As with the best liberals, I'm in strong agreement with ~50% of what Cory Doctorow says and vigorous disagreement with the other 50%... here's the former
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Globe99
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Scientist | Libertarian | Transhumanist | Urbanist | "Casual" Bitcoiner
Projects I like:
nostr:npub1qwe3auavzmlfzkul67j02atcntgd8hwynvj2794zjmuuly6czcds69qldl Nostr-based service and reputation marketplace
nostr:npub1wrzguj625auyeysfuuxzf7ywhzlwfz9gm3fml2lul72gwqxw8n9swtcm02 Bitcoin-based time-locked crowdfunding
https://blockforgebtc.com/blockforge A fully on-chain voxel world, living on Bitcoin forever.
Listening to @POPULAR FRONT on the 404 media podcast, simply amazing how many problems Nostr + Bitcoin solves for creators.
Arcane censorship rules on YouTube, the inability to pay people around the world using conventional rails, Patreon billing systems that change weekly...
These are just "cost of doing business" now for creators, but it doesn't have to be that way....
Wait so what's going on with all the BCH people? Someone was saying they're all bots using compromised nsecs...?
I mean I'm not a fan of BCH but I would welcome any online community to make their home on Nostr, is that's really what's happening...
People say things are "accelerating", but the President is an 80 year old man who was famous when I was a child and the Richest Man in the World is basically coasting on innovations from 10+ years ago.
It just occurred to me that each Bitcoin block can fit on a single 1.44 mb floppy... Art project?
The reflecting pool is such a "reflection" of this administration's rank corruption and incompetence.
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What interests me the most isn't necessarily whether Midjourney's "full body scanner" actually works, or has any meaningful clinical value, but the context in which a bunch of software people turn around and go "hey guys, let's just build a medical device."
Preliminary Thoughts On The Midjourney Scanner
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The fundamental reason why LLMs are going to be better at Coding and Math than Science and (real-world) Engineering, is the triviality of verification.
Whether code is "correct" can be verified in an instant. Whether a scientific hypothesis is correct requires actual real-world verification.
Someone should create a "gallery of kinds"... One long list with one of each Nostr Kind, starting with 1