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smeef
@smeef

Cypherpunk fan. Gen Z. Very passionate about communal/decentralized tech. Check my nsite for some of my projects.

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Relays (7)
  • wss://nos.lol/ – read & write
  • wss://relay.ditto.pub/ – read & write
  • wss://relay.primal.net/ – read & write
  • wss://ae3t4h2.oops.wtf/ – write
  • wss://nostr-01.yakihonne.com/ – write
  • wss://purplerelay.com/ – write
  • wss://livestream.livelier.live/ – read

Recent Notes

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What's the appeal of Omarchy? What's the deal with the culture behind it? Curious to hear individual's perspectives.
#asknostr
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librekitty · 4h
the idea is that it's a simple opinionated distro the issue is that the opinions include promoting nonfree software/services
arkinox · 1d
ah I have to allow that event kind. I'll look into that, sorry!
arkinox · 1d
I'll probably move this to Armada after I try it out
Anarchy Edu · 3d
https://blossom.primal.net/34403c9e61ecada42ecc3b3e042b88d49b52e6999cbc63a4df6aac574a0d069f.jpg
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In its Mississippi Declaration of Secession (adopted January 1861), the state placed slavery at the absolute center of its decision:
"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery—the greatest material interest of the world... a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization."

In the Declaration of a Causes Which Impel the State of Texas to Secede, the state explicitly argued that the federal government was violating its foundational racial hierarchies:
"She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery—the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits—a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness, which the people intended should exist in all future time."

In its Georgia Secession Declaration (adopted January 1861), the state listed its grievances against the North immediately:
"For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery."

The very first state to leave issued the South Carolina Declaration of Secession. It focused heavily on Northern states failing to enforce federal laws protecting slave owners, specifically referencing the Fugitive Slave Act:
"They have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted the open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States."

Key word "property". I wonder what that refers to.

If you look beyond the secession documents to the leaders who designed the Confederate government, the messaging is identical. On March 21, 1861, the Vice President of the Confederacy, Alexander H. Stephens, gave a famous public address known as the Cornerstone Speech. In it, he stated clearly that the new nation was explicitly built upon the preservation of white supremacy and slavery:
"Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition
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smeef · 2d
This is AI, but getting quotes from primary sources.
Anarchy Edu · 2d
No one is saying that outright chattel slavery didn’t play a role at all in the Civil War… The *primary purpose* does seem to be about the enslavement of half the continent. https://odysee.com/@Gravy:7/Abraham-Lincoln-American-Dictator:6 Either way, Lincoln is trash who got what he deserved ...
Aldocstr · 2d
Yet the Northern gentry also owned slaves
R · 4d
Probably nobody is willing to pay for memes. That said, I completely support someone who wants to run the experiment and put their memes behind a paywall.
Naruto · 4d
The shielded Bitcoin thing is way worse than that. It relies on trust in like 12 different places and the design is extremely impractical. in theory the deisgn is way worse than even Zcash.
Hofer99 · 4d
Are you a ckanker
Contra · 4d
Time will tell
kampouse.near · 4d
It requires some level of centralization and similar to what liquid did
El · 4d
Day 5 of a normie. Feeling a bit disappointed with Nostr but increasingly fascinated by its people. Would you agree that people use social media primarily for consumption and connection? If so, I thi...
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Trying new clients always helps. I use Nostria a lot and it has a For You page which can help a bit. Trending feeds can be useful, you can check the comments on popular posts and see if anyone catches your eye, then check out their posts. Stuff like that.

Finding relevant and timely hashtags automatically isn't the easiest problem, but it is doable, even if the computation is done locally. That should be a thing.
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