An elitist attitude has pervaded the left in this country that considers nuanced speech dangerous.
"What you said is factually accurate and reasonable but The Lessers won't understand the nuance so publicly stating it is dangerous and toxic to society."
The easiest way to be right is to lie to ourselves. We can even remove the need to lie with just one meta-lie: our feelings are facts.
We want so badly to be right and for there to be no problems left to solve. Our feelings are springs surfacing oceans of self-certainty, virtue, and complacency.
Saw a puppet show in Austin that was an amazing live production of a family traveling the Oregon Trail. Only puppets (surprisingly!) would let you experience - live - the audacious scale of the journey.
Then the director had to ruin it by explaining that the moral of the story was “the white man’s insatiable thirst for more things that don’t belong to him.”
I can't use twitter anymore. They've tuned the "actively viewing" parameter of the reward function *way* too high.
My feed was almost entirely videos of random attacks even though I kept telling it I didn't want to see those.
Announcing booger - a nostr relay in ~500 LoC
Supports NIPs: 1, 2, 4, 9, 12, 15, 16, 20, 28, 33 so far
Doesn't play defense
Supports process and server clustering
From today's SN newsletter:
If you've been struggling to comprehend nostr, stop thinking about it as decentralized social media and start thinking about it as less centralized social media. Nostr makes application backends interchangeable and encourages using multiple backends simultaneously. That's it. It isn't decentralized in the way Bitcoin is. But, more importantly, it isn't centralized in the way Twitter is either. It's less centralized *enough* that nostriches aren't dependent on a single centralized entity and thus applications built on nostr have significantly altered incentives.
Someone I'm forced to respect (me) once tweeted:
> Unless a technology changes incentives, it merely helps history repeat faster.
Nostr changes incentives. What comes next isn't a digital utopia, but its harder to predict than you think.
Pura Vida!