When I heard about Simon&Schuster being sold to private equity firm KKR, Cory Doctorow and his book Chokepoint Capitalism was the first thing that sprang to mind. Guess they dynamic is not getting better.
https://doctorow.medium.com/private-equity-plunderers-want-to-buy-simon-schuster-3206085d6f20I love that Compose is in prime real estate top-left on Primal.
Much better than floating plus symbols and compose buttons in the lower right ghetto. I suspect those to be an anti-pattern designed to keep you passive, reading, rather than creating original content.
I love that Primal shows my most popular posts when I visit my profile. Anything that can be done to re-orient the new user who is checking back in after a few weeks is highly welcome.
A couple months ago I paid for some relays but since then I've let the subscription lapse. I see this in my DMs since some of these send a sort of receipt or "intro to our relay" type message but given that I connected with these months ago, it'd be helpful to have better context on the situation. Props to Nostr.wine for putting quite a bit of information in DM.
I suppose some of this will be figured out as a unified interface in the client, with near automatic payment to keep up some of these relays. I guess for now I just want to tell those who are running paid relays to help users out by sending a receipt showing date, period for which payment was, sats paid, then a summary of how much data was sent/recieved. I'm not sure the relays software supports all this but more clarity is good.
The end result of my experiment was that paying for relays wasn't worth it except as a donation to help support costs. I didn't see any benefits in particular and perhaps this is another thing that clients can help with. A little star on a note that you only got through a single paid relay.
I'm going to go through and renew these to support the concept but I'm looking forward to there being more clarity and tangible benefits going forward.
In a world where bits travel at light speed, and pics can reach millions in seconds, please allow up to 14 days for mailing list preferences to be updated. Maybe.
Not very many people read books anymore. So why do you still?
Is Nostr sentient? If not, how can we make it so?
What was the music app that was integrated with #nostr?
Probably my favorite human, AI researcher Josha Bach recently talked here about the conscious mind and the larger one in which it's embedded. This bigger mind, which you might sense as intuition is, he says much more powerful and knows things we don't.
Geology has become fascinating to me. It started with a search for the oldest rock on earth (4 billion years in Canada), then learning about oil production (Bitcoin is going to monetize a lot of stranded hydrocarbons), then about the fascinatingly varied geology of California, and now I'm back to how it pertains to oil. Some quick facts from 2009:
Global oil use: 30 billion barrels of oil per year
World reserves: 830-4200 billion barrels
Total used so sar: 1050 billion barrels
So you can see we may be past peak or may not. I think it's unlikely and from a carbon perspective there's much more coal.
Globally we've had 40 years worth oil proven, a number that has held steady for the last couple decades, so it's like we have more if we want it.
Overall, the tech is very interesting from gravimetry to seismic imaging, but if there's one takeaway oil is going to be with us for many decades. I suspect that if we will get any sort of handle on climate change it'll be through capture tech, or delivering aerosols to the atmosphere, but probably not through the fantasy of coordinated abstinence from hydrocarbon use.
Haven't been on Nostr or any social media much the past several weeks. What happens is I get really interested, even building things for myself, and then my attention lapses and I look at other stuff. Try as I might, I am not a robot and love to do different things.
What I love so much about Nostr is the novelty, the smallness, how much opportunity there is. I've also enjoyed appearing as a nym, prioritizing opsec vs ego, but isn't it strange that ego still wants to have a say, to become popular in some sense?
Since joining nostr, I've built but not released a pretty decent bot, with a working mailing-list feature, created half a dozen accounts to play around, zapped a fair amount and enjoyed the combination of Snort/Amethyst/Coracle as my new X, then Stacker.news as my new reddit.
Not sure where I'm going but I'm feeling creative energy returning so wanted to write a quick note. Hope you're all doing well. ttyl
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. -H.L. Mencken
It's sad to see Ripple marching on. Hopefully the UK doesn't fall for their bullshit. It was possibly the first mass cryptosecurities scam.
Good for In'n Out for pushing back against neverending mask world. If you're ever near one their burgers are 👩🍳💋
Future Payjoiners unite! Great TFTC pod with Dan Gould about the Payjoin Dev Kit. Helps explain privacy tech like Coinjoins too.
Man the news is so ridiculously repetitive, not to mention dark and histrionic. Took a bit of a break from Nostr but I'm back. I'll have to catch up with the Nostr Report. What's new with you in the last couple weeks?
