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Ummm this review is 9 years old.

Man yells at man yelling at cloud?

😂

The next version is going to be completely clear.

In his letter to the community explaining his decision to defy the Fed Gov't's demands, Harvard President Alan Garber included a link to the letter laying out those demands. Here it is:

www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

These guys really put the Con in conservative.

Democracy is serious business.

Proud to stand with probably 10,000 Californians protesting this government in Santa Rosa.

The square was completely filled. We were elbow to elbow almost two blocks away.

I can’t stop thinking about the fact that Jason Stanley and Timothy Snyder, the nation’s foremost academics and authors on fascism and tyranny, have essentially fled the country.

I thought I was good at telling jokes but it was just the Punning Kruger effect.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

This is blatantly illegal and dangerous beyond belief.

Our national security is in the hands of complete amateurs.

What other highly sensitive national security conversations are happening over group chat? Any other random people accidentally added to those, too?

The risk of politician coins comes from the fact that they are such a perfect bribery vehicle. If a politician issues a coin, you do not even need to send *them* any coins to give them money. Instead, you just buy and hold the coin, and this increases the value of their holdings passively. Furthermore, there is deniability: holding the coin is, in terms of financial effect, a linear combination of donating to the issuer and gambling. Hence you can have the intention of doing the former but when challenged claim that you are doing the latter. You can even hold the coin privately, and show that you are holding it to whoever you need to show; you do not need any zero knowledge proofs, you just send a test transaction. This is all risky to democracy, for reasons very similar to what I wrote in https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/08/16/voting3.html , https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2020/09/11/coordination.html and elsewhere. TLDR: the economic arguments for why markets are so great for "regular" goods and services do not extend to "markets for political influence". I recommend politicians do not go down this path.

On the risks of politician coins:

What’s the difference between a gov controlling an algorithm, silently eliminating reach for things it doesn’t like, vs the same gov using its power, to demand that the platform remove the things it doesn’t like.?

In China they are overt. With TikTok in the US, they control silently

Bryan MacCormack, the executive director of a New York-based immigrant rights group, was pulled over by CBP with two undocumented passengers in the vehicle. He knew his rights, refused to acknowledge their "warrant", and despite CBP threatening him, the agents eventually were forced to let him go.

@jvl.bsky.social with the perfect quote:

"That’s the dual hermeneutic the populists use for evaluating the world. If you’re an expert who got one thing wrong, it damns you. If you’re a total lunatic crank who gets one thing right, it makes makes you bulletproof."

Anything would be nice.

Trying to focus on being pissed off, but also getting distracted by how cyberpunk it is that I need to track down my own clone and kill it because it’s selling me out to the corpos

Over on Google, things are going great for 190 year-olds.

So disappointing to hear Gurley on BG2 promoting lab leak theory, Jay Bhattacharya and demeaning Fauci.

Why are the people whose candidate won so angry?

SO I WAKE IN THE MORNING
AND I STEP OUTSIDE
AND I TAKE A DEEP BREATH
AND I GET RUN OVER BY SOME ASSHOLE USING TESLA AUTOPILOT

Hi Mr. Boatclub.

With love, how do you feel about the name “blindboy”?

I’m wondering if you’ve had any reflections on it over the years, specifically in regards to people with vision disabilities.

If so, I’d love to hear them.

Respectfully,

Ed

PS. No judgement or agenda. ✌🏽♥️

Did it!?

$25 worth of veg is a tremendous success! WOW.

Let’s have a call next week!!!

I def buy gear with this in mind now.

Conscious of “how long is it going to take for me to know enough to have fun.”

Interestingly there are some things like the Chase Bliss Mood that I don’t understand but are still fun. 😂

Again:

We fight alongside people who are most impacted by harm because they are *people.* even if the harm they experience doesn’t spread or impact anyone else.

Even if the harmdoers are never coming for me.

A more free world is one in which we all show up because people are at risk. Any people.

You’ve gotta give Elon Musk some credit: Sure, he transformed Twitter into a haven for misinformation where the worst people on earth can pay to be first in your replies, but at least it doesn’t work

The Supreme Court using a completely fabricated harm to justify actual harm towards people who face real discrimination is an apt metaphor for modern conservatism

I think Ripple. I just saw a billboard that pitched exactly this.