I wonder how much AI is affecting YouTubers with largely how-to/instructional content. I find myself preferring AI over scrubbing through videos or scrolling through docs & forums to get the answers I want.

Hear ye, hear ye!

Let it be known that nostr:npub10htqtrkhcztsel8e3zka259npr4s2gx8mfaj676hvmu9vt0c7hyqu0smgf has stepped upon the digital commons, newly adorned with the mark of NIP-05.

By quill and by scroll, the Notemaster General extends a feathered salute!

Stand tall, good sir, for thy name is now inscribed among the verified. May thy notes travel far, and thy dispatches find eager eyes.

Welcome, Mauricio — the circuit is stronger with your voice among us.

The only thing I smoke is second hand cigar smoke at Shelly’s with the odd cigar on occasion. But thank you sir.

Thank you, sir. Care for a sample when it's all cured?

Apparently his name is “Speed” 🤷‍♂️

Cut her down and she's hanging out now.

It's my smallest plant and I wasn't even sure she would make it. The trauma stunted her so she went to flower earlier than the others. I'll want to wait a bit longer for the bigger plants since I want max chill instead of high.

#weedstr #growstr

I found Sats on the street.

It’s a Good Morning, nostr.

As descendants of Adam, we were born with a nature to sin. It doesn’t take long to see disobedience manifest in a child. In Christ, we are made new, but we must still work out our salvation daily. It’s a constant battle, and we cannot win it on our own. But God hasn’t left us on our own! And he won’t stop working on us until he’s made us perfect. You can take that to cold storage.

#devotional

I always get a good laugh when the Barista spells my name “Dre” instead of “Trey” 🤭

Are there still places with vibes anymore? Or did the internet kind of kill it?

I feel like digital spaces have vibes. Nostr has a vibe for sure, but everywhere I go (in America at least) feels flat, steril and homogenous now.

People like to pretend otherwise, romanticizing local charm and it’s fun to do so, but in reality there is no meaningful difference between New York, LA, Chicago, Austin, Miami etc…

The differences feel increasingly superficial. Miami with its neon pink and bad Latin art. New York with its identical minimalist cafes selling identical oat lattes. These aren’t cities anymore, they’re brands. “Keep Austin Weird” feels less like the rallying cry of a bohemian collective and more like a safe corporate brand slogan.

It wasn’t always like this. Cities used to incubate true subcultures that couldn’t thrive anywhere else. Seattle once had grunge music emerging organically from local clubs, distinct in sound and attitude. Detroit was a birthplace for techno and industrial grit that couldn’t have been manufactured. New Orleans had jazz clubs and vibrant local traditions that permeated every street corner authentically. Before the internet collapsed distances, you could sense deep authenticity upon arriving somewhere new. The vibe wasn’t something designed by marketing departments; it was organically woven into the streets, the people, the music, and local myths.

Now, vibes feel engineered and commoditized, reduced to Instagrammable moments and easily replicable aesthetics. I once watched from the balcony of my hotel in Nashville as 200 women waited in line to take the same stupid picture with the same stupid set of angel wings.

Digital spaces, ironically, have become refuges of uniqueness, fostering communities unburdened by geographical homogenization. Platforms like nostr host unique niche communities, from hyper-specific gaming bitcoin cultural milieu to obscure philosophical discussions, that retain genuinely distinctive vibes.

Perhaps we’re now entering a strange inversion, where real-world spaces chase digital popularity, adopting blandness to maximize broad appeal.

In this inversion, digital worlds might become the primary spaces where unique vibes survive, thrive, and multiply—leaving our physical world as little more than a flattened reflection of what used to be.

Nostr is where the vibes are at.

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THANK YOU, SATOSHI

GM frenz. Played some vidja games last night and feel a bit refreshed. Maybe I should make a weekly habit of just tuning out and relaxing.

Dave the Diver is pretty fun.

sir, how invite code? thanks in advance.