Ben Werdmuller

@ben@werd.social
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I lead technology at ProPublica and write speculative fiction. This is a personal account.

Every day, I write about tech, democracy, and society at https://werd.io.

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Counterpoint: no
When it's definitely a scam
Good morning, New York City. Just a normal day here, right? Nothing in particular going on?
It's terrible, of course, but strikes me as quite a good meme format.
War ravaged Portland
This is the most cursed image I've seen in quite a while.
Heaven forbid
This is really smart and avoids a major open source pitfall that I fell into with both Elgg and Known.
Some are products of their time
Some are prophetic