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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-21 03:41:11
Husker football is pain.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-19 20:19:33
Corb Lund's latest album, "El Viejo," is a great addition to his catalogue. Furthers my belief that Alberta is Canadian Nebraska.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-19 17:34:04
People locally wonder (sometimes with suspicion) why I'm so interested in the 120-loss season the White Sox will tie and eclipse: "Aren't you a Cubs fan?" they ask, wondering if I'm just looking to dunk on the South Side, which is something the native borns do that I've never enjoyed. In reality, I like both teams, and want to see both succeed. What I do not like is how one team treats their fans, which is akin to how Blackhawks supporters were treated prior to Rocky Wirtz.
Pretending has been Jerry Reinsdorf's MO for years. Just trying to break even, eh Jerry, poor old owner (in one of the country's largest markets). Shoot for second, you say, and keep them coming back for more. Refuse to offer big contracts, because gosh, we're just trying to scrape by. Refuse to modernize, because all that analytics nonsense is for the birds. Refuse to hire the best you can land in management. Laugh at even the remote possibility of signing Ohtani, who will soon cement his status as the best player in history.
It's abusive to the people who spend their time, money, and most importantly -- their attention -- on this team. The White Sox organization has, for almost the entirety of my life, been a literal scam. That's hard for fans to see and understand, especially when they back-ended their way into a World Series victory in 2005, when cheap players caught fire and had career-defining seasons never matched again. But take it from a Nebraska boy who is, yes, primarily a Cubs fan: you've been scammed, just as Cubs fans were scammed by the Tribune Company, milking us under similar pretenses until the Rickets family came along. Come to terms with it: that's what this season is about. You've been hoodwinked by a man who never had any intention of delivering.
The joy of setting the loss record is the scrutiny it brings. Everything is coming to light, and the chief abuser is reaping what he's sewn. This is his legacy above all. This is what he'll be remembered for.
I'm not so naive as to believe that Dump on Jerry Month will bring any tangible change. It won't, as long as he owns the team. But it's justice, and it's what everyone involved deserves.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5773947/2024/09/19/white-sox-failure-worst-season-history/?source=user_shared_article
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-19 02:55:40
lol
https://image.nostr.build/99473cd5e218585f0a75c8038016142cccf2d187e01d8b6c63c02631c95abfdf.png
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-17 20:13:55
Just mirrored my iPhone via macOS. Dunno why I'd ever need to do this, but I did it.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-16 17:16:06
Everybody's freaking out about the Bears today, but I thought they did pretty well against a team favored to win. 🤷♂️
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-12 16:59:25
Just a brilliant song. Jesse Welles prints good songs as fast as I concoct bad ideas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqAU6UcjobI
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-11 02:20:11
If the White Sox finish the season 8-8 over the last 16 -- if they play .500 ball, which they have not over any stretch of this season -- they will still finish with the worst-ever record in modern baseball.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-09 23:37:05
As is tradition, your Guaranteed Rate Crowd Report ahead of first pitch.
https://m.primal.net/KlTW.mov
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-09 23:23:15
Back to the House of Horrors. https://image.nostr.build/31bdcbba3d87c408bc60c784ef106c96179e52fe35b57108c43d1fa58738ad3a.jpg
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-09 20:52:27
In reality, unless they do business down there, Rumble is under no obligation to do anything. Make them block you.
nostr:nevent1qqs9csg6u5r35qkmj8sst3qpacljgkklm8cmx08wjnu30c7yrstatsqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygyzxs0cs2mw40xjhfl3a7g24ktpeur54u2mnm6y5z0e6250h7lx5gpsgqqqqqqssvau5f
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-09 18:48:58
Apple Event - underwhelming in every way, and the definition of 'incremental update.'
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-09 17:43:31
Apple Air Pod Pro hearing aid feature kinda nice, but consider: grandma still won't wear them.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-08 20:06:33
Alright, Bears. Not pretty. But good enough to steal one you weren't favored to win.
Get better and 🐻⬇️.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-08 17:57:01
Rational Brain: Give Caleb and the Bears time, it's his first game on the big stage.
Meathead Brain: https://image.nostr.build/65df48a2f01be9594e4bef8cf6848f8a1960d9aea8b0013ba56ed99f6b32fb46.gif
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-08 05:28:26
Yet another test message.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-07 03:49:42
Well, that was refball at its finest and I'm not sure who was hurt more, but in the end: a Green Bay loss is always justice. #BearDown
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-07 03:24:50
On every play of consequence, I expect a flag, surprised when there is none. The modern NFL.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-07 00:36:11
Ah, another season of refball with 40s in between plays.
At least Green Bay will have to deal with having the third best QB in the NFC North. 😉
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-06 23:15:44
There are convergence points, you know. Places where you can find a Tim Horton's close to a Waffle House.
I dream of a utopia where a Buc-ees sits next to the WaHo, and Timmie's is just down the lane.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-06 23:12:13
What's a guy gotta do to get a Buc-ee's in Northern Illinois?
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-06 04:28:18
The Internet Archive ruling is just a bitter reminder of how jaded I've become about the Internet. What excited me most back in the all-text days is that I could Gopher so much raw information contained in journals and books, and I dreamt of a future where everything would be digitized and easily accessible.
Of course, I underestimated greed and the iron bars of capitalism wrongly applied, and those dreams died long before the feds tortured Aaron Swartz to death. So much potential for bettering the world, and here we are, stuck behind antiquated notions.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-06 01:41:49
It's really cool that you can turn it off. It's also really cool that my extension allows me to destroy your web design by making it all dark.
Who's the real rebel here?
https://keenen.xyz/dark-mode-sucks/
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-05 18:03:02
Smart article. I appreciate that we've reached the "Wait a minute" phase in the gen AI life cycle, followed only by the most sobering of them all: defunding.
https://venturebeat.com/ai/why-we-need-to-check-the-gen-ai-hype-and-get-back-to-reality/
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-05 16:42:41
Everybody rails against Mondays, but I'll posit for your consideration that Thursdays are the real beast.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-05 03:42:25
yep, I'm 13 again, hoping I didn't just destroy the family computer.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-05 03:38:08
Sounds a lot like political partisanship, rather than a well-reasoned position.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-05 02:08:05
Bluesky has no algo persay, but yes: every user will turn against you for crypto posting. And I kind of... don't blame them? Those on the outside can't parse the subtle distinction between BTC enthusiasts and those peddling the next awesome airdrop. Those who can don't want to hear about BTC, much as I don't want to hear about stock information.
I return to the old theme: a crypto-related focus hurts Nostr adoption. I don't like it, but it's a hard truth.
nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp56wsvk59tvtj0q6rs7ggqyngszlxz7tlptl884z7qyvycur77xsqqs0h769rwgx99h5ngcn5y3e8k3dvt8m0ps7wxxkfpt5cjqw278q2lc9x647a
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-04 20:22:07
Never go full White Sox. Never.
https://video.nostr.build/c47fc94cb72f407d00844b3ca7a65b990eafe69aa28658bc917d83206a9534ee.mp4
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-04 16:16:05
To answer his question, just based off of observation: the one way to "beat" the algorithm is through activity. I follow some accounts that have gone from zero to huge without offline celebrity influence, and they all seem to have one thing in common: constant, frequent posting. 10-20 a day, every day.
That isn't my game, and I don't care. Post what you want, when you want, and if people like it, cool. If they don't respond, cool. If they criticize, hey: that's the nature of bringing anything you create into the world. I've moved away from a "larger audience" because again, I don't care about that. I care about the decentralized nature of Nostr and, hopefully one day (but not holding my breath), Bluesky.
Social media in general reinforces one of the big no-nos when it comes to creative output: you do it for yourself, not for some perceived audience or, in this context, clout gained through fake Internet points.
nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqwlsccluhy6xxsr6l9a9uhhxf75g85g8a709tprjcn4e42h053vaqqsqqqpydfksy9n6t6ftm2y6gfse5hej9jcku9xt4mhsrxwfk00wffqedzzh2
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-04 01:39:55
12-10, actually. Impossible just the same.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-04 01:35:55
White Sox Infamy Update:
In order to dodge the title of worst team in history, the Sox must finish the season with a record of 12-12.
They won four games in the month of August.
What we’re witnessing is unfathomable to the baseball stat junkie.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-03 19:58:00
Nice to have a little bit of everything. I have a Pelikan 800 I ordered from Richard Binder when he was still on the grind, always at the ready. Sign things with a Kaweco Brass. Carry a Pilot Razr. But mostly bang away with ooga-booga caveman wooden Japanese graphite pencils. Can't ever go wrong with a good tool!
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-03 18:46:25
Yet another test message. Hello in there.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-09-03 15:07:31
I’m mostly a pencil guy, but I went on an aside with some people the other day about that pen. I don’t often use it, but hard to argue with the most-produced consumer product.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-08-14 21:14:51
Kind of frustrating, really. Bluesky will Mastadon if it remains the "enemies of Elon" refuge, just as Nostr will if it's "that network for bitcoiners." It's easy to lose focus on what matters (easy, stable decentralization) when your market remains niche.
https://image.nostr.build/a8522d1820efa768cc3678b97ed72c895f7b3fb655de60fef1f8676c521f46b9.png
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-08-14 20:43:34
Now that every Social Security Number in the U.S. has been stolen, can we just agree that perhaps this isn't the best system and come up with something new?
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-08-07 22:14:15
No disputing that evil acts can have tangentially good consequences.
https://image.nostr.build/466f5a43f6bf0c6787a24e69d99b8731bb586e2b6425f353cd32fc53a2df27de.jpg
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-08-07 22:03:13
There we go, White Sox. Back on track with that L. 29-89.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-08-07 19:18:27
Still getting over the disappointment of that White Sox victory last night.
Today's a new day, though, and the 3:1 loss ratio still holds.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-08-05 16:16:51
To be clear: I'm critical not of the vision or BTC in general, but rather what it's morphed in to, which is essentially a really volatile commodity. It can never become anything *in itself* as long as it's traded alongside soybeans and corn down at the Merc. It's forever pegged to the USD, and forever susceptible to all the fluctuations that hit other commodities.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-08-04 23:01:46
...and clinging to the future after it becomes evident that things have gone off the rails is also an ever-present feature of the failed revolution: "I know it's difficult, now, comrade, but when the revolution is realized, things will be better!"
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-08-04 22:57:14
This is the reality of the present.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-08-04 22:18:49
...struggling with the disappoint befalling most would-be revolutionaries, as his noble ideal for a better future morphed, in practice, to a commodity valued by volume trading.
https://image.nostr.build/6040da85cdee014e7e010d45a546bf2b7efac7de4f36f817de46aed481f243e7.png
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-08-03 18:24:08
Look at that thing. THAT is how a smoker should look!
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-08-02 15:48:13
Hadn't listened to Bob Dylan's "Triplicate" in a couple of years -- cover albums of songs that aren't Bob's usually end up low on my playlist -- but man, is it good. The perfect overcast rainy day slow-moving album. The band is perfectly laid back and Dylan's voice is strong, yet grizzled with the experience needed to tell these stories well.
https://tidal.com/browse/album/71983194?u
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-28 02:19:36
I personally see zero threat to you all. As long as things don't actually evolve to the point where sovereign monetary policy is threatened.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-28 02:17:31
All those in the bitcoin community can hope for out of a politician is that they will leave you alone. Same thing everyone else wants.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-27 17:17:51
Just in case you missed the opening ceremony last night and are wondering what all the buzz is about, here it is. I personally think this is high art, but that's just my two cents.
(Faithfully stolen from my guy Good Tweetman on X)
https://video.nostr.build/dab16386c731edec9d251680ac2187d0f74fd02612125cbe5799ff4b2bd0ae85.mp4
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-27 15:34:24
2024 out November 29th. I recommend everyone snag a variant if you can find it in your area. Being in Chicagoland has some benefits.
https://image.nostr.build/aeb77488531165566ee847393b70b781fdfe25ead2fb6bd9a77345f544d2f516.jpg
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-25 20:30:53
Just after I whined about decks being the most important thing for social media, I see the Damus Deck invitation signup. Good stuff.
Maybe my whining can usher in its existence.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-25 17:14:32
I like what Threads is doing. Lists and Deck-styles are, again, the best way to keep up with any kind of social media.
I hate that I like what Threads is doing. This means others will be charmed by it, too, and we need to pull people away from privatized platforms.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-23 20:33:17
Speaking tomorrow. Calumny is a sin.
nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpzhmwh72ryutegfs8cpv0td4qnhvfl9q8ug5r3tq02lshlhazjdjqyv8wumn8ghj7enjdfhhx6pwdehhxarjxyhxxmmd9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qqsq3p9s4czpnv5dcy9a97dn4jfsewpf7q378pj4j7z6facvu59wz0q6rucfp
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-23 03:16:27
*A Game of Thrones.
It's been a long birthday.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-23 03:15:35
Was just thinking about how I read "The Game of Thrones" as a junior in high school. It's my 44th birthday.
Finish the series, George.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-22 04:52:48
Everybody nowadays is willing to farm out their integrity for a few quick likes. Incredible times.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-22 04:52:05
The whole "Biden didn't sign it" and "Biden was coherced" storyline is a wild gambit when you'll see him speak about it later in the week.
<s>OR WILL YOU?</s>
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-20 01:01:03
Bob Newhart was one of those familiars from the past. You remember the familiars, even if they were in the background. My parents watched his show, though I at that age was never a fan; Bob would come on Johnny Carson and I'd see him at night with my grandpa, as we both dozed.
As time goes on you lose the familiars, more and more of the anchor points that establish relationship with the world around you. Family dies, and it leaves a hole you can't articulate even if you gather the strength to look at it directly.
And at some point, you realize the twilight of your youth set a long while ago, all while you weren't looking.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-20 00:33:47
The luddite communities in the future will be amazing. Shunning tech, they will essentially shun connection. And shunning connection, the art they will create!
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-19 23:28:15
Friday Suggestion: Put the Kiddos to bed, then play one of the best albums you've never heard.
https://image.nostr.build/987eb0f8307b5432e559887c0f3695054184464eacdc7471b5f5b60db798542c.jpg
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-18 23:15:43
10/10. Does the audio sound like a kid talking into a fan?
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-18 20:53:48
Chicago lost one of its own. RIP Bob Newhart.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-18 13:29:16
Brain rot. Politics brain. nostr:note19hvan386v3grct7srmfwwre0ayysusmdqjjvzpxxkzdvvrd2ac0qpnz9w0
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-17 18:18:16
See? Couldn't help but complain about the technical side.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-17 18:17:56
Also, if I gotta get on Discord to self-host... you have some work to do, because that ain't a protocol.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-17 18:13:40
Ignoring all the technical frustrations I have with it, my biggest problem with Bluesky is the unnecessary character limit. It only existed on OG Twitter out of necessity, and there's no need for it now. I saw Jack groan over it before he deleted his account.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-17 14:41:34
Power was down for about 26 hours. Not bad, given the size of our town in relation to the scope of damage across Chicagoland. Glad my seniors aren't roasting in Illinois humidity today.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-17 04:42:45
Star Wars isn't complicated. It's a kids show, a kid's western. Good is unambiguously good, same with evil. The white hats fight the black hats, and after much struggle, good triumphs over evil. Some lame equivalent of an equally lame Ewok dances around, roll credits.
It's a billion dollar formula, people.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-17 04:36:57
My dream for Star Wars: (1) Disney sells off Lucas Film to recoup at least a little of what they've lost on buying it (2) New IP owner restores "Legends" canon, brackets and discards everything Disney has their name on.
I know it's just a dream. A nerd's dream. But it's my dream.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-17 04:29:25
What a frustrating show. In the hands of competent writers who know the lore, the basic idea could have gone somewhere awesome. The skeleton was there, but they just couldn't put any meat on the bones.
Likelihood of a second season is at a solid "don't hold your breath."
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-17 04:25:58
Would I watch another season of "The Acolyte?" Of course.
Should they cut their losses and never make another season of "The Acolyte?" Also of course.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-16 17:13:58
I'm with you. Went out 14 hours ago here. Thankful for my natural gas generator at this rectory, but most of my campus has nothing and all of town is down.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-15 20:40:17
The longer this goes on, the more I'm convinced the shooter was simply psychotic: overly political people can't help but leave a trail across the public Internet, much as I cannot resist baseball posting.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-15 18:54:34
Damus Notedeck is going to be great. Looking forward to it!
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-15 01:47:23
Me too. Hank is a legend.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-15 00:52:53
Carl Perkins was so cool, and you don't even know.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-14 18:37:54
Could say the same about baseball, honestly :). It’s all the rules and the nuances that make the game though.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-13 19:18:22
Latest build of Nostur for macOS looking good.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-13 18:45:02
It's a lot like cricket in my experience, in that it took me a good 6 hours of viewing before I understood the concept.
Then, like all good sports, you start to appreciate the nuances. In baseball, it's all about predicting which pitch is going to be thrown next.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-13 18:14:50
MrBeast video consumed. I have been dispensed my nutrition pellets for the week, and the system has now cleared me to watch baseball.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-12 21:13:23
Ready to moonshine in the sun.
https://reason.com/volokh/2024/07/11/court-holds-federal-ban-on-home-distilling-exceeds-congress-enumerated-powers/
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-12 17:42:04
One for the "Nostr is inevitable" file.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_24_3761
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-11 20:28:16
Thinking about my buddy Travis Stanley on his birthday. Classmate for four years, roommate at UIUC, same Scout troop. I hated cancer before it took him when we were 28, and I haven't gained any love for it since.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-10 19:08:18
The way Primal incorporates a wallet is beyond cool. But never forget: BTC/crypto as a touted feature of Nostr will always be a hindrance to growth, not a help.
nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzq5edsvxllcyuz0n4azc5tjp9wx8uz2cqq0mp6c0fqamjr3llly7tqyvhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddakk7um5wgh8q6twdvhszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qpqar08ngzkvjllluzg9tzqvsjwz4keztxpy4nrlv2x6qtzscyestns5dkmqd
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-10 04:04:52
Well, Acolyte improved a little. It's too bad that Episode 7 was the real Episode 1. Bad writing and story design kills it every time.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-09 19:40:22
They’re beautiful snakes, too. Remind me of ducks. Too bad for this little guy.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-09 18:45:49
Again: victory only comes one way here.
Reject the false "utility over privacy" dilemma, and start making privacy tools that are useful, and meet the definition of a good tool in general. If an app or an OS or a device or a hammer "gets out of the way," it will be easier for people to adopt, and the incentives to stay with iOS, or Google, or the privacy infringers, disappears.
I used to watch a weekly Linux show, which highlighted various developments in the operating system. It was a great show. It was also produced on a Mac, on Final Cut, because Linux had nothing that came close to the utility of this tool at that time.
If "privacy" means using bad tools, people won't use them. I won't use them either, because I no longer have time to spend on tools.
Thankfully, this is not what privacy *has* to mean. We can build good tools that are also privacy-preserving. There doesn't have to be a tradeoff.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-09 18:12:29
Had my System76 nuke during a kernel update a couple of years ago. That was not a good day.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-09 18:01:44
I think we agree that companies can take the concept of a phone and then use it for negative ends -- but that's the reality of a moral neutral. You can take a gun and do very evil things with it.
In the end, what I think important here is that there need be no tradeoff when it comes to protecting privacy and building a great tool.
When I used PGP as a kid, it meant I could email two people I knew with relative safety. That's because it forced a tradeoff in terms of usability and technical knowledge.
I now use Signal to chat with pretty much everyone in my world. Everyone in my family. That's because it's simple. It's the very definition of a "good tool," in that you pick it up and just use it and don't think about the tool itself.
GrapheneOS is an example of a tool approaching this point, although it'll always have small technical barriers. It is very stable, and "just works."
So, when developing "freedom" or "privacy" tools, whatever we want to call them, we have to keep this in mind. If they challenge the average user, they will always fail to accomplish what we want them to, and we'll have to settle for the false belief that privacy involves tradeoffs. Moxie succeeded with Signal because he'd learned this lesson by growing up in the same environment I did.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-09 17:48:02
Dunno if you saw my second comment here, but I'm not talking about the morality of the companies involved. Just the morality of the tool itself: a gun is a moral neutral. A phone is as well.
When we choose chainsaws or pens or pencils, we choose them because they do a good job and get out of our way.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-09 17:41:54
But even here, please note: I am speaking only about the tool as a morally neutral object. A phone is a moral neutral, as is a firearm, as is a gun.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-09 17:41:14
If the individual consents, then yes.
I do not use Microsoft because I do not agree to their terms.
I agree to give Apple a limited set of data for internal usage.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-09 17:37:36
The tools themselves are morally neutral.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-09 17:36:22
The success of Linux on mobile devices supports the point. Click here, update this, and move on. Certainly, it can be finicky (moreso than iOS), but Android is at the point where we can say it "just works." And as a result, people use it and like it and are all set.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-09 17:34:03
When it comes to neutrals we use for the accomplishing of an end, it's pretty much the only thing that matters. No one will buy a car if constantly breaks down just because everything about the car is ethically made.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-09 17:25:17
I love Linux and all it stands for, but Desktop is just not a good tool.
A good tool gets out of the way. You don't know it's there: it requires little maintenance and does not impede the act of creation.
The problem with Linux Desktop is that its maintenance becomes the hobby. The tool becomes the purpose. That's a bad tool, and tangentially, it serves as a warning to the Nostr community. What all you hard-working people are creating is a means, not an end. The key to good design structure, as far as I see it.
nostr:note1q5np7zntmkq3jlpj48jw5ucghnvure374jusdnv5a9mz6xh0q8tq4nn4kl
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-09 14:40:07
I’ve run Linux for over 30 years. When it doesn’t blow up at random and require maintenance time, I’ll use it exclusively. Until then, I’ll work under macOS.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-09 05:15:04
Love historical/nature documentaries. Watch multiples every week, especially whilst winding down.
One gripe, though, about something becoming more common: the interview interjection. Annoying and lazy. Breaks up the flow of the narrative. I'm sure Professor Y has good things to say, so have him help you with the storyboard. Off camera.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-09 04:49:47
If you're looking to ditch Adobe, check out Affinity. I've been running it for years and have absolutely no need for the overpriced spyware.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbnW56SFIT4
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-07-09 01:35:56
Got me that there milkshake all the kids are talking about
https://m.primal.net/JLGr.jpg