Chess set 2 is coming along nicely. I think I want to adorn black with the gold leaf this time. I don't know if I want to make the board white, though. Would it be sacrilege to have the white pieces housed on black spaces and the black pieces to housed on metallic spaces?

I think I'm starting to notice some chameleon effect happening among people who interact with ai all day long. The world is worried about or fascinated by machines mimicking humans, but maybe that concern should be flipped around. It might be a good time to study up on some shamanism. 😅

I came home to my laptop sitting on bios utility and it says there's no bootable device. I don't even know what this means and I'm tired. 😭 I just wanted to go for a walk along the river. Can't leave these things alone for 5 minutes. I'm gonna take a nap. 🥴😅

I am getting so close to having the ability to say to all my friends, "Hey, I know you hate what your online life has become, but come with me. Some brilliant anonymous strangers helped me create a little oasis." 💜 Then, that little oasis can act as a training ground and launch point to all the other oasii(?)... oasises(?) (whatever) or into the wild nostr country where they can mix and match their own goldilocks experiences. No walled gardens or silos or even glass houses. No heavy moderation or babysitting. No single feed presenting the thing-of-the-day. Nothing but general commonalities, education, and smart preventions. I previously had some underlying thoughts about a similar concept working, in a broad sense that didn't really involve me, but the further I venture into trying to gather and create pieces for a little example, the more strongly I believe that its people like myself who will ultimately bear this torch. It is one of many paths forward and something I believe people will want. They might not know it yet, but they will. There's a few key pieces missing, one of which being a way to package it all up and gift it away. There are some other things missing, too... I started 2 lists, one of what exists and one of that which does not. I'm trying to think through, who I know, what they would need to do what they do, and how to best present those things... also how many of those things should ultimately move out of the oasis... or never be in it from the start. If my realizations to this point stay as poeniant as they have been, I'm sure most of this will come together in its time. @il_lost_ has dubbed it the System of Dawn (possibly with no clue as to how much I've been thinking about this lately). I don't know what I call it yet, but I'm sure a few others have caught on to this vibration, too. I've spent the last year working on being less quiet, sharing what I know, and trying to see how these pieces are supposed to fit. When I wrote my first edu article, when I decided to dedicate attention to the wss://relays.land/spatianostra experiment, when I was offered to test early trust assertions and other projects, when I got talked into running pyramid with zero terminal experience... I didn't realize how well each of these things were going to accentuate the others. Now it's impossible to unsee and impossible to ignore. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, that's okay. I'm just thinking out loud and it's been a very strange few weeks for me. I'm probably as confused as you are.