Pharma stocks have jumped 20% in a few days. That can’t mean anything good.

Twitter has become even more annoying than before by becoming “X, formerly known as Twitter” Social media sucks

“…in the last days of the Old Empire, humanity lost its drive. Terran civilization had spread across the stars, but grew stagnant. With few ambitions, most people allowed efficient machines to perform everyday tasks for them. Gradually, humans ceased to think, or dream …or truly live.” Dune: The Butlerian Jihad

Some people are setting the arbitrary goal that other people must, by 2030-2050 be completely “carbon neutral” whatever that means. I think by 2030 the world will be completely de-decarbonized and nobody will care about those “goals”

When I was a teenager we where the only people in the neighbourhood who owned a computer — actually the only people to ever use one. One of my neighbours was afraid of going in the room where we kept the computer — it might wake up and attack her with lasers! People are reacting to AI the same way today. And politicians and cronies are ready to capitalize on that.

The existential threat isn’t Artificial Intelligence It’s Natural Stupidity Ask ChatGPT to write something in reverse character order, or upside down and you’ll see how much “intelligence” that thing actually has. The problem isn’t that it can’t do that, that would be a huge improvement. It actually produces utter nonsense, like it had a stroke or something. It can’t abstract anything, only repeat patterns it has seen millions of times. Yet you can be sure there’ll be people who’ll try to force us to obey those things bc the AI is the “expert”

Long time I haven’t posted here. Really lost the excitement about Nostr. I don’t believe it’s good enough for actual censorship resistance in the long term. On the other hand it seems like everyone is happy with it and think it’s good enough. So there isn’t a lot of incentive for my research on better (or actual) censorship resistant global broadcast systems. That means work that people actually want and pay me money for gets priority and I don’t touch much the “pro bono” research. But I will eventually just compile everything I have so far and publish — even if I don’t have a proper working prototype. Realized there’s no rush. At this point it would take new major attacks against free speech platforms for people to get interested in alternative protocols — in particular the ones not optimized for sharing memes or sending micro payments. Meanwhile I work, eat lots of stake, and in general enjoy life before we all die in WW3.

I hate paying taxes. I hate even more doing taxes. Paying someone else to do it for me doesn’t completely solve the problem as most of the effort is still mine. But I wouldn’t mind that much giving up 1/2 of my income if most of that money was to actually help other people, even if badly managed. Heck, I wouldn’t be too bothered if they just took 50% of my income to enrich themselves and then left me alone. What is truly infuriating is that they take my money and then use most of it to find new ways of harassing me and other people, dictate what we can or can’t do, patronize, humiliate, and gaslight us, and in general make our lives as miserable as possible. If you known some place in the world where I can just pay taxes and be left alone I would love to move there. A society governed by common thieves would be a great improvement over the status quo.

If it wasn’t for Nostr I would be reading Shakespeare While I wait for `cargo build` Nostr is killing our culture

Is there a protocol for radio broadcast that doesn’t assume people will just not “trespass” on someone else’s frequency band? Last time I studied radio FM was bleeding edge 😂

Me: I don’t want to delegate to a third party deciding what is and isn’t spam. I don’t want to delegate it to a relay and I don’t want to delegate it to my “friends”. Nostr doesn’t let me do that. Person who never thought about censorship resistance or how it can be achieved before Jack donated to Nostr: “Censorship resistance doesn’t mean forcing people to see your content” The same dialogue multiple times and the exact same answer — verbatim. Who the heck invented that nonsensical argument and why would anyone think it counters what I said?

As a replacement for “Bitcoin Twitter” Nostr is already good enough and will likely keep being so. If it grows too much too fast into something more general (not looking like that at the moment) people like jb55 will likely be able to keep a few relays working. That said, I lived without Bitcoin Twitter for 2 years and it made my life much better.