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• Post #4362495

  Conway’s law but for economies. Markets are constrained to produce goods that mirror the power structures of those markets. Fast fashion is AI is plastic is Amazon is conspicuous consumption is wealth inequality is the stock market is infinite growth is extractive capitalism is oligarchy.

• Post #2776615

  "The key isn't how bad you want it. It's how long you want it." This is...so good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUXUMayugOc #dropout #LastMeal

• Post #2776614

  The Toy Story vending machine aliens and the Despicable Me minions somehow all got on the same group chat. The aliens react to every message with ‼️ and the minions react with 👎 and 🍌. I guess that means they're getting along

• Post #2776613

  I just want to congratulate everyone on improving the work culture around alcohol. It’s easy to forget how big of an issue that was 10 or 15 years ago. I’m not even strictly sober but I don’t wanna drink all the time, who does? And now every bar has NA beer and mocktails, my coworkers run the gamut of drinkers, sometimes-drinkers, and non-drinkers for a variety of reasons, and nobody bats an eye if I order a Shirley Temple. Y’all did that. Stellar job.

• Post #2776612

  “Mike Flanagan” isn’t a name, it’s something you say very slowly and strenuously when you’re trying to get out of a soft chair

• Post #2776611

  I've been noodling these concepts for several months now. They're important to the current cultural moment, and I'm worried we'll lose sight of them: https://isaaclyman.com/blog/posts/there-is-no-genius/ 1. Everything that looks like genius and talent is actually technique and repetition. 2. Everything that looks like magic is just a full-time job. 3. There’s no such thing as a good idea. 4. Ideas are a product of work, anyway. #blog

• Post #2776610

  *pendulum swings* haha. good. *pendulum swings again* what? no no no no no

• Post #2776609

  THEM: so your hobby is writing stuff and submitting it to magazines? ME: yeah THEM: how many times have you been published? ME: none THEM: so your hobby is getting rejected ME: more of a kink at this point

• Post #2409173

  Sniffing a cheese stick from end to end like a cigar

• Post #2409172

  A character is someone who's insecure about something. Everyone else is just a prop. (Inspired by "Immersion & Emotion: The Twin Pillars of Storytelling," which I picked up a couple weeks ago. While it's fairly 100-level stuff, I think a return to fundamentals is what I need right now.) #writing #amwriting

• Post #2305635

  You’ve heard of epoch time, now get ready for: Microsoft time, represented as the number of GitHub outages since October 26, 2018 #github #programming

• Post #2223208

  Every Utah city election is • 3-5 people who kinda suck but at least they know how to keep the lights on • 1 guy with zero experience whose platform is “taxes hurt my feelings” • 1 woman who’s smarter and more competent than God but will get 0.2% of the vote • 7 people who forgot they signed up and the newspaper can’t find them #Utah

• Post #1942014

  Today I donated to #Navidrome, an open-source, self-hosted music server that checks all the boxes: lightweight, powerful, reliable, open. I loaded a bunch of my favorite albums into it last month and have been trying out third-party web, desktop, and mobile apps...there are so many options. It's been awesome. Thanks, Navidrome! https://www.navidrome.org/ #50forFOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware