Someone should create a "gallery of kinds"... One long list with one of each Nostr Kind, starting with 1

GM wow it looks like the eclipse.pub BlueSky bridge opened up, and my hashtag feeds all blew up with content!

Some great #90s #badmovie shlock, about a guy who becomes a (checks notes) superhuman caveman with alien powers, who's out to stop a corrupt George Costanza-ish VR magnate from using ancient cro-magnon technology to take over the world.... Or something?

Savage (1996): Curiouser and Curiouser – The Schlock Pit

Can #amethyst post web highlights (NIP-84) directly from quoted text? If not... That'd be cool, right?

AI (art especially) is the equivalent of what plastic was in the 70s/80s: Cheap, corporate mass-produced ephemera, replacing human-crafted products made from wood, glass and metal. Democratizing in the sense that sure, now you can have a hairbrush that doesn't have to be made of teak and boars hair... But requires generating massive amounts of waste. Also, loses the element of scarcity, and therefore the proof-of-work.

Genuinely good news. More #nuclear pls. View quoted note →

More on #cryonics, from a more optimistic POV... Along with extensive pre-imaging of the brain via fMRI and PET, one could presumably build a "map" of ones thoughts, experiences, etc; combined with good enough preservation methods, this might allow re-assembly in the future...

Reading the Unreadable

From the Herculaneum Scrolls to the Cryopreserved Brain

Freedom of speech means permissionless speech... Financial freedom means permissionless money.

A really interesting deep-dive into some of the issues surrounding #cryonics from a biological standpoint

Decompacting Identity: New Imaging Technologies and the Frozen Brain

Introduction

TBH getting a little "black-pilled" on BTC for international commerce, at least until it becomes the global monetary standard... Sure, you can fundraise from a global audience, put content on Nostr and get Zaps, sell services internationally... But what happens when you've got to turn around and liquidate those proceeds to pay for food, rent, etc? Coinbase says "whoops those Zaps aren't KYC/AML/OFAC/whatever... No $'s for you!" So basically, sure you can accept Bitcoin for payment -- but only from people who are "whitelisted" by the global financial system, and therefore could just as easily pay you in Dollars.... 😑

GM ... Particularly in Tech, "play" and "investment" have more overlap than one might think. The earliest adopters of BTC would probably have described what they were doing as "playing" with the tech, but it obviously became an investment (not only in value but in time, community trust, etc) over time.