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Johnathan Corgan
@jcorgan

🎶 Older now, but still running against the wind 🎶

Scientist, engineer, consultant, pilot. Slinger of bits and reducer of gradients.

EN/ES ☸️

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Relays (11)
  • wss://bevo.nostr1.com/ – read & write
  • wss://bitcoiner.social/ – read & write
  • wss://nos.lol/ – read
  • wss://nostr.mom/ – read
  • wss://relay.damus.io/ – read & write
  • wss://relay.mostr.pub/ – read
  • wss://relay.nos.social/ – read & write
  • wss://relay.nostr.band/ – read
  • wss://relay.nostrplebs.com/ – read
  • wss://relay.primal.net/ – read & write
  • wss://soloco.nl/ – read & write

Recent Notes

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No need to disengage, just stop arguing. Be an example, not an adversary.

Bitcoin touches on so many convenient but sacred fictions that many people have to hit "fiat bottom" before they become willing to entertain alternatives to what everyone knows.

Joe Welbourn, Ph.D in HODL @joewelbourn · 4w
I have reached the point where I only want to talk to Bitcoiners. People trapped in the “Fiat World” suck the life out of me; includes my family and friends. Fist fight with my brother over “investing”. Surreal. I want to educate non-bitcoiners, but they are so close-m Show more
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Johnathan Corgan · 4w
This also means you have to be comfortable going your own way and not rely on familial or tribal membership to validate who you are.
Flemingfarm · 10w
Curious myself. I just listened to Shirley McClain's book about her trip on the Camino. My paraglider wing is named the Camino so got interested recently via the name connection.
Yough! · 11w
Non fat Greek yogurt, Organic wheat flour, yeast, sea salt. You can check our website as well if you would like to see each pizza flavor nutrition profile Johnathan! 🙏🍕👊
Lyn Alden · 72w
Until election season is over, Twitter has reached rock-bottom to me. I won’t say it’s unusable, since I am using it, but I have to navigate around its main thing to continue with the positive el...
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Twitter has end stage cancer by algorithm--one that promotes rage and attention seeking. As people who are repelled by such things leave, the dynamic is reinforced by the self-selected people who remain and the bots that game them.

Other social media communities exist that, while differing in details, lack this influence and this outcome.

Personally I've found the Fediverse (usually called Mastodon for its most popular client), and of course Nostr, immensely satisfying for this reason. Very different communities with very different norms, but neither suffer (at least in my corner of each) from this kind of perpetual rage bait and "engagement" seeking.

Yes, there is much objectionable (to me) content on both, but it is much easier to ignore as it is not promoted in your face.

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Chucky 🫂 · 72w
Agreed.. rage, racism, anti semitism, fights and anger, I tried to mute it all by kept getting horrible content of clearly biased people. Terrible algo, so glad I'm out of that dumpster.
Christopher Bendiksen · 71w
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Strhodler · 71w
Rage, attention seeking... and scams, wallet drainers, fake news...
pietre · 71w
This was exactly my point when discussing nostr vs. twitter with a friend of mine. There's garbage on both sides, it's just way easier to filter it on nostr
Deleted Account · 71w
One thing I give Elon is he’s remained steadfast in burning it down from the inside. Respect 🫡
Deleted Account · 71w
How humanity reacts in the next 10 years will echo for eons. #AI lawsuits are prevalent The #human #rights are interconnected. People must consider the ramifications of these. We either fight for all of humanity or none. Everyone needs to accept the #information #truth World War 3 has been...
Martin · 71w
Really the lack of any algo entirely solves the problem. If you can't game the algo, when you try to be a loud mouthed influencer, people will just unfollow you. With an algo, you will keep fishing low IQ morons as followers and somehow think that you are on to something.
vaultbyte · 71w
Decentralize the world and enjoy the results
Guy Swann · 73w
I once had a dream so vivid and that caused me such anxiety that it has burned itself into my memory, to the point that I had the dream again later, and that this weird part of my mind actually thinks...
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I left the military (Navy) decades ago, but still occasionally have dreams that I'm back in (but at my present age) and about to go out to sea on my ship and I don't have any uniforms, supplies, or anything else I'm supposed to have. 😆
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Clark Moody · 74w
What Bitcoin businesses need to exist but don't?
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Business that facilitate the creation and operation of protocols and software to allow individuals and businesses to do things peer-to-peer with only the Bitcoin blockchain as the final arbiter.

Bisq is an OG example of this.

Lightning was a huge step forward.

Nostr as a base layer for distributed application state via notes and relays took this further.

It would be nice to see bitcoin developing its own peer-to-peer complex transaction models that might be facilitated by a third party arbiter or oracle, instead of enmeshing itself more deeply with a flawed "tradfi" system.
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