For fun and to see if I can do it, I'm trying to mash up a text-only nostr client. It's for "old phones and bad internet" and I said it's "glitchy and sketch, but so is your phone and internet. So, who knows if it's this app after all?! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 😀" Though I didn't intend it, this kinda has the perfect excuse for bad software engineering built in. It's sort of like a website that intends to test for bad connections, then reports back as, "Sorry, bad connection." Huh? (btw, posting from the app now, so, kinda working if you see this)

Since I rarely look at either, I'm having a hard time litmus testing Bluesky and Mastodon on the political spectrum, liberal to conservative. If it was a 1 to 10 scale, left to right, I guess I'd put Bluesky at a 2 and Mastodon at a 3. Am I reading things correctly?

Got to like earning sats just by someone sending sat/ads to your comments. It's like you're watching TV, and because a commercial comes on, you get satoshis. #bitcoin

On the road, I turned on NPR. A homosexual podcaster who worked for Obama and Jon Stewart was talking about Richard Simmons. But, that's neither here nor there. At the commercial, the host slipped in that a bill in Congress seeks to defund public broadcasting funding for two years. Said we should all take action. A couple of things. First, I thought public radio was "commercial free." That's what its branded as every single fund raising gig when they beg for money. Secondly, the big argument now for public funding is that public radio is the supposed only means of "reliable" news for many. Okay, (a) do they honestly not see their strong bias? (b) am radio is far better to get news out; pretty sure most public radio is fm. I can listen to am stations literally thousands of miles away at times, not tens of miles. Third, the host said they might lose 9% of their annual budget. Wait, what? I wrote several months ago an article (below) where I mentioned how they are adamant that they only get 1% of their money from the government. Now it's 9%? Seems like when the issue is, "You get too much government money," the answer is "Just 1%." But, when that "1%" is going to be taken away, suddenly it's a whole 9% that will crush their ability to get their word out. In a business, if you lose 9% (or 1%) of your revenue, you work harder to make that back up.

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Seems weird that AI makes "typo" errors. Does it fat-finger things?

Seems weird that AI makes "typo" errors. Does it fat-finger things?

Been noticing something odd to me...images that load horizontally, and from right to left no less! That's different.

GM, today I learnt... #coding with AI is a Laffer Curve of productivity...goes up fast, curves over to a max atop a hump, gets cumbersome, declines a bit, then declines fast, finally gets totally broken by itself. Business Calculus 101: stop at the top of the curve.

One thing I don't understand about the Minnesota assassinations... If you see a police officer in that Michael Myers creepy mask, you still open the front door? I know it's early am, you likely got awakened, it's dark, etc., but some reports are saying they had a conversation with the lunatic before realizing he wasn't a real officer. tbf, maybe the mask wasn't on while they were talking to him.

I'm trying to implement login with nostr connect using nsec.app but getting stuck. Any resources or alternatives to connecting via nostr connect? #asknostr .hostr

I know no one hear wants wars, and that many here feel we can avoid them by not funding wars and by not allowing politicians to take us into them. Maybe those things can help. And yet, do we have to say it out loud? There have always been wars as long as history has recorded things. Wars will persist. The root cause of war is human nature--flawed, sinful human nature. Sorry, but even bitcoin can't fix that. (We can even still try to do what we can do.)

Currently sitting beside a mountain brook listening to its babble and enjoying a beverage. This is what's called recharging the batteries.

Coffee shop reflections...

Saw this guy yesterday. Just zoomed in and look at those eyes! Beautiful, but also amazingly determined. #nature #animals

Netanyahu: "There are no free wars." He's right. .hostr

This tortoise was in the driveway so I moved it to safety. Go to town, it's back in the same spot! How did it jump the wood barrier? Hope it's not laying eggs there. #nature #animals

I've had the best luck with zinnias. Planted seeds a few days ago and rain/sun they're already up. The dry flower and the blooming flower are the parents of these babies. #gardening

Any insight on this Spark thing? On one level, it sounds custodial (which, in my view, In my view, is ok up to "pocket-change" level), but then it sounds okay with owner holding 1 of 2 keys and is therefore not exactly custodial. All told, I'm not too sure what to make of it. https://atlas21.com/spark-the-layer-2-launched-by-lightspark #bitcoin

Yesterday... #nature