Tim Bouma

“In the electric age, the alteration of human identity by new service environments of information has left whole population without personal or community values to a degree that far exceeds the effects of food and fuel and energy shortages.” f***king legend observation by Marshall McLuhan in Laws of Media.

I have a ChatGPT trained on helping me with the works of Marshall McLuhan. I have read the main source material and would be hard pressed to better synthesize and summarize better than this. This saves me a day’s worth of work of writing on my own to better…

How would Marshall McLuhan characterize proof of work of Bitcoin invented by Satoshi Nakamoto. ChatGPT answer (it’s good, I’ve reviewed it). The tetrad analysis (enhance, obsolesce, retrieve and reverse) is pretty good too! ——— Marshall McLuhan would likely interpret Bitcoin’s proof of work (PoW) system as an innovative…

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Is there such a thing as minimalist maximalist?…

All you need for #nostr is NIP-01 and by extension, BIP-340.…

When nobody wants your #CBDC, just go after everything.…

I don't care what anyone says, but doing transactions with the hardware wallet for your cold wallet is a nerve-wracking experience. After repeated failures, I had to upgrade the firmware on my Coldcard MK3, and after transmitting a signed transactions with weird script warnings I didn'

Issuing certificates and being able to revoke them is the invisible power lever that certificate authorities, government and private sector alike, are trying to hold onto. We’re seeing that play out with mobile drivers licences (mDL) that are also being pitched as your digital identity. The promise is that…

“The present electronic age, in its inescapable evocation of simultaneity, presents the first serious threat to the 2500-year dominance of the left hemisphere.” Marshall McLuhan, Laws of Media…

“Acoustic space has the basic character of a dynamic sphere whose focus or centre is simultaneously everywhere and whose margin or periphery is nowhere “ Marshall McLuhan, Laws of Media Hmmm…. sounds like cyberspace….…

Imagine a world without apps and certificates, just npubs and events.…

On #nostr you build a world without necessary apps and certificate authorities.…

Need to distrust Entrust…

Happy Reformation Day!…