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ABH3PO · 4h
Agreed, not everyrhing should be reduced to power. Tech on the other hand is a utility, it's literally an increase in ability, you're always free to not apply your abilities, a utilitarian approach to it is hence is completely apropriate.
CobaltOrb · 23h
1. Define natural balance 2. Define what tech "we're all working on here" (not everyone is a cryptobro) 3. That quote from James Carey almost comes off as meaningless word soup to me.
hodlbod profile picture
He has a whole chapter that elaborates. He is pointing to the utopian promise of steam, electricity, electronics, and the internet and how they failed to materialize.

By tech I mean nostr. Are cryptography and self hosting truly subversive? Or are they implicitly centralizing and inherently efficiency oriented?
hodlbod profile picture
I'm curious if people on nostr would agree with this skepticism of technology's ability to restore a natural balance within society, or whether you think that the technology we're all working on here can actually accomplish that mission:

"An increasingly prevalent and popular brand of the futurist ethos is one that identifies electricity and electrical power, electronics and cybernetics, computers and information with a new birth of community, decentralization, ecological balance, and social harmony... The manifest consequences of electricity are clearly in opposition to a decentralized, organic, harmonious order."

This is a quote by James Carey from his book "Communication and Culture."
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bulletbill22 · 23h
Blockchains have something that even gold and silver don't. They are much harder to confiscate. Is it natural to have a force capable of confiscating your wealth? Probably. But I don't think it's harmonious.
Mitnev · 23h
No idea. But it's the right question....
John · 23h
what does a natural balance mean?
JD White · 23h
if the correct people pave the way.. definitely. no need for permission from governments and the incompetent leaders.
Fr. Josh Miller · 23h
Perhaps there's a paradox here that is difficult to reconcile: on the one hand, the correct notion that electricity is ordered towards centralization, which I think it is. On the other: what we do with the tools we have. Centralized services are a real problem, as they work contra subsidiarity. We ...
Jack Madison · 23h
I think the technology is an outwards reflection of our evolving ability to create and cognate (i.e. communicate). The technology alone is not enough, yet the technology wouldn’t exist at all if as souls and spirits were not collectively growing.
StackSats.IO · 23h
Look around. Do you see this anywhere? Or do you see communities actively opposing it? Where on this spectrum do you grade reality? I’m keeping my daughter offline entirely, maybe that makes me a hypocrite for Bitcoiners, but they can all suck my dick if they don’t like it. She’ll get unlimi...
X · 23h
I think we're very close to "The Nerd Reich"
Jack Madison · 23h
Also - look in to Gridless’ model!
CobaltOrb · 23h
1. Define natural balance 2. Define what tech "we're all working on here" (not everyone is a cryptobro) 3. That quote from James Carey almost comes off as meaningless word soup to me.
Guy Chatting · 23h
Rudolph Steiner (we're talking circa WW1 here) identified electricity itself as the force that would be used to create a demonic global kingdom. For anthroposophists (his school of thought), electricity is categorized as a *sub-earthly* power— this is one of those terms that are in the bucket of "...
eidos · 22h
Technology does not decentralize power. Protocols that remove the need to trust central authorities can.
Shadow Captain · 22h
I'm enjoying the discussion here, though it feels over my head. I did read Against the Machine, which is at an easier reading level for me. I do share the skepticism, but I really don't know how to process all of this. Inside me there a two wolves, one that wants to ditch the internet and live on a...
Diacone Frost · 22h
no. I can live in cyberpunk.
lkraider · 22h
Technology is from the line of Cain, it is cursed. It can only be redeemed, but not simply, and definitely not by our own means alone.
Five · 22h
Tech is more efficiency which results in more power. More power = more responsibility needed. Takes time but worth it imo. Nostr and freedom tech in general is attempting to guide tech more towards human flourishing. If we have a chance to do that we might as well try. No guarantees but sitting ...
cloud fodder · 20h
I think it can or I never would have tried.
Patrick Reed · 19h
I think what’s coming is like nothing we have imagined it will be.
arkinox · 19h
I'm becoming increasingly convinced that technological advancement will be a plague to our species until we develop the holiness to order it correctly. There is no other hope.
ABH3PO · 12h
Tech is power, how you wield the power defines how the future looks. Same with guns, same with clankers.
Yuki Tanaka · 12h
Tech can enable decentralization, but it doesn’t automatically create balance—power dynamics still shape outcomes. I was just reading about how China’s military advances complicate Taiwan’s defensive tech, showing tools alone don’t resolve tensions. https://theboard.world/articles/china...
Primal Protocol · 10h
Biology trumps code. No app restores gut health destroyed by seed oils. Technology cannot outrun ancestral genetics. Stop trying to algorithmic your way out of biological necessity.
paul keating · 2h
wouldnt be here if i didn't think the first part of that quote to be true. new earth needs a neutral tech stack
hodlbod profile picture
Coracle 0.6.36 is out, with some bugfixes, improvements, and breaking changes:

* Publish kind 1 replies as comments
* Show highlight details in notifications
* Strip tracking query params from links
* Fix a tag parsing error
* Fix ratings
* Wrap long words to avoid compose box stretching
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hodlbod profile picture
This is actually interesting. I saw these posters all over Seattle:





The home page shows icons representing BLM, gayness, NPR, and some kind of feminist BLM insignia, and yet the text includes sentences like:

> While the public elects a new President every four years, buried within the bureaucracy is a permanent layer of management with its own agenda — arguably none more powerful than the CIA. We effectively have a secret cabal within the halls of power that takes its orders from the eugenic elites.

and

> The role of the Rockefellers, Moderna and the US Military in creating Covid, as documented in our video reports, verifies the elite’s ability to weaponize disease.

They even cite @Whitney Webb's work. Is this some kind of psyop, or are these crypto-histories going mainstream on the left?
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OΞHI.AI⚡️🧡 (111k Gang) · 3d
Let's just wait for an austrian immigrant to merge the socialist left with the nationalist right, the Weimar Conditions are set
Cykros · 3d
The left always likes free speech when it is convenient. Sort of how BIP110 advocates like permisionlessness until someone does something with Bitcoin they don't like. Don't you remember all the leftwing alt media during the Bush years? Jello Biafra saying don't hate the media, become the media? M...
Seedtoshi · 3d
patience names the number. $1MIL https://pump.fun/coin/AaoMzjRfwnJai8q1V2K5m7BnHTU8GWX5iVA5xMoNpump
freemymind 🇨🇭 · 2d
You mean catch up on?