Mindblown: culture, urbanism, leadership, technology.
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motd: 20250111
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The hard thing about banning Tik Tok
The hard thing about making a law and upholding it in the courts to ban Tik Tok is not coming up with reasons to do so, rather it is coming up with reasons to do so that don’t also apply to every social media platform. Nothing you can say about the dangers of Bytedance or…
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motd: 20250104
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Tariffs only work if …
Tariffs only work if they raise prices of imported goods above the cost of domestic goods because the purpose of a tariff is to create space in the competitive landscape for domestic producers to grow and prosper by raising the cost of the imported good so that domestic goods can undercut them on price in…
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Some bad intentions…
Bad Intentions The green bus passes through melike vibrating waves varying shades of ink Color It’s a pleasant enough sensationBut since I am paralyzed If the green bus continuesTo pass through me I will be left here foreverAs if betrayedBy some bad intentions of space and time Jim Carroll
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Modern life is out of control
Modern life is out of control. This is well known, in fact, it is so well known that we have entire industries dedicated to the attempts to put it back “under control”. Yet we organize and structure and tidy and balance to no avail, because modern life is out of control. Too little and too…
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My American Trauma
This is about what happens when you are wrong about who you are, how you see yourself, and what you think that means when conceptualizing yourself, the world, and your place in that world.
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The Source of Truth
When we use truth and fact synonymously we lose the very precision that folks who care about things enough to want a “source of truth” are seeking in the first place.
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I hung up on my mother
I hung up on my mother today because she was trying to make an argument justifying why ~20 million Joe Biden voters didn’t show up for Kamala Harris because she wasn’t competent. There are many, many reasons why this happened, and none of them have to do with the competency of Kamala Harris compared to…
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humanity is not important
Atoms in the human body: 7 x 1027Atoms in the human race: 5 x 1037 Atoms in the universe: 6 x 1079 Atoms in the human body / atoms in the universe: 1 x 10-52Atoms in the human race / atoms in the universe: 1 x 10-42 Zero percent of the atoms in the universe…