“We have problems (in the world), but we are also on the cusp of breakthroughs that solve these problems. An optimistic view would help explain the complex future and give everyone hope.” - Om Malik 1966-2026
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Building lots of things with andotherstuff.org including divine.video and nos.social.
Anybody know about this nostr for agents project?
GitHub
GitHub - SrulyRosenblat/social_agents_prototype_nostr
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This Spark NZ advertisement is pretty messed up. Ostensibly it's about stopping fraud and spam, but they present the 'bad guys' as a crowd of protesters marching down the street, that Spark makes disappear in to a magical sink hole.
In January there was a splashy announcement of a new European social media app, wsocial.eu, which seems to be promising to be an EU like Twitter app which satisfies the dreams of EU elites.
Turns out it’s a ATprotocol app/instance with verified credentials and lots of weird marketing. I don’t think anyone on here would be interested is using W Social but you might find this read about the project interesting.
The Untold Story About W Social: Unconventional Beginnings, Strategic Pitches and Conflicting Signals
Video manifesto! Why I built divine.video
It rains a lot in New Zealand, but i'm not sure folks really understand how much.
739mm of rain just fell on the Tasman region in a weekend.
London gets ~600mm in an entire YEAR.
That's London's whole annual rainfall — plus an extra 140mm — dropped on one NZ hillside in about two days.
Needless to say, there was flooding. New Zealand's main changes it'll see due to climate change is even more rain. So this is just a start.
Divine 1.0.14 is live on iOS.
Three weeks of work since 1.0.12 — more control, cleaner loops, fewer weird edges. This one’s for the people who notice the details.
Creator tools got a serious upgrade. The editor now has clip speed controls, timeline volume editing, local audio imports, audio extraction from your own clips, sharper exported layers, better split/edit state handling, and fewer ways to lose your publish flow when bouncing between recorder and editor. Clip trash also gives you a 30-day safety net before deleted clips are really gone.
Feeds should feel more alive and less haunted. For You routes through recommendations, Popular has better source and time controls, Explore does a better job surfacing fresh diVines, and counts for likes, loops, views, reposts, and reused videos stay steadier. Playback got smoother too — better first-frame behavior, cleaner overlays, stronger cache handling, and more graceful recovery when a video gets fussy.
DMs got a little more human. Emoji reactions landed, markdown-style formatting works, the composer grows as you write, the full emoji picker is wired up, send buttons are more accessible, and message recovery is tougher when delivery only half-succeeds.
Notifications got a big cleanup pass. Taps now land in the right place more often, comment replies are classified more clearly, foreground and local notifications behave more consistently, unread badges stop getting wiped just because you left the page, and iOS alert pushes should no longer double-buzz you. Less noise. More signal.
Profiles, search, and safety got sharper. Profile text and lists linkify better, profile reporting is easier to find, banner/avatar flows are smoother, verified account chips are clearer, search sorting is stronger, blocked users stay out of category feeds, adult-content settings behave more consistently after verification, and our “do not train” C2PA assertion is now always included.
There’s a lot under the hood too: stronger account recovery, safer session refresh, better invite and collaborator recovery, sturdier upload retries, more reliable view tracking, cleaner notification settings, improved reset-password flow, and a bunch of crash and race-condition fixes that should make the app feel calmer even when the network is not.
Short version: better making, better messaging, better feeds, better notifications, and fewer tiny betrayals from your phone.
Welcome Home.
Install Divine 1.0.14
iOS: 
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.openvine.app&hl=en
Zapstore: 
GitHub: 
App Store
Divine Video App - App Store
Download Divine Video by Verse Communications Inc on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more apps like Divine Video.
Zapstore
Divine — Zapstore
Divine is a new 6-second looping video app, inspired by Vine, with a commitment to preserving authentic human creativity. AI slop is not permitted ...
GitHub
Releases · divinevideo/divine-mobile
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Hey android users, can you write reviews? also point out how you just need to use Nostr to get around the invite codes? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.openvine.app
You win some, you lose some.
Hey Nostiches please go and review divine in the AppStore and play store and of course zapstore too! These reviews really help. #grownostr
This is crazy, 2 days after launching in the appstore, there's so much new divine.video content being posted that i can't keep up and watch all the new videos.
The bluesky folks are freaking out that it's founder has build an AI based custom tool for users to create their own feeds.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/22/stop-begging-big-tech-to-fix-your-social-media-experience-you-can-do-it-yourself/
Wait, what, now the US is blockading the Straight of Hormuz?!?!?! Wasn't the pressure to end the US war on Iran was the rise of global oil prices due to Iran blockading the Straight of Hormuz? This has the maturity of a fight amongst toddlers.
the Guardian
Trump says US will blockade strait of Hormuz after Iran peace talks fail
Iran warns move would breach ceasefire as US president also repeats threats to strike critical infrastructure
Orban has lost and will no longer lead Hungary. This is huge as Orban and his Fidesz party represented the most anti-democratic forces in the EU, and a major force driving politics around the world to the right. The Fidesz movement endangered the EU project, and provided the model for Trump's second term in power and project 2025.
What's most surprising to me is how Orban was defeated. The Hungarian opposition tried everything from going to the left, the right, center, coalitions, protest movements, civil resistance, and tons of other things. And it didn't work. Orban consolidated control over the media, shutdown any opposition organization or educational institutions, used the tax code to strip organizations of their funding and legal status, blacklisted opposition leaders.
And yet Orban would win super majorities over and over again. What's finally worked was a scandal of corruption from within Fidesz and their governing coalition which exposed the contradictions of Orban's strongman anticorruption message with the reality of how authoritarians keep power.
Authoritarians have a carrot and stick model of power, if you comply you get benefits, sometimes those happen illegally, construction contracts, get out of jail despite your crimes, etc... or a stick, where they attack the opposition the way progressive politicians where attacked and NGO's were shutdown.
With all of the opposition destroyed in Hungary what happened was the corruption got worse and eventually became a scandal that was too big to contain. Loyal members of Fidesz split and created their own party, because that's the only political force left in the country. And people voted for the new faction, not because they wanted radical change, but because they got fed up with Orban's lies. Will the new leadership of Hungary, Péter Magyar’s Tisza, be any better? Honestly i have no idea. But the downfall of one wanna be dictator is a good thing.
To Orban's credit, he's admitting he lost and not trying to pull a January 6th! Perhaps because his replacement come from a group of ex-loyalists, and his right wing project may continue. I'm not sure.
the Guardian
Magyar celebrates as Orbán’s 16-year rule ends - as it happened
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I'm listening to the ATmosphere conference and just came across panproto: 
On the surface it’s a project about schema version control and migrations across systems like atproto, sql, protobuf, graphql, json schema, etc. which sounds a little dry until you think about what that actually means for open protocols.
One of the recurring problems in protocol ecosystems is that we treat compatibility and migration as if they’re just social coordination problems right up until they become infrastructure problems. then every client, relay, indexer, bridge, and app ends up carrying around its own private pile of assumptions.
Nostr has a lot of strengths because it evolves loosely and permissionlessly. that flexibility matters. but it also means a lot of the real schema evolution in nostr happens informally: new kinds, new tag meanings, app-specific conventions, and changing assumptions spread unevenly through the ecosystem.
Feels especially relevant for long-lived clients, relays, indexers, and definitely for anything trying to bridge nostr with atproto or other networks.
anyway, interesting project. protocol people might want to take a look
panproto
panproto | schema migration and version control
panproto parses and compares schemas, constructs migrations and lenses, transforms data, and stores schema history across supported formats.