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Hollistic Rabbit Hole 🐇🌀🛸[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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by Kudzai Kutukwa · Edited

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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by Alien Investor

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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by Grafton · Edited

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by Kudzai Kutukwa

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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by Grafton

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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by TFTC

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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by Grafton

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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by 𝙰𝚂𝙲𝙾𝚃 ↯

The Harmonised Soul

Plato’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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by Kudzai Kutukwa

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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by 𝙰𝚂𝙲𝙾𝚃 ↯

Why Knowing More Makes Life Harder — And What to Do About It

Intelligence is a precision tool for solving the world’s puzzles, yet it often fails to solve the riddle of the person holding it. While knowledge expands our horizons, it frequently deepens our capacity for rumination, moral exhaustion, and "analysis paralysis." This essay explores why a powerful intellect can become an existential burden and how we can use the embodied wisdom of Zen, the playful perspective of Alan Watts, and the conscious "self-remembering" of G.I. Gurdjieff to transform a heavy mind into a grounded, joyful presence.

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by Kudzai Kutukwa

The Network Always Wins

Power was never a person. It was never a party, an ideology, or an institution. It is a network; dense, invisible, self-correcting and Epstein was simply one of its many nodes. Remove a node and the network reroutes. Expose a scandal and the network absorbs it. The connections remain. The machinery hums on. While the masses reset with every news cycle, outraged and isolated, the network compounds across generations; accumulating capital, infrastructure, and control that no election, no protest, and no hashtag has ever threatened.

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