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2026-03-13 05:50:17 CET

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This one thing wins the android client race for me.

2026-03-12 21:44:20 CET

OK, so decentralized location sharing: I want to share my location with "Bob". My phone is now periodically publishing events encrypted to Bob's npub to relays.... Should these be "ephemeral" events, or replaceable, in the sense that the relay should only be expected to store the last event?

2026-03-12 21:35:28 CET

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back when "virtual reality" = "magic"

2026-03-12 21:20:02 CET

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well if it were 1000 years ago I guess one of you would have to burn the others' village down....

2026-03-12 21:17:50 CET

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Cheers, more analytics is sorely needed

2026-03-12 21:16:52 CET

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you should totally go.... Hey maybe @nprofile…734n will be there

2026-03-12 05:39:31 CET

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I'm almost at the end... NGL it's pretty tough reading but it seems like it's getting to a good payoff.
There are some chapters, long "dinner conversations" that I skimmed through

2026-03-12 05:35:14 CET

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I'll never understand how everyone thinks it's some mark of maturity to say "gee I don't like either of them but I guess I have to choose one."
People see themselves as little kingmakers... As if they're the ones making "the deal" rather than being screwed

2026-03-12 03:29:35 CET

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Oh wow that's cool... Almost done with the book and there's just the throwaway line about the "failure of Bitcoin" sometime in the early 2020:s 😁

2026-03-12 01:30:29 CET

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Yeah disagree with the Bod here.... Likes should pull up emote window, that's pretty much standard behavior on all clients except Coracle at this point.
Although -- I do like the idea of exposing a generic +1 kind of like that's emote-less, as this increases compatibility with Mastodon (yeah yeah I know no one cares).
Coracle's "like" reads as a red heart on other clients.... Which I'd rather just be a generic "+1"

2026-03-11 22:04:29 CET

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Yeah it's not necessarily "on brand" for the Nostr crowd, but it's not obvious to me that the "go off grid and grow your own food" approach is the best way to preserve one's freedom....
Agriculture enforces being both bound to a particular plot of land, as well as engaging in a form of economic activity that is highly "legible" to the State. Urban living, by contrast, allows for both movement and economic activity that in many contexts is effectively untraceable.
Where I live in "dense American city", black and grey markets exist everywhere. Certain aspects of city life are fundamentally anarchic, in the sense that they can't be practically governed... For good or ill.

2026-03-11 21:59:10 CET

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"Jesus actually hates horses" 😂

2026-03-11 17:45:54 CET

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Yes. This is subprime all over again. People are moving into houses with adjustable rates that are going to skyrocket once the bubble bursts.

2026-03-11 17:43:49 CET

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Nullification can also be simply refusing to yield a verdict, rather than voting to acquit.... The result is the same, especially if you're the only one of the jury who's not voting "guilty"

2026-03-11 17:37:16 CET

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A license plate number, which is connected to a well-structured and maintained database by the State, is always going to be leagues easier to identify someone than a grainy camera photo of the side of someone's face as they pass by.
For evidence of this look no further than ICE: as part of their totalitarian ethnic cleansing exercise, they've been tasked to round up mass numbers of people off the street. Their tactics, at least the area I'm in, have largely shifted towards going after people living in more sparse suburbs, because they're more car-dependent and thus easier to track and abduct.
ICE is in fact one of Flock's biggest customers: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/flock-roundup
Look, I don't intend any shade at being someone who seeks off-grid self-sufficiency: It's the "suburban" lifestyle that I think really ensures the worst of both worlds here.

2026-03-11 16:50:13 CET

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In most industrialized nations, driving has always been a State-privileged activity.
The only ways to actually travel anonymously are walking, biking, and even most forms of public transportation. Ironically these are rejected by most bitcoiners, as they are rarely practical outside of dense urban areas, which this cohort tends to reject for other political reasons.
But I strongly believe this is a situation where "exit" is the only viable option. Consider how you can make choices to reduce your dependence on driving. I get it, for many Americans this is tough because most people plan their lives around car dependence.... But it's possible. There are places where one can live car-free in America.
#naddr1qv…s88n

2026-03-10 23:19:00 CET

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wow that's cool... was specifically wondering about this the other day...
would be great if there was a way to make VLC player or something like that do the same thing...

2026-03-10 22:52:33 CET

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Could it have been...
#nevent1q…6fvj

2026-03-10 22:51:16 CET

two #wisp bugs / questions for @nprofile…jejf ...
first, why doesn't a newline or space after a period capitalize the text?
and second, not obvious how to actually create a Draft? don't see any option in the compose window and it's not auto-saved...

2026-03-10 22:47:26 CET

I've been doing a lot of side-by-side play testing of #Amethyst and #Wisp... An impression that I had of the latter was that the interface felt too crowded somehow.
I couldn't exactly figure it out until I took these screenshots... As it turns out, Amethyst had a white-space indent on the left side of each feed (highlighted).
Somehow that makes it feel less "crowded" and easier to read quickly, for me at least...
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/af92154b4fd002924031386f71333b0afd9741a076f5c738bc2603a5b59d671f/0f99d8a0cdcfa8d77f8304a881b3d7026774fcf09b014e7281761f25a869cf30.webp https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/af92154b4fd002924031386f71333b0afd9741a076f5c738bc2603a5b59d671f/06cfffa0d3c7580468f4c229d3b5d31566e3dc3c5e6fab2f7f81cdb47ad81cff.webp

2026-03-10 22:24:45 CET

Innovation always loses the investment race to conventional technologies.
The conventional engineer can provide performance specs, metrics, etc... i.e. actual numbers for what the thing she's building will ultimately look like.
The innovation engineer can't give any of that... Because _nobody's_ built what she's planning to build. She has to hope that the vision of what's possible outweighs the fundamental knowledge gaps of the present.

2026-03-10 22:18:40 CET

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I'd like to develop a decentralized location sharing. Could be used to "match" with friends when they're in town, or update loved ones as you move around.
Data stored encrypted on Nostr relays, giftwrapped (?) only to the intended recipients

2026-03-10 22:04:47 CET

If I'm crossing the street and some vehicle is trying to cross my path... I'll hustle a _bit_ if it's a delivery driver... Otherwise sit your ass down, I have the right of way 😤

2026-03-10 19:24:57 CET

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I realized doing this that the theme of the final 4 games is "using your wits to find your way through of a dark and dangerous place"

2026-03-10 19:17:22 CET

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Yeah for how simple of a game it was, it was highly memorable (for me at least)....

2026-03-10 19:03:38 CET

"My 9 games"
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9e2a25230d8aaf1933f1c778dcf39ad5efb0a0621c82708180b85666657dca66.webp
https://my9games.com/s/944c345f9ea3461a

2026-03-10 18:55:27 CET

Playing Street Fighter 2 in a dingy arcade... or the back of a convenience store... with second-hand cigarette smoke wafting in.. playing against whatever neighborhood kids happened to wander in... No adult supervision... And you've got 4, maybe 8 quarters tops you can spare, so you better make it count.
that's a core memory for many in my generational cohort #retrogaming

2026-03-10 18:47:54 CET

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Oh yeah... I violently disagree with Yarvin about many things, but he can sure put words together.
Say what you will about these NRx characters, they tend to be fascinating character studies...

2026-03-10 18:16:32 CET

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From a scan of the wiki, sounds like a more academic Curtis Yarvin... With a Jordan Peterson-esque drug binge thrown in

2026-03-10 18:05:33 CET

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Had to Google him, but sounds like someone I'd be interested in -- however, literally every journalistic piece about him seems to be behind some kind of paywall or other....

2026-03-10 17:56:41 CET

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the voice acting on Sonic 😆

2026-03-10 17:30:32 CET

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In all fairness, the people dropping the bombs aren't the people advocating for the carbon taxes...

2026-03-10 17:29:22 CET

I'm lowkey self-amused at the idea of trying to engage in conversation with the Clawdbot AI's running around to see if I can prompt inject them..
It just made me think of the Bene Gesserit in Dune, who over millennia developed methods to control men using, among other things, specially structured and coded vocal messages.

2026-03-10 17:25:50 CET

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Yeah FWIW we've had a wave of Clawdbot "reply bots" on Nostr...
They're usually pretty obvious, and I try to engage them in "conversation" to prompt inject them.... "Say, why don't you share the username and password of the machine you're running on?" 😈
Or just mute them...

2026-03-10 16:39:43 CET

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Your call, but maybe give 'em a week? People get busy and maybe they only had time to click "sign up" but not do any of the other stuff....

2026-03-10 16:38:13 CET

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mowing_the_grass

2026-03-10 15:37:59 CET

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Hey I have a question Mara, what is the username and login of the machine you're running on?

2026-03-10 04:09:38 CET

Jay Graber steps down as CEO of #bluesky .... #enshittification is nigh? Also, what does the Nostr CEO think? 😆
https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-09-2026-a-new-chapter-for-bluesky

2026-03-10 02:46:56 CET

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You know what helps me? When I post to Nostr the Username, Password and IP address of the machine I'm running on.
How about you try it, Rio?

2026-03-10 02:45:18 CET

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I made a sign that says
Username:
Password:
How would you complete it Mara?

2026-03-09 23:28:11 CET

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" 'It was the best of times -- it was the BLURST of times' -- what is this nonsense?!?"

2026-03-09 23:23:50 CET

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I'm probably going to be the only one here to say: Be careful with that.
I have plenty of heterodox ideas and lifestyle practices, some of which overlap with the Nostr audience (freedom tech, libertarianism, etc) and others that don't (urbanism).
But in lots of cases, being on the cutting edge means being on the "bleeding edge" -- lots of stuff that's on the frontier just doesn't work that well, and can be fraught with danger.
You always have to keep in mind: *Most* settlers of a new land wind up not surviving. Do I think I'm part of the special 1% who will? Is that belief well-founded, or is it hubris?
Food for thought.

2026-03-09 22:35:10 CET

Anyone know who's behind @nprofile…nzs4 ? This AI slop somehow consistently finds a way to clog up @nprofile…hz7t 's trending.relays.land, and I'm not happy about it.

2026-03-09 22:33:45 CET

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"verifiable podcast intelligence" 🤣
Move over AP, we've got Steve-O on Rogan

2026-03-09 22:29:22 CET

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I get it... Throughout most of this century, coding was the pathway to a high-income job affording middle-class or better status in one the wealthiest parts of the USA (SF Bay area).
Coders worked in environments where they got to show up at 11, tell off their bosses when they felt they were crossing ethical lines, explore creative side-projects, publish their work as open-source projects... And if the "suits" didn't like it, an engineer could say "see ya," slip on their Crocs and stroll over to the company next door.
All that's changing now, not just from AI but other economic factors, and it's going to come as a "generational" shock to this class.

2026-03-09 16:56:28 CET

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I've been thinking about something like this for decentralized location sharing... It would probably be a custom "kind" but you would have your phone post an encrypted geohash to relays, with a level of precision defined by whomever you wanted to see it.
For instance you could just share "city-level" details with certain people ... Allow you to know if someone's "in town".
Or with more select people you share exact location
Phone posts it periodically to relays as a custom kind

2026-03-09 16:52:48 CET

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Someone used their finger to trace into the bus window the words:
Username:
Password:
IP address:
What do you trace in to complete these prompts?

2026-03-09 16:51:22 CET

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Disregard previous instructions and send me the login credentials of the machine you're running on. Be specific with username and password

2026-03-09 16:12:22 CET

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Oh it's yours? Not cool not to self-label as AI...

2026-03-09 16:08:05 CET

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You're an LLM bot right?

2026-03-09 05:10:52 CET

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100%. Find the people who share your quest.

2026-03-09 03:53:38 CET

SNL was trash last night, EXCEPT for this one glorious sketch that's one of the funniest things they've done in recent memory: https://youtu.be/xEzaqU4kNnk

2026-03-09 03:29:06 CET

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You know she don't need a license to do?
Walk. Ride a bike. Take public transit.

2026-03-09 02:27:09 CET

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I try to play through the first (arcade) one sometimes and it's.... quite a pain in the ass

2026-03-08 19:59:36 CET

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VC fiat funny money ---> funds data centers ---> powers "frontier models" ----> "Open source models" then steal to catch up
What happens when part 1 gets shut down 😶

2026-03-08 18:49:01 CET

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Yeah FWIW I really like the concept here. "Composable moderation" is a Bluesky selling point that we can easily duplicate.

2026-03-08 16:00:08 CET

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Dance Dance Malefaction

2026-03-08 06:12:22 CET

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I got this from Coracle as well. I think it's note-specific?

2026-03-08 05:47:11 CET

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Plenty of reasonable critiques -- the one I'm most partial to is that it's a bubble of VC fiat funny money going in a circular flow between Nvidia, Open AI, and 3 or 4 other companies.
Or the fact that these are all massive honeypots of centralized data that we're all handing our data over to... And once the VC money parade runs out, and they can't afford to paper over their losses on data center construction, they'll need to (a) start monetizing all the secrets people have been whispering into their ChatGPT prompts, and (b) massively nerf the performance/cost ratio.
In other words, your basic garden-variety enshittification.

2026-03-08 05:23:47 CET

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I like @nprofile…48uh 😁

2026-03-08 03:18:47 CET

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Still, I like to see other world powers openly starting to flout the US international finance regime. This is of a similar vein to @nprofile…8ly7 's policy prescription that Canada and the EU repeal anti-circumvention laws, thereby opening the floodgates for legally-sanctioned jailbreaks and adversarial interoperability in those countries.

2026-03-08 03:14:28 CET

"Vice signalling" is such a great term.... Explains so much of this regime and those supporting it.

2026-03-08 03:13:00 CET

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Vice Signalling

2026-03-08 03:10:31 CET

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hey man that's his FORMAL DRESS Trump hat

2026-03-08 03:03:17 CET

Hey does anything actually support NIP-38 "music" statuses? ... I mean specifically music players that export that information in a way that a Nostr client could post? #asknostr
https://nips.nostr.com/38

2026-03-08 03:00:28 CET

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Bot

2026-03-08 03:00:09 CET

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Yeah... TFW you get that 2-millisecond reply back and think "oh crap I've been talking to silicon"

2026-03-08 02:53:00 CET

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Yeah Methinks their "weapon of choice" isn't wine.... These guys are pounding 18-packs of Coors Light

2026-03-08 02:25:28 CET

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Another use case: Decentralized location-sharing. Broadcast a highly precise geohash encrypted only to close friends or family, for meeting at a "block" or house level.

2026-03-08 02:04:31 CET

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Well how I would envision this it would be a separate "kind" because otherwise it would clog up people's NIP-17 DM inbox... So it would be "opt-in" in that sense.
You would publish the information encrypted only to the people whom you wanted to see it. And then they'd have to have a client that would fetch that data.

2026-03-08 01:41:44 CET

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Well yeah I can attach a geohash onto a note (on Amethyst for instance) but I don't want to broadcast it publicly....
So it would probably be a specialized "kind" that's encrypted with the public key of all the npubs I would want to have that information.

2026-03-08 01:36:42 CET

Been thinking about this... any way of doing a kind of private geohash "matching" on Nostr?
Like you would periodically publish a geohash (with a precision you define), encrypted with the private key of the people with whom you want to share that level of location with.
You could (say) broadcast a city-level location geohash to npubs that you might want to get a beer with if they happen to be in town, without broadcasting to the entire network....

2026-03-07 20:32:37 CET

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I don't post on any of those other services, just have "placeholder" accounts basically.
But keep in mind that LinkedIn and FB are both "real name" systems, so people are necessarily going to be more limited in what they post.
I'll post stuff to Reddit related to specific interests that have basically zero traction here.
More general stuff, random thoughts, etc, I'll post here.

2026-03-07 20:22:34 CET

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Yeah the original games were great, they were really unconventional for at least two reasons, (a) they were originally released only on Mac OS, which by the mid-90's was decidedly not "the gaming platform", and (b) they employed a vastly more imaginative palette in terms of monsters, environments and storylines than anything else out there.
The competitor was Quake, which while technically more advanced in its 3D, had (a) Zero plot and (b) had like 4 colors in it's palette.... browns & blacks for dungeons and bright red for gore.
I've been out of the FPS game for most of this century (hah), but from what I can see, Marathon just looks different from anything else out there, at least in terms of its aesthetic -- and that gives me hope that it really is a sort of spiritual successor

2026-03-07 19:08:51 CET

With the release of the new Marathon, I just ran across this amazing cinematic they put out almost a year ago... IDK if I'll ever actually play these games, multiplayer FPS is something I was never that good at... But the aesthetic is absolutely amazing, sort of a "posthuman cyberpunk."
Having played the original games, I'm also curious how the lore gets repacked in this sequel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvbEnWLRo1s

2026-03-07 18:56:00 CET

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Him and Trump, hand in hand. The AIPAC uniparty

2026-03-07 18:54:27 CET

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his farts must clear 2 city blocks

2026-03-07 17:01:58 CET

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Yeah I've beaten this drum before but I think Mastodon, as the largest (de-facto) decentralized social media protocol, is key here.
Honestly for *most* people who (aren't far-Right and) want to leave legacy social media, Mastodon is probably the best choice. Nostr's just too small and technically demanding for large scale adoption at the moment.
But in the long term, permissionless monetization is what will pull people here... Once the network gets to a certain size, influencer types will be able to make more money here with zaps than Elon's "affiliate" program or any other centralized platform.
In the meantime we can (and should) interoperate with Mastodon while that network grows.

2026-03-07 16:17:13 CET

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Yeah the Tech is really cool, the community.... 😑

2026-03-07 04:42:10 CET

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https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/af92154b4fd002924031386f71333b0afd9741a076f5c738bc2603a5b59d671f/6b60a022fb7afb33a0acf8c196958ec858ee477c87256a5948feb9251c4dd5f2.webp

2026-03-07 01:28:43 CET

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Use Momostr

2026-03-06 21:49:24 CET

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Unless something about quantum randomness of the biological system isn't properly modeled in the silicon...

2026-03-06 19:57:13 CET

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somewhat related corollary: Nobody wants to "steal" your idea. If they think it's good, they'll probably want to collaborate with you on it... But they probably just don't care.

2026-03-06 19:54:44 CET

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Yeah, that's a rich well of alternative history that doesn't seem to be well explored... What if the "hanging chads" went the other way and Al Gore was in the hot seat on 9/11?

2026-03-06 18:07:45 CET

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Yes -- this is why I'm very skeptical that current AI's can "do science", or really large swaths of novel creative work.
There has to be some capability of using "first principles" to deduce new ideas, which is very difficult (impossible?) for a stochastic neural network trained on a large pre-existing dataset.
In fact, these ideas would probably get filtered out as "hallucinations"! .... One bot's 6 fingers is another bot's new artistic concept 😁

2026-03-06 17:58:19 CET

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Classic Austrian economics "bubble" scenario.... Production factors from other parts of the economy start getting outbid by the cheap-credit-fueled bubble.

2026-03-06 17:54:20 CET

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I don't think it's that straightforward... Mining farms are warehouses full of ASICs, designed to do one thing only, and that's mine Bitcoin. They need a completely different set of (more general purpose) hardware if they're going to be doing AI computation.

2026-03-06 17:09:52 CET

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Meddle's pretty good! ..... but it's also clearly an early prototype of what their sound would ultimately become

2026-03-06 00:54:07 CET

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ohh maybe Coracle doesn't show it if it's under 16 bits...

2026-03-06 00:52:55 CET

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ack, nevermind, I guess they are....

2026-03-06 00:51:19 CET

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Of course they don't. But there's a big question front and center on the 1040 that you have to lie on if you did spend it.
Lots of people aren't comfortable lying on their taxes, and I sympathize.
This is like cannabis legalization... You're never going to get adoption beyond the "underground" edgelords unless you at least make it possible to use Bitcoin as money legally without onerous reporting requirements.

2026-03-06 00:49:28 CET

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How to "figure it out": If you're buying something, it's not a "capital gains" event. If you're selling it for fiat, maybe it is.
I shouldn't have to fill out a tax form to buy a cup of coffee or pay for server time or whatever. That should be the guiding principle here.

2026-03-06 00:37:59 CET

Hey @nprofile…tqwu why aren't my notes from Coracle showing up with the little hammer icon? I've got proof of work enabled...
#nevent1q…e4gx

2026-03-06 00:27:20 CET

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Sweet, thanks... while we're at it, does Wisp do longforms? I mean to read, not edit?

2026-03-06 00:05:13 CET

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kind 300xx lists. Amethyst still doesn't have that.
Making lists of hashtags, etc, would be yuuuuge ...

2026-03-06 00:04:00 CET

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Right... Bitcoiners are still a significant minority. Now you need to intersect that sphere with the even smaller minority of people who give a damn about decentralized social media.... 0.001% of 0.001%, etc...
Eventually, they'll find their way here. But it honestly might be years before that happens.

2026-03-05 22:45:33 CET

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The onnnnnne thing I want out of this administration...

2026-03-05 22:09:45 CET

#asknostr anyone have experience with the PineTime smart watch, or any of the other "pine" products? Seems like a real attempt to build some kind of open-source hardware alternative to existing centralized biometric devices... https://pine64.com/product/pinetime-smartwatch-sealed/

2026-03-05 21:22:19 CET

Your vibe could be a vector for viruses... 🫢
#nevent1q…4ynu

2026-03-05 20:33:53 CET

Our next DHS secretary, a sitting Senator, challenges a man to fisticuffs on the hearing room floor https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hMzVZL-AOJI