Something happened yesterday that made me wonder. What if the western elites decided long ago that the way to gain total control over the population was to first let China push the envelope on surveillance and control. Paint them as the bad guys, make us think that the average Chinese person lives like a timid victim of Big Brother, when it's nothing of the sort. But paint that picture.
Meanwhile the west are playing the classic moral high ground game of accusing your adversary of exactly what you do behind the scenes!
IE the unthinkable is rolling out before our eyes and instead of the opportunity to make America great by focusing on liberty and freedom, they and the rest of the g7 are actually going to out big brother the Chinese and their Brix buddies as they position themselves in a fast evolving multi polar world.
That's the thesis for my next novel.
Have you noticed that everybody's phone is set up different? They might all work the same, but there is some quirk or other that cases mayhem when "trying to help". The volume button is where your off button is, things like that.
any #nostrbuild creators have a view on the text to image option, say compared to venice.ai
Is it open or like chatgbt...
are images watermarked...
does it do a good job of interpreting your phrasing?
overall, whats the deal with copyrighting of AI generated images, is that still a big issue or is it being addressed? #asknostr
Reason for questions is that I really like what Venice.ai is doing, but I don't know much! So if Nostrbuild are doing the same with images, I will go for a creator plan with nostrbuild instead of a basic plan, and send some sats to venice for their help so far!
What am I missing? Primal require you to top up their wallet with details they say won't be shared. Next thing it's a payment via Google and PayPal fields practically already filled in, no other options.
Rapidly redrafting instructions for purple pilling newbies. #asknostr
#circular-economy at work. Fresh eggs for fresh bread for my boiled egg soldiers
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does this basic graphic make sense? Without privacy there is no open internet of information. To ensure privacy we now have Nostr private communication and Bitcoin private money, and convenient cryptographic tools to interact with the two protocols. The end result is greater productivity and AI is potentially under control, or at least whatever info and data it pumps out has to go through the privacy and proof filters. Something like that!
good old Sketch, a whole back catalogue of versions to download, and they state the OS required to run the latest front page download. That's the way.
Persist with Nostr semantic pedantics and Nostr will not grow as fast as it could.
The wide world understands platform, accounts, app, server, password, username.
It currently doesn't much care for protocols, relays, clients, nPubs, nSecs, Nips. For crying out loud, Nips! Nobody who you want to use Nostr cares what a Nip is, any more than I want to know what makes my car work.
Just saying. I was listening to #BenArc explaining Nostr to #MrObnoxious. He practically invented this place but there is no elevator big enough to take that pitch.
It was a big kick in the ass for me. So thanks Mr Ark. I am preparing a "For dummies" text to guide prospective visitors into signing up to Nostr so they can access the Nostr features I have integrated into a new website.
Gotta pitch it so your disinterested 80 year old mother ends up pushing you out the way to sign up!
Dug out a live track from a local band I used to play with. The audio quality wasn't the best, but I was taken aback by the energy and passion coming through.
It was recorded March 2020 a week before lockdown started.
Multiply that energy and emotion across a country and shut it up in a small apartment for 42 days, which "thankfully" was the full extent of our lockdown.
Nunca maís.
Fool me once. That period genuinely fucked me up for a long while after and I wasn't even a serious musician. And I thought I had it under control at the time because I had been following it since Greece succumbed, and I was ready, so to speak.
whatever happened to characters like Pud and Fucked Companies? Nostr is shaping up a bit like a rerun of the can-do days.
Reading about the development of the internet, Governments and corporations had decades to get their grippy little fingers into the internet before it went public.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Internet - Networking, Protocols, ARPANET | Britannica
Internet - Networking, Protocols, ARPANET: The Internet resulted from the effort to connect various research networks in the United States and Euro...
No wonder the powers that be are now scrabbling around like idiots trying to make sense of what Bitcoin is about and how to control and manipulate it for their own ends.
For the most part, they are too late Hahahaha
Still pleasantly surprised by the quality of global feed. I must be lucky.
Or could it be that the vast majority of humankind isn't actually screwy in the head and naturally sinful, and doesn't need moderators and rules and regs to make us behave reasonably. All that crap is only necessary when we are exposed to algorithms that divert us from our natural OK state.
Could it be that the media is just providing cover for pernicious government control freakery, IE we are being hit with layer upon layer of "algorithms" IE laws and mandates from authorities designed to push us off balance, make us a poorer version of our natural selves, just so they can roll in and bring order.
And the media are there to point at a tiny event and go "look, see, we need a million cops and a thousand rules to stop that happening everywhere "
I'll go for that option because that's what I've always felt since I left school.
Govt help is tiny ( and over pumped by the media) compared to govt hindrance and pure devastation, creating wars and conflicts, again under tbe pretence that it is for our good, to maintain tbe standard of living and peaceful society we live in and enjoy.
Evil wankers who do not merit a minute of our time and only a fraction of our income to centrally do what is most efficiently done centrally. Because a central body does have a role for the odd use case. Can't think of anything beyond the obvious and that doesn't add up to the gazillions being extracted every year in recent times.
Humbling and inspiring work taking water purifying biochar tech to a new level for the benefit of rural communities in developing nations.
Could do with that knowledge myself living off grid in a supposed developed country!
Establishing a decentralized water treatment social enterprise in Ecuador
new biochar and water quality testing capabilities, and an advanced course for core team members
#decentralized #water
Cracking an egg on a flat surface not the edge of a frying pan... such a simple but time saving tip. And no shell in your omelette either.
What's the latest greatest Nostr merchant store ? #asknostr
They say AI Chat corrects code, but I just spent an hour pushing Mistral to post the full code for an html,CSS,js search box.
If anything it trained me in the process of drip feeding me the final solution.
This will definitely be viewed in future years as the age of stupid. After hearing a headmaster justify their attendance policy, I am sure the system is either going to be dismantled or double down.
The kids obliged to study at an institution set up for the benefit of the state and it's steeple employees. If they are outside said institution 10 minutes before teachers are "ready" to open a gate, unless it's raining, they have to wait in a queue up to get in.
If they arrive 10 minutes late, they are excluded from the class and marked absent
And they are given homework after their work day.
If adults were treated like that, there would be uproar. As it is they can only get away with it within the education system.
Why might a kid be late? Maybe their biology teacher knows the answer to that but turns a blind eye, because starting at 12am to fit with the circadian cycle of adolescents doesn't fit with the teachers schedule.
Sorry, but no wonder society is going down the toilet. The age of stupid education, the age of failed economics, health care, food production, with the state hijacking ever more supporters on the payroll turning a blind eye to so many failings just to keep the gravy train going. Not impressed. I write this as someone who taught outside the state system, getting kids up to speed so they could pass ridiculous parrot fashion memory tests framed as exams. Funny how when an outsider helped them understand what the subject was actually about, they aced it. .