Mett a Me

Just another starving artist

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Elon Musk reveals the deeper purpose of becoming a multiplanetary species:

“Having two planets that are both self-sustaining and strong is going to be incredibly important for the long-term survival of civilization

The goal is not just to visit Mars - it’s to ensure the light of consciousness never goes out”

[Mett a Me @lifehackeraf]

@XFreeze I would like a multi-pass for multi-planets, please

:D

Very cool. He's a visionary fo' sure!

[Leaders 𝕏 Junction @LeadersJunction]

Why you cannot destroy a person who has mastered the art of being alone

[Mett a Me @lifehackeraf]

@oAcido May I have the link to play, please?

[Acidyo @oAcido]

Weird word, but I'll take it, lol.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

No voter ID, especially when combined with mail-in ballots, means the system is engineered to make fraud impossible to prove.

Everyone knows that you can barely get through your week without showing ID for the most banal activities, like shopping at Costco.

The only reason to ban ID is to hide massive voter fraud.

[Mett a Me @lifehackeraf]

@elonmusk And cyber-trafficking af!

It's not going to work out well for government either way :|

[Mett a Me @lifehackeraf]

Adventure is out there

#space #thefinalfrontier

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Falcon 9 launch 29 @Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida https://t.co/GXUP5HpZbQ

[Mett a Me @lifehackeraf]

So cool!

#Grok

[MusicHeals.deso @ThisDayInMusic_]

Have you tried #clubbeat on @grok ?

Grok Imagine prompt:

Create a short video animation starting from the uploaded static image of a person. The subject(s) begins without any accessories, facing forward with a smile expression. Smoothly animate them reaching up and putting on large black visor-style sungla...

[Mett a Me @lifehackeraf]

Why Web3

#deso #FreeSpeech

[nader.deso @nadertheory]

DeSo is not going anywhere. DeSo is the world's only blockchain for content, it is actually decentralized, and I couldn't shut it down or censor a piece of content even if I wanted to.

Today, DeSo is the only place on the entire internet that I'm aware of where your content and your social account cannot be censored by anyone. This is because content is stored natively on a fully-decentralized blockchain, not on a centralized company's servers. It is not possible for a private company to "acquire" DeSo, and in fact no corporate entity owns or controls it. DeSo is for content what Bitcoin is for money, and it is currently the only check we have on the centralized content systems that are dominant today.

My team and I have also built the Focus app on DeSo's infrastructure, and today Focus is the only platform I'm aware of where you can sell content for crypto. Focus supports tips, paid content, paid end-to-end encrypted messages, and even subscriptions, all via anonymous crypto payments that can't be censored. It has also been growing over the past few months as creators have begun to find value in monetizing their content via crypto.

We built DeSo from the ground up to support absolute free speech. Not "kinda sorta free speech." Not "post whatever you want unless some people don't like it" speech. Free speech means nobody can censor you, not even the people who built the platform. And it includes being able to pay for and monetize your content without censorship as well. You can think of DeSo and Focus as the world's complete anti-censorship stack. DeSo is the infrastructure (the blockchain) and Focus is the app built on top.

In addition, I want to be clear that I and my team plan on supporting DeSo and Focus indefinitely. As mentioned, it is not possible for any one individual to shut DeSo down, as many at the highest levels have now realized the hard way. However, continued investment in the underlying infrastructure and on the flagship app ensures that everything will continue to scale as more users adopt DeSo, and ensures that your content will continue to be safe even as post-quantum threats emerge. A reminder that every line of code that powers the DeSo blockchain is fully open-source and public under the deso-protocol/core repo on GitHub. This means anyone can contribute and, furthermore, that any contributions my team makes are immediately a part of the public good that is DeSo. This model of open-source iteration directly mirrors that of Bitcoin and the Linux operating system.

In 1991, Linus Torvalds created the Linux operating system because he was passionate about an open and free alternative to existing closed-source operating systems. Today, more machines run Linux than any other operating system, albeit in a different form than he originally envisioned (on servers vs on consumer pcs). Nevertheless, for me, the creation of DeSo came from the same kind of passion. It is the Linux of content, and it is currently the only true economically-sustainable alternative we have to a world dominated by centralized, extractive walled-gardens. DeSo is and will remain an open-source public good that I believe will only continue to grow as more and more people realize its value.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

"One of the peculiarities of the English-speaking world is its immense interest and belief in political parties. A very large percentage of English-speaking people really believe that the ills from which they suffer would be cured if a certain political party were in power. That is a reason for the swing of the pendulum. A man votes for one party and remains miserable; he concludes that it was the other party that was to bring the millennium.

By the time he is disenchanted with all parties, he is an old man on the verge of death; his sons retain the belief of his youth, and the see-saw goes on."

— Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928)

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven’t forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood. We invest far-off places with a certain romance. This appeal, I suspect, has been meticulously crafted by natural selection as an essential element in our survival.

Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game—none of them lasts forever. It is beyond our powers to predict the future. Catastrophic events have a way of sneaking up on us, of catching us unaware. Your own life, or your band’s, or even your species’ might be owed to a restless few—drawn, by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands and new worlds.

Herman Melville, in Moby Dick, spoke for wanderers in all epochs and meridians: “I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas…”

– Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

[Saganism @Saganismm]

Bertrand Russell’s timeless message to future generations

[Earth @earthcurated]

Trail cam catches a wolf pack drifting like shadows through the winter forest ❄️🌲🐺

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Imagine starting with a block of stone and ending up with this.

When Michelangelo was 23 years old, he was commissioned by a cardinal to produce “the most beautiful work of marble in Rome, one that no living artist could better.” It was to capture the moment the Virgin Mary held Christ in her arms after he was taken down from the cross.

Accepting the challenge, the relatively unknown young man got to work on a block of Carrara marble. Less than 2 years later, the work was installed at the cardinal's grave, on the very same day he died.

When revealed, it was met with sheer disbelief. Most doubted it was the young man’s work, so he carved into the sash across Mary's chest:

“Michelangelo Buonarroti of Florence made this.”

La Pietà embodies the power of beauty as a transcendent force. It takes the worst possible human tragedy — the loss of a grieving parent — and transforms it into something that helps you to instead see the ecstatic joy of human life. Michelangelo saw in the dead body of Christ such compassionate suffering that it drove him to create the most beautiful thing ever hewn from a block of marble.

Vasari called it a “miracle that a formless block of stone could ever have been reduced to a perfection that nature is scarcely able to create in the flesh.”

La Pietà now lives at St. Peter’s Basilica, where it has been for over 500 years.

[Mett a Me @lifehackeraf]

@DLMMQB Thanks 😊

Long term user but not on social media much anymore. Lots of potential there but I was taken offline in full in 2024.

Everything gone

Rebuilding and am having to get a full time gig again. And the internet has lost its allure after my experience

[Mett a Me @lifehackeraf]

I did not know this until this very minute

Going to check it out. Of course

#Hive

[Hive @hiveblocks]

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[Mett a Me @lifehackeraf]

"Dostoevsky’s genius lay in his ability to hold opposing truths in tension."

Wonderful piece of writing...

#philosophy #thehumancondition #literature

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

https://t.co/YadwL4o9fU

[Mett a Me @lifehackeraf]

@the_culturist_ You just made my day. SO happy I found you. What a wonderful piece <3

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

The Tokyo subway displays a striking PlayStation advertisement.

[Jay Kuo @nycjayjay]

Pay attention to what just happened in Texas. A lone state rep decided that the GOP’s demand that she sign a “permission slip” to allow police surveillance of her was a step too far. So she refused to leave the chamber. Her small act of defiance has lit up the state and the nation. My write-up in the replies.