Keri Waters
@keriwaters.bsky.social
Founder/Inventor with 3 Exits. MIT course 2 and Berkeley Haas alum. Reeling about the war on women from Austin, TX. Views are my own.
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In part, this is due to a Democratic Party that does not feel comfortable wielding power. Worse, this has convinced a sizable segment of its voters that it cannot because of this or that norm or rule.
We’re seeing power wielded with abandon by the Trump administration, aiming to destroy…everything.
We’re seeing power wielded with abandon by the Trump administration, aiming to destroy…everything.
i think that people in the modern era systematically underestimate what the government is capable of. e.g., the supreme court is not gone for generations. it is gone until there is a Congressional majority to reform it.
"Recover" isn't a thing here IMO. History is contingent, branching off from decision points. There's no going back to how things were
Fixing the worst of it will be difficult and take generations, but it starts with needing better politicians ASAP
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Fixing the worst of it will be difficult and take generations, but it starts with needing better politicians ASAP
bsky.app/profile/blak...
February 9, 2025 at 6:44 AM
In part, this is due to a Democratic Party that does not feel comfortable wielding power. Worse, this has convinced a sizable segment of its voters that it cannot because of this or that norm or rule.
We’re seeing power wielded with abandon by the Trump administration, aiming to destroy…everything.
We’re seeing power wielded with abandon by the Trump administration, aiming to destroy…everything.
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I fear there is deep truth here.
January 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I fear there is deep truth here.
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First it’s all fun and games, passing the pufferfish, then the slippery slope to the hard stuff… so sad
there's fentanyl in the dolphins
no word yet on whether dolphin police have overdosed from touching the fetty 'phins
www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new....
no word yet on whether dolphin police have overdosed from touching the fetty 'phins
www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new....
Study finds fentanyl in Gulf of Mexico dolphins | Houston Public Media
Fentanyl, an opioid that is 100 times stronger than morphine, was found in 18 samples and all of the post-mortem biopsies.
www.houstonpublicmedia.org
December 30, 2024 at 8:49 PM
First it’s all fun and games, passing the pufferfish, then the slippery slope to the hard stuff… so sad
NOT TODAY, ROUGH BEAST
If it was me I’d shoot the rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem. Simply not interested in seeing where that goes.
December 28, 2024 at 6:38 PM
NOT TODAY, ROUGH BEAST
We need a real public reckoning on the global uncontrolled (chemical) experiments of the last century or so. Everything from the discovery of the Haber-Bosch process onwards seems to have unexplored side effects that are cumulative and inescapable.
3/ In May, we told the story of Kris Hansen, a 3M scientist who told company executives decades ago that the forever chemicals it manufactured were in peoples’ bodies. Her bosses halted her work:
How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
www.propublica.org
December 27, 2024 at 5:39 PM
We need a real public reckoning on the global uncontrolled (chemical) experiments of the last century or so. Everything from the discovery of the Haber-Bosch process onwards seems to have unexplored side effects that are cumulative and inescapable.
@erikbethke.bsky.social texts "I got the call!"
My mind reeled. DOGE? Is he trolling those guys? AI cult with a hazing ritual? Human test subject for a homemade rocket? Congressional candidate for a new 3rd party? (Someone found his notebook, but in 2025 I'm grateful for my interesting friends.)
My mind reeled. DOGE? Is he trolling those guys? AI cult with a hazing ritual? Human test subject for a homemade rocket? Congressional candidate for a new 3rd party? (Someone found his notebook, but in 2025 I'm grateful for my interesting friends.)
December 27, 2024 at 3:42 PM
@erikbethke.bsky.social texts "I got the call!"
My mind reeled. DOGE? Is he trolling those guys? AI cult with a hazing ritual? Human test subject for a homemade rocket? Congressional candidate for a new 3rd party? (Someone found his notebook, but in 2025 I'm grateful for my interesting friends.)
My mind reeled. DOGE? Is he trolling those guys? AI cult with a hazing ritual? Human test subject for a homemade rocket? Congressional candidate for a new 3rd party? (Someone found his notebook, but in 2025 I'm grateful for my interesting friends.)
This is so true. Everyone should learn about Yarvin and the Dark Enlightenment. The inner circle in the incoming administration is obsessed.
Two software developers became quietly known in tech circles in the 2000s and were almost the reverse image of each other. Both developed web alternatives. Both developed alternatives to the current government model.
The right has read Yarvin and it shows.
The left has not read Marsh and it shows.
The right has read Yarvin and it shows.
The left has not read Marsh and it shows.
December 24, 2024 at 1:04 AM
This is so true. Everyone should learn about Yarvin and the Dark Enlightenment. The inner circle in the incoming administration is obsessed.
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The upshot was that their duty is to investigate crimes that have happened. I think of this every time there's an appeal for increased funding and paramilitary gear for police. Maybe we should have detectives and community officers that walk beats and don't carry lethal weapons.
December 23, 2024 at 11:22 PM
The upshot was that their duty is to investigate crimes that have happened. I think of this every time there's an appeal for increased funding and paramilitary gear for police. Maybe we should have detectives and community officers that walk beats and don't carry lethal weapons.
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There was a great Radiolab episode about this, "No Special Duty." radiolab.org/podcast/no-s... tl;dr is that the Supreme Court ruled the police don't have to put themselves in harm's way to protect citizens, because mumble slippery slope to a police surveillance state if they had to prevent crime.
No Special Duty
A look at what happens when the police don’t do the one thing you expect them to.
radiolab.org
December 23, 2024 at 11:22 PM
There was a great Radiolab episode about this, "No Special Duty." radiolab.org/podcast/no-s... tl;dr is that the Supreme Court ruled the police don't have to put themselves in harm's way to protect citizens, because mumble slippery slope to a police surveillance state if they had to prevent crime.
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Let’s face it, wild horses could easily drag you away. Hell, two or three clever raccoons could probably make you disappear forever.
December 21, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Let’s face it, wild horses could easily drag you away. Hell, two or three clever raccoons could probably make you disappear forever.
I wonder why journalism isn't a licensed profession in the US, like being a doctor or an attorney? If the field adopted uniform standards and an ethics pledge, would it make it easier to discern quality reporting from entertainment?
December 21, 2024 at 2:56 PM
I wonder why journalism isn't a licensed profession in the US, like being a doctor or an attorney? If the field adopted uniform standards and an ethics pledge, would it make it easier to discern quality reporting from entertainment?
What ever happened to Clubhouse? How do you raise $100M and just vanish? Asking for a friend.
December 18, 2024 at 4:54 AM
What ever happened to Clubhouse? How do you raise $100M and just vanish? Asking for a friend.
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Incredible what Gen Z is doing here. 18-year old Grace Price made a whole documentary on the connection between ultra-processed food and cancer, and spoke to the US Senate about it this year! www.cancerfoodborneillness.com/about
About — Cancer: A Food-Borne Illness
www.cancerfoodborneillness.com
December 17, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Incredible what Gen Z is doing here. 18-year old Grace Price made a whole documentary on the connection between ultra-processed food and cancer, and spoke to the US Senate about it this year! www.cancerfoodborneillness.com/about
I've spent the last four days planning on finally publishing content on water tech and other topics, and have been wringing my hands over substack vs. ghost, and now that's the topic of the day? What's up? Is this the "decide to launch a newsletter" time of year? Like the gym membership in January?
December 17, 2024 at 10:43 PM
I've spent the last four days planning on finally publishing content on water tech and other topics, and have been wringing my hands over substack vs. ghost, and now that's the topic of the day? What's up? Is this the "decide to launch a newsletter" time of year? Like the gym membership in January?
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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."
-- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917
-- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917
December 16, 2024 at 11:09 AM
"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."
-- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917
-- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917
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If Dems are serious about stopping polio and RFK Jr. there’s a way to do it: Super-PAC ads in red states highlighting his most left-wing views on abortion, the environment. It’s ugly but it’s what *they* would do
December 16, 2024 at 12:40 AM
If Dems are serious about stopping polio and RFK Jr. there’s a way to do it: Super-PAC ads in red states highlighting his most left-wing views on abortion, the environment. It’s ugly but it’s what *they* would do
The mission of USPS is to make sure all people can be reached. That's why it has always done some unprofitable things (like flying mail to remote parts of Alaska, etc). They SHOULD modernize with a freely available online messaging service that would connect all. Hard to imagine that happening now.
December 16, 2024 at 1:34 AM
The mission of USPS is to make sure all people can be reached. That's why it has always done some unprofitable things (like flying mail to remote parts of Alaska, etc). They SHOULD modernize with a freely available online messaging service that would connect all. Hard to imagine that happening now.
Don't even get me started on Ren Faire, which isn't about the Renaissance at all, but that awful period before. No I don't want mead and a turkey leg. How about celebrating Classic Rome? Classic Greece? The Victorian Era? Good god, literally any other time.
You know what? I'll say it. The period before the Enlightenment was complete ass. I'm tired of Medievalist weirdos who did their PhDs in 1300s theological alchemy trying to gaslight all of us into thinking that dying because a guy says God gave him special blood decided to go to war with his cousin
December 15, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Don't even get me started on Ren Faire, which isn't about the Renaissance at all, but that awful period before. No I don't want mead and a turkey leg. How about celebrating Classic Rome? Classic Greece? The Victorian Era? Good god, literally any other time.
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I created a feed for the top 250 most reposted skeets over the past 30 minutes. bsky.app/profile/did:...
December 9, 2024 at 6:27 PM
I created a feed for the top 250 most reposted skeets over the past 30 minutes. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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An expression of corporate ideology is how they keep remaking the literally perfect Chuck Jones version of THE GRINCH THAT STOLE CHRISTMAS to "update" and "modernize" it instead of trying to make any new children's entertainment in the same style as the extremely successful original.
December 8, 2024 at 4:35 PM
An expression of corporate ideology is how they keep remaking the literally perfect Chuck Jones version of THE GRINCH THAT STOLE CHRISTMAS to "update" and "modernize" it instead of trying to make any new children's entertainment in the same style as the extremely successful original.
I sometimes worry that I am too online, and then I learn that some phrase like "milkshake duck" has been a thing for 8 years...
obsessed with the absolutely correct idea that a man who’s one known characteristic is killing a man could be milkshake ducked
Robin Hood will get milkshake ducked and turn out to be some kind of unhinged accelerationist or something, but for now, each new piece of information is riveting
December 8, 2024 at 2:30 AM
I sometimes worry that I am too online, and then I learn that some phrase like "milkshake duck" has been a thing for 8 years...
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Oh, okay, so a guy makes a poorly thought-out commitment at 2 am then awkwardly tries to walk it back in the morning, and all of you are acting like you haven't been there.
December 3, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Oh, okay, so a guy makes a poorly thought-out commitment at 2 am then awkwardly tries to walk it back in the morning, and all of you are acting like you haven't been there.
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Yes they totally were. Remember when Justin Timberlake bought that thing and tried to revive it?
December 2, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Yes they totally were. Remember when Justin Timberlake bought that thing and tried to revive it?
Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut.
Irëk is a corner desk for small spaces, available in three faux wood finishes and white, and also as a sit/stand version with a convenient 600 revolution hand crank.
Irëk is a corner desk for small spaces, available in three faux wood finishes and white, and also as a sit/stand version with a convenient 600 revolution hand crank.
Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut.
Träuts is a traditional pickled herring available in the food court.
Träuts is a traditional pickled herring available in the food court.
Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut
nösilá is a green, molded plastic kitchen utensil series shaped vaguely like monsters, including a pasta claw, toothed tongs, and a spatula.
nösilá is a green, molded plastic kitchen utensil series shaped vaguely like monsters, including a pasta claw, toothed tongs, and a spatula.
November 29, 2024 at 2:44 AM
Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut.
Irëk is a corner desk for small spaces, available in three faux wood finishes and white, and also as a sit/stand version with a convenient 600 revolution hand crank.
Irëk is a corner desk for small spaces, available in three faux wood finishes and white, and also as a sit/stand version with a convenient 600 revolution hand crank.