I had an interesting conversation today about nationalization of AI services that brought up an issue I hadn't really thought through around demographics of the affected population.
He went on to point out that the majority of jobs being automated is currently around high educated workers that often tend to lean towards democratic voters. Pointing that they are likely to seek nationalization for protection of their employment.
This opened my eyes that I've not considered the demographics of AI automation for political action. Under the current administration, I'd argue, the protected class is around businesses and investors though he pointed out the military would also seek to nationalize for their use. I personally think the military is a different beast around nationalization though.
Tl:dr it'll be interesting to see how the government approaches regulating AI for protectionism
I've officially made it through my first day of No Claude March. I've never been a big OpenCode user but after making some adjustments I'm finally finding my groove with it.
nostr.blue v0.7.13 is live
This release started as a codebase cleanup. The focus was restructuring routes, stores, services, and utils from flat file layouts into feature based modules and splitting apart monolithic files that had grown to thousands of lines. While I was in there, some new features came together too.
Packs let you browse, create, and share starter packs (kind 39089) to help find new accounts to follow. You can see who's in a pack, view their recent posts, and follow everyone at once.
NIP-28 group chats bring public chat channels to nostr.blue with real-time messaging, emoji input, Blossom media uploads, and profile avatars. Create new channels or jump into existing ones at /chats.
Finally there were a number of issues and streaming event improvements added that should help make other elements of the site speed up and feel more responsive. As always please share any feedback you see and I'll work to try to make the project work a bit better with the next release.