"I wouldn't let the government sleep on my couch, let alone lend them money" @ODELL on buying treasuries 😅

pv fam 🌅🤙 big news: i wrote a FREE 57-page ebook on personal privacy and security and want you to have it. you can get it here: https://book.codeandstrategy.com/privacy-and-security i'd really appreciate a boost if you could help increase visibility, even if you decide not to check it out yourself. right now only the nostrverse knows about it 💜 the world needs more sovereign individuals who take this stuff seriously and this is my tiny contribution to fighting the good fight, inspired by all the devs i see on here shipping like mad if you read it and like it please let me know!

i'm a hotel maximalist airbnb's have regressed to the point whete they're about the same price if not more, and include a negative amount of perks and hospitality "pay this cleaning fee but also be sure to clean everything before you leave!" lol

people who spend time neatly folding fitted sheets are bad capital allocators

seems like all the people who talk about how great this conference is are the ones who were invited to speak and didn't pay for a ticket i used to go to music festivals not terribly long ago. they were stacked with bands both big and small, all day, friday-saturday-sunday, and the ticket price was like $150 i get that economies of scale make it so that it's not exactly apples and oranges but... can anyone confirm that this is, in fact, worth $600+?

religious types—people who operate on devotion to things like faith and trust in the wisdom of higher powers—love preparing for The End of Days every culture in history has had its druids or priests or shamans pushing fear of global downfall and the associated guilt that we the people are all to blame, and must atone so it has been, and so it will be until the next empire rises and falls

i don't think i'm particularly smart i think i just read a lot, but that's a distinction most people in society don't make gm

turns out pumps at gas stations are controlled via bluetooth and the connections are insecure

pv fam 🌄🤙 proof of walk

the amount of optimism you have for the future seems proportional to the amount of control you feel you have over your life builders/makers: 🙂 consumers/takers: 😒 each wolf is inside us all, be careful which you feed

i'd like to tap the collective wisdom of #foodstr and ask for some advice: what high quality green tea do you recommend?

"Leonardo had studied the use of math for commercial purposes at his abacus school, but from Verrocchio he learned something more profound: the beauty of geometry. After Cosimo de' Medici died, Verrocchio designed a marble-and-bronze slab for his tomb, which was finished in 1467, a year after Leonardo became his apprentice. Instead of religious imagery, the tomb slab featured geometrical patterns dominated by a circle inside a square, as Leonardo would use for his drawing Vitruvian Man. Inside the design, Verrocchio and his workshop carved carefully proportioned rectangles and half-circles in colors that were based on harmonic ratios and the Pythagorean musical scale. There was harmony in proportions, Leonardo learned, and math was nature's brushstroke."

do not concern yourself with things outside the domain of your immediate control

amidst all this dystopian political rhetoric around using censorship to combat "disinformation" and "misinformation," our collective response should be to write more fiction. novels. short stories. screenplays. you get to freely tell all the truth you want in a fictional story. after all, it's just a story. 😏

i just tried out a new self-hosted AI chat instance via Start9 with what I thought was a simple query and so far no good 😅 "What did Tolkien think of the book Dune? Why?"

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an end-less series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. — H. L. Mencken

"It took me decades to realize that technology is a slave to personality. It doesn't matter how good the design, when there are unresolved problems in the organization. And so gradually I shifted from technical architect to social architect. From caring about technical designs to caring about people and the psychology that drives them. Because in the end, this is what seems to make the difference between a working project and a failure."

Confessions of a Necromancer - Hintjens.com

i've learned that a disturbingly large amount of people use the word "democracy" to mean fairness and the general idea of equality which is not at all what the word democracy means, and when i brought this up with someone in particular they said "maybe not literally, but basically" this explains a lot also gm

pomp moves back to nyc because [checks notes] it was a mistake to use brains to make rational decisions godspeed bud 🫡