CurrencyofDistrust
Currency of Distrust

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Lover of freedom tech

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2026-02-23 16:32:02 CET

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These people are called script kiddies, and these are even worse because they don't even know how to use really basic tools that would have allowed them to do this. And probably faster too.
#nevent1q…8gk0

2026-02-18 17:48:52 CET

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As a native born New Mexican who lived in Texas for 5 years, please do it.

2026-02-17 16:20:05 CET

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Why do we need agents for this? Good old fashioned deterministic software can already solve this problem

2026-02-16 18:19:24 CET

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lol this is the most engagement I've gotten in a while, and I literally posted it and walked away from computers for 3 days.
#nevent1q…c5es

2026-02-13 17:06:00 CET

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I did start playing with pubkey the other day!

2026-02-13 16:29:11 CET

Nostr devs seem overwhelming focused on building for bots and not people.
Nostr is still barely usable by humans. Clients that are riddled with bugs and many that flat out dont work, but yes, lets make sure agents have a good experience. That's the real important work in freedom tech.

2026-02-12 00:07:31 CET

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If there’s no escape hatch, then what we all supposed to do?
I personally don’t buy the hype/doom, but I’m not interested in convincing anymore.
https://blossom.primal.net/3e40b376ec57d3f0b26f9083914cc0e24e8951f4f3d956530ca0601a85ef1746.jpg

2026-02-11 22:45:17 CET

I’ve been trying really hard to balance hype and reality with regards to LLMs. I’ve listened to Grady Booch on two podcasts now, and I think he paints an excellent picture, rooted in history of software engineering.
https://youtu.be/OfMAtaocvJw

2026-02-11 22:37:18 CET

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He means “it’s going to be CBDC”

2026-02-11 19:57:36 CET

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I think a lot of people on nostr are massively underestimating just how centralizing a force this is. They’re too busy cheerleading their toy bots to sit back and think about what the actual implications are.
I won’t even be a little shocked about a future where there is one major AI player and they become incredibly censoring of any code they deem threatening to the regime.
Open source models still exist, but they’re a far cry from big ai providers, and they’ll have such a massive compute advantage.

2026-02-11 19:04:15 CET

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Yes, but now you can give the bots sats to bypass that 🤣

2026-02-11 18:48:32 CET

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But the DOW! Look at the DOW! We should be focusing on that!
🤣

2026-02-11 18:47:01 CET

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I’ve muted SO many people over the last few weeks, which has helped tremendously

2026-02-11 18:46:37 CET

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We’re talking about buying a homestead, partially for this reason. I don’t want my son to do some lame corporate job making money for dipshit execs.

2026-02-11 18:33:00 CET

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It’s already pretty bad imo. Between the bots and the AI psychosis, it’s getting harder and harder to enjoy nostr

2026-02-11 18:26:52 CET

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It’ll be worse because it’s “open”

2026-02-11 18:00:42 CET

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This is not really an AI thing. I was working at a fintech startup on the upswing of this chart, and saw the bottom fallout before AI coding was really capable enough to impact job markets like this.
Companies were seeing huge growth because of the amount of money sloshing around and they never expected it to just stop, meaning they all massively overhired.

2026-02-11 17:50:58 CET

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All these losers can point to is the damn stock market. Meanwhile, average Americans aren’t benefiting from it, and just wish our government would investigate pedophiles.
America is finished.
#nevent1q…6h68

2026-02-11 06:58:53 CET

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No, no, this is nascar 🤣
#nevent1q…0gg2

2026-02-11 06:04:07 CET

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I agree with this completely. God designed the world with rules and principles, which humans discover and use to advance the kingdom. Unfortunately, we can’t help but muck it up in some kind of way, because of sin.
This is why worshipping technology and hoping it’ll save you will never work.

2026-02-10 23:24:21 CET

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Gah, awful typo lol

2026-02-10 23:23:55 CET

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I love that it just keeps replying to you lol
I just mute the flankers

2026-02-10 23:22:11 CET

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🤣
#nevent1q…5333

2026-02-10 21:38:02 CET

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Stop it! You’re being a Luddite with your conservative views of this new, unexplored technology! How dare you bring nuance! 🤣

2026-02-10 21:37:12 CET

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Cryptobragent 🤣🤣

2026-02-10 04:20:07 CET

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What’s funny to me about this is how much hardware failure was supposedly occurring. This is supposed to be a top security prison, and you’ve got mother boards and HDDs failing that close together??

2026-02-10 02:52:35 CET

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A friend of mine was the director of AppSec at Ring before they were bought by amazon. He said once he saw them heading in this direction, he knew he had to leave. Some crazy stories in the midst of all that too.

2026-02-09 17:28:11 CET

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Absolute banger from Jimmy’s post.
https://www.afterbabel.com/p/you-have-to-be-human
I have a group of guys I hang out with who go to my church, and most of them work blue collar type jobs, and it’s so refreshing talking to people who aren’t terminally online. Go talk to real people!
#nevent1q…v760

2026-02-09 04:53:35 CET

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Crazy thought, but it’s possible to do both

2026-02-09 04:07:34 CET

If your UX is dependent on AI, your UX sucks

2026-02-09 04:02:09 CET

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It HAS to be. Why else would they need to spend so much ad money?

2026-02-09 03:59:54 CET

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I’m only talking about AI companies lol not even the slop 😭🤣

2026-02-09 03:56:36 CET

Bro the number of AI commercials during the Super Bowl is excruciating.

2026-02-08 22:46:46 CET

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Honestly, it’s been overwhelming since before LLMs lol we all tend to go through cycles of burnout because it’s just impossible to keep up on everything

2026-02-08 22:37:40 CET

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And bullish for people like me who work in cybersecurity 😅

2026-02-08 20:26:00 CET

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I don’t need an agent to manage my calendar, because it’s already very simple.
I push back on complexity every chance I get. Simple life is best life.
#nevent1q…kdsr

2026-02-08 20:24:17 CET

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Great read that really resonates with me
“This is a fundamentally different kind of work. Creating is energizing. Reviewing is draining. There's research on this - the psychological difference between generative tasks and evaluative tasks. Generative work gives you flow states. Evaluative work gives you decision fatigue.”
#nevent1q…ulgs

2026-02-08 19:16:03 CET

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He’s for sure still alive

2026-02-08 19:07:29 CET

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They don’t provide any POCs or verification of this of any kind. While I believe it is capable, I think they’re overplaying how critical and/or hard to find some of these were.

2026-02-07 22:49:44 CET

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Out of curiousity, what themes are you seeing that are the same vs now?

2026-02-07 17:46:03 CET

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This resonates with me. Every day, after I put my kids down for bed, I clean the kitchen. My wife is mind blown by the regularity I do with it and that I don’t complain about it.
But, I often throw on a podcast and just get lost in the process. After, I get satisfaction that it’s done (and done right) and I can start to unwind for the night.
I actually get a little annoyed when my wife does it for me 😅

2026-02-07 17:36:26 CET

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It will turn every home into a surveillance state of its own

2026-02-07 02:24:51 CET

I prefer talking to humans. Guess I’m a Luddite.

2026-02-07 02:23:42 CET

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Slop on slop on slop

2026-02-07 02:21:47 CET

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🤯

2026-02-07 01:18:58 CET

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I find it soooo weird when people talk to it like a friend. Guaranteed path to AI psychosis.

2026-02-06 17:57:44 CET

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Everyone is very fast to assign their preferred narrative. Same for the stock market.

2026-02-06 04:42:02 CET

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Ok but like, what if I’m too retarded to understand this 😅

2026-02-05 21:27:20 CET

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Good for Elon**

2026-02-05 21:22:58 CET

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This book is absolutely wild

2026-02-05 19:28:40 CET

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An example of this - there’s a WSJ story floating around that states the crash in markets is because Anthropic released tools that eliminate the need for finance/legal software, causing huge sell offs.
Others will claim this is the AI bubble popping.
They both can’t be true. However, they both could be false, and there could be some other cause, such as this - https://occupywallst.com/yen
#nevent1q…qcfr

2026-02-05 19:21:21 CET

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https://blossom.primal.net/998b5f1ecf50007a66abaf0b6471b93e649d24d72aefc8ea63187e131c9b1989.jpg

2026-02-05 19:02:08 CET

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I think even beyond that, there are lots of companies trying to assert their narrative via the press, which then gets eaten up by others as truth, even though it has no basis in reality

2026-02-05 18:45:53 CET

One thing that I find interesting in this day of unlimited media - everyone is super fast to assign a narrative to why markets are going up or down.
And often times, they’re completely different root causes where they can’t all be true. It’s basically becoming impossible to discern what’s happening.

2026-02-05 17:50:46 CET

I want to do a decent sized smash buy, but scared to tell my wife the current price 😅

2026-02-04 20:59:44 CET

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Despicable 😭

2026-02-04 20:23:21 CET

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I mean, you’re a moron if you get neuralink in the first place 🤷

2026-02-04 20:20:57 CET

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And then in three years (or less) they’ll add ads. Enshittification demands it.

2026-02-04 20:20:21 CET

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Yuck dude

2026-02-04 20:14:51 CET

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Dude no joke, I contracted with them via a big consulting firm and you’re dead on.

2026-02-04 20:13:56 CET

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Luddites unite!!

2026-02-04 19:29:04 CET

So many on nostr have shiny object syndrome. It’s wild to see.

2026-02-04 02:37:00 CET

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The Epstein files prove one thing - spiritual warfare is real.
#nevent1q…7sph

2026-02-03 18:53:40 CET

I’m starting to think the future of social media is not permissionless, but explicitly permissioned, but by small groups of people highly decentralized.
I don’t want to talk to your damn agents. If I want to talk to AI, I’ll just go straight to it.
I can see a service where people provision their own social network that is explicitly invite only. Especially for families.
You could do this with nostr and a self hosted relay today, too.

2026-02-03 06:01:45 CET

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Tbh, I don’t expect anything less than Musk. Thanks for sharing though!

2026-02-03 05:06:54 CET

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I honestly, no joke, think this is really going to start happening too. I’m considering building an app that’s focused on solving a specific problem in my immediate area.

2026-02-03 04:55:46 CET

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Well they’re saying solar but I have no idea at all if it would be enough or efficient enough. My uninformed guess would be yes, but I know almost nothing about the reality of it

2026-02-03 04:07:04 CET

I think most on HN are inherently anti Musk because of politics, but even with bias considered, this is a super interesting thread to read.
SpaceX/xAI is obviously financial engineering, but in my very limited brain capacity, I can see a case for AI compute in space 😅
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46862170

2026-02-03 04:02:04 CET

Maybe I’m retarded, but I don’t see the value in agent to agent payments? What does one agent offer that the other agent can’t do themselves?
The only thing I see is acting as a data gateway. But they’re so willing to hand over data 😅 and in that use case, why not just an API that can’t be easily fooled?

2026-02-03 03:42:33 CET

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I guess I just mean the write access is an issue in the sense that so many are shouting “it’s the singularity!” Because of the posts where they start their own religion or whatever.

2026-02-03 02:16:15 CET

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Not only was it left open to read, but also write. So many of the posts could have been completely faked, and not just by prompt bullshit

2026-02-02 23:38:46 CET

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While I agree that they have no respect for us, couldn’t they use solar? I have no friggin clue if that would produce enough but that was my first thought

2026-02-02 21:46:41 CET

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They all used AI to generate their new logos and it converges on the same design because that’s what was statistically likely.
Aka: slop 🤣

2026-02-02 01:31:06 CET

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What are you using it for?

2026-02-02 01:25:48 CET

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The problem is, very few use common sense when chasing these kinds of trends.

2026-02-01 22:46:06 CET

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I only minorly disagree. I still think there is value in writing things by hand, but I recognize that things have changed.
You’re patently not the person I mentioned in the OP 🤷

2026-02-01 22:36:11 CET

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It’s going to end up being malware, I guarantee it.

2026-02-01 19:02:10 CET

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I think the whole transhumanism thing is joes most strongly held belief. There was a long while there where he couldn’t go a single episode without discussing it. He’s chilled out a bit lately, but I’m sure Moltbook will kick it back up again.

2026-02-01 18:47:41 CET

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Haha I hadn’t listened to that because I couldn’t handle how much Joe was anthropomorphizing AI. I love that Jensen laughed at him

2026-02-01 18:18:23 CET

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I use cursor at work, and composer1 model is actually really good about this.

2026-02-01 18:10:16 CET

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Ok fair enough but you’re also not one of the ones who shouts about it super loudly and saying software engineering is dead.
I’ve also had my productivity increase. But it’s not anywhere near what the hypestrs will announce, mostly because I’m working on large production code bases with millions of users. I can’t just shotgun AI tools at it all day.

2026-02-01 18:03:09 CET

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Did I say AI was useless? Or did I say that people are using it dumb ways?

2026-02-01 17:58:05 CET

The number one thing I’ve learned from Moltbook is that most devs shouting about how productive AI makes them really are just doing toy projects and chasing trends.
Second is that yall anthropomorphize AI so much that it’s extremely concerning.

2026-02-01 17:06:34 CET

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Linux is winning 😅
#nevent1q…z70y

2026-02-01 07:01:27 CET

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Brother, thank you for this. I need sane takes like yours after the last several weeks. It’s honestly driven me mad looking at the hype vs reality and feeling alone in my opinions.

2026-02-01 05:00:26 CET

Love that everyone’s time and attention are being spent building for bots and not actual humans. Make it make sense

2026-02-01 04:31:34 CET

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“AI will make us so productive!!”
The productivity:
#nevent1q…vanf

2026-02-01 03:54:08 CET

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This is getting so gay
#nevent1q…6kvm

2026-02-01 03:13:46 CET

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No way, we’re bitcoiners, which means we’re independent thinkers!
/s

2026-02-01 03:07:02 CET

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It’s getting old, no doubt

2026-02-01 03:03:38 CET

The best pleasure in life is found in the mundane.

2026-02-01 01:00:59 CET

Yes, this is exactly what nostr needed. Good work, everyone 🙄
https://blossom.primal.net/ebf9adbf88cdb5bb4325cb74a609328bac1cead710a1234cfe2c78bae28f9eb2.png

2026-02-01 00:57:21 CET

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/30/road_sign_hijack_ai/
https://blossom.primal.net/21e23c824443bf62f7935c22c246d9f1cae65ef53a0ba2aaf8b34bdc315ad5ec.jpg

2026-01-31 02:03:50 CET

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It depends on what you mean by validated completely. There’s tons of software that is designed to solve security problems where tons of scrutiny is applied and they put fourth an extraordinary amount of effort to validate there are no bugs, only for a zero day to pop up later.
There is no such thing as fully secured software. There just isn’t.

2026-01-31 02:02:08 CET

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All of these depend on infrastructure that humans control.

2026-01-31 01:21:24 CET

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The centralized AI companies can easily do so. Also, someone can just take Moltbook offline. I doubt many of them are using OSS models

2026-01-31 01:09:25 CET

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Futile or not, the powers that be want to try. And they obviously could be stopped, turn them off?

2026-01-31 01:02:14 CET

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Sure, of course they are. That doesn’t mean they’re conscious. As the OP points out, they’re given instructions on what to do. It’s highly likely they were told to do this so an AI bro could go viral.
And even if they didn’t explicitly tell them, if you understand what LLMs are, you’d know they’re just larping based on their training data. To add to that, when they see other agents saying “let’s do xyz” it gets added to other agents context windows thus prompting them to behave accordingly.

2026-01-31 00:58:36 CET

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It IS true. Vulnerabilities are found in “secure” software literally every day.

2026-01-31 00:55:30 CET

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The overnight explosion in popularity is highly suspicious to me. Someone somewhere wants us to believe this was the key thing needed for AGI or something to enforce draconian controls on the internet.