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Cofounder at Phaselab (https://phaselab.co)

Former product/exec at Cortico, Speakable, Chartbeat. Board member at @wxyc. Spent some time at WFMU, Internet Archive. Into thru-hiking.

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LocationChapel Hill, NC
getting angry/blind everytime someone plays coldplay on wxyc. why???
@Tolar no shit!
more excited than i should be that /s/typo/typofix actually fixes your typo in Slack now. how long has that been a thing?!
@pgc @pgc welcome! met a barkley runner a couple years ago in birmingham, seems like a wild time.
@skyfaller @rosswhite @autumn @cliffwade hello! I started a company and had a kid a month after I stood up nc.social so never had a chance to focus on growing the community, but I maintain everything and it is there to be grown if/when there’s interest. 😀

What is wrong with these people?!

"The OAG sent an inquiry letter to a national cremation services company, after receiving a complaint from a Connecticut resident who received an advertisement in the mail for cremation services after recently completing chemotherapy."

From the just released CT AG report on their first enforcement actions under the new state data privacy law: https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/AG/Press_Releases/2024/CTDPA-Final-Report.pdf

"A spokeswoman for Intuit, Tania Mercado, criticized the direct file project as a “half-baked solution” and a waste of taxpayer money. “The direct file scheme is a solution in search of a problem,” she said. Intuit makes the TurboTax tax preparation software."

Oooookay Tania...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/your-money/irs-tax-filing-free-online.html

I.R.S. to Begin Trial of Its Own Free Tax-Filing System

Residents of 12 states are eligible to participate if they meet certain criteria. But the agency’s plans have already met resistance from tax preparation companies.

The New York Times
'tis the season (to listen to pentangle all day)

This email from the CEO of Carta is a crazy self-own. No I didn't hear about the upsetting allegations against your company, but I guess I'll just delete this email and move on, as instructed?

To amplify one of my colleagues, "anything less than an apology is insane".

As an aside, simple watermarks have been used successfully in the past... Rap Genius alternated straight/curly apostrophes to catch Google scraping their song lyrics (though they ended up losing in court):

https://www.pcmag.com/news/genius-we-caught-google-red-handed-stealing-lyrics-data

Genius: We Caught Google 'Red Handed' Stealing Lyrics Data

Genius secretly watermarks certain songs with patterns of apostrophes, some of which translate to 'red-handed' in Morse code. Google blames it on third-party licensing partners.

PCMag