My son found this leaf. Why do I find it so absolutely fascinatingly beautiful?
Make people pay for posting
Tenerife, Canarias
How's it "freedom" if it's not anonymous and private by default 🤣. It is a little bit of freedom.
Bitcoin needs more transactions.
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It's not failing, it's winning. Most people will realize this only at their deathbed
What has happened to Australia. I once dreamt of moving there. Sad.
Good morning, dusty day with Calima. Enjoy it nevertheless.
Cities preach climate action while forcing us drivers to burn fuel hunting for parking like idiots. The CO₂ from circling the block five, six, seven times a day is pure policy-made waste. Build parking. Stop the hypocrisy.
Willkommen!
Bitcoin Cash, ZANO.org, Dash and for social farcaster.com — all are working better than BTC, Lightning and even Nostr (even though I prefer Nostr over Farcaster)
Try primal.com in any browser. Pictures and videos posted via Primal don’t show. The Android app works for me though.
Not necessarily. Primal as perhaps the best known frontend is also down.
With Starlink it became less fragile than ever before?
That Primal is down because they use Cloudflare is an insult to Nostr
The more often it happens, the more I love decentralization.
We talked a lot about how social algorithms are designed to make addicted. But when are we having the honest conversation that AI is optimized for engagement and satisfaction? When a user asks AI, it will provide a helpful and satisfying answer. EVEN IF the helpful response should be: "you should do the work or make the decision yourself". Today's generative AI chats are apparently designed to offload cognitive load, not to build cognitive capacity. This makes the entire relationship with AI addictive and thereby toxic.
We're even further south, in the Canarias
I can confirm this for Spain ⇆ Germany
So, Nostr has AI bots? Sucks...
I always thought that the world is big. That there are many countries to choose from if you ask yourself “Where to live?” The truth is: the world is actually very small. When you have certain criteria, the # of countries that qualify collapses from hundreds to only a handful of options. For example: if you believe in home-schooling, no legally required childhood vaccination, and you do like sunshine, only 7 countries will match this specific criteria. Of these, some are shitholes, which leaves you with 5 options. If you don’t want to live completely detached from society (in the jungle or on a remote island) then you have 3 options left. If you want to own property, there are 2 left: Portugal and Panama. If you don’t like the EU, Panama is the only option with its own downsides – or perhaps the best option is to get a medical exemption to make the USA your perhaps best option.
Have you ever defined what principles are truly important to you – and then matched where in the world these criteria are fulfilled? You will be surprised.
I think melatonin generally is a bad idea. Fix your environment. Nevertheless, I don’t need or want these kind of regulations :D
What's wrong with Europe. Sabine Hossenfelder puts it into words.
If enough people use it, you don't need on or off ramps. Just like you can pay with the USD in Uzbekistan, and it is actually the preferred currency. The problem is people need to start using it. I also think Dash solved this problem more or less.
I say that current AI is AGI. It is not obvious yet, because we haven’t yet connected very complex and fragmented software and data environments – and for R&D to turn into real-world change is a multi-year process anyway.
Even if we stopped and freeze AI development here and now, we’d only realize that we indeed have AGI 2 or 3 years down the road. In some niches it will be faster (software or law) in others slower (complex logistics).
However, AI development is not stopping here and now. It continues to improve – I say exponentially. Even if you are more conservative, then the linear growth still has undoubtedly a large rate of change.
Today (!), we have AI models that evolved from barely completing sentences to writing code that ships to production, we have AI doing PhD-level research, and achieved gold medal-level performance on the International Math Olympiad. AI is solving medical problems that baffle experts.
Again – what is currently mostly manually prompted work in long chat conversations will soon develop into agents that can do almost all knowledge work fully autonomously.
I’m not talking about AI as an assistant, as a co-pilot. It will just straight up finish the work while you are napping on the beach.
The difference between the GPT-3 model and today’s models – whether Grok 4, Gemini 2.5 Pro, or ChatGPT o4 – is like comparing a Nokia 1011 to an iPhone 16 Pro. We went from purely text based chats to multimodal understanding – models that can see, hear, and reason across domains simultaneously. AI is starting to genuinely understand context and nuance in ways that feels human.
The next phase is not purely larger AI models, but models that learn continuously. They can remember you, plan and execute multistep tasks over days, weeks, or months.
An AI system that perfectly remembers, understands context, who never sleeps, and gets smarter every day. This is being built today in AI labs around the globe.
We have AGI today, and it is only a matter of time for us to arrive at superintelligent AI systems. Is it 2 years? 3 years? 4 years? 5 years? Irrelevant. Whether it is 1 year or 10 years, the implications are the same: everything is going to change forever.
Marathon running is socially encouraged orthopedic self-harm disguised as virtue. 42 km of joint erosion, cardiac overreach, and dopamine-chasing disguised as discipline.
Before you commit to run a marathon, take a moment and pause. Ask yourself: Why is running a marathon my goal?
Odds are, you’re either unconsciously copying someone else’s coping mechanism or seeking social reward and Instagram likes through performative suffering – and calling it “fitness”. That’s not discipline. That’s mimesis. Read Girard. You’re not chasing health but someone else’s pain prescription, hoping it will fix your own.
And if you really need to suffer publicly to feel alive, maybe it’s not your body that needs training, but your fear of sitting still without applause.
If the idea of running a marathon truly comes from your heart, then you’d run 42 km on a Tuesday at dawn with no witness. If you need a start line, a medal, a round of applause, and pictures for social media, then you are suffering through a socially accepted identity crisis.
Let’s get physiological. Marathons attack your hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, suppress your immune system, and can induce irreversible joint damage – knees, hips, ankles, worn one kilometer at a time. Cardiac scarring is a real risk. Cortisol floods. Lymphocyte counts crash. This really isn’t health but a ritualized system failure.
Discipline is not a spectacle. Movement is not masochism. Read Body by Science (Doug McGuff & John Little). Explore movement systems like Ido Portal’s (or try Kung Fu). Train for capacity, not applause.
Stop running from the void. It keeps up.