Another photo from this week’s gorge hike.

Thanks @Shaun for pulling together a great panel on decentralization via Nostr in NYC! Great to hear about @Wavlake ‘s efforts to rewire the music experience and @YakiHonne ‘s commitment to decentralization. @boston wine for reminding us all that Nostr is genuinely a nice place to hang out. 🎉 View quoted note →

Mountain laurel is in bloom!

I want to live in a place with winter public pools! This is Iceland but many places in Northern Europe have year round swimming options.

kottke.org

Swimming Pool Stories

Icelandic filmmaker Jón Karl Helgason has made a film called Sundlaugasögur (Swimming Pool Stories) about the central role of the swimming pool i...

Kathe Kollwitz show is up at MOMA and it’s definitely worth a visit. She was one of the first women artists to succeed visually while also putting forward a woman’s point of view. Also one of the few sculpters who can render emotion well in 3D.

In many of the “what should Nostr do next” threads over the past few weeks some users have noted search isnt great across Nostr. This morning our team looked up the relays that support NIP50 - the search NIP and there are some but very few of the major ones folks connect to support search. We have built our relays on strfry which prioritizes speedy return of npubs rather than indexing. Curious if folks are relying on something other than NIP50 for search? Also curious what is or is not motivating implementation of NIP50 amongst relay managers?

If you haven’t heard @nos is launching both Journalism Accelerator and Creator Residency programs. This is an initiative inspired by conversations we’ve had with the Nostr community. If you know Creators or Journalists on other platforms please encourage them to apply. Nos is excited to launch this in partnership with @Damus , @primal , @npub1w0rt...cu4x @YakiHonne & @Coracle . For more details check out: https://www.nos.social/journalism-accelerator Or https://www.nos.social/creator-residency

The anti-Threads sentiment on Mastodon makes a lot more sense given this lawsuit.

TechCrunch

Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal | TechCrunch

A secret program called "Project Ghostbusters" saw Facebook devise a way to intercept and decrypt the encrypted network traffic of Snapchat users t...

I’m fascinated by e-bikes and would love to see better support for them in the states.

Curbed

Can I Interest You in a Fresh Charge?

Baruch Herzfeld wants to end the rash of e-bike-battery fires.