> the duty of curation rests upon the individual account-holder But from a numbers growth perspective, we're going to need options in clients to automatically screen and block posts. On by default, but easily turned off. When Joe Normie comes to Nostr, he doesn't want to see gore or porn or illegal activities on the timeline ... not even once.

Bankers begging for TARP 2.0 ... trillions of dollars of aid from taxpayers, the same people they've been cheating and screwing ever since the last bailout.

American Banker

U.S. banks need TARP 2.0: A trapped asset relief program

The Fed's meteoric increase in the federal funds rate over the last 18 months has left banks holding billions in unproductive investment securities...

[www americanbanker com] Their assets aren't really "troubled", the bankers are just getting lower interest rates on them than they could if they could reissue those loans. If they can just hold them until maturity, they'll be fine. The real issue is that the FED is trying to punish you and me with the interest rate increases (FED chair Jerome Powell said this repeatedly, so it is without question), but banks borrow short-term and often lend long-term. Rapid interest rate increases will hurt them because of that business model. Instead of begging for taxpayer money to line the pockets of banking execs, call out the FED's Open Market Committee for being out of touch and for intentionally harming the people they're meant to protect.

Business Insider

Texas couple dies in their home after air conditioning breaks during intense heat wave

A Texas woman whose parents died from extreme heat said air-conditioning companies should warn people they're "staying inside an oven" when AC breaks.

This sort of thing bothers me, because it did not have to happen. Maybe they could have stayed with relatives. Maybe their town has a cooling center that they could have gone to during daytime hours. Maybe they could have gotten a smaller window unit to help tide them over until their main air condtioner was repaired. Lots of maybes, but I feel like _something_ could have been done differently.

> the iris code needs to be compared against all other iris codes of humans who have verified before

World Whitepaper

World Whitepaper

There are many valid objections to #Worldcoin, but this one is foundational. They have to store the data of _everyone_ who ever does an iris scan forever. This, then is where many other objectionable things come from: * storing that much SPII data makes them an attractive target * "all information that you collect, you will eventually store; all data that you store will eventually be misused" -- my old information systems instructor * "Hi, I'm $EMPLOYEE from $SECRET_GOVT_AGENCY. We're issuing a secret order to turn over iris scan and other data about $PERSON by tomorrow at 8AM." * did I mention "trust us, we will only use this for good"? Yeah. No matter what, don't fall for #Worldcoin. Avoid it forever.

"Use another relay" confers *a little* censorship resistance until you face a coordinated campaign. "Make your own relay" then becomes the final option, but one must do so *before* the campaign cuts them off from other relays and ensure that their contacts know about it, or they still lose connection with their contacts. And depending on where the censorship is coming from (some sort of #nostrblock campaign versus a national government), hosting one's own relay may provide the censors ability to silence someone for a longer time. Which is why I say that Nostr's censorship resistance is way overhyped. It is not subject to centralized admins' censorship (like Twitter or MetaFaceBook) or to instance admins' censorship (like the Fediverse with its #fediblock and other #blockwars campaigns), but depending on outrunning censors' pressure against relay operators is not something people should depend upon.

> Voice lends itself to "many to many" (not broadcast like video), yet solves the toxicity / flame war issue found in text only. Not so. Voice conferences are sometimes just as toxic. You may not notice, because some people wait for others to finish before they speak. But if you talk to the participants afterward, it was there.

> The main idea behind #fediverse is identity politics cast in software. Well, it isn't the software that has the IDPol, but many instances (the servers that people use) do. It's been a while since I read the NIPs, so maybe there are some newer ones that address this, but last I looked, #Nostr did not really have an answer to something like #fediblock coming here. "Just create a new relay after you get dumped from all others due to #nostrblock" still leaves you disconnected from all your contacts unless you have an out-of-band way to notify them.

I think it is time to buy new shoes again. The current pair is aggravating an old injury.

In case you haven't seen it,

Bluesky is a scam

has inspired some discussion about #Bluesky and #ATProtocol both on #Nostr and in the #Fediverse.

I'm of the opinion that Nostr can "succeed" (whatever that means) even if Bluesky and the Fediverse also succeed. There's still lots to figure out about decentralized networks, and we can learn from each other while we also learn to kick the centralized corporate networks' donkeys.