Steven and Alice smiling and holding each other’s books
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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Members of the #LongCOVID community warned that this would happen 👇
I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds
Earthquake (delayed)
Substack aims to become a main publisher of news and information in the 21st century, which would give the company tremendous power to tilt the political discourse toward far-right politics.
www.theframelab.org/why-framelab...
Not often! Would love to chat soon tho :)
Maybe?
Sonic boom ?!
I mean… a lot of people definitely do
There is no power on earth for authors like word of mouth. Especially with the death of Twitter, so many of us have lost huge chunks of our reach. So please, if you love a book, tell your friends and talk it up on your social media. No voice is too small, every single word counts. And thank you!
using substack directly funds rightwing agitprop. this is not in question.
substack is a UBI program for fash: they actively recruit them and pay them in advance.
What We Know About Covid’s Impact on Your Brain. Scientists worry that persistent cognitive issues caused by Covid signal that a surge in dementia cases and other mental conditions is on the horizon. By Jason Gale March 4, 2025 at 5:02 AM GMT+11 Brain PET images of patients with long Covid from three French nuclear medicine departments, CHRU of Nancy, Timone Hospital, APHM Marseille and Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, APHP, Paris. Source: Courtesy of Eric Guedj, Aix-Marseille University, France, adapted from European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, July 2022.
What We Know About Covid’s Impact on Your Brain.
"Scientists worry that persistent cognitive issues caused by Covid signal that a surge in dementia cases and other mental conditions is on the horizon."
Source: archive.md/IZx1h
Not sure if this is what’s happening but aoc said R’s were showing up early to fill dem seats to make it look like both sides were applauding.
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Again, the revenue they are sharing w/ Nazis is money YOU spend on your fave substackers.
If you're accepting paid subscriptions on substack— and putting content behind a pay wall—you are inherently asking your readers to share that money w/ Nazis. "You can't read this unless you give Nazis money."
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
WARNING IT IS POSSIBLE TO SURVIVE THIS BUT NOT UNALTERED
Roses are red
Our resolve hasn't faltered
An iron triangle diagram balances Business, Technology, and Usage forces. A hexagon is inscribed within the triangle, and its vertices are labeled Operator, Architect, Technologist, Innovator, Advocate, and Growth.
Clearly there cannot be "one way to do product management." I, myself, organize PM into six fundamental flavors, as shown in this diagram (note the labels along the legs of the triangle).
Full post: sociotechnical.org/archive/six-...
[1/9] #productmanagement
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'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
The problem, ultimately, is that people seem to think categories are real things, things that exist in nature.
And they aren't.
NATURE exists in nature.
Any finer distinction is something that we draw - and we have to decide where to draw it.
Also perhaps a nice pint of scrumpy?
VOC reading Friday Jan 17, northridge California. Readings since 12am all low, around 1 or 2 (under 25 according to the way this sensor measures), one spike into moderate around 10am.
Friday am VOC reading: avg 7. Spiked when using packing tape near sensor (unsure if the cause).
#vocLA #northridge #sanfernandovalley
Looking into ways to measure VOC around LA with the intention of finding other folks to help measure and share info publicly. Tons of tools for smoke and aqi but nothing for VOC so far. Let’s change that
LA restaurants providing free meals for fire victims
www.latimes.com/food/list/lo...
Photos of Muhammad Ali, 1968 / The unknown photographer / The Grateful Dead, 1967
Who captured these historic 1960s San Francisco snapshots? 📷 Abandoned for years in a storage unit, these unseen photos are finally seeing the light of day, but the photographer's identity remains a mystery. Can you help solve it? 🕵️♀️
Join the search: blog.archive.org/2025/01/10/e...
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Thank you Cristophe! Appreciate your kind words :)
