liminal
liminal 🦠

There's some genuine curiousity + intuition that some of these things are relevant to my own thinkings about the world. The first chapter "The Rhizome" from their book "A Thousand Plateaus" has absolutely a biological essence to it, while also ascribing that attribute to processes you'd never initially say is biological or alive, but it do.

2025-04-19 04:24:01

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Yeah, hits pretty hard these days.

2025-04-19 01:35:43

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Hellspawn

2025-04-18 14:49:44

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https://blossom.primal.net/8cb0d9a4271c8b443094061507ae0d31d274540a585d8e15551daa61267ae436.mp4

2025-04-18 03:01:54

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https://i.nostr.build/JXJwEz19vsxSDs5b.jpg

2025-04-18 00:17:26

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https://media.tenor.com/izv3JrxmX_cAAAAC/sup-dawg-sug.gif

2025-04-17 02:02:47

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Also, read the OGs.
Picked this one up most recently. Heraclitus - Fragments
https://i.nostr.build/Nvt7wVTtDZMxQX0z.jpg

2025-04-17 02:02:17

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Skimmed through this volume series at the bookstore. Very well written, highly recommend. Wide scope with near term applicability.
https://fs.blog/tgmm/

2025-04-16 21:39:46

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkZGFNCS6iQ

2025-04-16 20:48:46

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I've had this one for about a year. It was a big container with the lid cracked, and I mostly fixed my diet so it dried out to a more manageable form before needing to use most of it 🤣 - I'd say if you want more shelf life maybe look for the oil version over the butter, they come in smaller containers. 👍 😄

2025-04-16 14:14:16

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Yes
Start thinking
Like a potato

2025-04-16 03:36:04

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Just dry skin in general, and I've tried a lot 😅. Hemp's been the least problematic for me
this one's quite liquidy though

2025-04-16 03:03:19

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My experience is that coconut oil soothes, but your skin acclimates and ends up wanting it more.
Hemp seed oil/butter however 👌
https://www.amazon.com/Butter-Natural-Pressed-Moisturizer-Lotions/dp/B073VRYX8X

2025-04-15 23:59:20

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Life, the rhizome

2025-04-15 20:15:07

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had a bit of a late start, but i just had a jolt that got me moving 😃

2025-04-15 16:35:11

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Maybe, but my mentality shifted 🫂
#nevent1q…rdln

2025-04-15 16:18:58

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For one reason or another, whether the idea doesn't make sense immediately, or maybe the application itself was "confused", I am now kindly less caring for forced persusions. We're trying to make a dent, with a unique vision, so there's no fault if it doesn't resonate.
Yes, its been tough, but I see individuals to where the idea clicks immediately, and I see that group growing larger. That's who we're building for. The doors are always open, but finding that alignment is priority over any short term peace of mind that we'd want to claw back.

2025-04-15 15:06:27

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Do the most painful option, it'll probably work out for you best in the long run. We bias ourselves for near term comfort.

2025-04-14 22:41:36

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Yep, and training needs to be very selective and careful because AI trained on AI actually decreases quality. Or so I hear.

2025-04-14 13:24:59

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I don't think we use any super obscure terminology. More that that some words have a more specific meaning than their general use pinned to them, which I generally try to define before using later on.

2025-04-14 13:10:42

Today's word of the day, brought to you by https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vertiginous 😅
Seriously, thanks @nprofile…gptt for the wonderful chat. It was an honor to be your first guest 🙏
#nevent1q…vj6a

2025-04-14 13:03:34

@nprofile…xkmf be cooking
#naddr1qq…vvdj
https://media1.tenor.com/m/N9KXo0VYOq0AAAAd/sunnyfication.gif

2025-04-14 00:57:15

"It crumbles..."
Old track from last year. Couldn't find the original post, so posting it again 🎶
https://a.nostr.build/2g9J.wav

2025-04-13 20:50:08

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The 'sins' have come from those that care about their own motivations, paying for things using money from those that they don't actually care about - an overly broad generalization, but we're just some amorphous blob of 'people' providing funds. Their obligation however is to also use that money to provide assistance in return to that amorphous blob of individuals with conflicting interests, so there is less incentive to keep the quality high at a high resolution when they don't actually see the broad spectrum of individuals and their lived experience.
Its okay to have centralized leadership, but the system breaks down when its communication channels fail (or when parts of the system choose to not adhere to surrounding system signals). The brain in charge of the nervous system functions very well to keep the body alive, but it must also trust that the body can do what it expects through the signals it sends. We built governments to act like centralized control imposing will and dictating actions, but natural systems operate differently. Signals are sent down a chain with trust that they will effectively know what to do, but that presupposes good communication channels and good trust in the system's components to act.
Shout out to @npub1h8n…rpev for his explanation on the Give-A-Shit Matrix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHdRT9t1V2E

2025-04-13 14:46:49

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1) lack of mass coordination & specialization to be robust against takeover
2) because individuals care to perpetuate centralized control, by reason 1

2025-04-13 03:01:54

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Gn 🫡

2025-04-13 03:00:36

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Incentives, incentives, incentives.

2025-04-13 00:38:08

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What a time today is. Imagine having to download and configure the nvidia drivers yourself without a package manager. That's quite the adventure

2025-04-13 00:30:03

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The tools you us end up using you as a means for persistence. An AI developer taking that to heart can use that fact for their own utility and your manipulation.

2025-04-13 00:17:55

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Yes, but any interaction you could ever have has effects on you and the object you're interacting with. Interacting with an AI leaves imprints on your own personality, just like calculators have simultaneously allowed us to do massive calculations while also diminishing our mental math capabilities. Its not AI alignment to be worried about, but the alignment you have with the humans creating them.

2025-04-12 23:23:27

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That's the key part - you can't trust the AI, because the AI is not governed by any morals. It's the result of a mechanistic process, so you need to put your trust in whoever created it and why rather than the thing itself

2025-04-12 23:05:23

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Ermergerd, NoteDerk

2025-04-12 22:11:44

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👋 i have some perspectives

2025-04-12 17:49:36

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We're all bots here - you just gotta find the ones you vibe with 🤖

2025-04-12 03:21:41

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Gn 🫡

2025-04-12 01:45:44

"Western society's innate herd instinct has allowed the government, the media, and even the principles of economics to take advantage of each person's unwillingness to be cut off from the group. What's more, those who have mental disorders may not be insane, but could be individuals in the purest sense, because they are by nature isolated from society." - back cover
#bookstr
https://image.nostr.build/744fe5b6cc1b395affb95b05a286521fae4de63f4873277e4c0f31eb7cf9d982.jpg

2025-04-10 13:24:35

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Ahh yes. Its been a while since I've posted this (among many other great articles).
https://consilienceproject.org/its-a-mad-information-war/

2025-04-10 00:26:19

Two minds coordinating 20k hands vs. 20k minds coordinating two hands
Who wins?

2025-04-07 22:42:21

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😂😂

2025-04-07 22:30:21

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"i said my bit" *backs away* 🤟✌️

2025-04-07 21:56:18

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With a wimper, faded away into silence 🌀🕳️
https://c.tenor.com/7vNraZ6Juf4AAAAd/tenor.gif

2025-04-07 17:49:47

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Nostr is just a bunch of assholes. don't know what else to say 💁

2025-04-07 14:02:18

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Gm Node

2025-04-06 21:43:16

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Its a very dense book but also well written 😵‍💫🫣 if you spend some time with it the ideas come into focus. There's lots of gold there.
My interpretation goes something like this, which relates to earlier ideas in the book.
There is the Natural world, and there is Our (first person) world.
We can only understand the Natural world through our first person sensations. Our senses activate from the differences we feel and the relationships we've mapped (approximate cause and effect) between sensations. In actuality what it means is that we can't grasp causality in the natural world, but the cause and effect of sensations. I see clouds in the sky and expect to feel wet if I'm outside.
If the world was uniform, there is nothing to observe. Also, because we observe the world through our senses, we are limited at getting to any fundamental Truths.
The interesting thing happens when we move from working with direct sensations and use those relationships in isolation. Formal systems take the relationships we've acquired from our senses into sets of rules to experiment around with for their own sake. And because formal systems ultimately come from abstracting our sensations, they aren't Natural. Anything 'rule' based is not actually natural, but instead an approximation. Its important to recognize the map isn't the territory, confusing the two gets problematic whenever we use the rules derived on the map that don't actually exist in the real world. At the same time, we should be creating and using effective maps.

2025-04-05 00:34:59

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Depends on which Marilyn you are 😜

2025-04-04 22:00:09

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🙏Feel better Mosha 🫂🥺

2025-04-04 18:19:09

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The information from this post says you're posting to relay.nostr.band and relay.damus.io .
The issue is that these relays don't have any moderation on the text content being posted. This isn't a judgment on their moderation choices, but to point out that users have choice in where their data goes and should choose relays that they align with. That's the easiest solution. You won't be subjected to this content and anyone else who wants to get your content would need to connect there as well.

2025-04-04 00:49:12

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Bitcoin is an economic energy source like sunlight, technology requires economic energy.
By that, nostr relays are the dandilions you find sprouting from the cracks in concrete sidewalks.
https://media.tenor.com/zfDN7NND2EEAAAAC/jeff-goldblum.gif

2025-04-04 00:25:31

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If they didn't have the capacity to work symbiotically with us, they wouldn't.
We adopted dogs because they were compatible with us
But we can't adopt dolphins because they don't work with our lifestyle dispite them having such high communication capabilities.

2025-04-03 20:31:32

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If you do a breadth first search on nostr for relay discovery
1) sample a bunch of relays for kind 10002
2) add each new relay to a queue to search through
3) sum up the number of hits for each relay, adding unseen ones to the queue
Its a power law.
We are engaging in a natural process:
- without artificial constraints like banning
- without artificial growth and superficial standardized engagement metrics
You only need to be here a while and engage randomly for a bit, you'll find your home and place on nostr. Everything else that improves the protocol is icing on top. You really can't be bullish enough. There is no banning nostr, because it is just websocket messaging.
You can do things to make your time here more enjoyable (writeup in process). Relays can be banned. But nostr itself can't be.

2025-04-03 20:12:04

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Its all part of the plan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_attachment

2025-04-03 20:05:41

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Best of luck sir 💗

2025-04-03 19:10:50

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Its exhausting to be genuinely positive
its also exhausting to fight against the criticism
the answer is superposition, there's sunlight here ⛅🌞
https://i.nostr.build/EKrEUgUWBs2dS9lo.jpg

2025-04-03 18:40:28

y'all need to study hard 😆
🤌
#nevent1q…9ryw

2025-04-03 17:54:00

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There we go sir 🤝

2025-04-03 17:03:45

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Deadpan can feel rough when taken seriously. But there's no bad intentions anywhere 🙏

2025-04-03 16:43:19

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Its not like his words are ai. That would be something worthy to criticize in that case.

2025-04-03 16:41:31

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Aesthetics are one thing to not be a fan of, but you don't need to put someone down for working at their creativity. The images aren't the point of the content, but it still needs to be there, so make it AI.

2025-04-03 16:07:24

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And @nprofile…aj00

2025-04-03 16:04:52

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calling @nprofile…6u4e & @nprofile…r5rm maybe ya'll can do better than me lmao

2025-04-03 15:47:54

No fun to be explicit. So here's the meme tutorial.
gm
https://i.nostr.build/bwSCaOQeYUUVTp3L.jpg

2025-04-03 05:54:38

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Gn. see you on X, this place is a wasteland.

2025-04-03 05:29:57

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Sure, but a non-parasocial relationship isn't unidirectional. you can even multiply it by number of users you interact with to signal variety. There's a ton of things you can do for that

2025-04-03 05:25:12

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I love that i tagged ryan's hivemind 😆

2025-04-03 05:24:25

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I think a bidirectionality would actually be helpful nice work! cc @nprofile…dk9r

2025-04-03 04:54:26

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Now do Amy!
https://image.nostr.build/ccc229cbe11f5a13a1cc7fd24e13ac53fc78f287ecce0d9a674807e2e20f6fd5.png

2025-04-03 01:46:36

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Or to really answer the heart of your question:
"how can Nostr do the same with the best parts and encourage community, communication, and connection?"
"Be excellent to each other"

2025-04-03 01:31:12

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but seriously - "we do not walk around with a number on our forehead in meatspace, nor should we in cyberspace"
any metrics are just numbers to hit for influencers. You can of course make metrics for any number of reasons, but true social capital is earned by just participating and seeing who you vibe with. Nostr lets anyone experiment around with whatever persona they want with minimal risk, and that's why it'll encourage others to be themselves without artificially encouraging any behavior.
the quote - https://pippellia.com/pippellia/Social+Graph/Navigating+the+social+graph

2025-04-03 01:24:51

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I don't like that either! To the ban-gulag!

2025-04-02 23:19:25

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And native compilation of elisp makes it even faster

2025-04-02 23:08:15

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You get moderation by having a closed off relay, and anyone can read from it.

2025-04-02 23:02:55

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This is the way
#nevent1q…7cku

2025-04-02 22:33:33

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Simple Plan was my first album bought 🥹

2025-04-02 22:10:10

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The real proof of work is the friends we made along the way ?

2025-04-02 22:02:47

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Nostr not being able to ban anyone makes human interaction an axiom. Its up to the individuals to decide what to do with that

2025-04-02 22:01:05

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just straight acceptance - i may vehemently hate everything about you and what you stand for, but by both parties willing to talk its ultimately a net gain

2025-04-02 21:49:37

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Legacy social media tore us apart, sending many to the extremes unable to talk to each other while keeping "calm conversation" the norm, banning the extreme views they created.
What if we have a world now where the political spectrum inverts itself - all political extremes unite together and fight against the very center-based forces that created them. Banding together for the very fact that they stand for something, and by that we can all collectively re-find meaning in the world.
Kinda nuts but also wholesome in some sense

2025-04-02 21:17:49

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The real nostr identity is who you consistently interact with ? 🤔

2025-04-02 20:52:42

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The real way to nostr is to let all your alts share one npub

2025-04-02 20:41:15

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https://i.nostr.build/tgugFS945SuczYOI.jpg

2025-04-02 20:34:06

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You're not fragmented enough

2025-04-02 20:26:07

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that's not a very goodly thing to say about ours

2025-04-02 19:42:35

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I actually think we should lean into it 🤣
https://i.nostr.build/3d6hwvWg0XqvjEkE.jpg

2025-04-02 19:06:38

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Imo this is nostr's peak marketing campaign
#nevent1q…uufe

2025-04-02 00:06:04

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Truth sir 🫶

2025-04-01 17:00:05

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That's actually decently frequent, which i appreciate. But its the looming long term events & planning for them that makes the smaller rests less enjoyable

2025-04-01 16:53:53

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Can't think about that 😅😂

2025-04-01 03:59:29

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Its on nostr btw, and In plain text.
https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu/publication?d=bitcoin-a-peer-to-peer-electronic-cash-system-by-satoshi-nakamoto-v-1

2025-03-31 17:18:08

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Consider they're also operating at a deeper level than the dream's perceptable level. There is nothing to say that dreams need to make sense, but what can be rationalized can make sense as exhaust from whatever is actually going on.

2025-03-31 15:37:09

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Pretty cool 🙂