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A year late to this but I'm so sad that the mayor reorganized and rebranded the NYC office of IT stuff from Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications ("DoITT") to the "Office of Technology and Innovation", DoITT was such a cute acronym and vibe

But the point is: It is MUCH easier to be a participating reformer. That's where the resources are. "Building better tech" is what's gets you grants, papers, and a fancy jobs in big tech.

Abolitionist community groups get scraps. Advocating to not build is less comfy.

famous person death shitpost, i'm sorry 

@shashashasha and yet kissinger lives

live in such a way that the NY Post will make a stupid pun headline about your death

famous person death shitpost, i'm sorry 

looks like cormac mccarthy reached the end of...the road

@collopy also man, Rockefeller Foundation was just everywhere in the history of science and technology in the 20th century!!

britannica.com/video/185632/fo highlights of this weird video on how quartz becomes sand:

- the "everyday examples" of using sand are making sand castles (sure), keeping time with an hourglass (I guess if you're literally Jafar), and fracking (???)

- comparing quartz chemical bonds (strong) to orthoclase and olivine (weaker): "kind of like how a relationship forged in the heat of passion might not be as stable as deep bond developed over time" did...did something happen to this narrator?

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: uncanny allure, the big news, expectations, not insane, all that math, phosphorescent steel

help I'm being haunted by the ghosts of cringemas past present and future

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@Wolven found a page in...2018?...where I just wrote "corn cobs" in all caps and nothing else, what the hell

drew a blank on "our flag means death" and called it "what we do in the pirates" instead

going through old diaries and vacillating between "destroy these, they are so cringe" and "future generations need to understand that keeping a diary is incredibly cringe"

@christa incredible people were saying that in like, the late 1970s

4 years ago today I brought home Kitty and what a gift to live with this gentle giant. Here's one of the first pictures I took of her from that day.

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.