Girlfriend is a dispatcher for a fuel company. A couple days ago one of her drivers was found passed out behind the wheel of his truck. The people who found him were concerned and called an ambulance.

The paramedics realized he was shit faced and called the police.

Dude blew a 0.30! He was that drunk driving around with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel. Scary.

Be careful on the road. You never know when some alcoholic is going to be flying down the highway driving a giant bomb.

People place outsized importance on stories.

State a fact and no one will care.

Craft it into an emotional journey and suddenly you’re a genius and everyone pays attention.

We’re all suckers for hero’s journey.

Good morning! ☀️ ☕️

Sadly, a good family friend passed away while we are out of the country. Telling my kids this was not fun.

Fuck Cancer

In a huge Supreme Court decision on Wednesday,

The court ruled 6-3 that the Biden administration didn’t do anything wrong when asking social media companies to remove posts of covid “misinformation”. This had previously gone the other way in the lower courts, favoring the censored victims.

As State sponsored propaganda outlets like NPR puppet the narrative that “there was no proof” in the Twitter Files,

The real clue comes from Jack Dorsey abandoning not only Twitter, but also leaving top-down controlled BlueSky’s board, to come to Nostr.

Government: There is no pressure to censor

Twitter CEO: I must flee to Nostr where I can’t be held accountable

💀

GN

Anders Leonard Zorn (1860-1920) was a renowned Swedish painter and sculptor, known for his artistic works characterized by high realism and technical precision. One of his famous works is "Summer Entertainment," a splendid oil painting he created in 1886.

#artstr

Foreign holders of U.S. debt.

2020 did a lot of people in. Glad you’re still alive.

GM ☕️ and PV 🌺

We saw the flaws on SimpleX when building NIP-17. Basically, with SimpleX you have to trust the server you are using (both sides) to not log anything down. And they are upfront about this in their docs.

For instance, their recommendation is to use a different server and different IP address for each contact in your list. But their app just bundles everything as one. So, servers can see a LOT. They have promised to not log things down, but if they want, they can (I run a server for a while to test these tracking capabiltiies out).

Ideally, you should never user their default servers because if they can see both the receiver and the server channels in the same machine they can link a lot of people together and slowly figure out who is who.

NIP-17's goal was to reduce the metadata leaks to the relay you are using such that you don't need to trust to not track you down. With the help of broadcasting relays, it's virtually impossible for relays, including your own inbox DM relays, to figure out who you are talking to.

When the SimpleX protocol is officially adopted as a NIP and implemented directly in Amethyst and Damus...