The death of Daniel Naroditsky, a top 200 chess grandmaster who started as a child prodigy and quickly became one of the most influential American voices in the sport, seems to be directly caused by years-long unabashed and relentless social media bullying by a disgraced former world champion who has gone on a baseless crusade against cheating in online chess to justify the massive decline in his own chess quality. Freedom of speech is not without consequences. Words also kill. RIP Danya

Nostr clients be like

Also, fun fact, if you are an 80 year old and receive an organ from a 20 year old, it doesn't mean that the organ will live another 80 years or so. The age of the host will make the organ age faster.

Fun fact: when you receive a kidney, they don't remove the old ones. If you receive and it gets rejected, you will receive another one and the rejected kidney remains in place. You can get up to 8 kidneys. 🫘

Apparently half of the web is already AI content. 😳

I kinda want to do a Web of Trust scoring service as an app. So, you can download the entire Nostr graph to the phone and compute all scores yourself. You can then mannually update all scores as you need and save on Citrine.

Let AWS burn.

Today 90% of computers in China run Windows. This is 5% more than 3 years ago, when the party announced its support for Kylin Linux to explicitly get rid of American software stacks. This is the true power of Microsoft. They can ban virtually every software company, but not Microsoft. Don't use Windows.

"Check your email for the link" is tech-speak for "take a 15-second mandatory time-out."

An email login is a security feature that mostly protects me from actually logging in.

Web of Trust is more core to Nostr than Bitcoin

Get ready folks! We have a #wot-a-thon coming from @nosfabrica, starting this November with final submissions in May '26. All existing relays and clients are invited. Score providers and integrations on existing clients/relays are welcome to participate. Software counts, designs count, WoT business model submissions count. Any builder can help a team. Listen to Avi's interview with @david to get ready for it.

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Plebchain Radio • PCR133 – WoT's The Deal with David Strayhorn • Listen on Fountain

Summary David Strayhorn, creator of Brainstorm and Grapevine, joins the show to announce a major initiative to build a decentralized Web-of-Trust f...