📗 Want to read The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber ISBN: 9780374157357
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Same here. I was a “super Christian” for years…literally felt “called” to plant a church, become a missionary, the whole nine yards. Had intense “religious experiences”.
Also…the longer I was in it, the more I felt miserable and my mental health went sideways.
Hmm… 🤔
This is exactly it. I was “the best evangelical”. Did it all, believed it all, was the goodie-two-shoes legalistic rule-following “super Christian”. It’s just t...
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Just got this surprise on my car registration. Especially frustrating for me because I drive only like 1000 miles a year, typically.
The $150/year EV surcharge is theoretically to offset the loss of gas tax revenue but with an ICE car I wasn't paying much of that either!
Orwell would be proud of this rationalization for taxing EVs at rates higher than gas-powered cars.
"We're incentivizing people to buy electric cars by taxing them at th...
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Weeeird…the latest February 2022 release of VSCode just totally stopped working with remote SSH connections to other macOS hosts. I manually downloaded the previous January release and it’s fine. Anyone else experience this?
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Today I have very little patience with folks, trying not to show it. I'm a month out from taking my Series 65 exam and find myself annoyed at anyone that asks a favor from me.
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According to lawyers commissioned by @a16z, the recommended legal structure for a #DAO is a "Fully 'Wrapped' UNA Electing Federal Taxation as a C-Corp". Really. a16z.com/wp-content/upl…
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Cars: On average, the same number of doors and wheels.
Freight trucks and trains: way more wheels than doors.
Office buildings: nobody has a door, everyone has a chair with 5 wheels (of which only 4 work but that's beside the point)
I'm pretty sure that wheels win, handily.
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I have achieved semantic satiation on the word "wheel" alarmingly quickly
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The truth is that I give a lot of fucks. In fact I have a surplus of fucks
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"text": "New post: Notes: Against Access beesbuzz.biz/blog/chatter/1\u2026\n\n#Accessibility #A11Y #Deafblind #Bias #Disability",
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One of the great ironies of the Covid era: Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, ran the largest Universal Basic Income program in the history of the world.
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Are you feeling watched during eternal Caturday?
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Neat. @manton ‘s Indie Microblogging book is apparently nearly complete. It feels timely; anecdotally it seems like a lot of people are reconsidering blogging at the moment. book.micro.blog
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Squares are also rectangles.
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Come joing the Northeast #cmmc coalition for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon
-Ever wonder how Wikipedia works?
-Want to know how to improve articles?
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One of the "hardest problems in computer science" is naming things.
That's why it's so important to spend lots of time defining terms, concepts, and boundaries in your software *before* you sit down to write a line of code.
Naming becomes easier when you already have a roadmap.
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A paratrooper spider invasion wasn’t on my 2022 bingo card, but sure.
An invasive species of spider the size of a child's hand is expected to “colonize” the entire East Coast this spring by parachuting down from the sky, researchers ann...
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Hey @L_A_Rust didn't want to hijack Jacob Hornes post on Chinese industrial base with some in the weeds stuff.
In China power "divided" between the CCP and the Government. 24 party members of the central committee make up the Politburo. Seven top Nine…lnkd.in/eeifjVV3
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"html": "<p><img src=\"https://coffeebucks.s3.amazonaws.com/c_wright_mills.png\" alt=\"Artillery Battery A\" /></p>\n\n<p>On Monday, there were a few people in my Twitter feed sharing <a href=\"https://www.thebatt.com/news/the-rudder-association-a-deep-dive-into-the-conservative-former-student-group-with-plans-to/article_ee9f31ec-9dae-11ec-a4cc-efe4856b436c.html\">Texas A&M\u2019s Battalion article about The Rudder Association</a>. While Texas A&M has improved so much over the years, this stealthy group called the Rudder Association is now embarrassing the school. I was glad to read the article and reassured that the kids are alright. I couldn\u2019t help but be reminded of the letters written to the Battalion in 1935 by a freshman named <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Wright_Mills\">C. Wright Mills</a>.</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>College students are supposed to become leaders of thought and action in later life. It is expected they will profit from a college education by developing an open and alert mind to be able to cope boldly with everyday problems in economics and politics. They cannot do this unless they learn to think independently for themselves and to stand fast for their convictions. Is the student at A and M encouraged to do this? Is he permitted to do it? The answer is sadly in the negative.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Little did he know that current students would be dealing with this shit 85 years later with a group of former students with nothing better to do than infiltrate student-run organizations from freshman orientation to the newspaper. But shocking no one, they were too incompetent to maintain the privacy of the school regents who met with them.</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>According to meeting minutes from Dec. 1, 2020, the Rudder Association secured the attendance of four members of the A&M System Board of Regents. The meeting minutes obtained by The Battalion were censored by TRA to remove the names of the regents in the meeting as well as other \u201chighly sensitive information.\u201d</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>\u201cDO NOT USE THEIR NAMES BEYOND THE RUDDER BOARD. They do not wish to be outed,\u201d the minutes read on the regents in attendance.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Further examination by The Battalion revealed, however, that the censored text could be copied and pasted into a text document to be viewed in its entirety due to TRA using a digital black highlighter to censor.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Well done, Battalion.</p>\n\n<p>(photo is from <a href=\"https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863138W/C._Wright_Mills\">C. Wright Mills: Letters and autobiographical writings</a>)</p>",
"text": "On Monday, there were a few people in my Twitter feed sharing Texas A&M\u2019s Battalion article about The Rudder Association. While Texas A&M has improved so much over the years, this stealthy group called the Rudder Association is now embarrassing the school. I was glad to read the article and reassured that the kids are alright. I couldn\u2019t help but be reminded of the letters written to the Battalion in 1935 by a freshman named C. Wright Mills.\n\n\n College students are supposed to become leaders of thought and action in later life. It is expected they will profit from a college education by developing an open and alert mind to be able to cope boldly with everyday problems in economics and politics. They cannot do this unless they learn to think independently for themselves and to stand fast for their convictions. Is the student at A and M encouraged to do this? Is he permitted to do it? The answer is sadly in the negative.\n\n\nLittle did he know that current students would be dealing with this shit 85 years later with a group of former students with nothing better to do than infiltrate student-run organizations from freshman orientation to the newspaper. But shocking no one, they were too incompetent to maintain the privacy of the school regents who met with them.\n\n\n According to meeting minutes from Dec. 1, 2020, the Rudder Association secured the attendance of four members of the A&M System Board of Regents. The meeting minutes obtained by The Battalion were censored by TRA to remove the names of the regents in the meeting as well as other \u201chighly sensitive information.\u201d\n\n\n\n \u201cDO NOT USE THEIR NAMES BEYOND THE RUDDER BOARD. They do not wish to be outed,\u201d the minutes read on the regents in attendance.\n\n\n\n Further examination by The Battalion revealed, however, that the censored text could be copied and pasted into a text document to be viewed in its entirety due to TRA using a digital black highlighter to censor.\n\n\nWell done, Battalion.\n\n(photo is from C. Wright Mills: Letters and autobiographical writings)"
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Verdict: three rectangles (iPhone SE, iPad Air, Studio Display) and one square (Mac Studio).
What’s the over/under on the number of rectangles that Apple announces on Tuesday? I’m thinking two, but I’ll take the over.
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"text": "What\u2019s the over/under on the number of rectangles that Apple announces on Tuesday? I\u2019m thinking two, but I\u2019ll take the over."
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