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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
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The best years of your life are ahead of you. Also: don't overthink everything. You really can't control things, not even if you become a billionaire, look how crazy they go trying. Live, do your best day to day, be kind to yourself, and don't put things off hoping for the perfect moment.
people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
September 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The best years of your life are ahead of you. Also: don't overthink everything. You really can't control things, not even if you become a billionaire, look how crazy they go trying. Live, do your best day to day, be kind to yourself, and don't put things off hoping for the perfect moment.
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OK so feeling slightly apprehensive about this, which I suppose is kind of the point. This is an attempt at a progressive view on masculinity and on men getting laid. God help me. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...
How to be a man
The right story narrative about male attractiveness is grounded in Social Darwinism and free market economics. Can progressives tell a better story?
iandunt.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
OK so feeling slightly apprehensive about this, which I suppose is kind of the point. This is an attempt at a progressive view on masculinity and on men getting laid. God help me. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...
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Court ruling on legal definition of a woman ‘misinterpreted’, Lady Hale says www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may...
Court ruling on legal definition of a woman ‘misinterpreted’, Lady Hale says
Speaking at book festival in east Sussex, former supreme court president says reaction to judgment ‘very binary’
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Court ruling on legal definition of a woman ‘misinterpreted’, Lady Hale says www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may...
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This isn't true. I'm the person who ran the experiments this is BSing about. When search results are worse, people attempt fewer tasks. When they're better they attempt more.
May 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This isn't true. I'm the person who ran the experiments this is BSing about. When search results are worse, people attempt fewer tasks. When they're better they attempt more.
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NEW
How Trump used emergency legislation for his tariffs policy
The constitution provides that it is for Congress and not the president to set the terms of trade
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
How Trump used emergency legislation for his tariffs policy
The constitution provides that it is for Congress and not the president to set the terms of trade
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
April 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
NEW
How Trump used emergency legislation for his tariffs policy
The constitution provides that it is for Congress and not the president to set the terms of trade
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
How Trump used emergency legislation for his tariffs policy
The constitution provides that it is for Congress and not the president to set the terms of trade
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
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Exceptionally good analysis of the current geopolitical discussion re: Ukraine and Russia negotiations. x.com/nicholadrumm...
x.com
x.com
February 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Exceptionally good analysis of the current geopolitical discussion re: Ukraine and Russia negotiations. x.com/nicholadrumm...
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This table has the January 2025 foreign population breakdown by Tokyo wards. There's data for the 10 largest national groups, then all other nationalities are lumped together. Those ten groups are much changed from 25 years ago. www.toukei.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/gaikoku/2025...
February 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
This table has the January 2025 foreign population breakdown by Tokyo wards. There's data for the 10 largest national groups, then all other nationalities are lumped together. Those ten groups are much changed from 25 years ago. www.toukei.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/gaikoku/2025...
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As everyone's becoming an expert on Nvidia stock prices and moats and Jevons paradox, I've got a new Green Paper out on inclusive innovation, social capital, and technology diffusion - three things that literally no one is talking about! www.careful.industries/inclusive-in...
January 28, 2025 at 6:49 AM
As everyone's becoming an expert on Nvidia stock prices and moats and Jevons paradox, I've got a new Green Paper out on inclusive innovation, social capital, and technology diffusion - three things that literally no one is talking about! www.careful.industries/inclusive-in...
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Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
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Something to keep in mind for 2025
Written by James Miller of A Small Fiction
Written by James Miller of A Small Fiction
January 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Something to keep in mind for 2025
Written by James Miller of A Small Fiction
Written by James Miller of A Small Fiction
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Archives are precious, but most of the stuff I work with hasn't even been collected by archives! Defend your local archives. Expand them. Donate things to them. Preserve the things others haven't!
to share with your friends and colleagues if necessary
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 30, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Archives are precious, but most of the stuff I work with hasn't even been collected by archives! Defend your local archives. Expand them. Donate things to them. Preserve the things others haven't!
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Stop what you're doing and read this which is brilliant and fascinating and contains this snippet that will be of interest to all public technologists
December 22, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Stop what you're doing and read this which is brilliant and fascinating and contains this snippet that will be of interest to all public technologists
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And if you want to know more about the economic reality behind running high availability, actually innovative tech… signal.org/blog/signal-...
Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself. Since launching in 2013, the Signal...
signal.org
December 11, 2024 at 6:37 PM
And if you want to know more about the economic reality behind running high availability, actually innovative tech… signal.org/blog/signal-...
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Just a reminder that the aurora can move this fast and it is an absolutely jaw-dropping experience.
December 12, 2024 at 4:00 AM
Just a reminder that the aurora can move this fast and it is an absolutely jaw-dropping experience.
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When I hear people talk about deregulation, what I'm really hearing them say is: "any limitation on harming people is a limitation on profits".
December 6, 2024 at 3:38 AM
When I hear people talk about deregulation, what I'm really hearing them say is: "any limitation on harming people is a limitation on profits".
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interesting research study about how men with equitable partnerships at home can struggle to fit the expectations for them in the workplace. work-life balance conversations often center motherhood and IMO the male perspective isn't discussed as much as it should be
hbr.org/2018/08/whet...
hbr.org/2018/08/whet...
December 6, 2024 at 5:21 AM
interesting research study about how men with equitable partnerships at home can struggle to fit the expectations for them in the workplace. work-life balance conversations often center motherhood and IMO the male perspective isn't discussed as much as it should be
hbr.org/2018/08/whet...
hbr.org/2018/08/whet...
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6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...
6 hours under martial law in Seoul
On the ground from the protests outside the National Assembly building
www.theverge.com
December 4, 2024 at 10:04 AM
6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...
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From now on, every time there is a new proposal to backdoor e2ee apps, we're just going to point to this, right?
www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid cyberattack that exposed live phone calls
Officials from the FBI and CISA said it was impossible to predict when the telecommunications companies would be fully safe from interlopers.
www.nbcnews.com
December 4, 2024 at 1:35 AM
From now on, every time there is a new proposal to backdoor e2ee apps, we're just going to point to this, right?
www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
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Just kicked off a pre-order campaign for my forthcoming Random House edition of "Things Become Other Things." Pre-order and get a big discount to use in my SPECIAL PROJECTS shop and more; more info here:
craigmod.com/roden/098/#c...
craigmod.com/roden/098/#c...
TBOT Pre-order Campaign: GO! — Roden newsletter issue 098
Pre-order TBOT for Goodies
craigmod.com
December 3, 2024 at 12:57 AM
Just kicked off a pre-order campaign for my forthcoming Random House edition of "Things Become Other Things." Pre-order and get a big discount to use in my SPECIAL PROJECTS shop and more; more info here:
craigmod.com/roden/098/#c...
craigmod.com/roden/098/#c...
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DEI makes it so that the most talented people *are not excluded* if they happen to be Black, or women, or God forbid, Black women.
Racism makes it so that incompetent people *are included* if they are the right identity, and show the appropriate amount of loyalty. See "2024 cabinet selections."
Racism makes it so that incompetent people *are included* if they are the right identity, and show the appropriate amount of loyalty. See "2024 cabinet selections."
December 1, 2024 at 3:08 AM
DEI makes it so that the most talented people *are not excluded* if they happen to be Black, or women, or God forbid, Black women.
Racism makes it so that incompetent people *are included* if they are the right identity, and show the appropriate amount of loyalty. See "2024 cabinet selections."
Racism makes it so that incompetent people *are included* if they are the right identity, and show the appropriate amount of loyalty. See "2024 cabinet selections."
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“When someone first tries Geisha, they often ask, 'Is this really coffee?' because its profile is so different — more like fine perfume or white wine."
The Geisha bean is the leading lady of Tokyo's coffee scene
Named for a region of Ethiopia (and not Japan’s kimono-clad performers), Geisha has become the crown jewel of Tokyo’s flourishing specialty coffee scene.
buff.ly
November 30, 2024 at 7:04 AM
“When someone first tries Geisha, they often ask, 'Is this really coffee?' because its profile is so different — more like fine perfume or white wine."