I also watch and like that channel, it definitely has a bias and affinity, but IMO it is well researched and does a good job of explaining that perspective and the rationale behind it as opposed to just reciting talking points. I liked the most recent video about the threat of permanent dystopias, even though I don't agree with some of the implicit assumptions it's making about the nature of the problem (Rationalist stuff leans neoliberal). It's fun and probably important to think about the long term future of humanity in an analytical way, sci-fi style.

2018 is closer to 2012 than it is to 2026. Maybe anon has a girlfriend by now.

Of Nostr? It's an activitypub alternative, not a cryptocurrency, it doesn't run on a blockchain

In a message, Douglas said one thing that particularly concerns her is the fact that hunting season has arrived in the region.

Many people in the region practice a subsistence lifestyle, hunting and fishing for food they use to survive.

"(That price) is really going to hurt our hunters that pay for gas to hunt," she said.

Wait what? Why is gasoline a requirement for subsistence hunting

That also means there’s very little in the way of moderation.

I think this is more down to the mindset of the community of people who use it, than it is the fault of the technical design, which does go beyond just relying on private keys for identity, and could absolutely work out systems for effective moderation. But the Nostr community is mainly Bitcoin maxi libertarians, so maybe they just won't.

Has to fit in the faraday bag

Dorohedoro anime, that also dropped a new season this year

Holy shit, I now have a new plan for this evening

Good article. I can't imagine learning to program in the current environment, the main thing driving me forward was frustrated anger at code not doing what I wanted, and of course I always took the shortest available path to resolving that.

It has a third leg that is a baseball?

What are ways to tell in advance if someone is going to scan your id vs just looking at it? They don't normally disclose that they are going to do that right?

Very different, and what kind of different will depend heavily on what we do now

My bicycle front tire tube popped yesterday, replaced it today

Why are the blockchain bros so excited? What do they think this has to do with cryptocurrencies?

The funny thing is that things happening with cryptocurrencies themselves now have less apparent influence on their price than broader market events. Community sentiment also seems to be less relevant. This is probably because a larger share of the money is being moved around by institutional investors since ETFs are now a thing, and those people seem to be less interested in crypto itself and more interested in whatever their current idea is about its relationship with the rest of the market.

That said, narratives like this about why the price did what it did are themselves speculation, you can't really be sure that's the actual or main reason, it is a guess. What's closer to the real reason is just that a big chunk of money was spent on it by investors, whose reasons are their own and private:

US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded $517.2 million in net inflows on Wednesday, their largest single-day investment since May 4, pushing August net inflows to $1.47 billion.

These prices often go up and down by large percentages like this for no apparent reason too, it's not impossible that this is a coincidence.

I didn't realize Argentina actually did this back in June. Would be interested to know whether there's any notable AI agents currently operating there as legal persons.

It's creepy when they questionably ascribe motivations to how someone has voted and make accusations and threats based on it, act like a downvote is a personal attack, demand people vote a certain way to demonstrate ideological loyalty, or otherwise be really weird about it. If they're not doing that, it is probably fine imo.

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Mostly just for torrents, one machine on my local network is always using a VPN to connect to the external internet. I would use it for more things like private web browsing, but without substantial additional setup I think my web browsing is guaranteed to be fingerprinted regardless of whether I conceal my IP so until I bother to set that up it doesn't seem like there is much point.

Here's a formatted version of the transcript: https://rentry.org/9a9sm9ds, although it lacks images that are probably important to knowing what parts of the car are where.

Yet another First Amendment win

Crypto exchanges have a pretty bad track record of the money not all disappearing. "Not your keys, not your coins" is still relevant.