Another great #pico8 micro-game

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Scoundrel by The Sailor

A simple PICO-8 roguelike

The intellectual parallels between Bitcoin and the Constitution are quite striking when you think about it... These were both attempts to create an enduring "operating system" in which multiple non-trusting (and in fact perhaps rivalrous) parties would nonetheless be incentivized to co-participate in the production of a public good. Equally interesting to me is the "dead founding father" aspect of it, how every generation there is a new conflict between The Founders' / Satoshi's Intention, and a new class of "interpreters" claiming that, actually, the founders intended this or that, or that we no longer live in the Founders' world and their original intent needs to be updated for the times.

#starwars #worldcup

GM -- I saw Johnson give a talk years before he embarked on his " #longevity quest"... He looked completely different. View quoted note → Lots of thoughts about this. 100% respect the "don't die" position, that's been my goal since a very young age. I never wanted to have to go the "ascetic" route as he has, although I respect it as somewhere between scientific self-experimentation and extreme performance art. I thought (mistakenly in the late 90's and early 00's) atomic #nanotech would advance much quicker than it has, instead most "innovation" funding this century has gone to Bits instead of Atoms. Despite this, there's always #cryonics, which continues to slowly plod along, which in combination with brain imaging (moving reasonably quickly) and continued advancements in nanotech (still moving slowly but non-zero), could I think produce a decent backup by the time I need it.

Finally got around to Attack on Titan, first two episodes... Not really doing it for me. IDK, clearly there's some interesting lore going on here but the main character is pretty grating to be around. Worth sticking with it? #anime

Hey @JeffG I think the algo at stats.andotherstuff.org might need some tweaking , it's showing 1 million+ daily "publishing users", pretty sure that isn't right....

Stupid phone call day! Multiple stupid centralized payment systems screwed up, so now I've got to sit on hold for hours to wait for some guy in Manilla who probably can't fix my problem 😠

GM. One thing I always like about WIlliam Gibson and other good #cyberpunk sci-fi, was that the future wasn't just about "one big technology" -- genetic engineering, space colonization, cybernetics, nanotech, VR, AI, it was all one "tech soup," and humanity was living downstream of its consequences. In contrast, seems like today we're living in a bad sci-fi novel where it's just "OK we've got AI, and.... AI. That's it."

I really didn't care for Ready Player One the book, but I finally got around to watching the movie, and I enjoyed it! A bit much on the "Spielberg-ness", and could have probably chopped ~20 minutes off the runtime, but overall pretty good. The idea of a #metaverse that dominates the world economy seems goofy until you realize that, oh yeah, that's just the current reality with AI.

Portugal vs. Spain, The Battle for Iberia 😆

The work by B.J. Huang in Taiwan is rapidly becoming an important line of evidence for the #lenr phenomenon. This pre-print data, a follow-up to the author's previous Sci Rep report, shows reproducibility of the previous claims, as well as additional validation of O^17 production using NMR and spectroscopy. https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202607.0090