Brian
@briancarroll.bsky.social
Tech startups and data driven optimism
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👇 Humanity has done something genuinely remarkable here, and it’s worth stopping for a moment to appreciate it.
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tinyurl.com/264gavaq
September 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
👇 Humanity has done something genuinely remarkable here, and it’s worth stopping for a moment to appreciate it.
tinyurl.com/264gavaq
tinyurl.com/264gavaq
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this one sorcerer who lives across the street keeps casting a spell that changes my opinions about stuff and i love it
September 8, 2024 at 12:44 AM
this one sorcerer who lives across the street keeps casting a spell that changes my opinions about stuff and i love it
Price discrimination will be a massive, massive battle in the coming years . . .
This aspect of enshittification, which Cory Doctorow calls "twiddling", just blew my mind. thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
June 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Price discrimination will be a massive, massive battle in the coming years . . .
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It’s been fun watching the unlikely rise of MCP as a standard, which is open and messy in a way that mimics the dynamics of the good parts of Web 2.0. Maybe something interesting will happen! www.anildash.com//2025/05/20/...
MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0 - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
It’s been fun watching the unlikely rise of MCP as a standard, which is open and messy in a way that mimics the dynamics of the good parts of Web 2.0. Maybe something interesting will happen! www.anildash.com//2025/05/20/...
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What do governments spend money on?
May 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
What do governments spend money on?
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A perfect moment in time with your best friends:
May 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A perfect moment in time with your best friends:
Brenda Carroll really needs to stop using my email in all her sweepstakes applications. One day I'll find you Brenda!!
May 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Brenda Carroll really needs to stop using my email in all her sweepstakes applications. One day I'll find you Brenda!!
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Wolf Parade - "I'll Believe In Anything" (2005)
May 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Wolf Parade - "I'll Believe In Anything" (2005)
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Newsletter: Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it.
www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...
www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...
Trump’s newest grift: Building a cryptocurrency empire while destroying its regulators
Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it
www.citationneeded.news
April 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Newsletter: Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it.
www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...
www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...
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This is the fuel mix in ERCOT (Texas) for the past week (top) vs same week 4 years ago (bottom). Solar generation is in yellow. Solar barely registered in 2021; today it accounts for roughly 50% of generation during the day in the shoulder months.
data via @gridstatus.io
data via @gridstatus.io
April 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is the fuel mix in ERCOT (Texas) for the past week (top) vs same week 4 years ago (bottom). Solar generation is in yellow. Solar barely registered in 2021; today it accounts for roughly 50% of generation during the day in the shoulder months.
data via @gridstatus.io
data via @gridstatus.io
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european tourism to the united states: freefalling
April 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
european tourism to the united states: freefalling
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Age verification laws aren’t protecting kids. They’re building surveillance systems.
> 20 U.S. states want websites to collect IDs to block “harmful content” but what’s getting blocked is LGBTQ+ art, fan spaces, and education. The risk? Massive data leaks + government overreach. Our blog highlights👇
> 20 U.S. states want websites to collect IDs to block “harmful content” but what’s getting blocked is LGBTQ+ art, fan spaces, and education. The risk? Massive data leaks + government overreach. Our blog highlights👇
April 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Age verification laws aren’t protecting kids. They’re building surveillance systems.
> 20 U.S. states want websites to collect IDs to block “harmful content” but what’s getting blocked is LGBTQ+ art, fan spaces, and education. The risk? Massive data leaks + government overreach. Our blog highlights👇
> 20 U.S. states want websites to collect IDs to block “harmful content” but what’s getting blocked is LGBTQ+ art, fan spaces, and education. The risk? Massive data leaks + government overreach. Our blog highlights👇
It's like RFK's brainworm was deputized by the virus kingdom: A sort of long-hatched plot, Bene Gesserit-style, to bring plagues back to the human race.
Brainworm and viruses winning this round . . .
Brainworm and viruses winning this round . . .
The HHS Friday evening DOGE www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
RFK Jr. to gut vaccine promotion and HIV prevention office, sources say
Much of the federal government's efforts to buoy lagging childhood vaccination rates have been run through the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy.
www.cbsnews.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It's like RFK's brainworm was deputized by the virus kingdom: A sort of long-hatched plot, Bene Gesserit-style, to bring plagues back to the human race.
Brainworm and viruses winning this round . . .
Brainworm and viruses winning this round . . .
Five years since the NBA canceled its remaining games March 11 2020 due to COVID and the lockdowns began shortly thereafter.
Surprised I haven't seen more retrospectives or anniversary coverage of it this week.
Feels like a big milestone to me.
Surprised I haven't seen more retrospectives or anniversary coverage of it this week.
Feels like a big milestone to me.
March 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Five years since the NBA canceled its remaining games March 11 2020 due to COVID and the lockdowns began shortly thereafter.
Surprised I haven't seen more retrospectives or anniversary coverage of it this week.
Feels like a big milestone to me.
Surprised I haven't seen more retrospectives or anniversary coverage of it this week.
Feels like a big milestone to me.
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There will always be a lag in real time translation even if computers continue to get faster and faster. Sentence structure is to blame. Beautiful to look at though.
March 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
There will always be a lag in real time translation even if computers continue to get faster and faster. Sentence structure is to blame. Beautiful to look at though.
Didn't realize the federal government owns 80% of the land in Nevada:
www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/u...
March 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Didn't realize the federal government owns 80% of the land in Nevada:
www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/u...
The IRS cuts have got to be in the top five dumbest Trump moves.
A 2024 GAO report found the IRS netted a savings of $13,000 for every additional hour spent auditing wealthy individuals’ tax returns.
Watch reporter @andykroll.bsky.social break down how DOGE cuts to the IRS could cost more than DOGE will ever save ⤵️
📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social
Watch reporter @andykroll.bsky.social break down how DOGE cuts to the IRS could cost more than DOGE will ever save ⤵️
📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social
How DOGE Cuts to the IRS Could Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save
YouTube video by ProPublica
www.youtube.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The IRS cuts have got to be in the top five dumbest Trump moves.
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Estimates by @charlesjkenny.bsky.social @justsand.bsky.social:
US foreign aid likely prevents 2.3 to 5.6 million deaths annually, largely in Africa.
And that a complete disruption would result in over 4000 lives lost per day.
US foreign aid likely prevents 2.3 to 5.6 million deaths annually, largely in Africa.
And that a complete disruption would result in over 4000 lives lost per day.
March 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Estimates by @charlesjkenny.bsky.social @justsand.bsky.social:
US foreign aid likely prevents 2.3 to 5.6 million deaths annually, largely in Africa.
And that a complete disruption would result in over 4000 lives lost per day.
US foreign aid likely prevents 2.3 to 5.6 million deaths annually, largely in Africa.
And that a complete disruption would result in over 4000 lives lost per day.
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March 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
US gov is paying $1.2T per year in interest expense, more than on defense!
And piling on $300B of new debt per month . . .
And piling on $300B of new debt per month . . .
March 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
US gov is paying $1.2T per year in interest expense, more than on defense!
And piling on $300B of new debt per month . . .
And piling on $300B of new debt per month . . .
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Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.
Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…
propub.li
March 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.
There's a world where we'd cheer a reduction in vaccination - after a disease like smallpox gets eradicated. Polio got close to eradication, etc.
Perhaps we could convince conservatives to double down on eradication efforts short-term so that they don't have to vaccinate their kids long-term?
Perhaps we could convince conservatives to double down on eradication efforts short-term so that they don't have to vaccinate their kids long-term?
This trend is terrible and will eventually have serious public health consequences. The result of a public that is less knowledgeable than it should be while not having a lived memory of polio outbreaks and the like.
March 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
There's a world where we'd cheer a reduction in vaccination - after a disease like smallpox gets eradicated. Polio got close to eradication, etc.
Perhaps we could convince conservatives to double down on eradication efforts short-term so that they don't have to vaccinate their kids long-term?
Perhaps we could convince conservatives to double down on eradication efforts short-term so that they don't have to vaccinate their kids long-term?
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wanna feel old? it used to be Crime AND Punishment
March 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
wanna feel old? it used to be Crime AND Punishment
I like to return to this Paul Graham essay on bullshit once a year or so: paulgraham.com/vb.html
Life is Short
paulgraham.com
March 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I like to return to this Paul Graham essay on bullshit once a year or so: paulgraham.com/vb.html