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I can only hope that bigger companies go all in on agents integrated into slack-like software. More fake work, slower orgs, and easier targets for companies that prioritize building stuff over fetishizing overengineered IRC with emojis pretending to be productivity software.

Just chiming in that there are lots of threats that aren't state level attackers. In fact for most people the threat is never gonna be the border guard. It's your parents, an abusive partner, a sibling, a school admin or an employer.

Just because something does work vs the NSA or the FBI, that doesn't make it useless

For those interested in early internet pioneers, Wired did a collab with the internet society around the 1st group of folks inducted into the Hall of Fame, where wired independently wrote profiles of almost all of them.

https://www.internethalloffame.org/tag/2012/

Click on a profile, scroll to the bottom and click the Wired link

Al Gore and Vint Cerf were both inaugural inductees in the Internet Hall of Fame

The Internet gets a hall of fame (yes including Al Gore) | CNN Business https://share.google/zmVES2oM7hINsW3mq

Indeed a great trick. I often double it to TKTK just to make it stand out even more.

Fun fact: the Ghost.org editor looks for TK

https://ghost.org/changelog/tk-reminders/

They are spreading but the tech bro forums, as always, hate it. Make your case creative and not another grey 3d printed case? You'll either get ignored or condescended to.

Post your creation on a social channel not dominated by white bros?

You are fake, a culture miner and engagement farming.

See the post above for a textbook way of rejecting anyone who isn't a white tech bro.

Actually blocking a road in SF can get you a felony conspiracy count with this DA, especially if they don't like your message

San Francisco’s Case Against Pro-Palestinian Activists Who Blocked Bridge Heads to Jury | KQED https://share.google/4RstsRSYbqY2lEdhn

I miss Pivotal Tracker

Maybe count this in the "feature,not a big" column?

Github is making engineers more productive by turning off distracting fake work tools

The kicker on this story is glorious

Former. She stepped down

This is a great behind-the-scenes look at the NSA-Hepting case.

Can't wait to read Cohn's book.

Also RIP Mark Klein. A true American hero who never tried to turn his whistle-blowing into becoming a celebrity.

Love Pendleton but they have moved some production to Mexico and other spots. Check before you buy

For example, Pendleton Ganado Matelassé Blanket | Belk https://share.google/0QaaEXgLnNu0EKClr

https://infowarslawsuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1-Oct...

You can read the defamation complaint. Sure looks like Jones did way more than talk about other people's theories.

https://infowarslawsuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1-Oct...

Close but a lot of this, as Sen Wyden points out, turns on how NSA and DoJ lawyers define terms. So you get situations where bulk collection of communications of Americans to Americans into a data center isn't considered interception until a human looks at it. There's so much we don't know because the policies/legal interpretation and the FISA court rulings on them are secret. Sen Wyden tries to warn but he can only hint at the real dangers and policies

Nah, they just finally decided to stop hanging out at the fascist playground. Seems like you like it there though

You can't meaningfully calculate the budget including social security. This is a trust fund that you get back depending on how much you made and how long you live. And whether the outlays are taxed or not depends on your income at payment.

The whole site would be way more informative if social security was broken out.

Even better if it included how much you and your employer spend on health care, because most people are literally spending more because there is no universal health care.

The only thing useful in the whole thing is how much tax money goes to "defense"

If you thought Slack logs were damning in discovery, wait til someone suing or prosecuting you figures out that everything you typed and looked at, etc., is in the cloud

It was too early and a bit of a dangerous design, but the StokeMonkey was built for torque and worked great at low speeds.

Some pedicab folks in Austin used to use them.

Hill climbing video YouTube https://share.google/iLrHXvjAKMO4esAux

Design info https://share.google/iLrHXvjAKMO4esAux

R.I.P. Sheldon

https://www.wired.com/2008/02/sheldon-brown-w/

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These are increasingly harder to get, sadly. My credit union won't anymore. I have to keep a debit card locked

The video for that song uses excerpts from the movie version of Johnny Got His Gun. I don't know if the songwriting was inspired by it but the video certainly was. Because the video relied so much on the excerpts the band ended up buying the rights to the movie just to not pay royalties.

Hilariously, I won a writing prize about this connection as a teenager in 1989. Fun to see you had a similar experience

What an amazing life

Booker T and the MGs also recorded one of the best Christmas albums of all time

https://tidal.com/browse/album/216317?u

I'd say too we aren't the only ones. Plausible Analytics is a great, mission-driven, open-soutce non-profit providing cookie-free web analytics.

And they let us bulk buy for our member publishers.

There's so much potential in what you are suggesting!

I agree and it's happening. I co-founded Outpost Publishers Cooperative as a member services co-op to provide enterprise-level subscription services to publishers on Ghost (which is a non-profit).

I'm biased but I think the model of member-service co-ops (like Ace Hardware) providing tailored software services to particular industries is fertile ground. Free of VC incentives, reasonably profitable, aligned incentives, and the state of software tooling makes this doable.

And since this model doesn't require capturing as much value as a VC funded venture, it's more sustainable.

But the hard thing is figuring out how to get to decent product without upfront investment, in lieu of investment models that don't require outsize returns.

I can think of ways to create early capital but I've yet to see an industry think through how to fund smart suppliers without falling into the trap of thinking they need to be VCs.

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Which itself was a sequel to Brooks's first and underappreciated Western, The Wild Bunch (1969)

California's net neutrality law bans these kinds of paid interconnections, but they likely exist as all these deals are wrapped in 15 layers of NDAs