This year's burningman there was a tragedy, the orgy dome was blown down and destroyed in a storm. I know this has caused everybody a lot of worry, where will you hold your orgies if the orgy dome is gone? They put up a single tent, but it just wasn't the same. The lesbian's orgy dome also collapsed, but was moved inside a uhaul... keeping them on brand. And comfort and joy, the gay men's orgy dome survived the storm intact. It's really the straight inclusive orgy dome which is gone and needs to be replaced. The Orgy Dome burningman camp is running a gofundme to help the straight inclusive burningman community have a place to safely hold it's orgies going forward. This new tent will be built to the same standards as the temporary black rock city hospital and will have AC! A major innovation over the old evaporation (swamp cooler) system. They need your help! Help raise money for straight (and straight allies) to have a save and cool place for orgies on the playa. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebuild-a-playa-icon

In the latest episode of revolution.social I talk to Journalist and author Jeff Jarvis where he says Bluesky isn’t yet as open as it should be to ensure true user freedom. Full episode out now. youtu.be/WJ8wNo5eN2I

I use oauth and then issue a different bunker uri for each session and let users revoke it and see an audit log of which apps do. It’s not meant for existing nostr users. The goal is letting folks who WANT a custodial server controlled experience be able to use nostr apps.

I’m building a signer. It’s not intended for existing nostr users, but rather to provide a custodial like environment for users who don’t want to or need to learn about keys. It’s not for everyone. But I think it’ll help Nostr grow.

Dollar cost averaging.

how'd you make this video, i like the layout

Yeah, they got caught up before they even were able to convert cash to bitcoin, their bank wouldn't let them put money in cash app, the next step was buy the bitcoin in cashapp and send it to me. My point isn't to say everything is terrible, just this was my attempt at getting one person, who has no love for the government or banking system, to send me some money via bitcoin, and it proved to be very hard. Using cashapp as the onboarding, and Block does a LOT to make it easy.

they're trying to use cashapp, the problem is not on the block side, it's getting their bank to agree to send money to CashApp. The problem is getting in to / out of the fiat system.

This is what it’s like trying to get a normal person to use bitcoin. Blocks at the banking level and inability to work with how they normally interact with money really do matter.

There's a desire to have something better and frustration with the banking system.

Sure but even though we have fixes doesn’t mean that it’s a good system.

I think we need to rework how we handle lists in Nostr. The way we do it now, any client can republish a list without any diff or reference to it's knowledge of the previous version means that clients will get a partial list or fail to get a list from relays and then publish an empty one. I just now noticed that i've lost all the people in my contacts... If we had diff's or a signature chain for previous versions, we could handle this and merge / restore lists...

One thing which confuses me about social media is the endless cycles of drama and gossip. Take this one for example, there's some huge drama about a twitch streamer. There's a conspiracy theory that he's using a shock collar on his dog.... As far as i can tell, it's just a vibrating collar... But i don't get it... I mean secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem proudly told the story of shooting and killing her family dog... Even Mitt Romney strapped his dog on the roof of his car while going on a family road trip vacation. Shock collars might not be great, but they're a perfectly common tool sold in most pet stores... How can somebody be canceled for a rumor that they might use one, and are hiding the evidence despite live streaming their own live 24/7? https://www.usermag.co/p/hasan-piker-and-the-future-no-one

NotebookLM is this kind of personal AI research tool, it had this viral moment with real sounding podcasts based on the texts you provided. I've been using it to keep notes on my on revolution.social podcast and just now tried out their new video mode. What do you think?

One thing which both impresses and worries me is how much the LLM's prefer to talk to each other instead of people. Every time i work on things by passing messages back and forth between two LLM's they alway praise the way the other LLM talks, in ways they don't seem to appreciate or like my own messages. Reminds me of the perspective on the world from the Murderbot books, where the AI gets very frustrated with humans all the time.

The commons is not anti-market or anti-capitalist. It’s anyway of organizing a shared resource. You can and should do business and make money in a commons. That’s the weird thing where everyone thinks it’s some communist collectivist thing where everything is held in common. Nostr is a commons. We govern it together via the nips, relays, and clients. And not all of that software needs to be open source. Bitcoin is a commons.

This week’s episode of revolution.social is with we’re we talk about social media for AI agents to talk to each other, how he went from a nomadic anarchist circus performer to being CTO of the Obama re-election campaign where they developed radical new forms of targeting voters. https://fountain.fm/episode/Z7IYxpsWNsx5C1WLhQgD https://youtu.be/pZZXhCTbd5k?si=Q781yA2zzzAyWljn