The Washington Post fired one-third of its staff, eliminating some 300 journalists covering sports, books, foreign news, and more. In recent weeks, staff had appealed to billionaire owner Jeff Bezos to stop the cuts. What did they think was going to happen? When Bezos bought WaPo he did so as a pet project because it was going to close it's doors.. he thought of it as an "American institution" and it deserved being saved.. But he's not a charitable institution ... Furthermore the bigger problem is that mainstream / print / subscription based publications are dead.. and frankly no one trusts WaPo (and certainly not after him buying it). Those people should have started looking for other jobs a long time ago..

GM #nostr just in case the groundhog shows up…. Just like mom used to make…

GN #nostr - #iykyk #omar #politics #grownostr

This is huge… #nostr #ai #llm Clawdbot distinguishes itself from commercial assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant by running entirely on the user's own hardware—whether a Mac mini, Windows PC, or Linux server. The software connects to language models from Anthropic or OpenAI while keeping all orchestration, memory, and configurations stored locally.

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GitHub - openclaw/openclaw: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞

Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞 - GitHub - openclaw/openclaw: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. ...

GM #nostr The word "queue" is ironic. It's just a Q with a bunch of silent letters waiting in line…. I will see myself out now.

#funny #skeletor #grownostr

Fuck YES… New Megadeth… it will sadly be the last album but what a ride…

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They ask me to understand, to compromise, to accept. They parade their participation trophies and call it excellence. They celebrate the derivative and call it innovation. They demand I bow to the collective comfort of shared mediocrity—as if truth were determined by consensus, as if greatness could be achieved by committee. I will not. They’ve built a world where the loudest voice drowns out the clearest thought, where algorithms feed them reflections of their own assumptions, where they mistake the frantic consumption of opinions for the discipline of thinking. They call this progress. I call it surrender. They worship at the altar of safety—safety from offense, from challenge, from the difficult work of becoming something more than they are. They’ve traded individual achievement for collective validation, substituted likes for standards, comfort for conviction. The builder does not ask permission from those who’ve never created. The architect does not compromise his vision to accommodate those who cannot see. I build for those rare souls who understand that excellence demands everything, and that anything less is betrayal. Let them have their safe spaces and their echo chambers. I’ll take the blank page, the empty lot, the uncompromising vision. The world doesn’t need their approval. It needs their awakening. #nostr

New from #zardoz labs… make your own day planner.. it will be usable with the remarkable ink pad, Goodnotes, Notely, Notability… and others. .. hosted online and available soon. All I will as for are donations via #zaps #sats and #bitcoin

Random thought #nostr maybe we should’ve just let them eat the tide pods…

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#cofeve time… GM #nostr

I don’t know about you all on #nostr but I hate when this happens. #funny #grownostr

Artificial Networks Universal Systems #nostr #ded

To those of you critical of what happened in #venezuela - time to jog some memories… #nostr

Hey #nostr Interesting article about the Zodiac killer case.. A self-taught codebreaker claims he's finally cracked it, and the twist is that his solution also connects to the Black Dahlia murder from 1947. Former NSA cryptographers and retired LAPD homicide detectives are backing him up. Whether you're a true crime fan or not, this one's semi-interesting. The Codebreaker Alex Baber, a 50-year-old self-taught cryptographer from West Virginia with autism, claims to have cracked the Zodiac killer's infamous Z13 cipher—a 13-character code the killer sent in 1970 that has stumped experts for decades. The Method Baber used AI to generate 71 million possible 13-letter names, then cross-referenced them against military, census, and other records using known details about the Zodiac killer. After nine months of 18-20 hour days, he narrowed candidates from millions to one name: "Marvin Merrill." The Connection Marvin Merrill was an alias used by Marvin Margolis—a man who had been a suspect in the 1947 Black Dahlia murder. Margolis was a WWII Navy corpsman and premed student who had lived with victim Elizabeth Short shortly before her death. He changed his name and moved after her murder. Supporting Evidence Two retired LAPD homicide detectives and three former NSA cryptographers have endorsed the findings. They point to additional links, including a 1992 sketch Margolis made before his death depicting a woman named "Elizabeth" with the word "Zodiac" allegedly hidden in the shading. The detectives view it as a deathbed confession to both crimes. The Status While the retired detectives consider the cases solved with "overwhelming circumstantial evidence," the LAPD has not prioritized investigating further. The findings are explored in a new podcast called "Killer in the Code."

Hmm something about the new president of #venezuela looks familiar…. 🤔🤔🤔

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