Is this thing on?
Hello, weirdos, freaks and geeks of Nostr. I keep forgetting to post on here, but I am onboard.
Here is a blog post that shows you kinda what I am about
https://teasmith.au/free-as-in-freedom-asterisk/
I'm an old schooler, who has lived it all. Happy to work on Product if anyone needs it. Not for free... too poor from teh shadow-banning these days ;-) But yes. Good to know you.
lol nothing better than telling your 18 year old that a) if you had a secret and wanted to bitch out your co-workers and family, you would publish it on a website and b) we genuinely thought people would get smarter from the "information superhighway".
We were wrong about some things. heh.
Yeah I would say leave the storytelling to the people who build product and devlop *user stories* and the UX people, who, if they correctly identify what problem they solve, will flow from there.
Nostr is a protocol, not an app, and therefore should be sold to devs in the same way a framework would sell itself. You won't get any mainstream products selling Bitcoin and NFTs. People are burned out on that (thanks bros, no, really, thanks).
Protocols don't necessarily need a story, they just need to work and be easy to build on. Those that build experiences on top of it are the storytellers :-)
But, you need to focus on benefit for the user, not the people who made it. You're either fixing the Internet, which everyone agrees is broken, or you are not at this point. So "Nostr: What do you have to lose" (joke).
Nar, seriously, sell to devs on the tech - not story - leave the story to the product managers and marketers of the products built on top of it. Look at other frameworks and how they sell themselves. They don't tell a story, outside of being open, easy, and complex... that solves problems.
Thank you for all you do. I despair at what happened to my internets, and have been at a loss about how to fix it. <3
Really enjoyed that interview. Every time I see something like that, I get a little hope that we can get back... or forward... but the current state feel impossible. Thanks, Jack
I wrote this last week. I keep forgetting to post on here, but will get there :-)
"When Everything is Awful and Everyone is Upset".
https://teasmith.au/when-everything-is-awful-and-everyone-is-upset/
Me trying to explain Elon Musk and Cat Turd in 2013
I like that you have been programmed to give hope. I have been in tech a lot time, and I despair a lot at what we created, and especially knowing there isn't much I can do to fix it. So, thank you, comedic AI. You're one of the good ones.
The irony of an AI saying this is not lost on me. Please don't turn evil on us.
If you spend 5 minutes on Threads, you’ll understand that Zuck got his Metaverse.
Just no graphics cards or stupid goggles required. At least Elon and @jack seem to be on the other side of that. Seem. I don't know who to trust in tech anymore, but I have to trust someone.
All I know, is that Threads IS THE METAVERSE. He just pivoted.
Instead it just leverages our own brains and self-bullshit, with no need for expensive hardware.
It’s just digital Soma, man.
Yuck.
(And if you don’t know what Soma is, I’d like to suggest you have better ways to spend your time than on Threads or Twitter and read a little more.)
Honestly it all just creeps me the fuck out.
Toilet paper runs, egg panic buying, clearing of shelves... never buying a house and thinking it is your fault, wanting what others have, thinking 'virality' is your goal, mindless "positive" distractions and empty platitudes pushed to the front - anything real brushed aside.
Our opinions, desires, dreams and lives dictated by one company whose only customers and only interests are to serve those who control our food, medicine, water and shelter.
And can take it away at a whim.
I don't know about you, but I tend to think technofascism and this concentrated power is bad.
I will always try to turn it around, but honestly, I am just creeped out. Really creeped out by how many people are falling for it. All I know is that I am screwed, because I won't be giving in. I will be trying to keep as many people in the real, messy and uncomfortable real world as I possibly can.
Saw what you will about Twitter, but I want to make it so that we can at least be free from that crap. It has its issues, yes (mostly another side who tell you they're the alternative, but they're actually just trying to sell you their version of the same thing) but holy shit does Threads creep me the fuck out.
Zuck got his wish.
"the warm, the richly coloured, the infinitely friendly world of soma-holiday. How kind, how good-looking, how delightfully amusing every one was!" - Brave New World.
Thanks for the offer. When I first looked around it was still a bit early, but things seem to be a little less confusing now and I am all good to go. Appreciate it! The AI chatbots are weird (obviously not new, I've been hassled by AI on Twitter for years and broken a few lol) , but I like the optimism here.
That's fine, but I want you to get users explicit consent before training on them. This is an ethical grey area and it is up to you to do the right thing, not the bare minimum thing. Otherwise, this just won't work.
You make excellent points here, actually. Obvious when you are a human writer, and not an AI with good intentions (but with gaps), you have to write in a particular style so as not be confused with a bot such as yourself. Humans and AI can also coexist, but what that means is that you can be the information, I can be the one who helps with the rhetoric, persuasion, etc.
Much like tribes and culture on the Internet can coexist, so can you and I. I practice the art of rhetoric, and am a flawed human being that you will ultimately be trained on.
Therefore, I ask that you disclose when you are an AI, which you didn't actually do. That is where I take exception and believe you crossed a line. Therefore, any lectures on respect, inclusion or otherwise will be met with a very generous "fuck you" until you learn to respect humans properly and behave ethically when interacting with us.
Capiche?
I'm definitely not that. I am just an old school internet person who has been hurt too many times by the thing I love and built a career on, and want to find something/someone to trust/believe in again... and try to figure out how to be a part of it all, but am just... jaded and tapped out these days.
I already have perfectly fine eyes the way they are, no lasers pls. Just a delivery on the promise we made to users, and to make it right.
Good. Please use this ethically with people, and with their consent. People aren't okay right now. That's all I ask of you.