Nostr's biggest selling point is that it's ownerless. Not the decentralization, not the Zaps, not even being open source, those are just nice-to-haves. The ownerlessness is its most important feature. What happens on most major platforms? Take X for example. Someone says something against a person, and that person or the people backing them don't like it and want it gone. What do they do? They go to the platform owner, the one who controls all aspects of the platform. And if they push the right buttons, the owner does what they want. Or even voluntarily, makes no difference. Who can you go to if you want something deleted from Nostr? Who exactly? Who can you ask, blackmail or threaten? And then these accounts with huge follower counts whine: "Waah, the owner of this platform deleted all my posts about this or that topic," even tagging him, using his AI to check if it's true ... making a huge drama out of it. Dude, you're one person and the owner is another person. He has house rules, you're just his guest. He can do whatever he wants with his expensive private toy. He's not fulfilling some public service funded by tax dollars. He owes you nothing, you have zero claim to anything from him. People somehow think that once something becomes popular and used by many people, it magically becomes a public good. No, it doesn't. It's still privately owned. Your fault for all flying to him like flies to shit. But that changes nothing, except proving how dumb you are. And if he decides not to be completely fair, he might have to answer to his Creator later, but here on Earth, he can play the despot all he wants. Free will. Your mistake is thinking you're entitled to anything. Here, in this network, you might have a smaller circle, not millions of followers, but also no entitlement issues or systemic injustice. And that's only because there's no owner.

Lol, wired straight into one LN wallet via a Chrome extension. Let's see how long that lasts before X starts the whole cat-and-mouse game and keeps breaking the Zap icon with their updates. View quoted note →

No, akhi. 🤦 You're not just 'paying with your face', you're paying with your right to financial privacy.

Okay, Akhis, the trilogy's all done. All three volumes. It goes by the name "The 313". Muslims know what that means. I went through and reviewed everything one more time, now I'm sending it to three family members to beta-read it and give their feedback. I'll probably incorporate their feedback too, make it even better. Then comes the whole cover and artwork, I'll let @Ayla do that. Then translate it to English (I wrote it in German originally), and then it'll go out bilingual, inshallah. #SAIFProject View quoted note →

Okay, that's creative. And useful. Where can I order? View quoted note →

The good and bad about getting some real work done? - You stay out of the loop on all the social media stuff.

So yeah, everyone's talking about ChatGPT-5 and how amazing it's supposed to be... yeah, that's true, but only at the start of a session. I'm in the middle of writing a book (or three) right now, and I use GPT-5 to help me weave plot threads, map them out in bullet points, and tag them with key highlights that can't be forgotten or glossed over. And sometimes this damn AI still hallucinates. Even though it's supposed to be specialized for exactly these kinds of projects. It just invents random bullshit. And the longer the session drags on, the more often it happens. Then I have to keep pulling it back down to earth. It also has these nasty habits you just can't train out of it. Like, it repeats narrative phrases over and over, such as "the humming of the machines" or "it smelled like metal." If I let it, something's humming 40 times across three volumes (a drone, machine, or vehicle) or it smells like metal 50 times. Seriously, I've been trying for three days to break it of using "humming" and "metal smell." And then, when you're building your story bible (that's what you call a book's guideline), you're not just laying out the plot thread, but also locking in stylistic stuff like tone, tense shifts, or rules for male/female narration styles. At the beginning, it handles all that complex info super well. But by the end, it forgets more and more and just starts spewing crap. Although you can do something about this "forgetting" by uploading that story bible to it over and over again. But eventually, even that stops helping. For real, try pushing a tool like this to its limits professionally, and you'll see the hype isn't justified.

Hey @PayPerQ , what's this? This is one of my first prompts at ppq.ai. Deleted a long time ago. Yesterday they showed up about 50 times again in my history. Shouldn't something that's deleted actually stay deleted in a privacy-friendly service?

But not in Islam. We have Ayahs (signs, proof) for those who can think. View quoted note →

Phew, dude, phew. Just finished the second book of the trilogy today and it turned out so sick. So freakin' sick. I literally got goosebumps myself. Wachowski sisters ain't got shit on me! View quoted note →

Yes, we are rapidly approaching that point. View quoted note →

I just started the most SAIF project ever today. There's literally no project in the world that could be more SAIF than this. Haha, I know I've been ranting against this term, but if no one can give me a clear definition of 'SAIF' and just keeps defining it abstractly in complicated terms differently each time, then I'm coming with my own interpretation of 'SAIF'. Something concrete. Specifically, a book or screenplay project for a monumental trilogy. Like 'The Matrix' but much better. It has everything in it. Storytelling, culture, action, technology, suspense, science fiction... you name it. I finished the first volume of the trilogy today. 2 more to go. And then they'll be revised several times. And then I'll give them to you to read. And when AI becomes more advanced, I'll use this as a screenplay for a movie, إن شاء الله. And you can join in on the narrative, the storytelling. Expand the story, make it even more monumental. It could become a distributed, decentralized community project. There's definitely enough potential for that. Or you can just ignore it and do nothing, and my efforts will simply vanish. I don't care. I'm just planting the seed, وَلِلّهِ الْحَمْدُ. Whatever comes out of this is neither under my control, nor is it my responsibility.

Hollywood's and Netflix's message is usually the perversion of truth. For real, almost every time. And what the Turks and Arabs produce is mostly embarrassing low-quality garbage too. Also not immune to materialism. It's time that some real filmmakers emerge from our ranks who can convey the truth to our children and teenagers. Because filmmaking itself isn't bad. It's the continuation of the ancient human tradition of storytelling. The message just needs to become clean and true again.

Ironically, Grok has been getting pretty funny lately. Upholding unbiased justice no matter what. And not just in this matter. What are they going to do now? Corrupt the AI to benefit political profiteers? Or continue to focus on logic and truth? View quoted note →

AOL will officially shut down its dial-up internet service on September 30. Yeah, read again. I'm not joking.