When push comes to shove even Elon can't resist putting his finger on the scale..

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Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on X

Just a reminder that the algorithm is trying to maximize unregretted user-seconds. If far more credible, verified subscriber accounts (not bots) ...

While it is amazing you can now pull up any song you can think of on Spotify, it has made the music listening experience passive. No more hunting for albums and building your own music collection that you value. Just let the algorithm feed you what it wants you to listen to.

Who’s in Chiang Mai krub?

Will be interesting to see what kind of content feed algorithms evolve on Nostr. Centralized socials always optimize for engagement as it drives profit. But when there’s no profit motive, what else could you optimize for? Maybe users will be able to tailor their own personal algorithm?

Interesting thought exercise to ask why something like Nostr (users being able to send small amounts of money directly to eachother via their posts) has never existed in the fiat world. It has always been totally possible with current technology, so the question is, why?

For anyone who’s ever on Koh Phangan: today and every Wednesday we have a bitcoin meetup at 16:00 at sticky island cafe!

Finished the first challenge after applying for the Chaincode Labs BOSS (bitcoin open source software) developer training program. Really enjoy programming but have never done it professionally.

going back to Twitter after using Nostr

The more you study bitcoin the more clearly you see that it has already seeped into every corner of the earth.

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Public/private keys are so much cooler than username/passwords it’s ridiculous.

Some strangely beautiful harmonies in this one. Bach was ahead and outside of his time.