Both coasts over the past two weeks.

Not surprising, but deeply disappointing. Non-profits who take corporate $$ can’ be trusted and this is why. The relationship is a means of reputation laundering.

the Guardian

Does the American Diabetes Association work for patients or companies? A lawsuit dared to ask | Neil Barsky

The ADA just settled an explosive legal case accusing the organization of betraying people with diabetes

This is an interesting problem to solve: “In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”

O’Reilly Media

Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

The Replacement of Organic Search with Advertising by Google and Amazon and What That Might Mean for the Future of AI

The upside, all these dudes making a mess of things is they have left a giant opportunity space open for the taking.

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Managing Up

Over the last two newsletters (three, if you include my reply to Google’s “rebuttal” of the Prabhakar Raghavan newsletter), I’ve made the c...

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Garbage in, garbage out. The real challenge of AI is clean datasets. The companies that will survive will build tools to clean data. note1m5tqpj4rxwc35dmypd232xxs0wajucygq4spyh5jxuqfgfy563xsta6uz3

Kathe Kollwitz show is up at MOMA and it’s definitely worth a visit. She was one of the first women artists to succeed visually while also putting forward a woman’s point of view. Also one of the few sculpters who can render emotion well in 3D.

Earlier this month @nos released in app NIP05 creation. If you dont have one definitely check it out! During the development we had a long debate about the display of NIP05’s in app. Presently Nostr defaults to making them appear like email addresses with [name] @ [domain]. This presents challenges in the UX of how people interact with these handles. - some apps send people to the website host of the nip - some apps treat the nip as an email address - what happens when there’s actually an email address vs a NIP05 - nostr already supports an @ ux pattern for Npubs and by extension n profile which renders as @ display name Is there a reason NIP05’s dont follow the same @ pattern? I’m curious what problem are we solving for users of Nostr with the current format? #asknostr

A fascinating read on book publishing and who benefits and who doesn’t.

No one buys books

Everything we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. DOJ.

I’m a big fan of beaches on the shoulder season.

In many of the “what should Nostr do next” threads over the past few weeks some users have noted search isnt great across Nostr. This morning our team looked up the relays that support NIP50 - the search NIP and there are some but very few of the major ones folks connect to support search. We have built our relays on strfry which prioritizes speedy return of npubs rather than indexing. Curious if folks are relying on something other than NIP50 for search? Also curious what is or is not motivating implementation of NIP50 amongst relay managers?

I’m unclear if the bear has a really sore shoulder or if some testosterone loving raccoons have moved to town. The wire cable straps are still intact but the bags were ripped open both in and outside the can. Regardless we will be having a long conversation about recycling at dinner tonight.

At the height of rhe eclipse last week, all of the wildlife had something to say including the coyotes who only chimed in when the sun was mostly covered. It’s faint but you can hear them twice near the beginning.