The way billionaires pay or avoid taxes is really different from people who work for a living or even the “normal” wealthy millionaires. @ProPublica has a great investigative piece based on a major leak of billionaires tax returns from the IRS. View quoted note →

@Meredith Whittaker from Signal has a good essay / editorial about how we need to build an open source funded alternative to Big Tech.

WIRED

The Beginning of the End of Big Tech

From politicians to VC firms, everyone is falling out of love with the massive, money-oriented, global technology titans. In their place, we have t...

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…

Wow. Declaring martial law and sending the military in to storm parliament doesn’t seem like a very democratic way to solve governance issues. View quoted note →

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

Anybody but Satlantis done an organizational directory / market db / poi db in Nostr?

Satlantis

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I’ve looked around and couldn’t find something.

Use Tor because it makes you and everyone else safer. View quoted note →

I like the idea of revokable subkeys. You could use a shared cloud custodial login service for the subkey but keep the root offline or backed up. That way you could get easy login without giving up control. Potentially you could inscribe controls over what a subkey could or couldn’t do. Which would be interesting. View quoted note →

And now @bryan newbold has written a good response to @Christine Lemmer-Webber’s essay. Also worth reading if you’re interested social media protocols and advocating for why Nostr solves some of the problems that have come up with in ActivityPub and ATprotocol.

Reply on Bluesky and Decentralization | bryan newbold

This is a reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber's thoughtful (and widely read) "How decentralized is Bluesky really?" blog post. I am so happy and grat...

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New version of @npub1pu3v...tfch is out. Mostly a bug fix update, but go in to testflight / appstore to update as apple doesn’t push an upgrade automatically all the time. View quoted note →

If Trump really does impose broad and high tariffs then it’ll cause domestic inflation. What will it due the USD visa vi other currencies? Will it cause inflation elsewhere?

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?

GitHub

Satlantis

Satlantis has 5 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

I gave a talk about Nostr, democracy, and the future of social media. View quoted note →

“Both political parties have worked together to push [social media] platforms to censor political speech. This is why meta now down ranks all posts from journalists and activists. And TikTok is similar where it’s suppressed political content. People in power, whether they’re democrats or republicans seem to be able to agree on is that they want less online activism, and less speech. We’ve seen that throughout the Trump and Biden administrations alike, and I do think it’s concerning. When we look at the social media landscape, these apps that were originally ushered in things like the Arab Spring. People used to talk about their liberatory nature, now you can’t even say the word feminism on threads without getting down ranked. “ @Taylor Lorenz

Pocket Casts

Could the 4B movement ever happen in America?

Are women abstaining from sex to protest Donald Trump’s re-election? That’s the impression you’d get if you spent time reading the media over...

We’ve got good list tools in Nostr but aren’t making lists accessible and useful as much as they’ve done over in Bluesky land.

The Ultimate Directory of tools and applications for Bluesky

The Ultimate Directory of tools and applications for Bluesky

A curated collection of all things relating to the Bluesky social media platform.

And since we’re talking about how Bluesky works, View quoted note → I might as well share this technical deep dive.

Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)

Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel des...