As I get older, I'm trying to try new things. Summer is a good time for this too. So, yesterday I installed one of those "Calm" type apps. It was weird. Somehow I thought it was more than just listening to sounds. Plus, installing the thing was dang stressful. Step after step after step after almost there...etc. I never even got to the sounds, finally uninstalled it, and felt more stressed than before.

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The rumor on the street is that Wallet of Satoshi beta "has expired", whatever that means. Just checked my WoS and saw I have 3 sats in there. Got to figure out how to rescue them. All sats matter.

This moth was trapped in an old screen just to the right of my laptop. He's been fluttering around off and on the past hour trying to escape. At first, it was just visually distracting and annoying to see him flitting all over. Then, I felt sorry for him and was moved by his persistence. Finally, I took the time to remove the screen and let him go. We both feel better now. #freedom

I took this photo yesterday as a panorama. This is actually a zoom in which looks even better; panorama shots catch it all, but lose detail. That's a lot of grass to touch.

Is launching a Big Gulp at federal agents aggrevated assault or just regular assault? Not sure how the law books delineate that. https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0xjcytursf0m0g73sshygqx585cpgk7n2jat8pq9e8d67lyrrjscpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0d4hhxarj9ecxjmnt9upzqtjzyy2ylrsceh5uj20j5e95v0e99s3epsvyctu2y0vrwyltvq33qvzqqqqqqyyut8lz

You know how there are diva wide receivers in American football? We need more high-strung diva devs. Entertainment value matters.

First cookout on the grill today. Summer is (finally) officially here.

I want to read Neal Stephenson sci-fi or at least try. Is Snow Crash where I should start? #scifi

The #bitcoin signal...we clear?

For fun and to see if I can do it, I'm trying to mash up a text-only nostr client. It's for "old phones and bad internet" and I said it's "glitchy and sketch, but so is your phone and internet. So, who knows if it's this app after all?! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 😀" Though I didn't intend it, this kinda has the perfect excuse for bad software engineering built in. It's sort of like a website that intends to test for bad connections, then reports back as, "Sorry, bad connection." Huh? (btw, posting from the app now, so, kinda working if you see this)

Since I rarely look at either, I'm having a hard time litmus testing Bluesky and Mastodon on the political spectrum, liberal to conservative. If it was a 1 to 10 scale, left to right, I guess I'd put Bluesky at a 2 and Mastodon at a 3. Am I reading things correctly?

Got to like earning sats just by someone sending sat/ads to your comments. It's like you're watching TV, and because a commercial comes on, you get satoshis. #bitcoin

On the road, I turned on NPR. A homosexual podcaster who worked for Obama and Jon Stewart was talking about Richard Simmons. But, that's neither here nor there. At the commercial, the host slipped in that a bill in Congress seeks to defund public broadcasting funding for two years. Said we should all take action. A couple of things. First, I thought public radio was "commercial free." That's what its branded as every single fund raising gig when they beg for money. Secondly, the big argument now for public funding is that public radio is the supposed only means of "reliable" news for many. Okay, (a) do they honestly not see their strong bias? (b) am radio is far better to get news out; pretty sure most public radio is fm. I can listen to am stations literally thousands of miles away at times, not tens of miles. Third, the host said they might lose 9% of their annual budget. Wait, what? I wrote several months ago an article (below) where I mentioned how they are adamant that they only get 1% of their money from the government. Now it's 9%? Seems like when the issue is, "You get too much government money," the answer is "Just 1%." But, when that "1%" is going to be taken away, suddenly it's a whole 9% that will crush their ability to get their word out. In a business, if you lose 9% (or 1%) of your revenue, you work harder to make that back up.

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Seems weird that AI makes "typo" errors. Does it fat-finger things?

Been noticing something odd to me...images that load horizontally, and from right to left no less! That's different.

GM, today I learnt... #coding with AI is a Laffer Curve of productivity...goes up fast, curves over to a max atop a hump, gets cumbersome, declines a bit, then declines fast, finally gets totally broken by itself. Business Calculus 101: stop at the top of the curve.

I'm trying to implement login with nostr connect using nsec.app but getting stuck. Any resources or alternatives to connecting via nostr connect? #asknostr .hostr