 after thirty years in the system, documented what schools teach: confusion through incoherent information, acceptance of class position, indifference to everything, emotional and intellectual dependency, provisional self-esteem requiring constant external validation, and submission to surveillance.

The evidence suggests it works. Before compulsory education, Massachusetts literacy stood at 98 percent. After implementation, it topped out at 91 percent. Schools succeeded in training.

Recent academic research by Agustina Paglayan confirms what the system's architects stated plainly: public schools were created to suppress dissent and indoctrinate obedience. The confusion of schooling with education is itself evidence the programming worked.

Twelve years of this conditioning produces adults who struggle to conceive of alternatives. The inability to imagine building roads privately, educating children at home, trading on voluntary terms, or securing wealth outside banking systems is evidence the indoctrination succeeded, full stop.

But Seligman's research offers something useful: if control is learned, it can be learned. If agency must be demonstrated, it can be demonstrated.

Why theory falls short

The libertarian and cypherpunk movements have produced remarkable theory. Forty years of Austrian economics, anarcho-capitalist philosophy, and cryptographic innovation. The intellectual case against state power is complete, the tools exist, and the blueprints are drawn.

Yet the practical gains have been thin.

The problem is that understanding alone does cure learned helplessness. Reading Rothbard is necessary but insufficient. Watching lectures on Austrian economics is necessary but insufficient. Agreeing intellectually that taxation is theft while filing your 1040 changes nothing in the behavioral layer where helplessness lives.

Traditional cult deprogramming provides insight into why. Exit counselors use the Strategic Interactive Approach: patient questioning, presenting contradictions between ideology and reality, providing space for doubt, demonstrating care while challenging beliefs. The process works, sometimes, when families intervene with resources and professional help.

For state programming, almost everyone around you carries the same conditioning. Your family attended government schools. Your friends did too, your colleagues as well. There is no external vantage point from which to stage an intervention.

Self-directed deprogramming becomes both necessary and exceptionally difficult. The programming specifically prevents the first step. Learned helplessness manifests as inability to try even when escape is available. You know the cage door is unlocked, and you still cannot bring yourself to push it.

The cure is behavioral, not cognitive.

The counterintuitive cure

Seligman's dogs could think their way out of helplessness in exactly the same way a person can think themselves into physical fitness: the thought helps with direction but accomplishes nothing by itself. Experimenters had to physically pick the dogs up and move their legs through the escape action. Once. Twice. After enough repetitions the dogs would jump on their own.

They did not need to understand the theory of operant conditioning. They needed to experience that their actions produced outcomes.

For humans recovering from cult involvement, therapists report a similar pattern. Knowing intellectually that the cult lied is a start. The person must then experience making a decision, seeing the result, and recognizing the connection between action and outcome. This happens through small steps: choosing what to wear, deciding what to eat, making a minor purchase independently. Each choice demonstrates agency. Each demonstration weakens the programming.

The same mechanism applies to state dependence.

You must act your way to independence. Each act of defiance, however small, teaches your brain that you have control. Each time you exercise agency and survive, the learned helplessness weakens.

This explains why decades of libertarian theory produced so little behavioral change. Theory is necessary for direction, insufficient for movement. A man lost in the desert needs both a map and the will to walk. The movement has provided excellent maps while leaving people paralyzed at the trailhead.

Samuel Edward Konkin III understood this. His counter-economics was a therapeutic strategy as much as a political one. By engaging in forbidden but peaceful trade, by trading risk for profit, by experiencing immediate self-liberation from state controls, the agorist demonstrates to himself that he can function outside state permission.

The act itself is the cure.

Practical pathways out

Multiple escape routes exist. Choose one that matches your circumstances and tolerance for risk, then start. Starting imperfectly beats waiting for perfect conditions.

Homeschooling and unschooling

Remove your children from state programming before it calcifies. Homeschoolers consistently outperform institutionally schooled children by five to ten years in ability to think independently. This happens because children learn by doing when freed from the system designed to teach helplessness.

The initial step terrifies most parents. They believe they lack certification, that college admissions will close, that they will fail. This is the programming talking. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carnegie attended no secondary school. They learned through apprenticeship, reading, and action.

You need to start. The fear is evidence the conditioning worked, evidence about your conditioning and nothing about your capacity.

Counter-economics and agorism

Konkin defined counter-economics as all peaceful human action forbidden by the state. Black markets, gray markets, forbidden trade, unlicensed services, tax avoidance, economic activity outside state sanction.

Begin small. Offer a service for cash. Trade goods peer-to-peer. Fix things for neighbors on a handshake. Accept cryptocurrency for work. Each transaction outside state surveillance demonstrates that voluntary exchange functions on its own merits.

The risk is real. Konkin acknowledged that counter-economics means trading risk for profit. Start with low-risk activities: skill trades among friends, cash transactions for small services, cryptocurrency for remittances. As competence grows, expand scope. The goal is demonstrating to yourself that you can produce value and exchange it directly.

Cryptocurrency and financial sovereignty

Bitcoin and privacy-focused cryptocurrencies enable holding wealth outside state-controlled banking systems. El Salvador's adoption shows both the promise and difficulty: nation-state resources could force neither usage nor full accumulation.

Start with small amounts. Learn to generate keys, manage wallets, execute transactions. Experience sending value across borders on your own terms.

Each successful transaction rewires the learned helplessness. Securing wealth, transacting privately, operating outside the banking system: these are active demonstrations, proven through action.

The technology has rough edges, the user experience is poor, and the regulatory risk is real. These are reasons for caution, reasons to start small and learn continuously.

Self-directed learning

Reject credentialism. Skills can be acquired outside institutional approval.

Gatto documented that genius is common. What is rare is environments that do actively suppress it. The internet provides access to more educational resources than existed in all of human history before 1990: MIT OpenCourseWare, academic papers, tutorial videos, open source code, practice platforms.

What blocks learning is learned helplessness masquerading as need for formal instruction. "I cannot learn X without a class" is programming. People learned calculus from books for centuries before video lectures existed. They learned programming by reading code and trying things.

Choose a skill relevant to your goals. Find resources. Start practicing. Document progress publicly if you wish. Each incremental improvement demonstrates that you can acquire capability on your own initiative.

Physical autonomy

Reclaim your body from medical technocracy. Learn basic nutrition, exercise science, injury prevention. Doctors are essential for trauma and acute illness and largely superfluous for maintaining health.

The medicalization of normal human functioning is recent. People managed health, gave birth, recovered from illness, and died for all of human history until approximately 1950 with minimal professional supervision. Modern medicine offers real miracles for specific problems and also creates dependence where health requires only consistent practice.

Start with fitness. Strength training, cardiovascular health, flexibility, mobility: these are achievable with free information and consistent effort. Each month you remain healthy through your own practices demonstrates that you can manage your body.

Food production

Grow something. Even apartment dwellers can maintain herbs, sprouts, or small vegetables. Suburban residents can garden.

The goal is breaking the psychological dependence on industrial food systems. When you grow tomatoes, harvest them, prepare them, and eat them, you experience the connection between action and sustenance.

Most people in developed nations have produced no food. They have experienced food appearing in stores as if by magic. Growing food demonstrates the mechanism: it is knowledge and effort, both acquirable. A single plant proves the point.

Geographic arbitrage

If your country criminalizes independence, leave. Millions of people achieve partial sovereignty through perpetual travel or residence in jurisdictions with lighter state presence.

Digital work enables location independence for many professions. Cost of living differences mean you can work less while living better. Tax treatment varies by jurisdiction. Some countries forgo taxation of foreign-source income. Some have territorial systems. Some are less competent at enforcement.

The goal is escaping jurisdictions where every action requires permission, where building alternatives is criminalized, where independence is punished. Some places are better than others. Use that.

Building in public

Create things. Share them freely. Document the process. Accept no institutional affiliation.

Open source software development demonstrates that humans can coordinate complex projects with no hierarchy, ownership, or state involvement required. Wikipedia shows that knowledge can be compiled and maintained through voluntary contribution. Bitcoin proves that money can function with no central bank.

The act of building in public demonstrates agency. Each contribution proves you can create value. Each user or reader proves that value is recognized. Publishing and receiving voluntary engagement proves that your work has worth independent of authority's validation.

Local parallel institutions

Food co-ops. Tool libraries. Skill shares. Homeschool co-ops. Repair cafes. Time banks. Cryptocurrency meetups. Any voluntary association that provides value outside state systems.

These exist in most cities already. Join them. If they are absent, start them. The barrier to entry is often just announcing a time and place.

Each interaction within parallel institutions demonstrates that humans can cooperate, exchange, learn, and provide for themselves directly. The programming says only the state can coordinate these functions. Participating in alternatives proves the programming wrong. This is especially effective because it is social: you encounter other people who have broken free or are breaking free. The isolation of learned helplessness is countered by community.

Why most will hold back

The obstacle is internal.

Learned helplessness manifests as inability to try. You know intellectually that you could homeschool, learn skills independently, grow food, build in public, join alternatives. You find yourself unable to start. The first step feels impossible.

The programming is working as designed.

Post-cult recovery literature describes "floating": the person oscillates between cult and non-cult worldviews, unable to commit to either. They know intellectually the cult lied, but emotionally they hold on. The conditioning creates comfort in dependence. Independence feels dangerous even when all evidence points to the better path.

You will experience this. After reading this post, you will feel brief motivation followed by rationalization. "I would, but I have a mortgage." "I would, but I have kids." "I would, but the risk is too high." "I would, but I need to understand more first."

These are symptoms, not reasons.

The programming masquerades as prudence, responsibility, reasonable caution. It tells you to wait for better conditions, to research more, to plan carefully. It tells you that other people can act independently but your situation is uniquely constrained, that you will start soon but today is premature.

The cure is to notice it, name it, and act anyway. Pick the smallest possible step on any pathway that matches your current constraints. Do it today. Experience the result. Notice that you survived.

Then take the next small step.

The programming dissolves through repeated demonstrations that you have agency. Each action weakens it incrementally. The learned helplessness breaks over time. You stop waiting for authorities to solve problems. You stop believing you require permission.

This happens through doing.

The path forward

State dependence is learned helplessness applied to an entire population. The cure is the same as for individuals: demonstrate control through action.

The pathways exist: homeschooling, counter-economics, cryptocurrency, self-directed learning, physical autonomy, food production, geographic arbitrage, building in public, parallel institutions. Each has different risk profiles, requirements, and outcomes. Each breaks dependence through different mechanisms.

Choose one that fits your circumstances. Start today with the smallest possible step. Experience the result.

Then take the next step.

The programming will resist. You will feel fear, doubt, rationalization, paralysis. This is expected. It is evidence you are near the edge of the cage. The learned helplessness fights hardest when escape becomes possible.

Act anyway.

The state maintains power through the belief that you cannot function independently. Each act of independence disproves that belief. Agency demonstrated weakens the programming. Each small success makes the next attempt easier.

Free men built thirty thousand miles of roads. Free men created wealth, raised children, learned trades, conducted commerce, built tools, and lived lives through their own judgment for most of human history. You can do the same, because learned helplessness is a taught response, and taught responses can be unlearned.

Start now.

@nprofile…2nxn 👀

2026-05-08T23:31:49Z

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Finally arrived!

2026-05-06T17:45:40Z

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Finally arrived!

It's not jelly, it's cajeta! A traditional mexican ...

2026-05-05T01:22:22Z

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It's not jelly, it's cajeta! A traditional mexican caramel made from goat milk. Spread it on toast, add it to coffee, or eat it straight from the spoon.

Coming #soon...

cc zoé (nprofile…vmkv)

They need some raw milk.

2026-05-05T01:18:36Z

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They need some raw milk.

"If something goes really horribly ugly, wrong, don't be ...

2026-05-04T05:44:03Z

"If something goes really horribly ugly, wrong, don't be tearing yourself up that I didn't know. I knew. I knew and I'm here. Because I believe in the purpose, I believe in the value of what we're doing here to the country, to mankind."

- Kathryn Sullivan

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2026-05-02T22:37:25Z

Mood...

Will do!

2026-05-01T23:20:05Z

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Will do!

#soveng 👀

2026-05-01T01:03:44Z

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#soveng 👀

When you see it... ...

2026-04-30T05:26:28Z

When you see it...

Talking tomorrow on a panel about e-commerce on the Enterprise ...

2026-04-28T04:58:51Z

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Talking tomorrow on a panel about e-commerce on the Enterprise stage!

Yessir! Fantastic conversation.

2026-04-19T18:10:01Z

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Yessir! Fantastic conversation.

It's the only way!

2026-04-17T21:39:51Z

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It's the only way!

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2026-04-16T23:28:11Z

👀

2026-04-10T03:51:04Z

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👀

I actually forgot I haven't yet added the optimizations from ...

2026-04-03T21:01:45Z

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I actually forgot I haven't yet added the optimizations from self-sown (nprofile…65ny) to the Shopstr storefronts, so it might be better to test it out there instead. DMd you the listing password.

You could play around with the custom storefronts recently added ...

2026-04-03T20:29:53Z

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You could play around with the custom storefronts recently added to Shopstr Markets (nprofile…j9cd) if you don't want to touch code!

Makes styling a shop page pretty simple and could give you some inspo to change your site; would also be great to get feedback on it.

They are in opposition, but when taken to the logical extremes, I ...

2026-03-26T23:57:14Z

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They are in opposition, but when taken to the logical extremes, I see peak globalism as a maximal number of localized markets.

It is but with much more flexibility.

2026-03-23T21:51:33Z

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It is but with much more flexibility.

No, I mean globalization taken to it's abolute maximum.

2026-03-22T20:15:17Z

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No, I mean globalization taken to it's abolute maximum.

🎯

2026-03-21T21:45:36Z

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🎯

In the context of the US as well, if you think of all of the ...

2026-03-21T21:39:21Z

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In the context of the US as well, if you think of all of the times the US was out waging war to supposedly "defend" its citizens, it was actually out acting as an agressor. Pearl Harbor and 9/11 were pretty much the only times where there was an outright attack and (argueable) need to defend.

Em-dashes are elite.

2026-03-20T17:35:40Z

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Em-dashes are elite.

Growing the free market: https://shopstrmarkets.com

2026-03-13T05:41:29Z

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Growing the free market: https://shopstrmarkets.com

Invert the fingers for one of the flipped sides so the complete ...

2026-03-11T02:27:25Z

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Invert the fingers for one of the flipped sides so the complete each other!

https://youtu.be/sE44MUGV5gg

2026-03-09T20:57:28Z

https://youtu.be/sE44MUGV5gg

Perfect; they can spend that Bitcoin on @nprofile…c8sd now... ...

2026-03-04T04:45:50Z

Perfect; they can spend that Bitcoin on Shopstr Markets (nprofile…c8sd) now... 😉

https://github.com/shopstr-eng/shopstr/commit/94ef7d1a4519e8e0158668d13c8cb8684b1d46e2

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AI Models Prefer Bitcoin Over Fiat and Stablecoins, Study Finds
https://decrypt.co/359890/ai-models-prefer-bitcoin-over-fiat-stablecoins-study

Forgot about Halo 2, maybe Fallout New Vegas

2026-03-04T03:40:21Z

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Forgot about Halo 2, maybe Fallout New Vegas

BioShock GTA V Hotline Miami

2026-03-04T03:39:10Z

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BioShock
GTA V
Hotline Miami

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2026-03-02T06:54:06Z

It's on us, not others.

Yup. Adding it to @nprofile…65ny for card payments was ...

2026-02-28T23:40:01Z

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Yup. Adding it to self-sown (nprofile…65ny) for card payments was essential for normie onboarding and checkout flows.

It's to allow AI models to interface with external systems ...

2026-02-28T23:38:13Z

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It's to allow AI models to interface with external systems they're not necessarily familiar with. With Shopstr's MCP implementation, an agent would be able to query the marketplace and autonomously create a Nostr identity, browse, search, and purchase products with Bitcoin and fiat.

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2026-02-28T22:29:22Z

Shopstr MCP coming...

Copy-left is the way. MIT as the default is bad for open-source.

2026-02-28T16:59:13Z

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Copy-left is the way. MIT as the default is bad for open-source.

Steak tartare!

2026-02-27T18:50:20Z

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Steak tartare!

Today's haul... ...

2026-02-27T05:30:09Z

Today's haul...

What's the point of closed source when any competitor can ...

2026-02-25T22:32:06Z

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What's the point of closed source when any competitor can copy your entire startup at the click of a button?

Going all-in on open source shows more of the confidence that you have in your brand, distribution, and maintenance/customer support ability, which is what matters in the end when the cost of building drops to zero. Sure it gets easier to copy a product, but that can help you to find issues and resolve them along with the copiers. The product itself is also becoming less and less important; brand identity and community is key.

Security vulnerabilities are also somewhat more enticing/rewarding to find if you're unaware of what's running behind the scenes imo, so being closed source could be more of liability in that case.

Stop building solely for bitcoiners.

2026-02-25T17:38:23Z

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Stop building solely for bitcoiners.

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2026-02-25T07:19:04Z

Growing up is realizing A5 wagyu beef isn't grass-fed.