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Software Dev living in Penn’s Woods. 🧑🏻💻🌳 Back online here in Nov 2024 after a long break and checking things out.
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Excellent masterclass on the US healthcare system from an analytical perspective. The desire for consumer choice and unique health challenges currently defining the American system. https://youtu.be/QqrpFICtqpQ
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Wow, what a difference a year makes. Checking out the @skeetsapp.com iPad client and it is awesome so far. So nice to have an actual native iPad app for Bluesky. Thanks @seabass.bsky.social!
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Cool paper on political sorting in the US labor market, based on an inventive effort merging LinkedIn profiles with public voter files to create a panel of 35 million Americans with information about employment and political party registration. sahilchinoy.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/chinoy_polit...
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When you optimize for short term goals, you can destroy the long term vision. Complex systems emerge to regulate lower level components in service of higher level goals.
A fascinating aspect of complex systems is that some forms of inefficiency or 'noise' are not regarded as flaws, but as features of the system. This noise plays a key role in allowing the system to adapt. Rory Sutherland on the topic... Apple: buff.ly/3VTjG9I Spotify: buff.ly/3WaR9MA
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A productive conversation between Colin and Brianna and co. The trans issue must be de-politicized if practical solutions are to be found.
Four trans women sat down with @drcolinwright.bsky.social and did the unthinkable. Had a nuanced discussion with someone the trans community hates about Trans public policy. Both Kelly and Taf transitioned as minors and found a lot of agreement on his ethical concerns. youtu.be/IWuzkzuQapY
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If you have a weird idea, and it doesn’t work out, it’s ok to move on. https://mashable.com/article/musk-x-twitter-paypal
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1. Every user should own their own handle, so they're not living at the pleasure of their namespace overlord. 2. Domains are the only pragmatic solution, and they're already sufficiently decentralized and available now. HT @ansh.bsky.team
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Being vertebrates biases us to thinking that organisms are more "unitary" than they are. The rest of the animal kingdom exploits the malleability of life way more than we're used to, and for us that induces body horror.
I don’t even have an emotional category for “retains and keeps alive the body parts of its victims, stitching them on skin like buttons on fabric, using said undead remains as weapons to murder would-be predators.” Seriously. Most fucked up Pokémon.
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Welcome @angeleduardo.bsky.social ! I love your feed on the site formerly known as the bird app. 😀