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Yep, I pay attention to the weather. I am not so deluted to think my wishes cast affect it. But I can affect my own life.

Kinda doubt that. If he was a part of it the Dems would have used it

You had a subscription? Ha!

You assume too much. I know how SN works :) Others may not. I didn't say why anything was failing. Again, you are assuming too much.

Depends on how you measure it but on value that's way off. Inverse. Maybe don't talk about stuff you don't know.

The Economist? More like the Communist.

Oh yeah. The over-use of emoji is a sign of AI gen stuff.

Most people don't seem to even try to give the context needed to simulate an actual person. When you do that you get better results.

For example, if one wanted to imitate me you'd need to throw in a lot of mistakes.

I've written this before but my problem with Nostr isn't the tech but the way people use it. IMO for SN to grow without destroying its current appeal to me would for it to have many communities. Not just grow the current one. I know that was part of the idea behind territories.

But I'd be fine if it just had gradual growth vs. massive growth. Twitter's value to be in the early days is completely gone now. Nostr is better but not like SN. Not even close.

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SN reminds me of the very early days of Twitter. Long before "everyone" was on it. I remember following about 50 people in the city near me. I met all of them IRL and it was a massive help to me in my career. I learned so much from these people. It was an online circle of people that shared a common interest. It wasn't about likes or clicks.

SN is much better but one reason is because its rare to find a site like this today. I hope @k00b realizes this. :)

Haven't read this yet but I've been thinking about bitcoin adoption lately and it reminds me of what we are seeing in Linux adoption.

I mentioned it here #1029651 in a comment.

I don't think mass adoption is gonna be triggered by insiders but rather from outsiders adopting it. These people will have followings that probably will not share our views or priorities. The problem I see is that bitcoiners aren't really able to see through the eyes of those that don't already see bitcoin for what it is.

I suspect someone with a big following will find bitcoin and start talking about it in ways that we don't talk about it today. To people that probably would ignore us. This person or people will be far more effective. I don't even think its a flaw in the community but rather just human nature. Let me explain.

I've seen this many times with family. I can tell a family member, maybe a parent about something. It bounces off them and they remain unfazed. Then later someone they respect (no a junior to them) will mention this same exact thing and then they tell me about it... This used to bother me but now I just see it for what it is. Its not personal. Its just a defect in most people to discount things people say that haven't gained their deep respect.

If someone sounds crazy to you... you aren't gonna seriously consider what they say. That's it. That's how I see it panning out.

This is a good thing. If everyone jumps into bitcoin all at once it will be even harder for us to stack. I know some of you have a lot more bitcoin than I do. Good for you. But my time preference is pretty low. I honestly don't care if I'm never "rich". I want my great grand kids to have generational wealth. I want them to share my faith. I want them to make a mark on this world.

Sure, I wanna retire on bitcoin and it would be nice to have massive wealth but honestly its not why I am so passionate about bitcoin. To me, it is the solution to deep issues much bigger than my needs. I think many share this view. We just don't talk about it much.

I was not impressed by his Ubuntu setup. Mostly because it was using Gnome and he clearly wanted to go full tiling manager with it. I am however impressed with DHH and his desire to share vs. keep stuff to himself. He's a sharp guy and has a great eye for product design. Love seeing him nerd out on Linux.

Yeah.. that's old news man. This is fresh. They discussed it on LINUX Unplugged 622: Omarchy Hits Different and that's what prompted me to share it. I've been kinda tuned out to social media for the last bit and while I was aware of this I didn't realize how much response it was getting.

On the podcast they talk about how maybe the Linux community has been going about attracting new users all wrong. The approach has been for the most part to try to copy Windows and MacOS UI patterns to make it easy to switch. That's not what this.

This is a desktop environment that is very different from MacOS and Windows. A tiling window manager and a keyboard driven UI. It kinda makes sense to go a different direction vs copying. Why would I want a less polished MacOS or Windows?

Instead build something different. Do something that is opinionated in a different direction but is good for devs. I think that's what we have here. That's what my setup is.

What makes Linux so hard is that the world is your oyster. But it's either a blank canvas like Arch is, or its all set up like Gnome or KDE and is like an uncanny valley OS. Tiling window managers like Hyperland are great but if you don't know what you want they are daunting. DHH has opinions and he applied them here to make a system that works for him.

I love seeing it. Its not for me but its what a lot of people might need to get them over the hump.

I think sometimes you need an outsider of a community to get new people into it. The open source purists and privacy people all know about Linux. But DHH is pushing this as a better workflow. A better system to build software on.

I think this may be how bitcoin adoption grows. Not from insiders and old timers like us. But someone from the outside with an itch to scratch. They have credibility with people and bring new people in for "reasons" we might not share. Seems very likely to me that we see this over the next 5-10 years in bitcoin.

I love watching this stuff play out. Grab the popcorn.

You know what I'm finding the more I use AI and test things out? Its the humans that suck at using it. Its a tool and like many tools it requires a bit of skill to use effectively. Bad input will get back output. That's when I can tell its AI. When the "prompter" is so lazy they haven't learned how to use it well.

Given really good prompts and focused input I'm pretty sure most people can't spot the simulated intelligence. Its not really just artificial but rather a simulation of intelligence. The more I learn about this tech the less scary it is and the more I can see it being eventually very useful.

Is it going to be used to create slop? Yep. Its gonna get way worse but I'm gonna adapt. No fear. Adapt and thrive.

I have been doing this for a while. Not so much recently because I mostly ignore posts not created by "trusted" stackers. Honestly, I don't care if its an AI post at this point if its good. Many people act like bots(NPCs) anyway. Most people on the Internet at least.

Everything about conspiracy theories and the "state" changed when I realized how little me being aware was actually impacting my life in a positive way. I still think many of the same things are happening but it doesn't matter. What matters is what I do with my dash. The time and resources I have. I don't care to wake people up if all they are gonna do is post on social media. Do something constructive. Prepare. Solve problems. Improve yourself. Those things matter.

It wasn't mine either but after thinking about it more it came to me. If I can't just invent bitcoin or if I'm basically not going back to my wife and sons and don't want to mess up their futures... I'd do some good stuff that is impossible to do now and disappear maybe not to cause more issues with timelines. Even so... I wonder what the ripple effects would be for me and my family because it would change some positives for me. And... I have no guarantee of the outcome either.

Many times I think about going back in time and telling myself about things happening now. I think about what things I would believe and what things I would not believe. When I was a teen and young man I was deep into conspiracy theories. This is pre-Internet. I have been aware of weather modifications for long enough and many other theories that turn out to be "projects" that they seem bland to me now.

But I would have never dreamed at how so many people would fall for this stuff today. It seems like many people went from believing everything authority figures told them to believing every crackpot theory they see on social media. People are dumb.

Is weather modification possible? Yeah. Is that very likely why a ton of rain dropped on an area in the US? I don't think so. The logic behind most of these theories is so flawed I don't have the patience to look into them. Usually I can tell they are BS in 10 seconds of the video from the influence peddler. I could be wrong, but the masses are now being manipulated in ways that they do not understand. The state is still evil but so many people are just addicted to the "drama" of these things that they fall for every scammer's theory.

Its all so tiresome.

When a Democrat is president, Republicans pretend to care. When a Republican is president neither party pretends to care. I'm not sure who is worse. At least one party doesn't pretend to care. The team sport nature creates a blindness and very stupid mob mentality.

Humans can be very intelligent as individuals but are rarely intelligent in groups.

If I am not thinking about erasing my sons I would catch some bad people committing bad acts that weren't exposed until recently. No one anyone here knows. But I could do some justice for some people I know. Stop some things that haven't happened yet.

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