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Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 11h
I guess it wasn't but even if it was, what are other military vehicles doing in close vecinity in what I assume was an announced exercise in international waters? Was a pilot hurt? Was equipment damaged?
Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 3d
I was surprised to have found really quality ones made of plastic. My kid didn't destroy it in a long time. It was twisted up many times but always, removing the knots fixed it to perfection. The metal ones used to sit uneven after the first small accident.
How save is it? Someone close to me is taking it and got others close to me very curious and I'm just worried it's a ticking time bomb. As nostr:npub1e8wj749dylsew4pkm9ufz97hvrtk63wfy0cfq2c9gv4973q25hds8e6dq0 said: They remain spiritually fat or maybe even fatter. Ozempic for life??
... silently.
Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 4d
It makes me angry when a US citizen claims that other countries profited and the US took one for the team. It's so disgusting. People trading in US currency are really trading in worthless papers and it all works only if they pile on more and more of those worthless papers cause the US can never return what they took from the world. Chinese trade surplus is China providing more to the world than they consume but somehow that's good for China? Sure, good in terms of training that muscle but they've been working for funny money they will never be able to redeem for goods and services. World trade is not a zero sum game and there are things that are a global net negative and others that are global net positive, so maybe Bretton Woods was a net positive as it oiled global trade but as soon as the US started to abuse it to engage in endless wars it turned into a net negative for the average earthling while some few in the US filled their pockets.
Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 5d
True. They were all-plastic without corners. Very easy to clean.
Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 6d
Uhm, I wonder how stopping worked out for him 🤔
Anything flies apart if you spin fast enough.
NIP11 is a claim that's not a guarantee for the claimed properties. Just req a random event and see if you instantly get an "EOSE".
Sometimes the outcome is the desired outcome even if they claim otherwise.
Well, jumping out of the 17th floor of your building where you live on the 10th is not really so suspicious is it? Others jump off buildings where they don't live. I used to live in Studentenstadt - a big student housing in Munich and we had community apartments. They introduced those, reducing the capacity by turning one apartment per 20, to counter the common suicides of students jumping off these high buildings semi weekly or so. They wanted to close those after other places to socialize opened. Obviously students that had an apartment, asked for those community apartments to remain at their disposal and one asked polemically: "Want to see if people return to jumping out of windows?". The administration's answer was: "Nah, the trend is more towards jumping in front of trains." Apparently in Russia there is no such trend 🤔
But then it's an insulation issue. If you keep your relative humidity at around 50%, it should be good for you and bad for mold. Now if you do get mold, you have a heat bridge resulting in a cold wall or window or something.
For now, yes but AI is advancing, so we might be interviewing ghosts soon. There are already LLM generated podcasts. jb55 did even create an "interview" with me, based on my nostr posts.
Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 7d
It would really be nice if there were off-the-shelf options in all countries worldwide. In Chile I couldn't just buy a Pixel.
How? I don't think, people will realize it's going on even if the bots put heavy weights on the scale. And then people will assume it could only happen to others but their frens are all real, genuine people that if anything have their own, personal agendas but they are not bots. I went to very few conferences and very few of those I follow are indeed humans I know I met and at least half of my follows are probably not bots according to my gut feeling but LLMs will be better at pretending to be human than most humans themselves, so at some point, the only genuine encounters will be in the real world and not online.
Whatever. It could be accounts just lurking, spreading memes appealing to a certain demographic to then subtly spin sentiment when needed for example when more people need to care more about the next uni-party president's strong issues. "I'm just a pleb but candidate X has a point there" from enough of your follows and you start doubting your values.
Uhm, ... nope. Relay operators optimize for profits and not for genuine interactions. If the bots pay the $1.5 per month, they are welcome and as long as they don't focus on gay porn and obvious spam, they are welcome to stay forever. I'm not talking about overt spam but about subtle nudging. On nostr, you can't de-platform somebody but you can make the protocol no fun for them and their followers with very subtle and cheap interventions.
And you are a hybrid - half Danny half LLM. That's the other thing. LLMs could color our social interactions as we more and more rely on them to write anything longer than a "gm".
They are but engagement is not irrelevant. If I constantly get replies from my bots and these replies sound smart, some of my followers will follow these reply bots eventually and they can spin narratives then. See, I just replied to some random account that might well be a bot, I gave credit to it by engaging with the argument and might get influenced by seeing you getting likes even though these are also irrelevant but clients show them with no distinction between likes from within my circle and random likes by accounts that don't have a profile or followers.
How to avoid spooks? I've been thinking lately about governments trying to subvert nostr or whatever censorship resistant network and I'm convinced that bots can be used to totally bend our perception of who's worth following and who's outright crazy. Bots can be used to give clout to some and take it from others. And there is not really much one can do to fight this. If Alice has deep pockets to spawn an army of bots to follow and amplify her view and discredit Bob, others will follow that dynamic at least at some rate. If most of your follows are inclined to follow Alice rather than Bob, you can't get out of Alice' clout amplification. We can curate who we follow and we can limit what we see to people we follow but unless we are hyper paranoid, we will end up following bots and spooks as clearly we want to at least see what our follows are interacting with.
