Fun fact: the richest person in Mexico (and 9th richest in the world) Carlos Slim Helu comes from a family of Maronite Christians from Lebanon.#TIL
Carlos Slim - Wikipedia
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Things I like:
- #P2P/#decentralized/#opensource stuff
- #History (esp Rome/Greece/Egypt)
- #Transit oriented city design
- #Gadgets/#ElectricVehicles/#Solar Power
- #Space exploration
- #Videogames (especially #GTA)
Things I've Built:
- Agora: Follow your favorite topics across Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and Threads
https://agorasocial.app
- Chronicl: Decentralized web archiver that distributes archives across Nostr relays
https://chronicl.vercel.app/
“Egyptians are twisted and bitter people with a sense of humor”
- Roman poet Theocritus
Fun fact: the richest person in Mexico (and 9th richest in the world) Carlos Slim Helu comes from a family of Maronite Christians from Lebanon.
Carlos Slim - Wikipedia
For context, this is a new policy CONCACAF has instituted, mainly because of Mexico's fanbase having a history of chanting "puto", usually used as a homophobic slur 
X (formerly Twitter)
U.S. Soccer Men's National Team (@USMNT) on X
The match has been stopped due to discriminatory chanting.
The gallery of all their different tailfin designs is super cool!
#aviation
#travel
https://www.jetblue.com/flying-with-us/our-planes/tailfins
Agora's Discover tab now pulls in what's popular on Mastodon and bridges it to Nostr!
https://agorasocial.app/discover
Never thought I’d see the day
#gaming 
The Verge
Microsoft and Sony are teaming up for the future of gaming
It’s all about Xbox and PlayStation beating Amazon and Google
#[0] purple-pilled confirmed 
Quite an active topic feed today :)
#apple
https://agorasocial.app/topic/apple
Here's a list of Nostr clients that are Progressive Web Apps,
meaning you can install them to your home screen and they behave like a
regular app, but with no App/Play Store gatekeeper:
1. Snort: snort.social
2. Agora: agorasocial.app
3. Coracle: app.coracle.social 4. Iris: iris.to
Wasn’t expecting to see Dunkin so high, and Starbucks middle of the pack
#coffee
Ironic that the super risky gain-of-function research that was occurring at Wuhan Institute of Virology was aimed at getting a head start on coronavirus vaccine development, and yet China’s covid vaccines ended up being garbage compared to Moderna/Pfizer/BioNTech/others
ooooo the new Panasonic 4k OLED displays that United Airlines announced they're using for seatback entertainment, crispy
#aviation
PANASONIC AVIONICS AND UNITED AIRLINES SIGN DEAL TO INSTALL THE TRANSFORMATIVE ASTROVA IN-FLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM ON NEW LONG-HAUL INTERNATIONAL AIRCRAFT
/PRNewswire/ -- Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic Avionics) has today announced an agreement with United Airlines (United) as its first cus...
#cleanenergy
New improvement to Agora just added:
You can now link directly to a topic's using /topic/**topic name goes here**
For example, the page for #baking would be:https://agorasocial.app/topic/baking
Working on a feature where every time someone follows a topic on Agora that has a subreddit with the same name, it’ll archive the top posts to that subreddit of all time onto nostr.