TIL the UK has only been an island since 4,200 BC. People had developed writing in Mesopotamia before the England was an island.
Yet some people today think that if the sea level rises by 1 meter, it will mean the end of life on earth.
People will believe whatever they are told to believe by their designated authority.
Turkey is Mexico, Sicily is Cuba, Greek islands are Caribbean.
There isn’t really an American analogy for UK.
If you moved everyone in California to Florida, and then moved everyone in Texas to Florida, and then moved NYC to Florida and then snapped the Florida panhandle off the mainland and towed it all the way up the East coast to Nova Scotia… then you would have the UK.
Oh to be free of hero worshippers and sycophants.
That only makes sense if they are corrupt, or misallocating funds.
Why don’t charities publish their monthly bank statements on their website, along with every invoice / receipt?
Is there one good reason not to?
Absolutely, but you should also be free to denounce your past silly ideas and expect to be genuinely forgiven.
Tarring and feathering someone for something they posted 15 years ago, when today they instantly say “whoops what was I thinking” is just posturing and it’s divisive nonsense.
It’s only a matter of time until we as a society are sticking wings, wheels and firearms on people.
But childhood should really focus on childhood, there’s really nothing at all to gain from skipping phases of development. This notion of bragging about the speed of your kids development is BS in all its forms. Play the long game.
Bryan Johnson (age 46) v’s Vera Wang (age 74)
Life is not fair. 
ChatGPT needs a bunch of custom context toggles.
Maybe 5-10 text fields that I can add some prompt context and toggle on/off with a radio button.
“Do not be verbose”
“State uncertainty instead of hallucinating for completeness”
“Be bold when making estimates and state range bands if necessary”
Stuff like this.
A WinDirStat type tool that showed the tree diagram of a drive but with chmod by colour would be very useful.
I’ve been trying to do this across everything recently.
Denser screen usage, less scrolling and flicking.
It is somehow more peaceful, and focused.
There is nothing to stop someone launching a Bitcoin denominated securities exchange.
🤔 It’s probably illegal for Americans because of Securities Act. But it’s perfectly legal to set one up in London. 🤔
On nostr…
Nano payments allow for some really clever advertising and chain communication models.
Only trick necessary is to defeat bots / snipers.
But you can build whitelists with some pretty simple filters. Single claim per pubkey is easy.
Quite easy to directly pay someone $0.005 - $0.05 to watch a 20 second video.
Quite easy to rate limit it.
My follows + My follows-follows is typically 20,000 people and <1% bots (people don’t follow bots and snipers).
I don’t really understand what you are saying? Are you mixing up the catchall term “AI” with a super intelligent AGI model?
Of course you can own models.
In the 90’s everyone was worried that kids were growing up way too fast. We had bags of agency and lived in a time where hedonism was fashionable. It was work hard, play hard, 5 hours sleep and less at weekends.
In 2020’s people barely grow up at all.
“I lie in bed until 10:30 and then I watch TV all weekend, why am I single?”
NB: I saw that video, and my first reaction was; does she have an underactive thyroid?
Get on the front foot, get outside, open up to real people, get off the internet, your following is mostly trackers and ad bots.
Men can screw around and pull rabbits out of hats later in life. Women do not have this luxury. That’s why historically women were always more mature than men.
Do not drink the Kool Aid, in the West our popular culture is mostly nothing more than a marketing and advertising machine. They plant ideas in you to make you consume their stuff.
It’s not in the individual’s interests to pursue that stuff. You can swim in the dogma, but don’t drink it.
With your kids, what you say doesn’t make much of a difference to how they turn out.
It’s what you do.
They become what they saw you do.
For a while, for about 15 years, you have to become the person you want them to be. They have to see you be that person before they can become that person.
I was a long way down the path before I realised this. Don’t normalise hours of silent screen time after dinner. Before you know it, they’re gone. You can shitpost when they’re at college.
