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IQ tests were administered to the defendants at the Nuremberg trials and the hierarchy within the third reich almost perfectly mapped onto cognitive performance.
The scores ranged from a high of 141 to a low of 106, which belonged to Julius Streicher. Streicher was universally ridiculed within Party as being an idiot and Goring (138) openly despised him for being so stupid.

2026-01-12 06:36:44 UTC

10 years on, I’m still waiting for the memristor revolution. Looks like photonic chips might take the market before memristors, but the promise of PIM hyper-dense neural nets, written into reprogrammable crossbar arrays is still so tantalising.

2026-01-12 06:32:23 UTC

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The hype around the Steam Frame is unreal. Depending on how it’s received and reviewed when it launches, especially compared to the cheaper Meta kits, I might pick one up

2026-01-11 23:08:48 UTC

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It depends on what the ‘something’ that they do, is

2026-01-11 11:08:09 UTC

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The European Union styles itself as the defender of democracy in some acme of hypocrisy, but its institutions are technically undemocratic. The European Parliament holds no legislative initiative. Bills are proposed by the Commission and voted on by the Parliament and Council of the European Union. The only body of the seven European institutions to be elected by the citizenry (the Parliament) cannot craft laws at the pleasure of the citizenry. The thing is an unaccountable bureaucracy and it is riddled with technocratic idealists.

2026-01-11 02:16:15 UTC

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Thank you for bringing our attention to this matter

2026-01-11 02:01:47 UTC

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We need a Constitutionally entrenched Bill of Rights with a right to force a referendum on new legislation, based on the Swiss system. Any petition with 50,000 signatures forces a referendum so the public can veto Parliamentary excess

2026-01-10 13:44:11 UTC

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“Tread on me”

2026-01-10 13:41:22 UTC

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Elon’s all server-side thinking I guess but Apple’s product lineup looks set to be a hero for local inference. MLX, Universal Memory and Apple Silicon make reasonably large models accessible to pro consumers and hobbyists. Exo labs + mac studios can get pretty sophisticated jobs done.
In an ideal near-future, households would have a locally run always-on model with full access to the owner’s personal data. It would act as a mediating layer to interact with frontier models to carry out long-horizon tasks for the household without leaking sensitive data to third-parties.

2026-01-10 13:25:14 UTC

A Nostr client with an integrated Small Language Model to handle timeline recommendations would be elite.
It would read through and tag content posted to relays and populate a ‘For You’ feed, without exporting user data to a third-party for profiling. It could also work across nsecs and if the user’s preferences were stored as a .json then it could be shared between the user’s devices. It would need to be sufficiently lightweight to run on local hardware or an iPhone’s neural engine to handle everything privately. Ideally, you would be able to tweak its recommendation via natural language conversations.

2025-01-30 22:53:41 UTC

Will Trump be Sulla or Caesar

2024-12-04 14:51:29 UTC

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Let’s go to Mars

2024-12-04 14:50:28 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/2730b7d2a57d191203951dddb0eb9fcecd5a7df2a4c49a18b687887d808dd83a.jpg

2024-04-09 14:40:11 UTC

The Santa Maria was the 150-tonne carrack that sailed Columbus to the Americas. 150-tonnes is within the payload limit of SpaceX’s starship.
I propose we build a replica Santa Maria and launch it into orbit around Mars as an eternal homage to human exploration.

2024-01-30 11:53:40 UTC

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Without an existing National Service system in the U.K., it’s difficult to predict exactly how a draft would be organised. While the U.S. maintains the Selective Service System that requires the registration of all 18-25 year-old men, and nations with active draft systems like Singapore, Taiwan, and Israel conscript new adults, this may not be the modus operandi of a modern draft. Ukraine has notably not opted for this system. The Ukrainians instead chose a *minimum* age of 27 for draftees and only under pressure from inadequate recruiting have floated the idea of lowering this minimum age to 25. The Western World suffers from top-heavy populations that skew towards mature adults & elderly. There have been too few children to fill the ranks of future workforces much less take massive casualties in peer war. The same number of babies are born each year in the U.S. today as were born in 1955 (around 4 million) despite the U.S. having doubled its 1955 population.

2024-01-19 16:21:59 UTC

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Work on what you guys would have admired together

2024-01-11 16:12:38 UTC

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long call* not long put

2024-01-11 16:07:50 UTC

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Maybe it’s a bilateral contract. One or a few parties trading large quantities at a pre-agreed price. Like a put option with the long position selling into the market at a discounted price to clear

2024-01-11 16:05:46 UTC

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Are you talking about incoming volatility?

2023-09-14 14:30:12 UTC

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When Eglin Air Force Base (appendix 1, appendix 2, appendix 3) testifies before Congress that Aliens are real and in the USAF’s possession, but people are so disillusioned by the past 3 years that the collective response is, “but really?..”
1: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf
2: https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.redditblog.com/2013/05/get-ready-for-global-reddit-meetup-day.html
3: https://midbaynews.com/post/members-of-congress-lambast-eglin-general-over-ufo-information

2023-09-14 14:09:20 UTC

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ahhh so serving orgs? How big is nostr now? are there any mid-sized businesses at work here

2023-09-14 14:07:49 UTC

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Urban dictionary is still around and up to date, it’s your rosetta stone

2023-09-14 14:04:16 UTC

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nah boi gen z speak is lit fr fr. Dun hold back lmao we need ya

2023-09-14 13:54:10 UTC

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right, right. I see your name each time I hop on and just assume.

2023-09-14 13:52:41 UTC

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oh yes, the gratitude lick

2023-09-14 13:52:14 UTC

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What are Zap Splits?

2023-09-14 13:51:34 UTC

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@npub1r0r…q9ac is Damus coming to a web linx / non-Apple client any time? Apple looks as if it likes holding removal as a bargaining chit.

2023-09-14 13:49:10 UTC

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I’m no great dog shaman but perhaps you should feed him

2023-08-07 12:29:52 UTC

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This is of course a glaring vulnerability to our civil and political freedoms.
#Austriches #ARC #Australia #CBDC

2023-08-04 15:20:40 UTC

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Eggs and the fur
(and the fur)
the whole club was looking at her
she hit the floor
next thing you know
shorty go low low low low low low low low

2023-07-27 06:22:31 UTC

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Now eat it with a knife and fork like a psychopath

2023-07-19 04:13:27 UTC

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Any more ideas, @npub1sg6…f63m, on open-source hardware? Even curious about non-concrete brainstorming, like whether or not it’d be built on a custom RISC-V or what mobile OSs you’ve been impressed by

2023-07-16 13:49:19 UTC

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Yeah I believe you, I’m just jealous

2023-07-16 13:47:05 UTC

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Hi mate, welcome to Nostr and I hope you have an absolute romp on here

2023-07-16 13:34:04 UTC

Have people here been made aware of Canada’s censorship of news media in Canada? The Trudeau administration is odious and dark, and has dispensed altogether with its facade of liberty. That Government is totalitarian in a real and unfortunate sense. I don’t think it’s melodramatic to label it.
https://twitter.com/Harry__Faulkner/status/1679999025460781057?s=20

2023-07-14 16:30:58 UTC

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$600 per month altogether, right? Including hosting for all users
why do relay providers provide this service to me and others for free? Is it passion for the cause or is there some other income for them that recovers their costs?

2023-07-14 14:22:16 UTC

So who actually pays for my use of nostr? Do the relay hosts get charged for me?
How am I using nostr for free?

2023-07-14 14:20:32 UTC

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Congratulations, mate! To you and the dad, that’s super exciting :)

2023-07-14 14:00:44 UTC

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lolll 😂

2023-07-14 13:59:34 UTC

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I wish my ancestral home was called Bumblefuck

2023-07-14 13:58:58 UTC

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@npub1xts…kk5s I think nostr could become a major player in the media space. How's that UI coming that you've been posting pictures of recently? The concept looked awesome

2023-07-14 13:57:04 UTC

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Idk about inevitable but there’s a strong impetus in favour of nostr. As legislators throughout the West craft censorship laws, traditional social media will become increasingly sterile and boring. People with any curiosity in them might be drawn to nostr for novel or interesting information.
Hopefully, this will drive demand as Governments double-down on their bossiness.

2023-07-14 12:59:54 UTC

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Yeah I like to think he’d be the biggest BTC bull in town

2023-07-14 12:37:13 UTC

If Orwell was alive today, he’d be censored on Meta and spend his days being interviewed by Joe Rogan and tweeting quips to Elon Musk.

2023-07-14 10:47:43 UTC

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Innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, laggards

2023-07-14 07:11:19 UTC

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It’s a complex one with important pros and cons on either side.
The cons to supporting Ukrainian independence is of course the Sino-Russian alliance. China is too damned threatening for the Anglos / Transatlantics to be getting distracted by the Russians.
But on the other hand, the war in Ukraine has far-reaching implications for the Three Seas Initiative (3SI). The 3SI is an economic and infrastructure grouping among the Eastern European counties (those post-Soviet states from Estonia in the North to Bulgaria and Croatia in the south), which is culturally different to Western Europe and becoming increasingly concerned with the apparent authoritarianism of the left-wing EU parties.
The 3SI is lead primarily by Poland and may, in the future, arrest some control over the European Union away from the Franco-German progressives. However, this will to a large degree depend on the outcome of the Ukraine war.
The twelve 3SI states currently possess 223 seats in the European Parliament (compared to 231 held by France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg). If Ukraine is admitted, with its 40+ million citizens, then the 3SI will likely command around 265 seats.
This means that a strong 3SI might actually bring about a legitimate conservative faction within European politics, but it depends on the level of economic and political autonomy of the eastern states.
The 3SI is punting heavily on LNG to secure its base load power requirements (which is, of course, pissing off the Western Europeans to no end). The Three Seas Initiative Investment Fund (3SIIF) is building out LNG terminals, pipelines, generators etc, which is hoped to supply them with cheap and reliable energy to underpin their economic growth in the years ahead. In 2012, Ukraine discovered 2.3 trillion cubic metres of natural gas under its share of the black sea.
If the Ukrainians win the war then they will almost certainly accede to the 3SI (as they will be tremendously politically indebted to Poland and other members of the Bucharest 9). In that case, Ukraine will be able to underwrite the economic development of Eastern Europe with cheap and reliable energy. It’s reasonable to assume that this will lead to a rebalancing of political power within the EU as well.
At the moment, the two major parties within the EU are the Socialist Democrats (S&D) and the European People’s Party (EPP). While the EPP claims to be conservative, by Anglo standards it is also progressive left. This means that the EU presently does not have non-progressive representation in Government.
The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) is a conservative party (free market economics, free speech, national autonomy etc) and is most successful in the eastern European 3SI states (chiefly in Poland). Depending on how quickly the 3SI can develop economically, within a decade we might see a legitimate counterweight in Europe. Victory in Ukraine will not only grant the 3SI more seats in Parliament than Western Europe, but will also expedite the attainment of economic autonomy (and therefore, political autonomy) in the post-Soviet states.

2023-07-14 07:11:14 UTC

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2023-07-14 04:34:13 UTC

What Lightning wallet do y'all recommend?

2023-07-13 03:42:40 UTC

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Leave it to the french to turn eggs into water

2023-07-13 03:40:14 UTC

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💯

2023-07-12 12:48:38 UTC

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Lol, I made it up brother

2023-07-12 10:33:10 UTC

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I believe it’s a congluficant — a device that turns raw egg yolks into fresh drinking water. It was used by the Sumerians and the Incas during droughts when they had a surplus of egg yolks but not enough water for agriculture etc

2023-07-12 10:28:56 UTC

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That’s the face you make when you’re thinking “I should have bought btc when it was cheap, I should have bought it”

2023-07-12 10:27:51 UTC

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Gorgeous bit of bush, man
Pretty sunny for winter too, especially for SA. I would have expected you guys were constantly being pounded by ocean winds from the bite

2023-07-12 10:26:07 UTC

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It’s simultaneously the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen but also beautiful

2023-07-12 10:25:19 UTC

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I’m awake, I’m here, do you read me? Over

2023-07-11 03:21:58 UTC

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Also, ½ kg of gold is almost exactly equal to 1 BTC

2023-07-11 03:18:17 UTC

AUD $50 note ≈ 1 mBTC ≈ 1 ounce silver bullion.
Pretty neat approximate conversions atm
#Austriches #Australia

2023-07-11 03:03:17 UTC

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A decentralised store of value is not enough. Developed capital markets perform other functions as well, like lending (“inter-temporal consumption”), which requires the aggregation of funds from small savers, risk-sharing, separation of ownership & management etc. BTC might open the door for new entrants into financial markets once again, but complementary services that underpin modern capital markets will need to be built as well. One might be decentralised credit scores (perhaps credit scores for public keys to open the door for anonymisation) etc.
A decentralised currency for the vox populi is a crucial and fundamental first step, but capital markets are multivariate machines.

2023-07-10 13:07:38 UTC

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Straya

2023-07-10 11:30:20 UTC

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We don’t have an explicit Bill of Rights enumerated in our Constitution so there was no equivalent to the 2nd Amendment that would contradict legislation from Parliament. This also means that freedom of speech in Australia is effectively upheld by culture so :\
I’m really, really, really sick of tyrannically-minded people and their obsession with attaining political power

2023-07-05 03:02:42 UTC

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Man that’s a shame, I had high hopes for Purism’s hardware

2023-07-04 13:58:38 UTC

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Just gotta keep plumping nostr

2023-07-04 02:50:07 UTC

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<3 @npub1xts…kk5s
This interest that some Governments and some unelected political bureaucracies have taken in throttling FOSS AI tools is threatening beyond belief.
It seems to me that NOSTR is the perfect antidote to such slippery ideas. AI must, *muuust* remain broadly accessible, customisable, and private. That has to include customisable training data sets as much as the models themselves.
Keep going, mate. Bravo
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-eus-attempt-to-regulate-open-source-ai-is-counterproductive/

2023-07-03 04:40:05 UTC

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Ya, odysee

2023-07-02 08:53:05 UTC

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Hallo 1: Cambat Ivolved

2023-07-02 04:47:43 UTC

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Spoken like a despondent whale

2023-06-30 03:00:38 UTC

“Indigenous Australians need a voice to Parliament”
Ahem — what do you think a Parliament *is*?
Indigenous Australians already have a voice in Parliament — it’s called *the Parliament*. We have universal suffrage so indigenous Australians, like all Australians, are represented in Parliament.
Not to mention that there are already 11 (eleven) indigenous senators and Members of Parliament in the Federal Government. That’s ~5% of Parliament. What portion of the Australian population is indigenous? 3.2% per the 2021 census. Seems to me that if you wish to salami slice the population along racial lines (and you shouldn’t) then representation exists in proportionate abundance.
So what is it that Labor’s seeking in the Voice to Parliament? Labor’s remaining strategically ambiguous about its aspirations for this Constitutionally-mandated body so we’ll have to look elsewhere for what could come of this.
Senator Alex Antic considers it a third chamber of Parliament. Unelected by the majority of Australians (who will be subject to whatever unspecified powers it will manifest). Former PM, Tony Abbott, regards it more broadly as a fourth branch of Government enshrined in the Constitution. Indigenous political campaigner, *literal communist* (as in the former Communist Party of Australia), and driver of The Voice, Thomas Mayo, has a few thoughts of his own.
He’s been at it again, spilling his beans this way and that way. He has now publicly solidified his ambitions by stating that the Voice will grant this indigenous council (odious race-based political body) the ability to “get its hands” on Australia’s superannuation policy.
Yuck. No. Hideous, bad, awful, terrible, stop it. No.
#Australia #Voice #TheVoice #Referendum #VoteNo

2023-06-29 09:08:39 UTC

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So wait, have the Dems decided on whether or not they’ll host debates for the Primaries?

2023-06-29 09:06:34 UTC

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We’re 5 shy of a legion

2023-06-29 09:04:00 UTC

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Is Harris definitely returning as Biden’s running mate in ’24? I’d have expected the Dems to force her to sit down given her approvals. She’s at 49% disapprove to 32% approve

2023-06-29 08:06:52 UTC

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1QMJlAAidQ

2023-06-29 07:20:23 UTC

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Ahh, I see. Yeah this is pretty cool mate, I’m loving Nostr so far. I’ve been seeing Jack rave about Nostr for a while so thought I’d give it a try and am pleasantly surprised. It’s pretty lively

2023-06-29 03:20:47 UTC

#Space #SciFi
Loving this guy’s art.
https://twitter.com/dennnnnnx https://nostr.build/i/f93e65006d6adcf992bbfb0d570e3ba41e25623526687223e11fa2a7e898b86f.jpg

2023-06-29 03:18:06 UTC

https://nostr.build/i/d408489ffe4fc533a74b6c22bb086600a6c9100c9ea7c8065f5614404e1661bd.jpg

2023-06-29 03:16:04 UTC

Test to see if linking photos show up
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzKf2Q3WIAAS78B?format=jpg&name=large

2023-06-29 03:06:30 UTC

#introductions
Hi Damus. This is my first note but after checking out the platform for a couple of days, it looks like there’s a reasonably active user base here.
I was brought here by this charming bit of news:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/06/21/australia-could-fine-twitter-up-to-475000-a-day-over-hate-speech-concerns/

2023-06-29 02:53:14 UTC

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Genghis was one of history’s great generals and a surprisingly measured ruler (given the setting), and he’s remembered for his unbelievable military excellence. I’m reaching back into my memory, but iirc, of Genghis’ 63(?) battles against Khwarazm II he won 61. But you’re right, the empire was an impressive and short-lived affair.

2023-06-28 12:02:33 UTC

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That’s a pretty tall order, mate. You can’t even use the USD in most nations to conduct basic transactions despite its unique status. I think a decent litmus test will be the ability for a devoted experimenter to live on nothing but BTC for a year. I suspect that would involve leasing a room as a sub-tenant, buying food in bulk from a farmers market, plenty of p2p trades for second-hand goods, and potentially conscripting intermediaries to purchase products / services from registered businesses and paying the intermediary in BTC. I imagine it’s fully doable if your’e committed but you’d probably need to be committed — at least where I’m living. In some hypothetical scenario where CBDCs placed quotas on lifestyle, the difficulty would be getting businesses to transact with BTC lest the tax office comes down on their head on various creative justifications.
But to actually answer your Q, I’d say hyperbitcoinisation might be somewhat common acceptance of BTC by banks for mortgages or landlords for leasing.