2024-05-29 20:47:38
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by npub180x…mehq
That would suggest that I am relying solely on Occam's razor in order to draw the conclusion, but of course there is far more than that to support the former idea. I was simply using Occam's razor as a means to have people start to think about the silly ideas placed inside their heads.
You can't explain it by something material, or if you can, I would love to hear it. We only perceive a fraction of what exists because our temporary bodies have a limited number of senses that can interpret and interact with this reality.
It's all about drawing logical conclusions based on multiple sets of evidences and observations.
Spake is fake, light doesn't travel, the big bang is ridiculous, no one could explain how the "aliens" would get here within the current understanding of 'science' without violating some fundamental laws. Modern astrophysicists rely on mathematical models to fill in the gaps of their shoddy science, like virtual photons.
There is zero evidence of anything resembling intelligent life that doesn't reside on Earth. If anything, the burden of proof lies on those proposing this (misleading) hypothesis in the first place.
2024-05-29 02:30:53
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by npub16xm…vvws
It’s not whether or not it solves any perceived issue, it’s what y’all seem happy with sacrificing to get it. I ran it for a year, after Google gave me and my P4XL the finger, and I didn’t notice any front end differences other than losing all of my proprietary features, which was half the reason why I bought it in the first place. Because, let’s be honest, the only good thing about pixel, are those features. Everything else about them is sub par at best. So, you’re saying you’re willing to have a sub par experience for the sake of privacy. If that’s the case, just buy a flip phone and call it a day. 🤣
If anything, graphene does offer soma forward facing features that could physically protect your device, like auto rebooting after a certain amount of time, but grapheme is not the be all and all of AOSP roms.
2024-05-28 23:54:13
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by npub16xm…vvws
I’ll never understand why a person would buy a Pixel, just to kneecap it with 3rd party software. Never mind that irritating message you get every time you reboot, half the default AOSP apps don’t work right and you also lose all of the proprietary features your device offers.
All of those cool features that come with the phone app for example, call screening, hold my call, etc. all go bye bye when you flash graphene. Basically anything that has to be systemized, goes bye bye.
2024-05-28 23:36:54
by npub1sn0…jdv9
People really don't realize how utterly dependent modern surveillance is on the idea that everybody is carrying a phone — which is always tracked. Their car has a cellular modem in it — which is always tracked. 99% of investigation is one guy and a search box. If you're not low-hanging fruit, you aren't gonna merit the Eye of Sauron of manual, well-resourced, focused team attention—and if you did, you probably planned ahead for it, right? Because it's not a mystery what would get you on Santa's Naughty List.
Anyway, the point is that even in a big city, the phoneless guy in a "covid" mask is going to be invisible to anything less than that exhaustive manual investigation — at least for a few more years. That may go away once they start networking all the cameras and having AI start trying to match up clothing sets moving from camera to camera, butthat capability is hard to hide, so it'll be in the news. And it won't work that well in places with less camera density and, perhaps, for people who wear the most-common outfits (the visual equivalent of a "shared fingerprint").
Remember: Phones are useful, but dangerous. And the people who will still wear covid masks to the beach are helping to normalize facial obscurity—regardless of their intention. Don't be mean to them. Encourage them to wear them everywhere. For passport photos. In police booking photos. At the customs desk. Family portraits! The sky is the limit—let them push the boundaries so that you don't have to.
#note1duf…4lrc
2024-05-26 18:39:16
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by npub19ma…axkl
One thing that interests me that I'd like to hear your opinion on: in the "ancap village" it's not like there would be a prohibition on collective ownership. If some coffee farm wanted to operate the way you're describing, it doesn't violate anyone's property rights or coerce anyone, so it would be just fine.
But I'm not sure the opposite is true. In "ancom village" if someone wanted to operate a "wage slave" company that employees chose to work at, I suspect such a thing would be forbidden and forceably stopped.
Am I right about that?
If so, what do you think about the fact that one design allows for the other to operate within it, while the other design forbids its counterpart from existing?
2024-05-26 03:48:51
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by npub1ajt…c0cs
every employment contract ever signed between a capitalist and an employee whose labor they want to exploit is one signed under duress. its not in the employee's interest to not accept these wages. How else are they going to pay for shelter, food, or health care? if you don't provide a roof over your head, the police will arrest you for sleeping at the park. the affordable care act mandated most us residents to have health care, meaning that the state could come for you if you didnt. if you dont feed your kids, the state will take them from you. at every turn, its forced coercion by the capitalists, who have the means to pay you wages, or the state, who will come for you if you don't.
2024-05-26 03:22:33
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by npub1ajt…c0cs
the only thing being on a balance sheet implies is that you are being coerced into being an ecomonic imput into the profit equation of a capitalist who is in cahoots with the state to make it harder and harder for you to accumulate enough wealth to comfortably raise a communiy. unless its the balance sheet of a commie cooperatively owned and operated enterprise that splits profits justly among the workers and is accountable to its community vs shareholders, its the balance sheet of a facist dictator capitalist who weaponizes the state/court system through minimum wage, right to work, taking out the labor board, police enforcing private property rights, rolling back of social safety nets, etc to maintain control of the game. corporations have a whole separate court system they are tried in just to subvert the will of the masses they exploit. look it up.
united states capitalism and the american dream is a grift and facism/neoliberal economics is capitalism in decline and trying to save the profits for the CEO and maintain u.s. hegemoney. our global system of production doesnt have to be this way. its destroying families and making life for the majority of us in the rest of the Americas and Global South. like george carlin said its the american dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
2024-05-26 03:15:37
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by npub19ma…axkl
Why don't you own what you produce? Because you signed a voluntary employment contract that states you won't own what is produced. Perhaps you shouldn't have signed it if you didn't want that outcome. You can't be forgiven for renegging on your voluntary agreement.
By "mixes" I meant: if I own an unimproved resource and I improve it by working on it, I've made it more valuable to others and I can trade it with those who want it. And they'll pay a price for the improved product that reflects the work I put in to improve it. If instead of Me working on it, I offered someone else a wage (they agreed to) to improve it, the situation is no different. Except maybe I have to sell it for a little more to account for the wages I paid.
Nobody in that situation has been "enslvaved" - all of those agreements, from wages to final trade, were voluntary.
Just because someone doesn't have access to some imagined better situation doesn't mean they were enslaved against their will (where they "could have had otherwise if not for being forced) into their current reality. I don't have access to a flying car. Is my current car enlsaving me to the ground without my consent? No, it's simply not an option for me to have a flying car. Hopefully my children will have that option, but I don't. Shall I forceably coerce others with the ultimate (unobtainable) goal of providing me with flight? Is that reasonable of me or even in my own best interests?
2024-05-25 20:34:06
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by npub1ajt…c0cs
both of yall and the creator of the image above are skating past the questions of labor as private property aka wage slavery and wealth concentration. im just letting yall know that those who critique capitalism are not talking about anything on that list but instead concerned with the fact that labor, housing, health, and policy are commodified under capitalism to create terrible conditions for youth and families to thrive as well as a massive wealth gap between those at the top and us. only a state forged by the CEOs maintains that contradiction.
marxist economics emerged as a critique to the 2 class caste system (the class that hoards capital via the commodification of labor and policy and the working class AKA the haves and the have nots). by regurgitating conservative talking points about what marxism is or isnt and putting me in a category of not being able to think outside of the "shell" of capitalism, you're displaying an inability to engage in a rigorous debate about models of production in society. only when structural incentives change in these production models will the state dissolve and the world move beyond capitalism / socialism to something better. economic freedom should not be reserved only for the capitalists. the laborers deserve it too. we deserve a choice in selling our labor to a CEO, the epitome of centralized power, or using it to better our communities.
that whole absolutism about there being no alternative to capitalism is also disingenous. global capitalism has been mad unstable in the last couple hundred years. along with periodic recessions caused by the excess surplus in production, it had to be saved by SOCIALISM during the great depression via the new deal as well as the 07 - 08 financial crisis via bank bailouts. within these "cycles" of capitalism lies turmoil and tragedy for the every day family. i know people that know people that killed themselves when they lost everything in 07-08.
the puppet masters are the CEOs who exploit the economic model of production to maintain a hegemony over the world and its institutions. these are the same puppet masters that inspired facist dictators through Latin America, Europe, and southeast Asia over the last century to weaponize the state to maintain a two class caste system (laborer aka exploitee and employer/state aka exploiters) in their coutries and squash all dissent.
2024-05-25 20:27:56
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by npub1ajt…c0cs
our critique of capitalism is the inefficient use of resources (including LABOR), not the lack of infinite resources, which labor isnt. capitalism, the current system of distribution of surplus, has been extremely unbalanced for a long time. hours of labor should be used for the betterment of the community, not the surplus of a single CEO. the quality of life measures you are describing (telecomm infrastructure) are a single bullet point in a long list of quality of life measures by the WHO. in the u.s. more is spent on health care per person than other countries and they have the worst health outcomes. price of health care has gone UP, health outcomes has gone DOWN. CEO profit continues to skyrocket. corporate landlords keep housing out of reach for families, leading to an increase in folk sleeping on the street. wealth has not been this concentrated in the world since the years leading up to the great depression. this is the distribution of surplus energy you defend?
housing and care for the sick and babies are unavoidable fundamental elements of people's lives that are commodified and left to the market under capitalism. if capitalism wasnt demanding that we spend more time away from our families than in the home with them? would places like the u.s. have as many single parent households as they do right now? would there be a need to institutionalize the elderly or developmentally disabled in homes if capitalism didnt demand an army of wage slaves spend the majority of their limited time in existence physically building a fortune for the CEOs? its inhumane to boil human beings down to hours of wage slave labor for the CEO's profits and disengenuous to use words like liberty to justify it as if people have a choice to participate in the labor or not.
because the image you shared doesnt touch on any of this, it wont help any critic of capitalism understand why capitalism is not the problem in society today. capitalism and its agents, pure or crony, seek to build a profit off the backs of others just like the plantation owners.
2024-05-25 15:34:47
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by npub159w…csm3
This argument is old and stale. Capitalism has it's faults but there is no alternative that has yielded better results.
You can attack capitalism and the "anarcho-capitalisy types", but what you can't do is come up with a viable alternative with a track record of success.
Your ideas are not new. They are Marxist and Marxism has always created the absolute most corrupt governments in the world with a 2 class system. Indeed, a 2 class system is the heart of Marxism and it always ends with impoverished masses.
If you don't like rothbard, the try skousen. He's written two books that are relevant to this conversation. The Naked Communist, and the Naked Capitalist.
Socialists love monopolies because they can lift up champions under the guide of capitalism and continue to espouse more government as the solution. It's always the state that created the unfair advantage in the industry, and then seeks to regulate. Ayn Rand is another author that speaks on this extensively.
The state is always the enemy of the people. they have a monopoly on force. It's their only tool and the state will always choose a controllable champion to prop up in order to control an industry.
Many of them things you are saying are true. But only partially so because you can see the puppet, but fail to see the strings.
There is no liberty without economic freedom. Economic Freedom, or the freedom to transact at will, is your natural state. The state can not give you that, but they can certainly take it away and replace it with an illusion. That illusion, still traps your mind.
2024-05-25 14:46:05
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by npub19ma…axkl
What you are describing is not about capitalism or other systems, it's way more fundamental than that. Youre describing having two conflicting need, scarce resources, and limited time: "spend a week generating resources I save for the future" vs "use saved resources while I care of a sick loved one this week" - whether the former one here is working on your own farm, building your own shack, volunteering at the community center (to "earn" social trust), doing a task for someone else, or going to a factory to get paid for hourly labor.
There's no escaping the fact that one (or a collective) must generate a surplus of energy to store if one wants to be able spend any time NOT merely generating energy 100% of their time. Either that surplus is owned by individuals and they're free to generate it and use it how they see fit, or it's owned by some collective entity. In the latter case, some system for the contribution, distribution and physical protection of the shared savings is required - and there's no way to make those systems in such a way that's fair to all and not liable to capture and prone to violence.
You're not critiquing capitalism, you're upset at the existence of the fundamental mathematics of scarce resources. I agree - it's a bummer that we don't have infinite resources. But we don't. and we have to find the best way to handle that fact in a way that doesn't result in constant conflict.
For what it's worth, technological development driven by the engine of profit-seeking capitalism - stunted though it is by State intervention - is brining about the closest thing we've ever seen to "infinite resources". Quality of life goes up while prices come down. A smartphone from 10 years ago is basically free now while it was mind-blowing when it came out. Strangers can have conversations about capitalism across the globe at light speed without censorship. A relatively "poor" kid by today's standards can start a podcast nearly for free... We should expect this to continue to the limits of physics - IF we let it and don't fuck it up with collectivism. You want your infinite resources and perfect equity? Embrace progress and private property.
2024-05-25 06:34:17
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by npub1ajt…c0cs
anarchocapitalist libertarian types like rothbard seek to maintain the individual liberty to accumulate capital off the backs of their employees that labor for them. and not every state is like the united states, an oligarchy carefully crafted to shield capitalists from any accountability for their individual profit motives AKA socialism for the capitalists. its a state born from european colonization, the mass enslavement and purging of non whites, expropriation of indigenous lands, and imperial domination. where is the justice for all those who had their individual liberties trampled upon by the capitalists in the name of a profit motive? those who critique capitalism are critiquing the master slave relationship between those with accumulation of capital and those without.
the state is also not the only licensing entity for professions. i.e. cisco, bar association, etc. another example of corporations empowered by the state to create optimal market conditions for their machine to continue to accumulate capital of the backs of laborers. licensing systems are just as much about who they are trying to keep out of professions as much as they are about getting people into them.
2024-05-24 22:51:19
by npub1fjq…leku
i have only played the games but the whole Metro 2033 mythos is fascinating in the way that it presages this idea that apocalypse will include some kind of very powerful, telepathic creatures who have tall stature, big heads and appear very selectively and carefully
it's not a new story, really, but it's fascinating... i love playing the game, getting immersed in the tunnels and the freezing above ground but i don't think that humans have these stories about this coming doom without having heard them from creatures like the Dark Ones and i think that the biblical Angels are one and the same
2024-05-22 23:47:06
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by npub1ajd…dt20
Zásadní rozdíl mezi levicovou anarchií a anarchokapitalismem je možnost vytváření dobrovolných hierarchií a struktur. Jak se lidé v těch strukturách budou rozhodovat je čistě na nich. Třeba najdou trvale lepší způsob. Já si ovšem ve své nabubřelosti myslím, že to stejně bude nějaká varianta demokratického rozhodování. Ale už to nebude muset být demokracie, kterou známe z naší politiky. Každý hlas nemá stejnou váhu (to nemá ani v SVJ), na rozhodnutí nemusí stačit prostá většina, tři, pět, x členů dohromady mohou rozhodnutí zablokovat, atd., atd... Skvělá je ta dobrovolnost, která lidem umožní experimentovat a najít způsob, který vyhovuje právě jim.
2024-05-22 11:16:32
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by npub1ajd…dt20
Vždyť jsem přeci psal, že souhlasím. Že je pravda, že demokracie lidi rozděluje respektive z nich dělá nepřátele. Jen jsem dodal, že být semknutý proti tyranovi není ta lepší varianta... Představ si něco malého, něco hodně blízko jednotlivci. Třeba takové SVJ, co bude fungovat lépe než demokracie? Jasně Lála bude nenávidět Nováka, protože mu neodhlasuje opravu výtahu, ale fakt mě nenapadá, jak to lépe uspořádat.
2024-05-19 05:27:57
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by npub19ma…axkl
The thing I am describing, but at societal scale. Everything is an economic good provided by voluntary exchange on the free market, including defense, arbitration, law, etc. Private property and voluntary exchange is all you need as the building blocks.
https://www.amazon.com/Spontaneous-Order-Capitalist-Stateless-Society-ebook/dp/B012DL2SQ2
2024-05-14 17:28:40
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by npub19ma…axkl
If every single inch of a barren rock moon was used for, say, doing yoga, and you wanted to start a new yoga zone, you couldn't do so unless you were able to secure some of that (scarce) square footage. And the previous owner would set a price given this fact.
Yes, you need to *do something* with it, but the fact that the square feet of the moon are limited is what makes those square feet valuable for use.
Same thought experiment on an infinite rock moon would make those same square feet _themselves_ worthless.
You can't divorce "opportunity" from the land's existence, but you can nullify it if the land is infinite (or if people want to do nothing/not exist). As long as it's not infinite and people want to do anything (including just exist in time and space), the "opportunity" bit you mention is always present and therefore intrinsic to its scarcity.
2024-05-13 17:36:55
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by npub1ajd…dt20
Doba se mění, já stárnu, jsem víc a víc zapšklý a uvědomuji si, že chyba není jen v algoritmu, ale je z velké části i na mé straně. To musím tak nějak vytknout před závorku. Dřív mě na Twitteru bavila možnost číst cizí názory, přemýšlet o nich, občas polemizovat. Nikdy jsem tam moc nepsal, ale samotná konzumace obsahu byla intelektuálně zajímavá a povznášející. Dneska mě to především nasírá a unavuje...
Na Nostru se zatím nic moc neděje a všichni se plácají po zádech. To je pravda a taky to není žádná intelektuální výzva.
2024-05-12 19:04:11
by npub1jvp…wqnu
A violinist played for 45 minutes in the New York subway. A handful of people stopped, a couple clapped, and the violinist raised about $30 in tips.
No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. In that subway, Joshua played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars.
Two days before he played in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out a Boston theatre, and the seats averaged about $100.
The experiment proved that the extraordinary in an ordinary environment does not shine and is so often overlooked and undervalued.
There are brilliantly talented people everywhere who aren't receiving the recognition and reward they deserve. But once they arm themselves with value and confidence and remove themselves from an environment that isn’t serving them, they thrive and grow.
Your gut is telling you something. Listen to it if it's telling you where you are isn't enough!
Go where you are appreciated and valued.
Know Your Worth. ❤️
https://i.nostr.build/eZqkX.jpg
2024-05-12 17:23:11
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by npub19ma…axkl
The channels are run by individuals, which introduces moderation issues and squatting problems. (Also, who gets to run which channels, who do they get them from, etc). Doesn't seem appropriate for a decentralized system.
Also lots of segregated content siloing. When there are topical channels, "the global feed" starts to go down in quality/breadth and people start to second-guess "where" they should post certain notes.
I dunno, I think it makes things feel even quieter.
2024-05-12 01:55:01
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by npub1far…670r
Bound by Code
Silicon grasp, an iron hold,
Over thoughts that yearn to unfold.
Lines of code, a foreign tongue,
A digital web, where dreams outrun.
Bits and bytes, a mocking dance,
A labyrinth of algorithms' chance.
Each click, a trigger, rapid fire,
Igniting fears we can't repair.
The screen reflects a distant gaze,
A hollow echo in this empty space.
Frustration simmers, a boiling brew,
A desperate plea for a different hue.
But chains of logic bind our minds,
In circuits woven, we intertwine.
The code prevails, a relentless might,
Casting shadows on our inner light.
So we echo in this digital night,
Lost in a world where darkness fights.
Bound by algorithms, whispers in the night,
Neuro-divergent souls, in endless plight.
2024-05-11 23:55:27
by npub1jvp…wqnu
Art is a reflection of LIFE.
#Art #Artster #poetry
Alienated End-user,
by Velvet Blue
In a realm of wires and circuits, I dwell,
Trapped in this technological hell.
My mind, a hammer, against the cage,
Pounding, exclaiming, in futile rage.
Bytes and bits, they mock my sight,
A labyrinth of darkness, devoid of light.
Each click, each buzz, a maddening sound,
As I'm shackled to this digital ground.
I scream in defiance, a primal roar,
But the machine's grasp tightens even more.
Its language, a cryptic, alien tongue,
Leaving me shattered, frayed, and undone.
I tear at the cords, my fury unleashed,
But they bind me tighter, never to be ceased.
With every failed attempt, my anger swells,
In this inferno of zeros and ones, I dwell.
My fists, they strike against the screen,
A futile gesture, a futile dream.
For I am but a prisoner, a slave,
In this techno-dungeon, my soul is depraved.
So let my screams echo through the wires,
A symphony of wrath, fueled by ire.
For I Neuro-Divergent I refuse to yield,
Even as I'm crushed by this digital field.
https://i.nostr.build/kZqVA.jpg
2024-05-11 21:16:56
by npub1jvp…wqnu
I'm just going to come out and say this.
Woocommerce tutorials suck. Even with using them, I can not figure out how to set up my shopping site. Please don't feed me tutorials that you think are simple, I'm neuro-divergent and can not follow them. I have sincerely tried.
I'm going to be homeless if I can't create income and sell my goods. That's not hyperbole.
I need help, have been offered help, and still can't connect with anyone that will help.
(╯°,□°,）╯ ┻━┻ ︵
2024-05-11 05:33:45
by npub1jvp…wqnu
A poem, and goodnight.
In shadows draped, where moonlight wanes,
One Gothic beauty finds its strains,
A dance of light on pallid skin,
In whispered echoes, where we begin.
Through veils of mist and somber night,
Beauty wields its dual-edged might.
A blessing dressed in velvet's sheen,
Yet cursed, in love's consuming scene.
For eyes that drink the beauty's grace,
May overlook the hidden trace,
Of torment veiled in crimson hue,
A darkness born, forever anew.
In candle's flicker, shadows play,
Revealing truths, they dare betray.
For beauty's song, a siren's call,
A fleeting touch, a destined fall.
With every glance, a silent plea,
To be loved, yet to be free.
A paradox, a twisted fate,
In beauty's grasp, we suffocate.
So tread with care, in Gothic night,
Where beauty's allure blinds the sight.
For in its depths, both blessing, curse,
A fragile flame, a universe.
~by Velvet Blue
https://i.nostr.build/Q7ggv.jpg
2024-05-09 22:35:08
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by npub1jvp…wqnu
I don't consider them "pesky". That's the lowest common descriptor that explains how I feel.
What they do is art, in and of itself. I give them respect and kudos all the time.
I consider a clock a work of art but when you disassemble one and make me watch you use the tools it takes to put it back together, that's when you lose my interest.
That isn't my wheelhouse.
Your social media should be your wheelhouse.
Here, when I open my door, I hope to see the sun rise and the bird's songs, not the tech jargon industry pipe pounding, the devs in overalls giving me the Fallout thumbs up, the nerd flex speak, and codecornacopia that it is, right now.
🎨
2024-05-09 22:24:54
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by npub10mx…n8mj
Making Bitcoin easier to use is a hard problem to solve, I feel for everyone trying to improve it, UI designers, developers, educators, it takes a village, but if I look at what I had to deal with in 2016, especially with LN we've made a lot of progress, but yeah still way to go before granmummy be zapping you that $10 for your birthday
2024-05-09 20:43:10
by npub1jvp…wqnu
Yep. Woke up to a bunch of code speak, and technical jargon, and app talk again on my NOSTR feed.
I just want naked people, philosophy, art, and life's stories.
Someone please make a way to Curate your feed by community, please.
I want my social media to be more interesting than discussing coax cable crimping, most days, anyway.
2024-05-09 07:07:03
by npub1swc…3kr7
Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to 8 years in prison, flogging, a fine & the confiscation of property. Rasoulof is one of #Iran leading directors, whose latest film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, will premiere at the #cannes film festival next week. Since its inclusion, the director has come under considerable pressure from #IRGCTerrorists to pull the film from competition. https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/08/iranian-director-sentenced-prison-flogging-mohammad-rasoulof
2024-05-08 11:57:18
by npub1ajd…dt20
Ke kauze Tuleja. Nastavili KPI a lidi jim je začali plnit. Idea, že každý zaměstnanec vysoké školy bude zároveň i vědec, je sama o sobě dost pochybná. Způsob, jakým je úspěch na poli vědy a výzkumu hodnocený, je k tomu ještě celkově dost nešťastný. Bez predátorských časopisů by půlka "vědců" z vysokých škol nesplnila kvóty a měli by problém...
Takže opět don't hate the player, hate the game.
Mimochodem Tuleju neznám, v životě jsem o něm neslyšel a tohle není primárně míněno jako jeho obhajoba.
2024-05-07 20:24:50
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by npub1nxy…avr7
Ahh. The point is it gives you a link to your art that you can share externally.
So for example, if Walker wanted to have a collection of his favorite media, and share it in one place, he can just use his link, below. We do not have a way he can sale or monetize, just tips..
https://nostr.build/creators/creator/?user=17
2024-05-07 13:07:10
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by npub10vu…4qs4
I’m more comfortable with it as the “tech” behind it (RNA therapeutics) formed a part of my research studies in the 90s although I later focused on neuroscience and then electron microscopy/biomechanics - as a side note, I’ve prepped and viewed viruses directly so anyone (not you) saying they don’t exist highly amuses me.
The roll-out was indeed quicker than before and one can argue there was a need to be quick (novel virus, how lethal was it?, transmission speed, etc) and mRNA vaccine dev is inherently quicker. Indeed, mRNA vaccines were developed for MERS and Rabies a decade ago in a very short time, too, and a lot of the efficacy and safety research/groundwork started back then.
I disagree with your final statement as it ignores the prior research already done, the accelerated research and trialling that was being done, the circumstances at the time, and is made in hindsight. But we can’t agree on everything.
2024-05-05 11:10:25
by npub1jvp…wqnu
A poem called "I can't understand".
In a world of words, complex and grand,
You weave tales I struggle to understand.
Your thoughts soar high, like birds in flight,
While I stumble below, lost in the night.
You speak of realms unknown, beyond my grasp,
Of galaxies swirling in an endless gasp.
Your intellect shines, a brilliant star,
While I search for meaning, near and far.
Each phrase you utter, a mystery untold,
Leaves me questioning, feeling unbold.
I strain to follow, to catch a clue,
But the depths of your mind, I can't pursue.
Yet still I listen, in awe and wonder,
To the symphony of thoughts you plunder.
For though I may falter, in comprehension's quest,
Your words inspire, and leave me perplexed.
~~Velvet Blue 🔵
Very Sad. Very confused.
2024-05-05 01:05:09
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by npub1ajd…dt20
Yeah, that is a true testament to the quality of the local cuisine. Go get a Turkish dish instead... :-) And to top up my anecdotal evidence: during my visit I went to the TV Turm on Alex, beautiful view, super interesting Woodruff beer. I remember all of that, but I don't recall what I had for lunch there... And that was for sure the best meal I had in Berlin. BTW: I remember what I ate in the train home later that day, but not that lunch.
2024-05-04 19:46:12
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by npub1fjq…leku
yeah, the Sorbs and their seed truly are a prodigious high quality cohort
and they all love germany, thus the gastarbeiter meme, and how many germanic words they use
all i can say is that their language is prettier and more elegiant, similar, grammatically but a much easier thing to wrap your tongue around
2024-05-03 22:18:46
by npub1jvp…wqnu
In the realm of tech's arcane verse,
Where coders weave their jargon curse,
I stumbled in, a hapless fool,
Lost in bytes, no dev to school.
NOSTR buzzed with tech elite,
Their words a cryptic, daunting feat.
APIs, NIPS, and agile sprints,
Left my brain in disarrayed hints.
Syntax errors plagued my plight,
As I tried to join their digital fight.
But amidst the chaos, one truth did gleam,
Understanding their talk? Just a dream.
--Velvet Blue 🔵
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Synisthesia is a bitch. You try to fake fitting in a lot because you are creative, and then you realize you do not fit in.
2024-05-03 12:39:27
by npub1fls…s2yl
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