kokkis
Joined 7 years ago
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Comment · 6 days ago
Sounds to me that nature (and the animals) is the thing that slows cognitive decline and so on and so forth. Not birdwatching per se. (I didn't read the article, but having studied psychology, I am assuming with confidence that there is a confounding factor that makes it look like birdwatching is the _thing_ that slows cognitive decline.)
Comment · 2 months ago
I got to know about https://opensats.org/projects/ngit when I worked at OpenSats as a writer for some short three months. Idk much about ngit though, so I can't vouch for it. Yet, some very fascinating nostr-based github stuff. There are others, too, but I can't remember them by name. With some light surfing you can see other implementations.
Comment · 4 months ago
Whoah, I checked that https://concrete95.net/ sooooo coool! What the heck :D
Comment · 5 months ago
I made this website that is based on my Master's thesis, and thanks to the advent of AI, I could make that into a website. It is also a showcase of my design skills (I really liked to create the webdesign.) The cases still require peer-review from reputable people, so if you're interested, let me know. Furthermore, I've still yet to actually make it more automatic/autonomous. Surely, all cases must be manually reviewed in the end, but there's some work to do still. Shouldn't be too hard, but for now, I am taking a break. Let me know what you'd improve; let me know how you (dis)like it. And sorry for those who don't like Bitcoin; I'm quite aware that HN is not the most friendliest toward Bitcoin. I understand the criticism though. Be well.
Comment · 6 months ago
Yeah, that's the classic xkcd-reality. It will be a rather difficult to enforce that _en masse_. However, should that happen, then the money is the least of one's worries. In any case, financial censorship in that case would be the least of one's worries, if it comes down to such threats and physical violence.
Comment · 6 months ago
That's also very interesting phenomenon. Instead of censoring after the bank accounts have been granted, one could also "censor" or rather exclude a person or group of people or an organisation by not granting a bank account in the first place. Quite shrewd, and extremely unnoticeable. I mean, whole nationalities are excluded based on quite absurd reasons. But I guess fear led to this in many ways.
Comment · 6 months ago
Hey, I haven't and that sounds very interesting to read in my case especially. I'll give it a look! Thanks mate.
Comment · 6 months ago
I'm building a financial censorship monitor at https://nofunds.org/, that tells a story of how money has been turned into a political weapon to silence journalists, activists, and civil society by freezing assets, blocking accounts, sanctioning, and banning payments. It's part of my master's thesis https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/187407 and also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36430596, but now I wanted to make a more comprehensive list, using Claude API and manual work. I'm designing a website right now, and the site is live within 2 months (given the API rate limitations currently to process articles). I know Hacker News is quite critical of Bitcoin, but it's also worthy to warn that, indeed, Bitcoin is at least a marginal tool to those whose bank accounts may be endangered. I'm basically arguing that Bitcoin can be used to resist such financial censorship, deplatforming and so on.
Comment · 9 months ago
https://kokkomaki.com/ I write about my life, slowly directing toward Bitcoin and Vipassana-meditation (and religion probably).
Comment · 1 year ago
I cried.