So Adam Curry is apparently pro-algorithm, which I did not see coming 

 It's been a while since I announced any new nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpr3mhxue69uhksmmyd33x7epwvdhhyctrd3jjuar0dak8xtcprdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuam9wd6x2unwvf6xxtnrdakj7qpqmlcas7pe55hrnlaxd7trz0u3kzrnf49vekwwe3ca0r7za2n3jcaq2c89ta  episodes, so in case you missed them, here are the last few:

On signers, with nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qg7waehxw309ahx7um5wgkhqatz9emk2mrvdaexgetj9ehx2ap0qyd8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndp5hgen0wf3k2tn0dejj7qpqxdtducdnjerex88gkg2qk2atsdlqsyxqaag4h05jmcpyspqt30ws52n6k3 : https://fountain.fm/episode/t0TJUY3C4i8frfzC26Fm

On chachi, with nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3wamnwvaz7tmxwfjkuuewdehhxarjxyhxxmmd9uq3samnwvaz7tmxd9k8getj9ehx7um5wgh8w6twv5hsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj9e3hjurgv4e8qatwdvh8gmmyv9uj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejz7qpq07jk7htfv243u0x5ynn43scq9wrxtaasmrwwa8lfu2ydwag6cx2q759yrf : https://fountain.fm/episode/xkZIvgCibHyc9OaUZ0y3

On zap.store with nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj7enfd36x2u3wdehhxarj9emkjmn99uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmny9uqsuamnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dshszxmhwden5te0dehhxarj9esku6tdv4hk6cttv5hxxmmd9uq3gamnwvaz7tmpd3nk7tn4w3ux7tn0dejj7qpqwf4pufsucer5va8g9p0rj5dnhvfeh6d8w0g6eayaep5dhps6rsgs6qdvsl : https://fountain.fm/episode/NH0S9PClgN3B7NzrRt3E

All great conversations, thanks to all of you for coming on! 

 For anyone out there thinking I'm exercising tribal thinking when I criticize bluesky, stay tuned for the next nprofile1qyw8wumn8ghj76r0v3kxymmy9e3k7unpvdkx2tn5dahkcue0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgmwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8wetnw3jhymnzw33jucm0d5hszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qpqmlcas7pe55hrnlaxd7trz0u3kzrnf49vekwwe3ca0r7za2n3jcaqn2vus3 in which I interview the developer of a "competitor" protocol for two hours.

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I want freedom tech to win. It doesn't have to be nostr. But so far, it is. 

 Someone should write a dunkpiece on bluesky and post it to hackernews 

 Just used an LLM to fix my linting errors. It was a lot slower than doing it by hand, but still... codebuf is kind of neat 

 I literally dreamed about signers all night. I even woke up in the middle of the night and explained some trade offs to my wife. 
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 "Government, by its size, its momentum, and its authority, will not only perpetuate errors of doctrine or of policy, longer than they would otherwise retain acceptance, but it will multiply their effect on a geometric scale, as against the arithmetically cumulative effect of those errors if confined to individuals or smaller groups. The errors of tens of thousands of individuals, all thinking and probing in different directions and moved by different impulses, tend to cancel themselves out or to be softened by the attrition of doubt and disagreement. But let any one error become sanctified by government, and thus crystallized as truth, and little short of a revolution can discredit it or cause it to be discarded.

"An easy illustration of this principle is the witchcraft terror in the early days of the colonial government of Massachusetts. If there had been no governmental power to give phantasmagoria the semblance of reality by official decree, the common sense of a majority of the citizens would have kept this manifestation of fanaticism from ever having such widespread support and cruel results. But once government had authoritatively said, 'This is truth,' then the hitherto doubting citizen was willing to join others like himself in accepting it as truth. And we have at least a dozen idiocies, equally repugnant to man's common sense and sound experience, being perpetuated by our government in Washington today."

Robert Welch, The Blue Book 

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https://image.nostr.build/4f92a139be5bb7f3e2587efaf8d014ab7aa0e208df38a91bf42270560cebea1a.jpg 

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 nip 46 is a never ending fractal nightmare 

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 I've got another monster blog post on signers coming soon 

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 Why is no one talking about Grover Cleveland? 

 The absolute state of "hacker" news
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 This gives me an idea. You could implement blocking by pulling your target's muted words list and always appending one of those words to your notes 🤔

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 Watched Band of Thieves this weekend (which was pretty good), and was struck by a just slightly more concentrated dose of profanity than usual. Maybe it was the juxtaposition of the dorky main character and the amount of fucks coming out of his mouth, or maybe it was quantifiably more than usual, but in either case it got me thinking.

Why is our culture increasingly profane? Why must we punctuate all our communication with meaningless allusions to aggressive sex acts or scatology?

My wife an I have been watching "classic" movies more often in the last year or two, including On The Waterfront with Marlon Brando, the Bicycle Thief, and Casablanca. In every case, the pace of the dialog is quite slow, and the gravity much greater — despite an almost complete absence of emphatic profanity.

This can be seen in modern movies as well. Slow movies in general (think Dune or Interstellar) feel more meaningful. Marvel movies feel like cotton candy in contrast.  In modern movies though, the gravity comes from the subject matter rather than the inherent drama of human life — vast stretches of space, time, or war. More mundane subjects having to do with normal people almost always seem to be approached with a certain level of irony or flippancy.

Marshall McLuhan says that "At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential." We live in a frantically fast age, that has outpaced the gravity of the human. The natural recourse is to attempt to keep up, but in doing so we lose the dignity slowness confers and are forced to resort to frantic insistence on our right to be heard. We scream, swear, panic, and twerk.

But of course, no one hears. The natural response to noise is to tune it out. The more we stimulate the senses, the number the senses become.

The most memorable people I have met are people who have not succumbed to this cultural panic. They are not people who project their emotions, but who carefully choose their words, and if in doubt prefer not to speak. They are people who have filled themselves not with their own thoughts, but with the thoughts of others, through study and memory. They are people whose silence speaks volumes.

I'm not like that. I'm uncomfortable with silence, and think best while talking. But it is something worth aspiring to. To be the kind of person whose dignity and gravity slowly expand. Who have a deep well of wisdom to draw from, which they dispense sparingly yet abundantly on the people they come into contact with. Whose eyes say more than their mouths.

There is one man in particular, whom I love. He always carried a pipe in his pocket or his mouth, vinted wine from his own grapes, did a little woodworking, and always said very little. Every Sunday, eyes closed, he would recite Psalm 103 to his small congregation. When he read the Bible, he would entirely leave off his own commentary (even though he was a pastor), simply reading the passage and closing the book afterward. At his funeral, and dozens of people shared stories of how this man had changed, or even saved their lives.

All of this came from a deep humility that came from spending many of his younger years without any idea what his purpose in life was, and from many personal failures and disappointments subsequent even to his calling. A "long obedience in the same direction" brought this man to the end of a life full of ups and downs, in which he was able to say that as he looked back, all he saw were the peaks, rather than the valleys.

Lately I've been challenged by Christ's words in Matthew, not to "worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble." No amount of thrashing productivity, frantic overwork, or boiling frustration can improve things, because our times are not in our own hand. All we can do is wait on God — and he will renew our strength.

Profanity is often a panicked bid to be heard by piling on emphasis. But panic is a form of fear, and perfect love casts out fear. "The very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows."