@CarlBLatro
Ageing Pākehā New Zealander. Programmer of sorts. Reckons my own.
Relays (2)
- wss://relay.nostr.bg – read & write
- wss://nostr.bitcoiner.social – read & write
Recent Notes
It's not surprising a former British prince has been arrested in the wake of the Epstein files. What is surprising is all the Americans who've been mentioned in the Epstein files without the police knocking on their doors.
"Users who switched from the chronological feed to the “For You” feed were 4.7 percentage points more likely to prioritise policy issues favoured by US Republicans (for example, crime, inflation and immigration). They were also more likely to view the criminal investigation into US President Donald Trump as unacceptable."
https://theconversation.com/a-few-weeks-of-xs-algorithm-can-make-you-more-right-wing-and-it-doesnt-wear-off-quickly-276153
I started to only read the 'chronological feed' a while back, since the 'for you' feed had become just too vile. Been trying to get off the platform entirely, but my yesterday's prune of those I still follow there only got it down to 80 users. Sigh...
The above study's from 2023, so quite old now. God knows what it's findings would be now.
https://theconversation.com/a-few-weeks-of-xs-algorithm-can-make-you-more-right-wing-and-it-doesnt-wear-off-quickly-276153
I started to only read the 'chronological feed' a while back, since the 'for you' feed had become just too vile. Been trying to get off the platform entirely, but my yesterday's prune of those I still follow there only got it down to 80 users. Sigh...
The above study's from 2023, so quite old now. God knows what it's findings would be now.
Nothing has upset me more than seeing sheeple spend hundreds of dollars on Mac Minis to run OpenClaw in walled gardens when they could just buy a Dell Optiplex for $60 on Craigslist and run Linux on i...
You're forgetting the second-hand market! As in when it comes time to sell that Mac Mini because you're upgrading two years later.
This guy's part of NZ's richest family. (Our rich lists aren't of individuals, for some reason.) Anyway, they're planning to disrupt the building industry...
https://x.com/NMowbray23/status/2023631139622318347
https://x.com/NMowbray23/status/2023631139622318347
Think about it. We need ONE nostr app to go viral. ONE.
I doubt that'd be enough, as why would the users care about what's behind the curtain? Do they care about what makes their other apps work?
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This looks promising...
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-and-indo-pacific-blocs-eye-major-new-trade-pact/
"Ottawa is “championing efforts to build a bridge between the Trans-Pacific Partnership [C...
Meaning the earlier agreement mentioned here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economic_Partnership_Agreement#Earlier_agreements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economic_Partnership_Agreement#Earlier_agreements
This looks promising...
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-and-indo-pacific-blocs-eye-major-new-trade-pact/
"Ottawa is “championing efforts to build a bridge between the Trans-Pacific Partnership [CPTPP] and the European Union, which would create a new trading bloc of 1.5 billion people,” Carney told world leaders and the global business elite in Davos."
Incidentally, the CPTPP grew out of an economic partnership signed between NZ and Singapore in 2001. It's coming along nicely!
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-and-indo-pacific-blocs-eye-major-new-trade-pact/
"Ottawa is “championing efforts to build a bridge between the Trans-Pacific Partnership [CPTPP] and the European Union, which would create a new trading bloc of 1.5 billion people,” Carney told world leaders and the global business elite in Davos."
Incidentally, the CPTPP grew out of an economic partnership signed between NZ and Singapore in 2001. It's coming along nicely!
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