Let’s start an Anonymous Stacker group.

There is no name for it.

I learned it this way: It's like a kind of debt that you're obligated to pay. Allah is the only provider. And he's given you a portion of what should go to the poor, as a test to see if you'll give it back. So the poor have a right to it, it's not a voluntary donation. And if you're even one payment behind or one dollar short and you die in that state, you've got a serious problem.

So we're selling or what?

And expect tax offices to catch up on your zaps until then ...

and Nostur

I like to come up with exaggerated or somewhat embarrassing marketing lines because I'm not really a marketing type. But it's still fun. This is what's on the back of my book cover: "In a vibrant mega-metropolis of the year 2140, where technology and tradition have inseparably merged, an ordinary man pushes against the boundaries of his everyday life. Called by a mysterious symbol, he ventures into an unknown world that transforms him at breathtaking speed: from a simple citizen to a leader who redefines the foundations of his community. This gripping novel in the style of Muslim Futurism weaves science fiction elements with spiritual depths into an epic tale of awakening and transformation. Every scene, every detail comes from an intense dream the author experienced, who saw the story more vividly than any film before his mind's eye. Immerse yourself in a future that's approaching faster than you think, and experience a transformation that might call your own life into question." And yes, I dreamed the story a few months ago; it wasn’t entirely made up from scratch. I woke up one morning with the whole "movie" vividly in my mind, complete with all the visual details. Otherwise, I wouldn't have finished the book in just three weeks. By the way, it's currently in the review phase; two native English speakers are reading through it. I hope they’re honest and give it a tough critique. Otherwise, I won't learn anything from it.

My book is finished! The German version is done, the English version (translated with AI) is ready, all the images are included, and the cover is designed. It's almost ready to go to print. I've already found two people to review the German version. One is even an editor-in-chief and incredibly intellectual. I'm a bit nervous about his opinion. For the English version, I definitely need reviewers too, especially since I'm not a native speaker. But once that's done and I've incorporated their feedback, it's off to the printers, inshallah.

That's pretty much what I told them.

"Perhaps it is time to ask: should we reimagine Mahr in a world where money itself is being redefined?" ... says Mufti Faraz Adam on LinkedIn And as usual, he's being received skeptically by some fiat Muslims for it. Following the pattern of "That's not real money. At best it's an investment. Investments can fail, so you shouldn't mix investments into the mahr." 🤦

I'm working on some artwork for my book. In the style of my profile picture. Got to have a bit of visual relief between all that text.

I haven't used Google Search in years. I don't even remember what a Google search results page looks like anymore. Brave search is much better anyway. https://reclaimthenet.org/google-age-verification-ai-expands-to-search

Thought so. Wouldn't expect a decent offer from LinkedIn.

Nope. It's a scene from Santorini, Greece. An Island between Greece and Turkey.

LinkedIn has a really nasty business practice: They spam your DMs with their own Premium and Sales Navigator offers, but you can't reply to them. You can click the "More Information" button three times, but you never get the most important info: How much does it cost? They also plaster their entire platform with these offers and constantly shove "try it free for 30 days" in your face, but I haven't been able to find out how much it's supposed to cost after the 30-day trial period ends. That's how well they've hidden the price. And as I said, asking follow-up questions via DM isn't possible either. Really disgusting practice. Doesn't work on me at all. No matter what you're trying to sell me, I always need to know the price.

A wholesome photo for your timeline

Hey , what's this? This is one of my first prompts at ppq.ai. Deleted a long time ago. Yesterday they showed up about 50 times again in my history. Shouldn't something that's deleted actually stay deleted in a privacy-friendly service?

I mean, they build a decent browser, but sometimes they also have these cringeworthy side projects like their crypto wallets or this one here ⬇. https://buy.unstoppabledomains.com/brave

Wishing you lots of success with that! I've actually got an amazing story, a whole screenplay, in my head. Enough material for a trilogy, like The Matrix. Whether I'll ever get around to making it happen...?

Everything is better than Windows.

Hollywood's and Netflix's message is usually the perversion of truth. For real, almost every time. And what the Turks and Arabs produce is mostly embarrassing low-quality garbage too. Also not immune to materialism. It's time that some real filmmakers emerge from our ranks who can convey the truth to our children and teenagers. Because filmmaking itself isn't bad. It's the continuation of the ancient human tradition of storytelling. The message just needs to become clean and true again.

I mean, I don't see the point of having multiple people sitting at the mixing console working on the sound. That's something I wouldn't want, like too many cooks in the kitchen. One person should do the mix and then release it. There's only one DJ per party, after all.

For me, the fact that it doesn't support Amber yet was enough to delete it from my phone right away. These days you just can't enter an nsec directly into a beta version.

I'll be selling my book directly for Sats too. No Big Tech, no Amazon. I'll use a small print-on-demand service for fiat customers (probably Epubli), and through that I could sell it on Amazon as well, but no Amazon, Sats are the priority. I have 2 basic alternatives for this: 1. Nostr-based marketplaces, like 2. Or my own BTCPay Server. The disadvantages are: 1. Requires an npub, only Nostriches can buy there. But it's free. 2. Requires relatively high administration effort (docker, firewall etc.) and costs a small amount monthly ($7-$15), and I don't even know who will use it. BTCPay Server must be completely self-hosted in this case because I need to connect my Lightning wallet via NWC. But shared instances like Voltage don't allow Nostr plugin installation and don't have it pre-installed. Unless can tell me how I can connect my Rizful wallet to BTCPay Server without NWC. Then I could use my Voltage instance.

Damn, Gemini CLI is so good. What kind of Nostr app do you guys need? What should I code for you all? haha

Absolutely not. I had 3 models write 1-2 chapters each, and it was all garbage. Logical contradictions, vague statements, etc. What you can use AI for, though, is to create a bullet-point outline of the plot after you've provided the general flow, and possibly check your story against it. That's called a "story bible" or something similar. And feeding the entire story each time isn't possible because their memory isn't sufficient. Eventually, it "forgets" the beginning of the story. And generally, after a while it just writes nonsense. But you can upload this 'story bible' each time you want sections checked.

I don’t think they did it deliberately. They were just too naive. Most of them woke up too late.