Travis Pew
@travispew.com
CEO at Vereos Ventures. Past Director of Engineering at Tanooki Labs. Web Entrepreneur, Consultant, Developer, Dad, and former Biologist.
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The facts are in: ICE isn’t going after criminals. We should expand legal pathways for undocumented people who aren’t criminals and who contribute to our economy – instead of deporting them.
65 Percent of People Taken by ICE Had No Convictions, 93 Percent No Violent Convictions
ICE’s deportation agenda is not what is being advertised to the American public. ICE is not interested in prioritizing public safety, yet it constantly pretends that anyone who objects to its tactics ...
www.cato.org
June 30, 2025 at 3:43 AM
The facts are in: ICE isn’t going after criminals. We should expand legal pathways for undocumented people who aren’t criminals and who contribute to our economy – instead of deporting them.
Market prices are objective. If markets were falling because “globalists see how rich we’ll get and don’t like it,” other self-interested investors would quickly buy up these discounted assets, halting the decline.
March 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Market prices are objective. If markets were falling because “globalists see how rich we’ll get and don’t like it,” other self-interested investors would quickly buy up these discounted assets, halting the decline.
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BREAKING: Here is the anti-trans sex/gender executive order. It's extensive, it's bad, and it's often lawless. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
And, do not miss in "d" and "e" below, it even tries to put in the beginnings of a personhood argument, for some reason.
And, do not miss in "d" and "e" below, it even tries to put in the beginnings of a personhood argument, for some reason.
January 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
BREAKING: Here is the anti-trans sex/gender executive order. It's extensive, it's bad, and it's often lawless. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
And, do not miss in "d" and "e" below, it even tries to put in the beginnings of a personhood argument, for some reason.
And, do not miss in "d" and "e" below, it even tries to put in the beginnings of a personhood argument, for some reason.
A little surprised looking at congestion pricing traffic stats that there’s no significant boost in traffic right before 5am when peak fares start. Everyone driving through 5-5:15 would save $6.75 by just showing up slightly earlier.
January 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A little surprised looking at congestion pricing traffic stats that there’s no significant boost in traffic right before 5am when peak fares start. Everyone driving through 5-5:15 would save $6.75 by just showing up slightly earlier.
“The secret to health is lifestyle changes and willpower, not medicine,” says man selling expensive poorly studied chemicals found in nature.
December 23, 2024 at 5:58 PM
“The secret to health is lifestyle changes and willpower, not medicine,” says man selling expensive poorly studied chemicals found in nature.
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More twists in black plastic utensils story: The study overstated the potential exposure to flame retardants by an order of magnitude because of a math error, and now the whole journal has been de-listed from a science index for not meeting "quality criteria." arstechnica.com/health/2024/...
Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index
Chemosphere cut from Web of Science, which calculates impact factors.
arstechnica.com
December 20, 2024 at 2:59 PM
More twists in black plastic utensils story: The study overstated the potential exposure to flame retardants by an order of magnitude because of a math error, and now the whole journal has been de-listed from a science index for not meeting "quality criteria." arstechnica.com/health/2024/...
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@angierasmussen.bsky.social presented data at the Awaji CoV meeting performing further analysis of the environmental metagenomic sequence data from the huanan seafood market taken in January 2020. 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Sick animals suggest COVID pandemic started in Wuhan market
A preliminary analysis takes a closer look at genomic data collected at the market.
www.nature.com
December 4, 2024 at 11:49 AM
@angierasmussen.bsky.social presented data at the Awaji CoV meeting performing further analysis of the environmental metagenomic sequence data from the huanan seafood market taken in January 2020. 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Up with @chasestrangio.bsky.social on what is at stake in the trans healthcare ban challenge at the Supreme Court. slate.com/podcasts/ami...
When Parent’s Rights Don’t Matter (Spoiler: When Their Kid is Trans)
The conservative legal movement pretzels itself again to target trans kids
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slate.com
December 1, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Up with @chasestrangio.bsky.social on what is at stake in the trans healthcare ban challenge at the Supreme Court. slate.com/podcasts/ami...
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it's kinda funny that the mar-a-lago brain trust has space for JD Vance to talk about capping credit card rates while Elon talks about abolishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, can't wait to watch that slapfight resolve lol
November 29, 2024 at 5:09 AM
it's kinda funny that the mar-a-lago brain trust has space for JD Vance to talk about capping credit card rates while Elon talks about abolishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, can't wait to watch that slapfight resolve lol
If you exclude from innovation anything based on “key” older discoveries, you can pretty much always say there’s been no major innovation and ignore the evidence in front of your face.
There's basically been no major technological innovation in the last 3 decades. It's the illusion of progress. All of it is based on key discoveries from decades ago. Even AI is based on papers developed in the 80s. We're stagnating and the consequences will be dire for an endless growth paradigm.
November 28, 2024 at 1:38 PM
If you exclude from innovation anything based on “key” older discoveries, you can pretty much always say there’s been no major innovation and ignore the evidence in front of your face.
Wow, it's been so long since I've played around with tiny electronic hardware. I can get small quantities of PCBs custom printed for TWO DOLLARS?
November 24, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Wow, it's been so long since I've played around with tiny electronic hardware. I can get small quantities of PCBs custom printed for TWO DOLLARS?
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You know the "🔹AI Overview" you get on Google Search?
I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke.
"Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in predatory journals...
I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke.
"Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in predatory journals...
November 22, 2024 at 4:06 PM
You know the "🔹AI Overview" you get on Google Search?
I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke.
"Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in predatory journals...
I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke.
"Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in predatory journals...
Meanwhile in the alternative universe where the government doesn’t add fluoride to water.
November 23, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Meanwhile in the alternative universe where the government doesn’t add fluoride to water.
I don’t have strong opinions about fluoride, but I can’t help thinking: if it weren’t added to our water by the government, naturopaths would be selling it as a miracle natural dental cure and accusing Big Dental of hiding the truth.
November 22, 2024 at 7:47 PM
I don’t have strong opinions about fluoride, but I can’t help thinking: if it weren’t added to our water by the government, naturopaths would be selling it as a miracle natural dental cure and accusing Big Dental of hiding the truth.
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The biggest liars in the world posed as free speech advocates because “everyone must pay for, listen to, and agree with what we say” doesn’t poll well, and the stupidest people in the world (many of them in key positions in America’s newsrooms) fell for it.
Right on cue.
November 21, 2024 at 11:49 PM
The biggest liars in the world posed as free speech advocates because “everyone must pay for, listen to, and agree with what we say” doesn’t poll well, and the stupidest people in the world (many of them in key positions in America’s newsrooms) fell for it.
I’ve been lurking over here for a while, but it feels like a critical mass of people I followed over on X have finally made it.
Not everyone. But enough to make it worth using (with the addition of great people who left X a while ago).
Not everyone. But enough to make it worth using (with the addition of great people who left X a while ago).
November 16, 2024 at 6:15 PM
I’ve been lurking over here for a while, but it feels like a critical mass of people I followed over on X have finally made it.
Not everyone. But enough to make it worth using (with the addition of great people who left X a while ago).
Not everyone. But enough to make it worth using (with the addition of great people who left X a while ago).
Everyone in my NYC neighborhood is excited for special composting trash bins so that they can throw food waste there rather than in trash bags that rats will eat.
Just wait until New Yorkers hear about garbage disposals and putting garbage in bins instead of on sidewalks…
Just wait until New Yorkers hear about garbage disposals and putting garbage in bins instead of on sidewalks…
June 24, 2023 at 12:32 AM
Everyone in my NYC neighborhood is excited for special composting trash bins so that they can throw food waste there rather than in trash bags that rats will eat.
Just wait until New Yorkers hear about garbage disposals and putting garbage in bins instead of on sidewalks…
Just wait until New Yorkers hear about garbage disposals and putting garbage in bins instead of on sidewalks…
Newspapers that require you to call a phone number and wait on hold to cancel subscriptions:
Wow, can you believe it takes 6 clicks to cancel Amazon Prime? What an abusive practice!
Wow, can you believe it takes 6 clicks to cancel Amazon Prime? What an abusive practice!
June 22, 2023 at 5:04 PM
Newspapers that require you to call a phone number and wait on hold to cancel subscriptions:
Wow, can you believe it takes 6 clicks to cancel Amazon Prime? What an abusive practice!
Wow, can you believe it takes 6 clicks to cancel Amazon Prime? What an abusive practice!
I can't bring myself to post on Twitter, nobody pays any attention to me on Bluesky, Mastodon, etc., and reddit is half-down. On the plus side, I'm far more productive than I've been in years.
June 19, 2023 at 8:39 PM
I can't bring myself to post on Twitter, nobody pays any attention to me on Bluesky, Mastodon, etc., and reddit is half-down. On the plus side, I'm far more productive than I've been in years.
It's really fascinating how much the internet is subtly changing. Much of what I used use google for now returns nothing but spam blogs. Google is best used to search reddit. Except much of reddit is now down. So I ask ChatGPT, which gives me good results more than half the time.
June 19, 2023 at 8:34 PM
It's really fascinating how much the internet is subtly changing. Much of what I used use google for now returns nothing but spam blogs. Google is best used to search reddit. Except much of reddit is now down. So I ask ChatGPT, which gives me good results more than half the time.
OneNote -> Evernote -> organized text files -> paper -> apple notes -> roam -> logseq -> apple notes -> ??
June 9, 2023 at 11:34 AM
OneNote -> Evernote -> organized text files -> paper -> apple notes -> roam -> logseq -> apple notes -> ??
Argh vandalized citi e-bikes. This is why we can’t have nice things. QR code scratched off. Numbers scratched off. Back tire slashed.
June 7, 2023 at 11:28 AM
Argh vandalized citi e-bikes. This is why we can’t have nice things. QR code scratched off. Numbers scratched off. Back tire slashed.
You might think wearing ski goggles everywhere looks ridiculous. But if everyone wears apple vision pro, then the software can just adjust what everyone is seeing so that it seems like nobody is wearing them. Problem solved. Just never ever take them off.
June 6, 2023 at 1:43 PM
You might think wearing ski goggles everywhere looks ridiculous. But if everyone wears apple vision pro, then the software can just adjust what everyone is seeing so that it seems like nobody is wearing them. Problem solved. Just never ever take them off.
“I can’t believe people would stick a headset over their face while playing with their kids, this is the end of eye contact”, types the parent while looking down at their phone.
June 6, 2023 at 12:59 AM
“I can’t believe people would stick a headset over their face while playing with their kids, this is the end of eye contact”, types the parent while looking down at their phone.
The “military AI drone learned to kill its operator” story didn’t make any sense given the way even a bad implementation would be coded. And surprise surprise, it’s a completely made up story.
June 2, 2023 at 7:03 PM
The “military AI drone learned to kill its operator” story didn’t make any sense given the way even a bad implementation would be coded. And surprise surprise, it’s a completely made up story.