“Opioid use is easier to start than end” and the connections afforded by the Internet allow the opioid epidemic to persist in a way that it would not, without them.

“Opioid use is easier to start than end” and the connections afforded by the Internet allow the opioid epidemic to persist in a way that it would not, without them. 

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/inside-snapchat-teenage-opioid-crisis-1235036691/

The Farcaster formerly known as Kchamp. Books, beats, bodybuilding, bright ideas and beautiful things.

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I think it's worth asking Snapchat to record the snaps and conversations for 30 days and scanning them because wtf.

Front toward enemy. @seyitaylor on twttr. 

"because wtf" seems like a really easy way to justify dragnet surveillance

founder of @comm.eth
open source / build in public

I am sympathetic and tbh am starting to prefer the idea of an authoritarian surveillance state vs the unruly masses and their messy freedom but understand why this would be unpopular

I'd be okay with an authoritarian surveillance state given a hypothetical perfect state

the reality is very far from that, though... eg. imagine getting arrested and sued for >$100k just for a meme  https://www.deccanherald.com/world/on-my-way-to-blow-up-the-plane-joke-turns-into-a-spanish-court-trial-for-this-uk-man-2866231

and that's Spain, a modern healthy democracy! my family is from the former Soviet Union... the stories I've heard from them, the pervasive climate of fear...

I am grateful to live in a timeline where E2EE exists and cryptographic privacy is possible

Singapore is great. I would love to live in Singapore.

There's a fascinating analogy between coding in python using hyper-optimized vectorized libraries (numpy, cupy, torch...), and living in Singapore.

In python, whatever you're not vectorizing takes the longest, even if it's utterly trivial. Literally picking merkle branches out of a pre-built tree is taking me longer than an entire fast fourier transform.

In Singapore, whatever you get from international brands (as opposed to eg. hawker centers) is the most expensive, even if it's utterly trivial. I've literally had meals where the starbucks green tea I had right after a hawker center meal cost more than the meal.

until u have to do smth trivial, such as picking merkle branches out of a pre-built tree smh

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it's like the opposite of Texas, where ppl know how to survive natural and human-made disasters

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PFP is a wingding 

I don’t want to have to know how to survive a disaster. I want to keep my head down and have a nice little life 

At this point people are so evil and so out of pocket I am fine surrendering my rights that I don’t even really exercise to live peaceably if it means they fucking stop it