personalized knowledge graph with WoT, working hand in hand

optimized to seek decentralized consensus with other similarly constructed entities

that’s it, that’s the idea

I am re-reading Jorge Luis Borges book, "Ficciones" Here us a chatgpt summary of the 'Babylon Lottery.' Very apt.

Summary of "The Babylon Lottery" by Jorge Luis Borges:

In The Babylon Lottery, Borges imagines a fictional society where chance and randomness govern every aspect of life through an all-powerful, mysterious organization known as the Company. Initially, the lottery begins as a voluntary game of chance offering money as prizes. Over time, it evolves dramatically—eventually becoming compulsory, with punishments like imprisonment, mutilation, or even death introduced as possible outcomes.

The lottery becomes so complex and secretive that no one can distinguish between coincidence and design. The Company’s presence is so vast and shadowy that people begin to attribute all events in their lives to its invisible hand. Even the Company's existence is debated—some think it no longer exists, while others believe it controls everything.

Through this parable-like narrative, Borges explores themes of fate, free will, the illusion of control, and the nature of systems that become so convoluted and bureaucratic that they escape human comprehension. The story critiques blind adherence to systems and raises questions about the limits of logic and meaning in a world ruled by chance.

AI helping me unpack this has been useful as always. 4o’s big picture take is pretty mind blowing if true..

The Big Picture

We’re moving toward a bioengineering model where:

• DNA = parts list

• Bioelectric state = software layer that determines what parts get used, how, and where

• Tissue-level intelligence = emergent behavior that arises from cellular “decisions” informed by this field

This opens the door to non-genetic control of form and function—a kind of biological “soft programming” that works at the level of collective cellular decision-making.

My Take?

This is the real frontier. CRISPR is great for editing the genes, but if you can rewrite the body plan without touching the code, you’re playing at a higher level of control. It’s the difference between soldering hardware and rewriting an operating system.

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saying nostr does not compete with x feels like cope

of course it does, attention is scarce

What is *the* NIP-23 (long form) client these days?

Habla seems dead. Prophet is dead. Blogstack... is it still a thing?

Nobody else innovating in this field?

I want to add voice memos with transcripts. Guess I’ll need to add blossom first

Single Sign On.

I like simple frameworks because it helps to clarify and scale my thinking. Recently, I have been trying to combine the concepts of Douglas Hoffman’s ‘Network of Conscious Agents’ on how these might apply to the #nostr context and explain why #nostr is special.

I believe #nostr is special because it technically enables human agency in a permissionless way. There are two component of this human agency - decision and action. I see the publishing/posting of a signed nostr note is the result of a decision; a zap (or payment) corresponds to the action. And since every published note is zappable, it can be the recipient of ‘actions’ from others.

So mapping back to the Hoffman framework: posts are decisions, zaps are actions enabling permissionless human agency.

Your NIP-05 should point to the latest verion of your profile. That would solve a good chunk of the problems in nostr.

Nsec.app + nostr-login

basically he removed login with nsec, and the right thing to do but it creates quite a headache if you are with the phone, or you don't know about the extensions, bunker and other things

I just tried for 10 minutes to log into habla.news and I gave up. I couldn’t get past “read only” so I won’t bother with that again.

Dang, that sucks.

who’s running habla.news?