Not enough people are talking about the fact that if the US has massive tariffs with other countries, there's always another country waiting to give them a hug be that rebound boyfriend after they've been dumped: China. There's just a few countries left that have more trade with us than China and with the tariffs it will probably end up being just us and hopefully Canada and Mexico.

“Principled” Anti-Government people when the government starts shipping off foreign looking people with tattoos.

And there at last is the reason everyone is leaving OpenAI. Sam is finally making his power grab. https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-remove-non-profit-control-give-sam-altman-equity-sources-say-2024-09-25/ View quoted note →

The Three Mile Island plant could reopen soon! Microsoft is following Amazon’s lead and is running their own nuclear power plant. Yet another win for nuclear power. Interesting that when private money is on the line companies are opting for nuclear reactors rather than solar or wind 🤔.

BBC News

Three Mile Island nuclear site to reopen in Microsoft deal

The 1979 accident at Three Mile Island had cast a shadow on nuclear power in the US for decades.

Sooo, maybe don’t use the same username on Twitter and porn websites? And if you’re running for governor you might consider scrubbing your old Nazi posts. Food for thought. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum/index.html

Rachel Thomas, PhD - Your Immune System is Not a Muscle

AI, science, education, & ethics

Interesting thought, our immune systems are mainly built to handle parasites because that’s all we really had to contend with for the vast majority of human history. Viruses weren’t common because they either killed everyone in your family group or everyone got immunity and the virus died.

Well, I’m back.

Does anyone know of some good high quality resources to learn cryptography? It would be nice if they had a focus on public-private key cryptography and programming.

@jb55, could I try and bring

GitHub

Proof of work by 0xtlt · Pull Request #172 · damus-io/damus

Because the application must remain understandable to everyone, it will not be possible to choose its PoW level, instead 4 distinct levels will be ...

up to date (probably as a new pull request) so that Damus sends messages with PoW automatically? I know you said that you think Lightning is a better filter, but every single person sending notes on Nostr can calculate PoW since they obviously already have a computer whereas the same is not true for Lightning. If Damus leads the charge on this and if we can get @Vitor Pamplona on board we could make PoW default on notes which could almost completely solve the spam problem.

@jb55 rocked his talk! https://www.youtube.com/live/YweUPFCipL8?feature=share&t=9326

Whenever I look at raw Nostr events I'm constantly amazed at how simple the basic building blocks of the protocol are.

Happy Dark Side of the Moon month!

After looking at the languages that support WASM I'm pumped af for NostrScript. Now you can even script your Nostr client in Rust!

GitHub

GitHub - appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs: 😎 A curated list of languages that compile directly to or have their VMs in WebAssembly

😎 A curated list of languages that compile directly to or have their VMs in WebAssembly - appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs

Les Miserable is hands down the greatest musical of all time.

In honor of what #[0]​ started, the first three Nostriches to drop a 5k sat invoice get paid.