Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
Aviator, diver, Etherean, nexialist, PhD in aviation and climate science, host of /diving /ethfinance /forteantimes /geopolitics /science /singapore /thomas
Why does iCloud’s spam detection underperform Gmail’s so much, at least in my experience? For every one junk mail that very occasionally makes it to my Gmail inbox, I get tens on iCloud.
And I’m not taking about spammy ads for services I once signed up for, I’m talking about phishing attempts: fake Docusign, MetaMask,...
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I wish I could set my own mental temperature on demand, from near zero when I need pure analytical rigor, to arbitrarily high when I need fever-dream level creativity
Maybe Neuralink will enable that one day by stimulating one brain hemisphere over the other, or micro dosing hallucinogens directly into the right areas
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Last month marked the 200th anniversary of the Decembrist revolt, a failed coup d'état in Saint Petersburg against the new Russian Emperor Nicholas I, just as he was being sworn in following the sudden death of his brother, Emperor Alexander I.
The uprising of approximately 2,000 soldiers was led by 121 officers who, ...
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Do you ever wish you could go back in time?
I think I’d travel back to the Devonian period, wait for the first Tiktaalik to crawl out of the water, and stomp it with 375 million years worth of pent-up misanthropy
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I built this really cool project and welcome any feedback. Just go to 127.0.0.1 to check it out
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If Farcaster is dead and we’re still here, does it mean we’re in Valhalla?
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LLMs are like those parents who tirelessly answer the most improbable “why” questions from little kids, except for grownups too
This would explain why it came up with this pic
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Last night, I fired up ChatGPT and quickly vibe-coded a Python script that recursively consolidates all ~500 .md files in my Obsidian vault into one, and strips out all non-semantic elements (such as callout formatting, internal links, transclusions, and attachments) using just enough RegEx voodoo.
I then created a de...
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“If you want to build a church, don’t build it in a casino”
This is but a small aside in @rev-morwen.eth’s long sermon, but it’s also a useful extension of @cdixon.eth’s computer-and-casino parable from Read Write Own.
There are plenty of Web3 builders here on Farcaster striving to build parts of the onchain world co...
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We need a word for when you le muscle memory makes you click in the usual spot but the UI is still refreshing in that same nanosecond and now you’ve triggered a completely unintended action, like opening an ad or something
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Everybody’s suddenly nostalgic of Vanilla Ice over whatever the current flavor is
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I am le confused
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here's what @tryemerge just made for me using Escher-Inspired PFP Architecture by @garrett, spark yours up now!
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