Weekend #gardening update Built a deer (and bear 👀) fence for our raised beds. Transplanted tomatoes and kale into the beds Removed poison ivy from the only patch we’ve discovered Scatter planted sunflower seeds Transplanted columbine from a pot into the ground. Fencing We used beech saplings that we took down last weekend as the posts and secured them into the ground with a mix of rocks, clay and soil. Then we wrapped the sticks with heavy metal gauge fencing and zip tied the fencing to the posts. This is a test year to see if there’s enough light in that location to grow vegetables. If so we’ll put up a sturdier fence in the coming years. Raised Beds Opted for metal as opposed to wood. Our land is very damp and we’ve had wood in the past. Filled them first with sticks and leaves and then compost and raised bed soil on top. Poison ivy removal Wear gloves! Then use a bag to cover the gloved hand / arm you are pulling with. Wipe everything with poison ivy wipes afterwards. This time of year is when it is most potent. To insure you rooted it all out, try to locate the “mother”. I’m not sure I found it, but I’ll keep an eye out on new growth and where it emerges from. Scatter planting seeds This weekend I dropped sunflower seeds just below the surface in multiple places. it’s likely too shady for anything to grow, but we’ll see. My poppy scatter planting from six weeks ago (in clay no less!) appears to be generating results. I am seeing some sprouts! Columbine - for flowers that grow under most conditions Awful soil? Little water? Too much clay? These plants do not care. They will take pretty much anywhere. Presently I have some in the shade that are starting to flower - stay tuned next week. And I transplanted some volunteers from an old pot to a sunnier spot with subpar soil.

👏👏 HUGE THANKS to all the folks who helped make the initial launch a success! @Josh Brown & @Sebastian Heit for their work on the design sprint to make the new Discover tab possible! @Matt Lorentz , @Martin , @Daniel Cadenas for fixing bugs and improving the overall experience for Nos users @rabble & @npub1lur3...t0xg for supporting the recruiting efforts. @miljan and the Primal team for building a quick way to onboard people to using zaps! We’re just getting started!

Excited to announce the first set of creators in the Creator Residency! View quoted note → Giving creators a two month opportunity to focus on their craft instead of gaming algorithms for visibility is what makes Nostr an exciting protocol! Check out their profiles and give them a follow or zap!

#asknostr - I was onboarding someone new to Nostr who has experimented with the Metamask wallet in the past. Is there a way to connect this wallet to Nostr? They would like to continue using it if possible. If so, can you point me in the direction of a good tutorial to share with them. I did google to see if Metamask supports Lighting and it appears that it does, but… google these days…

Last night we went to hear Colin Stetson play outdoors. He’s an instrumental saxaphone player who also scores movie soundtracks. Turn the sound on to hear a clip from this haunting piece. Highly recommend checking out his show if he’s in your area.

The grift is real. While this lawsuit is about late fees, US credit card companies “points system” is funded on the backs of merchants in the form of processing fees. In the US - supposedly the home of free enterprise- banks and creditors grift off everyone while adding little value to the system. https://wapo.st/4aiN1Au Also the US legal system is a joke - the end of this article….

Super excited about the latest release of Nos. We’ve made some updates in preparation for the Residency and Accelerator launches later this month! We’ve also updated our content moderation tools to better reflect the intent of the NIPs while creating a better experience for users. Lastly we made many improvements across the app to make it easier to see the profile of those who are mentioned. If you haven’t tried Nos.social in awhile- check it out! View quoted note →

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?