live from plant lab in austin texas this is stacker news live
hello ladies and welcome back to another exciting episode of stacker news lab my name is carl
the be of a key on yeah man that intro pumps me up dude every time every time every time right now
i was like i was like in the state and then as soon as i heard the intro i started just like
smiling whoo doggie what are we talking about today keon i didn't hear the intro what are we
you don't have headphones what are we talking about today yeah what are we talking about today
on the show we're talking about the top three stories from stacker news this week as decided
by stackers money yeah and uh yeah that's what we're talking about ai girlfriends too as well
did you know that i didn't know that but we are we're talking about ai girlfriends i know that's
probably gonna be it's gonna solve simpism i think we'll see stay tuned it's all that wouldn't
it just make it that's the hook stay tuned i don't know it's right behind this guy he's
he's falling into the trap i'm making this comparison that i think most dudes are really
into AI because they don't have kids
and AI is kind of like a kid to them.
That's my... That's a deep take.
You got to save that for the
segment. For the girlfriend segment. You got to save that.
That's the alpha. These stackers come
and check in every week.
If you've never seen this crazy show before, it's called Stacker News Live.
We cover the top three stories on
stacker.news.
Check them out. There's some
really funny stuff here. We're talking about...
We're talking about Lex? Oh yeah, we're talking about Lex Friedman last week.
Really tore into him.
We're talking about Copernicus.
We're talking about all sorts of things.
It's a stacker's way of thinking on this front page here.
Look at all these.
This is the topics that stacker people, stacker news loves.
What do you think about that, Keon?
You ever think about that?
You're like, stacker news people love some weird shit.
Not really.
I don't think about it like that, no.
No?
I do.
What did you do this week, Keon?
What did you say?
What did you do this week?
What did I do?
I don't think I really did anything except the usual stuff that I do, which is nothing.
And then I didn't really sleep a whole lot last night for some reason.
I went to bed late and woke up early.
So apologies in advance for any dumb things that I normally don't think.
I don't think things that I say.
Hey, that's what we look forward to every week.
It'll serve as a reminder to unsubscribe.
To Newt.
They are not unsubscribing.
They're subscribing.
It's getting annoying.
Like, it's like, we tell you every week to unsubscribe, stop watching the show.
But nope, keep coming back.
I did see your curtain was up today.
It's like...
Oh, yeah, I tried to take a nap.
Didn't really work.
My body, I don't try to fight my body when it doesn't want to sleep, but...
Oh, it was like a doomsday.
It was like, it had like the green cape on it.
I was like, hmm.
Is doomsday colored green?
I think it is, yeah.
Let me double check.
You have like a green...
They have a color?
I told that to Austin too.
I feel like green is usually a sign of life and good.
It's like this color.
Yeah, it's like that color.
There you go.
Oh, Doomsday, the Avengers character.
Yeah, you have that color curtain.
Okay, he has a cape.
I wonder why they chose green for him.
I guess Doom is green.
I don't know.
All right, let's jump into the top three stories this week.
The number three top story is BTC Prague 2026,
the biggest Bitcoin event in Europe.
This is from BlockDior, February 1903.
comments 12,000 stats key on what's this yeah this is a post talking about uh the btc prague
which i've never been to uh prague is in uh czechia czechoslovakia or is or did they change
the name do we call it czechia i'm not a i'm not a geography guy i don't go anywhere um
but uh yeah apparently it's the biggest conference in europe i didn't i learned that i suspected it
was big because I know people who go
and they're like, hey, are you going? And I've never been.
Apparently, it's an awesome
place. Trezor
is located there.
Makers of the first hardware wallet.
And I think, what is the,
there's a peer-to-peer app that's
really popular
that people, it's not Peach, it's
I don't, I'm
blinking on the name, but they have like
good peer-to-peer stuff. There's a lot of Bitcoiners there too.
and they have great beer.
I guess the culture is a beer drinking culture.
Yeah, but they go through and they kind of detail the whole thing,
kind of tease the speakers.
Dude, it looks fun.
I've always wanted to go.
It's never gone.
I don't know who runs it.
I think I was talking to Tomic this week.
He was telling me that it's supposed to be a really good event this year,
PTC Prague.
So it's kind of interesting seeing it on the same week.
Yeah, I know Austin gets kind of dead when this event happens.
I think a lot of Bitcoiners here end up going out there.
Oh, it's in June.
Czech Republic, okay.
Is Czechoslovakia different?
I don't know.
We'll figure it out someday.
I guess they have the usual headliner speakers,
There's Sailor, Atomback, Malmi, who was, I think, the first core contributor after Satoshi,
who published some of those emails a few years ago that I think he had held on to for a while.
Tur, who we see in Austin quite a bit, one of the co-founders of Trezor.
I think maybe Trezor or Satoshi Labs is the name the company goes by,
is maybe the main person who throws the conference,
which explains why it's been around for a long time and is successful.
Yeah, sounds like a great time.
Sounds like they have a lot of anchor sponsors there.
This is nice.
Yeah, I've never been.
I always wanted to go.
Who made this website?
This is cool.
Kind of just gives you a breakdown of all the different conferences.
Is that what this website does?
I would guess I usually go and click on the author.
Oh, interesting.
when they write.
So it's an actual blog?
No, I think it's, you know,
a collection of guides and reviews.
Interesting.
Just kind of, you know, Bitcoin writing.
I think they do it for fun.
Or maybe, I think they maybe do affiliate marketing.
This looks like Gitbook, right?
Or no.
Could be Gitbook, I don't know.
You have to ask Block D-Y-O-R.
That's awesome.
It even goes down to all the stuff.
Man, this is a good idea.
Anyways, cool stuff.
Really cool stuff.
It is cool stuff.
Are you going across the pond this year?
Yeah, a couple trips that aren't announced yet, but just two, two, yeah.
No, one, one, one.
Okay, you're going across the pond?
Yeah, we'll see.
Is it around this time or no?
We'll have to stay tuned.
Keep watching Stacker News Live.
You'll find out where car's going.
All right.
That's oblique as usual
Cool stuff
We're going to jump into the number two top story this week
It's going to be
BIP110 Game Theory and Code
Edit Audit
This is from Melvin Carvalho
37 commas
15,300 stats
From Scoresby
Keon, what's going on in Bitcoin
Yeah, Melvin Carvalho
I think he's been on Stacker News for a long time
since the early days.
I think also early contributor to Noster
before Jack Dorsey got into Noster.
I think no relation to John Carvalho.
I think it's just a popular name in Portugal.
Yeah, so I guess they're a BIP 110 proponent
and they published a website advocating for this soft fork
and made a lot of the arguments on a website
that a lot of people have been making on various social media platforms in favor of the fork.
Scoresby goes and deconstructs it, kind of pulls out the important bits,
and then a few of the bits that confused him and he thinks are contradictory.
I think it's important to note that it seems quite AI, like slop.
It seems quite AI-generated, although it's not as verbose as normal slop, so I suspect it does represent Carvalho's or Melvin's point of view accurately.
um the main the main point of contention is that uh folks who are advocating for the soft fork
seem to suggest that if it doesn't what is it it's like if it it won't activate unless it gets 55
But then at other times, it's a forced activation.
And it will...
So it's a soft fork.
It is a soft fork, but it becomes a chain split if they don't get a majority of hash power.
Because they're running different rules that are...
People who are running BIP-110, they're running different rules.
and they're going to start rejecting blocks that the current Bitcoin rules...
So when you say they, are you meaning like the people that are running the node software?
That are signaling with the node software? Is that what you're saying?
The node software and the miners.
So, yeah.
So that's kind of the idea.
But the signalers would be the miners.
That's who we're interested in.
And that's when, I guess, what is it, 55%?
55% is, I think, activation before a set block height.
If 55% of miners do it, then it automatically activates.
I think if there is less than 55% before that,
and then a certain block height is achieved,
then it's forced activation,
and nodes and miners who are running, who are signaling,
begin to reject blocks that are not BIP-110 compliant.
And they begin producing a fork coin.
Anyway, that's kind of the...
It's kind of a big deal.
You're underselling what's going on.
Well, I mean, there's a lot here.
A lot of them are like, well, yeah, no one's really signaling yet,
but that's because they don't really have to.
And we've seen in the past that people signal late.
And then they also make the same argument that,
or in the same breath, they're like,
well, there's a first mover advantage.
You want to signal early.
There's incentive.
And so they're like contradicting themselves.
It's kind of frustrating that it seems like they,
in many ways, they don't even understand what they're doing,
yet are so vocal and so aggressive about it.
So I guess if we scroll down here,
we're going to see all the tweets, right?
It's usually what happens in a scores repost
when it's this divisive.
He shares a merch tweet about what happens
if the people who are running BIP110
do not get a majority of hash power.
Because he just explains it.
Oh, look, you can't learn about it because it's on X.
There is a claim that comes up a lot
that a soft fork will win.
I mean, it's on Sacker, and his scores will be unpacked.
Oh, you didn't?
Okay, let me go there.
All right, explain that, Ken, because I'm sure you already read this,
unless you want to hear me reading it.
He's just, like, charting out in pretty good detail
how the people who are on BIP-110 will fall behind
if they don't have a majority of hash power,
and they will split from the other chain.
If you scroll down a bit, you can see how much further ahead, in a situation where the BIP-110 chain has only 20% of the hash power, how much further ahead the original chain gets from people who are following BIP-110.
10. It's kind of blocked there on the screen behind me, but you can see they, on the minority
chain, they have seven blocks and the majority chain has 26 because they have 5x the hash.
Or not, not 5x. Yeah. No, they don't have 5x. They have 4x the hash.
And when is this happening? In September, you said?
When is this happening?
I think October, September, maybe November.
But, yeah, that is when it depends.
It's set by block height.
So it can, you know, depending on how fast blocks get mined,
it can be in one month or the other.
But that's kind of the gist is, depending on how you look at it,
advocacy for
much needed
software to Bitcoin
or propaganda
for a
what is mostly a ruse.
So I found this
this post.
I don't know if it'll let me post it or not.
From Hodelnot.
Man, X sucks.
But he had something here.
Let me see if I can click on it at least.
I can. He has something here.
He said two influencers
38 minutes, weird coincidence.
And it's the exact same, almost the exact same tweet.
I thought that was fascinating.
There's more to it when you read the replies.
But I know, man, I'm a wait and see kind of guy.
You already know how I am.
So something feels off all around.
So right now I'm waiting.
That's my take on it.
Anything in particular feels off?
Everything.
It all feels off.
I know Hodlnought's a good actor
so
yeah
okay so you
just my pleb spidey sense is saying
trust Hodlnought
everything looks kind of weird
you're talking about it in a way
and other people are talking about it
trying to explain it so I don't really need to pick a side
right now I can just wait and see how it plays out
sounds like he said it's back
not until September anyway
so yeah
Hodlnought was sharing two tweets that were
I think it's good for the show.
But for me personally, I'm just going to wait and see.
Okay.
Any other thoughts or any other comments?
Yeah, I was sharing one.
The Hodlnott tweet shared two positions of influencers against the soft fork.
So I don't know if you said you trust Hodlnott.
so you trust you trust him and when he suggests that there's maybe funny business going on the
side of people who are opposing the soft fork i'm trusting that when i see him question a tweet
i should probably question it too okay that's what i'm saying i see so you think there might be
bit 110 might have some no i'm not saying any of that i'm saying i'm waiting and seeing that's
what i'm officially saying i'm waiting and seeing keon wait and see some stuff you just gotta let
play out man sometimes discourse has to happen and in a decentralized community like bitcoin is
there's discourse and there's disagreements and you gotta let it play out just a lot of you gotta
let the you know what did you call it last time bike shedding you gotta let the bike shedding
happen i think this is gone beyond bike shutting we're gonna have a fork coin so this is like we'll
see still still early we're in the final we're in the final was it i guess you can say how many
months february march february march april may june july august september eight months you said
yeah but people are already signaling that seven percent of nodes on the network supposedly are
already following
BIP 110 rules, so when this
gets locked in, they're going to
fork off. And that's
7% of nodes who
now have a different
Bitcoin than everyone.
Anyway, I know you're
a wait-and-see guy. I can go back and
talk about prior episodes and
talk about how
I saw a lot of this coming,
but no one wants to hear that.
All right, we're going to go to the number one top story this week.
The biggest threat to Bitcoin is empty blocks.
February 16th from 0285.
83 comments, 12,000 sets.
Keyon, 85, 83 comments.
What's this?
Yeah.
So, man, I wish they had like a human pronounceable name.
But the name that ends in 18, they are frequently on this issue of empty blocks.
and how people just aren't thinking about it.
And they're talking about, instead, spam filling up the blocks or overwhelming the chain,
when really the empirical problem that we seem to have is that blocks are actually empty.
And they discuss in here that while it doesn't seem like much of an issue today,
because the subsidy is maybe fair and keeps enough people mining,
I mean, in the future, at some point,
if we don figure out a way to get blocks full and pay miners fees then what incentive do miners have to mine And then we get people beginning to discuss adding tail emission to Bitcoin where we
producing more than 21 million Bitcoins.
And so he's kind of like, well, maybe we should be talking about this.
Maybe we should think about it.
suggests in here, or he praises Lightning, and then is like, well, you know, Lightning did a lot
of good, but it also, like, took fees off of, you know, off the chain, and isn't compensating
miners, and, you know, maybe that's kind of bad. He doesn't say that should change or anything, but
suggests that maybe there's something that we should do to put more transactions on chain.
You know, ideally, financial transactions, and I'm pretty sure they're not advocating for
a junk on chain but um anyway i thought that was i liked i liked them alluding to a future where
if this doesn't get fixed we get more tail emission but it also reminded me of a talk i saw
by rob warren um at btc plus plus in austin on mem pools and mining pools where he discussed
that this isn't as much of an issue as you might think
because there are multiple
factions of miners
and there's a large number of
miners who mine for ideological
reasons and not necessarily
financial ones and so if the financial
incentives maybe don't
materialize in a way that we
think they might need to
we might
be able to get
far enough or get
through a rough patch with ideological
or hobby miners
and I thought that was pretty cool
and so there's maybe more to the story
than
fees go down, miners go away
and
that's my color
on it
yeah so we got the top
comment from
02
he said, he showed a post
whose post is that?
it's from Anita
she says they say the bottom is in
The market is nervous. People are exiting their Bitcoin projects out of fear.
Me, I'm buying petrol, clothes, and groceries with Bitcoin in South Africa.
Bitcoin for Fairness has been on the Bitcoin standard since 2022, and we keep on.
Either you are convinced that Bitcoin is the best alternative money or not, actions count.
What do you say to that, Gil?
I'd say it's awesome that South Africa has such a great payment.
I'm a Bitcoin merchant accepting Bitcoin payments,
and there's people there to spend Bitcoin there.
We got the next one from Unboiled.
He said, show the world how you use it,
what it actually looks like.
It goes, yet in your own post,
you dedicate a considerable part of it
showering the drama queens with attention.
Take the lecturing tone down a notch.
Start living the way you think helps the cause,
and then show it so those on the fence can gain confidence.
Looks like Unboiled had some comments for 0-2-8.
Yeah, it seemed like they were just making a bunch of...
It goes on for a while.
Trying to challenge the dude.
Undiscipline said, I'm certainly guilty of pretty much only using L1
for managing lightning channels.
What do you think about that?
I think that's a pretty common thing.
It's true of me.
I primarily make Bitcoin payments using Lightning these days,
but I don't know how common that is.
It's probably pretty common among people who use Bitcoin regularly, but yeah.
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how all this plays out.
But I think we're still early.
I think there's still time.
what a week
any other thoughts
I shared quite a few I think
I'm good
alright
let's get into some more laughter
so that's all
the top three stories this week
a lot there go check out
stacker.news and
talk
talk amongst the community
let the discourse commence uh the number where is it at the let's go into wumble's picks wumble's
picks wumble's picks he said ireland now has ubi but only for artists this is from stack harder
18 comments 1263 cents keon what's wumble talking about this week yeah i guess ireland is doing
another UBI experiment. I think they've done some in the past. This one in particular seems like
it's targeted specifically at artists, and 2,000 of them, I guess, is the exact number.
Let me see if I can find this for some reason. I don't have it up.
Yeah. I forget how much they're giving them. I don't think it's much. It's a weekly wage,
I guess on average.
Right.
They had to pile it back during COVID.
And they're going to do a randomized selection.
So are they giving them money for what?
Just for playing music?
I think not.
I don't think they play music.
I don't think they have to do anything to get it
other than be a professional artist who has.
But only 2,000 of them?
Only 2,000 who are randomly selected.
So, yeah.
attempting to eliminate bias and selection.
So it's not really UBI then, right?
It's not universal basic income,
but I think it's an attempt at testing
whether basic income for some people
might improve their lives, which is kind of cool.
He said...
That's a funny thing.
His question was...
Where is it at?
he said
if high employment happens because of AI
would it be better for society to do UBI
during the transition or just rip the bandaid off
quick and move into the new economy
what do you think about that?
I don't really know
I think there's a lot of claims about what the future holds with AI
and what will change and everyone's like this time it's different
but we always say this time it's different
We always think this new thing changes everything.
And yeah, maybe that's true of AI.
Maybe AI really is the singularity economically and culturally,
and nothing's going to be even remotely close to what it is today.
But I like to look back a little bit,
and most technologies that we have that increase productivity
leads to people actually working more
and earning more and their lives getting better
and standard of living getting better.
It does seem like there's going to be a good segment of the...
I was talking with Jimmy the other day.
There's this kind of K thing happening right now in the markets
and it does seem like the middle is just getting scooped out.
So it almost feels like there's...
It's kind of like when I saw the Naval tweet.
Where is it at here?
I saw the Naval tweet earlier.
see if it shows it says intelligence and talent are not normally distributed leverage magnifies
the distinctions the capable ones to make every everyone better off but themselves most of all
it's not the that the rich are getting richer it's that the smart leveraged and high agency
are getting richer that was his take so feels that that feels about right
yeah I I want another point I want to make on this is that I think there's a lot of people are
making a correlation between the rise of AI and economic conditions and I'm and they're from that
correlation they're saying it's causal I don't think it is I think I think we've been slated
for a recession and a correction and employment numbers since they started raising rates
roughly, I think, 18 months ago,
which is when the lag on these things hit the economy
where businesses can't raise more debt to finance operations,
and so they start cutting back.
That is what the Fed exists to do.
No, that feels accurate.
I mean, we saw that with COVID
when literally CEOs go parachuting out of their jobs,
COVID happened and then the the printing machine just went to affinity so yeah and just use any
excuse yeah they went they went they went the other way with during COVID where they lowered
rates so that people would stay employed and then they had to correct that by increasing rates which
they know and they intend to cause unemployment you know hopefully temporarily and not in a
devastating way but just enough to cause inflation to get back to normal I think that kind of goes
back to why we said earlier we see that
kind of K-shaped thing where it's just
middle. What does K-shape mean?
The way he was explaining it is in the markets
things are either going this
way or things are going this way.
There's no middle. There's basically no middle class.
There's no...
That's helpful.
Subscribe to his
newsletter. I see. So people
in the middle are either shooting up and getting
better or the wealth gap is
increasing. It kind of goes back to what Nabal tweeted.
Just high agency.
people that are, you know, in that, in that opportunity zone to take advantage of that.
So, and then the people that aren't, well.
Where do you feel like you are in the K?
I don't know. I don't really, how do I say this? Because it's going to sound arrogant.
External factors are not a factor for me. It's my own fault. That's how I feel.
So if it's something that's happening, then it's just, it's all on me to figure that out.
I don't blame the markets for it.
Do you know what I mean?
That's how I operate, but everybody's different.
I'm not saying that's to operate like that.
I'm just saying that's just how I operate.
No, it's a good way to aspire.
That's a good thing to aspire to.
I think that is true.
Yeah, I guess I don't know where I...
I don't really see the K much,
but I also spend all day in my office.
Yeah, you got to get out.
So that was a good one from Wumble's Picks.
Wumble's Perks.
Let's jump into some AI stuff.
So this week we had this one from Uncle Jim21.
He said, don't let AI think for you.
Why I built a visual search engine for free thinkers.
Did you take a look at this, Kian?
I did take a look at this.
I saw some of this a few weeks ago.
Jim teased it to me.
And it looks really cool.
I guess he's working with some authors for audio books and stuff.
Let's see if it loads here.
Doing some smart things around.
How is Bitcoin like Jesus?
Podcasts.
Audio in general.
Let me see if it can go.
Did it get stuck or is it just the video?
Anyway, I thought it was cool.
Definitely worth checking out.
Now I'm like Inception in.
Let me close this tab.
All right, there he goes here.
But yeah, looks like he said here,
podcasts were just the proving ground.
I started with podcasts because they're the most
underserved knowledge base on the planet.
Thousands of hours of expert conversations,
locked in linear audio with zero structure,
but we're thinking bigger.
Jamie is agnostic visualization layer.
Our clients are already asking for it across.
There you go.
What's that?
Yep.
Dzee, sorry.
I was in preparation.
Yeah, if you're interested in this, reach out to him.
He's here on Twitter.
There you go.
The next one I wanted to share was Ellen Curl.
So this one was really fascinating.
I want to play with this this weekend.
But it's basically a lightning wallet for your agent.
In my understanding, it's just one command.
you see that there
here
there it goes right there
it's custodial so there's that
but it's definitely a quick
easy way to start playing with some of this stuff
it's custodial with who
I think it's an Albie project if I remember
correctly
Noster Waller Connect
I think it's non-custodial
is it really custodial I don't think they have custodial products
I didn't really look too much into it
but I want to play with it I want to share it
But, yeah, it's really cool.
The next one I wanted to bring up was, where is it at?
Your AI girlfriend.
There you go, Keon.
That's your AI girlfriend.
I have an AI girlfriend?
This is your AI girlfriend.
How long have we been dating?
This is your AI girlfriend without makeup.
What do you think about that?
What do I think about what?
Your AI girlfriend.
What do I, which one?
Which one of those?
I just thought it was a funny meme.
I just thought it was a hilarious meme.
It is a funny meme.
Do you think, so we were saying earlier,
do you think the simpism will go away because AI Girlfriends exists now
and guys would just give the simpism to AI Girlfriends?
Yeah, I don't think it goes away.
I think it just gets worse.
You think it goes worse?
Yeah, because I think it's like you can simp and it's cheap.
It's free.
You get to make the female idol that you simp to from scratch, custom,
exactly what you want.
So you're saying it's going to increase or decrease?
I think it's going to get worse.
Oh, wow.
I would think it would decrease.
Everyone's worried about these economic things.
I'm mostly worried about the cultural stuff.
Really?
That, I think, is just going to get...
Again, I'm not really kidding when I think that dudes are playing with AI and creating bots in lieu of children.
Oh, I thought it was a joke for you.
It's not a joke.
I think it's actually serious.
Oh, interesting.
So this is like pets, but for women, is what you're saying, are bots.
no it's like children but for men yeah like most women have like pets and it's like their children
basically so you're saying this is like the guy's version of that yeah interesting that's a take
yeah i mean but i think you know it'll i think it'll just i think we'll just replace every
human being in our lives if we're not careful with machines so yeah yeah um i thought this
is hilarious though.
Really funny.
Hasher Stacker. Keep them coming, Hasher Stacker.
This is amazing.
Which girlfriend would you prefer?
I don't know. Is this live?
You want a brunette, right? Or no?
You're into the Jermans.
Alright, let's keep going.
Let me see here.
Oh yeah, we got the zine.
Plot poet, are you ready for the
zine?
There you go.
Oh wait, she's going to plug in
Yeah, you can plug that in.
There you go.
Cool.
So we got the Zine 47.
Wow, three more from 50.
Number 47.
Would you, you could hold it.
I can hold it.
Thank you so much.
Yeah, I'll be like the QVC girl.
Yes.
So we have a Zine here.
It is Zine number 47 coming at you fresh off the press.
something to alert maybe
Coop especially to is I
got a notey from the printer
saying toner is low
oh no
didn't we just buy like a bajillion
well we bought ink but we didn't buy toner
those are different things aren't they
I have no idea
I feel like they might be but
I thought you would know all the answers
okay well we can get
more toner I guess we'll have to get more toner
and next time in even brighter
color you'll have issue number 48 but this week this is one i made and we got uh some stories in
there and maybe also koob especially will recognize that front page oh yeah you got my nicotine cup
it's like my what do they call that in a saloon when you spit exactly the spittoon spittoon that's
my spittoon but with gum and then my lucky cat which isn't very lucky because i'm poor
and what else we got and there's just a bunch of text there's some color there's some qr codes
there's some words about bitcoin and it's on newsprint and this is the darker color of newsprint
which i think i like it's actually kind of shimmery if you hold it out into the light
It's got a sheen to it
It's got a sheen to it and I don't mind it
Charlie Sheen to it
Yeah
Unfiltered
What is that? Is that a movie or show or something?
Unfiltered was the series that
Totally Human Writer was doing
And he was about to close it off
But he was just talking about his writing career
And it's been good to read
I've been reading each one of them
So I was happy to include that
Empty Blocks
You didn't talk about that one
We did
Because BIP110 and who's signaling
We talked BIP110 too
Yeah
I really appreciate
I just want to say I appreciate when people come on
Stacker News to have a hot take about what going on In Bitcoin I do appreciate that they often will use italics frequently as emphasis on their words just every just if you gonna say fuck all you might as
well italicize it and i think that's cool yeah feel it don't just say it exactly and then zeus
happy birthday post we got that in there and i gave him a little cake seven years isn't that crazy
What a journey.
Journey of seven years has brought us here.
He's in second grade, Zeus.
Second grade.
Just learning like math or whatever.
Arithmetic, yeah.
Maybe multiplication tables.
Perhaps, even.
And then did you guys check out this guy's platform?
He was lightning-enabled platform for creators, Mochi.
Oh, yeah, that looked interesting.
It was sort of like a Patreon.
Right.
Wow.
Yeah.
I kind of was going to ask him what led him to call it mochi.
It was cute.
I mean, that color choice is good.
I like to eat mochi, so that makes me feel positive.
Yeah, design was solid.
I discovered that they're using Phoenix D on the back end, and it's custodial.
But, yeah, it seems like they have an angle on it.
It seems fun.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
That was it.
That's it guys.
Awesome stuff.
Get them while you can.
I'm going to send out about eight of these this time.
Whoa.
Number go up.
Awesome.
Purchase the zine.
It's on sale now.
Click that link at separate.com.
Subscribe to the zine.
Unsubscribe from this podcast.
That's one way to do it.
Cool.
I think that's all of them we got.
Oh, mine.
I want to share this one.
So we're doing AI Startup Rodeo.
It's happening.
If you needed a reason to come to Austin, this is a reason.
We have music playing in it.
Why is it called Rodeo?
Will there be bulls there?
There will be bulls.
There will be a bull riding machine.
You'll be able to jump on.
You'll be able to do all sorts of crazy stuff.
But, yeah, this is going to be a lot of fun.
I can't wait.
Will you be speaking?
No.
No, I won't.
I don't think so.
Really?
I feel like you've developed an opinion on the interception.
Oh, I have so many opinions.
But no, I think this one's just more for builders,
like people that want to go deep,
because a lot of the stuff that we see in Austin
is very, like, one-inch deep on, like, AI,
and we're trying to go, like, really, really in-depth
on some of the...
I have a friend of mine that's helped me do this one,
so we want to go really deep on the AI stuff,
So we're bringing in some experienced people to show it.
So I think it's going to be good just for like the understanding how people that are running businesses like shipping AI.
And then there's going to be a cross section there with Bitcoin.
So it'll be fun.
Anyways, check it out.
The next one I want to bring up is Keon's picks this week.
The first one you had was, well, let's just keep sticking with Bitcoin for a second.
Bitcoin stale block dataset website.
What is this?
Yeah, 0xB10C came out with this visualization of Bitcoin stale block data,
and they are collecting it from other Bitcoin node runners.
They have a repo with a little script that you can run against your Bitcoin node,
and it will publish a CSV of all the stale blocks you've seen,
and you can submit a PR to the repo where they're hosting all of this data
and get included in this visualization of all of Bitcoin's stale blocks,
which is neat.
And it's cool to see over time how much better a block transmission has gotten.
Based on the graph at the top, there was quite a bit of latency in the Bitcoin network.
And then, you know, I think through several advancements, some of them quite direct, like compact block relay and the fiber network and these kind of explicit attempts at improving block transmission, block relay times, reducing block latency.
we got it
it came down pretty fast and far
and there are quite a few
less stale blocks as seen
by Bitcoin nodes
and I think
that's cool
it's cool seeing Bitcoin
number go down
on stale blocks
it's a good thing
cool stuff
yeah
top comment was from
So, CplStacker said, cool, is it the same thing as OrphanBlock?
And then Merch came in there and answered it.
What did Merch say, Q?
Yeah, he said that OrphanBlock is probably a misnomer for what we're talking about here.
OrphanBlock originally meant you received a block that you didn't know the parent of,
but that's not really possible in current versions of Bitcoin Core
because now you do not start sinking a block unless you know its ancestors.
And so you don't really get orphan blocks anymore,
but we still occasionally people will call them orphan blocks,
what are stale blocks.
So stale blocks are if you receive a,
if like two miners or multiple miners produce a block at the same time
and one of them is accepted and the other ones are,
you don't add more work on top of those other blocks.
Those are the stale ones.
And the fresh one is the one that gets work added to it.
Cool stuff.
The next one that you had was the one that, where is it here?
This one right here.
It says, how OpenAI, the U.S. government, and Persona built in identity surveillance machine.
It's from MegaPatera.
MegaPatera?
Jason B's picks
are you trying to copy me
this is Jason B
was like hey talk about this please
and I was like this will be Jason B's
this will be Jason B's picks
we would have to come up with something different if it was like
a Jason B one I wouldn't just use the same thing
you wouldn't use picks or anyone
that's Wumble's picks
okay what would be Jason B's
I don't know we'd have to make it a segment
and then
we'd come up with it
we can't do it on the spot we're not improvisers here
No, because you threw me off when you said that.
Oh, well.
I didn't mean to.
I got it.
I got to think about it.
I didn't mean to hurt the vibe.
You got to show love to Jason B.
Anyway, have you checked this out yet, Carr?
No, no, but I was waiting for you to explain it to me.
You'd love this website.
It's a fun, it's got like a strong throwback.
Is that a kitty?
A little bunny rabbit follows the cursor around.
So we hit continue.
We hit continue.
It's got a Windows 95 theme.
Oh, wow.
you hear that music yeah so these guys can i play minesweep this
i can't play minesweeper what the hell it's been a while not yet oh wow it's playing music
let me turn that off no it's not request minesweep there it goes yeah i was looking for
minesweeper i don't see it what is it it was a game that we used to have back in the day well
I know, Minesweeper.
I mean, what is this website?
Oh.
This website is, if you want to go into the blog article,
this website is from a hacker, I guess you would call him.
Oh, that's not the blog post.
You want to go into the files part with the PH.
Where do you see PH?
This is a blog site?
Yeah, it's like his personal website.
That is sick.
Yeah, where he publishes work and it just looks like a desktop.
But if you go down into files, the watchers, and you click on that, that's the story that I wanted to cover and got shared on.
Oh, my God.
On Stacker News.
I guess what happened, I guess, so OpenAI does KYC checks on people.
I don't know when this started.
I don't recall KYCing with OpenAI.
Maybe this started later than when I signed up.
I don't know.
It was discovered that they work with this company called With Persona, who has existing relationships with other government agencies and other companies that are doing KYB, KYC stuff.
And so I guess in inspecting some of the public records around this service, they discovered OpenAI's endpoint, which is like independent of with Persona's backend infrastructure.
and had basically all of its internal code,
all of the code that runs the service,
exposed at that URL on the Internet.
And they basically pulled it, pulled all that code,
and then was able to determine what the code does
and who it talks to and stuff.
If you go all the way to the bottom,
it has a chart of what happens
and then a description of the information they collect
and what they potentially do with it.
But it's all the way at the bottom.
This one right here?
No, all the way at the bottom.
That's a long way.
This is them describing how they got the data.
Oh, okay, you want me to go all the way.
This is them extracting data from the OpenAI server.
The OpenAI with Persona isolated infrastructure that was running in dev mode that allowed them to extract all the source maps and reconstruct all the source code for the endpoint.
So if you scroll up a teeny-weeny bit, you can kind of see...
Oh, wait. Maybe a bit more.
Maybe a bit.
Let's see.
it ends with, here we go.
Here, this is all this.
Epilogue or the portrayal part?
Okay, so you give them,
basically what happens is you give OpenAI
a scan of your ID and your information,
and they give that information to WithPersona,
or you give that information to WithPersona
through OpenAI.
You see it as OpenAI when you're doing it,
but it goes to WithPersona at this endpoint.
And this endpoint has code to do things
like file suspicious activity reports with FinCEN,
file suspicious transaction reports with FinTrack. It has built a dashboard that allows
people with Persona, I guess, to dispatch any of this stuff to a variety of government
intelligence operations that are in name in the source code. It has an explicit three-year
attention on biometric data that is captured. I think OpenAI says it's a year. The source code
says it's three years, but who knows, especially once it's passed off to government, who knows how
long that's kept. 269 distinct verification checks against a single person. It does facial
recognition and tries to find any similarities to political figures that it has in its database.
So if you scan your face into OpenAI and the software goes through this check, it'll see if you're, you know, maybe you're a Mexican political figure, a Mexican senator or something.
Or you look like one, maybe you're related to one.
What are some of the other things?
Flagsie for terrorism, potentially.
Oh, crypto wallet stuff.
I don't know how crypto wallet would play into the open AI thing,
but maybe it can compare identity to KYC at other exchanges.
And now you have your Bitcoin address,
your crypto address, if you're a shitcoiner,
associated with now your chat activity on open AI.
And yeah, it was just kind of a,
they made a mistake and exposed their internal source code.
and now we kind of know what these systems were doing and who they were reporting to.
And what's kind of surprising is that it seems primarily suited or targeted towards financial crimes
and financial-related activities, and that's where most of the information is going.
What is kind of funny about this is, like, pulling the source map out of Vite
is such a basic way to expose what's happening on the back end.
Which Vi app was this?
Their Codex app?
No, this was not an OpenAI product that they got this from.
This is like a segmented, isolated version of WithPersona,
who's like the vendor that provides them their KYC.
Yes, okay, okay.
Yeah.
So it was their vendor's app that got, okay.
Yeah.
because they
yeah they just
it looked like they were running a dev server in prod
basically they had like pulled from their
their deployment pipeline the dev
build
and you know when you have
and then there are a bunch of things in the software
like it's like our encryption relies on
obfuscation
and then apparently this went through government audit
for security and somehow passed
as another
is maybe the sketchiest or the scariest thing.
It's just how poorly it was audited.
I guess there was also a dashboard, I think,
for the people with Persona
to chat about the status of your KYC information
with OpenAIS LLL.
You got to have that.
That was a good feature to throw on.
Yeah, you want to 10x whoever is on the other side of this, I guess.
Anyway, I thought it was pretty awesome.
It's pretty cool, like the rabbit hole they went through to get all this stuff,
and it was all publicly accessible.
They did nothing illegal.
They just grabbed public stuff off the Internet.
It was mistakenly made public.
And that's kind of a sketch of the pipeline.
It's unclear what parts of this an OpenAI KYC touches, but that is the exact code that's
running at the endpoint that OpenAI is hitting.
And so potentially it goes through all the same checks that that code offers.
So maybe if I'm running OpenClaw with OpenAI provider
and it's hooked up to my email and all my personal messages
and everything I do, maybe that's bad.
Maybe I'm exposing some information here.
No, yeah.
I mean, I think it's probably enough for a lot of these companies
just from an IP address to know who you are.
I think they can get it probably at very high accuracy levels.
So all this other stuff is just gravy.
It's like they can just increase their confidence level in determining who you are.
And make a better product to sell.
I mean, when I think about all this, I think more like in like the,
my mind goes to like the whole kind of like the nuclear bomb type of thing.
and so I don't know
I just think very adversarily about this kind of stuff
yeah it almost makes you
want to leverage their own
like your own AI
to
yeah
I don't have it
I actually haven't formulated yet but
to me it feels more like a
like you need to have a check on the other side
of this, if this is kind of what
they have.
You need, like, the
customer of OpenAI needs to have a check?
No, I just think in general.
I think if, kind of like
what you said right now, by an IP address,
email address, KYC,
your passport,
you know, like, a lot of
it's going to be metadata that's just
collected.
And so,
from that standpoint, it's like,
who's collecting the data on the people that's collecting data on us
uh no because it's like it's it's going to the data collector of last resort which is the
government and then all of the their partners who help them sit through that data like
i imagine although i don't know the palantires of the world and stuff that's what i'm saying i
feel like it's one of those things that
and I don't know
I don't know I can't see the future
or anything like that but to me it almost feels
like there's going to be a
with a lot of this technology stuff
especially stuff that can do harm to humanity
or people it feels like there's always
another side to it like
the opposite side to it
but I don't know we'll see
to me
I love the website
I think the website's cool
yeah I wish you had a
I have a Minesweeper on here so I can play it.
Wish you had what?
I wish you had Minesweeper on here so I could have played it when you were talking This is what you should make your interface to kid A look like Oh that be dope What happens if you click on sauce up over there
Which one?
MSN?
That little E, and it says sauce underneath.
Under MSN.
A few under MSN.
That one?
I don't know.
You see the paw print?
Oh, yeah, this one.
But the one underneath it.
oh was that NSFW
right there because you had to say you were 18
I didn't I just clicked it
anyways cool stuff
cool stuff yeah
Jason B is something
that Carwell Car has
copyrighted trademark on well it's Wombles
like it's Wombles picks like right
I thought it was Wombos
it's not the car
you know what it is
it's his
It's his pick.
Cars trademark picks in general.
From Womble.
Womble's picks.
It says Cars post, Keon's post, Womble's picks.
We had Jason B.
It would say Jason B something, whatever.
Come up with.
Jason B's.
Just got to feel it, man.
Got to feel it with all this stuff.
I think that's pretty much everything.
Jason B's suggestees.
Oh, that's a good one.
Thank you.
I like that.
Okay.
It's sealed.
We got a meta.
What's happening here?
Yeah, I think it was this past weekend I released a change to ranking
that makes it so old content can get zapped into the front page,
which is kind of cool because we've been talking about evergreenness
for a long time.
People who write things want them to live longer than a day
and get seen more than by whoever happens to be on a website that day.
And this allows that to happen, which is kind of cool.
So we've been seeing a lot of people resurface older posts that were quite good
that are still relevant, and it's kind of fun to do that.
It also allows, if you've missed anything within the last week,
if something didn't get zapped, it didn't get enough attention,
I'm noticing people zapping that into the front page.
But the general idea is that things are ranked based on when activity is happening on them rather than when the content was posted or created, which I think is interesting.
And I think it's not something you can easily do without sats because a single individual has a lot of power with sats in a system that is purely measuring sats.
So that is the main change.
And then there are a bunch of other kind of small things that are primarily like reducing the concept surface area of the site and trying to make things a little seem simpler and frankly stupid is my goal.
I want Stackernuse to seem like it's not really doing anything.
And so I'm just trying to remove as much stuff as I can.
I'll probably oversteer and then we can correct it.
but that is kind of the vibe right now where I'm just trying to cut concepts
that someone might have to learn visiting Stack or News for the first time.
So they don't have to learn ZapRank?
No.
They don't have to learn Boost, really?
No, it's like kind of jargon.
Yeah, they're not going to get hit in the face with Boost.
They can use it, but it's effectively a Zap.
We can maybe even change it to say Zap.
So you're finally taking all the feedback?
But I don't know, where does it even say boost anymore?
Boost is...
It says it when you hit the modal with it.
Like, when you go to boost something, the button says boost on it, I think.
But that's just for me.
Just for you.
Yeah.
Or, no, I think if you go into details on a post, like if you go into details on this post...
You can see what it was.
Yeah.
You're going to zap me 100,000 sats, bro.
Thank you so much.
Oh, my God.
That'll get me a few open claws running, you know what I mean?
If you help me expand my family.
Not these days.
And while we're looking at this, help me out with something else.
H slash T means huge thanks.
Hat tip.
I mean, it's close.
Hat tip.
Yeah.
Huge tits.
It's way longer.
Huge tits would be great.
Huge titties scores me.
Also, huge titties undisciplined.
I'm sure none of them have huge tits.
and not... Hat tip, okay.
Yeah, hat tip. Which is still kind of
just credit to this person.
Yes, it's like
a show of
respect
and
admiration. Yeah.
And
you said it right the first time and I
struggling to find a better way to say it.
So what's going on here with Jobs?
Yeah, so Jobs got
a revamp where
they're conceptually basically
identical to any other post,
which I'm pretty excited about.
Because before they were sort of like
this add-on, bolt-on thing that we
didn't really make sense in the context of the site.
And now with all these changes,
I was able to basically make it like any other post.
And so while we haven't had a job posted in a few months
because it was so kludgy,
I think it, and maybe people aren't going to be hiring
for a while if we are in a recession
or if AI is taking all of our jobs,
but I think it is actually a really interesting concept now
and makes a lot more sense than it did before,
so that is the other change there.
Cool.
And it was Valentine's Day, so happy Valentine's Day to stackers.
Thanks.
I mean, you have your own Valentine.
Oh.
This is for anyone who didn't have a Valentine.
So we're going to jump into the comments first, YouTube comments.
So Vake said stay in your monetary system.
No.
The gold standard.
How dare you, Vake?
And then the Graphene OS just keeps getting more comments from people.
So where's that?
I'm not going to read them anymore.
You're going to start ignoring it?
I mean, I'm just going to post it if people want to read it, then they can.
People keep.
It's the same.
It's just like people are just getting up in arms about the Graphene thing.
And it's like, it's just the weirdest thing to see.
We're so wrong.
They're going to be upset.
It's almost like the more wrong you are, the more subscribers you get.
The more comments you get.
Maybe that's why we're unsuccessful with getting people to unsubscribe.
Because we're so wrong.
And they want to tune in to see what else wrong things you say.
Yeah, they just sort of like hate watch.
Yeah, that correlates.
We got some found comments.
Blockchain Boox said last week's episode was funny.
Funny episode, Zap.
Undiscipline said, I also have the sense that people view people in the past as dumber.
but I don't think they're curious of that assumption.
Conscious.
What did I say?
Curious.
You said curious.
There you go.
It's a Friday day.
What do you think?
Do you think Undiscipline's right?
And then Blockchain Boog said,
waiting for Cinnamon to go public,
I need some shares.
I think that was the week before, right?
Oh, was it?
Yeah, that was on the last week.
Overpasted.
Cool stuff.
What do you think about what Undiscipline said?
Do you think that's true?
Yeah, I don't think they really think about it.
I think that's kind of what we were kind of saying.
But I think if you think about it, they're basically as smart as we were.
They just have less knowledge.
Let's read what's down here.
I'm sure it's one of the funny stuff.
Farthcorn making fun of us again.
He just doesn't want you to talk about AI.
I love that.
And I respect.
I love that he thinks about me sometimes.
We were talking about Spark today.
And then we have 117 Fun Fact Friday.
SNL is actually a live show.
People may not know because there's no link to the live episode.
These posts.
It's literally on the front page, Darth Quinn said.
Is that easy to snack your news on?
His is gone.
On mobile.
It doesn't show up on mobile, can you?
It does.
You X out of it.
We save your preference, I think, possibly forever.
And it never opens up again for you.
So if you clear your local storage.
I've never seen a horse throw up that much, though.
Have you seen a horse throw up that much?
Not recently, no.
Have you seen that in Oklahoma, Janet?
Seen what?
A horse throw up like that?
I ain't never seen a horse throw up like that before.
I don't think that's accurate.
I mean, he was hurting in the tummy or something.
I've never seen that.
It almost looks like it's AI generated.
I'm more concerned with him being inside of a convenience store.
What is he doing? Is he buying scratchers?
This feels like an AI-generated image, DarthCoin.
What are you doing, buddy?
He's using AI.
I've been watching AI cat videos, AI-generated cat videos,
and they're pretty banging, dude.
I can't do the AI-generated images.
I just can't, dude.
I can't do it.
I got to just do it normally.
Well, how are you going to talk to your AI girlfriend?
I'm not.
I'm not going to have one.
That's just dumb.
Just get a real one.
They're cheaper.
Are they cheaper?
I think so.
I would guess not.
I would guess when these things get popular, they're going to be dirt cheap, dude.
What do you mean?
These?
Like this guy's AI girlfriend?
You think his is going to get?
No.
She's totally taking all this money.
See, he's got an AI girlfriend, and she's still pissing him off.
He's still ignoring her.
All right.
Let's jump into the Top Cowboys.
Wait, I thought we weren't doing Top Cowboys anymore.
Oh, we're not?
You guys were supposed to meet and come up with a different segment.
Who's you guys?
Both you and Jana were conspiring.
I just probably just said that in the moment.
I just said that in the moment.
Okay, we don't hold each other.
I gave you my suggestions right then on the day.
I don't remember.
Which was you playing the segment, I think is what the suggestion was.
The suggestion was I read you a poem, and you guys hated that.
Top Cowboy segment this week with Karen Kean, the most popular segment.
You guys overruled yourselves.
You guys played yourselves.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
Same people every week.
Do you have anything to say?
Yeah, but I'd say this is the problem.
It's like now you're going to continue to hold me responsible for this.
And I was the one letting you adjust if you wanted to.
I hold like 45 minutes through.
By the time I get to Cowboys, I'm carred out.
I'm just sort of like ready for quietness.
Wait, you've had too much of yourself?
I've had too much of myself.
It's like I'm done with car.
Makes sense.
I'm just done, ready to just go in silent mode.
Okay, well, it looks like not a whole lot has changed.
A lot more stackers in hiding.
I think this was a call to arms around hiding.
Oh, really?
Why?
An antagonist.
Who?
We don't want to say their name.
Why?
They should not be named.
I haven't been paying attention.
I've been too busy, but what's going on?
We've been having shootouts on Sacker News.
Who's shooting who?
Since then, you know.
What?
We don't know who's zapping what?
Wait, maybe this is the new segment.
DarthCoin is shooting people?
Try to get Carr to guess who the new enemy is.
I would say Darth Coins is the enemy,
and then there's somebody that's probably pissed off at Darth Coins.
We actually love Darth Coins.
And then he's shooting back.
And then Darth Coins probably saying something, something credits.
Darth Coins on the good side.
That's probably what's going on.
He doesn't shoot with zaps, down zaps either.
He shoots with memes.
That's what I'm saying.
Well, you're wrong.
No, I said this is what I'm describing is probably what's going on,
even though I don't know what's going on.
Okay, then what's going on?
There have been shootouts where people are down zapping a lot
and other people are up zapping a lot.
They're spending their stats to down zap?
A lot of them.
Like, look at the reward.
Scroll down to the rewards pool.
Really?
I got, like, click on it.
Click on it and you'll see, like, over 50% is.
No.
He's never clicked on it before.
You click on rewards.
Where are your rewards?
Oh, your head's in the way probably, huh?
Yeah, his big head's in the way.
My head is.
Well, look at the hat you have on.
Oh, wow.
That's many.
Really?
61K?
This has been going on for like a week.
Click on that.
Is this one day?
I can't click on it.
You can't really click.
I don't know where you want to go.
Shut up.
People are down to 61K.
It's probably all open claws.
Are you sure it's not just a bot attack?
It could be, but I'm pretty sure it's not.
I don't know why open claw would spend sats down zapping.
Because it's dumb and doesn't understand hard money.
The robot is supposed to affirm everything.
Damn.
This just got interesting.
Cowboy segment.
Cowboy segment just got interesting all of a sudden.
Tune in next week for how many more people are down zapping and wasting precious money like this.
But we know who the real enemy is.
People have their suspicions.
The state?
You think the state's down zapping you?
It could be Elon car.
Wow.
It could be trying to sabotage.
It's probably those AI bros down the street.
Could be.
Wow.
making friends everywhere you go
play a poet yeah
dang okay well
we'll see what happens next week 61k
down zaps let's see if we can pump those numbers
I think we had let's waste some more
sats we had over we had like 150
thousand so he so whoever's doing this
he or she
or they or it
now that AI
exists do you think
or someone's girlfriend
or someone's child
Or maybe they have two sessions going where the same bot is actually both.
Maybe it's because the stackers are spending too much time on here
instead of their AI girlfriend.
Oh, and they're upset.
The AI girlfriend's coming to down Zappo.
Maybe that's what's going on.
Oh, that's a bad thing.
Wow, that's a heater of a take right there.
That's what I think is going on.
Tune in next week.
Not a keeper, guys.
Clear.
Clear her memory.
Wipe it.
You know what you were telling me about?
You're just like wiping kid A's.
Can you imagine you do that with your girlfriend?
Dude, I have a bot that's just so stupid.
I was telling Topher, I was like, it's so dumb.
He's kind of like, what's his soul.md file.
It's so funny.
Anyways.
This segment just turned better.
I think just talking more about that.
I'm not up there, though.
That's pretty sad.
You were on the list.
I saw your avatar.
Oh, you did?
I didn't see it.
So I guess what they're saying is if they hide, then the town zapper won't know?
No, there was like a...
It's like people hiding in their houses, basically.
Simple Stacker made a post where it's like,
hey, let's fight this town zapper by hiding our cowboy stuff.
And I think a lot of people went and hid their cowboy stuff
in addition to their position in, yeah,
that would hide their position in top cowboys.
There's so much drama in the saloon, man.
What's going on in the saloon here?
Wow.
it was it was on that post mostly right oh there's a lot of drama going on in the saloon
what's this oh yeah that's what it feels like right now that movie that starship troopers
yeah the one of the the actresses in there the like um the eye candy in that movie is also eye
candy in an earlier um star trek series the most more interesting thing about this movie is the
the person who made this movie is the same guy who made RoboCop.
It was a good movie.
Yeah, people were saying, like, I was watching something,
and they were talking about how RoboCop's this, like, art house movie
at the time in the 80s.
And I went back and watched it, and I was like, oh, shit, it is.
Like, it is just, like, a weird concept.
Yeah.
And then he came out with this one next.
Was RoboCop funny?
No, it was just insanely good, the first one.
The one from the 80s.
Anyways, that's it.
That's it for Stacker News Live.
What are you doing this weekend, Cam?
I don't have any plans.
I'll probably ship code this weekend again.
I think I'm going to start shipping code on the weekends.
It seems better.
And otherwise, I don't think I have to do anything.
I have to remind myself to water the plants.
I haven't watered my plants in a bit.
But that's about it.
How about you, Carr?
Brandon's coming in tomorrow,
so we're going to hang out for a little bit.
It should be good seeing him.
And then probably go to church.
You got to do that.
What was the other?
There's one other thing I need.
I need to do something on Sunday.
I forgot what it was, but yeah.
Flipo, what are you doing this weekend?
I'm going to the beach.
Wow.
Let's go.
The Texas beach?
The Texas beach.
Nice.
The beautiful Texas beach.
World famous.
Which way?
Corpus Christi or?
Not Corpus.
Okay.
Should I say Galveston?
Oh, wow.
Aha.
That's right.
That should be fun.
Sounds pretty awesome.
What do I have out in Galveston?
Do they have resorts and stuff?
There's resorts and condos and pools and Lazy River and the beach.
Mex, Tex, Mex, Mexitex to eat.
Margaritas.
Carl, Galveston versus Corpus.
I've never gone to.
You've never been?
Never been.
Surprisingly, this whole time.
You'd be the guy who could tell it.
I just stay in my backyard beach, you know?
Maybe I'll eat a shrimp taco.
You should get a, I don't know if they have it there.
You should get like a shrimp cocktail.
They'll probably do like a really good spicy shrimp cocktail.
Can I say something?
I've never eaten a shrimp.
Oh, yeah, because you don't like seafood.
I don't really love it.
Yeah, I forgot about that.
Yeah, you don't like seafood.
And shout out, well, I was with someone today and she was eating shrimp.
And I didn't say anything, but I almost wanted to be like,
I hope you enjoy that.
That's not for me.
Do you like throw up when you see it?
I don't, no.
I don't at all.
No.
Yeah, there's just some foods, right, that people just, yeah, don't like.
Cool.
Have fun at the beach.
Yeah, have fun at the beach.
Say hello to the water.
Yep.
Cool.
I'll do it.