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War is a business with concentrated beneficiaries and dispersed victims. The defense industry has already won the arithmetic of democratic politics: small groups with large stakes outorganize large groups with small ones. Moral arguments against war fail because they address the powerless while ignoring the powerful. Peace will prevail when the incentive structure that makes war profitable is redesigned to make peace more profitable.

Such retro, much wow.

@Danny Morabito wrote a tool to inspect your marmot key packages.

Now we can just vibe beautiful debug tools!

https://dr-marmot.pages.dev/

Looks like we'll have the next @White Noise release tomorrow!
This is gonna be a big one, it'll finally "just work". @Amber support coming too!

Well that escalated quickly, now how to find the time to read all those...
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Got any book recommendations?

Do we really still not have a decent nostr search engine?

New app by @greenart7c3, Morganite, a local blossom server for android.
https://github.com/greenart7c3/Morganite

My previous post showed that merchant courts resolve trade disputes with greater speed and lower cost than any state monopoly. One objection always follows: violence, the cases that supposedly demand a public prosecutor and a prison.
From medieval Iceland to the Somali pastoral lands, legal traditions separated by oceans and centuries answer the objection the same way. Criminal acts were debts owed to specific victims, enforced through victim restitution and community exclusion.

Great rip about privacy, might turn Tucker into a cypherpunk...

The Tucker Carlson Show: How to Stop the Government From Spying on You, Explained by a Digital Privacy Expert
https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/384D27/mgln.ai/e/101/pscrb.fm/rss/p/clrtpod.com/m/traffic.megaphone.fm/TCN7874419550.mp3?updated=1771014910

Private dispute resolution keeps reappearing across centuries and civilizations because the economic logic that produces it is the same logic that produces every other market. State courts exhibit every pathology economists predict from monopoly: high cost and zero accountability to the people who use them.
This post argues that merchant courts were the market default that states displaced, and that technology is now restoring them.

@Zapstore is indexing about 1 new app per second currently.

Every bill of exchange in pre-1914 London carried a death date. Ninety-one days after acceptance, the consumer's gold payment for the delivered goods extinguished the credit that had financed the entire chain from production to sale.
Modern government debt carries no such mechanism. It rolls over perpetually, compounding interest on interest, until the arithmetic forces either default or debasement.

Your code lives on GitHub and your binaries distribute through Google Play, with dependencies pulled from npm (also owned by Microsoft). Two corporations control the pipeline from source to installed application, and both have complied with government demands to remove software.
The Nostr protocol now provides a coherent set of developer tools that replaces each link in this chain with infrastructure authenticated by a single keypair you own. This post maps the practical migration path.

Big plans...
This will be epic!

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PGP's Web of Trust demanded ceremony. Keybase proved you could replace it with social proof, then died from centralization. Nostr's follow graph already contains the trust infrastructure that a challenge-response verification app can activate across any anonymous text channel.
A suggestion for anyone looking for something worth building.

Every surveillance backdoor ever mandated by law has eventually been used by the wrong people. A door built for one visitor admits every visitor. The 35 year war on open protocols has produced a clear record: the protocols survive, the developers sometimes do not. For anyone building systems designed to resist state pressure, that record contains specific architectural lessons about what survives and why.

Wen @Zapstore release for @Maple AI android?

@V E C T O R is a full fledged marmot client, nice!

E2EE or GTFO

I spent years testing mobile podcast setups on GrapheneOS and every option failed: Bluetooth earbuds have terrible mic quality, wired splitter setups are tethered and clunky, and USB-C wireless mics like the DJI Mic don't work for calls because Android won't route audio back to them.
The solution is the Yealink BH71 Bluetooth headset with its 4-mic beamforming array. Simplicity beats complexity for mobile content creation.
If you know of something better, please share!

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We'll demo a bunch of stuff.
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Marmot demo app in the browser!

https://marmot-protocol.github.io/marmot-ts/

@Gzuuus & @hzrd149 did an amazing job getting this up and running.

(Warning, it ain't pretty, but it works!)

@Amber support merged to @White Noise rust!
https://github.com/marmot-protocol/whitenoise-rs/pull/418

We finally have the tools to escape surveillance capitalism. Micropayments work at scale. Stop building ad-tech. Start trading for value directly with users who actually want to pay you.

Wen blossom server in @Citrine @greenart7c3

Economic progress springs from four sources: division of labor multiplies productivity through specialization, capital accumulation transforms present resources into future productivity, technological progress generates non-rivalrous ideas that overcome physical limits, and entrepreneurial function coordinates everything through creative destruction. State intervention systematically corrupts each source by destroying the property rights and price signals they require. Cryptographic technology now enables these sources to operate beyond political interference.

Small businesses face 41-57% rejection rates for basic trade finance while the same banks hold $192 trillion in derivatives positions. Basel III treats a letter of credit backing real goods as riskier than abstract financial instruments that produce nothing. The system works exactly as designed: extracting value from those who create it, denying credit to those who need it most.

Nice, a ride sharing app powered by nostr just hit @Zapstore by @VariableFate

https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qqgkxmmd9eexjer9wd68ytnjd9jx2uszyqxr7zlpn7lc78z64tz2059k8k3g4g3uy67xq97fezga958weed7uqcyqqq8uzc254xpx

I've had my mind blown each time I read the papers regarding BitVM. It's just insane how much we can build on Bitcoin without changing consensus. Massively bullish.