Unlimited wishes today 🧚🏼‍♀️☕ #flowerstr

Tested out a new technique… ₿ engraved into polished orange calcite and then filled in with a mixture of epoxy and calcite dust.

What do you think?

But it's a Nerd Future, not an Influencer Future, so it's hard to get any publicity, on here, but oh well.

It will get built and be used, even if only people who can #NameTenBooks can be bothered to look at it.

There are actually a lot of nerds, out there. Nerds are a huge market. 🤣

Texas 🤠

Some good points have been made to me about my last post that I think I should address.

#asknostr at end of this post.

When I posted this, I was considering all kinds of “intervene” to be covered at the far left of the graphic. This includes both merely verbal and potentially physically violent situations.

Really, these should have been two separate categories. Men who physically intervene to prevent rape ARE HEROIC. That isn’t basic decency. They are risking their lives.

And even if it isn’t a violent fight, but putting your hand over a cup so the other guy at the party can’t put a pill in it and he knows you are watching, I still call that heroism.

If I had made this graphic, I would not have crossed out “heroic” even for only verbal intervention, by which I mean calling out someone else’s “joke” or victim-blaming. I tend to disagree, at least in this case, with those who think there is no moral obligation to speak up in these particular situations, but I still think it’s beyond “decent;” I think it is GOOD to speak up.

The graphic only mentions men as accountable, but of course women are accountable too, and men are also victims of rape culture, for example, the acceptance / embracing of prison rape. I think we should speak out against all of it.

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What do you think — are social dissociation and ostracism more effective tools than speaking out against things people say?

I don’t think the first can be that effective without the second, at least for in-person interactions. nostr:note1ke43h9cmzpvehdq6pldlx3rzmv674tynr3z9ekkvyswcs395j4kqcws7k9

guys I tried to do a back bend and it did not go well for me

If they're curious enough, please point them our way. We want to build a home for them & their work.

Wait... they have both. Just have to find ones with the "USDA Organic" stamp on the label, like this one.

War is peace

A good hot sauce is a such a cheat code.

#Peatstr

Sit you down on a couch and ask you “how much of life is predetermined?” Now roll this 20-sided die and spin the wheel 😆

I guess it sorta seems like pie-in-the-sky stuff.

I think we move slowly, like a glacier, working in the background on stuff like an AI for mass-converting PDF to Asciidoc, and performance improvements, and containerizing the server landscape and etc., so it seems like nothing is going on, even tho it's a small horde of active developers, admins, and testers scrambling around.

But it has to handle millions of publications and one publication could be the Encyclopedia Britannica. We have to revamp and reengineer a lot, under the hood, but it seems to be working. Better than we originally expected.

It's sort of weird how few people have ever checked out Nostr e-books (Kind 30040). We don't really mind, as replacing Amazon Kindle with something more functional, elegant, and uncensorable is a good bet, but it's still... wierd.

It's the only branch of Nostr that contains anything anyone might want to censor. After all.

Been on the job a month.

Realize it is going to take me at least 11 more months to properly understand the oral architectural decision log, the labrynthine tech stack, the niche problem space, and the logically impenatrable domain language.

It's remote. All my Zoom calls dodged. Everyone is too stressed and busy to field my questions.

I was just given 15 points of complexity to turn into features in a week.

Now eat this shit