Mosquitos are desperate right now. Reckless fuckers, meet my hands.

Monero being delisted from exchanges seems to have unpegged it from Bitcoin's volatility.

Been stacking like crazy lately.

Is there a nostr client that cuts off posts right in the middle of a sentence like X does? Looks like shit every time I see it. View quoted note →

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I have no idea what most of the Bitcoin/nostr dramas are about. I’ve heard some of the names being mentioned but that’s about it.

Most criticism of Jack Kruse is either blatantly ignorant of what he’s saying or just obvious personal dislike of the way he behaves. Ever since stumbling upon his Decentralized Medicine talk (some Urbit event at the end of 2023 iirc?) I’ve been listening to lots of his talks and interviews and I’ve dedicated a significant amount of hours into researching his claims. While some connections he makes are circumstantial (as they usually are when it comes to these things), the grander narrative is plausible and internally consistent. The Epstein files gave even more credence to his claims because they highlighted connections that previously were much more difficult to discover. I don’t have any idols. I wouldn’t want to have him as a friend because he seems to be quite arrogant and selfabsorbed. Since I don’t have to spend time with him, why would I care? Show me where he’s been proven wrong. Or where he stands to profit from any of his claims. Or when he shilled dubious products. Personal attacks are just lazy tells that you’ve either been spooked by some terminology also used by supposedly loonies you don’t want to be associated with or that you just can’t stand the guy. Sad to see such low effort ad hominem shit on nostr of all places.

In my experience most apps shipped by billion dollar companies offer a worse experience than any of the common nostr apps I use.

Just continued reading Magliabechiano by Martino Martini from the 1600s and stumbled upon mentions of Nestorian Christians living in China (or Tartaria). It’s full of interesting little aspects. All sourced by mostly Society of Jesus (aka Jesuit) members preaching in the area, though. I was in the mood for this video about the dimensions of the Tower of Babel after finishing the chapter: Turns out, this video is sourced by Turris Babel, written by another Jesuit named Athanasius Kircher who… also was among the first to write about Chinese culture around the same time. Well, his calculations aren’t all that reliable and he thought that the Tower of Babel, as described by Nimrod, would be so big and heavy that it would’ve forced a tilt of the globe earth. He was also a proponent of germ theory and wearing masks during the plague. The illustrations are incredible: I suspect that the Tower of Babel never had any intentions of physically reaching “the heavens” - it was more likely built to open a portal there using fringe energy (probably in relation to ley line positioning and stuff like that).

Reading old translated books again: > They [Chinese] also say that there is found there [in a region of Tartary] a fish-cow, whose size exceeds our cows, whose length is often no less than a pole, yet it has neither scales nor horns. > I would believe this to be the same fish which Father Cristóbal de Acuña describes at length in his description of the Amazon River, which he himself travelled through, published in Spanish at Madrid in 1641, and which he calls pece buei, that is, “ox-fish.” > There is also a kind of vulture among the Tartars, commonly called Haitezgcing. Although it is smaller in body than the others, it is so bold and spirited that it often attacks and captures wild geese. So many weird animals in our past.

#cookstr #foodstr #nomstr

Without being prompted, ChatGPT just recommended to check @Zapstore for naming conflicts of an app I’m building.

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GM I think this is my oldest account on the Internet: