I just finished reading "Just Stab Me Now" by Jill Bearup. It's a fun little story and a great translation of her Fantasy Heroine series of Shorts. There were a few spots where I actually laughed out loud.
It's not high literature by any means but it's a fun fantasy romance that actively plays with (and subverts) the typical romance tropes.
#books #bookstr
That feeling when your contractor gives up half way through the project and ghosts you. I wish I could afford to hire a lawyer and/or someone to finish up this mess. Somehow, I doubt that my programming skills are going to be much help.
"We're sorry your car broke down. We're sending you a space Uber." -- NASA, probably
We had a visitor
My latest podcast is out wherein I talk about coming back to nostr. When I recorded it on Saturday, I didn't expect that a couple of days later French idiocy would cause a lot of people to jump on the nostr train.
Social medial platforms like X, Bluesky, and nostr all suffer from the same weakness. They all assume that, if you follow someone, you want to see everything that person says about everything. That's seldom true, even offline. Often a person you go to for one topic is not someone whose opinions you want to see on other topics.
As an example, back when I was watching the NFL, I followed a couple of people on Twitter because I really liked their takes on the NFL. They were diving into statistical analysis in a way I hadn't seen before and they made it fun. That said, I had zero interest in anything they had to say about politics.
Here's another example. I'm really into Minecraft. A number of the developers were on Twitter. I really wanted to see what they were saying about Minecraft but I couldn't care less about their environmental activism or even what they had for dinner.
It would be great to be able to say I want to follow this person but only for this topic or I want to follow that person for everything except this other topic. Maybe I want their takes on nostr and bitcoin but not rugby.
On the sender side, this would require 1) that every time a person posts, they use some sort of topic specifier (like a hashtag) and/or 2) an LLM that picks up on the context and adds the topic that it guesses.
From the receiver side, the easy default is to show everything (which is what most people expect). Then when the sender posts something from a topic the receiver doesn't want to see, they could add that topic to the filter. Then posts that match the filter aren't shown in the main feed. (They should still be visible if the receiver visits the sender's profile.)
I'm not sure how reasonable this would be in practice but I think it would go a long way to allowing a person to curate their feeds to see exactly what they want.
#nostr #socialnetworks
I miss the days when every site has an RSS feed.
Fresh salsa waiting to go in the canner #foodstr
It's always enlightening to listen to a politician and count the number of times they use words like "ban", "require", or "mandate" when discussing their policies.
It still amazes me how many people think that wanting to keep your own money is greedy but forcing others to give you their money is not
Let's talk about AI - Music Free Static (011)
AI and large language models are a hot topic these days and it generates strong feelings, especially among those who's lively hoods are challenged by it. Like any disruptive technology, or any tool for that matter, LLMs can be used to help or to harm.
#podcast #ai
Is Howard the Duck a bad movie? Yes. Yes, it is. It's still fun. Check out my latest podcast as dive into it.
(An audio only version is on Fountain and most other podcast platforms.)
#podcast #moviereview
I love autocrafting in Create mod. This time I plugged into my wood factory to craft chests and barrels as well as stairs, slabs, doors, trapdoors, fences, and gates.
#minecraft #createmod #moddedminecraft
A thing only has value if other people think it does. It doesn't matter if that thing is a Dollar, bitcoln, gold, or Lego. If no one else thinks it has value, it's worthless.
I've got a new Really Late TV Review of season one of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds up on the Music Free Static podcast.
#podcast #startrek
A lot of digging and a little engineering and I now have a charcoal factory. This will give me a ready supply for torches but will also be used to create black dye.
#minecraft #createmod #moddedminecraft
I love things like the MCU and Star Wars but I REALLY dislike the fandom that surrounds them.
#podcast #marvel #starwars
Be excellent to each other and let that excellence raise your community
Nostr has a censorship problem? Let me explain in my latest podcast
#podcast
