Eric
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Tech | Science | Open-Source | Books | Food | Games | Nonsense
All my opinions are subject to change.
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Big win in Montana for the trans community, gender affirming medical care and privacy rights!
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December 11, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Big win in Montana for the trans community, gender affirming medical care and privacy rights!
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I wrote about crypto. The knock has been that the technology has few use cases. But, post-election I think crypto's legacy is clearer. Its killer app is creating a money/influence flywheel for a specific type of reactionary anti-institutionalist to influence politics. It's gonna get weird (gift)
Crypto’s Legacy Is Finally Clear
An anti-establishment technology for an anti-establishment age
www.theatlantic.com
December 11, 2024 at 4:32 PM
I wrote about crypto. The knock has been that the technology has few use cases. But, post-election I think crypto's legacy is clearer. Its killer app is creating a money/influence flywheel for a specific type of reactionary anti-institutionalist to influence politics. It's gonna get weird (gift)
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Your noncompliance with the Joja corporation in Stardew Valley has been entered into evidence.
December 10, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Your noncompliance with the Joja corporation in Stardew Valley has been entered into evidence.
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South Korean citizens helped lawmakers scale the National Assembly walls so they could bypass military barricades and vote against martial law.
December 3, 2024 at 5:15 PM
South Korean citizens helped lawmakers scale the National Assembly walls so they could bypass military barricades and vote against martial law.
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I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.
December 3, 2024 at 3:39 PM
I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.
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Cheese ball warning: I'm thankful for my colleagues at @propublica.org (give them all a follow with this starter pack) but also for our READERS. This thing doesn't go without people willing to read and more importantly to CARE about the issues we cover: go.bsky.app/RkNqWmw
November 27, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Cheese ball warning: I'm thankful for my colleagues at @propublica.org (give them all a follow with this starter pack) but also for our READERS. This thing doesn't go without people willing to read and more importantly to CARE about the issues we cover: go.bsky.app/RkNqWmw
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Bird Watcher II🌿 Indonesia
November 24, 2024 at 2:52 AM
Bird Watcher II🌿 Indonesia
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Feels important to also give the actual numbers:
Transgender: 1 percent
Muslim: 1 percent
Jewish: 2 percent
Black: 12 percent
Live in New York City: 2 percent
Gay or lesbian: 3 percent (okay this one seems real low?)
Transgender: 1 percent
Muslim: 1 percent
Jewish: 2 percent
Black: 12 percent
Live in New York City: 2 percent
Gay or lesbian: 3 percent (okay this one seems real low?)
“In 2022, YouGov asked “What percentage of Americans do you think are ___?”
The results were hilarious.
Trans: 21%
Muslim: 27%
Jewish: 30%
Black: 41%
Live in NYC: 30%
Gay or lesbian: 30%
The errors are off by orders of magnitude. The trans estimation by 2,000%.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/americans-...
The results were hilarious.
Trans: 21%
Muslim: 27%
Jewish: 30%
Black: 41%
Live in NYC: 30%
Gay or lesbian: 30%
The errors are off by orders of magnitude. The trans estimation by 2,000%.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/americans-...
Americans Have One Very Strange Cognitive Bias
Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love The People.
www.thebulwark.com
November 24, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Feels important to also give the actual numbers:
Transgender: 1 percent
Muslim: 1 percent
Jewish: 2 percent
Black: 12 percent
Live in New York City: 2 percent
Gay or lesbian: 3 percent (okay this one seems real low?)
Transgender: 1 percent
Muslim: 1 percent
Jewish: 2 percent
Black: 12 percent
Live in New York City: 2 percent
Gay or lesbian: 3 percent (okay this one seems real low?)
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I joined Bluesky 18 months ago, and I have more followers here now than I ever had on twitter despite being there for >10 years, which is kind of nice!
I’m not really sure why, but whenever I posted art there it always felt like no one saw it. Anyway, here’s one of my old pieces!
I’m not really sure why, but whenever I posted art there it always felt like no one saw it. Anyway, here’s one of my old pieces!
November 24, 2024 at 8:53 PM
I joined Bluesky 18 months ago, and I have more followers here now than I ever had on twitter despite being there for >10 years, which is kind of nice!
I’m not really sure why, but whenever I posted art there it always felt like no one saw it. Anyway, here’s one of my old pieces!
I’m not really sure why, but whenever I posted art there it always felt like no one saw it. Anyway, here’s one of my old pieces!
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the most problematic thing to come out of all these new bsky users is that a lot of y'all seem to think anything on here matters
November 24, 2024 at 3:55 AM
the most problematic thing to come out of all these new bsky users is that a lot of y'all seem to think anything on here matters
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Other corvids are nice too. 🪶
November 23, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Other corvids are nice too. 🪶
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This is by far the best criticism of bsky/atproto I've seen so far: dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec...
I mean that in the sense of "fair" and "understands what they're talking about" as well as a more traditional "makes good points".
I mean that in the sense of "fair" and "understands what they're talking about" as well as a more traditional "makes good points".
How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
dustycloud.org
November 22, 2024 at 6:09 PM
This is by far the best criticism of bsky/atproto I've seen so far: dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec...
I mean that in the sense of "fair" and "understands what they're talking about" as well as a more traditional "makes good points".
I mean that in the sense of "fair" and "understands what they're talking about" as well as a more traditional "makes good points".
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From LGBTQ+ advocacy to environmentalism to reproductive rights and beyond, these groups offer productive ways to fight for a better future.
Mad? Sad? Motivated? 60+ MN Orgs Working to Make the Next 4 Years (and Then Some) Suck Less. - Racket
From LGBTQ+ advocacy to environmentalism to reproductive rights and beyond, these groups offer productive ways to fight for a better future.
racketmn.com
November 22, 2024 at 7:36 PM
From LGBTQ+ advocacy to environmentalism to reproductive rights and beyond, these groups offer productive ways to fight for a better future.
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gaetz not ready for the major league, returns to minors
November 21, 2024 at 6:20 PM
gaetz not ready for the major league, returns to minors
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Augusta Britt, secret teenaged muse of a middle-aged Cormac McCarthy, sounds like a fascinating person but this profile of her in Vanity Fair does not do her justice. [vanityfair.com]
Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.”
When he was 42, Cormac McCarthy fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. Augusta Britt would go on to become one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history, giving life to many of McCarthy’s most iconic characters across his celebrated novels and Hollywoo
www.vanityfair.com
November 21, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Augusta Britt, secret teenaged muse of a middle-aged Cormac McCarthy, sounds like a fascinating person but this profile of her in Vanity Fair does not do her justice. [vanityfair.com]