Made it to #Boston without getting deported to El Salvador. And on time for #BitDevs Found someone looking for nuts!

You can just give your customers the middle finger, instead of making them talk to your AI chatbot that's dummer than a chicken. There is no AI yet, hire humans.

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Happy Proof-of-Steak day!

How it started... how its going. EasyPark took over ParkMobile and then jacked up prices by up to 18x. Fortunately there's actually competition. And tourists will probably keep using it.

Even better if it says "I told you so" if you ignore the warning and end up rugged. View quoted note →

@L0la L33tz on the bright side, it's nice to have a convenient cryptographically signed public record of who ratted you out to the authorities:

The Rage

ICERAID: Report Immigrants, Get Paid In Crypto

ICERAID promises users rewards in cryptocurrency to report immigrants to law enforcement. The project claims to be in talks with the White House, b...

Unfortunately nostr doesn't fix this. And that "please list your social media accounts" question on ESTA applications isn't that innocent anymore either. Assuming the First Amendment doesn't make a comeback, we'll probably see more encrypted group chats (e.g. MLS based). Unfortunately those are not immune from rats, which governments could offer bribes for. So really we'll just go back to good old Soviet kitchen conversations with trusted friends, after everyone leaves their phone at the door. And then Glory to Trump in public. View quoted note →

Cruise ship that plans to sail around the world every 3.5 years, carrying a combination of buyers and renters. According to this newspaper article some folks seem pretty happy, others are not. At $100-320K plus monthly expenses of $3K - $7K it's a bit too expensive for my taste and I get sea sick. You can travel the world and live in very nice hotels and apartments on that budget. That said, it's not crazy unreasonable either and apparently many Americans spend more than that in dreadful land based homes. What I find encouraging is that isn't a libertarian sea steading project. At least that wasn't the perspective of the people they interviewed. And the marketing doesn't emphasize that either. This is just a mainstream option now.

NRC

Geen thuis meer op land, maar wonen op een cruiseschip

Wooncruise: Huis verkopen, hut kopen en wonen op een cruiseschip. Hoe ziet je leven er dan uit? Aan boord van de Odyssey: „Ik kan me terugtrekken...

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Fountain: Podcasts & Music

Zo simpel is het niet – Stellinga & Schinkel over economie • Zit er dan toch een plan achter Trumps chaos? • Listen on Fountain

In de financiële wereld praat iedereen erover: Donald Trumps dreiging en intimidatie richting bondgenoten zouden onderdeel zijn van een groots en ...

> Volgens het RIVM heeft het gebouw een open uitstraling. "Het pand heeft een zichtbare, gastvrije en open uitstraling door het gebruik van veel glas." Als je er langs fietst, ziet het er misschien anders uit, zegt woordvoerder Coen Berends. "Maar van een afstandje stralen we een open karakter uit." > Met dit gebouw laten we zien dat we midden in de maatschappij staan.

Streng beveiligd RIVM-gebouw lijkt wel een gevangenis, maar moet een 'open uitstraling' hebben

De verhuizing van het RIVM van Bilthoven naar het Science park in Utrecht had al heel wat voeten in de aarde. Door de vertraging van de oplevering ...