#amethyst Desktop finally starting to look up! A few little issues (on Fedora): 1. Still defaulting to nsec.app for bunkers... That relay's been offline for better part of this year? 2. Clicking "Today" dropdown in Notification tab instantly crashes app 3. would be great to have more / easier keyboard navigation?

#amethyst Desktop finally starting to look up! A few little issues (on Fedora): 1. Still defaulting to nsec.app for bunkers... That relay's been offline for better part of this year? 2. Clicking "Today" dropdown in Notification tab instantly crashes app 3. would be great to have more / easier keyboard navigation?

Buncha Buzzkills.... 🙄 Man vs. ‘Terminator’-Like Robot in a Cage. California Called It Illegal. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/technology/human-robot-cage-fights-california-rek.html

New #mst3k / #rifftrax colab makes "the trades" (it's really good too)

Mystery Science Theater 3000 The RiffTrax Experiments Behind the Scene

Variety went behind the scenes of “Mystery Science Theater 3000: The RiffTrax Experiments"

Can't fall back asleep thoughts: the worst part about the contemporary AI discourse is how much we've removed human "agency" from the picture. AI is just this "thing" that's "going to happen", somehow being magically independent of the human individuals and institutions that gave it form and instructions. You have Agency. Use it.

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Still have no idea what the "bookmark" icon does in @Nostrich... It certainly doesn't seem to actually add the page to my bookmarks or anything?

Take the high ground... View quoted note →

New #southpark : Billionaires, penis finger puppets, and a pretty good deepfake of Trump on the toilet

We touch on the idea of post-scarcity economics here... "Star Trek" is basically the model for "how people live" here. Although color me highly skeptical that current generation AI gets us there.... View quoted note →

Season 1 of HBO's "Lanterns" had some interesting ideas and setpieces but ultimately can't stick the landing, thoughts in comments

Highly recommend this essay about the Effective Altruists, their history and various schisms, linking it up to the Coxon "whistleblower" revelations of the other week. I adopted an extropian / transhumanist mindset early on, but spent the rest of my life hence surrounded by people both personally and professionally who had no idea what those words meant (and largely didn't care). Reading the stuff now about what's been brewing in Berkeley backyard garden parties for the past few years, makes me wonder if I'd be weirded out to actually be in a room with a bunch of people who share my professed philosophical outlook...

Ian Duncan

Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why...

"No beardos, no weirdos, no wimps" -- best right-wing brainfart since "it's a pmandemic, it's a scamdemic, it's a damndemic"

GM, "Musk" and "You Can See Everything" is the Doc double-feature I'm excited for

Oh i 'member this from *Brazil*... View quoted note →

The fact that certain websites list "Compatible Browsers" is a failure of open standards

everyone's doing the "9 games" quick and I'm like "damn I posted that like a year ago but thanks to Nostr it's gone" 🤪

Everything about this story is hilarious

"If we can pressure lawmakers to create guardrails, we *will* be able to stop me" 🤣

The story of a Totally Real SF polycule 🤭

i tricked 3 million people into believing in an evil fake polycule

maybe more!