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An electrical engineer by trade; a home DIYer by experience; a drag queen by coincidence. I'm a reformed technologist and a technology reformist. Be honest. Be grateful. Forgive. #MakeAndrogynyGlamorousAgain
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Anyone else finding Substack to be a place for big ideas and human kindness and sanity? I'll be spending more time there.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone just walk out. Seriously.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Every single invention should only be as good as it needs to be. Then move on.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

🤣 "You have a clever way of rejecting God's law in order to uphold your own teaching." - Regular Jesus, Mark 7:9

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I just heard this quote referenced from "Time Enough for Love" by Robert Heinlein. “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying,..." 🧵1/2

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

The word “phonetic” is, in fact, not.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

It's an attention economy so speak with your "capital:" quit feeding the trolls, unsubscribe from corrosive public figures, and engage with the leaders you WISH were in charge. To those leaders I say "please do the same."

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I've worked in high-tech E2E sales (engineer-to-engineer) for 17 years. Old strategies include strategic discounts, focus only on the largest markets, and answer competition blow-for-blow. My method is attention-driven: ignore the competitor's existence and offer something too good to be ignored.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Someone check my work but 0.01% of the owners controlling 60% of the assets does not sound like a democratized monetary system. At the risk of sounding arrogant: I can do it better.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

#IIWKFAD <if-i-were-king-for-a-day> I would name @meredithmeredith.bsky.social my Internet czar. Not only would she liberate the online world by the end of the day, she would liberate you all from this very monarchy that began at the top of this post. </if-i-were-king-for-a-day>

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submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

I rather like the attention economy. As a currency, attention has a fixed supply. Each day we receive a UBI payment of 24 attention tokens and we freely choose where to spend them. It encourages spending because you cannot save them. How it’s spent indicates who our leaders are (or should be?).

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

There’s a lot about tech that I love. But do we really need to “AI all the things?” Is there room for people in the future? Also let’s not: “WiFi all the things” or “delivery all the things” or “app all the things” or “subscription all the things” or “surcharge all the thing”

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Yes! Please consider using "Signal." It is a completely free, end-to-end encrypted, open-source messaging app. They take pride in NOT keeping or watching ANY of your data. This may come in handy, y'all. It's kind of like CB radios and FM receivers in case other channels become "compromised." Donate!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Six years old and yet never more true. “Help us, Protocol-Kenobi—you’re our only hope.”

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I have been chronically pissed for the last year. Should I see a doctor? Should I get back into weightlifting? Or should I take this angry energy, grab the system by the balls, and tell it, “WE own you now, bitch!”?

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Is #technoligarchy a word?

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

I can relate! All of the expertise in real estate transaction (agents, lawyers, inspectors, appraisers) charge so much money, have bad incentives, and answer most of my critical questions like "how much should we offer" with "legally I'm not allowed to say." I need the expertise AND your opinion!!!!

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments