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New newsletter, Fear of Oozification https://open.substack.com/pub/ribbonfarmstudio/p/fear-of-oozification
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I feel like buying something random and fun in the $10-25 range. Preferably from Amazon. Any suggestions? Also how is there not a shopping channel here?
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What are the top 10 Turkish phrases I should know?
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Looks like I’m going to go to Istanbul in November after all. DevConnect with a side of blue mosque, hagia Sofia, salt bae etc. Most looking forward to the street coffee Mildly excited. Will be my first time in turkic cultural zone.
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Brooks gonna Brook https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2023/09/22/david-brooks-newark-airport-meal/
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Jeez, SBF’s mother is an “expert in legal ethics”? This sort of thing is partly why I tend to treat the label “ethicist” as a mark of dubious ethics. https://us.cnn.com/2023/09/19/business/ftx-sues-bankman-fried-parents/index.html
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The first of our researcher talks on Summer of Protocols research. Angela Walch talking about the "protocol system experience." Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtHp7DVt3jQ
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New x-risk just dropped https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/world/supercontinent-earth-intl-scli-climate-scn/index.html
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Are there any newbie programmers here getting started as AI-copilot-natives? I suspect people who already program are approaching it differently
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Forgivenessless > permissionless
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What’s the root cause?
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Anyone use whoop? I’ve had like 2 straight weeks of yellow recoveries in the 40-50% range 😫 An international trip with jet lag plus a very early same-time-zone flight in there but still. It’s like I’m in a persistent low recovery trap
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This isn’t a bad algorithm but it is vulnerable to being turned into religious dogma, and works at the expense of sustainable developments of humans in the long term. You’ll pay for the 5y gains over 10 and 15. https://x.com/dhh/status/1705737715827064949?s=61&t=Z7ogL5oXQlE-zjAQ_mFVBw
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New newsletter, kinda putting together a long trail of writing this year. Fluid Fogs and Fixed Flows https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/fluid-fogs-and-fixed-flows
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This is a particularly interesting study In terms of the family angle https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/23/us/qanon-trump-kennedy-protzman-cult-invs/index.html
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Stop trying to spaghetti me into channels warpcast I’ve worked hard to get to this enlightened shadow-integrated state of Ultimate Onenessand you want me to just horcrux myself again into channel shaped noodles? 😡
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Was feeling depressed, uncreative and gloomy this AM and thinking dank thoughts. Then I went to make my mid-morning double espresso and noticed I’d accidentally used a decaf capsule for my morning cup. Moral: Never attribute to existential angst what can be explained by caffeination levels
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Straw poll: If you spend $100 on basic new product development effort, how much do you think is reasonable to spend on market development (including market research, promotion etc)? Don’t get hung up on boundary fuzziness or precise inventory of what goes in each bucket. Ballpark it…
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Never used? https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/20/world/archeologists-discover-ancient-child-shoe-intl-scli-scn/index.html
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Hanging out in San Jose near all the death stars
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