Every few years, I get a hankering for a deep dish pizza. Tonight might be that occasion

Why dinosaurs are so damn cool - they're crazy old (like hundreds of millions of years) - they were huge - their bones fossilized and survived all this time until we dug them up - no one knew they existed for centuries - we still don't really know what they looked like, but it's fun to guess - they dominated the planet for millions of years and then basically vanished I had fun at the museum

Paying for basic internet services like email and search are still really new ideas, but I think people are realizing the value. I see zaps as a natural extension of this idea, and if this trend continues the web is going to look really different in a few years

Excited to see this audio track NIP move forward. Wavlake will be deprecating our old track events and migrating to this new standard soon

GitHub

Add audio track NIP by staab · Pull Request #1043 · nostr-protocol/nips

Prior art: 32123 published by wavlake do zap splits wrong and are not published by the artist. Metadata is also json-encoded in the content. 31337...

I'm still catching up from the fever dream that was Nashville last week... just wanted to say how excellent it was seeing so many of you and being able to enjoy so much great music together. I couldn't help smiling the whole time. Thank you to everyone who helped make it happen! 🙌

Bench (Taylor's Version)

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I spent the day with the theme song to the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie bouncing around inside my head. It was synthtastic

We are the music makers. And we are the dreamers of the dreams.

News -- the way it was meant to be read in 1994

68k.news: Headlines From the Future

Hear me out: what if you turned your phone off every once in a while 😳

Artists have a totally valid argument that gen-AI is built on their work and it's a form of property infringement. They have every right to fight this. At the same time, I'm not convinced government intervention will be effective in wrangling this freight train. It’s left the station. In the long run, people will decide. And if AI-generated music takes over the world and dominates every mainstream way of listening to music, that’s on us. And no, it’s not a fair fight, which is why I think any attempt to level the playing field is reasonable. But laws alone aren’t the answer. We need more tools to enable creative work outside the mainstream. And my optimistic side still thinks there’s some kid out there who’ll figure out how to master these new tools to make incredible, original music. I’d like to give ourselves the best chance to see that happen. https://artistrightsnow.medium.com/200-artists-urge-tech-platforms-stop-devaluing-music-559fb109bbac

Not only are we using less cash than before but the word "cash" is also appearing less frequently in text

This is such a great chat between @PhantomPowerMedia and @manlikekweks They talk hip-hop, education, Tanzania... and so much more. Worth a listen

Fountain: Podcasts and Music

Phantom Power Artist Hour • Episode 5 - Man Like Kweks • Listen on Fountain

If you've only been around V4V & NOSTR for just a week, you've definitely seen Man Like Kweks. He is an educator, entrepreneur, Bitcoiner and Rappe...

I used to work in public radio, where every few months we would launch a big, on-air pledge drive to raise money to keep the station running. These drives would usually last about two weeks and completely disrupted the usual programming people were used to. We’d cut in every hour for a few minutes here and there for a “pledge break”, during which we’d ask listeners for money. It was a whole production: there were daily goals, matching donations from big supporters, giveaways, prize drawings for iPads… all in the name of supporting what we were doing. These pledge drives were hugely successful. Granted, the station was a good one, we produced a lot of great programming, and we operated in a large market. But even though these pledge drives worked, we all knew how annoying it was for listeners. We would even say things on-air like, “We know these can be a drag but it’s how we make the shows you love, so if you love this station, give us a call!” One year, a manager came up with the idea to try and shorten the drives by raising money ahead of time. So, in the weeks leading up to the drive, we started running brief messages asking listeners to donate early, with the incentive that they could collectively shorten the length of the drive by doing so. We sold the idea like it was a reward. And it worked! Sort of. But it would only shave a couple days off in the end. Hearing these early value for value podcasters ask their listeners to send them some sats if they value a show is so reminiscent of the public radio funding model — which is promising because that model has been working incredibly well for decades. The messaging on these podcasts is almost identical in nature and tone to what we'd do at my old radio station (and what continues to happen today). The big difference is that these mini-breaks where hosts ask for money can be just a small part of every episode, like a reminder, and do not need to be as intrusive or disruptive as a full-on fundraiser. That’s a huge improvement in listener experience. And I think spread out over time, the earnings potential is at least as good as, if not better than, what’s possible with the traditional model. This can work. The concept is not new. It’s just the implementation that’s a bit different. Once people get comfortable with it, there’s no looking back. What’s exciting is it’s still just the very beginning, and we’re seeing some amazing results already. Waiting for the day when my old station adopts value for value and can give up the pledge drives… give it time.

Back to swimming regularly again after getting over a shoulder injury this past summer. I've started going to the local park district pool during lap swim and some of the swimmers there are really strong. But it's amazing how much better of a workout I get when sharing lanes with them as I try to keep up. They're like my silent trainers. It's great

The term "dude" seems pretty old school these days, I might as well start calling kids "whippersnapper"

Bill Watterson has a new book coming out. His first thing in almost 30 years. Can't wait to see it

Americans spend more money on the lottery every year than books, sports tickets, video games, music and movie tickets combined Come on Taylor we need a bigger tour