Posting to listen in pip:

A tale from Americana: Paul works hard for his money. Gets up early, bags his lunch, works hard, kisses his wife and children. His employer compensates him fairly; he and his family can enjoy some middle-class amenities like occasional eating at restaurants and seasonal modest vacations. He has a retirement account he and his employer contribute to; 3% match before tax - not bad. One day, Paul's drinking his morning cup of coffee watching his children play and notices a feeling in his stomach. It's not much, something small, unnoticeable even, if it wasn't for the momentary lapse in his children's play he wouldn't of noticed. Not thinking much of it, he continues his routine - coffee, work, family time, sleep. Every now and then he notices that small feeling from before, did it feel deeper than last time? Hard to know. He tries to understand the feeling, like a magnetic pull to... his kitchen? "Odd feeling," he thinks to himself. That night he pulls on the thread of that feeling. First, there nothing. Then suddenly, emotion bursts out of him. Tears streaming, nose running, muscles convulsing. "What's happening". With such little warning, his wife is taken aback. "This isn't like Paul". He tries to explain in between the sobs but nothing intelligible comes out and in few moments, the feeling passes. Faculties return to his muscles, he can muster a breath. "Is everything ok, Paul?", she asks, "I don't know" and he turns off his bed-side lamp. The next day starts like any other. Paul enjoys a cup of coffee watching his children play. Then he notices something. There's something different about Alex. Rocket ship whooshes and robot tings are a little softer coming out of his mouth. "It's probably nothing, probably tired," he thinks to himself. A couple days later, Alex does another odd thing. He asks for permission to leave the bathroom after using the toilet. "that's odd". Alex has been a fiery child since birth, only asking for permission after he snatched the toy or grabbed a bag of snacks. Permission to leave the bathroom? Could this be from pre-school? Alex recently started school, highly ranked, much lauded (blah blah). The teacher has a military background so maybe that? ... to be continued.

Being a father has deepened my appreciation for the archetypal story in the Lion King. Every time I watch it, I see more echoes for how to live a good, sacrificial life. Anyway, enjoy your evening nostr.

Wtf it’s vlog like vlog not this idiotic vee-log. If blog is short for web log, then vlog is short for video log. Does anyone you know pronounce video vee-dee-oh…? No it’s vid-ee-oh. @ODELL @CITADEL DISPATCH That being said love the content :D

@calle what do you think about a business using ecash as essentially an auth token for internal APIs? You would get security benefits from external callers (need company tokens for API access), internal calls would just be for auth (one service is given tokens and another receives, net neutral), you could give any AI agent immediate understanding of economics based on API token cost. Or something like that

Came up with a solution for backing up photos my family takes on their devices in about 5 minutes with GPT5 and @PayPerQ . Cost me all of 10 cents. Now our phones backup to a local NAS, through our firewall, in the background when connected to our network. Thanks for the service!

I've always thought this was BS - just youtube tryin to get me to disable my VPN for a sec to log my location/IP. Dumb.