Once in a blue moon they are criticizing ultra-optimized addictive smartphone gambling apps and, yeah, gotta hand it to them, that one is capitalism and pretty concerning

Every once in a while they are instead criticizing something that 1) is genuinely awful 2) is a consequence of government policies restricting supply and 3) is way less bad in places that do less government restriction of supply

Usually when I see someone saying something awful is capitalism they are describing something that 1) is genuinely awful 2) is a consequence of material scarcity and 3) has gotten much much less bad under capitalism

Ok, closing X, serialized my many desktops / tabs / terminals into a todo list, desktop-zero, no more political schadenfreude, let's build resilient opt-in permissionless institutions that can withstand the next couple of centuries.

Privacy matters when you have things that matter: Family, friends, money... all 10 fingers. For everyone else, there's public ledgers. ~🛡️

I feel like Github PRs should be replaced by clientside local-first tools. A PR -> some signal that requests merging a branch onto a target branch PR review -> re-use the same signal as above, submit PR atop PR branch Now diff hunks need revision controlled comments. Done.

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i don't care imma keep sharing links in the main post. this is me rebelling

If we built technology that gave us effective government at half the human cost, it would be like unlocking 20+ years of life extension technology for everyone, immediately. This feels so achievable!

Call me crazy but I see a plan to finally unblock California High Speed Rail