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Kevin Ashton 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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Called a thing the Internet of Things—Wrote How to Fly A Horse—http://amzn.to/1jTEwzf—He/Him—Agents: Richard Pine/Inkwell (Literary)—Mary Ellen/Leigh Bureau (Speaking)—Austin, TX—The Story of Stories coming March 3, 2026—I do not argue, debate, or engage.
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austinkelmore.com
One of our union organisers said recently that most execs can't understand solidarity because they've never experienced it and that felt so accurate to me.

They desperately want love, respect, and community, but they also crave power and those do not all align.
November 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out thatwhat a country values can change overtime. Sometimes, though, there's a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you've actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word - but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass - and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island - even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
kevinashton.bsky.social
y'all realize this is doctored, right
November 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
kevinashton.bsky.social
btw, I just looked at the (terrible) doordash document. it tries to hide it, but it shows inflation; for example restaurants are about 9% more expensive than last year
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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fatnutritionist.bsky.social
tl;dr "trashy people eat this food, which makes this food trashy, and if I then eat that food, I will become trashy myself" is a social opinion (a shitty one), not a scientific opinion, but people will never stop trying to use nutritional terminology to legitimize their shitty social opinions
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM