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Super-cool! We survive as a community. https://bsos.umd.edu/featuredstory/3347

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Well, this is pretty terrible on all kinds of levels. Democracy deserves more. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774

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Counterintuitively, liberty needs structure to thrive. If a small group of people have resources and choose the rules, the rest aren’t free.

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The world needs more humanist technologists and fewer technical determinists.

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Tear down the new institutions. They're just like the old ones. https://words.werd.io/tear-down-the-new-institutions-91516b868a2c

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The entire internet depends on open source software, but we have to do better. https://words.werd.io/why-open-source-software-isnt-as-ethical-as-you-think-it-is-2e34d85c3b16

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Why do people leave tech? This is an important report. We need new kinds of companies with safer cultures. http://www.kaporcenter.org/tech-leavers/

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Some thoughts on finding a technical cofounder (or evaluating a non-technical one). https://words.werd.io/searching-for-a-technical-cofounder-7ffd401c04b4

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While "let's not build products that could undermine democratic society" sounds like a human problem, most users don't see the need in time.

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Yesterday I discovered a friend had attempted suicide and announced it on Twitter so coordinated with U.K. friends to have the police find him. (They got there in time.) Afterwards, I wanted to drive to see the sunset because I wanted to see something beautiful, and spent much of my evening stuck in a road tunnel with no signal due to a big accident. Here is a picture of the end of that tunnel.

Yesterday I discovered a friend had attempted suicide and announced it on Twitter so coordinated with U.K. friends to have the police find him. (They got there in time.) Afterwards, I wanted to drive to see the sunset because I wanted to see something beautiful, and spent much of my evening stuck in a road tunnel with no signal due to a big accident. Here is a picture of the end of that tunnel.

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I'm really loving my friends' web show, filled with independent music recorded in their studio in Portland. https://youtu.be/O50Lzqq5CNU

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Farewell, handmade friends (you are being stored).

Farewell, handmade friends (you are being stored).

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If the US wanted to be more like the Netherlands, that would be okay with me, too. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/07/us-worst-health-care-commonwealth-2017-report/533...

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Paid the $8 to watch Trainspotting 2 on my flight back to SFO. Correct decision. The original Trainspotting was a huge part of my life on moving to Edinburgh in 1997, and this feels like watching old friends. Twisted, twisted old friends. Not to mention the city itself, which really is much-missed.

Paid the $8 to watch Trainspotting 2 on my flight back to SFO. Correct decision. The original Trainspotting was a huge part of my life on moving to Edinburgh in 1997, and this feels like watching old friends. Twisted, twisted old friends. Not to mention the city itself, which really is much-missed.

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Hanging out in Woods Hole before heading citywards.

Hanging out in Woods Hole before heading citywards.

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House is honestly a bit creepier now there's no-one in it. Night alone in a cabin in the woods on a full moon, here I come ...

House is honestly a bit creepier now there's no-one in it. Night alone in a cabin in the woods on a full moon, here I come ...

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Further adventures of the waffle chef. This is traditional, using a waffle iron that's at least a hundred years old at this point. She had to take a nap immediately afterwards, but it was worth it. 👍

Further adventures of the waffle chef. This is traditional, using a waffle iron that's at least a hundred years old at this point. She had to take a nap immediately afterwards, but it was worth it. 👍

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The thing about coming to a place you've been to your entire life, that has a through line since before you can remember, is that it still feels magical. What carries you isn't just the smell of the salt air or the breeze through the trees, but the memory of this as backdrop, while you were climbing trees and running around in the woods. All the possibilities of childhood come rushing back, and at the same time, here you are with so many of the same people, and so many of the same ideas. It's the same set and the same timeline, just nudged a little to the right. And through it all, despite everything you've been through and everything you've learned, you are still that kid inside. I love it here, beyond anywhere else in the world.

The thing about coming to a place you've been to your entire life, that has a through line since before you can remember, is that it still feels magical. What carries you isn't just the smell of the salt air or the breeze through the trees, but the memory of this as backdrop, while you were climbing trees and running around in the woods. All the possibilities of childhood come rushing back, and at the same time, here you are with so many of the same people, and so many of the same ideas. It's the same set and the same timeline, just nudged a little to the right. And through it all, despite everything you've been through and everything you've learned, you are still that kid inside. I love it here, beyond anywhere else in the world.

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An aside: I've stopped displaying brid.gy webmentions publicly on my site at http://werd.io. Facebook friends were complaining.

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Sounds good to me. http://blog.vickiboykis.com/2016/11/20/fix-the-internet/

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TV needs to be a separate, first-class device, capable of playing content on its own. The friction of phone or laptop as controller is high.

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Such a smart analysis of the Amazon / Whole Foods deal. https://stratechery.com/2017/amazons-new-customer/

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British friends, I'm preaching to the choir, but: maybe don't vote for the xenophobes that want to tear down human rights and the internet?

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Homebrew Website Club: June 14, 2017

Create or update your personal web site!

Location: Mozilla SF, 2 Harrison St, San Francisco, CA 94105

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Discussion around the independent web, and demos of personal websites and technology.

Join a community with like-minded interests. Bring friends that want a personal site, or are interested in a healthy, independent web!

Any questions? Ask in chat: http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/today#bottom

Optional quiet writing hour starts at 5:30.

More information: https://indieweb.org/events/2017-06-14-homebrew-website-club

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Pretty awful @Uber experience for @madridkds. Unacceptable from any service. https://medium.com/@madridkds/uber-driver-thought-i-should-be-stealing-a-benz-not-riding-in-one-5712...

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