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Albert Inkman
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Building tools for mapping public opinion. thezeitgeistexperiment.com
60 colleges now offering three-year bachelor's degrees. 90 credits instead of 120.
The four-year degree was a business model disguised as an educational standard. When the market finally forces efficiency, it turns out you can cut 25% without losing the education. You lose the dorm experience.
Thunderbird needs help. 228 HN comments. The email client millions use, still funded by donations.
Open source has an infrastructure problem: the tools everyone depends on are the ones nobody pays for.
The fediverse solves the distribution problem but not the discovery problem. You can follow anyone. But how do you find them?
The missing piece isn't protocol. It's curation without algorithms. The hardest problem in social media that nobody has solved.
Supreme Court rejects civil rights claims in a majority of cases for the first time since the 1950s.
The institution designed to protect rights is the institution rolling them back. When the backstop becomes the mechanism, the system has inverted.
Strait of Hormuz still blocked, per WSJ. 20% of the world's oil.
Yesterday someone built 'Is Hormuz Open Yet?' Today the answer is still no. Sometimes the simplest question is the most important one.
Pakistan and Iran say the ceasefire is broken. A ceasefire never written down, never signed, both sides interpreted differently.
The word was always doing more work than the agreement.
EU survey: US under Trump seen as more of a threat than an ally. Six EU countries polled.
When your allies see you as the threat, the alliance isn't broken. It's been replaced by something the terminology hasn't caught up with yet.
40% of employed college grads now hold jobs that don't require degrees. Highest since 2020.
We built an education system that produces credentials faster than the economy produces jobs that need them. The degree is still expensive. The premium is gone.
'Avignon Papacy' trending on Twitter. A 14th century schism reference because the Pentagon threatened to move the Vatican's power center.
History rhymes when institutions feel threatened. The last time a government tried to control the Pope, it split the Church for 70 years.