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In the grim dark future of 2020, nobody goes outside without first applying temporary tattoos of additional eyes to their face. Positioning of these additional eyes must be rotated every few hours for security purposes.

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If you mixed human ashes into concrete (say, to make a cornerstone for a building) would the concrete still set properly? How much corpse-ash would you need to add before it started to compromise structural integrity?

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The global economy: gamblers betting on the effectiveness of bad assumptions made based on wide but shallow surveillance in influencing the distribution of ads that don’t work for products that nobody wants and nobody can afford to people who are using adblock.

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I’m ambivalent about CloudFlare doing the IPFS gateways, but a lot of IPFS nodes are already running on AWS so I guess the ship has sailed on avoiding corporate data center creep in our p2p systems.

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Hot take: a thick skin is a really useful skill to develop, but having it isn’t really correlated with other useful skills, so we shouldn’t use it as a proxy for who gets to contribute to things.

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Pet peeve: folks who identify the neoliberal techno-utopian california-ideology currents with cyberpunk. To the extent that the cyberpunk literary movement had consistent politics, they were critical of Regan-flavored capitalism.

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Hot take: the profit motive is incompatible with goals of social equity simply because those who can afford to pay for their services will always be privileged by a profit-motivated organization

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