Today's top stories on my Newstr daily digest https://newstr.social
Unless you have school (or kids in school) don't start thinking Summer is almost over. It isn't
The average age of women’s skateboard park competition medalists is 15… I’m sure they’re amazing, but what is it about Women’s skateboarding which is causing the winners to be so young? The Men’s medalists in the same sport had an average age of 25… The eldest Men’s medalist is twice as old as the Women’s winner.
nostr:npub1qspus6smkn8mcdxg5jflh50s69vdgtwsd5p74gmjpzp2qekn5duqfv5afj whats going on?
Isn't that often the case in tennis? I guess older than this but women seem to have younger careers than men
That's when I got reaaallll cool. I mean like dude man
I thought it was funny that I thought I was cool in high school. Says who?
I'm a developer and I was cool in high school, got dates, and one of the best athletes
In the late 90s before the term SEO was widely used I tried explaining to the head of the photo department of a newspaper why the Flash based photo gallery he wanted to use wasn't the best solution. And all he kept saying was, "If it looks better, more people will use it." And try as I might to explain the value of being available to search using metaphors like "yellow pages", I ultimately failed.
Is inclusion into AI the new version of that argument?
#ai #news #journalism
I love that Ron Paul always goes back to JFK as the first coup. Quite interesting story about why Chomsky wont touch the topic. Dr. Paul still more articulate than the current president. #Legend #EndTheFed
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2024/07/30/venezuela-whos-coup-ing-who/
Wasn't impressed. Who cares if Jan 6 was a "coup" or not? It was bad, whatever it's called
I thought they deleted it because the industry shamed them for even giving it air
A typical navy submarine has an operating depth of around 300 meters, and a crush depth of about 480+ meters. The Empire State Building is 443 meters high (including the antenna)
The central idea of "censorship resistant" is that no entity should be in-between the creator and the consumer or that, in the least, it is feasible to replace any entity in-between the two #nostr #protocol
J.D. Vance was named after Boss Hogg but looks more like Cooter
Nos is hosting Redefining the future of digital journalism in NYC on July 16.
If you know journalists in the metro region or who are visiting NYC that week, please encourage them to attend!
The consolidation of media into the hands of a few corporate players coinciding with the rise of the dopamine-algorithm machine has created a perfect storm of disruption as well as opportunity in the journalism industry.
Join historians, cutting edge journalists and technologists for an evening of exploring the future of digital journalism and how technology can pair with a bottom-up redefinition of the journalism sector
Speakers
Jeff Jarvis - Journalism Professor, author and long-time open-web advocate
nostr:npub1n8gvnx827tdl46ke406sjx0t5ey4mrtptux766ejp9y2ff8cc3uqe4ufd0 - Journalist and consultant helping those in authoritarian regimes get their stories out
nostr:npub1j60x528w2g2vkq5kae5uhh8y7sezjyj20zcsg0v9muc72cmdpu0s0md7ua - Product at Nos.social, former college newspaper editor and co-founder of Boston IndyMedia
Register here: https://lu.ma/p1qy049p
Ugghh I can't believe I'm missing this
Journalists have a skewed view of their importance because maybe they take an existing tech idea and write a popular article about it, and it seems like they "invented" it. And while they certainly help spread the word, it would happen without news organizations, if the internet has taught us anything
On the other hand, the fact that it isn't actually easy to provide a canonical link to an item of interest to a non-nostr user impedes adoption #nostr #protocol
I get annoyed that some sites like figma use the open graph type of article for a page like this https://www.figma.com/design/HdlFOxW77gAADyRaOk1GUZ/Nostr-Website-Button-Logo?node-id=0-1 #opengraph #newstr #protocols
It does hurt their cause when the media covers Trump incessantly and there is nothing meaningfully new to share. Then when something bad comes out it isn't shocking, having been lost in a sea of anti-trumpism
I don't care if this had a positive effect. It's wrong. https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/09/childrens-daily-sugar-consumption-halves-just-a-year-after-tax-study-finds
A couple seconds on the server may go unnoticed unless the client is waiting. A couple seconds on the client makes the service unusable
Google simultaneously became the most important vehicle to share online knowledge and the worst enemy to the search for truth