Facebook's quarterly numbers are breathtaking. 4 billion in quarterly loss on virtual reality eating up a significant portion of the company's reported profits. The interesting number is they are claiming 2 billion daily active users. I would naturally take that to mean 2 billion unique real people logging in every day, but one in four people in the world? Methinks FB is playing games with words and numbers. But really, I don't much care. I'm tired of their user abuse. I'm on nostr now. I'm all in. #grownostr

Missouri backroad. A turkey just crossed in front of me, but I missed it. #grownostr

How do you know you're in Missouri Amish country? Maybe when the post office has hitching posts. #grownostr

I uninstalled the Twitter app since I'm not using it. I had some hope they were going to do something good with it. Oh well. I'm not closing my social accounts; I'm just shadow banning them. #grownostr

"Honey, what is nostr?" "Dearest, nostr is the largest gathering of visionaries... ever.

My ride for today. #grownostr #18wheels #Mack #Eaton10

These gloves and these boots make money. #grownostr

Unpopular opinion: Corporations mostly exist to feed the system through the boosting of fragile egos. Sometimes they make money too.

7 reasons I have a grudge against big social. 1. Lock in. They lock you into their platform. 2. Their software is always at least partially broken. It is difficult to tell if it is intentional or incidental. I feel both are strongly in play. 3. Agenda driven censorship. 4. Ads. This is the one thing Big Data was supposed to get right. By knowing every little thing about every person and continually spying on them, they were supposed to be able to efficiently target ads that would convert to sales. They now have the data, but the ads still suck. 5. Lost opportunity. I personally have been part of two related but different movements that would have been in a much more advanced place now if it were not for the ineptitude, censorship, and agendas of big tech. But the worst is they sucked all the oxygen out of the room, and it is nearly impossible to have an alternative platform. It isn't even just particular groups, they have made thoughtful discussions of all kinds extraordinarily difficult. 6. Time theft. They have a complete disrespect for their users time and effort. 7. Lock out. They lock you out of other platforms and services. Sometimes overtly, sometimes subtly. Biggie Bonus: Reactive interaction. The big socials are tuned for reactions. In practice this means the crazy rises to the top every time. I'm sorry, but we have enough crazy in this world, the thoughtful people need a voice too.

It's been just 2 weeks since #[0] introduced #grownostr I was on nostr before, but not very active. Now, I already have around 4,000 in zaps and ready 150 followers. And I didn't bring followers from other platforms. I'm also following over 200 people now. I'm all in. Let's do this thing. Keep posting daily, and let's grow nostr!

Nostr is a lot better than it was 2 months ago. #grownostr

I've been wanting to use my 3D printer, but my hangup has been creating the models of what I want to make. In the past I learned a bit of Fusion 360 and SketchUp back when it was an installed program. This time I decided to try FreeCAD. I've already modeled my first part (haven't printed anything yet) and am working on my second part which has some pretty complex geometry that I am having to invent and reinvent as I go. Here's the thing. This kind of parametric modelling like for 3D printing is what FreeCAD is said to do best. Yes, there is a significant learning curve, as with any CAD program, but it seems to be wholly adequate for this kind of work, and is a free, opensource program. I can literally learn this one program now and still count on being able to still use it 25 years from now without incurring license fees or having to switch to a new program. #freeCAD #grownostr

Missouri Ozarks #grownostr

It seems like Amethyst stopped following the hashtags I had it following. I'm adding the important ones back now. #grownostr