Ryan Cragun
@ryan.ec
Bikes, snowboards, music. Software Quality researcher and Engineering Lead @ HashiCorp.
Still unsure if the internet is a net positive.
Still unsure if the internet is a net positive.
Getting rid of excise tax specifically for indoor tanning salons might be the most ridiculous part of the reconciliation bill.
May 23, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Getting rid of excise tax specifically for indoor tanning salons might be the most ridiculous part of the reconciliation bill.
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We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
April 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
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NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy.
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts
Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.
www.texasobserver.org
December 4, 2024 at 2:13 PM
NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy.
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
I watched the HBO Yacht Rock doc a few nights ago and it was wonderful. Less so is that the voice of my internal monologue is no longer me but rather Michael McDonald singing. Is there a way out of this?
December 4, 2024 at 4:07 PM
I watched the HBO Yacht Rock doc a few nights ago and it was wonderful. Less so is that the voice of my internal monologue is no longer me but rather Michael McDonald singing. Is there a way out of this?
I don't have it in me to read 500+ pages of this but their mutually exclusive claims of Operation Warp Speed being a success while the vaccine was a failure is quite amusing.
FINAL REPORT: COVID Select Concludes 2-Year Investigation, Issues 500+ Page Final Report on Lessons Learned and the Path Forward - United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
oversight.house.gov
December 2, 2024 at 9:44 PM
I don't have it in me to read 500+ pages of this but their mutually exclusive claims of Operation Warp Speed being a success while the vaccine was a failure is quite amusing.
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New: "Pablo Gonzalez," the GRU spy traded back to Russia, posed as a Spanish journalist for years. Western campaigners sought his release from Polish prison as a matter of press freedom. So why did he hug a member of Fancy Bear upon his return to Moscow? Our story. theins.ru/en/politics/...
Pablo Is Free: GRU illegal Pavel Rubtsov posed for years as a Spanish journalist and lived to shake Putin's hand
In August 2024, the world witnessed an unprecedented prisoner swap between the West and the Kremlin: Russia agreed to release 16 individuals, including political prisoners Vladimir Kara-Murza and Ilya...
theins.ru
November 29, 2024 at 3:31 PM
New: "Pablo Gonzalez," the GRU spy traded back to Russia, posed as a Spanish journalist for years. Western campaigners sought his release from Polish prison as a matter of press freedom. So why did he hug a member of Fancy Bear upon his return to Moscow? Our story. theins.ru/en/politics/...
Building on incredible work by the University of Kentucky’s EduceLab, Casey Handmer, Stephen Parsons and others, Luke Farritor has been awarded $40k for discovering the first word in an unopened Herculaneum scroll.
First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by 21yo computer science student
Vesuvius Challenge $700,000 Grand Prize “now definitely achievable”
scrollprize.org
October 12, 2023 at 4:23 PM
Building on incredible work by the University of Kentucky’s EduceLab, Casey Handmer, Stephen Parsons and others, Luke Farritor has been awarded $40k for discovering the first word in an unopened Herculaneum scroll.
"So the question [...] is how we can feed a population likely to rise to 9 or 10 billion by the middle of the century before starting to decline, reliably, equitably and at a much lower environmental cost. In other words, how we might feed the world without devouring the planet"
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 4th October 2023 Tourism sells to you the stor...
www.monbiot.com
October 11, 2023 at 2:07 PM
"So the question [...] is how we can feed a population likely to rise to 9 or 10 billion by the middle of the century before starting to decline, reliably, equitably and at a much lower environmental cost. In other words, how we might feed the world without devouring the planet"