All hands to battle stations. We have a rare black bear sighting.

The severity of this occurrence cannot be understated.

Stay frosty. It's going to get ugly tomorrow.

I just got off the phone with the CEO of Bitcoin and he said

ℕ𝕌𝕄𝔹𝔼ℝ𝕊

𝕎𝕀𝕃𝕃

ℂℍ𝔸ℕ𝔾𝔼

Think I'm officially bailing on Twitter.

Don't see any further need to use it given their heavy handed moderation. Got my own private relay working last night, downloaded the Nostrid software, and was able to start using it locally and really starting to have some fun.

I was amazed at how quickly a response I posted via my private node appeared on Iris.

What a time to be alive...

Stay calm and hodl with conviction, folks.

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Meanwhile... over on nostr...

The mempool is giving me terrible gas. My cats are horrified with me.

#random #chatgpt

https://puzzledpenguin.substack.com/p/chatgpt-invented-its-own-puzzle-game

"And that is how Sumplete was created in a few hours by ChatGPT. You can try the puzzle game yourself at https://sumplete.com"

Related: Rick was at the ranch earlier today with a friend taking care of a hive split, and came back exhausted. I had showered and was in my pajamas, loafing around my office, when bro is like "Hey, can you drive me around to play Pokémon Go for 30 minutes ?" (Jesus Christ man... I hate that game...)

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Throw on bulky zip-up hoodie and head out the door in my flippy-floppies.

Driving around the place where Rick plays Pokémon Go (fucking infernal software) and notice book store I had not gone into in some time.

"Hey Rick you mind..." ... "nah sure go for it, I can play Pokémon Go while I wait" (stupidest thing ever)

So yeah, in my pajamas, afraid my wang is going to peek out, in my flippy floppies wearing my bulky hoody, and go and browse the graphic novels.

See nothing, return to the car, and Rick is all like "You know, you should have worn your Lebowski sweater..."

You got it. With Lightning Network as the backbone, if you choose to optionally use it.

I'm not presently participating with Zaps or other stuff. Have intentionally not enabled LN support for myself for now. I'm just sitting back in info-gathering mode, and shitposting the place up a little bit, having a tremendous amount of fun while watching the NIP's flash by, and seeing everything being built out practically in real-time.

https://nostr.how/

I'm using Iris for my main interface presently.

They are building Github and eBay similar services on top of nostr now.

What a time to be alive holy shit...

It's a game changer just like Bitcoin is.

Most of us just haven't fully recognized it yet.

#random

OK. It took me a couple days to really grok it, but Twitter is fucked.

They just haven't gotten the memo yet.

nostr is going to change everything just like Bitcoin did.

What a time to be alive.

Huh. Almost felt something there for a moment.

Oh well. Back to this shit human existence...

Props to you for continuing mining. I just can't cost-justify the aggravation at this point managing a miner - I was torturing myself with Lightning as it is, and find at the end of the day, it's just easier to smash buy $250 at odd intervals; knowing it's more BTC than I would have acquired if I never bought the miner to begin with...

Unnerstan?

You started this... I just want you to remember that I remember...