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Guard your time, guard your dreams.

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2026-03-06 13:26:24 UTC

Can’t keep a curious man down.

2026-03-06 13:12:45 UTC

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Maybe America needs is another ‘80s decade to get out of this malaise. Somehow there was a vibe shift from the chaos of the 60s and 70s and Americans started believing in America again. Communism fell, Top Gun, Knight Rider, RAD, Hulkamaniacs everywhere, and the USA rode that shit strait into the new century. It seemed to turn on a dime too, like a switch was flicked and suddenly nobody gave a damn about free love, and everyone full-sended into Capitalism. Why? Was it all just money printing (and a lot of cocaine) or was there more to it than that? Of course, America still ended up here after 40 years but that was one hell of a can-kick!

2026-02-26 18:29:37 UTC

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Beats me. But I’ve realized I’m tired of this adversarial dynamic wrt social media. To the point I may abandon it entirely. I’m here to interact and hardly anybody wants to, everybody is selling something, and while there are a handful of people, yourself and a few others, whose perspective I enjoy, I’m tired of wading through the junk. I’ll just come back when I have something to promote.

2026-02-25 17:58:01 UTC

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Fantastic album.

2026-02-25 12:50:40 UTC

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So many people, with so little space to dream big. Dreams were always available to the downtrodden and ambitious. It seems the space to dream has been filled with the empty calories of media companies and their influencers - for the scoundrels are so efficient at claiming your time these days in the tiniest of increments.
Those that have the space to dream seem to have reclaimed it consciously. Carved a nook of time out of block once claimed from them by others.
Guard your time, guard your dreams.
#nevent1q…j2ds

2026-02-24 21:21:04 UTC

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Welcome Zach

2026-02-23 18:08:07 UTC

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Half as long.

2026-02-23 17:05:43 UTC

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#nevent1q…8etx

2026-02-23 03:35:35 UTC

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Squirrel tacos have been on the menu.

2026-02-22 22:07:05 UTC

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Good thinking, I’m the same. If I’m going to eat dessert, it better be real food.

2026-02-22 19:20:20 UTC

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Damn right.

2026-02-22 19:19:39 UTC

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Looks interesting. I’ll try it soon. Thanks for the idea!

2026-02-20 16:00:52 UTC

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Gorgeous

2026-02-20 13:42:54 UTC

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You know it when you see it. It’s also obvious when it is something else, even if you can’t quite place what that something else is, exactly. Partly because, like most of these “movements”, multiculturalists, globalists, et al, never really define clearly for everyone what they want, the end-state, and one wonders if this is because the main goal is to simply get as much as they can.
I’m also not sure if your average western person that bangs on about the superiority of multiculturalism imagines themself actually being required to live it. At least by any rules that are not their own which, paradoxically, were likely shaped by their western values.
The argument I see a lot is that cultures always change and so this is natural. To that I would say that the modern flood of immigration to all western nations was not unplanned. Planned does not imply natural cultural evolution. It implies underlying purpose. The question nativists, multiculturalists and everyone in-between should be trying to find the true answer to is: What is the purpose?

2026-02-20 12:48:22 UTC

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Pretty funny reading all the back and forth.

2026-02-20 00:03:12 UTC

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Ask your local IRS.

2026-02-18 01:39:48 UTC

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What’s the name for a program that replicates while it spreads from device to device again?

2026-02-16 15:45:35 UTC

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Though I’d love to have the PhD too! Teach a man to fish and all that.

2026-02-16 11:56:05 UTC

A heuristic that has served me pretty well: if tech people *and* finance people are all publicly congratulating someone about something and you use that thing, start looking for your own “exit” immediately.

2026-02-16 02:17:23 UTC

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I think it’s simple but not obvious. More on the order of Twitter shorthand. Which is fine, just not for everyone - but you have to draw the line somewhere I suppose.

2026-02-15 17:51:54 UTC

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Teach by example. You and me both, brother. Got to teach how to properly vent frustrations and still get shit done.

2026-02-15 16:15:28 UTC

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I spent a few minutes looking for the proper way as it wasn’t obvious, for me anyway. Different clients have different options as well, though copy note id was the common one, probably should have tried that first. Thanks man, appreciate the guidance!

2026-02-15 14:39:41 UTC

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Man, I’m with you.
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2026-02-15 13:48:21 UTC

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Basically you’re saying banning social media on the internet is pointless because it’s impossible and only lead to further censorship of the internet itself. Seems logical, but still left with the problem of “social media”. Maybe it is a problem that requires humanity to touch the stove. But that could be a high price to pay and a very long road to travel before understanding. Maybe the market self corrects then and incentives become virtuous. Maybe we just get stuck in a cycle. Maybe we are stuck in a cycle, just the amplitude is higher due to the tools available. Wild.

2026-02-15 13:37:36 UTC

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2026-02-13 14:56:14 UTC

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https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqswt5yah63529hm8efhf76tz8vdh7jzey4r6y4lnd3cdykyyyrh8tc0juss3

2026-02-13 14:54:57 UTC

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Social networks are not the problem. The incentive structures that have perniciously turned these networks into what we know today as “social media” would be a better place to focus efforts.

2026-02-12 11:24:50 UTC

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It’s the middle part that’s… tricky.

2026-02-11 13:36:05 UTC

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But I do mostly agree here - affordable childcare is a manufactured, yet real, issue today.

2026-02-11 13:34:50 UTC

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It was still a problem. Just a different type of problem and more manageable.

2026-02-11 11:46:08 UTC

I just wrote something that was really retarded. Then realized how retarded it was. Then deleted it.
This is called a “filter”. Everyone has one, but fewer and fewer use them these days.

2026-02-09 13:44:14 UTC

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Yeah. I hope I’m wrong and robots bridge the gap.

2026-02-09 02:03:53 UTC

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Booth is theoretically right. But you have to get there without people killing each other.

2026-02-09 00:00:45 UTC

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Btw, not being pessimistic here, I think it’s fantastic but the knowledge gap is getting more expensive.

2026-02-08 23:56:56 UTC

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For those that can use them. The gap is going to widen before it narrows. And that is if the value isn’t captured first.

2026-02-08 23:49:10 UTC

Guys, check out this awesome piece I found for the fire. Channels the flame perfectly. #firestr
https://blossom.primal.net/f16a7b59924802568381a61b4d58d065a4b1205e3f7e8fcefb085b90172f89b5.jpg

2026-02-06 03:12:00 UTC

Things moving too quickly for you to understand is an opportunity. An opportunity for whom is debatable.

2026-02-05 11:53:11 UTC

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The latest thing is blue. Now back to your regular programming.

2026-02-04 12:49:59 UTC

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Been wanting to try my hand at focaccia. Looks great.

2026-02-02 13:14:10 UTC

Well it’s Groundhog Day, again.

2026-02-02 13:13:40 UTC

I wonder how LLMs are going to change our common language. I think you already see signs of it: politicians and other public figures inserting swear words into whatever shit they’re selling to make it seem more authentic rather than something pooped out of whatever LLM the intern is using.
I picked the wrong time to post long, well thought out questions and observations to the world. Nobody is going to care what I think.
Wait, nobody is gonna care what I think! Awesome!

2026-02-01 22:18:31 UTC

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Thanks for the tips! Looking forward to completely botching my first roll soon.

2026-01-31 19:43:36 UTC

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Let me know your tips for first timers.

2026-01-28 02:10:07 UTC

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“Government overreach” means what? Part of the problem is these things mean different things to different people and everyone talks (screams) past each other.

2026-01-27 14:00:40 UTC

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“I'll give you a winter prediction: It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life.”
Actually quite enjoying the winter so far this year. Good skiing, if a little brisk.

2026-01-27 13:41:09 UTC

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Same. https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqswxv2g67fwwjy4qe2glvg0laq3k0ym6669nk5q3pgmf6y3dz7ex4g94aafw

2026-01-27 13:39:40 UTC

The worst, most despicable capitalist in the world still must provide something that someone wants in exchange for some fee. What must the worst socialist do?

2026-01-27 13:04:52 UTC

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Lies must be maintained. Does truth need to be maintained?

2026-01-27 12:09:23 UTC

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Typos are life. lol.

2026-01-27 12:06:42 UTC

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Got it, treat it like a 7year old with a gaming addiction.

2026-01-27 12:05:19 UTC

I’ve been seeing a widening tech gap for ages. There is a large segment of society that doesn’t want, or care, or think they need to leverage AI. Most may just be in a position where they simply must choose between living without AI now or potentially starving with it later) and instead are waiting for it to be spoon fed to them by corporations à la GUI operating systems and web browsers. If it happens again, if the innovation is captured, I wonder if the wealth gap gets wider? The rising tide will lift all boats, eventually, but time continues to be scarce and I’m not certain if the wealth gaps don’t get worse before they (maybe) get better.
“Well, what if there is no tomorrow?! There wasn’t one today!” — Phil Connors

2026-01-27 11:42:50 UTC

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Brilliant! Lol!

2026-01-27 11:40:02 UTC

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Well that would solve the money part, any ideas to solve the time part?

2026-01-27 11:37:21 UTC

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@npub1s05…eyhe do you have any guidance on setting up a bot? I remember @npub1s5y…6q7z mentioning he was doing something similar ages ago and asked if he had an update but never saw anything. Just curious as I teach myself everything.

2026-01-27 11:33:28 UTC

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Few people care what I think but I’m trying anyway! @npub1s05…eyhe
#nevent1q…fj5t
#nevent1q…vv5h

2026-01-27 00:20:32 UTC

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lol, same.

2026-01-27 00:19:53 UTC

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I’m in the same position. Fighting the urge to sink time and money I don’t have into it at the moment.

2026-01-26 00:20:01 UTC

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Skillet pizza night! #foodstr
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2026-01-26 00:15:33 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/b16e8efd1af374da95f11514e6f27874b621118ce396acf0e2f222a094c700d6.jpg

2026-01-25 23:57:47 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/f37be2cacc74ec4a0befb1795652d1746bcebecef49242270f3c11168c20c573.jpg

2026-01-25 23:45:51 UTC

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Nope!

2026-01-25 23:37:50 UTC

Guess what I’m making? #foodstr
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2026-01-25 19:48:37 UTC

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https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqspfpev0an56nt905ajjyvkmj08vtvq5tg9x3nwywuzu52wap7nz0svlgdqr

2026-01-25 18:10:49 UTC

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Kind of like true leaders never want to lead?

2026-01-25 17:53:26 UTC

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#note1950…hz09

2026-01-25 17:27:37 UTC

You want your kids asking you so many questions that it never occurs to them to ask ChatGPT. You get this by giving them your attention when they ask you something and then exploring their questions with them until you both arrive at answers you find are true and hopefully interesting.
#dadstr

2026-01-25 12:05:59 UTC

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If bitcoin is money and money is speech and speech is information and information wants to be free then the only way to capture value from bitcoin is to gate-keep it and charge a rent and all money making ventures that involve bitcoin and no other useful service or product are just a variation on this concept.

2026-01-25 11:43:28 UTC

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“I don’t know, Phil. Maybe it’s not a curse. Just depends on how you look at it.” —Rita

2026-01-25 00:22:33 UTC

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It be like dat.

2026-01-24 23:40:41 UTC

“When you ain’t got nothin’ you got nothin’ to lose.”
- Robert Zimmerman, Minnesota native

2026-01-24 20:09:40 UTC

Me: If I break it into manageable chunks it probably wouldn’t take too long for me to read The Story of Civilization. I just have to be consistent.
Kid: Hey Dad, want to have an hour long conversation with me about black holes and the origins of the universe.
Me: Yes, yes I do.
#dadstr

2026-01-24 17:00:29 UTC

If you’re not even slightly annoyed about your country’s national debt then consider that each unit of national debt is a claim on the productivity of the nation. And also consider that productivity growth went parabolic in your lifetime (internet and computers) and that your time, your life, was commoditized during this process, on purpose. You got to keep your typical work weeks, if you were lucky, and your time was then repackaged and sold back to you as 401ks, PTO, low quality goods, and bureaucracy.
Bureaucracy becoming one of the only ways to work a job (not in finance or tech) and (sort of) keep up with inflation by positioning yourself slightly closer to the printer. Wages for all others were kept stagnant or if possible decreased in real terms and governments, and the “independent” fed banks, worked together, along with mega corps, to capture the spread…
And they all want to run the same exact playbook in age of AI. Except now they’re not going after your time, they’re going after your children’s and grandchildren’s future.
Annoyed yet?
So, what to do about it? As the late economist Chris Farley once said, “No idea.”
To me it seems there is a common thread out there that “we” need a “reset”. But it has been hard for me to pin down exactly who “we” is and exactly what a “reset” means. Maybe because it doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone.
Some think we are headed for another Great Depression (capital destruction), some think we are heading towards a quick hyperinflation (paper/debt destruction), and almost nobody thinks we can grow or cut our way out of the situation.
Seems this last one is most desirable for everyone, almost. It only works for most as long as it isn’t co-opted by politicians, the fed and banks, and the “global elite” and as long FANG companies don’t suck dry the next productivity boom. That’s a lot of variables that need to stay constant for growth to save the world for most people.
More likely, value from productivity is captured by these other entities, as they have done before, unless they are forced somehow to behave while the reset happens around them, or they are unable to capture the value by removing them from the new monetary system, or more likely, they are convinced it is in their interests to not be bad actors.
FANGs (an extremely apt term for their business models) are not nationalistic. They will gladly abandon their birth country, and its people, if it means more profit elsewhere - many already have. And Bezos will live at sea, Zuck et al will live underground. It seems in the current monetary system the way to stop this was if there was nowhere to hide. Which could be partly why so many people seem to worry about another world war - nowhere to hide.
Politicians are almost never for the people they claim to represent. If they were they would be universally hated. Right now most people seem to only hate the other side. Ipso facto, most politicians seem to be mainly sycophants, narcissists and opportunists these days. Again, all willing to sacrifice your future to the very last second, until it means obvious and imminent consequences for themselves. Which could be why so many worry about a civil war.
I wonder if a way out is for everyone to have more skin in the game. There’s a lot of ways this can happen. So many relinquished responsibility for their own lives to government and tech. Recapturing personal responsibility would mean reputation may matter more than attention again. At least, there would be a more immediate cost to destroying your reputation, so it’s not so comfortable, sometimes profitable, to just start over, indefinitely. Several paths exist: top down mandated responsibility combined with ubiquitous surveillance and enforcement (socialism sticks) or restoration of true incentives (capitalism carrots), probably more exist too.
I like the second path. True compensation for time, quality products for people’s money, quality education for their families, quality environments in which to live their lives. These would all create true losses for those that try and manipulate to their advantage and get caught. But more than that: it creates achievable wants, small, daily wins to those that work for them, and maybe that staves off this nihilism people keep talking about.
I also wonder if, to achieve any of this, the virtual world needs to fade into the background. And I think it is, slowly, which is probably preferable to quickly. AI could be a catalyst to speed up the process though, dramatically. Most people don’t want to have to know about AI, they want AI to simply do the thing. Then they won’t have to search, and prompt, and read LLM screeds, and then make more decisions, and then interact more with other websites to do the thing. Once all of that can be obfuscated for any user, maybe thats when the “virtual world” they’ve all been talking about for the past 50 years could take a back seat to the real world again.
It’s tricky though because obfuscation creates opportunities for bad actors. If the value created from this is packaged and captured for just a comparative few, either directly, or indirectly as it was last time, the inevitable consequence will be that we again will find ourselves in a position of needing another “reset”. And probably sooner than the last time it happened.
I don’t know though.

2026-01-24 13:56:21 UTC

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I’m trying to figure it out as well but my guess is it does file transfer at a longer range than Bluetooth would allow.

2026-01-24 13:43:31 UTC

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Seems like it is Dropbox but is person to person and not person to Dropbox to person.

2026-01-24 01:14:37 UTC

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It’s really hard for me to stay interested past season two or three of a show. Enjoyed the John Adam’s mini series a while ago. Watched Cheers start to finish years ago. That was a commitment, but the simplicity of the show was refreshing and, for having so many episodes, they didn’t repeat storylines too often.

2026-01-24 00:56:26 UTC

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Looks like under 1000 is supposed to be okay and outdoors is something like 400? Is that what health maxxers are targeting?

2026-01-24 00:09:17 UTC

Warm orange beef on a cold winter day. #foodstr
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2026-01-23 16:03:23 UTC

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True. And agree with you there for sure.

2026-01-23 15:55:26 UTC

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I prefer doing earthdowns.

2026-01-23 14:56:06 UTC

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When used at the right range with the right ammunition. I could use a little more precision at the moment.

2026-01-23 13:29:15 UTC

My thinking lately has been like a shotgun. It gets the job done but is inefficient.

2026-01-20 13:57:55 UTC

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https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsf0aelhmqvrzl9v57qr5m7vj7hgyfm642t7qawtpcjumzankajans5ay952

2026-01-20 13:35:31 UTC

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#note1jcd…8e59

2026-01-20 13:12:55 UTC

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Humans are hardwired to compare, everything. They especially compare their idea of themselves to their perception others. Social media has been a catalyst for this type of comparison and allowed people to compare themselves easily, with everyone, everywhere. This isn’t an accident, it has become the primary way to hijack and monetize your attention. Before social media (and television) you compared yourself to your friends and neighbors, in real life, who were largely in a similar position as yourself. This created a dynamic: constructiveness was valued over craziness.
Advertising executives want you to have a relationship with what they’re selling. With an extreme increase in competition for attention (as communication became easier through print, then radio, then television, then the internet) while simultaneously lowering the opportunity costs to create and maintain relationships (mainly through social media) the dynamic shifted from constructiveness to craziness as advertisers began to reward those that could hijack the most attention.
The like button created instant reward from people that users had real relationships with and this was the Trojan horse for shifting the value of those relationships to the platforms and advertisers. Eventually, real relationships were replaced by transactional relationships. These no longer require mutual benefit to maintain because the incentive (money) no longer comes from the person giving their attention. That person is just signaling that their attention has been captured through likes, follows. The advertisers are the ones who pay, they pay only for access to brains, and so long as “content creators” can keep collecting attention above the attrition rate they will get rewarded by those advertisers.
In this dynamic, crazy gets rewarded over constructiveness.
#nevent1q…lsd7

2026-01-19 13:05:43 UTC

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Never underestimate the boomer effect.

2026-01-19 02:09:49 UTC

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Typo, f-it, let’s ride.

2026-01-19 02:07:31 UTC

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Avoidance will paradoxically will create the very conditions for failure you so desperately wish to avoid. Instead focus on what you want to make happen.

2026-01-15 14:56:19 UTC

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I don’t know exactly but if it was chronic, then not good things, for most modern people. I’m fairly sure it is a contributing factor to why men die earlier.

2026-01-15 14:13:25 UTC

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What happens to a system when it is coddled?

2026-01-15 12:38:19 UTC

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… if you’re right, right?

2026-01-15 11:20:46 UTC

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Thinking about it a bit: my favorite teachers were those that took a direct approach with me on why I was being taught these things. I tended not to like those that took a managed approach to my learning, almost like keeping me out of the loop of my own education. It’s why I generally can’t stand MBA-speak in the real world. I can usually sniff out an agenda immediately with those people.

2026-01-15 00:14:46 UTC

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Dang that sucks.

2026-01-14 23:35:34 UTC

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Favorite teacher?

2026-01-14 20:41:30 UTC

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https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqstuss445kuq4t9khkpcw3dxtfy37x48w9p373vl548fuflhzph2nst68sn7

2026-01-14 20:34:34 UTC

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Given the state of things, I’m surprised there hasn’t been a resurgence of “America, love it or leave it.”
https://youtu.be/_vw3OOhQAwE

2026-01-14 11:04:45 UTC

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It’s amazing to me that everyone knows the problem is somehow related to social media and yet nobody seems interested in solving the disease and instead jumps around treating all the symptoms. You can feel it, can’t you? Somehow, if Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok didn’t exist, the US would more likely be better off today in that alternate reality. Why?

2026-01-10 12:39:06 UTC

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Show pride in your work, your skill, your children. Show some pride in yourself, as all people should, humans are amazing. But elevating it above that, internalizing it, and taking pride in things you have no hand in creating or maintaining and making that your guiding principle in life is a poor path to take.
#nevent1q…65jm

2026-01-09 00:19:30 UTC

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The prize is fantastic. Fascinating time.

2026-01-05 13:04:43 UTC

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It was like a dreamland. Work emails coming in hot last night as everyone got a jump on things. I spent time with the family instead.

2026-01-05 12:58:35 UTC

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Here’s what I got: https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsxzj6lh9erjnnc4wjp9m0vkxt0gwftr2dwrqvhgumfgfpqretcvqgjsthq2