JonSeen on my way home this evening in Washington DC.
Ralston Elko 
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@dedicto no, permanent dst. Standard time is awful.
Chris EspinosaUS small arms per 100 persons: 120
Portugal small arms per 100 persons: 20
US murder rate: 5.9 per 100,000
Portugal murder rate: 0.8 per 100,000
US mental health care system: for-profit, limited by insurance carriers
Portugal mental health care system: Single-payer public
Smart kid in Portugal gets scholarship to come to US, lives here 20 years, has mental breakdown, kills a professor and shoots up a university.
I don’t think the problem is immigration from Portugal. The problem is here.
@counternotions wsj didnt even copy edit it haha. “…for analytics compay”… forgot the article 🙄
@carnage4life did the internet give power to algorithmic (constant cost) distribution channels or did the cost structure allow them to insert themselves as a distribution channel that hacked users attention? Its in a sense academic but the frame that gives agency to a company exploiting an unregulaed natural monopoly dynamic gives a clue as to what to do a about the problems it creates
@carnage4life maybe you’re not marinating in the algorithmic druck? Every time i look at youtube without beng logged it the recommendations are a never ending fount of right wing agitprop. Baudrillard warned us…
@gruber i agree that magic links are awful, bur for me theprimary reason is that they train users to get phished. “Never click links in emails” is easy to understand. Breaking that prohibition is like shitting in the town drinking well.
Dare ObasanjoYou wouldn’t know it from hanging out with American Christians but the Bible condemns charging interest on loans more often and more harshly than homosexuality.
Have you ever heard an American Christian say credit cards or mortgages are an abomination in their religion?
@unusual_whales and the fact that this is illegal means nothing??
never obsoleteComputer Chronicles - Battle of the Browsers (1997)
https://archive.org/details/CC1536BROWSERS
https://archive.org/details/CC1536BROWSERS
Battle of the Browsers : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
When Microsoft started giving away Internet Explorer, it became a serious challenger for Netscape. This program looked at the battle to become the dominant...