took a break, need to use nostr more

first transparency report released for x

- covers the period between january and june 2024
- x suspended ~5.3 million accounts, compared to ~1.6 million during first six months of 2022
- x removed or labeled more than 10.6 million posts for violating rules
- x received 18737 government requests for information and complied with 52.82% of those requests
- x received 72703 government requests for removals and complied with 70.82% of those requests

full transparency report: https://cdn.satellite.earth/cb7c069f8c5e4c4745aaf62a9f6e63ff1bb3f9435bc31d5085200056642a8ded.pdf

swan bitcoin lawsuit docs - no paywall

- tether implicated
- swan former leadership implicated
- full timeline from swan's point of view

https://cdn.satellite.earth/4f664f69c76d7be841ca750cd0ebd9953a59e293db46525d73981d66b699ae3d.pdf

Death tolls in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, and Israel since Oct 7 2023.

Gaza:
Dead: 41,455+ people, including 16,500 children
Injured: 95,878+ people
Missing: 10,000+ people

West Bank:
Dead: 716+ people, including 160+ children
Injured: 5,700+ people

Lebanon:
Dead: 411 people, including 23+ children
Injured: 4024 people

Israel:
Dead: 1,139 people, including 30+ children
Injured: 8,730+ people

Source: Al Jazeera

Bukele has detained over 76,000 Salvadorans, many with little evidence or access to due process.

More than 1% of his country’s population.

Forty thousand children have seen one parent or both detained.

Between 2017 and 2021, Trump's presidency, US drone strikes killed between 768 and 1,626 civilians.

* Yemen: 423-844 civilians killed
* Pakistan: 153-304 civilians killed
* Somalia: 133-246 civilians killed
* Libya: 59-132 civilians killed

Between 2021 and 2023, Biden's presidency, US drone strikes killed between 144 and 342 civilians.

* Yemen: 64-144 civilians killed
* Somalia: 44-104 civilians killed
* Syria: 24-64 civilians killed
* Pakistan: 12-30 civilians killed

Sci-Hub is a service that provides free access to millions of research papers that are otherwise locked behind paywalls.

Founder Alexandra Elbakyan has faced immense legal pressure for maintaining the database.

Using nostr and blossom would make the distribution of these papers much more robust.

Aaron Swartz would have loved nostr.

Effectively the culmination of his life’s work.

1999: At the age of 12, he co-authored the RSS 1.0 specification, which is a format for syndicating web content.

2000: Swartz became a member of the Creative Commons organization, which aims to expand the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally.

2002: He founded the Infogami platform, which later merged with Reddit.

2005: Swartz joined Reddit as a co-founder after a merger with Infogami.

2006: He left Reddit and began working on various projects, including the development of the web application framework, "Open Library," which aimed to create a web page for every book ever published.

2008: Swartz was involved in the development of the "Demand Progress" organization, which focused on issues related to internet freedom and government transparency.

2010: He played a significant role in the campaign against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), advocating for internet freedom. He also developed a tool that allowed users to download large amounts of data from PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records), which was typically behind a paywall.

2011: Swartz was arrested for downloading a large number of academic journal articles from JSTOR with the intent to distribute them freely. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts pursued the case against Swartz, and he faced the possibility of severe penalties, including up to 35 years in prison.

2012: On January 11, Aaron Swartz tragically passed away at the age of 26. He allegedly took his own life due to the pressure of government prosecution.

bukele killed @Alejandro Muyshondt

nostr may replace tiktok or instagram but more importantly it represents the evolution of wikileaks.

distributed. unstoppable. wikileaks.

nostr is a distributed truth protocol.