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Drew Sparks
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@erinchack viral tweet: america is wrong about everything except fahrenheit. farenheit is the correct way to measure temperature. fahrenheit is like "man, it's so hot out. it's gotta be like.......100 hots."
June 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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swiftonsecurity.com
Okay the Trump administration is incompetent but a guy out of his mind just swinging a knife around is basically a nightmare opponent
March 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Happy Ides of March, @nytwirecutter.bsky.social is missing the opportunity to toss this out there today
www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/l...
Build Your Own Knife Set
The best knife set is the one you put together yourself. Here are the knives we've come to love after decades in professional and home kitchens.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
drewksparks.bsky.social
Great read - I was just there last week and had no idea the damn thing existed.
thetransitguy.com Hayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com · Feb 28
This is the main train station for the 20th largest city in the world's largest economy (population 700k). It offers six trains per day in each direction on weekdays.
February 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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sapiosiren.bsky.social
I'm jealous of people who know how to shut the fuck up.
I shut up and subtitles appear on my face.
February 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
drewksparks.bsky.social
saw my first blatant AI generated billboard today
a woman is saying `` this is the bad place ! ''
ALT: a woman is saying `` this is the bad place ! ''
media.tenor.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM