Amazing sunrise this morning

I bought this giant inflatable car suit last month and I’ve taken it to a few parties. It’s been really fascinating to see how people interact with it. Lots of people laugh and want to give it hugs. Some punch it. Women tend to poke it in the butt. Some want to dance with it. One guy got on the ground and crawled between its legs. I think it’s the weird way a stuffed animal looking cat becomes big and real. It’s 2.6 meters (8ft) tall. Lots of people thought it was robot or “AI” and didn’t believe that I as a person was inside.

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Care about tech and human rights? Follow along what’s happening at #RightsCon the next couple of days. View quoted note →

While the news of the world is stressing everybody out, i want you to know that it’s major news in New Zealand that some passengers were not told their baggage would arrive late on a domestic flight. They had to wait half an hour for an announcement and it caused the passengers distress. https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/02/18/jetstar-passengers-luggage-left-behind-on-dunedin-flight/

AI might help you create real software without knowing how to code, but it won’t help you with the basics of software engineering. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkGX0VsXcAAvHnO?format=jpg&name=small

Lists lists lists! We’ve got lists in @nos! Check out the new release of nos.social. View quoted note →

This is kind of crazy. The service station near my house in New Zealand is stocked as if it were in Uruguay.

Words to live by.

Making it a holiday to celebrate the birthday of the head of state is some authoritarian bullshit. And that is as much true of the proposal to do it in the US as the already existing holidays for the king’s birthday in commonwealth countries. View quoted note →

Good reminder of where we are with #nostr from @The Nostr Review View quoted note →

There’s a documentary about Twitter coming out on CNN next month. No idea if it’ll be any good but I made the potentially questionable decision to be interviewed for it. https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-cnn-watch/

There’s a new documentary about the history of Twitter coming out next month on CNN. I they tell the story in a way that talks about how it was co-created with the community of users instead of some reality tv soap opera drama. #twitter #BreakingTheBird #cnn

New CNN Original Series Reveals Story of “Twitter: Breaking The Bird”

Twitter: Breaking the Bird will premiere on Sunday, March 9 at 10pm ET/PT. The series will air on Sundays at 10pm ET/PT.

Seems Google maps can’t decide the name.

This post kicked off a whole bunch of trolls posting homophobic and antisemitic replies… I don’t quite get it… are people trying to show social media is unhealthy in schools by posting writing toxic replies to the post? Or saying… what exactly… That people should engage in censorious practices by saying things which would most likely be censored… dunno… it’s confusing. View quoted note →

The best way to build great software for people is to talk to them and understand their core problems. View quoted note →

New study shows that restricting kids access to social media in school has no impact on their mental health or wellbeing. This doesn’t help kids. It’s just yet another moral panic. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(25)00003-1/fulltext

Last month I sat down with @Robert Breedlove and talked about Nostr and the movement for freedom tech. While Robert and I definitely have different takes on politics I found the discussion really engaging and he’s a great interviewer. Hopefully it’ll help #grownostr.

This deplatforming shit continues. A friend just got her paid flowcode site shutdown because she’s using it to help activists who arrested at black lives matter protests. Flowcode is kind of a linktree plus micro crm. They’re also being refused access to anyone who will process donations because although a legal defense fund for is entirely legal and constitutionally protected. This is important, the right to speech and money shouldn’t be limited to those whose views are acceptable to the state or a few corporations that control retail fintech. This is why I work on Nostr.

Anybody else feel like goose is really powerful and interesting but also it’s not at all clear how to use it? cc @jack

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