xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@xianc78 Death Tax because it hurts the a family that just lost a loved one. It is like kicking in the head someone that's already on the floor.

The human brain takes 12W to run. The weakest useful Large Language Model takes 400W to run. It may be "better than a markov chain" but it's literally this fucking meme

Mysterious spy cameras collecting data at post offices
Removed the day it was on fox news. From 2015, what are they up to now ?
https://kdvr.com/news/problem-solvers/mysterious-spy-cameras-collecting-data-at-post-offices/

Something I've noticed over the past few weeks is that a lot of shooting games incorporate puzzle elements and mechanics but the reverse is not necessarily true outside of a few outliers like Quarth/Block Hole. It seems like there's a whole fertile design space here just waiting to be explored and all someone has to do is actually be literate in both design languages and see what some of the crossovers are.

https://twitter.com/AZH3RO/status/1693380054275776811
If you're feeling this way it's a sign that you're looking at life wrong. Life is supposed to be hard, but it's important to focus on and seek out the great joys that make all the suffering worth it. Moreover, you should look at yourself as an indispensable part of the great lineage of humanity, entrusted with the task of preserving and advancing the legacy of your family line. The atomized consoomer has no past to uphold or future to strive for, and thus sees life as a meaningless distraction between void and void, so of course it's gonna feel pointless if you don't understand your place in the cosmos, both in reference to God and to the rest of humanity.

Damn bro, he's retiring

https://nintendoeverything.com/charles-martinet-named-mario-ambassador-stepping-back-from-voice-recording-in-nintendo-games/

I am erect

@xianc78 Monero based crowd funding platform
https://kuno.bitejo.com/

@hachi @ArdainianRight @xianc78 How about women buying their own female sanitary products instead of expecting other people to pay for them ?

@gabriel @xianc78 They launched this "passport" thing because quadratic voting can be easily gamed by creating multiple accounts (the more votes you get, the more money your project receives on Gitcoin platform). This is not a KYC procedure, and I think you can verify the uniqueness of your account anonymously.

So in this particular case they are doing it out of necessity, not because they want to build a dystopian digital ID system.

Though in general I agree that a skepticism towards such systems is justified. Most of them are designed for control (e.g. Worldcoin).

And I think you're right about de-platforming, Gitcoin would drop Tor Project the moment it becomes politically inconvenient, just like any other major crowdfunding platform.

@xianc78@gameliberty.club
I agree with your overall points: It's important not to throw out the baby with the bathwater on funding important projects merely because blockchain based projects or platforms are involved. @silverpill@mitra.social does a good job pointing this out as well.

That said, I think there are good reasons to avoid almost a vast majority of blockchain projects. Even though the people who take an extreme anti-cryptocurrency stance are misguided, there's a lot more merit to the approach than it would seem.

You've likely heard "the medium is the message" and I think it does apply to blockchain projects. There's something ironic about funding an online passport in parallel to funding the Tor project. Over time, I've grown much more suspicious of efforts to validate online activity and interactions. I think many (not specifically gitcoin) blockchain projects are merely age-old top-down control structures with a glossy coat of paint.

Someone could go to Reddit and mistake it for an organically run community because of things like upvotes and downvotes. They would be mistaken due to the level of control the reddit admins have over the platform. I don't really believe that any proof-of-stake system will inherently improve things (corporations themselvesare arguably proof-of-stake).

Doubling down, if projects like @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social are going to start getting de-platformed en masse, very few blockchain based platforms are not so embedded in establishment structures that they'd be forced to comply as well. To me, If they're not actually providing censorship resistance, it's a farce even if the project isn't necessarily an outright scam.

RE: https://mitra.social/objects/018a0971-6633-8deb-c7c1-4e1f941f589b