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Destruction of Kerch Bridge won't be as effective anymore, military says: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/17/destruction-of-kerch.html

High-end outdoors print magazines like Adventure Journal and Mountain Gazette are thriving, often costing $25 per issue and designed to be collectible (John Branch/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/16…

In a Digital Age, High-End Outdoors Magazines Are Thriving in Print
Titles like Adventure Journal, Mountain Gazette, Summit Journal and Ori are aimed at “people who just don’t want to be on their phones anymore.”

Finding pure Nash equilibria in large random games
Andrea Collevecchio, Tuan-Minh Nguyen, Ziwen Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09732 https://

Finding pure Nash equilibria in large random games
Best Response Dynamics (BRD) is a class of strategy updating rules to find Pure Nash Equilibria (PNE) in a game. At each step, a player is randomly picked and they switches to a "best response" strategy based on the strategies chosen by others, so that the new strategy profile maximises their payoff. If no such strategy exists, a different player will be chosen randomly. When no player wants to change their strategy anymore, the process reaches a PNE and will not deviate from it. On the other h…

Long post about my time on Nostr and how it compares to ActivityPub
So, after spending about 2 months on Nostr, I've decided to leave my account dormant there and come back to Fediverse as my "one true platform".
Let's do a postmortem.
What is Nostr?
Nostr is a protocol, much like ActivityPub or ATProto, but tries to solve problems that these platforms haven't.
The major difference is, your account is yours. There are "relays" there that are similar to instances here. However, unlike here, the relays don't always have a website attached and they don't "host" your account exclusively. Each relay you are a part of, has a copy of your profile and if you get "banned" from a relay, you just remove that relay from your connection and keep posting like normal.
There's many different things that Nostr can do, like microblogging, chat, streaming, communities similar to reddit, etc.
One of the other big features is that you can pay creators directly with the use of Bitcoin Lightning which I thought is a pretty neat idea. Though, with the amount of scammers in the crypto space, nobody wants to touch it anymore.
All of these things seemed good to me and I enjoyed engaging with the different systems. My issue, however, isn't with how the protocol is built, it's with the low engagement numbers.
Over my 2 months there, I've gained about 65 followers. Compared to Fediverse, that's REALLY low. Especially considering that there's only about 10% of followers that will engage with any post.
I'd even tried making exclusive Nostr themed content AND giving away Bitcoin Lightning (free money, anyone?) and only got a handful of interactions on each post.
It's good technology if you don't mind having to block stuff you don't want to see consistently. (Which I don't mind) But if the regular user doesn't get much out of the platform, they have no reason to put into the platform and that's pretty much where I'm at.
Fediverse continues to be the best social media platform for engagement. There are censorship issues here. (If you're banned by the biggest instances, you're pretty screwed) However, I don't have those problems.🤷
It was a good experiment nonetheless.
#Fediverse #Nostr #SocialMedia #ATproto #ActivityPub

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Rose Royce:
🎵 Love Don't Live Here Anymore
#RoseRoyce
https://open.spotify.com/track/3pVsGhUEBZKFtn0n8zjS0H
https://djchunkabud.bandcamp.com/track/rose-royce-love-dont-live-here-anymoredj-chunk-a-bud-remix-2

Real-time data analytics startup Tinybird raised a $30M Series B, at a "significantly higher" valuation than its $37M Series A; source: it's now valued at $240M (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/tiny

Tinybird raises another $30 million to transform data into real-time APIs | TechCrunch
Tinybird is not so tiny anymore. The enterprise data startup TechCrunch first covered three years ago has been growing at a rapid pace and recently raised

In the fourth image here you'll notice a "New: Do not enter except bikes" sign.
This is Berry St at North 5th. As of 2019 Berry was a one-way through street with an unprotected bike lane. Now it's one-way in different directions which alternate every 2-4 blocks, with an exception for bikes. This effectively eliminates through traffic, so it doesn't need a bike lane anymore. NYC just went ahead and did this without a fancy name/program like "Slow Streets.&quot…