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Bitcoin, Nostr, history, sci-fi, FOSS, P2P...
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flix 1 week ago
Big new push in the EU for censorship. Applauded by all the usual suspects. #Nostr is necessary.
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flix 1 week ago
The problem with AI is that the result always looks good, until you zoom in. Always some typos, always loses precision. Still... it is fast. #history #timeline image
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flix 2 weeks ago
The amount of war propaganda flooding media is astounding. It's reached a point where you are closer to the truth ignoring it completely. Searching for accurate bits of info is hard work.
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flix 2 weeks ago
This is just a rough approximation. But you can see the alignment between climate and artifact production. Mediterraneans definitely produced (and traded) more pottery when it was warmer. Of course the artifact count suffers heavily from selection and survivor bias... but the sample is still large enough that it is a good economic proxy. image
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flix 2 weeks ago
Art and data align. The main branch curves with historical climate data, which in turn affects the East-West power balance. Mediterranean trading in bronze age vessels cares a lot about the weather. Just ask Odysseus! #history #timeline image
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flix 2 weeks ago
The art and the data align reasonably well. #history #timeline image
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flix 2 weeks ago
If you want to read some good sci-fi about the Singularity, I highly recommend Vernor Vinge's "Marooned in Realtime". image
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flix 2 weeks ago
It looks like Ray Kurzweil was spot on. We are in the most interesting times. image
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flix 2 weeks ago
@Vitor Pamplona @miljan is there some relay crisis happening this week? I'm seeing a lot of notes that fail to propagate. It would be great to hear from the trenches.
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flix 2 weeks ago
Timeline as border in illuminated manuscript. #timeline #history image
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flix 2 weeks ago
Simple scenario analysis for the Iran war. Obviously I will update probabilities as events unfold and options are closed off. Unfortunately I think that the most optimistic scenarios from this point have a very low probability, based not just on the rhetoric but also on the actions of participants. image
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flix 2 weeks ago
The 5 Stages of Trader Evolution
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flix 2 weeks ago
How long can Iran keep Hormuz strait closed trading $10k drones against $1M interceptors? My guess is years. Airpower will not be enough. There are no good alternatives.
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flix 2 weeks ago
En Nostr #hispano hay unos 10 mensajes al día. Somos pocos, pero cada vez que me meto encuentro algo de valor. Sospecho que en un futuro, cuando esto se masifique, echaremos de menos estos inicios en los que nos conocemos todos.