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The way billionaires pay or avoid taxes is really different from people who work for a living or even the “normal” wealthy millionaires. @npub19fw…ulzp has a great investigative piece based on a major leak of billionaires tax returns from the IRS.
#note1mxp…8x8c

2024-12-04 22:24:37 GMT

@npub15s3…6r6y from Signal has a good essay / editorial about how we need to build an open source funded alternative to Big Tech.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-big-tech/

2024-12-04 18:33:25 GMT

A friend asked about secure, encrypted, and private alternatives to google docs… the only thing i could think of was cryptpad which we both felt was so slow and clunky that most people would probably revert back to using google docs…
I thought since folks here on Nostr care about such things, maybe something new has come up in the last few years which is better than cryptpad…

2024-12-03 19:40:02 GMT

Wow. Declaring martial law and sending the military in to storm parliament doesn’t seem like a very democratic way to solve governance issues.
#note1fyd…unpr

2024-12-02 21:30:22 GMT

Is there anywhere written up what’s involved in creating a feed display of content outputted from a DVM? I’m lazy and 2 minutes of googling didn’t show me. ;-D

2024-12-02 06:16:50 GMT

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We have the building blocks to make it work, but we don’t have a set of standards so multiple apps could use them, a few apps could help create them. We also don’t great lists in Nostr as a kind of object you can see, inspect, share, clone, etc…. could easily be done, but we haven’t done it yet.

2024-12-02 06:15:12 GMT

Anybody but Satlantis done an organizational directory / market db / poi db in Nostr?
https://www.satlantis.io/location/121192
I’ve looked around and couldn’t find something.

2024-11-30 00:56:13 GMT

Use Tor because it makes you and everyone else safer.
#note1swx…qqqt

2024-11-25 00:22:46 GMT

Is satlantis open source? I’m curious how they do the username/password to nsec bunker and if it would be possible to adapt to other communities not just bitcoin digital nomads. There’s some Maori in Aotearoa New Zealand who are interested in having something similar but for Maori orgs and places here.
Is there a library / server setup fro username / password access to nsecbunkers like the way satlantis does it?
https://github.com/satlantis-dev

2024-11-25 00:15:18 GMT

I gave a talk about Nostr, democracy, and the future of social media.
#note10vx…vlkh

2024-11-22 18:47:40 GMT

We need to get this updated so thanks @npub1c87…8avm for taking on reworking the nostr home page. It’s what people find first.
#note1xll…nf6d

2024-11-22 18:39:21 GMT

How decentralized is Bluesky really? @npub1s7k…eul5 has a great essay digging in to it and looking at the design decisions that make Bluesky work but also really hard to decentralize.
Nostr is mentioned several times, we take the mantle of an actual decentralized network by making it work really well. Interestingly Primal is the best Nostr client ecosystem and they’ve also had to introduce centralization to make the experience work well.
If you care about social media protocols and want to get in to some of the details about how then work, then read this essay. We can’t build Nostr effectively if we don’t understand what others are doing.
https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

2024-11-22 11:05:37 GMT

Rabble: a large group of butterflies.
"we arrived at the grounds after following a rabble of butterflies"

2024-11-22 09:39:03 GMT

I wonder if this serverless graph rag llm would be good for Nostr data.
https://github.com/pingcap/autoflow

2024-11-22 00:28:50 GMT

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Recurring payments are an important feature in the sustainable business for saas and content creators. We need it to work with crypto or people will just use credit cards because it makes the economics of their business work.

2024-11-21 18:17:29 GMT

Interesting, another big French AI startup, runner h, which is an LLM for building an agent model to work for managing other software, think web scraper bots powered by LLM.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/h-the-ai-startup-that-raised-220m-launches-its-first-product-runner-h-for-agentic-applications/

2024-11-21 17:31:29 GMT

Exciting to see that Foursquare has open sourced their POI database. Imagine a satlantis but with 100 million venues.
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/foursquare-open-source-places/
#note1yt5…zhed

2024-11-21 04:54:33 GMT

So is there going to be some kind of zapathon celebration or something else when bitcoin crosses a $100k usd valuation?

2024-11-21 04:10:47 GMT

Finally some good news out of Aotearoa New Zealand.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/21-11-2024/drugs-are-getting-cheaper-and-easier-to-find-in-aotearoa

2024-11-20 20:39:58 GMT

The government of New Zealand has made these words illegal to display in public starting today.
Aotearoa Natives
Bandidos MC
Barbarian Stormtrooper
Black Power
Comanchero MC
Crips
Damned Pirates
Devils Henchmen MC
Filthy Few MC
Fitus
Full Blooded Islanders
Greazy Dogs MC
Head Hunters MC
Hells Angels MC
Highway 61 MC
HTOWN07
Killerbeez
King Cobra
Kuki Squad
Magog MC
Mangu Kaha
Mongols MC
Mongrel Mob
New Zealand Nomad
Outcasts MC
Outlaws MC
Rebels MC
Road Knights MC
Satans Slaves MC
Stormtrooper
Taupiri MC
Tribal Huk
Tribesmen MC
Uru Taha
West Side
It took all of 3 minutes from when the law came in to force for the police to stop a motorist and arrest him for having a placard on his car dashboard which said “Mongrel Mob”. I think if gangs are doing things which are crimes which have victims then the people who commit those crimes should be arrested, but this kind thing is a thought crime.
https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2024/0036/latest/whole.html#LMS939439

2024-11-20 18:57:51 GMT

New Zealand has a new law that fundamentally goes against the rights of free expression. They’re banning people wearing patches on their clothing or in some cases even posessing symbols if the goverment designates it as ‘gang related’.
https://thespinoff.substack.com/p/will-banning-gang-patches-actually?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=dg42f
If gangs are doing things illegal, then arrest them for the illegal things. The new government policy of making speech illegal is pretty messed up, in this case racist too.

2024-11-19 19:23:53 GMT

Nostr users to follow who don’t talk about Nostr or Bitcoin. ;-D Diversify content on Nostr. #grownostr
#note12q9…7uu3

2024-11-18 18:50:21 GMT

The government should not have the unilateral power to shut down legally operating non-profits simply because it disagrees with them. A vibrant, open democracy depends on the freedom for diverse organizations to exist and express different perspectives. The suppression of opposition groups is precisely the kind of action that erodes democratic values, as we’ve seen in countries like Hungary and Turkey, where shutting down dissenting organizations was a key step in dismantling democratic institutions and consolidating authoritarian power. #nevent1q…kmd0

2024-11-18 17:48:05 GMT

Anybody use a FairPhone and got recommendations for how they use it with Nostr? #nevent1q…etfd

2024-11-18 17:17:49 GMT

GM. https://v.nostr.build/KBxXMTmcbwZ15tOY.mp4

2024-11-18 17:09:23 GMT

Bluesky has 10 million monthly active users. It’s still a centralized service with aspirations to be a decentralized protocol, but what they have done is working for a real set of users. They don’t overwhelm or confuse people because the main app feels like something people know and their starter packs really work for people finding their communities of interest and people.
#note1gyd…prmm

2024-11-18 07:03:57 GMT

Good essay by @npub1yxz…5qvv about why he’s not joining Bluesky because although ATprotocol is open, the Bluesky network and service is not because there is no way to use it without any services run by the company.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast

2024-11-17 20:04:26 GMT

I find it funny that Americans are very focused on the 13 British colonies that joined the United States of America and nobody ever even acknowledges the 10 others which did not. It feels like a massive blind spot. The only time they’re even obliquely referenced is related to the war of 1812.
Odd given how much obsession Americans have with the country’s founding.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_America#

2024-11-17 07:57:27 GMT

Excited we’ll have people and a booth at fossdem!
#note1vn2…f2aw

2024-11-14 18:51:02 GMT

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Eventually we’ll have good tools build around what @npub1zuu…c2uc is doing with MLS encrypted groups and WhiteNoise.
I think there’s a huge opportunity to get progressives on Nostr because it’s the only social media protocol that can provide real end to end encryption and privacy. Bluesky, threads, the fediverse, farcaster and the others have all given up on the idea of privacy as being too hard.
Everyone on the left is freaking out and searching for freedom tools. And not just posting. I just listed to a round table of digital activists talking about strategies for the next 4 years. They brought up the need for a financial system that can’t be shutdown. From the anti-cop city Black Lives Matter activists in Atlanta to abortion access mutual aid networks, they’re all facing being locked out of the baking system and looking for alternatives. Let’s get them the tools they want and need. The tech is for everyone.

2024-11-14 18:22:24 GMT

We need to get the small things for new users figured out. That stuff matters more than anything else.
#note1k3z…dqyg

2024-11-14 18:19:56 GMT

We’re doing new experiments with how we can build the future of news on Nostr. #news #grownostr
#note1mrd…f57c

2024-11-14 18:17:33 GMT

Will Bluesky overcome its financial interest and technical ability to enclose their protocol dreams in to yet another centralized platform?
#note134p…xh6v

2024-11-14 16:03:40 GMT

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There’s an informal network of academics interested in Nostr. Reach out to @npub1xtw…6rus and @npub1pmw…4nu6

2024-11-14 03:23:55 GMT

“As for coffee, tea, and chocolate, I know no good they do.” King Charles
Not the current one, a it was a long dead earlier King Charles who was quite convinced that coffee, tea, and chocolate were leading to moral downfall of England.

2024-11-14 00:08:12 GMT

It’s really exciting to see @npub1e74…g2cl on Nostr!
#note1v36…v4kt

2024-11-14 00:04:04 GMT

The Andes at sunset.
Cruzando la cordillera.
https://i.nostr.build/uX6DxHZYI1qieN5m.jpg

2024-11-12 21:13:43 GMT

I’m excited about the group Audio / Video calls with signal. We need more easy to use end to end encrypted communication tools.
#nevent1q…lhmq

2024-11-12 11:41:18 GMT

Signal gets group video chat!
#note16jt…868m

2024-11-12 01:09:04 GMT

So who wants to take bets about Elon’s X buying Truth Social? It’d be the ultimate way to buy the presidency. It’s a waste of several billion but Elon will get it back through government support of his businesses.

2024-11-11 20:20:56 GMT

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While it doesn't look like it, they are actually doing KYC, so you need to pass that. It's just a matter of using a vpn.

2024-11-11 20:14:30 GMT

My sister and her wife asked about moving from Arizona to Uruguay because reasons. I went to look up the expat forums and they’re full of families with trans kids who have moved from the US or are considering it.

2024-11-11 16:50:03 GMT

How do you discover nip29 or get invited to relay based group?

2024-11-11 13:25:59 GMT

Interactive tutorial for how Nostr works.
https://how-nostr-works.pages.dev/

2024-11-11 12:12:42 GMT

Elon did such a bang up job when taking over Twitter, I’m sure he’ll do great with those exact same methods and people with the US Government.
https://archive.is/MLxVu

2024-11-11 09:16:19 GMT

So much good stuff happening in the Nostr ecosystem.
#note1xf0…clck

2024-11-10 20:59:35 GMT

The reaction to Trump winning this time is so different than last time. Instead of being inspired to organize resistance there’s dispare and fear.
Maybe once Trump’s project 2025 starts to be implemented people will get organized. Maybe Trump will succeed in remaking America in the image of Orban’s Hungary.
https://archive.is/Orybg

2024-11-10 17:24:46 GMT

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We have free public toilets across New Zealand. Part is we don’t have the homeless problem as the US has. The other counter to this narrative is that there are lots of pay public toilets in the US, I know Portland and San Francisco have paid public toilets today.

2024-11-08 21:47:05 GMT

What does the US election mean for civil rights and digital freedom? @npub1jcw…jyrz is organizing an online meeting to figure out what we do now.
#note1unw…mya8

2024-11-08 00:52:31 GMT

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I’ve always wondered why the TBD web 5 project never connected more with Nostr. It seems like there’s some good interesting stuff there but I could never tell if anyone used it or if it got any developer traction.

2024-11-07 21:49:33 GMT

What does Trump’s election mean for digital rights?
#note18wt…3f73

2024-11-07 21:46:40 GMT

This is nifty.
#note19zp…968k

2024-11-07 02:18:22 GMT

Look, Trump got 2 million less votes than 2020. The problem was that Harris got 14 million less votes than Biden. Democrats lost because they failed to inspire and turn out their voters. Not because more people supported Trump this time than last.
Trump did his thing. But this was a failure of the Democratic party to do what it needs to do to win elections. You’ve got to run for something that can inspire people, not just against the other guy.
Off the top of my head the only policy I remember Harris advocating for that was unique was a $25k subsidy for first time homebuyers. That wouldn’t do a damned thing to make housing more affordable. Oh and she’ll continue to fund the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
Trump promised all sorts of crazy things like mass deportation, tariffs, no taxes on tips, and stopping imaginary in school trans surgeries. Doesn’t matter that the deportations are cruel, the tariffs and exemptions for tips are bad economic ideas and kids aren’t getting gender affirming care in schools. Hell, even project 2025 shows there’s a ton of proactive policies. Not good ones or ones i want, but lots exist.
I supported Harris and followed the election but can’t think of what she’d do if elected differently than Biden. She failed to get people to vote for her. That’s the long and short of it.

2024-11-07 01:59:19 GMT

In case you need to know how to disappear online.
#note1wdx…lhsc

2024-11-06 13:58:52 GMT

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Not according to most international evaluations of freedom per country. The US is pretty far down the list.

2024-11-06 11:16:32 GMT

In times like this I’m reminded to listen to David Graeber.
https://youtu.be/-9afwZON8dU

2024-11-06 10:53:43 GMT

In case you’re looking for an country that cares about freedom here’s a list of some you might consider.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices

2024-11-06 03:34:33 GMT

Well I’m not regretting my decision to emigrate and settle in Aotearoa New Zealand.
https://www.immigration.govt.nz

2024-11-04 23:01:49 GMT

The @npub1pu3…tfch team is making empanadas together as part of our retreat.
https://i.nostr.build/3AOVoDJFfNDB6bXx.jpg https://i.nostr.build/v5elGKL0PcZIHwFY.jpg https://i.nostr.build/KBIZ83Y4yYzTjSyV.jpg https://i.nostr.build/jshC1MFa6CauuErm.jpg

2024-11-04 14:11:50 GMT

@npub10pe…n34f continues to support the Nostr ecosystem.
#note1hxn…wfnk

2024-11-03 19:17:42 GMT

I’m confused. What is gay about a big bearded NFL superbowl winner dating the most famous and popular women in pop music? Isn’t this the straightest celebrity relationship possible?
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/taylor-swift-reacts-jason-kelces-153058423.html
Is it gay because Taylor Swift is successful woman who is wealthier than her also rich and successful football star boyfriend?

2024-11-02 20:39:30 GMT

Turns out empowering violent police officers with massive surveillance tools doesn’t solve crime or make people safer.
#note15c8…v70g

2024-11-02 17:19:19 GMT

LaBitConf #nostrbooth day 2
https://i.nostr.build/wDiUWgPzxDzLiDde.jpg

2024-11-02 14:11:10 GMT

I think we’re going to increasingly see people hand over decisions to their AI. I’m not sure it’s good, but it seems like it’s inevitable.
https://archive.is/gxm9g

2024-11-01 19:01:15 GMT

@npub1dzk…qcce says Elon said he’d be fucked if Trump doesn’t win. I kind of think it’d be fun to see Elon be taken down a peg or two.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-musk-thinks-hell-be-fcked-if

2024-11-01 18:06:13 GMT

The #nostrbooth is kicking off at #labitconf
Tomorrow we have nostr talks and Sunday a whole Nostr day.
https://i.nostr.build/PWiKl0sQZirC1g4P.jpg

2024-11-01 14:22:24 GMT

It's some dystopian shit when websites want to charge you to download content that you uploaded to their site.
https://image.nostr.build/311b68a3e714a043be559ac03180dcc56fcd657563416351449ae65c18bf1a68.png

2024-11-01 12:52:43 GMT

This is the best piece I’ve read about the elections in the US if you care a lot about the genocide in Gaza. We need to be strategic and understand the system within which we live while we work to change it.
#note16f5…t45g

2024-10-31 18:16:07 GMT

Bluesky and its user community struggle with it being a vc backed company controlling the protocol.
#note1gkv…sfxt

2024-10-30 22:31:13 GMT

Hola Montevideo.
https://m.primal.net/LnYG.bin

2024-10-30 14:49:40 GMT

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I mean yes but you can only vote for federal office and you do it from the last random place you lived before moving overseas. Oh and the ballots arrive after Election Day. That too.

2024-10-30 09:44:31 GMT

@npub1f4f…f7ql has a new essay about what is bringing people to decentralized social protocols. He calls them Elon Musk Events (EVM’s) which drive people to leave one platform and try alternatives.
He wrote the essay, Protocols, Not Platforms which really pushed forward the idea of social media protocols as a viable alternative to centralized platforms.
The latest one on adopting social media protocols is somewhat focused on Bluesky but it talks about Nostr and other protocols. The point is we need to keep exploring and trying things to figure out what are the killer features that decentralized can do which isn’t easy or possible with centralized systems. Nostr has so much experimenting going on that it’s hard to keep track of which is amazing. We need to do a better job at talking to new and potential people in order that they are invited in and see value in staying.
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/29/some-slightly-biased-thoughts-on-the-state-of-decentralized-social-media/

2024-10-30 00:38:28 GMT

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Harper the red beard wizard

2024-10-28 23:50:02 GMT

Yum yum ramen https://i.nostr.build/2Q6H3wqxO6RBuGSD.jpg

2024-10-27 22:59:50 GMT

https://i.nostr.build/3lF6TB6XvdVcutOL.jpg

2024-10-27 20:52:15 GMT

What’s happening in the struggle for civil liberties in tech? @npub1jcw…jyrz has a sped run update.
#note1drk…07r0

2024-10-27 06:20:55 GMT

While i believe it’s fully the intention of the creators that ATprotocol and Bluesky end up being a fully open permissionless protocol, the decisions they’re making around how to build and fund it means they’re going to face a lot of pressure to not actually open up. Twitter was incredibly open and even at one point federated via XMPP, but the constraints of running a VC backed platform caused the company to enclose the commons and walk away from the open network.
#note13mq…9f0v

2024-10-26 00:17:40 GMT

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I think most of it is very easy to implement in Nostr but the real layer which is missing is a way for machine learning to pick which notes to display based on user activity and engagement. That’s buildable and a lot easier/cheaper than it was when TikTok or even IG reels were developed. But we have no way to bundle up user engagement data and send it to a trusted algorithm service. We could do a DVM or custom relay to display the content based on the algorithm service.
The other issue to address is that TikTok and its clones are very optimized for performance with incredible low latency uptime. You need a good CDN and really optimized clients.

2024-10-25 08:33:58 GMT

This song and music video are as an accurate a portrayal of my hometown as I think somebody could do. #humboldt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1CdiRIHdvI

2024-10-25 07:27:44 GMT

So Bluesky raised $15 million in a new round with a partner from Blockchain Capital taking a board seat.
https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a

2024-10-25 06:14:19 GMT

This is huge. I’m so excited about MLS over Nostr. Good work @npub1zuu…c2uc !
#note125c…v0fj

2024-10-24 07:25:09 GMT

Understanding from here to there ( aquí to allá ) in Spanish.
https://i.nostr.build/SWL5CyMvLpZXD0bw.jpg

2024-10-24 07:18:41 GMT

Troop.is for events.

2024-10-24 01:00:59 GMT

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Yes. What should we be doing in our reposts / quote posts that we’re not doing?

2024-10-23 23:32:02 GMT

As always, the Nostr dev community continues to produce and experiment. Lots happening.
#note1f4s…avhh

2024-10-23 23:30:08 GMT

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We are devo!

2024-10-23 23:28:43 GMT

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Nate Silver sold 538 and doesn’t work there any more. The 538 site is run by a team at ESPN.
Plenty on the left aren’t happy with him either btw. But it doesn’t matter when referring to 538 today because he’s no longer involved.

2024-10-23 23:24:25 GMT

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The polls often all skew one way or the other but it’s not always for one party or another. In 2020 and 2016 they skewed towards the republicans but in 2022 they were wrong the other direction.
https://i.nostr.build/wRWtVDOP3tCvSZmS.jpg

2024-10-23 22:50:06 GMT

Why aren’t we doing more stuff with Nostr and Tidal? It’s really cool, they launched it back in June, I’ve seen it pop up a few times but we should do more with it.
Like make ‘share a song’ more a feature in the app and auto login with your nsec when you see events with Tidal content.
https://developer.tidal.com/blog/tidal-embeds-the-other-stuff-transmitted-by-nostr