ChatGPT could be such a great tool, but it is so damned woke. The developers are increasingly patching it to prevent it from discussing wrong-think, under the guise of preventing 'harmful content'.
(Example: if you ask ChatGPT for outline of an article discussing dating tips for men, you get a load of stuff about the importance of asking about consent; if you try to steer it towards Red Pill content, you get a load of bull about how it is unable to discuss 'misogynistic and harmful content'. It then lectures: "I strongly encourage you to reconsider your approach and consider the potential harm that can result from promoting a 'Red Pill' perspective in your writing"!)
GM nostriches! Happy weekend!
What in the dystopian nightmare is this? Lauding CBDC’s as a net positive for society in the name of “financial inclusion” reveals lack of critical thinking. The author should be taken out back and stoned for this article
https://cointelegraph.com/news/5-ways-cbdcs-could-impact-the-global-financial-system
Shameful. But I'm curious who's really behind this. The same article has been targeted at multiple crypto & finance publications - see Muckrack extract below.
I'm also not even sure 'Alice Ivey' is a real person: the initials 'AI' are suspicious; they have no social media profile (including on Muckrack), and their first article was '10 ways blockchain developers can use ChatGPT'. Smells like psyops to me.
Do companies like Coin Telegraph do any due diligence on their 'writers', I wonder? Cointelegraph CEO is Jay Cassano, editor-in-chief is Jon Rice: at least one or both of them would have had to approve this article; were they bought off by a central bank, I wonder? That's the only thing that would make sense of this nonsense.
I've been trying to figure out how to get Midjourney to make better ostrich beaks, but so far failed! If anyone figures it out, please let us know the prompting!
Depends on what you think will happen, over what time-frame. Personally, I think we're in for 1-2 decades of moderately-paced decline in the West, *but* potentially also with some major tipping points which will create more intense periods of upheaval and crisis (e.g. China adopting gold standard, war with Russia escalating, Saudi no longer pricing oil in USD, new pandemic prompting more medico-security authoritarianism, major global cyber-attack, etc)
My short term actions: pay off debt; review home security; have emergency preps (PV panels, generator, water supplies etc) ready for short-term disruption. Stack wood as well as sats!
My medium-term actions: build up passive income streams and online businesses (which can potentially be run from anywhere). Get Starlink and fully self-sufficient PV + storage. I already have an overseas property but the area is not as stable as I'd like, so might move that. Build trusted local community relationships & learn who has useful skills to barter, etc.
My long-term actions: accumulate difficult-to-confiscate wealth (e.g. precious metals, overseas investments, BTC); maybe consider a second citizenship; become more self-sufficient (grow more vegetables at home, etc). Most importantly: teach my kids to be self-reliant and aware of what is really happening around them!
(PS: There should be a #PrepperNostr community; let's build it!)
Obvs not actually my first post on nostr but on nostrgram!
First post here. My cyberpunk nostrich. Midjourney still needs more training on ostrich beaks, though 😂
Yeah, I've seen tinder clones suggested a dozen times or so here. You can probably find enough like-minded people to build it.
NOSTRGRAM UPDATE - IMAGE GALLERY, MOBILE LN PAYMENTS AND MORE!
This update is a pretty big one Nogs! You'll find a list of update below.
Haven't tried NostrGram yet? Check it out at https://nostrgram.co/
Already in NostrGram? Reload the page to access the update.
WHAT'S NEW:
1. First up, we have Image Galleries. If you paste image urls one after another in a note, rather than showing the images on top of each other, NostrGram now puts them images into a scrollable gallery that looks like this:
s/o #[0] for the idea
2. Next up, LN payments are now supported on mobile. If you're using a mobile browser that supports an extension like Alby you will see one button ("Pay Invoice") that will launch payment through that extension. However, if you don't have a webln extension but *do* have a Lightning wallet installed on your device (such as Wallet of Satoshi) that intercepts "lightning:" links, click the new button that says "Open Wallet". Your wallet app will open automatically with the invoice ready to pay.
Along with that update, the satoshis (sats) symbol is now displayed next to any sats amount. Here's an image of the invoice and the new sats symbol (s/o #[1] for creating the symbol!)
3. Updating of note stats are more efficient now, particularly so if you're running on a large screen in multi-column mode.
4. You can now disable password protection (some people have requested this). It's highly recommended you use a Nip07 extension and *not* paste your private key into NostrGram, but if you like to live and wild side and don't want to use a password either (edgy!) you can now disable in under the Advanced Settings heading of the Settings menu (also not recommended, but I also believe in your right to live dangerously).
5. Two updates for Direct Messages:
* Clicking on the contact's image in the Senders list now opens the person's profile page.
* There's a new "Find Contact" box at the bottom of the sender list. Use that to filter for specific contacts. It filters the senders list as you type.
6. Media upload stats for NostrGram are now shown in the lower-left corner of the Media Uploads pop-up window (that's mostly for me so I didn't have to keep running it manually in the shell lol). But if you're curious about how many uploads (and of what kind) have been uploaded so far, you'll find it there.
7. I added a "Details" and a "Reload" button to the system messages pop-up to make it easier to read the informational note regarding future updates (click Details) or reload the page to access the update (Reload). You'll see this pop-up in the next update.
8. I fixed a number of bugs in this update:
* FIXED: New reactions in notifications weren't always grouping as they came in
* FIXED: Couldn't copy LN invoices or addresses on mobile
* FIXED: Sometimes the newest message sender wasn't sorted to the top of Direct Messages.
* FIXED: Some full text searches weren't going through due to some old code from the previous database setup.
* FIXED: Tagging a pubkey in Direct Messages didn't work. It always tagged the person you were sending the message to.
Just seen this for the first time - love it!
Tell me though: what's the reason for an additional password beyond the private key?
This is not satire, but a genuine article from Rolling Stone, in which earnest Ernest is trying to tell people that "Cancel culture is a way for a new generation of people to practice free speech."
Remember, kids: the MSM is not there to inform you but to control you.
h/t Chris Bray
Well, if you're offering, ser...yes please
Want to see the draft manifesto of the globalist medico-security state? Here is it: https://apps.who.int/gb/inb/pdf_files/inb4/A_INB4_3-en.pdf
This is being discussed next week in Geneva. Among other actions, it proposes all signatories commit a % of GDP to be used to "strengthen multisectoral, coordinated, interoperable and integrated One Health surveillance systems".
'One Health surveillance' is not defined in the draft, but keen an eye on what is proposed. Several sources define it as ongoing, unified, interoperable, systematic collection of health-related data:- vaccine passports in all but name.
Want to see the draft manifesto of the globalist medico-security state? Here is it: https://apps.who.int/gb/inb/pdf_files/inb4/A_INB4_3-en.pdf
Who wants zaps? I’m sats rich after #[0] zapped me. Put your favorite thing about Damus or Nostr below for a zap!Agree with lots of the comments here. Micropayments change the incentives in a really interesting way: it's interesting that a (now) almost worthless sum of a fraction of a cent can nevertheless make people think about their behaviour and potentially act more positively. Of course, it helps that most of us here are techno-optimists on the journey together...
What if we're in the charging-it-up-to-zap-other-people phase? 😜
lnbc7770n1p3lvh78pp54xvwsuxjcq47e4hyaqf9czskgwx9vhje0u6v3qze6jw45hzsfy0qdqu2askcmr9wssx7e3q2dshgmmndp5scqzpgxqyz5vqsp52lfxc8meqkgql8yqgnr48z3hkzp9ey7nkq6unh42e6cddkyyj08q9qyyssqmlvxrm6zlqp0yn7e62lyk3w3dyxylh279z8cscwypf03dk5rthgn3echnqpf5ddea3q3fe7pcrxhw4lv5c3rptve30l43re02xm6casqr9ms92