There’s no design authority running the internet, it’s evolved down paths of least resistance rather than followed robust design.

Often bad stuff that can grow fast outcompetes and strangles good stuff that has some friction.

The result is a big internet of mixed quality. Lots of it is pretty crappy. Lots of the crappy things became social norms and consumer habits.

In r-K theory, you want an r strategy in the beginning and a K strategy once things are mature. The internet is only just seeing the first few K strategies emerging. It’s going to take some time for K’s to win, but eventually there will be few r strategies left.

GPT4:

Misinformation: This term refers to any information that is false or inaccurate, regardless of intent. The people spreading misinformation may genuinely believe the information to be true and might be unknowingly sharing it. Misinformation can be spread through misunderstandings, mistakes, poor research, or misinterpretation.

Disinformation: This term refers to false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately or knowingly. Disinformation is a type of misinformation that is propagated with the intent to deceive or mislead. It's often used to cause harm, manipulate public opinion, or obscure the truth.

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If you have an argument with someone on social media, eg which sports team is the best, at least half of that debate is by definition misinformation. Can’t both be true.

Also, politics… if two parties advance different solutions as the best way to handle an issue, at least one of them is spreading misinformation by definition. They can’t both be right!

Where does this childlike understanding of the world, where stuff that is wrong must be censored, actually come from?

Why is it such a problem for someone to propose stuff that later turns out to be wrong?

That’s basically what science and engineering is. Should we ban those too?

I don’t remember this demand for censoring being a thing a few years ago. Has is spawned from the movement against “climate deniers”?

Yes it’s a big audience. Feels like this phenomena will only grow.

I think having an open protocol makes it vastly preferable to a paid API. It means a lot of services can plug into nostr.

Do this…

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Summary

OS news was 60-90 minutes ahead of mainstream today.

If markets had been open today that would have been a huge issue.

I imagine a lot of trading houses noticed this stark contrast today.

OS news should be on FOSS, ie nostr.

Something strange happened today.

Major world events unfolding and the broadcast media, actually the entire corporate news landscape, was about 60-90 minutes behind on reporting information compared to the Open Source current affairs community (call themselves OSINT).

And whilst some of the OS information was very raw, and this was a situation with deliberate misinformation about, they did a pretty good job of talking it through and getting a generally good picture.

It felt a lot less dumbed down compared to any news desk. Whilst there is a fire hose of breaking news, the truth is in there somewhere. The transparency of having sight of the raw stuff removes all the editorial bias.

Watching this in parallel with broadcast corps was like watching stuff 40 years apart.

Whilst the raw OS stuff is not for everyone, the fact that it has OS scrutiny makes any subsequent bias very obvious and much more difficult to stick.

Open Source current affairs should be on FOSS, this is what leverage looks like. It’s currently on Telegram, Twitter, Signal, WhatsApp, a bunch of these big apps. Many of these apps will eventually die when their tech stack becomes obsolete, they already feel very clunky to me and the last cohort already doesn’t use these apps.

There is some “chicken and egg” challenge with having an audience, and Nostr overcoming the network effect but that’s our problem to figure out.

1m MAU is what… 100k DAU?

So about 12x nostr current size? ish?

The hydrocarbon vapours are the crew, so yes an electric sub does have hydrocarbon vapours during an implosion.

At 5,500 psi air and carbohydrates will auto-ignite and flash. The massive implosion triggers an explosion.

It’s not the heat from the air that burns, the pressure simply takes all of the chemicals to a different phase of state. Everything just vaporises and oxidises.

There are real nuclear fusion reactors that achieve fusion by collapsing little bubbles.

Collapse 4m3 of air and people from 15psi to 5,500psi and you will easily go through the auto ignition state and explode the contents of the chamber at the tail of the implosion.

Nobody onboard would have noticed the implosion.

The unmistakable sound of a subsea implosion. https://nostr.build/av/3387b3b2193f143226f15a583eedafbe98e50d37b6e14dbca57a9f960a615f19.mov

You do not control all the places your bio is stored.

Legacy bio data exists across many relays.

Why does this crop the frame like it does? https://nostr.build/av/eb5a9f03b84fa5f1696a19c08b02c57a104838db649b29ba1464ac6343f1f688.mov

Yeah I can do it from a link. Just messing with a web UI, but my upload didnt resize properly to show you.

There’s also a workaround way to do it… Basically person 1 follows a link and they start a playtime clock. Then if a second person follows the link they should watch from the current playtime clock and not from the beginning.

This way you can kind of sync the content people watch. Maybe the clock starts on 2 clickthroughs and a third click through joins the first two at current play clock?

Just brainstorming some ways that a small group could share content eg in a groupchat.

Wow that didn’t resize right, did it.

nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7 is there a way in the future for you to livestream content from server?

Like YouTube embeds are able to do here… https://nostr.build/av/b9e011e853ea1c8d2b6c05a72bbbad8218a4006c861e556c590b5bff3427595d.mov

Which one is the current one?

Again, easy to share live content with your friends.

So you can all watch / listen to the same content together whilst you chat.

Just thinking of a UI for friends watching concerts and live sport via internet.

Also fairly doable to add webRTC.

Then some kind of social graph for navigation, rather than hyperlinks and I think that’s it.

You can try it out at link below.

It’s intended for “Save to Homescreen” rather than using in the browser.

https://stuartellison.com/UI.html

What do people instinctively think of this split keyboard layout for using their iPhone?

I use my device in landscape and I think the iOS keyboard layout is bad. So have made a js keyboard to experiment.

It looks like this…

How does the original author ever see a response?

How does anyone follow a conversation exchange?

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