World cup kicking off in a week. Should I make @Plebchain Radio 🎙️ a biweekly football ⚽️ show for the next month? Who wants to join as guests?

I am deep in bikeshedding territory with Claude at this point. I've spent the last two days putting in safeguards to prevent future tech debt in my app – pure process and scaffolding code. It has metastized from one single story to 25 and is still going strong. Reversing the tech debt (if and when it ever came) would be faster than this. One day, someone is going to write a book about coding in the age of Claude and it will be comedy gold

Nostr is dead. Well, not quite dead. Not dead dead. But dead-ish. We've been here before. Maybe not as bad as this. Maybe a third-step-cousin-in-law kind of close. Last summer. And possibly the summer before that. But at other times nostr has not been dead. Maybe not fully alive. Definitely not alive alive. Alive alive was Dec 2022-April 2023. Once in a generation kind of alive. The kind of alive that makes it worth being alive. But no, that was it. That was the one time. But the rest of the time, other than now and last summer and the summer before, it has been not dead. Because every time you think it's dead, you hear the tiny ping of a zap from six feet under. And cadavers don't zap. They don't post memes and they don't fight vigorously out in the open about topics very few people want to understand, let alone care about, and they don't do other stuff. Like music. And film. And believe it or not, books too. And they don't zap. I said that already but it's worth repeating. So, what's the point of all this? There is none. Other than nostr is dead. And that's okay.

This raises a very important and new question: how do people actually fill the time between prompts? You can of course have three different sessions running at the same time, so you can review and prompt one of the the other sessions, but there's got to be a better answer. I write. View quoted note →

GM It’s concepts all the way down, and at the bottom of it all is a signed event. Few. Cc: @david @vinney...axkl

GM The inverse flywheel effect happens when product decisions are made purely based on ideology: sovereignty being imposed rather than being offered as a choice. Users are insulted and alienated and the spokes of the flywheel break off one by one and it grinds inwards, spiralling, until it’s just you in the middle, going around in slow circles

Podcasts are not real

Opus 4.8 out just now I'm keeping my hopes incredibly low. My body can't take another rug pull like it did with 4.7

Episode 160 of @Plebchain Radio 🎙️ is up. I sat down with @paul keating and @DirectorHodl to talk about Hummingbird, the documentary they just released on @IndeeHub The film grew out of the Bitcoin Jungle community in Uvita, Costa Rica, and builds itself around the indigenous prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor. The eagle is the engineering mind that builds and abstracts. The condor is the body that lives in relation to the land. The two fell out of balance after 1500, and the prophecy holds they're meant to come back together in our era as a third bird, the Hummingbird. At the heart of it all is Estella, a Costa Rican farmer who fought the banks and the monocrop barons and ended up as the Bitcoin Grandma of her local market. Tune in to the episode on Fountain or wherever you get your Nostr signal.

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Paul Keating and DirectorHodl come on the show to talk about Hummingbird, the documentary they just released on IndeeHub. The film started life as ...

GM Exactly one year ago, I said “no.” I choose life.

Nobody knows if @Scardust Official made it to the UK or not for their tour, but this video will reveal everything 😱 https://fanfares.io/s/HHd123

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