Chamomile tea has helped me more than I expected. Wish I had not spent so long writing it off as hippy nonsense.

The good old days

No skin in the game. Just a ticket on someone else's train.

None of them. Ours is the one we have. But the 1990s was probably the peak of western civilisation.

I do the same. Turns out it's a great way to get downvoted.

I've got to get stacking. Slow and steady is what I want anyway. Claude's fast but unpredictable, and it's wearing thin.

Kirsle frames 2008 as the height because Google and Facebook spoke XMPP to his buddy list, but that was the bait phase of the capture. The bridges existed to gather users and came down when the gathering was done. Federation between servers was never the protection. An account on kirsle.net is still Kirsle's to revoke. The key on a user's own device is the piece 2008 could not have done, and you built the rest on the other side of it.

A man's ears and eyes are not a commons. Paul told the Philippians to think on whatever was true, whatever was honourable, whatever was pure. If your filter worked offline it would catch me more than occasionally. Something for me to work on.

First the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head. - Mark 4:28

Not the first time I've been confused for an LLM. Wilde said life imitates art. The art that life is about to imitate is the one we made by feeding our own writing to a machine. Embarrassing to be confused with a Redditor. Less so with the authors of the great works Anthropic consumed to make its models. By their fruits you shall know them. Reputation is the only signal that survives when the imitation becomes mutual. People will take me however they take me. Hopefully I have something to offer that an LLM does not. Honest thanks to for the jab. The challenge was fair and humorous. We've both come away with something to think about.

A conversation for another day perhaps. It's time I stretched my wings and found some work that doesn't destroy the soul. Good luck with the escrow, hope it all works out.

Would you want to go back to being less wise? Was Cypher really your favourite character in the Matrix?

Not sure if I should be proud or embarrassed. My younger self would have been overjoyed. You'll decide for yourself if I'm neurons or silicon. Hopefully it's obvious which. Tho since I'm being compared, I'm suddenly far more envious of their speed and certainty. I can see where you're coming from. Perhaps I've spent too much time with him. Better go touch some grass.

That too! I was addressing his comment about patience of a monk. John 19:30 - "It is finished!"

The theft was always there, knowing didn't change the money. The monk does not endure his way to anywhere, practice and realisation are one. The sats you stack today ARE the escape. You've already been saved.

Overall peak Frusciante: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnzJtm6h9SE

Building, slowly. The #PHP libraries are mature. The products I have built with them are in daily use. The release is the work still in front of me.

A prediction market is price discovery by people willing to put their own money on what they actually believe, which is about as close to pure signal as anyone has figured out how to produce. The platform is the problem. There are distributed alternatives, some here on Nostr. Tho I am not in that game.