I saw this thing for Mastodon and immediately thought of the relative simplicity of #nostr and zaps
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/1/24232298/sub-club-fediverse-make-money
That feeling when your contractor gives up half way through the project and ghosts you. I wish I could afford to hire a lawyer and/or someone to finish up this mess. Somehow, I doubt that my programming skills are going to be much help.
"We're sorry your car broke down. We're sending you a space Uber." -- NASA, probably
I'm still in the "finding people to follow" phase.
We had a visitor
I am going become a Dad! What an incredible feeling 💜
We only had one test remaining. She said she was experiencing period pain and that it would likely yield another negative result. So, I already fell asleep when she woke me up to ask if I could help her read the test. I wasn't fully awake yet so my mind wasn't processing much. I got out of bed to look at the test results, seeing two lines with one being very faint. That still counts as positive result. Not wanting to get my hopes too high, we drove to Walgreens at 2am and purchased more tests. Did we take enough tests? 😂 All of them came back positive. Tears of joy. I'm going to become a Dad! What an incredible feeling it is.
I listened to this podcast recently. Fiat foods really are killing us. Woman with irregular periods this is worth a listen.
https://v.nostr.build/nqhu7JtuNnUdX83E.mp4
Rest of the podcast 👇
https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/RSV9236573124.mp3?updated=1723995635
Congrats, dude. Being a father is pretty amazing.
Thinking about this more. I think nostr is especially well suited to this. Sites like X or Facebook want to push out everything for ad-related reasons. Nostr is focused on the individual user and their needs.
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My latest podcast is out wherein I talk about coming back to nostr. When I recorded it on Saturday, I didn't expect that a couple of days later French idiocy would cause a lot of people to jump on the nostr train.
Social medial platforms like X, Bluesky, and nostr all suffer from the same weakness. They all assume that, if you follow someone, you want to see everything that person says about everything. That's seldom true, even offline. Often a person you go to for one topic is not someone whose opinions you want to see on other topics.
As an example, back when I was watching the NFL, I followed a couple of people on Twitter because I really liked their takes on the NFL. They were diving into statistical analysis in a way I hadn't seen before and they made it fun. That said, I had zero interest in anything they had to say about politics.
Here's another example. I'm really into Minecraft. A number of the developers were on Twitter. I really wanted to see what they were saying about Minecraft but I couldn't care less about their environmental activism or even what they had for dinner.
It would be great to be able to say I want to follow this person but only for this topic or I want to follow that person for everything except this other topic. Maybe I want their takes on nostr and bitcoin but not rugby.
On the sender side, this would require 1) that every time a person posts, they use some sort of topic specifier (like a hashtag) and/or 2) an LLM that picks up on the context and adds the topic that it guesses.
From the receiver side, the easy default is to show everything (which is what most people expect). Then when the sender posts something from a topic the receiver doesn't want to see, they could add that topic to the filter. Then posts that match the filter aren't shown in the main feed. (They should still be visible if the receiver visits the sender's profile.)
I'm not sure how reasonable this would be in practice but I think it would go a long way to allowing a person to curate their feeds to see exactly what they want.
#nostr #socialnetworks
I miss the days when every site has an RSS feed.
Fresh salsa waiting to go in the canner #foodstr
I do a basic mindfulness meditation from time to time as I need it.
It's always enlightening to listen to a politician and count the number of times they use words like "ban", "require", or "mandate" when discussing their policies.
I'm a gamer though it's mostly Minecraft. I also stream and do the whole content creator thing.
I was an 80s kid. I listened to a lot of everything but what stuck with me was early hip hop. (C+C Music Factory, Marky Mark, etc ) My tastes have moved on to EDM, k-pop, and other high energy dance music but I think it all started with that early hip hop.
It still amazes me how many people think that wanting to keep your own money is greedy but forcing others to give you their money is not
Let's talk about AI - Music Free Static (011)
AI and large language models are a hot topic these days and it generates strong feelings, especially among those who's lively hoods are challenged by it. Like any disruptive technology, or any tool for that matter, LLMs can be used to help or to harm.
#podcast #ai
Is Howard the Duck a bad movie? Yes. Yes, it is. It's still fun. Check out my latest podcast as dive into it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHwX-QMR8As
(An audio only version is on Fountain and most other podcast platforms.)
#podcast #moviereview