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“*We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. All you have is what you are, and what you give.*“ ~ Ursula LeGuin
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Man, the NYT suite of apps really is quite excellent minus one major caveat. Great user experience, amazing longtail information, but wow does the main app homepage harp on the current thing
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“A person well briefed on the inner workings of DOGE said that multiple executive orders related to its purview are expected in the first week of the Trump administration, including one that deals with government contracts and one that assigns how the DOGE workforce is embedded throughout the federal government.”
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https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/01/10/the-mr-yogato-guy-is-helping-run-elon-musks-doge/ Nerds ascendant…
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https://open.substack.com/pub/maximumnewyork/p/brief-historical-thoughts-building?r=1fnfr&utm_medium=ios
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Man Calvin really nailed it when he said there’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want
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Hmmm is there an easy way to get the RSS for all the posts of a publication? Just seems to show the top 20 https://api.paragraph.xyz/blogs/rss/@pioneering-spirit
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Nvm found the RSS... still poking around on arweave
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Where can one find the RSS feed for a paragraph publication? Also where can one find where a paragraph publications posts live on ARweave?
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Yikes! Lots of room for improvement: "...there is no simple, systematic way to track if new laws are working as they’re intended, because the state agencies in charge of creating those reports simply don’t turn them in." https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/02/california-laws-are-they-working/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=California%20s%20top%2010%20biggest%20lobbyists&utm_campaign=WeeklyMatters
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Youtube = interdimensional cable from Rick and Morty?
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Who’s going to edge Esmeralda this year? Anyone working on or interested in smart cities, physical infrastructure, future of CA, climate action, water resilience or other such stuff. I’d love to collaborate prior
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The horror! https://www.smbc-comics.com/
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"Democrats must consider the possibility that reversing this anti-government MAGA momentum is less about improving our messaging (which many pundits focus on), and more about fixing our government’s ability to actually deliver on the outcomes people want. " https://time.com/7206205/what-trumps-election-tells-us-about-the-user-experience-of-government/ H/T Jennifer Palkha
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Anyone have a good example of using AI for self study including spaced repetition and the like? Curious how close off the shelf stuff is getting to the Diamond Age primer
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Man the map of the Altadena devastation really is just something else. Lots of rebuilding to do...
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Getting close to breaking 200 let's goooooooooooooo... lol
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New post https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/2030-the-battle-for-a-new-california-dream
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What are your top 3 network state book recs? I would go with: 1) Seeing like a state 2) Imagined communities 3) The Gun, The Ship and The Pen
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The bittersweet and often broken relationship between Venice and Byzantium feels like a good parallel with tech and CA gov today Venice - virtual warehouses (Amazon analogy) - trader ethic - networked - small, agile, nimble - ships -> naval power Byzantium - center of the world (think landholders) - guardian ethic - center - 10x the resources - walls, army -> hubris Playing around a bit and may elaborate more in the future. There is definitely something there in Venice's innovations in norms aka breaking the rules in trading with the infidels and Byzantium's complacent focus on owning land rather than scrappily trading for advantage
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