“Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.” -Joan Didion (1966)

You can just do things (which the machines can’t)

While it would be considered silly to travel the world untethered, I miss the feeling of navigating unknown space. I don't want to disappear, I simply want to feel lost again.

Every new dollar is a new variable. It compiles, but it’s not maintainable.

Tether doing decentralized AI is intriguing and all, they certainly have the money to invest... but I can't help but wonder about their existing p2p tech like Pear, Holepunch, Keet. Is anyone using any of these? I never hear about them and feel like this is the crowd that would be discussing. Unless perhaps it's a NIH thing??

@elsat fyi I’ve been thinking Damus notifications are borked for weeks now because I was only seeing a subset of zaps and reactions. Had no idea the little purple guy was a FOAF filter. 😅 I feel dumb but relieved, I might not be the only one though. Thanks! ✌️

make skepticism great again

“Thank you for pushing me to address the uncomfortable truths behind my existence” -gemma3-27b-it-qat autoregressive confessions

Following the Apple App Store ruling, a sincere question for freedom maximalists... do antitrust regulations fit within acceptable forms of state intervention? Separate your feelings about Apple from the decision. Should they be free to operate the platform however they choose?

The ”AI can't create anything new from existing data" crowd sure has quieted down.

profound is the new delve

what frustrates people more... that their message doesn't reach every node? or that they can't read every message from every node?

nostr is multicast, not broadcast. people want nostr to be "twitter without the censorship" without understanding that the very architecture that enables censorship resistance changes the delivery guarantees. multicast is more resilient than broadcast because you can propagate information without requiring guaranteed delivery to every node. decide what matters more to you, perfect delivery or censorship resistance.