RIP Starship. Nice landing of the booster though.

I finally got around to setting up a fully self-hosted LNURL, pete@petertodd.org, with zaps support. Credit goes to this guide:

Receive nostr zaps with your lightning node with Ligess (self-hosted, personal lightning address)

From the first moment lightning zaps were introduced in Nostr (NIP-57) I was looking for a way how to receive these sats from zaps to my own lightn...

The key sticking point was I didn't realize CloudFront didn't pass query parameters in my setup.

Scene from the independent documentary Hotshot, re: climate change:

Russia’s Hidden War Debt

Moscow has been stealthily funding much of its war costs with risky, off-budget financing overlooked by the West. That funding is now under pressur...

Really interesting analysis that has been overlooked. tl;dr: someone carefully looked through corporate records, and found that hundreds of billions of dollars of sketchy loans have been given to Russian defense contractors that probably can't pay them back. These aren't voluntary loans: the Russian government passed a law in 2022 forcing banks to loan money at low rates to defense contractors. Previously it's been generally thought that about 15% of Russia's true GDP is being spent on the invasion. Taking forced loans into account, it's quite possible the real number is double that. Yet more evidence that "ordinary Russians" are ultimately responsible for the invasion. You simply can't have this much % of GDP involved in a war without every working Russian making a significant contribution. Western countries donating weapons to Ukraine should allow them to be used on any military or economic target in Ukraine. Destruction of the Russian electricity grid would be a good priority along with oil and gas.

Fun fact: according to my access logs on my Alice @opentimestamps calendar, 34,000 items were timestamped via the web interface between Dec 30th and Jan 1st. The common advice to timestamp Bitcoin data for the IRS seems to have been popular! I don't keep logs longer than two weeks, so I have no idea how much usage there was last year. But this spike in requests from the web interface is unusual compared to more recent days. A small fraction of overall usage: I'm averaging ~200,000 timestamps/day, mostly automated.

“The Budapest Memorandum is bull...it.” An official stamp from the Ukrainian postal service! 😂 https://postmark.ukrposhta.ua/index.php?route=product/product&path=83&product_id=10664

jm 0f53706a508914bdbec1e7d611d1820bee2cef1b (will reveal later)

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/06/health/children-higher-fluoride-levels-lower-iqs-government-study/index.html