Clarkson's Farm had an episode recently about farm automation and he visited a high tech farm in the Netherlands. This guy built a bunch of drone hardware and software to do precision pesticide and weed control, but laws in the Netherlands make flying drones, even just a few feet off the ground on your own property, illegal. What did the farmer do? He filed the paperwork to have his entire farm designated as an airport! 🧠

Pet peeve: when I tell a friend details of my current location / plans via a secure comms channel and then shortly thereafter they send an EMAIL that includes those details. 🤬

I’m thinking of developing a game where you have to go back in time to assassinate Adam & Eve. It's a first person shooter.

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." - Hunter S Thompson

Thinkpad screens don't get bright enough to use at the beach, even with shade from an umbrella 🫠

Someone make it make sense.

Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't make them a bad person. Just because someone agrees with you doesn't make them a good person. You shouldn't judge someone based upon their opinions. Rather, character should be judged by the rationale someone uses to form those opinions.

Currently reading "26 Words that Changed the Internet" which is about the legal battles in the 1990s over liability for publishing defamatory/obscene/illegal content that led to the words of Section 230: "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." It's fascinating to see the parallels from 30 years ago to the Bitcoin Puritan movement of today. Hilariously enough, one of the common arguments by conservatives in the 1990s was that if we allowed the internet to be flooded with pornographic content, it would kill adoption and people would stop using the internet. 😅 It's generally agreed that Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 is what allowed the internet as we know it to flourish by protecting freedom of speech in cyberspace. I dare say that these 26 words are also what protect node runners in America from having to worry about legal liability from distributing obscene content. In short, if you're a content distributor you are not liable for distributing obscene content if you are unaware of it. And distributors are NOT expected to police or moderate the information that flows through their service as a result of user interaction.

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