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Kristopher Driver

@paxdriver.bsky.social

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Author, machine learning researcher, podcast producer (Frivolous Gravitas), web developer, musician, satirist, foodie, financial market analyst, Buddhist. Supporting decent human beings and their endeavours worldwide. Krisdriver.com

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 1d

Ben Shapiro: "God isn't perfect enough or powerful enough or smart enough to explain to people in plain language that slavery is bad, but God is omnipotent and created time and physics itself to become brains..."

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Would You Rather Your Kids Convert to Atheism or Islam?

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 4h

Pakistan crying foul of Afghanistan government (now: OG Taliban) for harbouring terrorists named "Taliban" (those residing in Pakistan) harbouring and sponsoring terrorist Taliban (OG) for decades in order to secure ties to pit against their other neighbour (India) is Shakespearean to the core.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 8h

Organizers have reported 7 million attendees at the No Kings events and we’re happy to confirm 7 million and counting! More events are still happening across the country today, so we’ll need additional time to fully certify the final numbers.

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 7h

"what have the romans ever done for us?"

-wine
-roads
-aquaduct
-medicine
-santitation
-(etc...)

"alright, alright, but apart from of that, ..."

Lol I take your point but oversimplifications are less helpful than they are persuasive. Education means specifics.

a group of men sitting around a table with the words so let 's just stop gabbin on about it

Alt: Monty Python life of Brian, just watch the whole movie please.

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 7h

Harvest is finally officially over! Didn't even bother bagging the last tomatoes they're going straight down the hatch. Even the habeneros were grown by my generous neighbour!

Thanks Bothwell Cheese for the whey awesome curds!

#foodies in #canada #eatLocal with #elbowsUp

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 1d

A true King Jr of our time - @mehdirhasan.bsky.social & @zeteo.com #memoriesOf2025

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‘You Will Not Silence Me’: Watch Mehdi’s Defiant Speech on Gaza

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 1d

The argument is objectively dumb.

God made the brain emergent from chemistry, but he can't explain slavery is wrong to stupid people he created while they were busy building geometrically perfect pyramids using bricks from the other side of the continent?

... It's objectively stupid.

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 1d

Would You Rather Your Kids Convert to Atheism or Islam?

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Deb Brown 🚨🇺🇲 @debpixcom.bsky.social · 3d

If only our eyes saw souls
instead of bodies
how very different our ideals
of beauty would be.

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

so the point of the blockchain is just to make it easily distributed offline, then reconciled when connection is establlished. it can beused for medical supplies inventories, logistics, death tolls, all kinds of things by the aid org without ever knowing who's name is which address so it's anonymous

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

then you can group wallet addresses to families, so each family member gets an address from the family wallet. the browser interface just converts known addresses to people's names to make messaging easier. don't need it at all for the system to be useful though.

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

if you don't have a device or internet access, a little necklace qr code that you can check into aid stations is enough for family abroad to track you and see you're alive - leave messages, see if you're in ER from a drone strike, that kind of thing. it's the wallet address you carry around.

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

lmfao there are very few things i wouldn't inflict on him if i had the opportunity. i'm not claiming to be a bigger man, i've made my peace with it lol

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, precisely. And aid distribution, and contact to not overload cell towers during weather events, all kinds of benefits.

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

Oh workspaces are another thing entirely. I love multiple work spaces lol There's nothing better than having everything set up when you start doing something and leaving everything else the way you left it for when you come back to it. Greatest thing ever imho.

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

A transaction is just a message: "jane doe checked in to get food at UN AID truck no. 11024"

Family abroad can track the wallet transactions remotely. Check in stations validate the chain as if $0 -> $0 with messages attached.

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

There's no security issues, if someone is compromised they just generate a new wallet. Nothing lost because there are no tokens. Focus on the wallets and addresses you can generate for a wallet more than the coins. There are no coins, mining is just another way of saying adding empty tx to the chain

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

The system I'm building exploits wallet addresses more than tokens. Simple build in pgp to password to log in to a wallet, or they can create a wallet they never log in to but just keep using the qr code for it to check in or if a body is found to identify it from a plastic necklace, for eg.

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

in other words, nobody needs a token. they can carry around a printed qr code and let family abroad know the code so that every aid station or hospital a person checks in to with that qr code, they know they're family member is safe even if that person don't have a device or app.

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

Not really, you don't need any of that. you can treat all messages like transactions without actually keeping track of tokens. The miner (aid organization hosting the chain) just rate limits posts to the chain to avoid spamming. Each tx has an id and the chain keeps a txid complete list circulating.

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

No security risks leaving open ports to connect people together to relay offline data, each requests a blockchain from the other and just diff between them like react does with the virtual dom.

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

Doesn't have to be, but the blockchain is perfect for this because you don't need auth or server uptime, it's resilient to injection since the only miner is the one who built the thing. It's light weight, totally w3 so no overhead, runs in any browser or device. It's better this way imho.

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

That's cool. It's neat how different people can be very productive in totally separate ways. Humans are cool.

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

The idea is just a central ledger for human tracking and messaging. There's no mining or coins or anything, it just allows one source of truth so that people can relay updates to other people they walk by when cell networks and internet is down due to disaster.

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

Imho they serve different purposes. The quality of render and control you get building panels to twest geometry is its forté, I think. Running the interpreter as an engine would make the whole thing more bloated than dot-Net for staging environments and compilers etc. It's just there for ui tools.

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

Github.com/paxdriver/KriSYS wanna help with this? I think it would be an amazingly helpful service to humanity but it's a bit out of my league and I'm kinda stuck vibe coding it together.

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