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mik3y
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Hacker, ex-CTO, startup guy.

Write sometimes at hoho.com
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taniel.bsky.social
3. Here's a page you should bookmark: It's the directory of nonprofit newsrooms that belong to the Institute for Nonprofit News. You can look for locality covered, including national newsrooms. It's so rich: explore! Find your niche!

findyournews.org/explore/
December 14, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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emilyhughes.bsky.social
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
brittanytrang.com Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 29d
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
mik3y.bsky.social
real ones know to choose a slightly odd time for scheduled messages
A scheduled message, masterfully set to deliver at 7:03 AM rather than a basic-ass time like 7:00 or 9am
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 AM
mik3y.bsky.social
@rollovereasy.org Marcia is awesome! You three on the show together reminds me of a great delight—and an enduring mystery—of the aughts in SF: What happened to the Burrito Eater (burritoeater.com)?
Burritoeater.com
San Francisco's top resource for taquerias and mustaches: ratings, restaurant descriptions, burrito reviews, links to maps and health code scores, the Intestinal Apocalypse Monthly newsletter archive,...
burritoeater.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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thedailyshow.com
Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
September 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
mik3y.bsky.social
Why are these demos always so fucking lame, even if they did work? “Read a recipe”, “shop for groceries”, “what’s on TV”.

Boring, solved problems.
shacknews.com Shacknews @shacknews.com · Sep 18
LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI
September 18, 2025 at 6:31 AM
mik3y.bsky.social
there's invention by accidentally knocking the chocolate bar into the vat of peanut butter, and then there's...this
ryanlcooper.com ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Sep 12
TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...
Man, 34, is no longer blind after tooth is implanted in eye in 'crazy' surgery
Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it's like.
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September 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
mik3y.bsky.social
The cone really does hit different www.reddit.com/r/HydroHomie...
From the HydroHomies community on Reddit: What do y’all say?
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July 13, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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mosheroperandi.bsky.social
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence. So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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vincemancini.bsky.social
The two best restaurant posts of all time
July 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
*nodding politely and pretending to listen while I discreetly signal the waiter to hurry up with the check* yeah no totally
@hbomax With the return of the iconic HBO name the updated logo positions the HBO brand prominently, ensuring it is the primary visual read with emphasis on the iconic core, which is embedded in the counter of the "O." This deliberate hierarchy reinforces that the platform's core value proposition remains anchored in HBO's legacy and reputation for excellence. The "Max" portion of the logo complements this hierarchy in various technical ways. The "Max" mark has been carefully adjusted to a lighter stroke weight compared to its previous iteration. Moreover, the characteristic of the counter "core," previously embedded within the letter "a" of "Max," has been intentionally omitted. This nuanced adjustment respects the visual ownership of the core form as a distinct hallmark of the HBO logo, maintaining clarity and brand integrity. The "m"'s stems and shoulders were slightly modified while maintaining the balance of the aperture of the letterform. The "a" was completely hand-drawn, with the counter space slightly adjusted toward the stem to give the bowl form and character. The "x"'s diagonal strokes, slightly bowed and tapered to the center axis, creates a flared nuance. Additionally, the width of "Max" has been subtly reduced relative to "HBO," with the overhang of the “O" letterform visually balancing and aligning with the "x," a calculated choice. Overall, the kerning was meticulously calibrated to balance the open spaces between and within the letterforms to ensure a quick read. To further distinguish the brand within the streaming market, the logo identity features a carefully crafted iridescent treatment; subtle warm and cool tones add depth and perpetual motion. This distinctive visual effect metaphorically embodies the platform's extensive range of content - constantly evolving, vibrant, and multidimensional. This creative approach ensures the brand remains visually distinctive, resonating strongly within the competitive landscape of streaming services.
July 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
mik3y.bsky.social
Finally wrote up something that, while a little dry, I found myself sharing ad hoc more than once: a little #react pattern. Welcome any feedback! hoho.com/posts/react-...
The bootloader pattern for app initialization in React
Leverage the awesome power of ContextProviders for early initialization tasks.
hoho.com
July 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
mik3y.bsky.social
Currently my most important cursor rule.
July 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
mik3y.bsky.social
Holy shit, Nathan Fielder for FAA chief, let’s gooo!
June 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
mik3y.bsky.social
Fascinating snapshot of the state of legal challenges to the wholesale dismantling of the federal government.
rparloff.bsky.social Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · May 12
Will courts ever declare that Trump is unlawfully dismantling Congressionally created agencies? Or will they just treat his actions as if they were ordinary cuts & trims—albeit on an unusually large scale? Will courts ever see the forest for the trees? Thread ...
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May 12, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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ruthdeyermond.bsky.social
Term 2 Trump foreign policy - from tariffs to NATO to soft power to China and Russia - is an epic mess. One reason seems to be that the administration is operating with two conflicting, equally flawed, views of the world and the US's place in it. 🧵
April 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Am I the only person who like triple checks whose in a particular group chat... and it's for discussing like... "who wants to go for a hike this weekend" and I want to make sure I don't add the wrong people.

Meanwhile the folks running NatSec for the country are all "yolo, this person looks right"
sarahjeong.bsky.social sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · Mar 26
in all fairness, my brain has been working on this for like 24 hours and i still can't think of a plausible way in which this went down. I need this forensic examination
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Mar 26
Absolutely love the idea of a forensic examination being necessary to answer the question "how did someone get accidentally added to a group chat."
March 26, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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nickpants.bsky.social
yeah bitch
March 16, 2025 at 2:58 AM
mik3y.bsky.social
Spindrift fans are completely disappointed, in a very calm and professional way, which seems exactly how I would think a seltzer gang would behave www.reddit.com/r/sparklingw...
From the sparklingwater community on Reddit: Spindrift acquired by a private equity firm for $650 million.. how long before it gets ruined😢
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January 20, 2025 at 6:06 AM