Got bitten by a neighborhood stray cat earlier breaking up a fight between it and our cat. I know, I should’ve stayed out of it; but ours was definitely getting its ass kicked and this isn’t the first time.

I did well, grabbed the bastard by the scruff of its neck and lower back skin in a way that I had total control and he couldn’t get me. I made it fairly clear he wasn’t welcome and then when I was trying to let it go at the edge of the garden it spun around and bit my wrist pretty bad.

Kids gloves came off at that point and the cat did a windmill into the pavement by its tail. It limped away, but I don’t know if we’ll see it again.

Initially, my 9 year old was pretty shaken by the level of violence. We sat down and had a talk about it after I’d cleaned myself (and our cat) up.

I’m a firm believer that you shouldn’t ever go looking for a fight but you that you also shouldn’t ever shy away from defending yourself and yours if one comes your way.

This is a bit of a small time example but I think it’s important that kids both know that their parents have the ability and the readiness to look after them, and that in certain situations violence is the right answer.

#fuckelon

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People always assume fraud but when it comes down to it, fraud is so miniscule it's almost laughable to assume fraud took place. But that's when fraud actually does happen though, when we get complacent. So it's always good to have due diligence done. It just seems wild that it takes this long, even though it always has. We are just an impatient society I guess.

Random European police? They can't.

NSA: maybe, though I doubt it and they would have to be very conservative in using that ability.

Don’t put words in my mouth.

Nobody saying people didn’t die.

My grandfather was blown to bits in France.

Your emotions aren’t facts though.

For reals reals.

I don’t know. I just feel like the whole holocaust story has some holes in it that need filling.

1+1 =2 not 6 million.

Oooooh. Someone just finding out about Canada. 👆

Spicy.

Sourdough is illegal in Canada

A couple more Death Star construction desktop wallpaper attempts.

Generated with mflux on the flux.1 dev model. These take about 20 minutes each. You can see the rough composition with 5 steps, and then make the final thing with about 42 steps.

It would be nice if the model could spit out the main source images it used, and if a Nostr client could then tag their npubs to share in zaps.

"Let's ignore for a second that it's all about Bitcoin" - you see how they fail doing that in the comments because they just can't get over themselves.

I’m surprised by the amount of ai luddite energy on here, it’s bizarre. Almost every reply to my ai posts is dismissive like a boomer saying bitcoin is going to crash: “the ai is lying to you bro, you’re so naive”.

People who say this aren’t paying attention to the rapidly increasing capabilities of these system. If hallucinations are the main critique, then humans are already much worse at this, and ai systems are only getting better. They are becoming less hallucinogenic and less sycophantic as they get larger and more fine tuned.

I believe advanced ai is one of the most important inventions humanity will ever create, even more so than bitcoin. Maybe the ego can’t take the idea that there could be other systems in this world that could be smarter than us.

It doesn't feel right to immediately start the description of nostr off with "we are just like these other things but apolitical"

our strength isn't that we are rebuilding what X, bluesky or anyone else has built. but instead that we are actually using cryptography, unlike them...

Was doing some updates to nostr.com. Is it okay to put Bluesky here?

I totally agree but if you're in Canada or the UK and you accidently misuse someone's pronoun, the gooberments will try to hurt you. We're at peak clown world right now!..🤡💩

I don’t really understand this kind of criticism (and not to pick on Will here, it seems to be from ~everyone).

Bluesky took a different approach - first build a product people want whose technology supports decentralization, and add the features the geeks want later. It’s easy to shit on their lack of decentralization, but Bluesky has made clear and consistent progress on that front since day one, and I assume they will continue to do so.

The result has been a product that’s growing (those user stats are pretty realistic, doubly so when you look at the number of accounts actually posting real content) way more than nostr with tons of anti-centralization features that nostr is missing (anyone can create a feed algorithm, and there are many, decentralized content tagging is a really cool innovation - different “adult content” tagging services, opt-in different moderation services, etc).

The federated model of Mastodon led to a trainwreck of fiefdoms run by weirdly obsessive and controlling mods, but Bluesky took that and addressed the issues by splitting moderation from hosting.

Sure, Bluesky’s hosting model means you don’t get the relay-redundancy that sets nostr’s censorship resistance apart, but that’s not all that hard to add in the future (with the sync assumption they make making it easier to make efficient, too).

Building the kinds of stuff Bluesky has on nostr is gonna take a huge investment, we can’t leave folks like Will stuck building critical nostr apps by himself. nostr:note1vpteqdxxlgkjndhghhlu4n47aj2sra5vgmdr465y4yfzwcshglvqrqann4