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Gentleman pirate 🏴‍☠️. I design systems and hang out with senior citizens in plant clubs. #devs #ma #music
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If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.

submitted 6 hours ago • 411 comments

Constituent: When will you stand up to them and say that is enough? Rep. Fitzgerald: The end result of the fraud and abuse that has been discovered Crowd: Booo

submitted 1 day ago • 290 comments

"Six weeks ago, we had the strongest economy, employment, and stock market in history. ..All gone in 30 days."

submitted 1 day ago • 344 comments

What scares me most about social media is the continuous measurement of sentiment, resulting in an elastic collar scenario where the culture just continuously adjusts in different ways to release tension while quality of life just continues to degrade. How do we pull in such a way to slip the knot?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

We live in an age where everything around us is falling apart. The attention economy has created a feedback loop of optimized delivery of low quality solutions to meet urgent needs created by that deficit. It's a nightmarish scenario where the only value that exists is in the cycle itself.

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I love this article, I keep it around as a writing prompt for a dystopic sci-fi story I have yet to write. I've amassed a literal mad-libs collection of these over the years. This particular one would be my opening. #writing

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I once viewed robots as appliances meant to free us from the drudgery of labor. All I see now are grotesque biomimetic horrors put upon humanity by tech bros, where they will optimize for the labor these machines can't do or that might wear them out. Tech used to be a bicycle. Now it's a collar.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I'm due for a reread of the book, "The Gulag Archipelago." Thinking I can pick up some survival tips?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

submitted 1 day ago • 717 comments

You can just see the fear in the gold market. Remember, gold pays no interest, so they are either betting on panic that will drive up prices or trying to find a safe place from a future drop. I think it's going to come in April with the jobs report?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

“S&P 500 Consumer Discretionary sector has wiped out all gains since the end of November.” (via Kevin Gordon)

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Not only did Boomers trash politics, they mortgaged their grandchildrens futures, then figured out how to blow up America and take everything with them on the way out.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

So, how's everybody dealing with the daily despair? #coping

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

It feels weird trying to figure out how to describe my experience of being impacted by racism as a minority at a predominantly Asian company. At the top line, it is just being shuffled from areas where you have strengths to those of weakness. Managers siloing you...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments