This is just a symptom of Corporate America.
US companies are forced to release crappy products, because a good product might risk lawsuits.
Whereas in UK for example, you could release a mildly malevolent AI product and still you would not have legal trouble if it told people to go take a long walk off a short peer.
Large parts of US seem to no longer recognise personal responsibility and somehow believe the American public is composed of unthinking zombies who must be protected from various facts/opinions/suggestions/etc.
This is just the start, as the $33 trillion of debt rolls over (as the Treasury bonds reach maturity), the debt has to be refinanced at the current interest rate.
USA is on course for spending $2 trillion a year on interest payments, and would obviously have to raise taxes to do so.
Taxes in America are going to have to rise a lot this decade as de-dollarisation also hurts America’s ability to export inflation.
Why hasn’t nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft made a nostr url shortening service yet? 🤔 weird.
UK might the world’s first post-industrial country. Electricity consumption continues to decline even as the population grows. 
My apartment's AC has very weak airflow coming from vents. What's the best way to mitigate (fan type to buy, placement, etc)? I currently have multiple oscillating floor fans in each room that do a so...
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### #Amethyst v0.70.0: Background Video Playback (alpha)
Now you can "pin" streams and videos to the background and keep using the app/the phone while watching/listening to it.
Keep an eye out for bugs, this is a massive restructuring of how the video playback system used to work
- Moves Video/Audio player to a foreground service.
- Migrates Feed, Stories, and Live Stream screens to use that service
- Blocks screen from going to sleep if a video is playing.
- Blocks WIFI from going to sleep if an online video is playing.
- Allows the app to pause while listening to media and continue playing
- Manages cache for up to 30 videos in parallel for each of the 3 categories: local, streaming, progressive content
- Activates the use of popups with artwork that points to the screen with the video
- Creates a button to allow any video to play while browsing the app/phone
- Moves app to SingleTop mode.
- Keeps viewed position cached for up to 100 videos.
- Restructures the starting screen from App Navigation
Download:
- [Play Edition](https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/download/v0.70.0/amethyst-googleplay-universal-v0.70.0.apk)
- [F-Droid Edition](https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/download/v0.70.0/amethyst-fdroid-universal-v0.70.0.apk)
How many people work at Vitor Pamplona?
#zapathon
Customary obscure cultural reference… 
Crash guide to nostr apps:
1). Nobody is in charge
2). Content gets stored in many places (called relays).
3). You can’t delete or edit stuff, it’s stored in too many places.
4). You can’t stop other people seeing stuff, it’s stored in too many places.
5). Someone invented Zaps (tipping people 1/10mil btc)
6). Zapping feels better than getting zapped
7). Nobody zaps trolls
8). You can see the same posts across every nostr app
9). You have the same follows/followers no matter which nostr app you log into / move to.
10). You own your content, you own your network. You don’t need anyone’s permission and bobody can stop you.
If thoughts are order that emerge from chaos, then they must flow backwards in time as per the second law of thermodynamics.
turned the living room tv stand into a standing desk. nostr:npub1h50pnxqw9jg7dhr906fvy4mze2yzawf895jhnc3p7qmljdugm6gsrurqev might kill me. 
Praying for you. 🙏
Currently running Damus 1.5(4)… for the zaps.
Is ZapplePay the answer?
There’s a fairly concerning story in the UK press this past month about a famous politician being unbanked because his bank unilaterally decided that he…
“stated views that were at odds with our position as an inclusive organisation.”.
Banning their own customers doesn’t seem very inclusive of them, but here are.
The politician has used FOI to get all the banks internal correspondence on him, which is now all over the British press and is humiliating for the bank and ruinous of its professional reputation.
There are also 10,000 other banned customers using the same letter templates to demand copies of internal correspondence relative to their closed accounts.
Virtually this banks entire mail server is going to end up being released to the public and a torrent of ugly lawsuits will follow, probably spelling the end of this banks under current trading name.
I’m interested to see just how much this sorry episode has damaged his instagram revenue.
Any non-founder CEO would be immediately fired for such a blunder.
Is the future of Meta in Llama and PyTorch?
Zucks identity crisis continues. Where will he pivot next? Tune in next week to find out.
Steve Jobs was a man haunted by bevels, chamfers, rads and fillets. 
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