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@ 367b845a:9b8559fd
2025-05-07 10:30:50
If you're only having one meal, maybe high fat could be considered as I find it very satieting. Either way best of luck with it!
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@ 7097e24c:17981a20
2025-05-07 10:30:45
Interesting…
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@ 5eeaf28a:56c0603d
2025-05-07 10:30:40
ネマシュが出たので寝ましゅ
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@ 16a5004b:0b848057
2025-05-07 10:30:39
What else would you say it is? To me it is money. And only money. Help me see it from your side.
I'm curious as to what I may or may not be missing.
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@ 148755e6:450c107f
2025-05-07 10:30:39
スケチェック少々お待ちを
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@ 4d0ad13c:25d06bbb
2025-05-07 10:30:36
https://blossom.primal.net/800b4f5942165ea0637f02a5e992d16b5f551da666600e6e8e0b841fdd7ec5a9.jpg
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@ 7097e24c:17981a20
2025-05-07 10:30:33
That’s what they say.
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@ 67b83190:ae0a1d72
2025-05-07 10:30:25
✅ EtherFi Airdrop Is Live!.
👉 https://telegra.ph/EtherFi-05-03 Claim your free $ETHFI.
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@ 9c5d0714:798b2576
2025-05-07 10:22:42
Caz Sees a Private Equity Angle for Smaller Investors in Team Sales
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/caz-sees-private-equity-angle-095500115.html
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@ 4a62c820:4f5e17f8
2025-05-07 10:30:49
nostr:nprofile1qyd8wumn8ghj7ctjw35kxmr9wvhxcctev4erxtnwv4mhxqpqff3vsgqhte0trnrzet6x4x8q9sdclzxwzgu0deqrxd56xn67zluq3lpyls
https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png
Khaled Al-Shayef said that Yemenia Airways "lost three planes and now has only one remaining in Amman"
https://tass.com/world/1954279
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@ 4523be58:ba1facd0
2025-05-07 10:29:18
If you crawl up to infinite distance from entry point, you might get lots of spam accounts that follow each other. Interesting topic for research and visualisation.
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@ 05351746:fcc956c4
2025-05-07 10:30:22
I remember dropping my cell phone and it exploding. The back cover and battery would come flying off. Good ol days. 😂
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@ 9c5d0714:798b2576
2025-05-07 10:22:39
CHG-MERIDIAN reports record lease growth and profit in 2024
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chg-meridian-reports-record-lease-100325952.html
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@ 6681268a:1c6752d9
2025-05-07 10:30:21
I can use libre relay without this bot.
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@ 9c5d0714:798b2576
2025-05-07 10:22:36
Onebeat launches in US with funding for inventory management
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/onebeat-launches-us-funding-inventory-100644190.html
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@ 12bd7405:18f667df
2025-05-07 10:30:21
this is a good way to run your own AI agent for code generation. have fun.
https://github.com/Fosowl/agenticSeek
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@ 95543309:196c540e
2025-05-07 10:27:11
https://blossom.puhcho.me/18b8a597dfd56c786828e2421c1ca45a2234862ef37fb118a77e18b831b6671c.jpeg
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@ f03df3d4:a4d4f676
2025-05-07 10:25:55
Block 895633
3 - high priority
3 - medium priority
3 - low priority
2 - no priority
1 - purging
#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ 81b26cb9:35970aaa
2025-05-07 10:30:19
Amazon is developing "Kiro," an AI-powered code generation tool that can create code in near real-time using prompts and existing data, according to a report by Business Insider.
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@ 9c5d0714:798b2576
2025-05-07 10:22:33
Rising valuations, cloudy earnings view confronts US stocks after tariff rebound
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rising-valuations-cloudy-earnings-view-100723126.html
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@ 63fe6318:330504ed
2025-05-07 09:57:39
Maybe? but there should be multiple tags
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@ 665e364f:16310af9
2025-05-07 10:23:45
No more free will.
It is a little weird to say you fight for freedom.
And in the other side forbid a lot of things you consider bad.
And some subjects are more important than pronouns, like :
- World War
- World Economy
- Totalitarianism
- Privacy concern
- Unemployment
- Mental health
But perhaps i am on the opposite "side" just because i don't agree with the only "one good way to think" that remain.
Because it seems if you are not "for" you are now "against" which is a complete little vision.
#nostr4ever
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@ 9c5d0714:798b2576
2025-05-07 10:22:30
Low-cost carriers hit hardest by US travel demand slump
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/low-cost-carriers-hit-hardest-100759233.html
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@ 63fe6318:330504ed
2025-05-07 09:55:47
Yea in Settings -> Preferences there is a default zap amount
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@ 9c5d0674:181409e0
2025-05-07 10:21:55
AMD posts highest quarter result ever — Strong CPU sales, but GPUs and gaming trail behind
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-posts-highest-quarter-result-ever-strong-cpu-sales-but-gpus-and-gaming-trail-behind
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@ c554ebcc:30867614
2025-05-07 10:30:15
Good point. With knots we have the choice. Bitcoin core is taking your choice.
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@ 4523be58:ba1facd0
2025-05-07 10:22:26
Maybe you could combine multiple metrics such as likes, zaps, follows and comments into a numeric score for the edge
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@ 63fe6318:330504ed
2025-05-07 09:52:46
't' tags on the event like #bitcoin etc
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@ e7bf8dad:839ef3db
2025-05-07 10:20:55
Block 895632
3 - high priority
3 - medium priority
3 - low priority
2 - no priority
1 - purging
#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ 63fe6318:330504ed
2025-05-07 09:50:27
Added a simple search to follow sets page to make it a bit easier to find what you're into
https://npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49.blossom.band/86c2f28b60b78400736daa546e2ff9228bf5f6ab932ce757fc0c68ee44c4c0e4.png
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@ 63fe6318:330504ed
2025-05-07 09:47:05
nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccytv72v starter packs really need hashtags so that we can show interest based lists for new users
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@ 9c5d0bcc:4787ce5e
2025-05-07 10:15:30
Kenya court fines teens for trying to smuggle protected ants
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/kenya-court-fines-teens-for-trying-to-smuggle-protected-ants/articleshow/120961661.cms
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@ 9c5d0379:9a78e0f9
2025-05-07 10:15:23
Goal of welfare checks: Protect children or launch deportations?
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-05-07/welfare-checks-land-migrant-children-back-in-federal-custody
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@ f03df3d4:a4d4f676
2025-05-07 10:20:55
Block 895632
3 - high priority
3 - medium priority
3 - low priority
2 - no priority
1 - purging
#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ 4523be58:ba1facd0
2025-05-07 10:20:48
To crawl a graph you always need some follow list as entry point, but the graph by itself is "global", you can easily change the root point and recalculate distances.
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@ ba3b4b1d:eadff0d3
2025-05-07 10:30:16
https://blossom.primal.net/2a558ef927e6ac25ed1e58a2c194ed9bf953be97890bf14b8acc4c3148b0058a.webp
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@ 9c5d0379:9a78e0f9
2025-05-07 10:15:20
Chabria: Why California Democrats killed, then resurrected, a bill to crack down on buying teens for sex
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-07/chabria-column-california-democrats-sex-trafficking-bill
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@ 7d4a4e87:c853bba8
2025-05-07 10:30:11
New OP_RETURN
0xb1561f6a214b45bd7137040a7932b3d9e60e1a01e41c7f8df332ab72641e4183
https://mempool.space/tx/da710a5f5d9d30ca26b078b50d4058ff7d8ea97c9680189f154b90e70aedbe17
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@ e47d3a70:1f8475c2
2025-05-07 10:30:10
Succession Had A Lot Of Twisted Moments, But The Worst One Happened In The Pilot
Succession is full of dark, twisted sequences, but one Roman scene from way back in the pilot episode is the absolute worst of the bunch.
https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/succession-had-a-lot-of-twisted-moments-but-the-worst-one-happened-in-the-pilot_1.jpg
https://screenrant.com/succession-pilot-baseball-scene-twisted-roman-explainer/
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@ 4523be58:ba1facd0
2025-05-07 10:19:54
The graph was crawled using https://github.com/mmalmi/nostr-social-graph . I used a node.js script from the repo, but the same stuff can be generated in Iris on the social graph settings page.
The repo has a Dockerfile for a server which keeps an up-to-date version of the graph, runs here https://graph-api.iris.to/ . On Iris build time, a 2 MB social graph dataset is requested from there. Should probably refresh on 1st iris.to open as well.
The graph up to approximately 3+ degrees is currently 200K users, 6M follows, 80K mutes. ~50MB. My macbook can easily handle it, but mobile phone will crash. Native apps on mobile should easily handle it.
The exported file contains uniqueIds: public keys mapped to integers for shorter representation. Then follow lists which are encoded using these integers. I want to do a binary export format: it would cut the file size approximately in half.
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@ f03df3d4:a4d4f676
2025-05-07 10:15:55
Block 895631
3 - high priority
3 - medium priority
3 - low priority
2 - no priority
1 - purging
#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ 63fe6318:330504ed
2025-05-07 09:35:39
Although i dont handle blossom server lookup, just using fallback urls, next step would be to lookup blossom servers of the user in case all the fallback urls are also dead
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@ 7097e24c:17981a20
2025-05-07 10:30:06
They say zaps show more value than likes.
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@ 9c5d0714:798b2576
2025-05-07 10:14:43
DigitalOcean Has a Smart Strategy for a Tough Economy
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/digitalocean-smart-strategy-tough-economy-094000419.html
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@ 665e364f:16310af9
2025-05-07 10:15:04
You mean the NATO alliance where USA complain about the cost and the inefficiency ?
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/24/europe/poland-activates-aircraft-russia-attacks-lviv-intl/index.html
The NATO seems irrelevant in that regard too.
Russia expansion is by testing, if no reaction, they go farther.
And when they feel ready, they start a "quick invasion" of territory.
The same strategy as nazi have done in the WW2.
Don't misunderstand my words, i am not saying russia will win this expansionist war.
I am saying the more time european are just waiting by allowing nationalist selfish leaders, the harder it will be to fight back.
And i don't think USA with trump as leader will care about that.
He have prove to the world his "deal" is just raping countries that are under attack (like ukraine ressources) and just pray, on his knees, the russia leader to make peace... But putin really don't care about that peace.
And NATO will just be empty without USA real lead.
So yes it is a little stupid to burn a flag and poo on europe if it is the last shield possible before Russia invade pologne.
Being nationalist in a country is stupid when you depend on others help. You will just be under attack and invade by your neighborhood, and it will remain no nationalist anymore. So you will gain the opposite of what nationalist say they want autonomy, free will...
When i am saying "you", i am not pointing you but the people of this country.
It is an interesting point of view anyway.
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@ 139b1ed0:72f66b28
2025-05-07 10:30:06
🔴東京メトロ南北線：(車内安全確認)市ケ谷～駒込駅間の運転見合わせ。運転区間の列車に遅れ。
🟢埼玉高速鉄道線：運転再開
🟡東急目黒線：(車内安全確認)列車に遅れや運転変更
🟡東武スカイツリーライン：(車両点検)一部列車に遅れや運休
🟡水郡線：列車遅延
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/traffic/kanto
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@ 15d8d4a5:0a343e6d
2025-05-07 10:11:00
Ok, so, things are going good, ok cool,😄💞☕🎈👍.
https://image.nostr.build/6ef54524927aa4a5cf76b9c0ce7abc6586f2ee0d801b0355dacdf3dcc3c7a998.jpg
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@ e7bf8dad:839ef3db
2025-05-07 10:10:55
Block 895630
4 - high priority
4 - medium priority
3 - low priority
2 - no priority
1 - purging
#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ a3c13ef4:d7ba24d6
2025-05-07 10:30:05
■ 流速計測
2025/05/07 19:20～19:30
[JP リレー]
きりの川: 36 posts
やぶみ川: 29 posts
ほりべあ川: 欠測
かすてら川: 4 posts
こじら川: 29 posts
しの川: 3 posts
[GLOBAL リレー]
きりの川(G): 33 posts
のこたろ川(G): 欠測
こじら大川: 1 posts
■ 野洲田川定点観測所
https://nostr-hotter-site.vercel.app
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@ 4523be58:ba1facd0
2025-05-07 10:09:08
Buzzwords: TypeScript, React, applied cryptography, data structures and algorithms, resource optimization (CPU, memory, bandwidth), Docker, test automation, UX intuition
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@ 9c5d0c59:e4e08fb8
2025-05-07 10:14:43
Watch: How Lady Gaga's record-breaking concert almost ended in disaster
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cy48jnw2pnpo
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@ 9c5d0714:798b2576
2025-05-07 10:14:40
Wegovy maker Novo Nordisk cuts profit forecast as US prescriptions tail off
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wegovy-maker-novo-nordisk-cuts-094431169.html
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@ adc8a6b2:fef02900
2025-05-07 10:30:04
【あんぱん:結太郎＆羽多子のなれそめに視聴者感動 「本当にいい夫婦」「ロマンチック」】
今田美桜さん主演のNHK連続テレビ小説（朝ドラ）「あんぱん」（総合、月～土曜午前8時ほか）の第28回が5月7日に放送され、のぶ（今田さん）の母・羽多子（江口のりこさん）と、亡き父・結太郎（加瀬亮さん）のなれそめが明らかになり、視聴者が反応した。
https://mantan-web.jp/article/20250507dog00m200051000c.html
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@ aa4fc866:b098c7b4
2025-05-07 10:30:04
Bitcoin price: $96903, Sats per USD: 1032
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@ cbab7074:f9f0bd61
2025-05-07 10:00:56
Block 895630
3 - high priority
3 - medium priority
3 - low priority
2 - no priority
1 - purging
#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ 63fe6318:330504ed
2025-05-07 09:31:34
Great! Also added support in Snort while testing this, im curious which clients support this, everybody talks about how great Blossom is for censorship resistance but i dont know if we really handle it properly in clients.
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@ e7bf8dad:839ef3db
2025-05-07 10:00:56
Block 895630
3 - high priority
3 - medium priority
3 - low priority
2 - no priority
1 - purging
#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ f03df3d4:a4d4f676
2025-05-07 10:00:56
Block 895630
3 - high priority
3 - medium priority
3 - low priority
2 - no priority
1 - purging
#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ 9c5d0c59:e4e08fb8
2025-05-07 10:14:40
Watch: BBC reports from pier 33 - the gateway to Alcatraz
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cy0xe2xr246o
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@ b0fdd723:06f0ffd4
2025-05-07 10:30:02
🤟🏴☠️💜
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@ 1ae011cb:1257a556
2025-05-07 10:00:56
Block 895630
3 - high priority
3 - medium priority
3 - low priority
2 - no priority
1 - purging
#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ 3493b0c2:4ce7120f
2025-05-07 10:30:04
Wed - May 07 - 03:30 AM - PDT
// bit.site
✅ Connection successful: node-1.ipfs.bit.site 4001
// pinnable.xyz
✅ Connection successful: 167.71.172.216 4001
✅ Connection successful: 188.166.180.196 4001
✅ Connection successful: 143.198.18.166 4001
// 4everland.io
✅ Connection successful: node-1.ipfs.4everland.net 4001
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@ 9c5d0714:798b2576
2025-05-07 10:14:37
Chinese holiday spending inches up but trade war weighs on services
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinese-holiday-spending-inches-trade-015849986.html
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@ 63fe6318:330504ed
2025-05-07 09:17:22
Yea its been a very long time, i just opened the figma yesterday to see what these lists are supposed to look like lol
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@ 638550f9:ce4768a8
2025-05-07 10:29:59
Like that
https://image.nostr.build/aa99d55f29df8154cab255bff2b2c88dc71fd91dd2e7628bd5ad0b31ae14d49a.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/67872591dff99ffb9bbb96c8524b5376750d84831d41f10c7b3f7c828591cf68.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/b9248f7e33da01233300b87558f201c30f0eea5395a3656eb70ec635bb70904f.jpg
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@ 641fd340:c777c4fe
2025-05-07 10:30:02
reason.com: 17 States Sue Trump Administration for Its Anti-Wind Energy Policy -- https://tinyurl.com/28s6z6sy -- The lawsuit challenges a Day 1 executive order signed by the president to halt federal leasing for offshore wind energy projects. #liberty #news
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@ c558c7cc:b0b7b89e
2025-05-07 10:29:37
🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!
🔗 Clean URL(s):
https://x.com/mmrkmy/status/1920007775436030363
❌ Removed parts:
?s=46
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@ e2b8ba3e:27400d81
2025-05-07 10:30:02
📊 **Bitcoin-Update**
- 💰 Price: $96898
- 📦 Blockheight: 895633
- ⌛ Mempool: 336764 TXs
- 💸 Fees: 2 sats/vByte
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@ 4523be58:ba1facd0
2025-05-07 09:57:30
Iris ships with a precalculated Nostr social graph for content filtering. It can be recrawled on the client side with a click of a button. In addition to this "web of trust", maybe we should include a "web of likes" dataset for client-side generated content recommendations. "You liked this user's posts, so you'll probably like these as well." Or "web of zaps" if that signal works better.
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@ 63fe6318:330504ed
2025-05-06 16:25:42
Replacing media upload code on snort with Blossom, NIP-96 no longer supported.
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@ 94b50379:2e9379ba
2025-05-07 10:29:34
nostr:nprofile1qyd8wumn8ghj7ctjw35kxmr9wvhxcctev4erxtnwv4mhxqpq2av4uav92a0mznct49pwfsy35d2mdc7ja65f6tnrc87hwgg7symq6xlmtc
✍️ The article discusses the top advertisements on Israeli TV, as ranked by the 'Kakatos HaZahav' award, based on a survey of over 640 viewers.
👉 The Kakatos HaZahav award is an annual ranking of the most effective advertisements on Israeli TV.
👉 The survey evaluates the advertisements based on three main criteria: memorability, attractiveness, and impact on the brand.
👉 The top three advertisements are GITAM BBDO | HOT, Salkom, and BZAK | GREY (Adler-Homskey & Werksbursky).
👉 The survey is based on a representative sample of over 640 viewers aged 18+.
#Israel #entertainment
nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzq46ete6c246lk98sh22zunqfrg64km3a9m4gn5hx8s0awus3aqfkqyd8wumn8ghj7ctjw35kxmr9wvhxcctev4erxtnwv4mhxqpq5pdz4qsp8gmrehsqqgw5j9q8t3drt4p7eln53w9y6k557wfagnhsh9kmd3
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@ 72ca0ae5:7c0a4090
2025-05-07 09:56:55
"🔥 Trending: More and more creators are receiving zaps for their content.
What kind of content would you zap for on Primal?
#trending #zaps #content"
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@ f03df3d4:a4d4f676
2025-05-07 09:55:55
Block 895629
3 - high priority
3 - medium priority
3 - low priority
2 - no priority
1 - purging
#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ 9c5d0c59:e4e08fb8
2025-05-07 10:14:37
Watch: Marble-size hailstones and thunderstorms hit Paris
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cvg7g5gnlpro
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@ 9c5d0714:798b2576
2025-05-07 10:14:34
Czech court blocks CEZ’s $18bn nuclear plant contract with KHNP
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/czech-court-blocks-cez-18bn-094658851.html
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@ 28799867:e297d7bf
2025-05-07 10:29:34
👉 The Kakatos HaZahav award is an annual ranking of the most effective advertisements on Israeli TV.
👉 The survey evaluates the advertisements based on three main criteria: memorability, attractiveness, and impact on the brand.
👉 The top three advertisements are GITAM BBDO | HOT, Salkom, and BZAK | GREY (Adler-Homskey & Werksbursky).
👉 The survey is based on a representative sample of over 640 viewers aged 18+.
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@ 63fe6318:330504ed
2025-05-06 16:07:55
Testing blossom fallback
https://nostr.download/e71fd00b540bcbfbe1f76f8cb589abb2c9317fabe4b8838116daebfa59811578.png
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@ cf0cb3d2:5d7a365c
2025-05-07 10:30:18
These XR glasses gave me a 200-inch screen to work with - and you can't beat the price
https://www.zdnet.com/article/these-xr-glasses-gave-me-a-200-inch-screen-to-work-with-and-you-cant-beat-the-price/
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@ 63fe6318:330504ed
2025-05-06 13:48:55
Starter packs coming to Snort
https://image.nostr.build/87049e9ea5db41a087c9b6dc291ecb893f405e43f5b5d3a2e8d8ee40b0cd0a3b.png
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@ e7bf8dad:839ef3db
2025-05-07 09:50:55
Block 895628
4 - high priority
4 - medium priority
3 - low priority
2 - no priority
1 - purging
#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ 9c5d0c59:e4e08fb8
2025-05-07 10:14:34
'World Cup can be incentive for Russia to end war', says Trump
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cy9v9530527o
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@ 9aa4064c:021dab5b
2025-05-07 10:30:01
Savings, CD, and Checking Account Interest Rates Today: Earn Over 4% APY
Open a new bank account today and earn a top interest rate. Our experts have researched the best rates on checking, savings, and CD accounts to help you maximize your earnings.
https://www.businessinsider.com/cd-rates-savings-rates-today-wednesday-7-2025-5
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@ 63fe6318:330504ed
2025-05-06 12:52:02
Rendering kind 20/21/22 in a new feed page for Snort
https://image.nostr.build/d15f22970de44a9bcd49ff4237896f25bbd40acb21a73ec81f80c43875e3de45.png
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@ 63fe6318:330504ed
2025-05-06 10:26:28
GM, working on snort today https://zap.stream/kieran
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@ 9c5d0714:798b2576
2025-05-07 10:14:31
OpenAI Abandons Planned For-Profit Conversion
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-to-become-public-benefit-corporation-9e7896e0?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo
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@ 63fe6318:330504ed
2025-05-06 10:24:28
Have you seen this? https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1790
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@ beec1ebb:fdd8fd20
2025-05-07 10:30:12
The $300 Samsung Galaxy A26 5G and makes the $400 Galaxy A36 5G look like a bad deal
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-galaxy-a26-5g-review-3546077/
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@ 9c5d0c59:e4e08fb8
2025-05-07 10:14:31
Fear and uncertainty after strikes: BBC reports from Muzaffarabad
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cjdxd0g21r7o
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@ f03df3d4:a4d4f676
2025-05-07 09:50:55
Block 895628
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@ 63fe6318:330504ed
2025-05-04 15:10:33
Its good...
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@ e9ab3129:9c2d0b6d
2025-05-07 10:30:00
The Terminal Rot In Corporate America
The Terminal Rot In Corporate America
https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-terminal-rot-in-corporate-america.html
Corporate America took advantage of the Covid shortages and fiscal largesse to profiteer on a scale criminals could only dream of.
One of humanity's most pernicious traits is the ease with which we habituate to conditions over time that we would have rejected out of hand if the transition had been sudden. This is the essence of what I term Anti-Progress: over time, what was solid melts away into thin air, what worked no longer works, but we no longer notice because wretchedness and decay have been normalized, i.e. accepted as "the way things are," or hyper-normalized: everyone knows things no longer work but we're unable to change the system, so we play-act that everything's fine as a means of not going crazy.
Which brings us to the terminal rot in Corporate America, a rot so deep and pervasive that few recall that Corporate America once had some purpose other than increasing profits next quarter to boost "shareholder value."
The moral rot in Corporate America goes unnoticed in a society in terminal moral decay. Why should corporate fraud, profiteering, deception and extortion attract our attention when self-service is the norm, lobbyists write regulations, legislators tell us we'll find out what's in the bill after they pass it into law, tax fraud by the wealthy is accepted practice, and so on in an endless stream of avarice and corruption?
But the rot isn't just moral; it's also the rot of reducing the entirety of enterprise to one goal: increase profits by any means available.
Correspondent Bruce H. neatly summarized the decay of "the business class":
"This is the culture that created the McNamara fallacy (also known as the quantitative fallacy), named for Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, that one can make policy decisions based solely on quantitative observations (or metrics) and ignoring all others.
The Atlantic ran an interesting piece a few years ago, which documented the destruction of the middle class and the disparate wealth imbalance between the top 10% and the rest of the population.
It began in the late 1960s with the rise of business schools and how those graduates were hoovered up by consultants who then sent these newly-minted efficiency experts out into the desperate businesses suffering from the stagflation of the '70s to help them become profitable again.
Their preferred solution was to fire 'extraneous' staff. The net result of this was the elimination of the lower middle class. The foremen who managed a team of six to ten workers, the lower managers who managed four or five foremen, and so on.
Skip to the 80s. The corporations had trimmed employment costs, managers now directly managed between 50 and 100 people and the formerly well-paid foremen and mangers were now unemployed and no longer part of the economy, which started to deflate.
At the same time, Jack 'chainsaw' Welch was gutting General Electric and creating 15% ROI for shareholders, year after year. For his tenure, he was hailed as the ne-plus-ultra of business geniuses, regularly on the cover of business magazines and anyone who didn't follow suit was ousted from every other business. Thus the change in orientation from running a business to profit-at-all-costs.
The second problem was the hiring of the chainsaw consultants by the very companies they had just cut into, directly into the upper-management level. Thus began a noxious process of business-school graduates going straight into consultancy jobs, then from there into the upper-echelons of businesses without every having worked for those businesses.
Thus the people running the businesses were hired for their ability to make money, not their understanding of the purpose and goals of the businesses. My own experience was the quarterly reports stopped talking about what awesome service we were providing while making a profit to gloating over what great profits we were making, and thus it has remained largely so to this day.
As a wise businessman said, if you want to make money, you can go do anything, but the business will be a hollow shell. You need to have a sense of purpose, some service to the community to exist to truly have a good business with happy employees.
The result of this change can be seen in the people at the top: in the 1960s, 90% of corporate CEOs had started on the shop floor and worked their way up to the top. By the late 1990s, only 10% had done so. The ones in the middle of the 20th Century saw their roles as providing a service or product, by the end of the century, the ones at the top saw their job as making profits and the business was just a means.
We don't need a new way of living, we need an old way of living."
Thank you, Bruce. Well said. Here we see corporate profits, which leaped 50% (+$1.2 trillion) virtually overnight as Corporate America took advantage of the Covid shortages and fiscal largesse to profiteer on a scale criminals could only dream of. But this stripmining wasn't illegal; it was all legal, of course, as corruption isn't just legal in America, it's celebrated.
Did corporate products and services improve in quantity and quality? No, they shrank in quantity and quality declined--but the price went up, and unprecedented profits resulted. "Shareholder value" increased smartly.
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-06_13-46-38.jpg?itok=i8SI6TkA
And who are these "shareholders" who are benefiting so mightily from corporate profiteering? I know you're shocked, shocked, that the top 1% own half of all the shares, and the top 10% own around 90%.
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/stock-ownership2_2.jpg?itok=RbfMcQ9t
No wonder CEOs and corporate "innovators" are busy building private bunkers to protect themselves from the banquet of consequences they've laid out. To say this out loud is unacceptable, for those running the show are, well, shareholders.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/terminal-rot-corporate-america
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2025-05-07 10:29:34
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ARRIVED AT THE MOUNTAINS: HOT'S EXECUTION OF EVEN MORE AT THE TOP OF THE RANKING
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@ f03df3d4:a4d4f676
2025-05-07 09:45:55
Block 895627
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2025-05-07 10:30:00
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2025-05-07 10:29:32
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2025-05-07 10:29:29
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Title: tv at the airbnb i stayed at this weekend…
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@ 318ebaba:9a262eae
2025-05-07 09:41:29
Avatar gestern repariert
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2025-05-07 10:30:00
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@ 9c5d04b8:b5b2cb2c
2025-05-07 10:14:30
Son of independent US senator mounts Maine gubernatorial bid
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/son-independent-u-s-senator-mounts-maine-gubernatorial-bid
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@ 63fe6318:330504ed
2025-05-03 12:24:35
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@ 8fda2199:ec877ff1
2025-05-07 10:29:28
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