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@Andercot Fill in the cosmic dark ages

Dark Side of Moon craters are shaping up to be the best physics labs in the solar system: - Ample supplies of helium-3 - Low noise RF environment - Pink Floyd soundtrack

@kyliebytes Great choice! Really inspiring book

i have spent the last month talking to people building hardware and i am totally and utterly pilled. Currently reading Freedom’s Forge at a bar, we need an abundance of American built actuators NOW!!!

@cremieuxrecueil Slightly less bot followers and bots in comments shilling crypto

We're something like a week into the bot purges. Have you noticed fewer bots?

@YIMBYLAND Force them to vibe code and earn some money with it instead

Public caning and then 20 years.

@PaulSkallas I think everyone would prefer this over casinos

Surprised they don't build data centers on native american land. I feel like they would take a big payment. Normal business.

@Noahpinion *unarmored

The age of the rifleman is over

Something I've been thinking about - I am bullish on people (empowered by AI) increasing the visibility, legibility and accountability of their governments. Historically, it is the governments that act to make society legible (e.g. "Seeing like a state" is the common reference), but with AI, society can dramatically improve its ability to do this in reverse. Government accountability has not been constrained by access (the various branches of government publish an enormous amount of data), it has been constrained by intelligence - the ability to process a lot of raw data, combine it with domain expertise and derive insights. As an example, the 4000-page omnibus bill is "transparent" in principle and in a legal sense, but certainly not in a practical sense for most people. There's a lot more like it: laws, spending bills, federal budgets, freedom of information act responses, lobbying disclosures... Only a few highly trained professionals (investigative journalists) could historically process this information. This bottleneck might dissolve - not only are the professionals further empowered, but a lot more people can participate. Some examples to be precise: Detailed accounting of spending and budgets, diff tracking of legislation, individual voting trends w.r.t. stated positions or speeches, lobbying and influence (e.g. graph of lobbyist -> firm -> client -> legislator -> committee -> vote -> regulation), procurement and contracting, regulatory capture warning lights, judicial and legal patterns, campaign finance... Local governments might be even more interesting because the governed population is smaller so there is less national coverage: city council meetings, decisions around zoning, policing, schools, utilities... Certainly, the same tools can easily cut the other way and it's worth being very mindful of that, but I lean optimistic overall that added participation, transparency and accountability will improve democratic, free societies. (the quoted tweet is half-ish related, but inspired me to post some recent thoughts)

Highway 1 views are incredible

@KimK91fw Don't leave home without it

アメリカ人よ、俺が一番気に入っているアメリカ製のモノは、このレザーマンだ。 使い続けて11年目になるが、壊れる気配すら無い。 アメリカ製品はとてもタフだな!!

Dps, tank, utility, healer

@mikesimonsen Even if everyone is working, if nobody feels like they can afford more, they are going to feel bearish

Man, it's hard to look at the unemployment data and see a bearish economy.

@beyoumf tokens

name an addiction worse than alcohol and drugs

@mimi10v3 i had not, this was a fun test. it was remarkably good for a short playlist. mostly stuff in the same vibe i hadn't listened to but enjoyed

have you prompted ai to make you music playlists, and if so are they good? how do you get more variety from them?

#sandiego #pacificbeach

building stuff is the best

I wrote a blogpost about creating a mini golf lightshow using #raspberrypi