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Hollistic Rabbit Hole ๐Ÿ‡๐ŸŒ€๐Ÿ›ธ[OG]

[Original] Listing some cool and/or controversial accounts on nostr. trying to put people in here with different viewpoints and vibes to keep it as hollistic as possible for debates, arguments, reasons, discussions, controversies and contradictions. open to suggestions as well.

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โ€œClose to Zeroโ€

Daniel Ekโ€™s โ€œclose to zeroโ€ claim ignores reality: even basic music production costs hundreds, and professional releases cost thousands plus time. Treating it as cheap โ€œcontentโ€ misrepresents the true investment behind it, especially on Spotify.

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Build Your Own Nostr Relay with Quartz

A step-by-step guide to spinning up a NIP-01 compliant Nostr relay in Kotlin โ€” transport-agnostic, policy-driven, and production-ready โ€” using the Quartz library from the Amethyst project.

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What About The Dow?

When US Attorney General Pam Bondi was asked how many of Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirators had been indicted, she answered with the Dow Jones. Not as a deflection but probably as a warning. What if the men who ran the most documented elite sex-trafficking network in history are the same men holding your retirement account together? What if justice has a price tag, and it's denominated in index points? This is an indictment of a system carefully engineered so that you will always choose your 401(k) over the truth and feel perfectly rational doing so.

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Once Bitten, Never Shy

When Wall Street burned the world in 2008 and walked away without a single prosecution, the public shrugged and went back to the casino. When COVID-era health authorities censored their own scientists, moved goalposts without apology, and retired with carefully managed reputations while billions suffered the consequences, the public shrugged again and kept watching CNN doctors. Two historic crises. Two perfect opportunities to evolve. Two collective failures of memory so staggering they can no longer be explained by stupidity alone. This is demoralization; the stage at which a population has been so thoroughly broken that it cannot process reality even when reality is staring it in the face. The machine doesn't need to lie to you anymore. It just needs you to keep trusting it.

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Why Every Bitcoiner Should Run a Full Node

A personal Bitcoin full node is the most effective tool for achieving financial sovereignty, privacy, and true independence. Operating without one means trusting third parties to verify your transactions, which undermines the core properties that separate Bitcoin from traditional fiat systems. This article outlines ten reasons why running a node is essential and provides practical steps for implementation.

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The Architecture Of Betrayal

On a quiet Friday in March 2026, BlackRock did something that should send a chill down the spine of every retail investor who has been sold the dream of "premium returns" through private credit: it told most of its investors trying to exit its HPS Corporate Lending Fund that they could not have their money back. Not all of it. Not now.

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Freedom is a beautiful thing

From watching a dirt bike load pixel by pixel in 1995 Mississippi to building apps on a Mac mini in Prague. How the internet went from playground to prison and why AI brought the tinkering back.

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Samourai Letter #5: Notes From The Inside

Originally published by @theragetech here: therage.co/keonne-rodriguez-letter-skinwalker/ Dear Reader, It has been a while since we last spoke. My last letter was written on the anniversary of my first month of

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You Didn't Consent to This... Digital ID, your data, and what you should be concerned about.

Settle in, bookmark this, its a long one, but something everyone needs to know. You did not consent to this. Digital ID is here. Governments and corporations are racing to tie your real identity to everything you do online. Your face, your fingerprint, your passport. They're calling it progress. The evidence says it's a disaster. From age verification laws already active in 25 US states to the EU's mandatory digital identity wallet launching this year, this piece breaks down who's pushing it, who profits, and why the "nothing to hide" argument falls apart the moment you look at the data.

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The Harmonised Soul

Platoโ€™s philosophy of the soul remains one of the most influential frameworks in Western thought, bridging the gap between rational inquiry and spiritual aspiration. By defining the soul as an immortal, simple, yet internally complex entity, Plato provides a roadmap for human existence that prioritises the eternal the ephemeral. His vision is one of Substance Dualism, where the soul is a divine prisoner within a mortal body, seeking to return to its true home: the World of the Forms.

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The Network Always Wins (Part II)

Every counter-network that has ever threatened power has met the same fate not defeat, but absorption. This essay is the anatomy of how capture actually happens, why it announces itself as opportunity rather than threat, and what structural design choices separate a genuine counter-network from controlled opposition wearing revolutionary clothing.

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