Anyone got any experience of being in a #DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization) they'd like to share?
The concept was hip a few years ago and went quiet and I'd like to know if there's any success stories out there! (and of course i want the tea if you had a bad time too)
Boosts welcome for reach.
Tao Te Ching Ursula K. Le Guin translation Ch. 30
First review of my new Edinburgh Fringe show, "Ego Tourism"! (which aims to describe the philosophy of Daoism in a Daoist way, through humor, stories and paradox).
Good morning everyone 
Late one for me as Grant got up for the parrots (who were extremely raucous when he left to take his car for a service, but with determination I managed to fall asleep again 
) and I was up far too late playing BG3. Now that I've rerolled my sorcereress and am playing her the way that feels right for her character, I'm having a whole lot of fun again. I've been gaming a bit much, but am enjoying the break from reality and just letting my mind go Elsewhere.
I made my custom crochet order live again yesterday and I see people are starting to favourite it already, but it usually takes a few days before orders come in, so I'll probably be gaming today again I reckon. Either that or cleaning out some cupboards....I wonder which will win I also noticed a whole whack of new mods for DAO on the Nexus, so I will have to check those out. It would be rude not to! 
Have a lovely day whatever you get up to 
Good morning Fellow Travellers around the Sun 
Late one for me today as Grant got up for the parrots and I was really late (9 PM) for me anyway to bed last night due to gaming I'm sitting with the parrots now, who have been nice and quiet all morning to allow me to sleep in, with coffee and classical music and having a lovely lazy morning generally.
I tried to go on with my Act III BG3 campaign, but I couldn't change the decision I wanted to, and I kept getting annoyed, so deleted the whole thing and rolled my sorceress again. My Act I Bard will probably end up with the same outcome, but that's okay as it suits her personality. My sorceress is different though and I have to play my characters as I imagine them to be or it just rankles with me. It does make gaming cheap for me though ,as I play the same ones over and over all the time. I even jumped back into DAO as I was getting the itch again
Have a lovely day, whatever you get up to
Good morning you lovely lot 
I'm just up from a long lie, because, despite it being Monday, it's also Glasgow Fair so we have a day off today - yay! I celebrated by doing a little gaming last night. I had a real hankering to play some Dragon Age Origins again and so I did. It was brilliant I must have installed some mods I had forgotten about, because a couple of things happened that I have never encountered before. I will need to go and check my mod list and update the relevant post on my website once I figure it out. Anyway, great fun was had; it was like a night out with old friends.
I am sitting with the parrots now enjoying their company and coffee. I may have to move in a moment though as Toby is screaming at me and making my ears bleed
More crochet today. I still have some work to do on the competition toy, but I need to finish off a paid order first. Hoping for completion of both later this week.
Have a lovely day, whatever you get up to
The poster for my #Edinburgh Fringe show is done. Whaddya think?
The Orb · Part III · Confusion
“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”
Carl Jung
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Man must I be on my own path then...
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I'm finally moving over to Radicle (https://radicle.xyz) instead of switching to another centralized code forge (like GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, etc.). I definitely love the idea behind a #P2P code forge and I'm hopeful for Radicle's future, but I do have some reservations starting off:
1) Despite talking a lot about freedom and privacy in the tutorial, the group building Radicle (https://radworks.org/) is planning to sell hosting and make a profit via an Ethereum-based cryptocurrency (https://www.tally.xyz/gov/radworks) as well as NFTs and smart contracts. Some big Libertarian red flags there.
2) At some point there was a Swiss nonprofit "Radicle Foundation", but this now seems to be a for-profit venture (see https://radicle.xyz/history). I wish it could just be a nonprofit.
3) In the user guide chapter on private repos (https://radicle.xyz/guides/user), it says that I need to use a public DNS address trusted seed node to share the repo. I understand there's no DHT here, but I hope it's not too much of a pain to run this over my local network instead of the internet. (And yeah, I know I can use git locally, I just want to test Radicle locally.)
Overall, I think that if radworks turns out to be evil it will be a way easier transition to fork Radicle than it has been to leave GitHub, but I still wish I didn't have to worry.
Knowing when you have enough avoids dishonor, and knowing when to stop will keep you from danger.
— #LaoTzu, #TaoTeChing, Vs 44 tr J. H. McDonald #Laozi #Daodejing #Tao #Taoism #Taoist #Dao #Daoism #Daoist
Accept being unimportant.
— Gia-Fu Feng, #TaoTeChing by #Laozi, Verse 13
If you follow me you know I play a lot of Dragon Age Origins. I'm always on my final, final campaign, definitely the last one 
While I have now started BG3, and am thoroughly enjoying it, it's reserved for the daylight hours, so I am still sneaking in an hour or two of DAO on those evenings when I have enough spoons available and still enjoying it thoroughly. So, I thought I'd start a wee thread on the mods I am personally using with DAO in case anyone was interested, only the thread became so long I decided to create a blog post on my website instead
He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire and creates confusion in those who think that they know.
#TaoTeChing, Ch 3 Tr by Stephen Mitchell #dao #tao #daoism #taoism #daodejing
"Once upon a time, I, Zhuang Zhou, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Zhou. Soon I awakened, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man." - #Zhuangzi, Ch 2 tr Burton Watson
"Physarum 1.0"
This is especially cool, since it integrates with all other forces, here I use for instance a custom turbulence with symmetry and the angular force for a more geometrical look
Full version in 4k 60fps on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/LnqaCWVH9EU
"Physarum 1.0"
After another day in the HLSL code for my Physarum Force for the particle system in Tooll3, I achieved a first version of agents that follow their own pheromones.
I also added several parameters for a wider range of control. 
Great straightness seems twisted. Great intelligence seems stupid. Great eloquence seems awkward.
— Gia-Fu Feng, #daodejing, Verse 45
#Denmark: government plans to hand postal service to private #monopoly that uses precarious employees. #Union expects further price increases and service deterioration.
https://uniglobalunion.org/news/denmark-ends-letter-delivery-3f-uni-global-union/
'Second chance'
A small tribute to my favorite character from dragon age origins
In cubic space, a star is born
And from it's sides, the force is torn
To melt inside, into a sun
To glow forever and have fun ;-)
Had an idea today and it worked right away. 4 million Tooll3 (https://tooll.io) particles with a bit of feedback for smoother motion.
May this warm your heart.
Cheers,
Tom
