I regularly go to a social event. I regularly post on Nostr (which includes info about my blogs and podcasts). I have a list of people who attends these events and what they are interested in. I have a tool that ranks all my Nostr events and filters them for each channel. Before going to the event, I get a brief from my agent what to tell to who to make the event fun right at start, to reduce small talk and talk about the real stuff. If I posted about something on Nostr, I am into it. The AI just filters what would the other people be in and then we have a set of topics that both parties of a conversation are interested in.

Something about the visual side of @Tamers of Entropy from @No Good Kid https://dribbble.com/shots/27430508-Tamers-of-Entropy-book-by-juraj-lisa More about the book:

Tamers of Entropy

Tamers of Entropy

Walk the parallel path. Build the world that should exist. A novel about consciousness, sovereignty, and taming entropy — in English, Slovak, and...

GM. Don't get addicted.

Who's telling me we don't have AGI? 99.9% of "IT experts" (not even talking about general population) couldn't do this, ever. And yes, this happens in other fields besides IT.

A new single from The Ohm. A bit poppy View article →

Everyone's busy building CAPTCHA gates and "verified human" badges to keep the AI slop out. Wrong target. Slop doesn't care who typed it — and human slop is older, more durable, and has tells that have held steady for a thousand years. A piece on why "who made it" tells you almost nothing about whether it's worth reading, how words get weaponized into fog, and why pinning the ugliest available label on someone is the exact opposite of looking at them. Learning to spot the fog is worth more than any badge.

Against the Human Slop – Juraj Bednar

Všetci horúčkovito stavajú CAPTCHA brány a odznaky „overený človek", aby zabránili AI braku. Mieria vedľa. Braku je jedno, kto ho naťukal — a ľudský brak je starší, odolnejší a má znaky, ktoré sa nemenia už tisíc rokov. Text o tom, prečo vám „kto to vytvoril" povie skoro nič o tom, či to stojí za prečítanie, ako sa zo slov stáva zbraň na výrobu hmly a prečo nalepiť na niekoho tú najškaredšiu dostupnú nálepku je presný opak toho, než sa naňho pozrieť. Naučiť sa rozoznať hmlu má väčšiu cenu než akýkoľvek odznak.

Proti ľudskému braku – Juraj Bednar

Worth trying the BitChat-MeshCore bridge once you have a MeshCore node — BLE phones get you the social layer without waiting for the LoRa mesh to grow.

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GitHub - jooray/MeshCore-BitChat: A new lightweight, hybrid routing mesh protocol for packet radios

A new lightweight, hybrid routing mesh protocol for packet radios - jooray/MeshCore-BitChat

Going through onboarding to TELOS (through PAI framework, but with Hermes Agent, so this should be fun). This section might be useful for others, so I am open-sourcing things. Frames are operating lens in situations. They don't have to be literally true, this is how to look at things and use it to simplify and direct decisions. Here are mine, yours will probably be vastly different, but I think they are quite unique and might be useful for others... **F0 — Parallel path over reform.** When facing a systemic problem — state, banks, platforms, institutions — the question isn't "how do we fix this?" but "what do we build alongside it?" Political problems are business opportunities. The revolution happens in parallel, not through permission. Reform is slow, adversarial, and usually captured. Building is fast and self-reinforcing. **F1 — Initial conditions, not control.** Don't try to control outcomes directly — set the right initial conditions and let the system run. Your job is to create the environment, not manage every variable. Applies to parenting, creative projects, communities, codebase architecture, conversations. Over-specification kills emergence. Set the conditions. Stay present to what chaos delivers. **F2 — Feature not bug.** Before labeling something a weakness, ask what problem it would be a solution to. Aphantasia, otrovert wiring, novelty pull, running too many experiments — these look like deficits until you find the context where they're precisely the right trait. Most apparent bugs are features pointed at the wrong problem. Reframe before you try to fix. **F3 — Process is the product.** The life being built should be enjoyable as you build it, not just once it's done. If the process isn't worth living, redesign the process — not just the goal. This isn't consolation-prize philosophy. A process that only pays off at the end is structurally fragile. When judging whether to do something, I ask if I'd enjoy the process as well as outcome. **F4 — Gain over gap.** When assessing where you are, look at how far you've come, not how far remains. The gap is always there — that's how goals work. The gain is always real. Gap-focus creates chronic dissatisfaction; gain-focus creates momentum. Check the gain first, then plan reducing the gap. **F5 — Node-first, not hierarchy.** When evaluating any structure — organization, relationship, institution, deal — ask: does this look like a peer network or a hierarchy? Hierarchies extract and concentrate; networks distribute and compound. Optimize for node-first wherever possible. No employer, no fiat-only flows, no single dependency point. Networks are structurally better (less fragile, sometimes even anti-fragile) **F6 — The sovereignty check.** Before agreeing to any obligation, commitment, role, or expectation, run it through: does this increase or decrease my sovereignty? Sovereignty over time, attention, body, money, speech. If it decreases sovereignty without clear and deliberate return, decline. Most erosions are incremental and invisible until they aren't. **F7 — Curiosity before judgment.** When encountering a person or idea that triggers resistance, ask "what's the internal logic here?" first. Every system makes sense from the inside. Understanding the internal logic before evaluating makes you a sharper critic, not a more credulous one. Judgment without understanding is noise dressed as signal. Side note: Even better is to see, if any judgement is even necessary. What if the answer is: "I don't know and I don't need to know?". Saves resources. **F8 — Voluntary or coercive.** One of the most useful binary sorts. Is this exchange, relationship, obligation, or institution actually voluntary? Coercive structures constantly masquerade as voluntary — norms, social expectations, implicit contracts, default rails. Running the explicit check exposes the masquerade. If it's coercive, either exit or consciously price the cost. Never pretend it's neutral. **F9 — Attention is rare.** Consciousness may be common — plants, bacteria, systems all respond to their environment. But directed, deliberate attention is scarce and powerful. "If they lose your attention, they lose their power." (Dorsey). The frame works both ways: withdrawing attention starves what doesn't deserve it; giving attention fully is one of the most powerful gifts and clearing agents available. Practically: where is my attention right now? Is that where it should be? Attention directed inward first removes your own fog. Then, selectively, it can remove others'. **F10 — Positive, not anti.** When defining your position, your work, your identity — frame it as what you're building, not what you're against. Anti-something is still externally referenced; the opposition defines you. Pro-something is self-directed. Positive libertarian, not anti-state. Builder, not critic. This applies to arguments, politics, business, relationships. What are you *for*? **F11 — Proof of concept beats argument.** Don't argue people into a different way of living. Build the thing, live the thing, document it. If it works, others can see it. If it doesn't, you find out faster. Most people won't be moved by argument anyway — they need to see the working version. The demonstration IS the argument.

Optionality over commitment People often praise commitment. And it's important - to commit to something. But doing it in a way that leaves space for other things is important too, because our choice what we commit to is prone to our mistakes. My mental model is: "Build positions with many possible next moves, then choose when you have better information. Avoid irreversible decisions before necessary. The parallel path is itself an optionality strategy." This might sound very abstract at first, but it is possible to do this. Practically, when deciding about something, ask this question: "What if my assumptions or outcomes were completely off?". Let's say you have chosen a place to live. Nice, peaceful, nature, kids, school, work opportunities, cost is not too high, all is good. Then ask: "What if this turns into a complete dystopia in 5 years? What if there's a war? ". Then get a residency somewhere that is as far from the place as humanly possible, and get one foot there. Visit yearly (or every two years). Now you have optionality - you know where to eat, where to shop, where the hospital is, you know local people and you have a permit to stay and work for however long you want, without needing permission from the original country (like criminal registry record, etc.). And yes, this means that if you are a Bitcoin maxi, you need some gold. I still think Bitcoin will win, but what if not.

Public transport is not biohacking compliant. The lights are horrible. Same with shopping centers.

Same Kardashiev scale++ What are we waiting for?

I'm still running on @Tamers of Entropy high. Very nice. This story will stay with me for a time.

Glad you liked it!

Krotitelia Entropie sú von. Jedná sa o veľmi realistický príbeh, ktorý sa skladá z troch častí, oddelených dekádami. Začíname v New Yorku v roku 2003. Vojna v Iraku, poriadne rozmáhajúci sa internet a dvaja mladí ľudia, ktorí pri bežnom hackovaní (wardrivingu) objavia niečo, čo objaviť nemali. A tento objav ich rozdelí. O desať rokov neskôr objavujú a budujú prepojenie ľudského vedomia a stroja, pomocou (reálnych, existujúcich) technológií. Vnímajú mentálnu hmlu, do ktorej sa masy ľudí dostávajú a vymýšľajú čo s tým. Na scénu prichádza niekto, kto sa učí so svojim vedomím robiť niečo, čo väčšina ľudí nedokáže. Posledná časť je zo súčasnosti. Prichádza AI a potreba paralelnej cesty a budovania “nového priestoru pre myseľ” (ako to nazval Barlow vo svojej Deklarácii nezávislosti kyberpriestoru). Pri opise tejto knihy rád pracujem okrem pojmov lunarpunk a cypherpunk s pojmom “dokumentárne sci-fi”. Možno vás bude zo začiatku chvíľu trochu otravovať, že je román príliš technicky presný (niekde zo začiatku nájdete aj kusy kódu v assembleri, C pseudokód a veľa technických popisov). Nebojte sa ich, nemusíte im do detailu rozumieť, aby ste román pochopili. Proste ma štvú také tie príbehy, kde hackeri prídu k neznámej šifre alebo sa stretnú s “firewallom” a zobrazí sa progressbar ktorý preskočí z 99% na 100% v poslednej sekunde a všetko je vyhackované. Hackingu som sa venoval dlhé roky a teda takýto magický progressbar som teda nestretol asi nikdy. A štvú ma aj nezmyselné písmenká skákajúce po konzole. Takže tu nájdete dokument - takto sa reálne hackuje, skutočné zraniteľnosti, skutočný hardvér, skutočné obmedzenia. V žánri pokračujem aj neskôr, väčšinu technológií, ktoré hrdinovia používajú (vrátane prepojenia s počítačom) som reálne skúšal alebo dokonca aj programoval. Aj keď od detailnej analýzy EEG signálov, spôsoboch hľadania korelácií a podobne vás už oslobodím a román naberie trochu inú podobu. Niektoré udalosti z románu majú dosť dôležitú zvukovú zložku (keďže moja afantázia, o ktorej sa dozviete v podcaste sa netýka zvuku) a preto som musel niektoré veci zvukovo otestovať. Audiokniha je síce robená pomocou AI (každá postava má vlastný hlas), ale dosť využívam aj to, že sa jedná o zvuk a nájdete tam toho viac ako len suché čítanie textu knihy. Časť soundtracku si môžete vypočuť aj online. Keďže s postavami románu som strávil posledné mesiace a baví ma ich pohľad na svet, a príde mi užitočný, rozhodol som sa, že im dám aj iný život. Urobil som im npuby na Nostri a dokonca aj ak Nostr nepoužívate, môžete si prečítať, čo píšu a ako komentujú dnešný svet (tamersofentropy.net/nostr). Ľudia často používajú imaginárnych mentorov. Čo by na môj problém povedal Richard Feynmann, Satoshi Nakamoto alebo Paul Rosenberg? Zistil som, že podobné otázky konzultujem práve s mojimi postavami - čo by na môj problém povedala Lisa, Emma alebo James, Kevin a Victoria? Ako by môj zdravotný problém vyriešila Nya? Reprezentujem ich mindsetmi, ktoré používajú - o to pri tých imaginárnych mentoroch vlastne inde. Z tém nájdete v románe biohacking, hacking, umelú inteligenciu, podnikavosť, súhru medzi chaosom a poriadkom, pravidlá vs. voľné objavovanie, mesh siete, anonymizáciu, identitu, byrokraciu, otázku, či náhodou už stroje neovládli svet dávno a mnoho iného. K dispozícii sú dve balenia, jedno štandardné obsahuje knihu, premium balenie obsahuje aj pár obrázkov (“otvoriť po prečítaní”), ktoré rozširujú svet Krotiteľov entropie, USB kľúč s audioknihou vo formáte m4b, ale aj Android appkou, soundtrackom, webovou appkou, obrázkami a ďalšími vecami. Na knihe spolupracovali okrem mňa a lisy - No Good Kid (art director), Marianna (slovenská verzia), Tereza (česká verzia). Soundtrack je od The Ohm (čo som síce ja, ale pod iným názvom:). Všetky verzie si môžete objednať u mňa na stránke - anglický originál a slovenský a český preklad.

Juraj Bednar

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🌐 Bridging Bitchat + MeshCore: Resilient communication when infrastructure fails Bitchat = Bluetooth mesh on phones you already have (~100m range) MeshCore = LoRa long-range mesh (km+ with cheap hardware) The bridge connects them. Your phone talks to the city-wide mesh network. Perfect for disasters, protests, internet shutdowns. Code:

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GitHub - jooray/MeshCore-BitChat: A new lightweight, hybrid routing mesh protocol for packet radios

A new lightweight, hybrid routing mesh protocol for packet radios - jooray/MeshCore-BitChat

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Bridging Bitchat and MeshCore: Resilient Communication When You Need It Most

TLDR: To bridge Bitchat and MeshCore, use this bridge code, you can flash a release binary directly. A mesh network is a decentralized communica...