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Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 14:52:56 JST Steve Randy Waldman -
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Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 05:48:19 JST Steve Randy Waldman Winner-take-all markets make first-to-market the only thing, which means best-to-market may never come at all.
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Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 00:20:48 JST Steve Randy Waldman it seems like the more the Harris campaign wins endorsement of high-profile ex-Republicans, the worse it does in the polls. hmmm.
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Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 01:34:35 JST Steve Randy Waldman i liked it better when “the facts of life” referred to sex stuff.
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Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 01:32:22 JST Steve Randy Waldman “The point of Open-Source isn’t and has never been ‘source available’. That’s just a prerequisite and a nice to have. The purpose has always been giving users the freedom to use for whatever purpose, or to fork the software, which in turn translates to lower development costs for the software makers.” @alexelcu https://alexn.org/blog/2024/09/06/trusting-open-source/
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Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 00:08:18 JST Steve Randy Waldman if you vote early or by mail, but then die before election day, does/should your vote count?
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Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 11:35:04 JST Steve Randy Waldman If it says “urgent” in the subject line, it’s not.
If it says “personal” in the sender line, it’s not.
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Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 09:39:01 JST Steve Randy Waldman the “broken windows fallacy” is indeed a fallacy, but let the windowpane lobby gain a lot of influence and you’ll find policy develop to encourage just this kind of “growth”.
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Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 03:48:25 JST Steve Randy Waldman “Stephen Colbert, unforgettably, labeled Republicans’ habit of uttering things that feel emotionally true, even though they are made up, as ‘truthiness.’ The Democrats had their own, photo-negative version of truthiness: utterances that are meticulously factual, but that convey an unmistakable emotional falsiness.” @Rickperlstein https://prospect.org/politics/2024-08-26-say-it-to-my-face-democrats-truth/ ht @ddayen
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Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 15:41:23 JST Steve Randy Waldman fraud fraud is when you fraudulently allege a fraud that in actual fact was not fraudulent.
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Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 14:50:17 JST Steve Randy Waldman trying desperately to undo what he has done to himself, Trump will soon announce he supports abortions until age three.
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Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 14:19:56 JST Steve Randy Waldman “Generally speaking, firms with more market power can price gouge, so [price gouging] laws are sometimes known as ‘antitrust as last resort.’” @matthewstoller https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-price-gouging-vs
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Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 21:31:29 JST Steve Randy Waldman cc @ryanlcooper ht @ChrisMayLA6 @KimSJ https://theconversation.com/no-government-in-half-a-century-has-built-300-000-homes-every-year-but-thats-what-labour-wants-to-do-now-236442
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Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 11:02:15 JST Steve Randy Waldman It begins.
(The Supreme Court’s sabotage of the regulatory state begins to take effect.)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/12/air-force-epa-water-pfas-tucson
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Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 04:20:44 JST Steve Randy Waldman "High-powered lobbyists like Tony Podesta and others came up with a new playbook to brush back regulatory oversight by paying outside researchers to launder industry talking points through the guise of neutral 'expertise.'" #LukeGoldstein https://prospect.org/justice/2024-08-09-will-googles-monopoly-be-vanquished/
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Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 04:33:50 JST Steve Randy Waldman Once crypto was wrapped behind ETFs, I thought it'd trade just like any other contract on NASDAQ.
I gave it a try today. (Given the political decision to entrench rather than crush crypto, I think a small allocation in a portfolio towards proof-of-stake crypto may be reasonable.)
Interestingly, my broker requires I apply for special trading permissions.
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Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 04:29:53 JST Steve Randy Waldman A Kamala/Walz ticket is one I can get fully behind, not just as a bulwark against fascism but as a vehicle for social-democratic change.
(I was already very Kamala-amped, but the Walz choice helped ease my fears that she might be too close to Obama-esque, neolib-lite "moderates".)
I've made a new donation, and signed up to volunteer. https://web.kamalaharris.com/forms/take-action-for-kamala-harris/
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Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 05:45:02 JST Steve Randy Waldman from #RobHorning https://robhorning.substack.com/p/companionship-without-companions
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Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 05:54:08 JST Steve Randy Waldman "It matters that the average American associates the great software giants with the feeling of lost agency." #TannerGreer https://scholars-stage.org/uber-is-a-poor-replacement-for-utopia/
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Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 16:15:35 JST Steve Randy Waldman sociopaths are easy to deal with if you keep in mind one, simple rule: the less sociopathic behavior pays off, the less sociopaths will behave sociopathically.
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