John Danskin

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Sail a Valiant 42, sometimes across oceans. Getting back into skating. Past VP GPU Architecture NVIDIA. He, Him. Tax the rich, respect the disempowered.
Amsterdam #Sunset

Wishing a Yom Ha’Melech Ha’Christian sameach to my seven (7) Christian friends and all my Christian followers!

#MedinatAmerica

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Inside: Citizens United and the FTX meltdown; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/23/incentives-matter/

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Pluralistic: 23 Nov 2022 Citizens United and the FTX meltdown – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

"Why eBooks Wear Out Faster Than Everyday Paper Books"

You’ll be reading that paperback decades from now

article. Why we need libraries to *buy* books not rent them.

https://www.lifewire.com/why-ebooks-wear-out-faster-than-everyday-paper-books-6831842

Why eBooks Wear Out Faster Than Everyday Paper Books

A paper book can sit on the shelf for decades, and anyone can pull it out and start reading. Digital books are way, way harder to maintain.

Lifewire
Check out how land is used in the United States. Cows take up the most space!
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/ @sociology
Here’s How America Uses Its Land

The 48 contiguous states alone are a 1.9 billion-acre jigsaw puzzle of cities, farms, forests and pastures.

Bloomberg.com

Another reminder of the broken, biased-to-favor-business state of federal jurisprudence.

The problem with this case is obvious: the plaintiffs weren't injured by flying on Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. They lack cognizable damages.

So what does the 5th Circuit do? Throws the case out on standing and jurisdiction, further closing the courthouse doors to plaintiffs in unrelated cases too.

Just imagine if the 7th Amendment was interpreted like the 2nd.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A98SU2xWI2Rz-18kZ-M28wme5mVH-LWA/view

If someone ever creates a drinking game where you have to drink every time someone in a university department says "employability", then a lot of people are gonna needlessly die of alcohol poisoning.
bitcoin isn't valuable
I love that no one is reading this poem. #lovepoem