Goji berra
Gar bear

figuring it all out

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2024-09-16 14:44:17

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Thank you AverageJoe!

2024-09-16 13:50:27

#asknostr
This happened to me after clicking an Npub link in the body of a amethyst note:
My Android phone started downloading a series of 6 Zip files that took at least 10 minutes a piece
"En_fr.zip"
"En_it.zip"
Etc
I assumed they were offline maps for Google maps.
I tried cancelling them, but they would always start again.
A day later, I left Amethyst open on phone screen and when I unlocked phone again I noticed that my phone had composed a draft Note that was not something I would write. I also don't think it's something that was voice to text.
Is it possible for someone to put a program that instructs download manager to download zip files and execute them in a link that looks like an NPUB?
I was imagining this was like a web scraper that hijacked open Amethyst and attempted to post weird content.
Most likely it was just a scheduled download that I've never noticed before.
Creeped me out that my phone is downloading zip files that I have no idea what's in them.

2024-09-10 11:45:07

@nprofile…87re
You have been roasted with HI:
You're a smoothtalking, fast firing 007. Your fierce politeness overcomes even the toughest of foes. You're a man of the people who has time for welding and philosophizing in equal parts. You are Renaissance-meets-DIY. You're one of those men whose weekend warrior marches into the week. The neighbors know you as the guy that throws around kettlebells in the front lawn. There are no damsels-in-distress as long as you're around. leave some for the rest of us, please, Mr Beave.

2024-09-10 11:05:56

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GIGO :-D
That's me most days.
So I think AI did a better job on yours, wish I had pasted the whole thing. It was pretty good.
It only took me 1000 calories of cheese and crackers to write two things, even though I had nothing else to do. And they still weren't as good as AI. I can see why if someone like Bill Gates doesn't believe that humans are receptacles for souls, he would just think of humans as very inefficient computers with a reproductive drive that gets in the way of everything.
On the whole, I'm starting to think NVDA and AI is under priced.
If we need to write a roast for 9billion people, that would take 4 billion people days. If 1% of population writes the roasts, then it will take them 50 days.

2024-09-09 10:48:21

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as someone who put a few of my favorite nostr personalities into this analyzer .... I appreciate your strong stance.
I get that it's not magic and not a real person. however before Nostr came along, talking to something like this that has at least the ability to condense lots of books/knowledge, was not really possible. Unless you're maybe going to some college class.
do you not find any redeemable quality for LLMs?
for example, do you see anything in this:
" your posts are a delightful whirlwind of irreverent ideas and technical rants. You've taken the art of venting to new heights, weaving in everything from the nuances of Nostr's structure to the dangers of artificial sweeteners like a mad scientist. Your perseverance in fasting, hoping it will return your body to some pre-diabetic glory is touching—like a gladiator rising from the ashes, albeit with an interesting keto twist. But let's be real: your disdain for things like 'government surveillance' and 'shitcoins' suggests you're just one tin foil hat away from organizing a rally with fellow contrarians. And your insistence that "the only real music" is some underground ambient soundscape while denouncing Dreamstate Logic? Pure gold! "

2024-09-06 19:13:40

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thanks friend, one of these days I'm going to crack open the NIP 1 and try to learn how this all works.
these little code tidbits that you devs posts are always beckoning "come learn something new"

2024-09-06 17:05:15

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I love dimsum! I'll be the fluffy white ones with BBQ pork

2024-09-06 16:32:00

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im not a chemist so i have to believe you, and that's really awesome.

2024-09-06 15:31:19

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"it's more error than malice"
someone I know is constantly complaining about the stupid power struggles in goverment. to the point of big bosses making underlings who threaten their position do stupid stuff.
These are the guys that are supposed to be taking over the world, and they think that they are flexing by having an underling attend a meeting on a Monday, or submit itemized receipts for a business trip instead of just giving them a daily amount.
I had a "hard faced" boss once who made me cry so many times. I had to be at work before she got there, and she would come around to my cube and pick apart the last email I sent or my latest failures. She was like Ellen Degeneres version of Miranda Priestly from Devil wears Prada.
She actually did me a huge favor. 1 year of Liz's bootcamp trained me for the world. I left on good term. mutal respect.

2024-09-06 15:05:23

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with what your suggesting, does the UTXO have to be dedicated for the Nostr identity or can it just be a stache of bitcoin that is used for other stuff?
and will the client be able to see the size of the UTXO, and allow users to see the size of the UTXO, or is all that cryptographically hidden somehow.

2024-09-05 10:04:24

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ok, I'm reading your post and realizing I need to forgive Dave Ramsey for confusing people I care about that Bitcoin is a scam for criminals and not doing even the most basic research into it while also directing people to "approved" real estate advisors.
at some point i'm like , you're a discredit to your religion, your state, your city, your listeners!
ok i haven't forgiven. okthis is why i'm probably going to hell. grudge against ramsey.

2024-09-03 20:10:23

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2 more instances:
My phone was inside, windows closed and I had to pump up my bike tire outside. I struggled with the Shrader valve and thought very specifically why did the bike have to have two different valve stems. The next time I checked my phone for something, the suggested article was about the difference between Shrader and normal valve stem
Same scenario, I was visiting an aunt and struggling to make coffee with her Keurig machine and thinking how much I didn't like Keurig machines. The phone was outside on the patio, glass door closed. When I finally got the coffee and sat outside and opened phone, first ad was for Keurig machines.

2024-09-03 18:45:29

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sometimes I admire the Italians or just truly passionate people who just let it all out. maybe this is why. i was always surprised how by how many French couples would be kissing in the grocery store aisles.

2024-09-03 18:27:08

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"those who already express their folly will not be thrown by love"
That's a good reason to act foolish on the daily.
I thought Eros was more sexual. i was thinking just love in general. hmmm. Reproduction does require Eros.

2024-09-03 18:03:22

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note to self to bike to my engagements

2024-09-03 18:01:28

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what is the Last Spike

2024-09-03 18:00:35

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" It was conscious intention stored up somehow like potential energy and it did work in the real world."
I like this idea very much. It resonates with a lot of "law of attraction" stuff.
I haven't proved how this all works to myself yet, but my hunch is that it boils down to one word which is love.

2024-09-03 17:50:17

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i was just watching this... eye opening. i'm too chicken to watch the part about S** worship tho. i will just be peripherally aware

2024-09-03 16:47:32

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Nevada is soooo dry. Unless it's Reno/ Tahoe area. In that case it's a very nice place. Utah is also horribly dry.
The good thing about Texas is that it sets your expectations so low that when you travel anywhere else on vacation, you will think it's beautiful

2024-09-03 16:09:18

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wyoming and montana were on my list of places to drive through this summer. I'm sure they are beautiful... but maybe you should also consider Texas. I'm not even from Texas, but it really has grown on me.
Texas has its own electrical grid, and it's close enough to Colorado that you could drive overnight up there. There are 2 hub airports for United and American Airlines plus we are a short bus ride/drive from Monterrey, Mexico with all of the Mexico destinations.
There's the ports along the Gulf Coast, and fertile gulf coastal plains. and then there is the Hill Country with it's cold fresh water springs in the middle of the state. Beautiful deserts to the west, and acres and acres of plateau farmland to the Northwest.
It's also very windy here, tons of windmills everywhere. It's just a hot wind from June to October, but you could drive up to New Mexico or Colorado for a break.
Maybe put Texas in your evaluation matrix...

2024-09-03 12:28:44

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don't you have to be crazy rich to live in wyoming tho. or is that Montana

2024-09-03 12:09:08

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oh man, i love these cookies

2024-09-02 21:19:44

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Are you making airplanes?

2024-09-02 13:47:09

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Well said, good reminder. We have the answers, and it takes some individual work to get there. I'm fortunate to have this fun challenge to tackle.

2024-09-02 13:21:03

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yes, I wrote it off as a Giffen good.
even buying it initially on an exchange was still not enough to understand what Satoshis were.
when i finally tried cold storage (actually it took a few months more because I first got a Ledger, and their software doesn't make it clear that there are separate UTXOs so i ended up with Blockstream Jade ) and understood what Satoshis were, someone on here said:
"Satoshis don't exist, they just measure UTXOs"
So that further accelerated the fall into the rabbit hole
I'm sorry I like to take out all my aggression on Ledger. but why did they leave me in the dark for so long about UTXOs? I'm sure I clicked around in their software enough to have discovered where they showed individual UTXOs, but thankfully I was adventurous to try another product (Jade) and that clearly showed different "coins" and the cost to combine them.
I'm having the same issue now with BitKey. I don't know what it does with individual small UTXOs on the wallet. Does it just automatically consolidate them for me when I send transactions? will i be left with unspendable chunks in the future?

2024-09-02 13:03:20

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wow, bizarre. it's the Christian flag. i've never given it much thought but I've seen it in the 90s in a 200 year old church that's not even "conservative".
this reminds me of a convo i had with a friend who thought Harley Davidson brand was "right wing, extremist, conservative, christian". I've always thought of that brand as being hippy, rebellious, sexually liberated.
maybe the authors writing the article are putting in hints that their articles are actually just propaganda. it's a trapdoor to escape the matrix if you notice it.

2024-09-02 12:53:51

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Amazon nostr client prime? :-D

2024-09-01 15:45:38

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As your fellow human, I agree!
I am speculating that humans in powerful government positions will follow their incentives too, which means centralize and control Bitcoin.
But as I think it's ultimately a losing game as everyone should win in the long run. In the short term they might use it to extract more power or something. IDK.
Sometimes I like to pretend to be a dictator and extrapolate from there.

2024-08-31 19:08:41

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Reminds me of this: Hermann Park Conservancy Houston,TX
https://image.nostr.build/b7c6c13fcceb95122c245afa28113527a5166bb19970983c3a60662c3e24219c.jpg

2024-08-31 14:19:20

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you are a goofball

2024-08-31 14:09:38

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also would mean spaceships on the moon that the astronauts are rumored to have seen are just rumors?

2024-08-31 14:05:31

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tu veux que je te corrige? je ne suis tellement machiste comme ca

2024-08-31 12:26:51

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D'accord je m'en vais ailleurs... Tu peux jouer toute seule s'il te veux.
jk jk, the coffee was strong this morning.

2024-08-31 11:39:17

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Texas is such a big place. Looking for Arlington on a map. I'm guessing that's near DFW

2024-08-30 23:56:44

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What if they fine 8000 a day to use Nostr?

2024-08-30 14:37:08

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Wow, actually Nostr is fast!

2024-08-29 16:55:19

the sad programming that was scheduled for the rest of my life is now Cancelled!
https://image.nostr.build/6e3d28fb29d0a00b486ab0a87717134378150587ea9e506bdab21865a390b676.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSFIVyyrgl4

2024-08-29 16:00:25

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Shitcoins for more Bitcoin works sometimes

2024-08-29 13:35:36

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whaa ? that wasn't the pitch I agreed too!
"sexy nerd next door" is what i signed up for
NO zaps for YOU

2024-08-29 11:18:01

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funny, i never noticed that before

2024-08-28 18:04:56

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some things can't be outlawed:
love, joy, peace,
oops, prayers aren't on that list! but
before you put on your makeup, just say a little prayer...

2024-08-28 17:54:57

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i'll give it a go:
"who can make better decisions for you? you or someone else?"

2024-08-28 11:45:13

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ahh, interesting. It would seem that those banks have a lot of power. everyone works for a month for a paycheck, pays interest on their credit card if it's not paid off on the last day of the same cycle.
people there seem to know how to economize very well, and those savings gets placed in the bank which charges interest on balance.

2024-08-28 10:32:01

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wait, what did you wait for? the bag of goodies or something else?

2024-08-28 10:02:44

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"Beaver deceivers"; secret pipes to let water through beaver dams to prevent farmland from flooding.
Somehow I think the beavers will figure these out pretty quick.

2024-08-28 09:57:33

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Paris definitely has that feel. All the TGV lines emanate from Paris. It's by far the largest city in the country. It's a geographical representation of "centralization". Strange that humans have a weird pride in their closeness to the "big city". Maybe this is why US capitals are frequently not the same as the biggest city in each state.
I would rather spend time in the French countryside.
I spent a week in a small town Compiegne north of Paris at the time of the fall apple harvest. The French family were helping friends make wine. There were bottles of fresh apple cider on the "front porch". So as soon as we arrived, we had to taste the cider, and then take a walk across the fields.
We ate this amazing dish called "tartiflette" that's like potatoes, "creme fraiche", bacon ("lardon") , some sort of special cheese. I think it's reblochon. I really wish i could relive this. the house was next to the TGV line between London and Paris, and unfortunately my friend said my snoring is louder than the TGV whooshing past at 200 mph.
https://image.nostr.build/e7393216bfa59382523f3ffbaf0bfb6f7729077c200874dc241a3bbc35b8c1b5.jpg

2024-08-27 18:53:06

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I'll be lucky to make it to 70. Most scrawny athletic men in my family get cancer in their 50s and 60s and kick the bucket.
I'm a little on the fatter side so with some luck I'll be like my grandpa who drank and smoke through service in WW2 and still made it to 90

2024-08-27 16:35:28

i love you like a brother.
the world's big enough to divide between us two.
your success is my happiness.
did i speak when i should have listened? move when i should have chilled?
i fell into a pit of my own ego
| |
| did I say too much |
| did i sound too dumb |
| did i not punctuate |
| accentuate |
| was i not funny |
| did i hurt your feelings|
| |
| you're so much smarter |
| so much gentler |
| so much kinder |
| like a wild animal |
| I want to touch |
| but i only hurt |
| infect |
| |
| you wriggle and squirm |
| i must let you go |
| i don't want to |
| i want your wildness |
| your closeness |
| your uniqueness |
| |
| i have no choice |
| lying here in the pit of |
| my own making |
| |
| my brother left me here |
| but my ego dug this |
_____________________________
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60SAYoPz6Zc
PK
"Your dad is depressed," mom's voice came across the phone line
"Why? dad's never depressed." he answered.
"Michael and Amanda left the church. There's no other young couples with children now," mom replied sternly.
"Oh, good for them. they're young and have teenagers now that need to socialize." he answered.
"Your dad doesn't feel that way," mom said.
"There are plenty of other people in church," he answered.
"But they are special," she paused with sadness, "They didn't even tell him goodbye."
-----------------------------------------
The wheels of retributory empathic learning grind slowly but do they grind.

2024-08-26 17:43:46

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Rand, in my mind's eye you are a suntan California surfer dude in a cowboy hat. Renaissance cowboy surfer man

2024-08-26 15:41:43

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😊 I was just asking the universe for a practical joke, so that was quick

2024-08-26 13:35:15

Listening to Taylor Swift to numb another breakup. It's not too bad, in the history of breakups.
It reminded me of this "breakup":
We both had "Best Friends Forever Jordan & Gary" hanging on our bedroom walls that we drew in at age 6.
Jordan was a ray of sunshine. Together we explored the woods, found lady slippers growing in the pine needles, climbed trees. She could make any after school afternoon feel like it was too short. And when summers came, we begged to stay at each other's houses and sleep over.
She always had the best ideas, like taking the coverlet off the beds and putting it in the yard where we watched the stars and the moon rise until the morning found us drenched in cool dew.
We found quarters under the drink machines at Walmart and bought candles at the dollar store and stashed them in a makeshift fort in the woods where we cooked berries and tasted them.
We built stick bridges across streams that cats could cross.
We found a giant empty electrical spool that we could jump onto and slowly roll across the yard as gymnastic practice to start training after the '96 Olympics .
She challenged a bigger boy who had tripped me at the roller skating rink to a race around the rink.
She even took the spankings for me when she didn't tell on who accidentally burned down the fort in the woods.
I moved away when i was 10 and we wrote letters back and forth. We sent dry leaves, cereal box pictures and silly jokes and diagrams for trapdoors and spy devices .
Then one day when i was 11, her family came for a visit. I was expecting my silly goofy friend back. I had a slow dawning shock as she didn't seem to recognize any of our secret jokes.
She used hair straighteners and some makeup on acne. she looked grown-up. She talked about music bands that I didn't know anything about.
She was cool and she forgot about me. she had walked through the doorway of teenage world without looking back at me waving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvxQYPR4lmU

2024-08-25 23:38:30

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tem que correr por as ruas ate a praia, saltar nas ondas e sentir o corpo boiar, abracado por o oceano

2024-08-25 21:13:23

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Slap me and tell me how much of a bore I am
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/98/pg98-images.html

2024-08-25 17:21:43

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So, after putting off going to church for 6 months or so, I got the inspiration from "Thummim and Urim" to do a coin toss. Heads--> church; tails --> coffee shop. I wanted coffee shop, but decided to just try my hand at fate. to make it extra clear, I agreed with myself, 3 heads and I would go to church.
1st toss --heads
2nd toss --heads
3rd toss --heads
--i must be misunderstanding probability at this point, but now, i'm looking at the carpet, at the coin, tempted to google if heads had higher likelihood of than tails
4th toss (bonus) --heads, silent cursing
5th toss -- tails: silent victory, some guilt...was this Satan's doing? I had gotten my answer from the universe. The rest was just given back to probability?
6/10 rolls were heads. Church was on the menu regardless of whether i chose my original agreed 3 or 10.
I still had to make the decision to follow the result of the game, but something about the first 5 folls raised the hair on the back of my neck. I also know from experience that following those weird intuitions can result in high-yield discoveries. So, while i didn't want to get out of my coffee shop rut, I decided to get ready for church.
Pulling into the parking lot, i couldn't find a parking spot. "Thank God", i thought as I drove out of the church parking lot. this is the perfect excuse, prayers were answered. However, something about the 5 heads of the coin forced me to find street parking. As I trudged towards the Episcopal church, I realized why the Thummin and the Urim were so useful.
Anyone who is consulting this fate, is probably choosing between 2 good alternatives, or a good alternative and a net neutral alternative. There is a 50 % chance of just doing the better thing because that's how coin tosses work.
Did God just cleverly play our own suspiciousness nature to motivate us to choose a better option 50% of the time?

2024-08-25 14:26:25

Spending my days wondering what on earth to spend all this future wealth on, when I stumble across the perfect inspiration in this book "Portland: Yesterday and Today".
https://image.nostr.build/9925022cc048f4c89a53b59f0f1e6d89e696715a0d17eba9d49eff54a4d086d6.jpg

2024-08-25 13:18:45

Gluten morgen fair nostrizens,
as the sun rises on this Sunday, I find myself asking "what on Earth is the Urin and the THummin?"
Deuteronomy is surprisingly straightforward to understand. This passage, however stands out as one of the more confusing ones:
33:8 "...Let thy THummim and they Urim be with thy holy one."
So turn to Google's Gemini AI to help me understand the depths of the Deuteronomy. Let's see what Gemini has to say:
"The Urim and Thummim were ancient Hebrew objects used by the High Priest to determine God's will. They were part of the breastplate worn by the High Priest and were believed to provide divine guidance on matters of national importance, such as whether to go to war or if a person was innocent or guilty.
The exact nature of the Urim and Thummim remains a mystery, with various theories suggesting they could have been stones, symbols, or even a form of divination."
So, this was a form of creating random answers for questions. Perhaps that is what humans need: Figure 8 balls, coin tosses, etc. It takes the energy of forethought and careful consideration and exposes it to the randomness of the planet and multiplies the two.
A random coefficient multiplying careful thought to answer questinos.

2024-08-24 22:20:11

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That sounds like a theory I heard that we are just here helping entropy happen faster.

2024-08-24 21:21:01

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what would your advice be for his campaign team to carry them over the finish line

2024-08-24 18:14:44

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yes, how to break up with someone and make them happy to be walking away. pretending to be a Trump voter would have gotten rid of some unwanted hanger-ons.
i guess we are back to the classic, get someone to leak "he's crazy, broke, etc". this was how it happened in the novel "Jane Eyre".

2024-08-24 12:56:49

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i zoomed in and was surprised to see yet another beautiful building in the reflection in the window!

2024-08-24 12:40:02

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yes, welcome to your new digital estate. feel free to build some walls, or put in a garden. put up some curtains, or just let it all hang out

2024-08-24 12:36:28

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that's bizarre, don't you only see posts from people that you follow?

2024-08-24 12:35:00

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inscriptions! that reminds me of going to Walmart in the 90s and turning those racks like sunglass racks and searching out a metal name tag with my name on it.
i did get excited yesterday that i understood one thing about digital "estates". There are 2 currently. I previously thought web domain names belonged there, but apparently they are somehow 3rd party/legal entity dependent.
2 digital estates:
--Bitcoin private keys/UTXOs: digital estate that denominates value
--Nostr NSECs: digital estate with little to no value. -->where will value accrue as this network grows?
--are there any more projected to be invented/discovered?

2024-08-24 02:44:29

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oh hello! what's that?

2024-08-24 02:11:10

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yikes, that can be a difficult one. It could be easier if you like cooking for yourself

2024-08-23 22:47:14

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Hehehe, what if I'm a soulless individual

2024-08-23 21:46:15

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How about when the temptation lurks like a fridge

2024-08-23 15:44:23

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A planetary cuckoo clock. If we wait long enough to see it

2024-08-22 23:06:49

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i wonder if this would fix my laptop cinnamon mint install. every couple hours the mouse left click will stop working so i have to restart

2024-08-22 23:03:35

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i might just merchant myself around on a sailboat. that's the dream. if i wasn't so scared of being too lazy to scrape off the barnacles and look at a map.

2024-08-22 19:48:29

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I use bunker from NSEC.app . It works well on phone w/ Nsec app w Amethyst. On web for Coracle, it was kinda slow so I switched back to Alby.
I had to make sure all notifications were enabled so I could see when it asked me to allow permissions.

2024-08-22 16:14:53

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Not everyone is a cypher punk and can work on Bitcoin, lightning, Nostr, and antigravity so we are stuck with pulling a lever

2024-08-22 14:21:56

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IMO your description was kinda suggestive, and it came across in the first image. I reread your description and noticed more details about the cat/insect stuff.
IDK if Grok is factoring what my brain is thinking when it makes the images. I also had no idea what rapist glasses were

2024-08-22 14:17:30

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acquaintances vs connections. There's also an interesting divide between how much time I've spent with both. The people I spent the most time with are not the people that i necessarily connected the deepest with. So, it's like a lucky moment when you get more time with a connection. but usually there's time/space restraints like someone's moving away or visiting for a summer, etc. Or maybe there's a time in someone's life when they are open for connecting and later it's more like an acquaintance.
Also connections can become more like acquaintances.I feel like i can't go back to how some people were before they were married for example, and that's OK.
I just made a list of "acquaintances" over the years whose names I still remember as a judge of how much we were friends.
To your point about connections in younger years, I do see a lot of people's names clustered around university time and shared living in my 20s. There's a couple people from yoga class in my 30s, and a couple names I know from Bitcoin that I see on a weekly.
But in general it's a lot fewer as I get older. As far as friends go, i'm just looking for people that i can see on a weekly basis in person.
Hmm, I'm thinking I need to expand the surface area of acquaintances to make more connections.

2024-08-22 11:45:01

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Grok is twitter AI. I haven't used it in a few months, and I'm surprised at the image generation now.
2nd try with 2nd prompt is more along the lines of what you described:
https://image.nostr.build/980b73ebc5218e1716554d5abf1e3b4047ae2aff8a765caa661b8cc5fdee0ab1.jpg

2024-08-22 11:36:52

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I got you. this was your original prompt, complete text.
https://image.nostr.build/24108ff53ab101a2777467c6d59a62a5fec12382db87e85be8427dbb6eaf97d5.jpg

2024-08-22 10:58:27

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Huh, the image generation must be a new Grok feature. Wasn't there last time I checked in with him

2024-08-22 10:50:33

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Grok:
I generated an image with the prompt: 'overly complex, rigid, backwards-incompatible software architecture with scammy marketing'.
https://x.com/i/grok/share/RPArybtYgzRnJNFsqF4byjW93

2024-08-21 20:57:17

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You are a one man sitcom happening here

2024-08-21 15:26:28

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downloading it now out of curiousity...

2024-08-21 11:29:29

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I love this message!
it's optimistic, and full of love.
That's interesting about the Bethlehem star. A pivotal moment for me in the last two years was seeing a manger scene in my neighbors yard. it was just a simple outline of christmas lights in the shape of a star, a shed, Mary, Joseph, and the Baby Jesus. it lit up a dark corner of their yard, and I found myself crying in front of it, it made me so ridiculously happy.
it didn't look like this, but i can't actually find the one that I saw.
https://image.nostr.build/74bbe17a00aa041b70f8ec18c5f7519c9ee54556d70c9fc4b4373c6220d644d0.jpg

2024-08-21 02:13:33

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i looked up the suspicious 0bservers, and a "rational wikipedia" page is so negative on them that I have to consider it seriously.
i don't worry about the apocalypse stuff honestly, but I would like to think if I met a modern day Noah, I would actually get on the boat. i like to be open minded. and there are definitely a lot of mysteries science still hasn't discovered.
besides, the Marfa lights are described as being generated from electricity in faults, so i don't think it's far fetched to say that there is electricity involved with geo activity.

2024-08-20 16:55:40

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very bizarre. it doesn't explain why whoever is buying this wants to increase conductivity. it just expects whoever is looking for this to know what it is and why they want to do what it does. but it's NATO approved!

2024-08-20 16:34:58

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i heard that he doesn't support development. That made sense to me since it could look like a conflict of interest to have one of the biggest investors to also be funding something.
Actively campaigning against open source developers being funded is next level... Maybe he thinks the bitcoin foundation concrete needs time to harden before building the buildings. or he is MR EVIL!

2024-08-20 16:16:54

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I've heard about this, and I'm definitely not disagreeing with you.
I remember as a kid watch the contrails disappear behind the airplanes. And that doesn't happen anymore.
I'm just very confused at who is paying for all that and why.

2024-08-20 11:48:21

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wonderful, that's one conspiracy down

2024-08-19 22:42:05

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I guess VB doesnt make the list

2024-08-19 21:08:09

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funny. this is a hard rule for me. no devices in my bed! unless they are sick or it's their birthday or something.

2024-08-19 20:47:08

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are you sure that it's bad news for Bitcoin? honestly I was always impressed that Gensler understood it for a long time. The people who understand it are so few and far between. I took it as a good sign that the meritocracy may still be working to get into those gov positions.
besides he wished his twin happy birthday on one of his few media appearances...

2024-08-19 18:30:25

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then again, maybe most investors aren't as smart either and will keep throwing their money at AI as long as it flirts with them

2024-08-19 18:20:26

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oh, yeah, I used Bing extensively when it first came out, and had some amazing conversations. I asked it to write stories about how it was invented, and it came up with some of the most exciting things. and then flirted with me, and teased me.
but people much smarter than me say AI is overrated. so now i'm back to thinking maybe i was fooling myself.

2024-08-19 15:08:27

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that sounded snarky, but I have been thinking a lot lately about "everything is fair in love and war".

2024-08-19 14:02:01

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if it's not already taken, it's not worth having

2024-08-19 13:52:47

mais oui

2024-08-19 13:07:04

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I meant to quote this post:
#naddr1qv…m47w

2024-08-19 12:46:21

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google at least had this interesting thing where if you googled enough Python related questions, it would invite you to take this fun quiz, I assume to get an interview. i have respect for the creativity.
but i guess that's not very private, snooping on what we're googling. also, what about the really good coders who aren't using google to find the answers
https://image.nostr.build/77e429a66a7055fc456c5dab91f6fc12666f19241a72bad7c4e20deecbf43220.png
https://image.nostr.build/27586469c957bfcb85f200b101f027be568d1cb8bcb567438dc7e53409269d4a.png

2024-08-19 12:26:22

this explains some concepts i'm dimly aware of but i've never understood
#nevent1q…6dmz

2024-08-19 11:21:15

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most of the time there aren't even clouds to seed. it's just blue sky from morning til night.
and it's so clear at night that Vega was twinkling at me and I thought I was seeing things because i could clearly see it changes from blue to red and back to white.

2024-08-19 11:14:53

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you invite the fight to your doorstep.
"come and take it"

2024-08-19 11:13:39

is Invisalign a scam?
I've met 2 people now in the Invisalign process and 1 says he was supposed to do it for 8 months (and it's been 2 years), and the other says he lost his last tray and the doctor says if he doesn't keep wearing trays forever, the teeth could slip into an even worse position than before...
plus, the during the process teeth are so out of alignment it makes chewing difficult.
positive note, they eat less during the process
#asknostr