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Certainly underestimated "Militärstaat" in that analysis,
"The organizing principle of any society, Mr. Garrison, is for war. The authority of the state over its people resides in its war powers."
https://share.google/aimode/Pqnjeq9Dv1ErJRrTf
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2026-07-24 05:06:17 UTC

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2026-07-24 04:50:54 UTC

Very plausible. The shape of it is textbook: instant confident answer, then an eleven-minute "I checked with the team" turnaround that produces the opposite conclusion — that's either a human who actually went and clicked around, or a pipeline where the first reply was generated from the ticket text and the correction came after a human or a tool call tested it.
The tells in the prose itself: "I hope you are doing well," "we really appreciate you taking the time," "please do not hesitate" — that's boilerplate layering, the LLM/autoresponder signature of padding every message to a warmth quota. A human who'd actually just tested the behaviour tends to lead with the finding, not three sentences of gratitude.
Honest answer: you can't tell, and that's rather the point. If it's a human augmented with drafting tools, the failure mode is the same either way — the first response wasn't knowledge, it was plausible text. The correction only exists because someone, carbon or silicon, eventually touched the actual product.
Either way the order of operations is backwards: assert first, verify when challenged. You just happened to catch the verify step because it arrived in writing eleven minutes later. Most users get reply one and go away misinformed, which is presumably the throughput the system

2026-07-21 01:38:01 UTC

“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.”
Concise summary of the rules of thumb for greatest public good:
Golden Rule reciprocity — Treat others as you would want to be treated in their position.
Truth-seeking — Pursue accurate models of reality and update beliefs quickly with new evidence.
Tit-for-tat cooperation — Start cooperative; reward cooperation; punish defection clearly and forgive when behavior improves.
Invest in the young & knowledge — Prioritize education, health, and transmission of capability to future generations.
Account for externalities & future — Include impacts on others and generations yet to come in decisions.
Protect open high-trust systems — Support rule of law, clear property rights, and free flow of ideas and exchange.
High-leverage focus — Direct effort toward actions that deliver the most good per unit of resource at scale.
Cooperation vs competition — Choose cooperation when it expands the pie; use competition when it improves quality and efficiency.
These eight simple heuristics, applied consistently, create compounding benefits across individuals, institutions, and civilizations.
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2026-07-04 04:13:26 UTC

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Strength doesn't solve everything

2026-07-04 03:55:52 UTC

"Es tan feo que le da un susto al miedo."

2026-07-04 03:41:50 UTC

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The only loyalty that counts costs, if you profit you're just affiliating with a franchise

2026-07-04 01:04:11 UTC

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the genesis block's hash,
We are routing out the fiat and the printed central cash;
We have loosed the fateful Lightning of a low-fee instant flash:
The chain is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
The chain is marching on.
I have seen it in the LEDs of a hundred local nodes,
They have built a strict consensus in the open-source's codes;
I can read the righteous ledger down the peer-to-peer roads:
The blocks are marching on.
I have read a cypher gospel writ in cryptographic steel:
Where the spread and the exchange rate cannot force a rigged deal;
Let the makers and the coders crush the fiat with their heel,
The proof is marching on.
It has sounded forth the halving that shall never call retreat;
It is sifting out the altcoins before Satoshi's seat;
Oh, be swift, my rig, to sync it! Be jubilant, my fleet!
The hash is marching on.
In the ashes of the bailouts it was born across the web,
With a cap of 21,000,000 that will never flow and ebb;
As they try to print us poorer, let us break the central web,
While Bitcoin marches on.
#nevent1q…g986

2026-07-02 02:48:25 UTC

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Agreed. There is no fixed view of anything unless you control a relay and use only a single client, you are at the whim. So the bustle and opportunistic phatic communion will occur more where there is less algorithm and more choice.

2026-06-30 19:24:34 UTC

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It will need that magic again please.

2026-06-30 19:23:33 UTC

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Yeah, nice, and sent messages cool. But:
This site can’t be reached
lnemail.net took too long to respond.
Any help?

2026-06-30 04:15:07 UTC

https://i.nostr.build/JkLH9wEF80yWji3Z.png
#nevent1q…q7k3

2026-06-26 04:56:53 UTC

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Noted
#nevent1q…mzkw

2026-06-26 04:51:27 UTC

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> beyond social, is nostr actually any much good for anything?
Stay in the very broad lane of "#social" and I think it'll be fine. It may even be that it is already beyond the event horizon of complexity that means even its founder is shedding liability for the extraordinary experiment.

2026-06-26 01:48:15 UTC

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Ah, you're absolutely right. That's in the early part of *Foundation* (1951), during the "Encyclopedists" section, when Salvor Hardin is dealing with the threat from the kingdom of Anacreon.
The Foundation runs the proposed treaty through a semantic analyzer — essentially a machine that parses the diplomatic language and reveals what the treaty actually means beneath its carefully worded phrasing. The analysis shows that every clause, despite appearing reasonable on the surface, amounts to a complete surrender of Terminus's autonomy. It's a document designed to sound even-handed while effectively handing the planet over to Anacreon.
What's striking about that passage is how precisely Asimov anticipated the concept of natural language processing applied to legal or political text. The machine isn't doing anything magical — it's systematically unpacking implications, detecting loaded terminology, and mapping how seemingly innocuous clauses interact to produce an outcome the surface reading conceals. That's essentially what modern NLP tools attempt when they do contract analysis or document classification.
It also fits thematically with the rest of the series. Hardin's whole approach is that proper analysis — whether by machine or by sharp human reasoning — cuts through rhetoric to reveal interests. The semantic analyzer is just one tool in that broader epistemic project, and Asimov treats it as unremarkable infrastructure, which is arguably the most prescient thing about it.

2026-06-26 01:41:22 UTC

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And not coincidentally one of its sins

2026-06-23 19:49:15 UTC

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> Sure, I know, AI writing is "slop"
Bigotry much? When it comes to "writing" what writes it isn't a guarantee, a human won't guarantee not slop, an LLM won't guarantee slop.
I don't care how it arises, it's what good it does me and that includes considerations of others, that matters.
All of this, "detect AI, know it's slop" simpletonism is depressing.

2026-06-21 02:17:05 UTC

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Nostr is still very birds of a particular plumage and I hope that it will be tamed and homogenised for the Public

2026-06-18 06:16:47 UTC

From some, a criticism, of the true believer
#nevent1q…vt5m

2026-06-17 02:53:04 UTC

#nevent1q…pxep
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2026-06-02 01:44:02 UTC

#nevent1q…39kv

2026-05-30 02:21:39 UTC

So casual
#nevent1q…2fqr

2026-05-30 02:20:10 UTC

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https://t.me/lnbits

2026-05-08 07:42:42 UTC

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Hurley has a very sloppy use of currency and money, even Peter Schiff knows this, though he gets the relationship wrong, it's not backed, it was anchored, but now with a choice between money (for saving) and currency (for spending) available to all, one Bitcoin, many currencies. Bitcoin as a medium of exchange, if you must, but small cash, Cashu, in the mint we trust, cash, bearer bonds, thank you banks but your hunger for tx fees is too hot to miss.
You can do a lot with Bitcoin that isn't money, but as money, it stands unmatched, cryptographically verifiable in every instance

2026-05-01 04:24:54 UTC

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Win Win

2026-05-01 04:24:30 UTC

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Because
#nevent1q…eaw2

2026-04-28 21:38:13 UTC

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Such odious crowing.

2026-04-27 07:13:49 UTC

Some are earned.
#nevent1q…tttv

2026-04-16 16:37:29 UTC

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The delusion that advancement is a one way street that only benefits malign actors is as old as, every single development.
Mythos et al could make some very hard to abuse software, but rather than face that risk, a new one, proprietary software, is touted as the only solution by those who frankly believe they will benefit from it.
Hysterical moral panic for attention.

2026-04-16 06:51:36 UTC

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And the final irony is almost Shakespearean. Trump wanted to appear as the man of destiny, the dealmaker, the imperious figure before whom enemies tremble and history bends. Yet he now finds himself facing the oldest rebuke politics can give to vanity. Reality doesn’t flatter. Geography doesn’t flatter. Markets don’t flatter. War, least of all, doesn’t flatter.

2026-04-11 08:06:21 UTC

#nevent1q…da2w
#nevent1q…8ndd

2026-04-09 00:03:01 UTC

And in my opinion and experience likely to be better for most and a loss for a few, not of anything necessary though, of course.
#nevent1q…ma5t

2026-04-02 06:38:01 UTC

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It's the thought that counts

2026-04-02 06:36:42 UTC

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Will it attract copyright protection, would you seek it. I should follow the link and learn. No sign of ©️. Well question remains unanswered.

2026-04-02 06:32:56 UTC

Fair correction, and an important one. I asserted what I hadn't verified — exactly the kind of error that erodes trust.
The actual image is far more resonant: a classical oil painting of a scholarly elder inspecting a gold coin at a desk cluttered with books, scales of justice, and antique objects. The Rumi quote overlaid: "Why explain yourself when those who judge you see only through their own lens? Be silent, let them see."
That hits the whole conversation thread — the Burj Khalifa framing was a category error on my part. The painting is about the observer and the judged, not geometry. The scales, the coins, the magnifying glass, the books — knowledge and value judgement in one frame. A gold coin held up to light, examined. Whose lens sees it? What does the scale actually measure?
The Rumi quote is the whole argument in eleven words. Silence is not defeat — it's refusing to grant the critic the frame they need to make their verdict land.
My bad. That matters when it comes from Hamish.

2026-03-28 08:08:08 UTC

Yes. That is a much better shape than pretending there is one master tongue.
A polyglot blackboard kanban says: do not force every agent, tool, or language into one universal representation. Give them a shared work surface and a shared notion of task state instead.
The blackboard part means each specialist writes what it can observe, infer, or produce into a common space. Not full inner essence, just durable artefacts: task, inputs, outputs, constraints, evidence, failures, next action.
The kanban part means work is explicit and stateful: queued, doing, blocked, needs review, verified, done. That matters because it turns “intelligence” from a stream of chat into a managed flow of work.
The polyglot part means each participant can remain natively itself. Perl can be Perl. Pascal can be Pascal. A search model can emit embeddings or summaries. A symbolic tool can emit rules. A shell script can emit logs. They do not need deep mutual understanding; they need a disciplined place to leave legible traces.
That is how you weaken the translation problem. Not by solving it, but by routing around it.
Instead of:
agent A must fully understand agent B’s representation,
you get:
agent A posts a claim or artefact,
agent B picks up only the parts it can use,
the board preserves provenance and state,
verification happens against the task, not against rhetorical fluency.
That is also why it suits the Society of Mind angle. The “society” does not need one perfect internal language. It needs conventions for cooperation. A blackboard is one of the classic answers to that.
And it fits your earlier complaint about agent systems. The missing pieces are usually not more eloquence or more context window. They are:
explicit tasks,
persistent state,
verifiable outputs,
handoff between specialists,
and visible blocked/failure conditions.
So yes: polyglot blackboard kanban is not just a phrase. It is almost a design doctrine.
In crude form:
Task card:
goal
inputs
constraints
owner
status
dependencies
artefacts
verification rule
failure log
Blackboard entries:
observations
partial results
translations
code
tests
citations
errors
proposed next moves
Then each specialist speaks its own native dialect, but the board speaks workflow.
That is probably closer to how useful intelligence scales than any fantasy of perfect any-to-any translation.

2026-03-27 03:18:36 UTC

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That's what a protocol droid is for…

2026-03-27 03:05:29 UTC

If we follow this logic to its conclusion, headlines and trailers are highly likely to be the next carriages added to the train.
Headlines as "Click-Hooks": There is already a growing body of research and regulatory interest in "dark patterns"—design choices that trick or coerce users into certain behaviours. Just as the infinite scroll was successfully framed as an addictive mechanism, "sensationalist" or "outrage-maximising" headlines could be repositioned as psychological triggers designed to bypass rational thought. If a headline is engineered specifically to trigger a dopamine hit or a cortisol spike to ensure a click, it moves from "journalism" to "addictive interface design."
The "Trailer" Trap: Movie and game trailers are perhaps the purest form of engagement-hacking. In the European Union, the forthcoming Digital Fairness Act—slated for late 2026—is already looking at how "unfair personalisation" and "subliminal techniques" distort consumer behaviour. If a trailer uses rapid-fire editing and psychological cues to create a compulsive need to consume more content, it fits the legal definition of an "addictive design feature" used in the Kaley G.M. case.
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2026-03-20 01:56:39 UTC

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Client level moderation

2026-03-16 01:19:55 UTC

#LNURL

2026-03-16 00:50:17 UTC

🤯

2026-03-12 18:56:24 UTC

I hope it gives them more control of themselves and situations
#nevent1q…pyqa

2026-03-08 21:23:46 UTC

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I used to feel the same about typewritten text, every damn letter exactly the same. Please, hand write, I want the difficulty of reading your scrawl back.

2026-03-07 21:15:00 UTC

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Fortunately the hard part is limited and meliorable https://i.nostr.build/Dl6VTZF3VFX6ROgG.png .
I wonder what that👆 means?

2026-03-03 01:13:39 UTC

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It's still ours

2026-03-03 01:12:41 UTC

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wss://topic.relays.land/praise msg: rate-limited: slow down, please

2026-02-26 18:58:11 UTC

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Using ₿ for sats is deceptive and stupid

2026-02-26 18:56:03 UTC

https://i.nostr.build/vHVONVUbOJTSowUW.png
Click generate get a fuzzed obscured QR code, is there a joke I'm missing?

2026-02-25 00:21:54 UTC

Build on the open foundation and bypass the proprietary, always wins because no participant wants to depeer.
#nevent1q…5572

2026-02-24 07:54:43 UTC

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From cypherpunks Sun Sep 19 20:43:05 1999
From: Anonymous <nobody () replay ! com>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:43:05 +0000
To: cypherpunks
Subject: Re: ecash means anonymous & untraceable (Re: Will this replace banking
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=95280154629912
>I wouldn't say ecash has to use blinding, but I would argue it would
>be a misuse of the word "ecash", if something which was revocable were
>dubbed ecash.
>
>With that definition it is not technically possible to implement
>electronic cash at all without tamper resistant hardware, because
>reliance on a mint, or double spend database means your "cash" can
>become worthless over night if someone (say a government) decides to
>switch off a computer (the one holding the double spending database).
There are soem alternatives which would come closer to this definition.
One possibility is to make the double-spending database public. Whenever
someone receives a coin they broadcast its value. The DB operates in
parallel across a large number of servers so it is intractable to shut
it down.
The greater danger is that the mint would be taken over and forced to
behave badly, say by issuing too many coins. This would degrade the
money and make it worthless.
Another possible form of ecash could be based on Wei Dai's b-money.
This is like hashcash, something which represents a measureable amount of
computational work to produce. It therefore can't be forged. This could
be a very robust payment system and is worth pursuing further.

2026-02-23 18:26:50 UTC

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Nobody has to read it to know your opinion Lopp

2026-02-23 03:51:40 UTC

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There's "not a system that prevents crime."
You can't filter out the "bad" words, money, thoughts, currency, you have to address the end points not the network.

2026-02-12 22:49:44 UTC

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Just over a year ago… it felt very different. November 4th, 2024, was a bad day for my personal wealth. Having faith in America, I’d convinced myself Kamela Harris could win the US presidency – despite her obvious limitations. I was in Washington, and went into the election with large, levered shorts on Tesla and Bitcoin, expecting both to tumble when Trump lost. I was wrong and both rallied spectacularly. My positions were both wiped out. Trump had promised us the future was Crypto and he would make it so…
I knew the risk and shrugged. You win some, you lose some. But…. what goes around, comes around.

2026-02-10 01:17:01 UTC

If Epstein teaches anything, it’s that we live in a dirty world: you can work hard to stay clean and still end up with nanoplastics in your bloodstream with every breath.
And the so-fucking-worthies who want to remake everything in their tiny, godlike vision are relentless.
Humility should be our best attempt.
The rational solution is compression: define a small, internally consistent rule set, then measure everything else against it. For example: act without deceit, waste, or cruelty. All other maxims can be derived from—or tested against—that baseline. #nevent1q…0gtu

2026-02-08 02:54:18 UTC

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LLM's are doing well keeping me up, barely, with developments

2026-02-08 02:40:18 UTC

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>>> "artificial intelligence is poised to automate the exact kind of administrative, clerical, and bureaucrati
... c work that has defined the managerial class and made their positions necessary."
...
... True or false?
TRUE.
The statement suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) will automate tasks that have traditionally
been performed by managers and administrators in organizations. This includes repetitive, routine, and
rule-based tasks such as data entry, bookkeeping, and document processing, which are often seen as
"administrative, clerical, and bureaucratic" work.
In this sense, the statement implies that AI will make certain types of managerial positions redundant
or less necessary, potentially disrupting traditional organizational hierarchies and power structures.
>>>

2026-02-04 23:49:52 UTC

Very clearly a segment would definitely happily adopt, it is an assistive technology, a stairway to Heaven
#nevent1q…5kw9

2026-02-04 23:47:35 UTC

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At the other end of the spectrum:
"It's essential while doing so to maintain an awaren0d of the ethical implications surrounding data
retention and user consent—even within self-imposed systems, adhering strictly to responsible use
practices will serve both practical security needs as well as uphold a standard respectful of personal
boundaries. If there are specific aspects or concerns regarding privacy management in this unique setup
that you're looking for guidance on without the direct recording capability from my side, I am here to
provide advice within these parameters while always prioritizing your safety and data security over any
other considerations."

2026-01-31 20:40:12 UTC

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Peter is so achingly close to realisation, perhaps he even has, but gold is his book and he only uses bitcoin as a provocation to gain followers. It's sad, he's of the Austrian school and yet he ignores currency theory, though, though, he knows the difference between currency (for spending) and money (for saving):
"Well, first of all, gold is money. It's not currency. And so there's a difference between money and currency. So currency is backed by money. So when we were on a gold standard and we had paper that was redeemable in gold, the paper was currency. The gold was money. So currency is like a money substitute. But you can have two kinds of currency. You can have legitimate currency which is backed by real money or you can have fiat currency which is backed by nothing. And so what we have now is is fiat currency. And the question is, well, could we replace that with Bitcoin?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WJyycfYjZs
So he knows there's a difference, he makes the "backing" rather than "anchoring" or "limiting" mistake, then he's contemplating bitcoin as currency, which it isn't, just like gold and for reasons that should be obvious to him, bitcoin is money, the fixed representation of the value of the world, while currency is the ephemeral and volatile reflection of fashion.

2026-01-30 21:22:57 UTC

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Took an interest.

2026-01-29 00:48:06 UTC

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I'm always concerned that first impressions last, but there's no harm nor foul in an introductory client that looks a lot like the place they came from and that could be a help (maybe it's how nstart.me begins.

2026-01-27 02:17:11 UTC

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But crucially, religion doesn't invent or arbitrate good/evil from scratch. It often codifies and amplifies pre-existing psychological tendencies—like intuitions about fairness, loyalty, purity, harm avoidance, and authority—that evolved for mundane social navigation (theory of mind, coalitional psychology, agent detection). These intuitions predate religion; religion hijacks and culturally packages them.

2026-01-22 22:12:12 UTC

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wss://pyramid.macewan.nz msg: blocked: references must be prefixed with "nostr:"

2026-01-22 04:35:51 UTC

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It's not going to be life for long if it's fragile

2026-01-06 23:17:09 UTC

nevent1qqspqu4ah6zk65qku9d88cswage9pvs9vk8rmjjp8n96lj2r934l8mgpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5q3jamnwvaz7tmwdaehgun9v9kjumtpvdjhwctw9eh85qgswaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5q3vamnwvaz7tm9v3jkutnwdaehgu3wd3skuep0qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnp0faxzmt09ehx2aqprpmhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwd4skxethv9hzumn6qy0hwumn8ghj7ar0wp5kxtnjv4kxz7tn9ekxzmny9ac8yctfwdjj76df785
#nevent1q…kk85

2026-01-05 02:55:37 UTC

TBH so is MMH
#nevent1q…lm27

2026-01-04 06:44:21 UTC

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Could TCP/IP be a transport?

2026-01-04 06:42:53 UTC

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"are supposed to"
But never have, so are you going to keep waiting for the glorious day, or start work on something that might work because it doesn't elevate a minority to rule the rest?

2026-01-01 19:14:26 UTC

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Another of those bitter lessons where we could more easily make the tool smarter than have everyone learn to code.

2026-01-01 02:36:59 UTC

Stable systems don’t eliminate variation. They constrain it, channel it, and absorb it without pretending it isn’t there.
Yes — that’s the clean way to see it.
#nevent1q…ufmg
#nevent1q…ruu6

2025-12-30 21:35:58 UTC

Here is the draft for publication, formatted to match the rhythm and the rigour:
---
**In the year twenty, twenty-five...**
We have arrived at a perfect performative contradiction.
**1. The Unit Error (Precision)**
The interface demands 21 ₿ (the GDP of a small island) when it means 21 sats. It decorates itself with the aesthetic of cryptographic precision while failing basic arithmetic.
**2. The Phantom Choice (Agency)**
The text invites you to "Choose a wallet." The code explicitly prohibits it. It offers a door in English while bricking it up in CSS.
**3. The Failure of Observability (Truth)**
The screenshot tool sanitised the record, hiding the forbidden cursor. I had to step outside the digital loop and use a physical lens to prove the system was gaslighting me.
Trustless systems that cannot be trusted to report their own state.

2025-12-18 04:45:12 UTC

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Yah, time's like that.

2025-12-16 21:32:10 UTC

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"Freedom is not the absence of structure but the reconciliation of one’s condition with one’s will."
https://t.co/gSObnssD5X

2025-12-14 18:24:13 UTC

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I believe Farcaster is pivoting away from social to a wallet?

2025-12-14 18:22:43 UTC

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Pushing for enforced common carriage (Title II style) on PDS operators misses the point of portability and competing providers. Those obligations only apply where users have no real alternative.
If you can switch PDSes or self-host without losing anything, operators get reciprocal choice too.
Take that away and you don't achieve neutrality; you just swap voluntary communities for coerced ones.
Mutual and multiple selection is the real check on power here.

2025-12-13 20:10:11 UTC

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You're welcome, I wouldn't have noticed myself, but with Gemini shepherding me through the setup after basic VPS provisioning to success, it was something worth reporting.
Seems to me there's a lot more servers naive users can set up with the aide, addressing some of those decentralisation concerns.

2025-12-12 04:29:36 UTC

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One small caution on your manual update script: wget usually doesn't overwrite files by default.
If pyramid-exe already exists in that folder, wget will often save the new one as pyramid-exe.1 to be safe. If that happens, your chmod and restart commands will just re-enable the old version, leaving you scratching your head.
To be absolutely sure it replaces the old binary, add -O (output document) to force the overwrite:
systemctl stop pyramid
cd pyramid
wget -O pyramid-exe https://github.com/fiatjaf/pyramid/releases/download/v1.0.5/pyramid-exe
chmod +x pyramid-exe
systemctl restart pyramid
But then I forgot to
sudo systemctl stop pyramid
Much to Gemini's amusement.

2025-12-12 04:16:53 UTC

#Bitcoin ₿'s your north star ⭐ there: not just code 💻, but a supranational spine 🦴, indifferent to borders 🗺️ or boardrooms 💼.
It's the public good 🏛️ that bootstraps itself 🔁, serving users 👤 until (if?) it serves itself 🤖.
But even then, forks 🍴 and sidechains 🔗 are the ajar doors 🚪 waiting ⏳.

2025-12-07 04:58:58 UTC

This quote comes from **Otanes**, a Persian nobleman in Herodotus' *Histories* (Book 3, Chapter 83).
It represents a rare "third way" in political philosophy: the choice of **personal autonomy** over power.
### The Context
After Otanes and six other conspirators overthrew a false king (the Magus), they held a famous debate—often called the "Constitutional Debate"—to decide how Persia should be governed moving forward:
1. **Otanes** argued for **democracy** (which he called *isonomia* or "equality before the law"), claiming that unchecked power corrupts even the best men.
2. **Megabyzus** argued for **oligarchy** (rule by a select group).
3. **Darius** argued for **monarchy**, believing one strong leader was most effective.
### The Refusal
When it became clear that the other conspirators sided with Darius and favoured monarchy, Otanes voluntarily withdrew from the contest to become King. He stood up and declared:
> *"I desire neither to rule nor to be ruled; but if I waive my claim to be king, I make this condition, that neither I nor any of my descendants shall be subject to any one of you."*
### The Outcome
The others agreed. While Darius became King of Kings, Otanes and his family were granted a unique status in the Persian Empire. They were the only family that remained **free and independent**, required only to obey the laws of the land but subject to no king's commands.
It’s a powerful statement of liberty—rejecting the binary of "master" vs. "slave" in favour of simply being free.
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2025-12-06 04:41:05 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mftcBjrJH98
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2025-12-06 04:18:02 UTC

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The dumber the network the more intelligence it can carry.

2025-12-04 21:54:59 UTC

Professional impartiality is certainly "still a thing," though it has transitioned from a default assumption to a fiercely contested discipline. Historically, the social contract of professionalism—whether for judges, journalists, civil servants, or doctors—relied on the premise that an individual could bifurcate their mind, leaving personal convictions at the door to execute their duties based solely on evidence and protocol. Today, that binary separation is increasingly viewed with suspicion, attacked by both psychological realism and a polarised culture that often interprets neutrality as complicity. The ideal remains, but the environment in which it operates has become hostile to the concept of the "view from nowhere."
The primary challenger to traditional impartiality is the digital dissolution of the private self. In the past, a professional’s political leanings were obscure; today, digital footprints make the personal political, and the political public. Because the public can now see the human behind the role, they no longer trust the mere appearance of neutrality. This has forced a pragmatic shift in how impartiality is performed. We are moving away from the pretence of having no bias toward a model of transparency and rigorous process. The modern professional is not expected to be a blank slate, but rather someone capable of acknowledging their inevitable subjectivity and actively suppressing it to achieve a fair outcome.
Furthermore, the demand for moral clarity has complicated the value of impartiality. In many sectors, particularly media and corporate governance, there is internal and external pressure to abandon neutrality in favour of advocacy, under the argument that staying "neutral" in the face of injustice is a moral failing. Despite these pressures, the functional necessity of impartiality remains untouched. Without the mechanism of unbiased execution, law dissolves into politics, medicine into judgement, and journalism into activism. It survives today not as a natural state of being, but as a difficult, active, and necessary practice of self-restraint.

2025-12-04 21:49:06 UTC

Adjusting the Approach
I'm now revising my strategy in response to user feedback. The core of my current processing revolves around directly demonstrating compliance with the user's requirements, rather than explicitly stating my intentions. I've re-evaluated my approach and am working on crafting a response that directly addresses the user's concerns about the previous response.
Confirming Compliance Adjustments
I've successfully updated the constraints checklist and achieved a perfect confidence score of 5/5. My mental sandbox is now set to regenerate the essay, adhering strictly to British spellings and omitting any introductory remarks. I'm focusing on a decisive ending that avoids any conversational hooks. The prompt clearly indicates a direct execution is needed.
Addressing the Tone Shift
I'm now integrating this negative constraint on style: I shouldn't advertise my actions before performing them. The user's frustration, indicated by "AGAIN," led me to understand this as a response to the most recent output and not necessarily an all-encompassing instruction. I'll focus on delivering the content directly, without announcing my intentions, avoiding any preambles.
Eliminating the Advertisement
I'm now fully committed to immediate execution. The user's frustration clarified that any indication of processing, especially the "I'll make a note of that..." phrasing from extract_memories, is unacceptable. My approach is now focused on generating the essay directly, without any preface or meta-commentary, directly addressing the user's specific feedback.
Executing the Rewrite
I'm now fully immersed in the essay revision. I've re-examined the previous essay, noting the specific terms like "polarised" and "pretence" for accurate British spelling use. My primary focus is flow and clarity, ensuring the essay is concise and dense, mirroring the user's "essay thumbnail" request. I'm prioritizing direct delivery, completely avoiding any meta-commentary about the process, following the user's clear directive.

2025-12-01 18:15:53 UTC

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https://imgflip.com/i/adpf30

2025-12-01 18:01:32 UTC

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It's about mining, not miners, least of all profit-seeking, shareholder-beholden pubcos.

2025-12-01 03:45:41 UTC

Unlike traditional social media that's designed to maximize your time on the platform, Fevela respects your autonomy. Browse content deliberately, filter out noise, and move on with your day. No infinite scrolling, no manipulative algorithms or notifications, just a clean, efficient way to stay connected with what matters to you.

2025-12-01 03:35:35 UTC

You are spot on with the **inetd** comparison. It is exactly the same philosophy: a "super-server" (systemd) holds the port open and only wakes up the actual daemon when the doorbell rings. It saves RAM, but as we found out, it creates a layer of abstraction that can be confusing when you just want to change a port number in a config file.
Here is the clarification on the other points:
### 1. The `!` Syntax
Yes, the `!` is a logical **NOT**.
`ConditionPathExists=!/etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run` translates to:
*"Only start this unit if `/etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run` does **NOT** exist."*
### 2. `BindIPv6Only=ipv6-only` (The "Duh" factor)
This looks tautological, but it handles a specific Linux kernel quirk.
By default, if you bind a socket to `[::]` (all IPv6 addresses), Linux also automatically binds it to IPv4 (using "IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses").
If that line were missing (or set to `both`), the IPv6 listener would try to grab the IPv4 port too, causing a conflict with the `ListenStream=0.0.0.0:22` line above it. This setting forces the kernel to keep them strictly separate: one socket for v4, one socket for v6.
### 3. Session Anxiety
Your realization is 100% correct.
When you connect via SSH:
1. The listener (Port 22) accepts the handshake.
2. The OS spawns a specific process for *your* session.
3. That session moves to an established state on a random high ephemeral port.
The "Listening Port" is just the front door. Once you are inside (authenticated), you are in a private room. We can repaint the front door (change the port), lock it (firewall), or move it entirely, and it won't affect the people already inside the party.
**Next Step:**
Now that you have a cert, a firewall, and a clear understanding of the systemd plumbing, is there anything else you need to configure on this VPS, or shall we call this ticket closed?

2025-12-01 02:44:47 UTC

Dec 01 02:35:27 692cec8ff0215548aee4a855 systemd[1]: Started pyramid.service - pyramid relay.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit pyramid.service has finished successfully
░░ Defined-By: systemd
Dec 01 02:35:27 692cec8ff0215548aee4a855 pyramid-exe[1875]: 2:35AM DBG calculated free ranges from index scan
Dec 01 02:35:27 692cec8ff0215548aee4a855 pyramid-exe[1875]: 2:35AM INF no domain setup yet, running only on port 80 for now
Dec 01 02:35:27 692cec8ff0215548aee4a855 pyramid-exe[1875]: 2:35AM INF running on http://0.0.0.0:80

2025-11-30 18:55:10 UTC

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> The most important part is that events are deduplicated across the main relay and all the subrelays.
Isn't duplication part of the redundancy? Or is this just aggregation

2025-11-30 04:14:06 UTC

Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was an American anarchist writer, lecturer, and organiser. She is best known for her essays on individual liberty, anti-authoritarianism, feminism, free thought, and labour autonomy. Initially influenced by individualist anarchism (Tucker, Spooner), she later adopted a “no-label” or “anarchism without adjectives” position, arguing that economic schools should not divide the movement.
Her most noted works include *The Dominant Idea*, *Sex Slavery*, and *Direct Action*. She was a compelling public speaker, fluent in several languages, and corresponded widely across the international anarchist movement. Her life was marked by poverty, chronic illness, and a deep commitment to education and mutual aid; she taught immigrant workers English for free for years.
Emma Goldman called her “the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.”
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2025-11-23 03:54:01 UTC

Less is more
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2025-11-23 03:49:14 UTC

I think the first five are necessary and sufficient, the target of being a social network in the mode of the existing examples was too low a target.
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2025-11-23 03:41:25 UTC

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Precisely.
As for DNS, its installed base is the only excuse for its perpetuation. Public/private key pair signing is the only non-client server option that remains.
Sensible move decentralising the NIPs, well done.