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How the fuck is there no #dril repost bot on #nostr? Call me a basic bitch, but that is the only good thing Twitter has ever created. Along with @horse_ebooks.

Hey. hey. hey. hey, hey look at me I am invisible.

I am more and more convinced that the Internet is a net negative for discourse and human socialisation, and no one is really exploring this possibility. We are all trying to make the social media experiment work and I am horrified by its result. The more we tweak and add to it (upvotes, user moderators, likes, retweets, the Algorithm), the worse it gets. We're so used to the fast pace of modern science that we forget cultural evolution sometimes takes hundreds of years. What if we are 500 years before enough Internet philosophers have taught us how to behave online?

#erlang had it almost right, with its message passing model. But what if only thing you could send in a message are processes themselves?

Random reminder that the only good fascist is the dead fascist.

Is there a reason there seems to be a lot of Japanese speakers on #nostr? Do they have a cool app that's gone viral? That's pretty cool to see tbh

In search of the Holy Grail (of programming languages)

In search of the Holy Grail (of programming languages) · Stephane Travostino

#lisp #smalltalk #coding

Is it possible for once to create horror whose symbolism isn't "perhaps the true horror was humanity all along"? 99% of media falls in this cliché, I feel anything that masterfully avoids this pitfall should just be classed as a new genre.

Laser eyes are the Bitcoiner version of "not like the other girls"

The latest Ezra Klein podcast with Kristen Ghodsee on ecovillages, kibbutzim and alternative social structures is one of the most thought-provoking conversations I've heard in a while. No wonder there is an epidemic of loneliness, depression and alienation in our modern nuclear families in our little suburban homes.

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My tech stack, 2023 edition https://combo.cc/posts/tech-stack-2023/

Someone on the bitcoin-dev mailing list has been proposing a #Bitcoin transaction relay over #nostr

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Transaction Relay over Nostr

Wrote the first part of my Bernard devlog series. Episode 1 — MVP. https://combo.cc/posts/bernard-devlog-1-mvp/ #buildinpublic

Image by Maggie Appleton.

The Dark Forest and Generative AI

Proving you

I do believe that the peak of human organisation and collaboration is achieved by small groups of 5 to 6 people. After that magic figure, groups quickly devolve into factionalism, politics, bureaucracy and inertia. It's not a surprise that the sociology of small group is an under-researched topic, and all research is focused on trying to make people fit into unnaturally large hierarchies.

Fuck your intelligent machines and neural networks, used only to benefit the few. I wonder if the starry eyed engineers are totally naive and truly believe AI will take us to an utopia where we work 2 hours a day. Because we have invented incredible technology over the past 150 years, and yet we work harder, for less pay, to be controlled and subdued by plutocrats. AI images and spam flooding any aspect of our digital lives will not be the thing to free us from that yoke. One day the current, corporate and bland Internet will seem like a vibrant place full of life and freedom, where you knew you were talking to a human, not some kind of retarded machine.

What a good place to keep up to date on #Bitcoin tech? No hype, no HODL, no price circlejerk, I just want the deep dive into the latest work on the technology itself, for builders and software engineers. Any pointers? Ideally a news site or a forum. I don't do Twitter.

I should make a #nostr client that automatically mutes anyone with laser eyes.

What's a good argument against the old "#Bitcoin is boiling the oceans! It's causing climate change!" retort dishonest idiots keep making?