Deploy MiniApps directly through Yakihonne’s programmable Smart Widgets on Nostr. View quoted note →

Wanted to support a paper I truly liked — the kind of review I could’ve done in a day. But the journal’s review system is so unnecessarily complex that I ended up putting it off. Scientific publishing doesn’t need more barriers. It needs better tools.

In sociology, a central perspective holds that how people perceive and interpret things often matters more than the things themselves—and this meaning-making process is also a key source of individual well-being and reconciliation with the self in society. This idea has profoundly influenced the development of framing theory in media studies.

An Almost Impossible Triangle: Thinking, Buidling, and Management.

To a certain, network states are inevitable, their economies even surpass those of many small nation-states.

Buidl & Conviction

This past week, I stepped out of my familiar Freedom Tech lens and began to observe freedom in life itself. Across several dance classes, Muslim women taught in a mixed-gender public space. Such a scene remains difficult, even controversial, in many cultures. Yet they stood there: teaching with confidence and joy. Women of different religions joined as well, sharing the space with kindness and openness. It was one of the most beautiful experiences I’ve had. Not about technique, but about freedom, kindness, and shared humanity. It made me reflect on how freedom grows and seeks space for expression within existing cultures, social orders, and boundaries of power. Freedom Tech is one force that helps enable such expression. But in the end, all forces ultimately distill into something simple and precious: joy, kindness, calm, and compassion.

The academic monopoly chain: Researchers create → Paywalled publishing → Users pay to download (including the authors themselves) → Publishers keep profiting 💸 Now even decentralized platforms like Sci-Hub are starting to introduce token-based paywalls. 🤔 Shall we build a decentralized academic publishing network on Nostr?