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https://rabble.nz/

Building nostr app nos.social.

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npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240

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rabble@nos.social

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rabble@primal.net

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2025-04-23 00:50:42

Bluesky’s added user verification in a way that’s not entirely bad. Different entities can become verifiers. So if you run a company you can verify your own employees. Bluesky PBC also will run a verifier. I think this isn’t a terrible solution to preventing impersonation.
https://bsky.social/about/blog/04-21-2025-verification

2025-04-20 19:30:03

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Yes he’s never been very interested in being factual.

2025-04-20 19:26:24

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In general they do answer differently depending on your tone.

2025-04-18 05:12:49

I’m not sure how many people follow TechDirt.com but they’re a long standing low budget tech publication which has been very influential in the movement for an open web and protocols over platforms.
Their editor’s essay, Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech, laid out the arguments for what become both Nostr and ATprotocol.
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech
Anyway, i just like to remember the folks who got us here. They accept bitcoin donations: https://www.techdirt.com/support/

2025-04-17 20:39:51

@npub17nd…950x I’m moving up the hill so you’ll be getting new angles on the same pier.
https://i.nostr.build/i5AvGOJ0txVyItLc.jpg

2025-04-16 23:58:29

Samsung has released a vacuum cleaner with built in screen that lets you do texting and phone calls while vacuuming! This is worse than the LED screens on fridges. Who on earth needs to make phone calls WHILE vacuuming!? Don’t you already have your phone in your pocket, and you know, vacuums make a lot of noise, so you’d want to STOP vacuuming in order talk on the phone.
https://www.theverge.com/news/639078/samsung-bespoke-ai-jet-ultra-vacuum-text-messages

2025-04-16 18:47:02

OpenAI is considering launching a social media app / platform. This feels like something we should pay attention to, but also where Nostr could compete using open models and our protocol.
https://www.theverge.com/openai/648130/openai-social-network-x-competitor

2025-04-16 11:44:41

When you build a system that allows central control and censorship then the state will use those affordances if they feel the need. Bluesky’s blocked some Turkish accounts by order of the Turkish government.
https://i.nostr.build/xhKQNAYikxHeNUPk.jpg
The user DID keys are still active but their associated domain name / user names are not and the identities at blocked by bluesky’s moderation system that Turkish users can’t opt out of.
https://bsky.app/profile/nekorug.moe/post/3lmwgtwfggs2e
To escape this censorship you need to both use a Bluesky client that doesn’t opt in to the company’s obligatory moderation and also some relay and appviews which refuse to comply with Turkish censorship orders.

2025-04-16 09:49:32

Interesting someone finally made an ATprotocol client that doesn’t include the required base moderation provided by Bluesky inc.
https://deer.social

2025-04-16 01:53:12

Keep up to date with what's happening on Nostr with the Nostr Recap!
#nevent1q…4rvl

2025-04-16 01:51:06

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Representative democracies and the state have a lot of problems. Not ideal, not the system i'd like to live in. But they're better than an authoritarian state which uses it's monopoly of violence to silence all dissent and randomly deport dissidents to foreign forced labor camps.

2025-04-16 01:15:20

## A Plan for Defending Democracy: Building a Strategic, Cross-Party Coalition
We urgently need a concrete plan—a grand coalition—to defend democracy. If we truly mean #NeverAgain, the moment to act decisively is now. Democracy, basic freedoms, and human dignity itself are under threat.
Trump’s administration openly defies the Supreme Court, imposes extreme tariffs (up to 143% on China!), and now even threatens prison camps for political dissenters. To me, this isn’t just politics—it’s a terrifying erosion of civil liberties, constitutional norms, and the rights we once assumed were untouchable.
But outrage alone isn’t enough. We need a practical, targeted strategy that can truly stop this authoritarian slide.
### My Proposal: A Cross-Party Centrist Coalition in the U.S. House
Given how narrowly divided the House of Representatives currently is, I believe a small number of moderate Republicans from agriculture-heavy, purple or swing districts—especially in states with "top-two" primary systems like California and Washington—could join with centrist Democrats to flip the balance of power.
The goal isn’t a traditional partisan victory. Instead, it’s to create a powerful legislative firewall that can:
- Uphold and enforce Supreme Court rulings against an administration inclined to ignore them.
- End economically catastrophic tariffs that devastate American farmers and workers.
- Block authoritarian measures, like prison camps for political dissidents.
### How This Coalition Could Work Practically:
1. **Moderate Republicans take a stand**:
They commit publicly to oppose unconstitutional actions, reject extreme tariffs, and protect civil liberties, even if it means breaking from party leadership.
2. **Strategic Electoral Guarantees**:
- Democrats, especially in California and Washington’s top-two primary districts, would strategically "stand down," pledging not to run strong Democratic challengers against these Republicans.
- Progressive activists would temporarily focus their resources elsewhere, understanding that preserving democracy must come first.
- Centrist Democratic donors and influential grassroots groups would promise robust funding, political defense, and organizational support for these moderate Republicans, ensuring their survival against inevitable MAGA-backed primary challengers.
3. **Electing a Coalition-Friendly Speaker**:
The coalition could elect a moderate, compromise Speaker—someone from either party who firmly commits to:
- Protecting constitutional norms and enforcing judicial rulings.
- Ending catastrophic trade wars and protecting U.S. agriculture.
- Stopping authoritarian actions, including any plans for political imprisonment of dissenters.
4. **Allowing Independence for Progressives**:
This arrangement does not silence progressive voices or policies. Progressives would still freely critique and push for their agenda. But, crucially, on foundational issues—civil rights, human dignity, rule of law, economic sanity—the entire coalition would stand united.
### Why Would Moderate Republicans Take This Risk?
The threat from Trump and the MAGA wing will be fierce. Moderate Republicans will face harsh political backlash. That’s exactly why the coalition must pledge, explicitly and publicly, powerful electoral support and funding. These Republicans must know they’ll not stand alone. A true coalition demands solidarity and strong defense for its courageous members.
### Why This Unconventional Coalition Matters Right Now:
This strategy is not politics-as-usual. It’s bold and challenging. But with democracy itself on the line, ideological purity tests must be set aside. Coalition-building is the most pragmatic choice in extraordinary times.
I urge all who value democracy—progressives, centrists, moderates, libertarians, independents—to come together. Protect our courts, preserve the rule of law, safeguard livelihoods, and stand firm against authoritarianism. The stakes are too high to let partisan differences keep us divided.
### If #NeverAgain Means Anything, We Must Act Boldly:
Let’s move beyond partisan comfort zones. Let’s support principled Republicans who bravely oppose authoritarianism. By uniting now, creatively and courageously, we can prevent tyranny before it fully takes hold.
This coalition is how we protect each other. This is how we ensure freedom survives.
The moment is here—let’s act.

2025-04-12 20:56:20

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If someone could make some nostr apps that used semantic web syntax and it’d get added to the spec. The thing is almost all nips are optional so having it in the spec doesn’t mean apps or relays will use it. But if it’s useful to some people then do it!

2025-04-11 05:34:25

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You don’t need to host it’s content on your relays or use it… but if you want to know more about how it works: https://www.nos.social/tagr-bot

2025-04-10 03:35:02

Did you know you can buy a keyboard made in the US? It looks really nice. The thing is to build a keyboard in the US means it costs $3600!
https://www.norbauer.co/pages/the-seneca

2025-04-10 03:29:14

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I mean the apple devices will be real, but yeah, it’s grey market.

2025-04-09 20:36:31

Bugger. I mostly switched to using a Mac Mini and gave it a new password to unlock the OS. Now I’m in a cafe with a laptop while my car gets its regular “warranty of fitness” inspection and I don’t remember my old laptop password. At least pre-coffee I can’t remember it.

2025-04-06 20:17:02

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I mean there is a lot of engineering to handle the intense rain. Mostly due to drainage systems and dikes.
If you’re asking if the government is somehow causing this? There was a government transparency investigation and there is no coordinated or organized effort to bring about more rain. That’s a right wing conspiracy. It comes up with a center left coalition, but the current government has all the center and right wing parties in power. If there was some government program like the conspiracy theories claim, they’d expose it.
Anyway, New Zealand is just in a part of the world that gets lots of rain coming in very intense storms.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/the-whole-truth/300802897/the-whole-truth-no-cloud-seeding-isnt-causing-all-this-awful-weather

2025-04-06 12:56:05

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I strongly believe in reparations for colonialism and that not enough has been done, but i find land acknowledgments to be kind of weird and hollow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQyFfC7_U-E

2025-04-06 11:26:56

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It’s not really a mystery … they made a deal where the music labels became co-owners of Spotify. It’s a cartel.

2025-04-06 11:11:50

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It’s why the streets with shops and in the city center all have awning which completely protect the sidewalk from rain. People need a way of getting out of the rain when it comes.

2025-04-06 11:06:04

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Well yes, Hobbiton is in the Waikato so they only got 4.5 inches of rain in this storm!

2025-04-06 10:58:37

New Zealand gets a lot of rainfall in storms but this past few days it’s been particularly notable.
https://image.nostr.build/a15830845f9383360449548de4ca1b1b7daa206737082bb601d86e3e2b9c29c2.jpg
For folks who don’t speak metric, that’s 13 inches in a 24 hour period, and over 16 inches of rainfall in some places over 36 hours. It did cause some flooding!
It’s about as much rain in 36 hours as Los Angeles, Denver, Anchorage, Calgary, or Madrid get in a full year.

2025-04-06 09:58:10

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document it for us please ;-D

2025-04-06 09:52:47

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That's stupid, the US was just as colonized as Canada... and frankly has done a worse job of working with it's first nations people.
I don't see how that is a leftist position.

2025-04-06 08:25:15

Well this silly #hellthread did get me to finally go and update the notification and mute settings on @npub1pu3…tfch with better options and defaults.
https://github.com/planetary-social/nos/pull/1775

2025-04-05 23:27:06

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They’ve been put on torrent sites too ;=D

2025-04-02 18:59:27

What is your why for building #Nostr and #FreedomTech?
#note1nyk…zt7j

2025-04-02 18:58:12

I think the work @npub1xsp…62dr is doing in terms of using Nostr as a tool to annotate blockchain content is interesting. So much of the bitcoiners see other blockchain projects as speculative “shitcoins” that they don’t see the ways that smart contracts and decentralized blockchain based protocols can do new and powerful things.
One of my problems with the blockchain projects is they often try and put everything on chain. A kind of your only tool is the blockchain hammer, so everything looks like a smart contract nail, type issues. But if you only put the minimal amount of content that requires universal consensus on chain you can do the rest with Nostr.
We need Nostr to grow beyond its bitcoin core.
#note1p39…d67s

2025-04-01 03:08:37

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The quote i use at the end is something i stand by, but i also think it’s why i think we need a diverse ecosystem based on a protocol for social media. It let’s me run clients and relays with different rules from the ones you want to run. If you don’t like my app, or relay, or communities, then you’re empowered to choose others. But if we have a single unified corporate platform then everybody will play the refs and game the system. There’s no win for free speech in that situation.

2025-04-01 00:04:06

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There’s no grounds for revoking their visa based on constitutionally protected speech. The courts have ruled many times that immigrants have the constitutional right to freedom of speech, assembly, due process, and equal protection under the law.
Either we scrap the constitutional rights and the courts reinterpret the constitution or these people deserve a day in court if the government feels they’ve done something bad enough revoke their visa. And that thing legally can not be what they said or what protest they attended. If they were arrested for say breaking a window at the protest, that’s a crime and they could be charged, put on trial, convicted of that and have their visa revoked. Because of what they did and not what they said.

2025-03-31 23:50:26

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But these folks wrote editorials and held protests asking for an end to the war in Gaza. Not in any way endorsing or providing any material support to Hamas.
And even if they did violate that law and provide real material support for Hamas or other designated terrorist organization then they should be arrested, charged, put on trial, and found guilty of that crime. Then and only then would it make sense to revoke their visa. If what they did was illegal then charge them and use that conviction to justify their being deported. Immigrants and permanent residents deserve their day in court and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.

2025-03-31 19:19:40

This car has an awesome license plate.
https://i.nostr.build/lfnfqu2lNGO4vRyL.jpg

2025-03-31 19:15:18

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Or you could be aware that there’s massive strategic and cultural advantage to having foreign students coming to learn in your country. You get to sell them on your culture, language, model of working. If you believe in a nationalist competition between countries you what their best people to come study, work, and research in your country. You win the talent war.

2025-03-31 18:16:01

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Where did i say we should bend the knee and ask governments for these rights? Or choose to use some platform that users themselves don’t control?

2025-03-30 22:42:59

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@npub1c85…6lkc what are you even talking about?

2025-03-30 21:25:24

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Yep, but we tried to do it on top of XMPP…. This was back in 2007 and 2008! Ages ago. Honestly a lot of decentralized tech needed to be developed in order for it to work. We were too early.
https://www.slideshare.net/blaine
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/07/30/xmpp_rest/
http://scripting.com/stories/2008/01/21/xmppAsTheBasisForInteropIn.html
https://xmpp.org/2008/09/xmpp-roundup-1/

2025-03-30 20:42:15

This is neat. https://github.com/bostonaholic/reflect

2025-03-30 20:11:34

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You can get the first three episodes on the pirate bay ;-D https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=breaking+the+bird

2025-03-30 20:07:50

Live TV is so surreal… anyway, here’s a screencap of my live interview on CNN…. I got Nostr mentioned! Protocols are the future, we just need to build it.
https://v.nostr.build/HeYdbj9AUZmYXvJx.mp4

2025-03-30 20:02:29

I managed to focus on the protocol future! I got Nostr mentioned! These live interviews are so stressful.
#note1erh…5k3u

2025-03-30 19:41:06

I’ll be back on CNN live at the top of the hour, in 20 minutes, talking about the Breaking the Bird documentary. Twitter should always have been a protocol, and now we have that. We’ll see what i’m able to get in, these things go so fast.

2025-03-30 18:22:51

This is what happens when we decide that the legal system and due process shouldn't apply. The government decides they're going to deport spanish speakers with tattoos because some gang members have tattoos and speak spanish. But then because there's not equal protection or due process rights, a guy with a rainbow autism awareness tattoo ends up in a salvadorian prision without any way to pleed his case. How does he get out of that prision? What happens if they don't like your tattoos? Or what some bot pretending to be you posted online? #nevent1q…02w2

2025-03-30 18:06:11

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@npub19vv…t562 well these foreign students didn’t get to vote for or against this. I’m less concerned about the fact they used AI than there’s a lack of first and fifth amendment protections.

2025-03-30 18:04:03

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Everybody in the US is due legal rights based on the constitution, not the same rights as citizens but the courts have ruled many times that temporary visa holders in the US do have the right to legal due process and free speech.
The US political system prevents tyranny through a system of checks and balances between different branches of the government. The entire system was designed to prevent anybody executing king like powers in the executive. If i want rights for myself, especially the right to a day in court if i’m accused of violating the law, then i have to demand those rights be upheld for others.

2025-03-30 17:39:43

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Because the courts have ruled student visa holders don’t have the right to bear arms but they do have the right to due process and freedom of speech.
And the courts are how we enforce and protect the constitution.

2025-03-30 17:35:42

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Does Japan revoke visas for people based on a bot making political posts claiming to be foreign students? Because without due process we have no way of knowing if the posts on those social media accounts are actually by the students.
And what’s more, the US legal system clearly states that the constitutional protections of free speech and due process do apply to everyone, including student visa holders and not just citizens. So what matters is what is legal in the US not what is legal in Japan.

2025-03-30 17:30:05

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Yes there are restrictions. But student visa holders rights to free speech and due process aren’t among those restrictions.
Can a student visa holder provide material support to a designated terrorist organization? Not under current US law. But they have the right to legal due process.
If you believe in freedom and are concerned about a government taking away your freedom then you should be concerned about other people’s freedom as well. Especially if happens without any way to appeal to the legal system. These students deserve the right to defend themselves before the law.

2025-03-30 17:23:11

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@npub18lm…99uz yep, the ability to understand what and how to ask the question becomes more important than knowing the answers.
There was a time when the ability to read without moving your lips was considered a giant intellectual achievement. Then we developed the “technology” of writing out vowels in words and not just consonants. This technological innovation meant reading got much easier. There were actual debates at the time that said that writing with vowels was cheapening the mind and reducing people’s ability to think. Now we’re happy to have an easier writing system. The very same argument was made saying listening to an audio book wasn’t really reading it. Or using an LLM is undermining the intellect.

2025-03-30 17:15:43

Looks like they’re running some AI agent to try and match foreign students to social media accounts. If the US State department doesn’t like the politics of the posts the visa is being revoked. The thing is everyone in the US is protected by the constitution, not just citizens. So this is overturning fundamental rights to free speech and due process.
There is no way for these students to contest this. Many people don’t put their full name on social media, often people have the same name. So not only will this violate students first and fifth amendment protections, it will likely be applied to students who simply share the same name or are confused with other students who expressed a political view the government doesn’t like.
If this program continues it means that no foreign student in the US is safe from arbitrary deportation. All it takes is someone making a bot pretending to be that student making posts the administration doesn’t like. Since there is no process by which the student can even demonstrate the account is fake!
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hundreds-of-international-students-are-waking-up-to-an-email-asking-them-to-self-deport-for-campus-activism-or-even-sharing-posts-on-social-media/articleshow/119679695.cms#
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C18-8-7-2/ALDE_00001262/

2025-03-30 10:42:46

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Did you look at the site? That’s kind of the whole point. We only get rights on open protocols.

2025-03-30 09:16:02

I believe we need some fundamental rights on any social media platform or protocol we use.
The rights are:
1. Privacy & Security
2. Ownership
3. Interoperability
4. Algorithmic Control
5. Self-Governance
I’ve created a little website to campaign for these rights at https://rights.social.

2025-03-30 08:27:20

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I kind of love the minimalist design of metaname.nz

2025-03-30 08:01:44

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they don’t appear to actually have relationships with many registries, there’s only a couple dozen top level domains you can buy with 1984.is unfortunately.

2025-03-30 07:54:52

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yeah CF can be complicated but honestly i much prefer using CF for stuff than Google Cloud / AWS / Azure / Digital Ocean.
I’ve used 1984.is for hosting in the past, i forgot they also run a registar. They’re probably the most ethical.

2025-03-30 07:47:54

Anybody got a good ethical domain name registrar? I’ve been using Gandi.net since it was founded 25 years ago, but it got acquired by your.online in 2023. For a while nothing much changed except for they tried to upsell me to some stuff i didn’t want.
But now i’m noticing that they’re getting noticeably less reliable. Updating name and nameserver records isn’t reliable, paying for things fails more often, their web interface has bugs. Basically they’re letting gandi die as they try and upsell people to their crap Total Webhosting Solutions stuff.
So, what ethical registrars are there?

2025-03-30 01:21:41

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Legal probably, ethical, kind of depends. Sketchy, absolutely.

2025-03-30 00:37:44

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Exactly. I felt bad telling these folks the jobs might never come back. Eventually I just shut up because it wasn’t polite to tell people at a dinner party that their way of life wasn’t going to continue like it had.

2025-03-30 00:36:38

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LLM’s will copy the UX too. 🙃

2025-03-30 00:35:21

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The AI powered robots that do weeding are already on the market.
https://carbonrobotics.com

2025-03-30 00:30:51

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Yeah very interesting. I enjoyed talking to them. ATprotocol without Bluesky is way more interesting than the single Bluesky app. And much more of a threat to Nostr because the apps beyond microblogging was always what Nostr does better.

2025-03-30 00:29:06

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xAI is the company, Grok is its ai. So not quite. :)

2025-03-29 23:37:10

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@npub12a7…rdyd I’m 100% that the lack of jobs in New Zealand has nothing to do with the American H1B visa system.

2025-03-29 23:30:35

So apparently Elon has sold Twitter to himself, well xAI has acquired X. Once you have tons of money and power there is so much you can do to keep and expand it.
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/28/musk-x-xai

2025-03-29 22:18:34

I had an interesting conversation at a friend’s birthday party with a few folks who were professionals but had been unemployed and looking for work for a while. I pointed out that with AI rapidly improving, many of the jobs that have been cut likely aren’t coming back.
They dismissed AI entirely as just a cheap imitation. Their experience was limited to trying ChatGPT over a year ago and seeing some clumsy early attempts by the New Zealand government to use AI. For them, that was enough evidence to label the whole field as an overhyped, short-lived scam.
It shocked me because, from my perspective, AI has been advancing incredibly quickly. I use these tools regularly in my work, and with a bit of focus on learning them properly, these emerging large language models (LLMs) are truly transformational. On top of that, innovation is accelerating rapidly, making AI both smarter and more accessible.
I’m not sure if we’ll reach AGI or ASI anytime soon, but it’s clear to me that society and our economy will be fundamentally transformed by AI.
This conversation reminded me just how much of a bubble technologists can live in. We see AI’s potential clearly and understand how quickly things can spread once they reach a tipping point. But most people probably won’t believe this transformation is real until it’s already underway. Instead of traditional economic institutions adapting their ways of working to integrate AI, we’ll likely see new institutions and methods emerge to replace the legacy systems entirely.
I’m genuinely concerned about how our economy will cope with the decoupling of work from primary economic systems. And when I think about how to spend my time while waiting for even more powerful AI tools—beyond just experimenting in my own work—I’m uncertain. Part of the answer seems to be designing new systems from the ground up around AI, and also continuing to tell people that AI isn’t just a passing trend.
This situation isn’t fundamentally different from what happened with Web 2.0 platforms like Twitter. The core human needs remained the same, but new technologies changed how we fulfilled those needs. Twitter didn’t replace our desire to stay connected with friends; it just made it faster and broadened our definition of who could be a “friend.”
So, looking forward, I think we need to ask ourselves: what would an AI-native version of everything we currently use look like? Most people and institutions won’t adapt—they’ll more likely be replaced. Does that mean we should just rush headlong into replacing everything with AI-driven alternatives?

2025-03-29 07:19:51

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Kind of surprising they aren’t barefoot because in New Zealand people go barefoot everywhere. Shoes are entirely optional in the country.

2025-03-29 01:59:25

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Yep. It’s a free country, you can leave if you want to and stay if you’ve got a visa regardless of what you say.

2025-03-29 01:56:44

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Yep. There’s a far right wing evangelical movement called ManUp which repeatedly gets arrested for dumping white paint on rainbow street crossings and assaulting libraries.

2025-03-29 01:51:46

https://v.nostr.build/QC8ZgjyCwsw2DrJv.mp4
Wellington New Zealand continues its weird queer celebration of street art. I love it. #cubadupa #wellington #newzealand #aotearoa

2025-03-28 20:14:14

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Welcome

2025-03-28 11:54:12

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I didn’t know mars had clouds.

2025-03-27 23:58:54

This past weekend was the first ATprotocol conference. Lots of interesting stuff came up. @npub1u4u…jzzd wrote up a good summary which i’m reposting here and then there’s two techcrunch articles:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/25/a-world-without-caesars-how-the-atproto-community-is-rebuilding-the-web-to-return-power-to-the-people/
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/26/whats-next-for-atproto-the-protocol-powering-bluesky-and-other-apps/
Although the user communities are very different and the way the they’re being built out is different, on some ways Nostr and ATprotocol are sister protocols, more similar to each other than anything else. So it’s useful to know what’s going on over there.
#note125u…huwy

2025-03-27 19:04:00

Turns out that inviting the right JG in to your group chat is really important. This is why we need other kinds of credentials and attestation that we can connect to our accounts.
#note1fkw…8dk5

2025-03-26 18:18:12

OpenAI’s updated their image generation models and i wanted to try out something to see how it handles logos and text… It’s pretty neat.
https://i.nostr.build/K8CF9vZGYG1w0S8T.png

2025-03-25 07:31:25

Looks like I’m going to get a whole row in my flight back to Aotearoa New Zealand.
https://i.nostr.build/vYbTsJX2eiF30vcd.jpg

2025-03-24 18:11:30

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Yeah in and out of the fediverse mangled it.

2025-03-24 18:11:07

If this is true it’s a massive OPSEC failure at the White House and also an example of how important having better contact verification for secure systems.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/?gift=kPTlqn0J1iP9IBZcsdI5IVJpB2t9BYyxpzU4sooa69M&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-03-24 17:09:21

@npub19r2…84ag’s talk at the ATprotocol developer conference was fantastic and I highly recommend anyone who cares about social media protocols watch it.
https://youtu.be/InOn_1rAbUY

2025-03-24 16:45:16

This floor is cool. https://i.nostr.build/SPqn8xXpMdJe5iT2.jpg

2025-03-24 04:21:13

https://i.nostr.build/H3CrYLC2CRQosU7Z.jpg

2025-03-23 22:58:49

Lots is happening in the Nostr ecosystem!
#note10a7…yydz

2025-03-23 22:57:49

“For many users, social media platforms were once an exciting, and even transformative, space for community. With some radical reimagining, [Rabble] said, they might experience that feeling again.” https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/23/us/gamergate-harassment-reddit-twitter-cec/index.html

2025-03-22 22:53:17

From the Bluesky #ATconference showing they really are chasing fully automated luxury gay space communism.
https://i.nostr.build/bApkiQtY3inMk6Bd.jpg

2025-03-22 21:40:40

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Farcaster is an interesting system but it’s not open or permission-less

2025-03-22 21:12:43

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33 million users instead of less than 1 million. Something is really working for Bluesky which isn’t working on Nostr.

2025-03-22 19:09:36

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I proposed a talk but I’m just attending.

2025-03-22 19:09:13

There’s a lot of interesting things in the Bluesky ecosystem but the third party dev ecosystem is really struggling because they have nothing like @npub10pe…n34f which is funding a robust diverse ecosystem.

2025-03-22 18:40:58

This is important when we design systems. Understand that systems are all designed to serve a specific purpose.
https://www.anildash.com/2024/05/29/systems-the-purpose-of-a-system/

2025-03-22 18:00:42

YouTube stable Iive stream of the Bluesky ATprotocol conference https://www.youtube.com/live/pCS4WTKqkAo?si=Ik7mogmVnEPIwPhB

2025-03-22 17:19:53

“the technology matters but not more than the people” @npub19r2…84ag

2025-03-22 17:02:38

Live stream of the ATprotocol Bluesky developer conference. Learn what folks are doing in a very similar ecosystem to Nostr.
https://stream.place/atprotocol.dev

2025-03-21 23:15:38

This clearly is Trump’s rambling speculation not a policy, as such, but Trump’s suggesting that people convicted of anti-tesla vandalism be sent to El Salvadorian force labor camps created to in prison suspected gang members.
The idea of removing Americans from the jurisdiction of the American legal system as part of their punishment for political protest and civil disobedience is really dangerous. If Trump and the government wants to charge people committing anti-tesla vandalism, they should do it with local police, prosecutors, and judges.
https://archive.is/5q8wP

2025-03-21 22:59:48

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@npub1ugn…898l so you’re saying he shouldn’t have first amendment rights to protest the policies of the university he attended? And despite not being convicted of a crime he should lose residency in the country and the right to live with his wife and child because he lead a protest?!

2025-03-21 19:38:13

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Why do you care how other people feel about or express their gender? There was a time when heels, dresses, makeup, and pink were considered exclusively things for men. Now we think of them as very feminine and some people get upset when men reclaim that history and present themselves that way.
But like why do you care? Nobody’s telling you what to wear or how to behave. In reality nobody really cares what you feel about it. The reason queer people have pride marches is that we want to live our lives in peace without fear of violence, with the ability to take care of our families, and work based on our ability without prejudice based on who we love or what we wear outside of work?
More to the point, when civil rights are attacked it starts with marginalized people first but rarely stops there. Today it is the 8 trans women who participate in youth support. But it can easily be anyone who doesn’t express vocal loyalty to the leader.

2025-03-21 18:23:12

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That’s like complaining about bitcoin but then only mentioning the features of the wallet you’re using. ;)

2025-03-21 18:19:34

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In most countries a permanent resident has almost all the rights of a citizen. In the US they’re allowed to donate to political campaigns and hold local elected office. They part of the system not visitors.
As a permanent resident in Aotearoa New Zealand I can vote just like citizens.
Free speech rights extend to everyone regardless of immigration status.

2025-03-21 18:14:21

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@npub1rpy…5s57 exactly. We need the right to protest. And that includes for things we don’t agree on.

2025-03-21 18:01:16

Hungary passes law banning LGBTQIA+ pride events and implementing automated facial recognition to fine anyone who does attend a protest. This won’t just happen in Hungary and is a major threat to civil rights.
https://truthout.org/articles/hungary-bans-lgbtq-pride-events-approves-facial-recognition-to-track-attendees/

2025-03-21 16:04:29

19 years ago today this happened.
https://x.com/rabble/status/1368205710652305417?s=46
https://i.nostr.build/17Bd30QGpBKLUErB.jpg

2025-03-21 13:57:34

I think we’re seeing the beginning of the end of international professional conferences in the US. It doesn’t take that many people being denied or detained for people to start refusing to attend conferences in the US. Canada and Mexico are probably the biggest beneficiaries of this shift.
If you combine this with the cutting of research funding and making it harder for academics and entrepreneurs to come to the US, it’s like the current administration is doing its best to sabotage the country’s future.
https://boycott-ietf127.org