What is the poverty line? What does it actually mean? And how does the definition distort our view of how bad things truly are for most people? Seems like nobody, other than Mike Green, actually thought to take a look A good read:

Part 1: My Life Is a Lie

How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

happening now on X... this is actually a very similar story of how I ended up here on nostr myself "we're the everything app, the digital town square, but you must abide by our rules or you must gtfo"

Is my understanding of the AT protocol correct if my conclusion is that it's not actually decentralized at all and it's more centralized than things such as email and text messaging?

Even Elon doesn’t understand that the everything app won’t be an app

we’re slowly seeing the impact of being the product There’s too much slop and the antidote to slop is money coming out of your pocket Advertisers and social networks are in for a rude awakening

think of all the things you've scrolled past in the last 7 days, how many of them do you remember? better yet, think of all the things you've scrolled past in the last 30 seconds, how many of them do you remember?

Decentralized social event in Chicago🔥 Got a decent turnout to talk about atproto, Nostr, and farcaster