Just finished reading Euripides.
After reading Bacchae, I feel even more disgusred by the display of Dionysus at the Last Supper at the woke as fuck Paris Olympics.
#books #Greek #history 
I can highly recommend following and listening to this fine gentleman. nostr:note17a6summc37vwzkparjx3wycdpm4f2sex0axr5246ldy3e8pephfsw62f5n
Amazing! So good to see that you are here! Big fan of your Youtube content. Going keto/carnivore about five years ago has saved my life.
One of the best documentaries ever made...
Indeed. One should think twice before posting anything here.
Also: No relay can possibly store all content if Nostr ever goes mainstream, so there is a chance that, unless you run your own relay or pay for one, public relays will only save a few days worth of your notes and then notes will simply disappear - which would actually be good as well.
I think social media should be a nervous system or neural network of society. Long-term memory should be blog posts.
Yea the Udemy course starts with shading techniques and then basic shapes and then drawing simple objects using the learned techniques.
This. The state actors have not arrived on Nostr yet. Interactions here feel human.
I get 10000% more engagement here with 60 followers than I got on Twitter with 3,400 followers (I was/am probably shadow banned since COVID over there). nostr:note1yl3e6fzvrwac4tluj46u046hfr20vvnurer56dyy0qzgw6pfqahqf5l3kx
I'm planning to learn how to draw at age 42. Main reason is, I want to instill this skill on my daughter so she learns how to observe the world in detail as early as possible and hopefully be able to entertain herself with a low time preference/long attention span activity early on as well.
I subscribed to a Udemy course and got myself all the equipment (pencils, paper, rubbers, artist tape, compass, ruler).
Has anyone gone down this route with success and can recommend learning resources that really worked?
#asknostr #drawing #learning #art
Aww man! One of my top five all time favorite SciFi novels.
Good thing the PSVR2 utterly flopped and the PS5 Pro is ridiculously overpriced for basically no real gains at all.
All my gadget-money is now ready to be deployed to a Switch 2. Nintendo always wins in the end :)
As an analytical person and former psychologist, Iâve always been fascinated by studying human behaviorâespecially in the digital age. The idea of sharing oneâs life online is an entirely new phenomenon, unique to this century.
While reading âHatching Twitterâ (though Iâm not convinced weâre getting the real version of that story), one of the early chapters mentions that no one would feel comfortable sharing their life online. Today, that thought seems almost bizarre when you consider how nearly everyone is doing just that. However, Iâm left questioning how beneficial this has been for humanity as a whole.
I find myself comparing this to the invention of electricity, which fills me with awe and a sense of advancement. But when it comes to the tech revolution and its effects on the human mind, I have my doubts. The original intention of social media was to make people feel more connected and less alone, but paradoxically, it feels like people are more isolated than ever before.
Last year, I took a significant step back from social media. I shut down my online business, deleted all social media apps from my phone, and nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m can vouch for thisâeach time he showed me something from one of those apps, I felt disgusted with what the world had become. During that time, I felt truly free, as if I had finally taken off a mask. However, I also noticed an odd side effect: I felt disconnected from the world. I wasnât updated on what my friends were doing, and I missed that sense of social interaction, even if it was superficial.
One of the most intriguing aspects of social media is how followers, likes, and engagement seem to dictate peopleâs sense of worth and relationships. People can become genuinely offended if someone they know unfollows them, to the point where they may not want to maintain an in-person relationship anymore. Itâs as if the virtual world is dictating real-life connections: âOh, you unfollowed me? I guess we canât be friends in real life.â Itâs a strange, almost absurd shift in human interaction.
Another bizarre aspect of social media is the idea that people who donât resonate with youâor even dislike youâcan still follow your life closely. They can see what you think, feel, and do daily. Ex-lovers and people from your past are just one click away from finding out what youâre up to nowadays. This level of access to personal information still feels surreal to me. How much information we handle and share without second thoughts is, frankly, unsettling.
In the end, while social media has undoubtedly changed the way we connect, it raises the question: has it truly improved our lives, or are we more isolated, less authentic, and increasingly detached from genuine human connection?
#FoodForThought #AskNostr
Btw, GM Famđš
very well put. what you say is true.
if we just want to feel more connected to our friends, all we need is a handful of group chats with various friend and family circles. Signal can do that just fine.
Social media seems to have a different role in our civilisation's tech stack - and it turns out, that role seems to be the spreading of propaganda and disinformation by powerful actors.
Maybe - if we manage to free social media from centralised mega corps (Nostr being our best bet), the TRUE potential of social media can emerge. I don't think it is about "feeling more connected" at all. It seems to be just an efficient crowd sourced mechanism of spreading information far and wide.
We need private chats for "feeling connected".
We need self-hosted blogs for long form thought.
We need forums and reddit-style media for sharing and discussing useful information (ie those long form blogs).
We need social media to share "BREAKING NEWS" and all other noteworthy long form content (ie blog posts or relevant reddit-style discussions).
The problems we need to solve is:
- how do we stop people from self-censoring in reddit-style discussions out of fear of getting downvoted, moderated or even banned if one posts something that goes against the narrative
- how do we stop bad actors from spreading a tsunami of fake news and misinformation on social media
- how do we stop "gathering likes and followers" from being an incentive on social media - that just turns everyone into a narcissist.
Check out https://new.iris.to for a ReplyGuy-free Nostr experience. When logged in, it hides replies from people who are not in your social graph. You can display the hidden messages by clicking on the button underneath.
There's also "Adventure" feed for showing all notes from your social graph:
I have worked on it together with the Nestr "decentralized GitHub" team. Nestr frontend and Iris are built from the same codebase using build configuration options for different branding and features. You can easily extend the configuration to make your own branded version. Source code to be released soonâ˘.
The client is based on NDK. Full SocialGraph up to 2nd degree is downloaded on first login, and thereon only missing follow lists are queried. I'll be experimenting with options to go beyond 2nd degree.
The graph is serialized and saved locally in a compressed format, which is much faster to load than it is to reconstruct the graph from Nostr events. My graph consisting of 260 follow lists and 23000 users is 3 MB on disk.
It's still very much work-in-progress and mostly tested on desktop Brave, but it's already my favorite way to browse Nostr.
very cool, but one problem is:
as social media posts virally spread by people re-posting them, you are supposed to get mostly replies from people that you don't know at all - that's where the wisdom of the crowd comes in that makes social media so powerful.
if you only get replies from people that you follow - most of them likely don't even follow you back - you basically just have a group chat with your closest friends, a small echo chamber.
But did it cost $20,000 to write this? If not, it's basically worthless!!!
By taking over the social function of being a caritative human, the all-pervasive modern welfare state kills off what the ancient Greeks called the 'ThymĂłs'. ThymĂłs symbolizes the individual striving for honour, for justified pride, arising from the giving, emanating quality. Is is one of the decisive sources of power in the civilization of mankind; to damage it, which in the broadest sense is the core program of communism, evokes degenerative decay. We can witness the symptoms of the disappearing of the ThymĂłs everywhere in the west nowadays.
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I just read Herodotus' Histories and learned that one reason why the Greek prevailed against Xerxes and his 2.5 million Persian invaders was because the Greek were free men and Athens was a Democracy, so these men fought for their own freedom and their own personal rights. Xerxes men were slaves and fought for nothing.
I think Nostr is immune to this. At least that's my hope.
Quite sad and damning that even the big brains at MIT couldn't figure out a solution for the stated problem (decentralised anonymous storage).
I know that, I've been using lists for Twitter for years, long before Follows even was a thing.
But it's a systemic issue. If one my follows uses the For You tab, they will inevitably retweet deranged content and flush it into my Follows tab as well.
Pretty sure it is still a crazy thing. There are no nanobots in any vaccine.
That is true, but also nonsense at the same time.
Since the entire app is completely rotten to the core with disgusting content like this, it is impossible to scroll through the timeline and not stop at content like this.
Just stopping to scroll for a millisecond, maybe because you looked at your child for a monent, already tells the algo that "you want to see this", even if you really dont and never actually clicked into it.
It is impossible to use X and never "engage" with disgusting content.
