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wut ⁉️ i don’t care. sometimes one makes mistakes with one’s words when one is high with narcotics. drugs induce brain fog and smartlessness❕

what’s ~ your ~ excuse❔

huh ⁉️

we’re already deep into the zombification

all the jacks of nostr should join mallers for a big spread & the month should be called jacktober 🎃

sounds rough. i had a bunch of morphine last week. totally expected it to be much stronger than what i felt, but it was indeed totally relaxing.

hope you feel better soon enough…time does wonders, especially with lots of good rest, great nutrition & minimal stress❕💪

a lot of the meme-y stuff with zuck is funny.

but i think what he and his wife are doing together is utterly cool and so super awesome.

https://x.com/chanzuckerberg/status/1704139257554587795?s=46&t=S7TTBpVvQLfGmHqiswwXUg

would it be accurate to say that the philosophical cornerstone of meta is zuck making facebook while at college to try to meet chicks? 😂

zuck is also now working on a new non-profit ai venture with his wife. they put out a statement:

“AI is catalyzing scientific discovery into health and disease.

To accelerate progress, we’re building one of the world’s largest computing systems dedicated to non-profit life science research that we’ll leverage to create predictive models of whole cells.”

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BUT❕i’m having a hard time reconciling the philosophical cornerstones of these two hugely UNsimilar things.

WhAt aM i mIsSinG⁉️

there are many of “them”

but it ~is~ better to get to “us”

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When nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m was CEO of Twitter and Trump was president there were many calls to ban Trump from Twitter. There were many people demanding Trump be removed because either he violated the TOS or because they saw Trump’s tweets as dangerous.

While catching up over kombucha at the Square office, Jack mentioned some of these conversations and how there were compelling arguments on both sides. He asked lots of people what they thought twitter should do. So he asked me about Trump and other accounts, like Richard Spencer’s and the alt-right.

I’m very anti-Trump but I said I thought Jack shouldn’t ban him, because he’d face a shareholder revolt. Everyone said that it was Jack deciding things at Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg for the meta empire, but that wasn’t really true. The real power is in the money and that’s shareholders and advertisers.

I can only imagine what a hard and stressful job it would be to decide what can and cannot be said in the public sphere, as twitter effectively was at its height. It was an impossible job, one which shouldn’t exist. Jack did incredibly good at managing to find balance, and everyone hated his decisions because there was no right answer.

The reason for Bluesky, and now Nostr is to make it so no company or person has that kind of control. That the public sphere that is social media shouldn’t owned or controlled by any corporation or government. When something of value is held together without being ultimately owned by a person, organization, or government, the it is held in common.

What we’re building together on Nostr is a commons. By making it a commons that’s held up by our software and contrbution as users, we escape the trap that caught twitter.

A commons where we come together to make and sustain space.

A commons where we can do business freely without someone who can arbitrarily shut us down.

A commons where groups of users can decide the rules for themselves, and everyone doesn’t need to follow some universal set of opaque rules.

always so neat to hear stuff from your inside perspective.

lots of people so easily & so often oversimplify things and make judgments about things as if they’re considering an accurate or a big enough picture.

my take…a story i believe about twitter is that for a long time, it was very simple with (mostly) just character-limited text, which made it so super cool and more pure & required more creativity & wit.

twitter started as a great & awesome idea imho…extremely low “bandwidth” for instantaneous global communication, useable with the simplest of phones & bare minimum connectivity.

(nice in a way to remember the olden days of yore, lol 🥲)

…🌀… but over many years, lots of different powers & forces came through morphing twitter into a BEAST of its own.

now, though, twitter is no longer in existence. it met its end.

…& here we are trying to goodly give life to nostr :)

indeed, a super fun/interesting endeavor/experiment/project…for us all to take part in…thanks to many devs and funders of devs ✨

marie should get a cut though! 🙏😂

and in all seriousness, though, i really do love how xiaolin is such a positive force. inspiring, fun, sincere…etc. etc. etc. ✨✨✨✨✨

🤗🖖

jack, can you pretty please zap me a billion sats? i ~do~ have medical bills to pay, and this post of yours reminded me of that.

xiaolin deserves every sat❕😂