Just comparing iOS clients and Primal seems to be a lot smoother and slicker than Damus now. Does anyone else get lots of scrolling glitches when using Damus? Or is it just me? It never used to be this bad.

Rural kids move up the income spectrum faster than urban kids. 21st Century cities are just bad.

What do the following people have in common? Philip H. Knight Delbert W. Yocam Mike Markkula Arthur Rock John Sculley Peter O. Crisp

I feel like this used to be a lot smoother? Whats the point of caching a lot of the feed if you still pull during scrolling? Pulling notes during scrolling breaks the illusion. @jb55

23:15 this is moonlight.

I can’t tell if this is Mark Zuckerberg in this video or if it is an avatar of Mark Zuckerberg, nor can I tell if my confusion is because Meta’s technology for the metaverse is really good or if it’s because Mark Zuckerberg is really weird.

Okay, I am getting much better at controlling GPT4 with custom context. I can get much better utility doing this, I now find the vanilla models to be painfully mainstream, really blunted. But by structuring the responses and how it approaches problems I can work with it much more naturally. Had a weird idea. Giving your AI assistant a name… ? Give it your middle name.

Is there anyone who understands entropy and also believes humans can create a sustainable world?

It’s the last week of September at 57° North and all the deciduous trees still have all their leaves, the leaves are still green. Biome is still growing and sequestering this week when usually it would be decomposing by late September. Life on Earth is self regulating in lots of hidden in plain sight ways.

The whole Canadian parliament lionising a WWII vet for fighting against USSR and only LATER ON realise that means he was a Nazi SS vet and that they just crystallised Russia’s entire 2 year propaganda campaign, just blows my mind. Absolutely staggering.