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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 27/09/2026

Thinking about all the toxic alfalfa hate on blue sky

a handsome brown goat thinking about alfalfa

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 24/09/2026

Hackers losing so much money trying to exploit reality.eth users lately, love to see it

have inadvertently created a honeypot for hackers. People keep submitting drain attempts and those keep being challenged by honest reporters.
Here the hacker just lost 2 ETH (5.4k$) to the honest reporter

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 23/09/2026

Please can I be a goat photographer specializing in undergoat shots

brown undergoat, upside down white goat head, upside down datacenter

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 17/09/2026

This guy's job is to sit deep in this cave system all day and check the tickets of the 1 or 2 people who dare to brave the Adventure Course on a weekday. The caves have excellent wifi

Adventure course ticket check guy in the Abukuma Caves in Fukushima-ken

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 16/09/2026

I think this is not correct maybe it's true in the US? There are lots of cases where self-regulation is done, off the top of my head UK Polling Council, Japan Virtual and Crypto Assets Exchange Association, lots more, often works pretty well 1/2

Dario is calling here for the AI industry to self-regulate. That is not, normally, a thing. The cases where societies allow industries to self-regulate are broadly those where regulation raises free speech questions, centered around art. The most famous examples of these are the age-related rating systems for movies, TV, music, and video games. These are industries that provide entertainment, not fundamental technology. Most importantly, none of these industries claim on a regular basis that their technologies threaten national security or human survival. Dario does.

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 14/09/2026

Love how it's this uniform sea of white Toyotas but then there's this one individualist in a blue Suzuki Jimmy or possibly a Mitsubishi Pajero Mini and they speed up the film 32x whenever they get close so he doesn't ruin the effect

Sea of white Toyotas except for one single blue truck which appears to be a Mitsubishi Pajero Mini or a Suzuki Jimmy

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 07/09/2026

Imagine you're a hedge fund guy or a VC or whatever and think you can make some money working for a corrupt president then one day he suddenly going

Quote from Caligula by Albert Camus. He says to his cynical funky Helicon,

"This world, as it is made, is not bearable. I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality — something that may be insane, perhaps, but that is not of this world."

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 05/09/2026

Stancil Line (n): A threshold of social media popularity everybody above which will make your feed worse if you follow them, and everybody below which will make your feed better

With the exception of Jerry, a list of awful posters until you get to Will Stancil at #22, after and including whom all the posters are fabulous

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 01/09/2026

Will be doing a talk on atproto at @devcon.org in Mumbai in November, who's coming devcon.org/en/

We’re excited to let you know that your proposal "ATProto and Bluesky: The Personal Data Server vs the Collectivist State Machine" as a Talk (20"Talk+5"Q&A) in the Rights, Freedoms, and Governance track has been accepted at Devcon 8.

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 01/09/2026

Slightly awkward to get likes on instagram from lots of my meatspace friends when I only post there to communicate with Brands

instagram post complimenting a hotel group for their fabulous EV charging game

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 01/09/2026

This handsome dam can make 400MW which is like 1% of all the AI power consumption in the world, training inference, the whole thing

View from the top of the Takokura Dam 田子倉ダム in Fukushima-ken

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 31/08/2026

Every vending machine should also be a 200V AC charger, who's building this

200V EV charger next to a vending machine

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 31/08/2026

Perfect EV implementation by IHG, ie just a normal 200V plug like you'd use at home, you plug it in when you park and leave it and it's included in the room rate so no billing faff. Lots of hotels seem to think you need a high speed charger which you'd interrupt your busy bath schedule to unplug

ANA Crown Plaza in Niigata, 2 regular 200V chargers in the car park, one of them charging a BYD Seal

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 29/08/2026

www.newsgd.com/m/node_d36b0...

Preliminary investigations by local authorities suggest that the fire was caused by improper handling of materials during the dismantling of idle equipment by an external contractor, who ignited insulation material. Officials confirmed the fire was not related to vehicle or battery self-combustion.

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 28/08/2026

> "even the chinese don't buy them any more"

chinese car sales figures for May, 2026, BYD leading

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 25/08/2026

Sorry to hear you can't have showers or whatever over there but your american alfalfa is so good

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 24/08/2026

exceptionally large sky this morning

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 23/08/2026

Then they built the Great Stack to get the pollution away from the town which TBF was an Incredible chimney

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 23/08/2026

The government told them to do something about the pollution other than making better trees so they built the Daruma Stack to dilute the poisonous gases but it turned out that mixing cold air with the SO2 just made it fall back down in the valley so everyone called it the Stupid Stack

A photo of the Hitachi mine and blast furnace. Shows the Stupid Stack, the Centipede Stack and eventually the partially constructed Giant Stack

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 23/08/2026

Went to the Japan Metals mining museum in Hitachi. They used to have special greenhouses they would pump gas into to breed cherry trees that didn't just fall over and die like precious little bitches just because of a little bit of sulphur dioxide

special greenhouse for growing plants that don't just give up and die from a little bit of sulphur dioxode

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 20/08/2026

Update on this. Not all heroes etc etc

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 19/08/2026

When I asked why you needed consensus on FC Cassie (who I think used to be a snapchain dev) suggested it was something to do with FIDs, ie they're transferable so you need consensus about time (???) Does this make sense and would it be an issue using FIDs in atproto? farcaster.xyz/cassie/0x4a5...

edmundedgar.eth: I never understood why a social network needs consistency. If I'm sharing my posts and you don't have them... you don't have them seems not too bad? IIUC neither Nostr nor ATProto think they need this, I sign my messages and if I really want to lie about what time I sent them then I can

cassie:

Nostr and atproto rely on transparent identities, e.g. your pubkey is your identity (with maybe some indirection), farcaster relies on an associated stack of signer keys that are signed by the pubkey that maps to the address owning the FID. Because FIDs can be transferred, it means strict global consensus is needed to sort this out. I’m proposing alternative identifiers in hypersnap to remove this burden, but we still need strict consensus in shards for things like snap compute

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 18/08/2026

Neynar bailing on farcaster farcaster.xyz/rish/0xad851...

Post by @rich of Neynar who took over Farcaster when the original founders bailed:

Update on Farcaster, Clanker and Neynar

We’ve started a process to look for a new home / team to run the products going forward. Sharing here before anything is finalized so it’s less of a surprise this time.

Earlier this year, this seemed to be a good fit for our team: it was a developer-first network, and we'd been serving developers from the start.

There’s been a lot of change since then and, in the end, we've failed in achieving our goals. We’re not the right fit for what’s needed next. Farcaster is an interesting mix of tight community + not-cheap-to-run flagship apps + slow market. It needs a different setup than what we can provide.

Talking to a few teams we think could be a good fit for running decentralized social apps and related developer products. If you’ve thoughts / are interested, reach out.

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 12/08/2026

standard post-typhoon waterfall check, this one seems ok

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 11/08/2026

Me instructing the llm how to restructure the code without actually reading it

confident blindfolded chess player, stunned audience

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 10/08/2026

Been going to this marsh a few times a year for 25 years and my boots always squish through this muddy puddle so this spring I fetched a large rock and installed it in the middle. Went back today and not only is it still there, other people have added extra rocks. Who knew you could just do things

muddy puddle at numappara marsh with rocks in it

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 08/08/2026

like a beautiful angel

Heath-Robinson-style custom VESA mount on a Dell gaming monitor

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 07/08/2026

Builder asked how I actually plan to *mount* the two 170cm radius gaming monitors I want set into the walls of my 170cm radius office, now committing multiple VESA violations

VESA mount bracket with the inner holes screwed to a bit of metal from Joyful Honda screwed in turn to another bit of metal from Joyful Honda held in a curved space where normally the wall would go

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 06/08/2026

Went to the Future Hall (未来館) on the Tokyo garbage islands, they had pictures of all the astronauts. Turns out the Chinese won't send you to space unless you are already made of space

Faces of various russians, a Japanese robot, names of Chinese people but the pictures are of stars

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 29/07/2026

If you're testing something in atproto this is how you know the account was successfully created

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 25/07/2026

As far as I can tell, this is the new front-end: app.ens.dev/register/som... And this is what they say about it ens.domains/ensv2

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 21/07/2026

Is anyone else not totally convinced about this whole leave your shell idea

A semi (cicada???) emerged from his shell but still holding onto it

Cicada with shell on a BYD Seal AWD (connected but not charging)

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 21/07/2026

Got a ballot from my UK Labour branch to vote on which motion my branch will vote for the conference to vote on. What do we think about local energy grids, are they a serious thing or wank. Generally I'm opposed to local things but energy grids are so great, maybe we should have lots of them, idk

Option 5: National Energy Security through Local Energy
Development
WE NOTE
− Recent Energy Security crises, attendant household, industrial and economic
hardships, demand urgent resolution: extensive local heat and power resource
development and distribution.
− Resumed Iran War highlights import dependency dangers.
− The Grid approached unsafe overload on June 23rd,, on the brink of precipitating a
prolonged blackout, like Spain’s, despite preventative renewable shutdowns.
− Limiting extreme heat and heat-related deaths – 2,700 in just two brief June-July
heatwaves - thousands more annually from fossil fuel pollution; require urgent
clean energy expansion.
− Debt repayments, welfare deficits and fiscal probity limit investment.
WE BELIEVE
− Local Power Grids and Heat Networks can circumnavigate unaffordably lengthy and
costly National Grid reconfiguration.
− Affordable thermal storage can end paid renewable shutdowns, increasing
productivity thereby contributions to national energy demand. Investment returns
will improve.
− Extensive speedily developed, proven clean heat and power systems can affordably
achieve energy security.
− This strategy will revitalise de-industrialised local economies as reduced household
and industrial bills raise disposable incomes, increasing demand; promoting place-
based ‘good’ growth.
− Costs may be offset against savings on grid reconfiguration, heatwave and
pollution-related health care, welfare and less expensive heat harvesting to satisfy
the 40% demand for heat.
WE PROPOSE Page 9 of 9
− Urgent public sector investment in local publically controlled energy resource
developments :-
− Ground source shared-array installer-owned heat pumps
− Waste, Latent Water, Sewer, Mine Water and Geothermal Heat
− Tidal Stream, Hydro and Geothermal power
− Local heat networks and power grids
− Thermal Energy Storage
− Devolved Public Sector Energy Board control of public supply and retail.

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 15/07/2026

been down in the pressure adjusting tank

pressure adjusting tank, beyond it the Number 1 Shaft

pressure adjusting tank, seen from inside the pressure adjusting tank

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 08/07/2026

stretchy wednesday morning

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 05/07/2026

Asking fable the forbidden knowledge

Prompt: are primary colors like a fundamental thing or are they an arbitrary system? Like could people have chosen different colours as primary

Claude downgrades me to Opus to save us from danger

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 29/06/2026

Japanese direct mail hack: include a metal object so the recipient can't just throw it straight in the bin, they have to open it to separate the burnable and non-burnable parts