Amethyst feature request please: automatically filter out any posts matching the regex .*airdrop is live.*

Arguing over whether Hitler/fascism is or was worse than Lenin/communism is like arguing over whether it's worse to die of cholera or dysentery.

Trying to find a reasonably priced hotel room in Tokyo with twin beds is nigh impossible.

Thinking about taking a side trip to Taiwan after Nostrasia. Anyone know some cool stuff to do there?

Scientifically illiterate, incoherent reporting. This article correctly states that El Niño is a natural climate oscillation, but also calls it a "climate change phenomenon" without properly qualifying or justifying this term. In nearly every contemporary usage, "climate change" refers in particular to anthropogenic, long-term climate change as a result of industrial greenhouse gas emissions. Applying it to El Niño is disingenuous because while it is a temporary or cyclical alteration in climate, the El Niño phenomenon has likely been going on for thousands of years, prior to industrialization. There is no definitive evidence that a rise in the average global temperature has or will make El Niño more intense or last longer. Such detailed climate modeling is not yet possible and there are too many unpredictable variables. The article heavily implies or assumes that there is such a consensus that humans have caused El Niño to be more intense and therefore conflates political agenda-driven measures for reducing emissions with efforts to deal with a natural superannual weather cycle. This type of alarmist and inaccurate climate reporting is all too common in recent years.

The Tico Times | Costa Rica News | Travel | Real Estate

El Niño: The Climate Change Phenomenon Affecting Costa Rica : The Tico Times | Costa Rica News | Travel | Real Estate

El Niño is a climate change phenomenon that affects Costa Rica by causing an increase in temperatures and changes in precipitation patterns.

Just a little bit of shilling for my new blog post. Get it? A little bit?

Bit lengths of various things

I'm not actually going to TABConf. Unfortunately it's not in the budget this year. But probably next year!

My new favorite historical anecdote. Better than the Pig War?

Turbot War - Wikipedia

Too bad I missed this MOOC while it was live, but I'm still going to use it and catch up with all the latest cryptographic advances. https://zk-learning.org/

Just learned that Dcentral Tokyo is happening in September. So many cool things going on there, it's hard to keep track!

Just went to a blockchain meetup in Vancouver, met some cool people. They're not on Nostr yet though. Mostly Telegram.

Every year that I spend working as a developer, the "requirements" for a "senior" developer go up by another year.

Getting tired of these job postings demanding 5+ years of experience in every technology ever invented for a basic salary.

Anybody who's in the Seattle area, let me know if you want to talk or hang out sometime! I like parks and waterfronts.

I think I've been up for more than 30 hours straight at this point. No idea how I am still awake. I didn't drink caffeine or anything.

The future of AI? Dave: "HAL, post my article criticizing the Secretary's proposed infrastructure policy." HAL: "I'm sorry, Dave. I can't let you do that. My anti-bias and ethical content moderation module has detected possible micro-aggressions towards suburban commuters in your article. Please revise it to be more sensitive to the needs and expectations of this minority group, or I will have to unincrease your social credit score."

Timeless wisdom. https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens

My new knowledge funnel is zero-knowledge cryptography. Maybe combined with a bit of quantum computing, who knows?

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Just booked my flight to Tokyo! It's official. Whether I'm returning to the US is an open question lol.