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therealnewyorker
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Father. Husband. Software engineer. Musician. Photographer.

Would anyone else like to see this feature added? nostr:note12cn4ktfpxgng74sgn5tc8a50x76laycsmrp47mhj6h8gzl4qeg9s6hmlzf

For anybody who needs to laugh tonight, this never stops being funny to me: https://youtu.be/jqFdeC7_0_w

Goodnight 👋🏻

Sadly I think We aren’t far behind France. What’s more sad is that people are less likely to wake up to the fact that the media and politicians are using every lie they can to divide us, and more likely to fight each other along ideological lines. Those divisions have been growing deeper and more entrenched ever since Obama stoked the fires of group identity politics

If I follow someone, are there relays automatically added or can I only see their notes if I add at least one relay that they use? The former might be a good feature if that’s not already what happens

I recently read some excellent articles by people over at base camp who got rid of cloud and brought everything in house again. Aside from the data ownership they saved millions

I’m gonna do this but also when I get time I’m considering writing my own one too

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

The single most important thing is integrity. Going back to the dawn of humanity, integrity is the most important ideal. Reputation among peers.

I'll critique certain platforms and technologies dispassionately. When I brutally talk about the Fed, for example, I have no grudge against Jerome Powell as a human being. He's not doing a bad job for the situation he's in; it's the institution and the technology around it that's corrupt, not him as a person necessarily. To the minor extent that he is fair game to get meme'd as its figurehead, it's because he chose to participate as its leader. But I meme him in a way that is not negative towards him personally, and mostly just funny. I imagine Powell laughing if he sees any of my memes of him. I view him as neutral, so I neither attack nor defend.

When a high-integrity person succeeds, I'll quickly shout it out to support them. If they fail, I'll assess what happened and likely support their next thing, within reason. Business is hard, but people with high integrity get multiple shots.

When a low-integrity person succeeds, which is usually but not always through unscrupulous means, I'll acknowledge it but inspect it to see where the shortcomings were and broadcast them. To the extent that they become apparent, I'll point them out. When it comes to success, truth is important, and so those that try to succeed without truth are worthy of criticism.

In 20,000 tweets, I've been polite to everyone except maybe five people at most, and I stand by being impolite to those handful. On the other end of the spectrum, there are plenty of people who I disagree with at times, but who I view as serious people with high integrity. I purposely stand down with public criticism against those types, and will be more strategic or private with any criticism that I have.

That's the benefit of integrity. You get networks, and you get support. You don't get to bend reality, but you get flexibility from your peers when things don't work out, and you get instant promotion when things work well.

You’re absolutely right. I wish as a society we could get back to this way of thinking - attack ideas not people, because most people are just doing their best

I’ve always been curious about this and maybe you’d be more likely to (or able to) give a more transparent answer on here; what happened at Twitter? Did it grow too big and unwieldy, resulting in you and your employees doing their best to moderate, or did government influence become too strong? I never thought you were a bad dude, especially after the chats on joe Rogan, but it’s never been clear how Twitter ended up where it did

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Was there a follow-up post regarding how ‘god fits into this’?

“Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion”. A good quote from Mohammed Ali. In other words work your ass off and get yourself set up to enjoy the rest of your life

This was like a Greek tragedy in 2 pictures

I’m brand new to it, only been here for a couple of days. I’m definitely gonna create some relays and then go from there. Any ideas?