My schedule's messed up enough (dealing with some issues around health caretaking) that I'm not sure I can commit to a specific time, but I'm comfortable setting my preferences and letting the CPU picks have their way if I can't be there.

Ah, gotcha -- I'd read your initial post as being about the data being scraped/sold, not deleted/taken out of someone's control.

But even there, unless you only stick to nostr or a few similar tools, there's loss potential everywhere -- I may have some of my SN posts saved, since I often compose them offline, but not all of them. And probably none of my comments. Ditto for a bunch of other sites from Livejournal to Reddit. Most are probably ones I'll never need or want to revisit, but there are probably some exceptions I'll lose at some point.

True, and it's a variation of the rule about posting saying anything on the internet you don't want everyone to know.

But a difference here as far as the scraping/AI stuff goes is that a third party scraping data from Stack is compiling a dataset they've got no right to, which may limit its use in an LLM, while Stack has the right to license the data out.

So how's hosting Stacker News working out for you?

Seriously, there's a certain point at which any sort of forum tool requires someone hosting who you have to give some trust to (even Nostr's decentralized system sends the messages through relays).

One of the many things I love about SN is that it's just a great place to share cool science stuff I find online.

Competitive play is allowed, just not competitive high-level play. So someone who sucks is allowed to give it their all (with softballs and wooden bats).

But seriously, "no home runs?" Short of bunting, how can you even try to honor that one? "Sorry officer, I was trying for a double and the wind took the ball over the fence."

The Go-Go's started as a punk band (Belinda was even a member of The Germs briefly). It doesn't show in a lot of their released music, but I always felt that "Skidmarks on My Heart" had some of that raw energy.

Genuinely impressed by the fact that ski jumpers have gotten so good that there's no current competition where they can set the record, because they weren't built big enough.

Thanks for this. I'd been using Bitrefill as well (largely out of inertia), but am planning to try BTC next time I'm looking to make a grocery run.

Good find!

Lots of redundancy there.

Good piece. I sometimes find Taibbi a bit disingenuous -- I'd respect him more for acknowledging that he was a leftist who changed (and he clearly was) instead of claiming that people just "believed" he was a leftist as he's currently doing. Being able to change your mind is a feature, not a bug.

That aside, this interview is a really good one.

One thing the last thirty years or so have convinced me of is that neither "side" believes in free speech; they believe in free speech when it helps them, and are angry when the other "side" threatens it, even when they use the exact same tactics.

Sadly, almost certainly the latter.

Yup!

This was delightful, and I always love good nym origin stories. Outside of one nineteenth-century novel, my knowledge of whaling and whalers is nil. Looking forward to more posts from both of you.

Nah, The Who were a totally different band. . .

Seriously, KLF was a big flash in the pan in the early '90s, and then they kind of faded. Their schtick was some sort of secret cult with The Illuminatus! Trilogy references, combined with some damned fun songs.

Under the name The Timelords, they were also responsible for "Doctorin' the Tardis," the Gary Glitter/Doctor Who mashup.

I'm not very proud to admit this one, but the reason I know about it is that someone on Nostr mentioned Panties for Bitcoin, and that page popped up with 69 free sats for Mash users. Going there now, they list a bunch of wallets as suggestions, but Mash isn't one of them.

Yeah. Normally my radar is all "they're shutting down" with an announcement like this, but the fact they made it easy to remove funds suggests it might not be completely nefarious.

Hard to believe that might have backfired.

Coming from A16Z, that's rich.

I'm glad to hear about Fountain! I really do like it as my podcast player of choice, not just because of the sats.

I actually use about four different wallets to try to reduce the risk of losing too much at once, though Alby and Strike are the custodial ones I'm using the most these days.