Oh i 'member this from *Brazil*... View quoted note →

The fact that certain websites list "Compatible Browsers" is a failure of open standards

everyone's doing the "9 games" quick and I'm like "damn I posted that like a year ago but thanks to Nostr it's gone" 🤪

Everything about this story is hilarious

"If we can pressure lawmakers to create guardrails, we *will* be able to stop me" 🤣

The story of a Totally Real SF polycule 🤭

i tricked 3 million people into believing in an evil fake polycule

maybe more!

Hey look guys it's Actual Censorship View quoted note →

Still struggling to find an AI doomer scenario that doesn't fit into the categories of (a) what a motivated group of human beings couldn't just do on their own, or (b) something that couldn't be easily noticed and shut down *long* before it got anywhere close to "destroy humanity."

Sometimes the current carries you down the river. Other days you wind up in a big placid lake and you think "OK what now"?

OK with both Nostria and Coracle having significant maintenance issues, there go my daily driver web/desktop clients... Any recommendations for alternatives? *Must have* List support -- so no Jumble or its many forks, no Iris, Ditto, etc. Anything out there?

Why we don't have microbes that (say) chew up plastic, or any number of other useful things (hint: it's dumb laws):

The 1970s law holding back modern biotechnology

We’ve invented microbes that can eat plastic, detect landmines, and extract rare metals. They’ve been swallowed by a black hole.

hey @SondreB and @hodlbod both @npub16x7n...a44x and Coracle seem to be failing SSL... with Nostria I've been frequently getting a cloudflare "SSL handshake failed" or "web app failed", and on Coracle my browser (Brave) shows a red X "Not secure" (even though it says "certificate is valid" so not sure what's going on there.

"AI accelerates cybersecurity risks" <-- entirely reasonable take "AI could actually wipe out humanity" <-- delusion of the Silicon Valley Doomsday cult, that are increasingly being taken at face value by the mainstream

Because of some life changes I've (temporarily) gone from living in a dense urban envrionment to a very suburban place. It's placid, and tranquil, and yadda yadda... But the thing that gets me that I realize is weird about it, is just how far from commercial spaces you are. I lived most of my life in places where I could walk no more than ~10 minutes to a place where I could buy basic essentials, maybe not a complete grocery trip but at least milk, toiletries, etc. Here the nearest grocery store is a 1/2 hour walk, a 10-minute bike ride, or "fuck you" by public transit. And I'm sorry, but that's *strange*. For 1000's of years people lived in places where they could walk to the market, or at least *some* form of commercial activity. Apparently this is the *desired* outcome, the "good life", for millions (perhaps billions) of people, which is baffling to me.

Just read a big, dumb NYT Sunday op-ed section full of big, dumb "warnings" about how AI's going to "kill us all." Their editorial solution (in unsigned editorial)? Of course it's not even a *law*, which would require them to actually define what software programs people can run, but rather some giant new regulatory superstructure. 😑

Saving this here because for some reason this was impossible to search for... anyway, best "anti-doomer" take I've read. https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/destroying-the-world-is-a-difficult