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Thomas Leavitt
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Co-founded the world’s first self-service web host, WebCom.com, in May of ‘94. Co-founder, Space.Org. Online since 1981. On the Internet since 1990.
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April 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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"Our tech oligarchs are right to see themselves characters straight out of an Ayn Rand novel—they are the villains."
Elon Musk Thinks He’s an Ayn Rand Hero. Nope: He’s One of Her Villains.
Recent years have revealed the Silicon Valley venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs who worship Rand to be racists, fraudsters, and looters.
www.thebulwark.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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We've actually updated this for pride season this year. It's now smaller and double sided.
March 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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March 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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In Anniston, Alabama
March 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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March 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you.
March 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Absolutely zero chill at the moment.
March 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.” Jimmy Carter
March 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Every goddamn day since January 20th. Maybe January 20th, 2017? My entire adult life? #muppets #beaker
a close up of a stuffed animal with big eyes and a red beak
Alt: Animated GIF of Beaker the Muppet pointing in horror at something off camera and covering his mouth.
media.tenor.com
February 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I hate it here…
Joshua Steinman was in the 1st Trump admin. Tech billionaire Peter Thiel backs Steinman’s company, Galvinick, via Founders Fund. Yesterday, Steinman wrote, “Nobody wants to talk about this, but the # of men one wld need to take South Africa right now is embarrassingly small.” He cc’d Erik Prince. 1/
February 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Background: 60 USAID employees had been placed on leave for “undermining” Trump’s executive orders. Nick Gottlieb was told by DOGE to then fire them. Instead he emailed all of them earlier saying he found no evidence of misconduct and used his power to take them off leave. Then he was put on leave.
January 31, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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A USAID HR director sent out this email today to staff letting them know he was placed on administrative leave.

“Today, representatives of the Agency's front office and DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees.”
January 31, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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December 17, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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Ah, yes, the legendary Badlands Tweets!
November 20, 2024 at 9:07 PM
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In calls with foreign heads of state, Trump has cut out the State Department, its secure lines and its official interpreters. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump ignores transition rules. It’s a ‘hostile takeover,’ ally says.
Donald Trump’s transition team has begun what a close ally calls a hostile takeover of the federal government, ignoring the rules for the handover of power in the process.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:53 AM
Reposting with untypoed URL. Which explains why I didn’t get a preview the first time. Doh!

Tiny little project, runs on a $4/mo. DigitalOcean “droplet”. Random selections from the Gospel of Thomas via the classic “fortune” as implemented in PHP.

www.gospelofthomas.net
Gospel of Thomas Home
Gospel of Thomas Quotes
www.gospelofthomas.net
November 19, 2024 at 12:05 AM
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November 16, 2024 at 8:56 AM
Big project. Transforming the economics and process of spacecraft design via modularity. #space #areospace #startups

www.space.org
Space.Org, Inc.
Coming Soon: A Fast Track to the New Space Economy
www.space.org
November 14, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Tiny little project, runs on a $4/mo. DigitalOcean “droplet”. Random selections from the Gospel of Thomas ala the classic “fortune” as implemented in PHP.

www.gosprlofthomas.net
www.gosprlofthomas.net
November 14, 2024 at 9:28 AM
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November 13, 2024 at 2:43 PM
I joined BlueSky just out of curiosity. Noise. More time and attention consuming noise. Like most digital communications tech at this point (email, forums, social media).
November 14, 2024 at 3:16 AM