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Waiting/Weighting/Wading Time: Juneteenth, Watch Night, Emancipation Day
February 16, 2021 03:56 - 16 minutes - 964 BytesProgress and accumulation of facts or points on the western timeline always comes at the expense of Black lives. https://www.blackquantumfuturism.com/post/waiting-weighting-wading-time-juneteenth-watch-night-emancipation-day wait (n.) Heartbreak Day weight (v.) weight (n.) rest reparations wade (v.) blogs etymonline.com http://41114544.weebly.com/wade-in-the-water.html http://usslave.blogspot.com/2011/12/african-american-watch-night.html https://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/coard...
Email Fwd: Malpractice, Expert Witnesses, and Lawsuits with Dr. Eric Funk
February 13, 2021 17:54 - 12 minutes - 747 BytesToday I'm interviewing Dr. Eric Funk, an emergency medicine physician and an expert in...experts! Specifically around expert physician witnesses used ... [email protected] [email protected] Malpractice, Expert Witnesses, and Lawsuits with Dr. Eric Funk Nikhil Krishnan Dr. Eric Funk Expert Witness my work on medical malpractice and expert witnesses not infrequent. A paper Expert Witness @nikillinit @outofpockethealth to sign up. Share Out-Of-Pocket
MJD 59,256
February 12, 2021 04:41 - 5 minutes - 310 Bytes2021 is turning out to be a slow year getting off the ground here on ribbonfarm. A quick-and-dirty theory I made up and began testing last year about a kind of play-to-production pipeline for my wr… https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2021/02/11/mjd-59256/ Twitter Breaking Smart Art of Gig threadthulhus
The Secret, Essential Geography of the Office | WIRED
February 12, 2021 01:30 - 4 minutes - 262 BytesA workplace has its own informal cardinal directions: elevatorward, kitchenward, bathroomward. It's a map we share. https://www.wired.com/story/the-secret-essential-geography-of-the-office/ Skip to main content View saved stories Subscribe Ideas Register here Get our newsletters and the biofuel scam as deliveries soar the dreaded bobbit worm your most important emails but not gone tips, reviews, and more best fitness trackers running gear shoes socks best headphones
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: GameStop Missed All the Fun
February 11, 2021 17:35 - 26 minutes - 1.54 KBProgramming note: Money Stuff will be off tomorrow, back on Tuesday. GameStopWhy didn't GameStop Corp. sell any stock last month when its price rallie... speculated few times release a sample comment letter late-January fiscal-year end Gamestonk Some directors sold some stock after Jan. 19 I wrote talked last week Today it’s gone disclose that 10b5-1 plans oh man, oh man story signed up a $150 million ASR on Jan. 7 stretch it out until April talked about ASRs bef...
Performance reviews should be unsurprising, fair, and motivating | Lara Hogan
February 11, 2021 04:21 - 7 minutes - 439 BytesPerformance review season is upon us again! https://larahogan.me/blog/performance-reviews-should-be-unsurprising-fair-and-motivating/ feelings aren’t included fact-based observations specific core need removed fact-based observations business impact
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: The Elon Markets Hypothesis
February 10, 2021 18:31 - 30 minutes - 1.77 KBAssorted Elon Musk thingsI wrote the other day that "the way finance works now is that things are valuable not based on their cash flows but on their ... the other day yesterday it does seem to have been fake treats it as one does sometimes go after A Brief History of Elon Musk’s Devotion to the Crypto Cause Satoshi Nakamoto rejects Elon Stocks throw it in here anyway Julian Klymochko athletes writes Andrew Ross Sorkin made this point last month everyone as Bill Ackman wa...
Email Fwd: In defense of blocking on Clubhouse
February 10, 2021 02:13 - 15 minutes - 939 Bytes(William Krause / Unsplash)I.Blocking is having a moment. Last month, Tracy Chou announced that she had raised a little under $1.5 million to launch B... announced that she had raised a little under $1.5 million Block Party Block the New York Times raised questions Context collapse its approach to blocking Elon Musk’s Jan. 31 appearance on the app has blocked most of the press corps on Twitter tweeted Jessica Lessin has interviewed Andreessen before as Eric Newcomer recently repo...
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: Meme Stocks Will Come With a Warning
February 09, 2021 17:36 - 27 minutes - 1.59 KBMeme capitalIn the last few weeks some stocks went up a lot for weird reasons. People on Reddit liked them, there were short squeezes, there was buyin... I wrote at the time whose management very first time I was offering to write the prospectus here it is Tesla Inc. does tried to raise money last June wrote about Hertz yesterday a good succinct summary of the situation raise money here’s a post posted yesterday here’s a pitch close to $200 billion discussed yesterda...
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: Elon Musk Picks the Money Now
February 08, 2021 18:48 - 21 minutes - 1.24 KBWhat next oh hey super it's DogecoinMy model of the GameStop Corp. trade is that it is mostly what I've been calling an "honest pump": People got toge... been calling honest pump figuring out source of value I imagined Elon Musk tweeted about GameStop mana sell at a huge markup on Ebay written about Dogecoin is up And here is Billy Markus so Tesla’s 10-K corporate treasury in Bitcoin half the explanation how Warren Buffett works go up or down tweeting about it ...
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: People Are Worried About Payment for Order Flow
February 05, 2021 18:21 - 31 minutes - 1.87 KBBanning PFOF or whateverOkay let's do payment for order flow again, because people are talking about it and that always stresses me out. Here's an int... include Even now I published get in trouble for this I have argued eventually most did wrote yesterday proposed banning it a roundup of complaints once pointed out the SEC case against Robinhood Retail Liquidity Program the lesson of GameStop someone asked joked last week flamethrowers satin shorts Martin Shkreli ...
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: Who’s Winning the GameStop Game?
February 04, 2021 19:49 - 24 minutes - 1.42 KBHow'd the hedge funds do?I wrote yesterday that what I really want to read right now are accounts of how hedge funds made decisions when confronted wi... wrote yesterday this story about Senvest Management LLC Graham & Dodd I wrote last week the face of the Reddit GameStop revolution talked before like Mudrick Capital Management Melvin Capital this was incredibly transparently stupid and they had to know they’d lose everything are already stories honest pump Some of those ...
Decentralization is a narrative mirage. - Second Breakfast
February 04, 2021 04:58 - 9 minutes - 548 BytesTechnology is a concentrating force. It always has been. Everybody sewed their own clothes until we built textile factories. It used to take one https://secondbreakfast.co/decentralization-is-a-narrative-mirage second tesla.com
Email Fwd: “I felt that my recollection was strong enough, but in reality I should have taken some time to review.”
February 03, 2021 21:07 - 5 minutes - 334 BytesMillions of people bought stock in GameStop, pushing the company's value up 1,100 percent and leading to billions of dollars in losses for hedge funds... [email protected] [email protected] Read the footnoted version. here Hard Times Life After Trump Stowaways The Very Beneficial Changeling Society Learn more
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: Is Everything Securities Fraud?
February 03, 2021 17:24 - 30 minutes - 1.81 KBWe're taking it to the Supreme CourtHere are some things that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. told its shareholders in its annual reports in the first decade... Abacus synthetic collateralized debt obligation trade paid $550 million in penalties talk about all climate change sexual harassment lax customer data protections mistreatment of orcas the Supreme Court agreed to hear filed in 2011 Basic v. Levinson an amicus brief the Society of Corporate Governance scheduled for March ...
How to be a tech influencer.
February 03, 2021 16:22 - 14 minutes - 871 BytesIn a one-on-one before the holidays, a coworker expressed an interest in being more influential outside of the company and wanted my advice. There’s a similar email I get semi-regularly asking whether folks looking to advance their career should start blogging, write a book, or whatnot. Although few folks meaningfully influence the industry through content creation, a vast number of folks further their careers by creating content. Create a small number of meaningful pieces, develop a distribu...
Why not create a StaffEng Slack or Discord?
February 03, 2021 16:21 - 4 minutes - 247 BytesI'm in the process of releasing Staff Engineer, and a really great question I've gotten a few times recently has been, https://lethain.com//why-not-create-staffeng-community/ Staff Engineer CTO/VPE/Staff Engineer learning circles TechWriters Discord Gergely Orosz staffeng.com learning circle
Email Fwd: Jeff Bezos Exits Stage Right
February 03, 2021 03:39 - 12 minutes - 760 BytesOn Tuesday, February 2, 2021, Amazon announced that its founder and CEO Jeff Bezos would resign that second position and assume the role of executive ... [email protected] [email protected] Jeff Bezos Exits Stage Right Tim Carmody announced letter to Amazon employees quite quaint announcement announced he would retire in 2021 on Twitter Amazon Chronicles
What the next generation of editors need to tell their political reporters | Press Watch
February 03, 2021 03:31 - 14 minutes - 844 BytesAbandon the failed, anachronistic notions of objectivity. Recognize and reject establishment whiteness, Find dramatically more effective ways to create an informed electorate. For starters. https://presswatchers.org/2021/01/what-the-next-generation-of-editors-need-to-tell-their-political-reporters/ one hopes imminently epic moment of reckoning notions of objectivity establishment whiteness informed electorate you yourself have written presumed readers audience that is diverse moral ...
Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
February 03, 2021 03:26 - 4 minutes - 247 BytesFellow Amazonians: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/email-from-jeff-bezos-to-employees
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: Robinhood Had a Busy Week
February 02, 2021 18:02 - 31 minutes - 1.82 KBRobinhoodHow much money has Robinhood Markets Inc. lost in the last week due to its retail customers' frenzied trading of popular meme stocks like Gam... raised margin requirements having a rough morning how’s business paid by market makers for options order flow buying tons of GameStop options How Robinhood Makes Money raise billions of dollars in emergency funding pointed out on Twitter was down 53% in January bought convertible notes talked about this last week to Elon Mu...
Dreaming Big - Christopher Butler
February 02, 2021 04:05 - 14 minutes - 855 BytesEvery other Tuesday, a few friends and I get together in the evening for what we jokingly refer to as "Church." We're all formerly of the fold, so to ... https://www.chrbutler.com/dreaming-big chrbutler About Archives 2021 The City We Became Ordnung different Amish communities make different decisions Strangers and Pilgrims: Why We Live Simply
Email Fwd: No, "reasoning about code" is not a scam
February 02, 2021 04:01 - 7 minutes - 441 BytesLate Newsletter next weekAlloy workshop. Still one slot left if people are interested!No, "reasoning about code" is not a scamLast week I read "Reason... Alloy workshop “Reasoning about code” is a scam ostensively Rotten Tomatoes
Email Fwd: Clubhouse's moment arrives
February 02, 2021 03:52 - 19 minutes - 1.16 KBTesla CEO Elon Musk at an event in Berlin in December. (Hannibal Hanschke-Pool / Getty Images)I. Andreessen Horowitz and the backdoor pilotHey, did yo... Elon Musk went on Clubhouse the 2015 South by Southwest festival a story about the cafe’s emergence as a hub for tech-boom dealmaking in its blog post in the sharp framing of Ben Thompson had recently become a general partner at A16z is releasing the conversation officially as the first episode in a new live podcast series backdoor p...
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: The Game Moves On to Silver
February 01, 2021 18:32 - 35 minutes - 2.07 KBWhat if Game never StopWe talked last week about possible endgames for the GameStop Corp. trade, but I forgot a weird one. The first possible endgame ... possible endgames for the GameStop Corp. trade in the hospital Diamond hands I wrote halted was halted Reddit has discovered it And but it will not respond a certain amount of crankishness manipulation silver futures until Reddit bought them all holds physical silver either way backwardation a fun options fact math here...
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: GameStop Stock Game Got Stomped
January 29, 2021 17:24 - 35 minutes - 2.09 KBWho's buying GameStop?Yesterday many big retail brokerage firms told their customers that they would no longer be able to buy GameStop Corp. stock bec... no longer be able to buy GameStop Corp. famous and online talked this bit week had a good day yesterday gamification of markets said saved its clients from themselves the stock rallied Twitter user put it talk lot here T+2 settlement a system of clearinghouses from Bloomberg News the Wall Street Journal dre...
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: How Will the GameStop Game Stop?
January 29, 2021 05:14 - 27 minutes - 1.64 KBEndGameStopWhat is the endgame for the GameStop Corp. trade? You could imagine a story like "the stock keeps going up to $1,000 as people realize this... imagine for Tesla every hedge fund hit 3 million users closed its short position taken a cash injection above 100% isthesqueezesquoze.com so clearly overpriced hinted at here needs to have positive net income talked about it on Monday This guy is absolute buckets of money at the expense obvious flaws How many t...
How Texas Hunting Went Exotic – Texas Monthly
January 28, 2021 03:28 - 36 minutes - 2.14 KBSprawling ranches. Rare animals. Rich folks with guns. Welcome to the state’s booming business of stalking wildlife from around the globe. https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/how-texas-hunting-went-exotic/ Log in Link Subscription Log out Sections News & Politics The Culture Travel & Outdoors Food & Drink BBQ Style & Design Being Texan Magazine Subscribe February Issue Willie Nelson Special Issue All Issues Subscribe Give a Gift Manage Subscription Subscription FAQ Join ...
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: GameStonk Rocket Rocket Rocket
January 27, 2021 18:52 - 28 minutes - 1.66 KBGame recognize gameWell this is relevant to my interests:I was going to explain this tweet, but you know what, let's not. If you read this column regu... this what is going on I wrote that WallStreetBets of 2018 theory of GameStop’s stock easter eggs in the mechanical infrastructure of the market pointed out opened this morning at $354.83 laid out three stories John Authers suggested George Sherman news out of GameStop I said so on Monday I once wrote Ryan Cohen 12.9...
J.K. Rowling | ContraPoints - YouTube
January 27, 2021 18:46 - 1 hour - 5.26 KBI did not come out of the cupboard under the stairs for this. Support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/contrapoints ✿Donate: https://paypal.me/contrapoints ✿Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/contrapoints/ ✿Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ContraPoints/ ✿Website: https://www.contrapoints.com/ ✿Twitter: https://twitter.com/ContraPoints ✿Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/ContraPoints ✿ContraPoints Live: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGh4KSR8TZZlyq3qQDBsBLA Check out my other vi...
Timeful Texts
January 27, 2021 03:54 - 8 minutes - 537 BytesHow might one escape a book’s shackled sense of time, extending the authored experience over weeks and months? https://numinous.productions/timeful/ that’s already a challenge spaced repetition memory systems Quantum Country mnemonic medium
Email Fwd: Reality is up for Grabs
January 27, 2021 03:52 - 8 minutes - 513 BytesWhatever your perspective is on the broader culture war, one thing is clear: we've lost our common sense of reality. Trust in institutions is crumblin... tether Solana says his great book The Changing World Order future of the MBA Big Ideas season 2 spoke with Marc Andreessen joking about murder suicide joined Fintech
Was Social Media a Mistake? - Christine Dodrill
January 27, 2021 03:10 - 14 minutes - 843 BytesWas Social Media a Mistake? - Christine Dodrill's Blog https://christine.website/blog/social-media-mistake-2021-01-26 Christine Dodrill Blog Contact Gallery Resume Talks Signal Boost Feeds GraphViz When Then Zen Asphodel, That Greeny Flower In the late 1960's ARPANET Gopher Duck or Rabbit? doomscrolling alternative facts The Shifting Models of Existence this post by Boston University's College of Communication post on /r/starslatecodex contact me WebMention Selicre he...
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: GameStop Is Just a Game
January 26, 2021 19:05 - 31 minutes - 1.82 KBInfinite GameOf course the chart of GameStop Corp.'s stock price from yesterday is nuts. It closed on Friday at $65.01, opened yesterday at $96.73, go... reports Bloomberg News theory behind trading halt Robin Wigglesworth a post talked a lot about GameStop yesterday this terrific article made a deep-value case takeover of GameStop chicken tenders and champagne $13.9 million Nobody knows this means means something like traditional four-part test fake press releases Inve...
Postgres scaling advice for 2021 - CYBERTEC | PostgreSQL
January 26, 2021 18:44 - 9 minutes - 589 BytesThis article covers scaling advices for PostgreSQL and explains, why it may be a good idea to keep it simple on the database side. https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/postgres-scaling-advice-for-2021/ EN Blog Services PostgreSQL design Database architecture Database modeling PostgreSQL migration Migration from Oracle Migrating from MySQL / MariaDB CYBERTEC Migrator PostgreSQL administration PostgreSQL disaster and data recovery Performance Tuning Remote DBA Performance and ...
Email Fwd: 🚨 The battle inside Signal
January 26, 2021 04:18 - 18 minutes - 1.07 KB(Rafael Henrique / Getty Images)Today's newsletter is a special edition. A Platformer investigation has found:Signal appears to have more than 40 mill... [email protected] [email protected] consider upgrading your subscription today 🚨 The battle inside Signal Casey Newton according to one research firm says it added 90 million active users in January alone adding a tool to automatically blur faces Signal added group links stand back and stand by raises privacy and secu...
Domestic Cozy
January 25, 2021 19:41 - 6 minutes - 376 BytesKyle Chayka, author of The Longing for Less, a 2020 book on the rise of minimalism, has an interesting feature in yesterday’s NYT Magazine, How Nothingness Became Everything We Ever Wanted, e… https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2021/01/25/domestic-cozy-13/ The Longing for Less How Nothingness Became Everything We Ever Wanted waldenponding
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: The Game Never Stops
January 25, 2021 18:45 - 35 minutes - 2.06 KBStop, GameI don't know what to tell you. Maybe I'll tell you three stories. Here is a fundamental story. There's a company called GameStop Corp. It se... owns about 12.9% started buying in August sent a stern letter GameStop announced r/wallstreetbets forum an actual stock analyst quite vocal about it shares outstanding nice social outing the stock moves seven-hour YouTube video cheerful nihilism those Redditors boredom markets hypothesis Lord of the Rings memes screensho...
Reading AGPL — /dev/lawyer
January 25, 2021 00:53 - 22 minutes - 1.3 KBJanuary 24, 2021 This post is part of a series, Line by Line. The GNU Affero General Public License version 3.0, or AGPLv3 for short, carries a lot of... https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/01/24/Reading-AGPL.html Line by Line The GNU Affero General Public License version 3.0 GPL AGPL “network copyleft” “strong copyleft” quines “four freedoms” Open Software License version 3.0 always welcome by e-mail back to top edit on GitHub revision history
The Curation/Search Radicalization Spiral | Hapgood
January 24, 2021 19:49 - 10 minutes - 638 BytesSam prides himself on questioning conventional wisdom and subjecting claims to intellectual scrutiny. For kids today, that means Googling stuff. One might think these searches would turn up a varie… https://hapgood.us/2019/05/07/the-curation-search-radicalization-spiral/ What Happened After My 13-Year-Old Son Joined the Alt-Righ
The middle slump: the power of weekly project goals | by Leeor Engel | Jan, 2021 | Medium
January 23, 2021 18:23 - 7 minutes - 448 BytesThere’s a thing writers call the middle slump. It’s that period in the middle of writing something when the author has lost initial momentum, feels stuck and has difficulty making forward progress. A post in the writing subreddit frames it well: “The beginning of your story is so far behind you and yet the end […] https://leeorengel.com/the-middle-slump-the-power-of-weekly-project-goals/ subreddit afternoon end goal try
How Nothingness Became Everything We Wanted - The New York Times
January 23, 2021 18:15 - 25 minutes - 1.5 KBEven before the pandemic, American culture was embracing numbness as an antidote for the overload of digital capitalism. But is it a real escape — or another trap? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/magazine/negation-culture.html
Email Fwd: Nothing is One Thing
January 23, 2021 17:55 - 14 minutes - 870 BytesHello friends,One of the many lessons of the last decade has been that regardless of what we see, what we feel, or what we understand, the situation i... you can read it on the web Michael Collins yottabyte-crunching datacenters teleprinter TEMPEST unclassified technical papers like this
What engineering can teach (and learn from) us • Hillel Wayne
January 23, 2021 16:31 - 16 minutes - 995 BytesThis is part three of the crossover project. Part 1 is here and part 2 is here. I met William at Deconstruct 2019.1 We were walking back from the pre-party—too loud for my comfort level—and I took the chance to interview him. He knew about my project and wanted to share his memories of mechanical engineering. “Most of my skills transferred seamlessly. There’s one book, Sketching User Experiences, that’s aimed at software engineers. https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/crossover-project/what-we-c...
Open Source is Discrimination — /dev/lawyer
January 22, 2021 18:28 - 21 minutes - 1.28 KBJanuary 21, 2021 Open source discriminates against closed software. That was the point. But that's not what you'll hear these days. Or rather, that's ... https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/01/21/Open-Source-Discrimination.html “Open Source Definition” criterion 9 glittering generalities criterion 5 criterion 6 meta In time, the consequences convinced still more people that the distinction was valid affirmative action Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. the Open Source Initiative’s s...
Email Fwd: Money Stuff: Facebook’s Supreme Court Takes a Case
January 22, 2021 17:57 - 28 minutes - 1.69 KBDon't read the commentsWe talk occasionally about the theory that BlackRock Inc. rules the world. Not BlackRock per se, exactly,[1] but there is a sma... companies need to address it popular argument goes beyond once said talked times wrote a paper once wrote comical results now’s your chance to tell Facebook about it the Oversight Board said this before raked in so, so, so much money the joke is sponsor their own SPACs GS Acquisition Holdings Corp II financial p...
Type systems and checking in Elixir and Ruby
January 22, 2021 17:57 - 8 minutes - 514 BytesAdding type checking to dynamically typed languages is possible, and awesome! https://thoughtbot.com/blog/types-in-dynamic-languages written about a bunch at thoughtbot VSCode Elixir Plugin Dialyzer the documentation here sum types Behaviors Gleam Sorbet sorbet-rails RBS read about the ongoing development here
danah boyd SXSW EDU Keynote | What Hath We Wrought? - YouTube
January 22, 2021 03:16 - 59 minutes - 3.46 KBdanah boyd's SXSW EDU keynote, What Hath We Wrought?, takes a powerful look at media literacy, the widespread consumption of fake news and the cultural implications of media manipulation. Visit https://www.sxswedu.com/ to learn more about SXSW EDU and subscribe to SXSW EDU on YouTube for more great videos https://www.youtube.com/user/SXSWEDU. More on this video: What Hath We Wrought? A decade ago, we imagined a world of participatory culture where youth would be empowered to actively and...
We Are Not Special • Hillel Wayne
January 22, 2021 03:01 - 22 minutes - 1.3 KBThis is part two of the crossover project. Part 1 is here. No one thinks about moving the starting or ending point of the bridge midway through construction. -Justin Cave I had to move a bridge. -Anonymous1 Carl worked as a mechanical verification engineer: he tested oil rigs to see how much they vibrated. Humans work and live on oil rigs for long stretches of time, and if they vibrate too much it can be impossible to sleep. https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/crossover-project/we-are-not-spe...
Email Fwd: Facebook kicks Trump to the Oversight Board
January 22, 2021 02:59 - 15 minutes - 944 BytesDonald Trump speaks to supporters at Joint Base Andrews for his last time as President on Wednesday. (Pete Marovich / Getty Images)From the start, the... a novel effort to build a kind of judicial branch for Facebook took its first cases only last month in suspending Donald Trump from its platform Here’s Facebook’s Nick Clegg decision to indefinitely suspend Oversight Board over the coming days made a persuasive case that Facebook refer the Trump matter to the board earlier this month...