PacStandardTW
Pacific Standard
An American perspective at the western frontier of liberal democracy, framed and focused through the lens of life in Taiwan. #TaiwanIsACountry #GrowNostr
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Last Notes npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW 💯👇 #nevent1q…kpru npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW This is a useful quick look for friends coming to #nostrasia who only pay casual attention to the geopolitical context. The world is changing and Japan is keeping pace 👇 #nevent1q…x2cw npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW "Tokyo had been in a long slumber since the end of World War II. Yet, Japan is adjacent to China and Taiwan and is allied with the United States. Once a contingency occurs in the Taiwan Strait, Japan will very likely have to become a party to it." https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/editorial/political-pulse/20231021-144529/ npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW "Skylar Mastro actually argues that the people with the knife at their throat should be allowed to “work out their differences” with the knife-wielding assassin" https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2023/10/23/2003808084 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW 👇👇👇 #nevent1q…8rcq npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Would be nice if a large corporation would try to buy Bluesky while it's still a small network. They probably wouldn't sell but the news cycle would wake the people using that platform to the reality that it's not any different than the others. npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Is this a Socratic question? 😬 I honestly can't think of any downsides as far as the end users are concerned. Definitely bad news for the monopolists tho... npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Hot take but I think this law is a pretty big deal. Will have big implications for the consumption model in the long tail. Props to California for getting this right 👍🤩 https://www.theverge.com/23910066/right-to-repair-law-newsom-california-sb-244 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Be clear: this publication is the "velvet glove" of the CCP's iron fist. That they're covering Nostr is a signal to the broader CCP elite intelligentsia that a serious threat to their control exists. Assume as a matter of course that the CCP is already dedicating resources and planning to defeat nostr—it's only going to get worse from here. Strap in. #nevent1q…7hg4 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW @npub1sg6…f63m @npub1efh…f9wg one of the ways WordPress has taken hold as the biggest and most influential FOSS community is by developing a Meetup ecosystem. I feel like Nostr should try to emulate this approach. Granted there are some clear differences, but maybe we should also pay attention to what's working? Can we talk about organizing Meetups at @npub1nst…rg5l? npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW 💯💯💯👇 👇👇 #nevent1q…580s npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Thanks for confirming 🙏 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Y'all seeing this "enter a pin to encrypt your private key" notice on Snort? @npub1v0l…qj49 is this legit? https://image.nostr.build/051f9335fa8808e3dfc67d94f27512bc1ca34685aba33b5b8ed785eebcdbda2a.jpg npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW This is definitely most folks first impression, and that's mostly because it's an accurate description of the experience—although it's less generally a "crypto" community and more specifically a Bitcoin community. Not all of us here are laser eyes tho! Stick around and help us build it 🙏 Those of us with other interests can be the earliest seeds for new community adoption. npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Just saw that this producer also deejays at the Marriott Aloft in Tokyo. Sharing in case you guys are still looking for someone to do music in the event he may be available?? @npub16vr…p2va @npub1nst…rg5l @npub1sg6…f63m https://x.com/kotarosaito1211?t=c_Sx99YEJbwXJpXWbc-nBA&s=09 #nevent1q…p8zj npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW I would pay money for this statement on a t-shirt 👇👇🤙 #nevent1q…9nyq npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Maybe instead of thinking about it as a "style" layer it is more helpful to think about it as a "quality" layer. So nostr is the protocol for the object itself, this other layer indicates some kind of quality of the object. npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW I'm not a developer and I'm not paying close attention to what's happening with the evolution of the nostr protocol, so maybe this already exists or maybe it's nonsense, but my understanding is that there's a danger here to bloating the protocol. My thought is that, without modifying the underlying nostr protocol, is it possible to build a parallel styling protocol that clients can implement in their own way, or choose not to implement? An analogy would be that this could serve sort of like a CSS layer to nostr's HTML? The solution in this case for editing could be some kind of "tag" that indicates the user intends the post to be "deprecated" and if the user goes back to the post and assigns the tag, the clients can honor it or not using their own implementation of the style for that tag—for example, greying out the text or adding strikethrough? The idea being that the style layer can be separate from the data protocol—and optional and customized—and that way not bog down the underlying framework? This also gives the clients some room to flex differentiation in their interpretation of the style tags? @npub1gcx…nj5z @npub180c…h6w6 #nevent1q…gum9 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Would love to check it out. Is it different from this one? https://www.nostr.directory/ That service stopped working for me—the sign-in with Twitter integration is broken. npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW *-To register with your email, click here. npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Seems to me an easy way to make onboarding to nostr easier for most people is to just to use the existing user signup flows everyone already knows as registration via email address. On the first step in sign-up, give the user a choice **** Nostr doesn't require an email address to register, but you can use one if you like. To continue to register without an email address, click here. To create an account without your email address, click here. To register with your email, click here. **** Create an intermediary feature that assigns the keys to the email address and password so the everyday user can just use the protocol without thinking about anything else. @npub180c…h6w6 @npub1xts…kk5s @npub1gcx…nj5z @npub1sg6…f63m @npub1wmr…g240 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Y'all saw this? https://twitter.com/axios/status/1703945776806674516?t=CYclrnLDEgjsPJuTEmru4Q&s=19 I'm going to suggest again that the nostr community be as intentional and serious as possible about providing onramps and onboarding to nostr from Twitter vX. What can we do to open the doors in a more friendly and inviting way? Is any part of the nostrasia agenda dedicated specifically to adoption frictions and solutions? @npub1sg6…f63m @npub180c…h6w6 @npub16vr…p2va @npub1nst…rg5l @npub1xts…kk5s @npub1gcx…nj5z npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Perfect case for when getting Nostr to run on an extensive mesh network is called for. Is there any new development in this space? @npub180c…h6w6 @npub1wmr…g240 @npub1sg6…f63m https://twitter.com/omid9/status/1703316988355838440?t=uepji_Zc2FF_NeUXkX0RqA&s=19 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW I recently explained nostr to some folks and one is a journalist at a mainstream publication whose name everyone knows. She was intentionally vague about her political affiliations but seemed pretty obviously aligned with PRC interests. When I finished explaining how the protocol works—emphasizing that it's permanent, un-ownable and censor-proof—her immediate response was "that sounds terrifying." It's not clear to me what she meant, whether she is concerned about the potential impact to PRC discourse power, or whether she was put-off as a user by the prospect of an unfiltered social channel. Unfortunately because of the context of the discussion I wasn't able to probe for more feedback. I am admittedly sympathetic to the idea that an unfiltered social channel is undesirable. I think all of us can agree that nobody wants an experience that exposes us to abuse and cognitive manipulation. These are a part of life that centralized platforms are required to mitigate. At the same time, the inability to censor nostr is, I'm sure most users would agree, what makes it so powerful. But without giving users the toolkit to curate their feeds according to their own preferences, with filters that squelch the content we don't want to see, nostr will struggle to find an adoption lane. People need to feel somewhat safe to participate. That nostr is uncensorable is what makes it a double edged sword. It cuts against tyranny on side, and cuts against political correctness on the other. The term "political correctness" usually has negative connotations but we ought to be mindful of the fact that we all expect a certain amount of dignity in our lives. We have societal norms for good reason. Our job building nostr is going to mean finding a way to maintain some basic standards of humanity. Here's am example of how the existing platforms are being manipulated by the CCP and its strategic cognitive warfare—using sexual imagery to distract and deflect attention from what they consider to be politically "dangerous" discourse. Another tactic is that they flood the replies of critics with abusive language and threats in order to make the experience as unpleasant as possible. Anyone who's had to read this kind of stuff in the replies knows the toxic feelings they stir-up. And the natural human response to feeling toxicity is avoidance, which in this context means diminished use, which for China means diminished criticism. The CCP clearly knows this and uses this emotional terrain to its advantage. They're literally using our cognitive biases to their benefit. It is quite literal "cognitive hijacking." Even platforms with significant budget to defeat this stuff are having a hard time. We should be absolutely clear eyed that tactics like this will proliferate here as adoption rises. https://youtu.be/pbTJR3ZgpMI?si=Ap-IGlBJtDxrfjRi npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW If I post about Taiwan politics stuff over here would anyone read it? npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Digging this track we ID'd at the izakaya tonight. @npub1nst…rg5l theme music? @npub16vr…p2va https://youtu.be/tox1M25CLlU?si=jk8BFD4UVnal8ljD npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW @npub1nst…rg5l @npub1sg6…f63m @npub16vr…p2va saw you guys are still looking for speakers and one thought for a useful session could be talking about how we can do nostr advocacy. There are people who have probably never heard of nostr who could be great guest speakers on this topic. There is a guy who helped build the content marketing universe named Drew Davis that is especially knowledgeable about audience growth strategy and brand building. https://x.com/DrewDavisHere?t=RJk5VQuIzjPro9i2bRBPCA&s=09 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Dunno if this is a reference but if not there's a very cool documentary about these fisherman called He Dances for His Cormorants https://youtu.be/l5WBlVXRU0A?si=2DmFbWrBOG7WR8kB npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW ❤️🙏🙏🙏 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Post notifs for npubs I want to subscribe to would be a top feature request for Amethyst @npub1gcx…nj5z. Any chance we'll get it soon? npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW 💯👇 can confirm. They're very nervous about this protocol. #nevent1q…rn5j npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW 🕵️ https://cdn.nostr.build/i/6a538f4e792bc8cbc1783abac57df80b37c1e2f27400b7b28e14a9b610e0f46c.jpg npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW 💯👉"Politics can affect things temporarily and locally, but technology is what drives things forward globally and permanently." #note12q0…er2w npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW This sounds like a good question for ChatGPT npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW "At a time when trust and transparency were needed to save lives, Chinese authorities covered up the facts and lied — and they continue to do so today." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/22/wuhan-doctors-pandemic-china-coverup/ npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Right idea, wrong platform 👇 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1693756240260698550?s=20 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Really great feedback in the replies. All the stuff we know causing adoption friction is in there, with more flesh on the bones. Worth looking through these and taking it all seriously. #nevent1q…4mez npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW So exploring more it looks like the objective with the TLD is to achieve something called "Universal Acceptance" and the cost for this apparently is child sacrifice? 😑 FWIW, in all seriousness, I'm spitballing ideas because I think a lot of us agree there needs to be more effort in the community to deal with onboarding and adoption. There is a danger that we're invoking a Field of Dreams mythology around nostr—whereas the possibility this platform disappears into irrelevance is still pretty significant. Crossing the chasm is going to take intentional and concerted effort. npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW If the only thing that the .npub TLD registry registrar server did was try to open nostr apps, we could create some sort of request in the protocol that clients could honor. If that's the only thing that the server did — request the clients to open that particular npub, can't see how the system could be abused. npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Asked ChatGPT for edification and it says this: "Yes, there are TLDs that also operate as domain registrars for their own TLDs. These are known as "Registry-Registrar" models, where the entity that operates the TLD also offers domain registration services directly to customers. This allows them to have more control over the registration process and potentially offer unique features or services. For example, the ".xyz" TLD operates its own registrar service through a company called "XYZ.COM LLC." Similarly, ".app" is operated by Google and also has its own registrar service. Keep in mind that the availability of such models can change over time as new TLDs are introduced and existing ones evolve. It's always a good idea to verify the current state of affairs with the specific TLD registry or a domain industry resource." npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW To be more elaborate I guess what I'm saying is that the tld would also need to be its own registrar and DNS service wrapped into one thing. But I feel like this is probably possible to build. Just not certain the external apps would recognize the TLD — does that happen automatically? npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW @npub1sg6…f63m @npub180c…h6w6 thinking aloud but is there a way, if we bought and created the .npub tld that we could set up a wildcard domain registrar with some kind of dns redirect so that whenever someone pumped in any random npub string it would show as an http link and open their Nostr client, similar to the way clicking any other link opens a browser? The thought is that this would make it much easier to share npubs, could just drop a ".npub" at the end of the string and then—if this method is possible—the TLD server would handle the rest? What does it take to get apps to recognize TLDs as hyperlinks? Is there a protocol for this or does it have to be added manually by the developers? npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Well said. And FWIW I meant only to use the case as a way of talking about the phenomenon in general, as a feature of the protocol and the technology determinism it may impose on us, not that this was a particularly egregious case—it was not. Like the AI, I myself had assumed Jack had sold his shares until someone recently highlighted this issue in a separate note. Also FWIW I felt you handled it as elegantly as possible. In general I think we owe each other—and maybe more importantly ourselves—much more existential slack with regard to the way our thoughts are iterated online. There's an impulse to circumscribe entire human beings—despite all the complexity of our lived experiences and internal contradictions—within the confines of our expressed and recorded ideas. As if we should all be only as evolved as our last most visible speech—or to nod at Lacan, as well put together as the image in the mirror. npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW An interesting moment below this note that is worth pointing out. The note implies a factually inaccurate conclusion. The target of the implication corrects the record. And then the insinuator has to apologize. All of the exchange permanently etched into the nostr timeline. In all of the other platforms, the comment would have been taken down and memory holed. But nostr is permanent, so the best thing the OP can do is admit wrongness and apologize. This has a multivalent consequences, but a few that come to mind are that as this mode of communication is adopted and distributed, it will change the way we speak to each other on the social layer, hopefully making us more accountable, conscious and cautious about the language we use—which seems like probably a good thing. But it will also create a permanent record that can be used to lock future versions of ourselves into the thoughts of previously iterated ideas by older versions of ourselves. This is problematic in public discourse because you can say something 20 years ago and someone might be reading it for the first time in the present moment—and thus rendering present moment conclusions about a version of you that has long ago changed its mind. This is maybe an old and permanent problem of literacy, and certainly of literature, that the author's older work is not necessarily their best, but always nonetheless sets the bar for expectations. What does it mean for our consciousness that writing is necessarily a kind of recording, and also necessarily a kind of fundamental lie—that the jumbled mess of thoughts, ideas and emotions that is always in flux un our sense of self could ever be represented and captured in a solid, stable way? #nevent1q…m853 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW GB?! Really? Why so much data for followers? Do you mean like because of millions of followers? npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW @npub1gcx…nj5z, is there a technical reason why the clients don't cache posts and follows/followers on the device, then cross check the relays after login? Would make the app immediately fully usable rather than having to wait for it to catch-up. Granted some of the cached content will be phantoms after the relays are surveyed but probably not much. Thinking there must be a technical reason this is not how it's done? npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW The CCP propaganda operations are in effect mode. #nevent1q…sgvf npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW This post gave me a thought. We're talking about the future being based on an algorithm "marketplace" — that background context along with the notion that this very basic framework for a feed model has been named the "network" model feed makes you start to realize that the future of a decentralized social layer will be structured along the lines of a new kind of knowledge, a whole new vocabulary for technologists to invent and learn: the language of the information discovery algorithms. We need words. It strikes me that some of this language must already exist in the trenches because the developers must already have named the concepts in order to build and work with them. But now end users ourselves need this jargon, a lingua franca upon which we will construct the new epistemological framework for digital communications. #nevent1q…yjwl npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW @npub1gcx…nj5z amethyst has a weird UX quirk if we use three button nav where, from some notes displays, pressing the back button exits the app rather than going back to the main feed. Expected function on back button is to return to the previous display until finally landing in home feed. I never expect to leave the app with back button, but this is what happens. npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW We need to normalize the idea that, in a decentralized technology universe, we will have to pay for digital services. But we will have an opt-in choice to pay by sacrificing autonomy and identity, or with money. But we will have to pay with something. npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW #WhatsHappeningInThailand #MilkTeaAlliance ["Prominent anti-junta protest leader Sombat Boonngam-anong said Mon the junta-appointed senators have become insolent after they overwhelmingly rejected PM candidate Pita & people should prepare themselves for a massive demonstration very soon. #Thailand #Pita #พิธา #โหวตนายก #สว"] https://twitter.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1680796532537458688?t=zlaJDwZWfdl2OuqX9JkTzw&s=19 #nevent1q…g5jw npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Pro tip for nostr devs—learn to think about engagement in different ways than "likes" — imagine a new ontology for the UX. At a fundamental level, users want to participate in the construction of a worldview via the social layer. How can we present an opportunity for people to do this in a way that is healthy for the society and the individual, a way that maximizes autonomy and further distributes the values we subscribe to most? npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW I think I was not clear enough here underlining my assumptions. If the Thai people truly launch a revolution against the junta, as the very well may if things continue down the road they're going, the state will shut down their comms—exactly the same way authoritarian states have done in the past, such as in the Arab Spring, and recently in Iran, or as is constantly done in a censorship driven PRC. Nostr fixes this, because it's not possible to shut down nostr without turning off the internet entirely. And even then we have methods to keep nostr viable that are, albeit, undeveloped. So the time to get Thai democracy activists on Nostr is now, before their government shuts them down. If nostr becomes the channel on which the Thai democracy is able to assert itself, mainstream press will cover it. The turmoil in Thailand represents a possibile way for Nostr to assert its value, and could also be an opportunity for nostr to achieve a significant adoption stage. #nevent1q…s68j npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Something I have wished for on Twitter is a way to bring tweets into the Google maps experience. When someone I follow mentions a place, maybe a restaurant or an interesting historical place, it would be neat to be able to access that information layer when I'm inside Google maps to provide some extra context. "Hey, I wonder if there's anything good to eat around here? Oh look, that guy from XYZ that I follow on nostr says the french fries at ABC are great." What's the best open source maps platform? Does nostr have a way baked into the protocol that would make it feasible to deploy this kind of feature? @npub1xts…kk5s @npub1gcx…nj5z @npub1ng0…kpmf npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Friends on Nostr, a really big political moment is taking shape in Thailand. It occurred to me that, unlike the Arab Spring movement that used Twitter to grow its international exposure, the conservative changes recently made to the information distribution algorithm on Twitter will make that platform less helpful to the democracy activists and protesters. But now we have Nostr, maybe right now is a good opportunity to work as a community to bring this protocol to the attention of Thai people and their allies so we can try to attract attention frim a worldwide audience and international media who should be paying attention to what's happening in Thailand. Let's start paying attention to this. Help amplify and keep the conversation going. #MilkTeaAlliance 👀👀 @npub1nst…rg5l @npub19mu…jnft @npub1sg6…f63m @npub1cn4…3vle @npub1wmr…g240 Read this article as a quick summary 👇 https://www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/2023/06/25/opinion-what-if-pita-is-rejected-by-the-junta-appointed-senate-street-protests-resume/ npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW 👀👀👀👀 #nevent1q…dt28 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW 🫂 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW 💯☝️ npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Would it make more sense to think about private keys and public keys as a "lock and key" ? A public key is your "lock" in that it stays open and public facing, everyone can see it, people can mess with it but to do anything useful with it you need the "key", your private key, needed to "open" the lock. I dunno, maybe that language just makes things more complicated than they already are. Naming is such an important part of knowing. npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Nobody reads my posts so this is more of a thought bookmark than anything else, but: as Threads exploits the momentum of its existing network, a useful reminder to nostr advocates to pay close, strategic attention to the adoption paradigm. Nostr is starting from 0, whereas Threads starts at 9 on a scale of 10. Aside from all the ideological and technical reasons nostr is the superior offer, inertia matters for the adoption cycle. If we want nostr to succeed, we should not only make onboarding more simple and straightforward, we need to be building footholds for influential users to join. Who are these potential users? What benefits can we offer them here that they can't find anywhere else? How to convince them to join and become platform ambassadors? These problems are easier to solve when you have a team of growth hackers and marketers on payroll with lots of spend. How are we going to match that as a decentralized community? My suggestion on this is to focus on journalists. If nostr can become the "go-to" channel for journalism distribution and monetization, if journalists choose to join and anchor themselves to the nostr ecosystem, everyday users will adopt. We need to make it beneficial for journos to join. How do we do this? @npub1sg6…f63m @npub180c…h6w6 @npub1wmr…g240 @npub1nst…rg5l @npub1xts…kk5s @npub1ng0…kpmf @npub1gcx…nj5z npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Are there any apps for nostr that facilitate this same groups type function? https://twitter.com/jack/status/1676349896834658304?t=Tx2NIWA35MmdA_uaklBKlQ&s=19 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW How will nostr deal with this reality? One answer is that it cannot, that open information systems necessarily means that the information will be, uh, open. Another answer is that, if we build with network resilience in mind, it won't matter, because a truly open and distributed ecosystem should present such a diverse array of surfaces that the impact of any centralized attack actor is constrained. If we build in a way that emphasizes the wide diversity of the network, we will diminish the impacts of any nefarious campaigns, because the number of targets will be too costly. https://twitter.com/misteryrobozo/status/1675217396670291971?t=iQT-JOVfYLJk4P_VzmXQnQ&s=19 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW We 💯 need a decentralized hardware solution tho. Without uncaptured devices this is a long and rocky road. #nevent1q…3kzk npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Agree. Good proof of the axiom that "all publicity is good publicity" 👇 #nevent1q…zf47 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Just booked my hotel for @npub1nst…rg5l. See you all in November. What are you going to be for Halloween? npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW What's happening to RFK is nauseating. But folks have to factor in the political reality that the establishment and professional class are more worried about Trump winning than they are concerned about RFK's policy positioning. The worry is that he might run as a second candidate on the left and bleed votes from Biden. With what is more or less a 50-50 split in the body politic, neither side can afford competition. This is why the wagons have circled so completely on RFK, with plenty of entrenched special interests getting more mileage out of their PR than they normally would because the mainstream media is happy to push it along. npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Big if true 👇 #nevent1q…zzgd npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Can anyone who sees this note and has a moment to spare explain to me like I'm 5yo how the Nostr relays work? Or share a link to an overview? When I open Amethyst, why do some of my mentions show instantly while some take minutes to load? What's the rhyme and reason to the collection of the data? When I post a note—especially one with images—sometimes they disappear after a day or few hours even. Are they gone forever because none of the relays I am using were willing to accept them? Is there anywhere in the Nostr universe that my request to post the note exists? Or maybe its metadata? Do notes have metadata? I suppose this is all in the documentation but is there a one pager somewhere? npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW If the platforms won't allow BTC tipping in the client posts, build out a separate Nostr app that is explicitly designed to make qr code "invoices" — but build it in such a way that it can be used for a completely distinct feature unrelated to making social posts. That way os platforms can't complain. But then build in a native integration to the Nostr social clients so people in the btc community can flip a switch to connect the invoicing apps, so that it automaticallybappends the qr codes to their posts, based on user choice, not a requirement for all users. Maybe for the invoicing app, maybe just make it based on an AI integration to make the qr codes beautiful like these so that we see beautiful qr codes in the nostr notes? https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1667921737600892929?t=-ZPEXm_WrT-sclyaQZQtLw&s=19 @npub1xts…kk5s @npub1gcx…nj5z @npub1ng0…kpmf @npub1sg6…f63m npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Yet another piece of information in this direction https://twitter.com/carmenkamanlau/status/1668942439430725632?t=Cw39sb7z7WJ7eIxD4yOInA&s=19 #nevent1q…vskj npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW My guess is that it's 99.9999999999% chance the CCP is leaning on them. #nevent1q…3vrf npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Dope 😎 #nevent1q…0jew npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW This seems like a good interim strategy if policymakers won't intervene. Working on it. #nevent1q…rk7r npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW JFC #nevent1q…xf2q npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Would love to hear how folks are thinking about the variety of possible "world building" paradigms that exist for a #Nostr based future. As we transition to the decentralized universe, how are we imagining user experiences and business opportunities to look like? What are people imagining the ecosystem will become? How will we verify "official" communications? How will we circumvent proliferation of spam and abuse? How will we monetize? How will capital and commerce try to exploit the system and what resources and constraints will exist for the people to resist? Maybe a session at #Nostrasia? @npub16vr…p2va Maybe a hashtag? #NostrFuture? npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW MDMA prohibition is coming to an end 👇 https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5NTU3MzgxNjMz/episode/Y2VkNTE5YTgtMDU1ZS0xMWVlLTg0MWUtZmJkMzI1NmI1ZTUy?ep=14 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Definitely not an expert but I feel like there is not much they can do about the realities of the electromagnetic spectrum. Can they stop the radios from encoding/decoding signal without bricking the device? npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW CCP is watching https://twitter.com/bueti/status/1666483863088930816?t=88yyBCtz6Adhoqk3Yrt6ww&s=19 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Can we get sessions on this topic at @npub1nst…rg5l ? #nevent1q…u4en npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Can it be made to run on the other radios? WiFi NFC etc? npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW 💯 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW True story #nevent1q…jn9w npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Real Madrid? #nevent1q…8dqz npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Out of context reference to Amethyst. Is this about Nostr? 🧐🧐 @npub1gcx…nj5z https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1665222486915522564?t=xhgz0f3o58aiKRIbf6O-Jg&s=19 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW @npub126y…6r3n #subscribe npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Something that worries me about Nostr is the fact that someone can grab your private key in some insidious way and then that's the ballgame on your account. Is there a way to modify the protocol so that we can issue and control multiple "secret keys" at some sort of clearinghouse that we can then use for various applications/clients etc, so that we only see the secret key the moment it's created, but then giving us the long term ability to roll or cancel the keys as needed. @npub180c…h6w6? Granted the account at the clearinghouse could just as easily be hacked but at least it becomes just one single place to organize the user's interface with the Nostr ecosystem. npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Woot 🐐 https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/05/30/bitcoin-social-network-nostr-creator-fiatjaf-/ npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Bookmarking this. https://twitter.com/EFF/status/1662582954038800384?t=fo0c2M6gWwXGZ0p5Y90LcQ&s=19 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW This is a wild bit of history and biology 👇 #nevent1q…w7vg npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW SimpleX really seems to be spreading. Like it's going viral even. Must be contagious... 🥁 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Digging this beat 🪘 😎 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW If he were still with us, my grandfather would have turned 99 today. He was a WW2 veteran who served in Italy, having rushed to enlist like most young men of his generation immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor. After the war he became a draftsman for McDonnell Douglas and later ventured into small business entrepreneurship, first having purchased a taxi service for a small tourist town in California where he and his brothers assembled a fleet of modified VW Bugs into open air buggies that looked a lot like Flintstones-mobiles. And later he went back to his roots as an industrial artist and opened a print shop to service the town's publishing needs. He's been gone half my life already, but I still have many strong memories of his presence and a deep sense impression of my childhood in his company. I remember sitting in his shop on hot summer's days, him fiddling with this or that and whistling along with the 1940s jazz on the AM radio, the printing press whirring rhythmically in the background, the strong scent of ink and toner lingering in the air. I remember studying the press and its peculiar machinery, a vacuum suction pulling each sheet of paper one-by-one into the conveyor, pulled up and spun into the drum and then magically appearing on the other side with a fresh face of text and image. In retrospect, I think it was this awe and curiosity, a kind of background hypnosis slowly impressing upon my imagination a fascination not only with the interesting technology itself, but the purpose it served in the production of its goods: Grandpa was an information manufacturer and distributor. I didn't realize it then but I am relatively certain now that my own intellectual and professional pursuits of rhetorical theory and public discourse come from that early introduction to the intrinsic value of language, watching my grandfather make a living pushing words into the world. Like most any of us do, at pivotal decision points in my life I wrapped myself in the formative folds of my experiences—in ways more formative than I could have imagined, my grandpa's model as a great war veteran who fought for ideals of freedom—and who made a career putting speech into the world—made an impression on my sense of who I was, where I came from, and who I was supposed to be. He had married the daughter of Irish Catholic immigrants. Great grandma was a nurse, great grandpa enjoyed the drink. But as Irish Catholics they were enthralled with the Kennedy family and by all counts great grandma thought JFK may as well have been Jesus Christ himself. My grandfather being an artist and a good son-in-law set down to draw a portrait of JFK as a gift to her. By the time us kids came around, this sketch was hung on the wall of my grandparents home and while it was not quite on the level of a professional masterpiece, we sure didn't know that and as far as we were concerned, it was a sacred symbol for our grandfather's creative command and his love of his family. As a result, we grew up knowing who JFK was even before we knew Big Bird and Mr. Rogers. But also as I got older and developed a political imagination, I realized that this portrait meant something more to my grandfather, that it spoke about a deeper sense of morality and political ideals. Maybe it was also a way for a middle aged father to make sense of a horrific tragedy, to offer some semblance of healing and humanity to his family and himself in a time of American life when such a traumatic national event was still a singular horror. But I believe now that my grandfather put this image in the world for a reason, to anchor our hearts to what JFK "meant", a kind of moral north star for them—and as I believe they hoped and intended, for us—to remember him and what he stood for and that his being taken from us should not be forgotten. So today I remember all these things, but mostly I remember my grandfather and what his legacy means for me and my family, and on his birthday I thank God for his love and the opportunity he gave us all to be here. Happy birthday, Gramps. ♥️ #nevent1q…cxp9 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW "We stand, as we have always stood from our earliest beginnings, for the independence and equality of all nations. This nation was born of revolution and raised in freedom. And we do not intend to leave an open road for despotism." #nevent1q…cs8c npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Bookmarking "guilds" because I feel like the guild model has purchase for the coming decentralized/federated marketplaces. Everything old is new again. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW I have the 180 opposite experience, can't stand using iOS, makes me feel like an idiot. npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW The solution to this problem is Android 😬 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW 😬 https://twitter.com/levie/status/1658733722588577794?s=20 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW To be honest, if you're an adult in 2023 and you have good mental health, you're either not paying attention or you're probably some kind of sociopath. 😑 #nevent1q…c4yn npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Is this really happening? #nevent1q…zh32 npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97p PacStandardTW Weird serendipity—or "synchronicity"—this morning leads me to this book. Anyone read it? "Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World's Network of Corruption" by Patrick Alley https://a.co/c2pK6lm #nevent1q…ef7j