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reading alexander hamilton's biography and becoming a hamilton-laurens relationship truther

> hamilton meets eliza schuyler
> decides to marry her
> doesn't tell best friend john laurens
> when he finally does, he's like "she's fine i guess but you're still my #1"
> historians: "just friends"

excerpt from ron chernow's biography on alexander hamilton. this paragraph describes hamilton's letter to john laurens where he describes eliza schuyler

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · Aug 18

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding.

The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · Aug 15

hamilton walked so belly could run

hamilton between angelica and eliza schuyler (sisters)

belly between jeremiah and conrad (brothers) from tsitp

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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · Jul 25

For example, Anthropic’s MCP (an open protocol equivalent for AI models) has been adopted by many other labs including OpenAI, and I’m unsure if a non-frontier lab introducing MCP would have the same influence (at least at the same speed)

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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · Jul 25

if Elon never purchased Twitter and
- Bluesky stays within Twitter to develop atproto
- Twitter keeps original intention to adopt atproto
- atproto now has 300M+ users

Maybe that would’ve applied much more pressure to other mainstream networks to adopt open standards, given Twitter’s size

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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · Jul 25

on the surface Elon’s purchase of Twitter has made the need for open networks (somewhat) clear to consumers, but I’m not convinced this was net more effective for the movement for open protocols

Rabble @rabble.nz · Jul 25

Did Elon buying Twitter actually help the open internet and the movement for social media protocols?

revolution.social Podcast @revolution.social · Jul 25

Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover might be the best thing to happen to apps built on open protocols.

But @karaswisher.bsky.social tells @rabble.nz that people won’t switch unless these apps are more convenient.

🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0X1D... 🍎 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/kg/podcast/k...