Another photo from this week’s gorge hike.

Excited to see @samhain sharing her daily art practice with Nostr as part of rhe Creator Residency. Check out one of her latest portraits. View quoted note →

Thanks @Shaun for pulling together a great panel on decentralization via Nostr in NYC! Great to hear about @Wavlake ‘s efforts to rewire the music experience and @YakiHonne ‘s commitment to decentralization. @boston wine for reminding us all that Nostr is genuinely a nice place to hang out. 🎉 View quoted note →

At a concert on Saturday the singer told a story about how some of his fans in Germany - a mom and daughter watched his live streams throughout the pandemic but didnt use venmo or Paypal. When he started touring again they showed up at 4 of his shows in Germany and presented him with a piggy bank full of 5 euro notes - 2 for every online show they watched. It was over 300 euros! Women give $ often at much higher rates and with less strings attached. Imagine the potential in Nostr if this were a place women felt comfortable sticking around in. Noted in a week when we’ve lost yet another community building woman on Nostr. https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/29/business/mackenzie-scott-philanthropy-nightcap/index.html

The US may be distingrating, but at least Mexico has some hope! This is great news for Mexico and the region!

The Cut

What to Know About Mexico’s First Female President

In a historic feat, the country has elected climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum as its next leader.

Mountain laurel is in bloom!

There’s an assumption the US legal system is fair and leans towards justice and that is not true. Trump’s legal troubles are a distraction from the fact that we have 3 geriatric men of questionable competence running for president and a sitting president who thinks its fine to bring in the police for peaceful resistance to US funding of a massacre. We are in real trouble with no discernible leadership to get us out of this mess. View quoted note →

Lettuce is sprouting! What’s coming up in your garden? #gardening #gardens

The desperation of tech companies to make shopping social is so bizarre. What problem is being solved here? View quoted note →

I want to live in a place with winter public pools! This is Iceland but many places in Northern Europe have year round swimming options.

kottke.org

Swimming Pool Stories

Icelandic filmmaker Jón Karl Helgason has made a film called Sundlaugasögur (Swimming Pool Stories) about the central role of the swimming pool i...

Exciting to see in-app tools to make cross posting across the social web easier! Congrats to the Openvibe team! View quoted note →

Witch hazel saplings are leafing out! Can't wait for January / February to see the blooms!

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 & @Shaina Dane 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.