Alexandria Catalogue - Articles

At the recent Launch Music Festival, a volunteer initiative successfully introduced over 120 musicians to Bitcoin, Nostr, and Value-for-Value (V4V), resulting in participating artists earning almost 1M sats over three days. Musicians enthusiastically embraced these decentralized technologies, recognizing them as a solution to the failings of the current digital music industry. However, the on-boarding process highlighted significant usability issues with our apps of choice. Resolving these app i...

End Times: The Rapture of the Church

The article discusses the recent updates made to the AI assistant Untype, including improvements to the user experience, AI-generated content capabilities, and the addition of automatic title, summary, and tag suggestions, all geared towards enhancing ease of use and functionality.

A brief update and some reflections

Is the Tribulation Imminent?

Risa Before the Federation — A Visitor’s Historical Briefing

NIP-90 is overloaded and why there aren't more clients and servers implementing DVMs

A Counselor’s Address to the Chamber of Risa

A Counselor’s Address to the Starfleet High Council During the Borg Crisis

The warrior spirit of our generations is either kindled by the honorable or is denied by the soft.

A Cultural Strategy Against the Second Amendment

Update on the state of the Library of Alexandria

Just an article to see what adventures unfold

The truth is hidden in plain sight

A Comparative Analysis of Baseload Electric Power Generation Under Optimized Assumptions

Can modern nuclear power be viable and economical?

Powering the Fourth Industrial Revolution

This delicious and healthy Asian dish has chicken and veggies stewed in a creamy coconut red curry sauce. I guarantee you will enjoy this even more than restaurant takeout, and when you realize you can throw this together in about 45 minutes, you'll want to make it all the time.

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"The Last Question" was Asimov's favorite short story of his own authorship, and is one of a loosely connected series of stories concerning a fictional computer called Multivac. Through successive generations, humanity questions Multivac on the subject of entropy.

Could speaking in tongues mean something other than being "slain in the spirit" or babbling incomprehensibly?

Insel des Wissens

PPQ Deep Research's take on nostr's Sybil resistance

A short insight into Blossom protocol implementation by nostr.build.

How to create a nostr app quickly using applesauce

This is a piece about online child safety. My hope is that it will start a conversation.

Inspired by Jonathan Edwards

A conversation between Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/20592-national-security-archive-doc-06-memorandum

Could the great pyramid have been part of terra-forming earth?

Can the west survive freedom?

Comparing Ben Franklin's Junto to a future built on Nostr shows how the tools of community and debate evolve with time. Both prove that people crave spaces to connect, share, and grow—whether in a colonial tavern or a digital address. Yet their differences reveal trade-offs: the Junto’s structure offered depth and focus but capped its reach, while Nostr’s openness promises scale at the cost of order.

This post give a quick overview of mathematical models from network science that detail how innovations spread and technology is adopted in social networks.

EXECUTIVE ORDER SIGNED BY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ON MARCH 6, 2025: "ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STRATEGIC BITCOIN RESERVE AND UNITED STATES DIGITAL ASSET STOCKPILE"

An introduction to cryptographic identity for the non-technical (but patient) reader.