The fact that Elon Musk's title is "Technoking" and Jack Dorsey's title is "Block Head", speaks volumes.
One is about ego, and one is not. But more importantly we can see the difference in their actions more than titles from there.
Elon wants to build Twitter or the shitty name "X" into the next WeChat, with himself as the leader. He has literally said this. I used to be able to report bots on Twitter easily for many years, but now I have to show a drivers' ID to report someone that copies my persona even as a 600k following paid blue check, and so I don't bother anymore, and therefore bots proliferate. And if you don't pay for reach, you get devalued. Only in the past few months have I had to show my ID to report my countless bot copiers if I want to report them on Twitter/X. And so their rate of removal has decreased. If my Nym differs a bit from my name, well LET'S FILE SOME TPS REPORTS!!!! (which wasn't previously the case). And so as bots proliferate, and as Musk fails to contain bots as he promised he would and bragged about with memes, he will instead reference his own self-created bot problem as a reason to require even more ID requirements and try to build his US version of the Chinese Communist Party WeChat app. This is exactly what governments do. In my professional opinion, after careful consideration, Elon Musk can ::check notes:: politely go fuck himself, and those who worship him should reconsider what exactly they show blind obedience toward.
Meanwhile, nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m helps improve the Bitcoin network and the Nostr network and has put capital into them in various ways, and Bitcoin and Nostr have no leader. The fact that Bitcoin and Nostr have no leader, is specifically why Jack puts time and capital into them. He funds many different companies, and for bitcoin, Cash App has been among the networks to incorporate Lightning early. Yes, Cash App deals with domestic compliance issues. But they are trying, and they are early. Their network can connect to many others, like an email provider using SMTP to connect to many others. They're open, they're trying. And now they are making Bitkey, which helps with self custody. They're certainly not a directional enemy of freedom in the way that Twitter/X has been.
Companies that incorporate open networks with various levels of compliance trump companies that purposely don't adopt open networks and instead push new ID requirements, in my book.
+10 Jack
-10 Elon
Any day of the week.
So true. The Musk bootlicking in tech circles is embarrassing. They deify him as a genius, and the other side vilify him. In reality he’s neither, but he’s happy to adopt both roles because they both give him what he craves the most - attention.
The Nightwatch, Amsterdam. 
Million € idea on a flight.
Public transport services where anyone who plays music/video out loud, or has a phone conversation > 30s, gets a lifetime ban from all services.
Shutdafuckup Airlines, Trains & Buses Inc.
Anybody played around with an LLM and some context with RAG?
My understanding is that documents are fed to the LLM as context for a prompt, and it can answer questions on them.
Semantic search using this technology on huge text documents will be so cool, as opposed to regular keyword search 👀 🔍
This is really nice 👌🏼
That would be great, thanks man. I’ve lots to do but it’s coming together. Thinking about imposter prevention, I see your design notes on that. I’m wondering how best to verify artists prevent people getting value for work that’s not theirs.. it’s tricky
Yeah! I’m surprised he’s not all over it. It’s ideal for network states who could set up their own private paid relays for “citizens” and have networks specific to their causes so easily.
Social graph now with avatars:
https://void.cat/d/K1kWWJsZaxtPqp7KuUUdWa.webp
https://void.cat/d/VfT2iaqvkcKFrc5rR7N5vG.webp
The social graph is not automatically loaded: you should visit your profile Follows and Followers tabs first and then go to Settings -> Social Graph.
The graph needs some adjustment to make it more informative. If you want to contribute, the code is here: https://git.v0l.io/mmalmi/snort/src/branch/main/packages/app/src/Pages/NetworkGraph.tsx
Wow, so cool and looks great. 👏🏼🤩
Anyone going to The Network State conference in Amsterdam next week? On a mission to get Balaji on Nostr😃
#TheNetworkState
For sure! A nice library full of hard copies is the dream 😃 i just started The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia (gumroad founder) , enjoying it so far 👌🏼
I like to have a few on the go:
The Fabric of Reality - David Deutsch
The Society of The Spectacle - Guy Debord
The Fiat Standard - Saifdean Ammous
Thinking it’d be cool to have a new feature to download Nostr highlights to an .md file for future reference when writing in Obsidian.
Looking for quotes and references is always a pain point - consolidating them locally may help avoid distraction and improve workflow 🤔
Arctic Monkeys live in Dublin😍 unbelievable show 🪩 🎤 
Just pushed a new look stargazr.xyz 🌌 thanks nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac for the design 🤝