threw out decade-old boxes of collected wires & adaptors

so far my universe hasn’t collapsed 🙏

Anyone use #AI for #genealogy yet? I remember as a teenager basically anyone who was like 50+ was hardcore I to genealogy and their family tree. They would take road trips to places thier parents grew up and grandparents lived and even go to the Granite Mountain Records Vault (the world's largest collection of genealogical records) housed in a secure vault located in the mountains near Salt Lake City. I wonder if the Mormons have trained a special AI for this yet?

Use to take months to discover stuff, then much was digitalized and online with gate keeper companies you paid. I assume all of this has been trained on at this point.... anyone know of any AI specializing in this?

To expand:

ETH doesn't have the hardness of BTC. There's a rather large difference between Proof of Work (BTC) vs. Proof of Stake (ETH and other popular coins) is a very large fundamental difference that I would recommend looking into.

What’s everyone’s game of choice these days? #gamestr

I would just use the revenue from the loans to make the bank appear more valuable while I dump as much freshly-printed money as I can into bitcoin

The bank would fire me, but they don't fire bankers who think like me until the bitcoin part and then dump the money into bombing Gaza instead

had to look this up but its true. reserve ratio requirement is still at 0%. lmao.

exciting!

I might be in the minority here, but I think Twitter/X under Elon's rule is pretty excellent. Not perfect, but orders of magnitude better than what it was before.

Nostr is great and important, but it isn't the public square. Not yet, anyway. X is.

I admire what Elon is doing with it.

Twitter is so insanely toxic I have no idea how I ever survived using it back in the day

So incredibly grateful for nostr, truly

Are you not supposed to?

If you can see this, Tor is now inside of Amethyst.

No more Orbot.

today i learned about qubits, superposition, and entanglement

I don't know who really won the Venezuela elections. I find anybody that has any certainty about who won to be suspicious and untrustworthy.

It is important to hold many contradictory possibilities in a superposition in your head. Weight their possibilities and adjust these weights as information flows in. If you choose one belief and forget/dismiss the counter evidence, and you happen to be wrong, then it becomes exceedingly difficult to see the obvious truth should further evidence flow in because you have wed yourself to one opinion and no longer have the understanding that is needed to recompute the odds.

For most beliefs this isn't necessary as the evidence is overwhelmingly in one direction. For example, I believe the Earth is nearly spherical and I don't put any weight on flat-earth, or in the existence of a god, because I've spent enough time on these topics to reach a level of certainty that is ridiculous to question at this point. For many issues, however, I keep updating a superposition. Some people call this being "open minded".

I'm open minded about seed oils (I think they are healthy), about who bombed the Nord Stream (I think it was the USA), about Israel/Hamas conflict, and many other issues. That doesn't mean that I consider the two stories to have equal probability, just that there is enough counter-evidence to my beliefs that I won't close the books on any of these issues.

It's easy to find the weakest link when you have a blunt tool and zero fucks