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A German private industry consortium started censoring access to websites at the network level (via DNS). Right now based on their own (arbitrary, unqualified, unchecked) assessment of copyright violation.

(German vid) youtu.be/DSDjgK9PdTE

Free startup idea: export & host notion pages as regular static web pages.

Each time someone uses notion as their website it's so slow I find myself reevaluating if it's really THAT important.

RT @geoffreylitt
"say goodbye to confusing code forever! with our intuitive visual editor..."

Want: Research grants but for building open source software.

Seems like @BlackForestBoi is kiiiinda operating on that model with @worldbrain ?

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The personal computer is dead. We're all just terminals now.

Blogs (esp. substack) are a democratized version of magazines.

What's a democratized version of books?

RT @dril
might siphon some gasoline to generate a non fungible jordan peterson fortnite skin or what ever you fucking dopes think is good. idont know

They call it "late stage capitalism" only because they're lacking imagination.

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Both the Lord Mayor
and the Sheriffs are chosen
for terms of one year

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RT @LaptopLifeLisa
"Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that."
Rumi
twitter.com/LaptopLifeLisa/sta

"In case of extreme market irrationality, Emergency Shutdown gracefully settles the Maker Platform"
- Perhaps one of the most beautiful sentences in a long time.

I think this was the magic for me: nobody I talked to looked at it through the lens of oppression. I used the word oppression once, but I was the only one.

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It's good to remind ourselves that beyond the twitter identity wars and the awkward silence there's a whole world of reasonable people who want to improve our society together.

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Was happy to join a very constructive & interesting meeting on gender equity, diversity, and culture in academia at @snsf_ch's program.

Communism failed because it (supposedly) eliminated inequality of property, but not inequality of power.
Democracy is designed to eliminate inequality of power.

The HERD = Herd of Evernote-Replacing Diaries

Doorways are symbols of the matriarchy.

😂😂 then they wanted her to tell powerful stories about her lived experience of being a woman founder - during the process of serving pie, of course.
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@kate_manne Google once tried to get my pie company to provide free pie to their lunchtime crowd to "showcase a female business owner" for women's month. They also wanted me to serve it in person, so Google emplyees could meet a female business owner. V empoweri…
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