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r.v.cx

Pretty sure I’m right about: - RFC 3339 dates - ISO 216 paper sizes - Fahrenheit weather temperatures - Dot-grid paper - End-to-end encryption - Software engineering being about collaboration costs Less confident about the rest. https://linktr.ee/rvcx

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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

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Amidst "the US federal government is evil", I've been revisiting my longstanding obsession with useful applications of blockchain. In particular, DAOs—federated organizations with formal rules for achieving consensus among stakeholders—seem valuable.

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I deeply resent anyone who makes Newsom the good guy.

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There’s plenty to gripe about re the NYT, but honestly little has angered me more than this article (in the Cooking section). It ostensibly discusses how economic trends translate to breakfast sandwich prices, but ostentatiously refuses to actually do anything but transcribe complaints. 1/3

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It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling. Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.

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Bluesky: Nazis not welcome Twitter: Nazis welcome Truth Social: That one Nazi, plus fanboys Mastodon: Nazis please use our software!

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I have an ex-track friend who has been posting on Insta about continuing to run through her pregnancy, and I am proud to say that I’m now officially faster than she is over 5k. But it took until seven months.

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A thing that I never understood at Google was that dudes set anime girls—often animated gifs—as their profile pics. So at the bottom of big conference calls you’d have little cartoons of tweens doing sexy poses. I always thought you could do one round of staff cuts based just on that.

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There's a strong connection between "Trump is playing 4d chess" and "LLMs are general artificial intelligence". Both are vague flood-the-zone approaches that can be engrossing to engage with. Neither has any strategic depth. Both fall apart in the face of any analysis or follow-up questions.

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A lot of folks are outraged that a news organization wouldn’t want its journalists making personal attacks against those they’re supposed to be reporting on. And “reporters” count on those folks to pay for their newsletters when they transition from journalism to the influencer profession.

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It takes only a brief skim of BlueSky to see all the lefties wishing LA were past the point of no return—either to egg on cathartic riots or to tut-tut at the strategic error of such riots. Now more than ever the reality on the ground matters, and shilling for MAGA fiction is not helpful.

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The reminder seems relevant today.

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Apropos of another thread I’m on: there is nothing the MAGA fascists want more than antifa violence in LA. Lawlessness is pure win for jack-booted thugs.

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I don’t block people for not knowing the difference between “your” and “you’re”. But I think about it.

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“Covert operations” Step 1: get judges to accept some first amendment restrictions around disclosing confidential information about active covert operations Step 2: claim even the most public operations are covert, and that what members of the public see with their own eyes is confidential

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If your complaint is that this is hindsight: current “these crypto bros seems trustworthy…”

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What odds are we putting on “SpaceX inks contract with Iran to develop launch systems for ICBMs” headlines in eighteen months?

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If only there had been any sign that a Musk company wouldn’t be a solid and reliable government contractor for decades to come.

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As a Gen Xer, I was subjecting to endless propaganda about marijuana as a “gateway drug”. There is far more truth to caffeine (Trump’s famous Diet Coke dependence) as a gateway drug for the many stimulants that Trump is widely reported to have been hooked on for decades.

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The thing about Musk that has always underscored the fraudulence of the “autistic genius” narrative is that there are countless stories of personality-driven posturing and none—zero—of him geeking out over details. “Let me lecture a podcaster about the brief I got” is the limit of his depth.

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