If you haven’t heard @nos is launching both Journalism Accelerator and Creator Residency programs. This is an initiative inspired by conversations we’ve had with the Nostr community. If you know Creators or Journalists on other platforms please encourage them to apply. Nos is excited to launch this in partnership with @Damus , @npub12vkc...pugg , @npub1w0rt...cu4x @YakiHonne & @Coracle . For more details check out: https://www.nos.social/journalism-accelerator Or https://www.nos.social/creator-residency

The Biden student loan forgiveness program is for max $20k / student. These Republicans collectively walked away with $15.5 million in PPP loans they didn’t payback AND they self dealt the loans to themselves.

I have 3 separate Mac devices and each one has a different charging dongle. Such a pain and waste.

Constraints are often a force for innovation. Complete freedom in architecture often leads to blan cookie cutter spaces. Even small adjustments can have profound impacts on the feel of a place.

the city and the limiting virtues

"freedom to" and "freedom from" in the cafe, church, and library

Two articles this week on the impacts to women and sex workers of Deepfakes.

The Cut

AOC Describes the ‘Trauma’ of Seeing Deepfake Porn of Herself

“It’s not as imaginary as people want to make it seem,” she said.

404 Media

‘AI Instagram Influencers’ Are Deepfaking Their Faces Onto Real Women’s Bodies

AI 'influencers' on Instagram have racked up hundreds of thousands of followers and millions of views by stealing reels from real women to make the...

I don’t think people realize the downstream effects of the loss of housing. - people need to move further from their jobs which increases transportation costs or they have to get different jobs - schools lose pupils which then translates into less $ for the kids who remain so programs are cut - local employers can’t find people to work bc no one actually lives nearby its all 2nd homes or short-term rentals - businesses cut back hours to only weekends bc no one really lives in the community during the week which leads to job loss or cut hours etc

The other day I posted the beaver gnawed tree in the back but here is the second just in front. Maybe they are opening space for seedlings to take root.

A photo from yesterday’s eclipse.

Woah Steve from Stranger Things is a muscian! And its pretty good!

Spotify

End of Beginning

Djo · DECIDE · Song · 2022

Dan Hon’s latest newsletter asks an interesting question about whether we’ve solved all the easy problems with maths and what remains are the people problems which are much more difficult to solve. Scratching the surface of content moderation tools in recent weeks, it certainly feels like the people problem is going to require more than maths…

s18e06: Low-Hanging Fruit, Information Processing, and People Problems

0.0 Context Setting A grey Thursday morning in Portland, Oregon, on April 4, 2024. For April fools this week, Florian and I switched the homepage o...

https://image.nostr.build/f2c2b07a51665a3e0e2cebea1961f43ad6c110fe6f72efcdcc24838e30e5d5ba.jpgur wildlife neighbors are very busy and not afraid to take on a large task.

We should invite Jon Stewart to Nostr. View quoted note →

Great read on why startups fail which can also be applied to products.

A Smart Bear

Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy

Why do startups typically fail? It turns out that

#1 on the list Didn’t talk to customers (and listen) If you didn’t talk to customers before you started, and especially after you started, that’s a blunder. If you talked to them and weren’t honest with yourself about what they were saying, that’s your faulty analysis. You should have used the Iterative Hypothesis Method or some other reputable framework.

Reflections of the evening light

One of the opportunities we have with Nostr when it comes to building both apps and even NIPs is the ability to shift our current ways of thinking. Today we think of a post almost as something inscribed in stone - someone posts something and its always there. But that’s only one way of looking at a post. We could instead think of posts as something that sprouts and grows over time - similar to the garden metaphor used in this article regarding feeds.

Feeds are Not Fit for Gardening — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho

—at least, in their current instantiations with RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, etc.

We should embrace the freedom we have to think outside the box.

I’m excited for a popular resurgence of the humanities.

The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College

Our problem is in the real world—not the ivory tower—and so is the solution

Insurance companies have been increasing premiums for house and building insurance for several years due to climate change induced disasters. Simultaneously these same companies have been insuring fossil fuel projects. CT is proposing legislation to put a fee on companies who continue to insure fossil fuel projects thus enabling them to move forward. Its nice to see some innovation in-the legislative space.

Grist

Connecticut wants to penalize insurers for backing fossil fuel projects

A new bill from the Connecticut legislature could impose a fee on any insurance company underwriting a fossil-fuel project in the state.

Grist

Connecticut wants to penalize insurers for backing fossil fuel projects

A new bill from the Connecticut legislature could impose a fee on any insurance company underwriting a fossil-fuel project in the state.

@@Meredith Whittaker is correct, the left does need to pay attention to free speech and the increasing concentration of power of platform social media. “The problem here is the platforms themselves. There is something deeply wrong with the whole form. With their self-reinforcing business models, their reliance on surveillance, and their role in undermining an independent media ecosystem and replacing it with their monolithic feeds. “ “The right is fighting to take control of these platforms, while liberals and some on the left are fighting to expand vectors of platform control, without thinking hard enough about who will wield this power and who is likely to get hurt.”

LPE Project

Social Media, Authoritarianism, and the World As It Is

Before we move to further concentrate global surveillance and propaganda power in the hands of the United States, we should be clear-eyed about the...