Nofud
@nofud.bsky.social
Lifelong learner and tinkerer. Helping products and teams become awesome.
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The term "heritage American" being bandied about is irritating b/c of its imprecision. Is it based on length of time in the US of your ancestors, being from England, whiteness, legal citizenship, or some other unspoken category? Because the migration trends in the colonial period & early republic 1/
December 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The term "heritage American" being bandied about is irritating b/c of its imprecision. Is it based on length of time in the US of your ancestors, being from England, whiteness, legal citizenship, or some other unspoken category? Because the migration trends in the colonial period & early republic 1/
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Two cruisers made it down 9th Avenue to 46th St. in the bike lane in moments, then stuck in traffic on 46th St. Imagine if there was a bike lane on 46th they could use.
Bike lanes speed emergency response
Bike lanes speed emergency response
December 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Two cruisers made it down 9th Avenue to 46th St. in the bike lane in moments, then stuck in traffic on 46th St. Imagine if there was a bike lane on 46th they could use.
Bike lanes speed emergency response
Bike lanes speed emergency response
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Page One, @latimes.com
“.. Stanford computer-science graduates are struggling to find entry-level jobs. I think that’s crazy.” 👀
“.. Stanford computer-science graduates are struggling to find entry-level jobs. I think that’s crazy.” 👀
December 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Page One, @latimes.com
“.. Stanford computer-science graduates are struggling to find entry-level jobs. I think that’s crazy.” 👀
“.. Stanford computer-science graduates are struggling to find entry-level jobs. I think that’s crazy.” 👀
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Facial recognition is a genie that can’t be put back in the bottle and every day I’m reminded I need to reread this book.
December 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Facial recognition is a genie that can’t be put back in the bottle and every day I’m reminded I need to reread this book.
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New Jersey does not build enough housing, but we build almost twice as much as NYC.
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
December 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
New Jersey does not build enough housing, but we build almost twice as much as NYC.
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Hi All, Sent out a free piece. The Chinese have transformed their standing recently, and some attribute it to long-term planning. Actually, it is more down to the disastrous leadership choices of Trump and Putin. Sometimes it really pays to be lucky more than good. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
In The World Of The Strategic Blind; The One-Eyed Dictator Is King
Sometimes its better to be lucky than good
open.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Hi All, Sent out a free piece. The Chinese have transformed their standing recently, and some attribute it to long-term planning. Actually, it is more down to the disastrous leadership choices of Trump and Putin. Sometimes it really pays to be lucky more than good. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Un quart des Français visitent les sites d’infos générées par IA recommandés par Google, par @manhack.bsky.social
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Un quart des Français visitent les sites d’infos générées par IA recommandés par Google - Next
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December 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Un quart des Français visitent les sites d’infos générées par IA recommandés par Google, par @manhack.bsky.social
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A very striking chart from an excellent new paper by @mclem.org.
Ageing high-income countries have a choice: accept that GDP growth is contingent on migration, or pin their futures on fantastical hopes of huge productivity growth.
www.iza.org/publications...
Ageing high-income countries have a choice: accept that GDP growth is contingent on migration, or pin their futures on fantastical hopes of huge productivity growth.
www.iza.org/publications...
December 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A very striking chart from an excellent new paper by @mclem.org.
Ageing high-income countries have a choice: accept that GDP growth is contingent on migration, or pin their futures on fantastical hopes of huge productivity growth.
www.iza.org/publications...
Ageing high-income countries have a choice: accept that GDP growth is contingent on migration, or pin their futures on fantastical hopes of huge productivity growth.
www.iza.org/publications...
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“.. The cost of protecting Oracle debt against default using derivatives has risen to near the highest since the financial crisis.”
@bloomberg.com $ORCL
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@bloomberg.com $ORCL
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December 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“.. The cost of protecting Oracle debt against default using derivatives has risen to near the highest since the financial crisis.”
@bloomberg.com $ORCL
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@bloomberg.com $ORCL
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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mozilla keeps hiring clown CEOs who say things like "We need an AI for HTML to stay competitive" but if you look at what they're actually doing it's more "amd gpus can now do zero-copy hardware video decoding"
December 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
mozilla keeps hiring clown CEOs who say things like "We need an AI for HTML to stay competitive" but if you look at what they're actually doing it's more "amd gpus can now do zero-copy hardware video decoding"
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What Reuters describes is not classic espionage (spies stealing blueprints), but strategic talent exfiltration under legal cover, which Western systems are especially bad at stopping.
December 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
What Reuters describes is not classic espionage (spies stealing blueprints), but strategic talent exfiltration under legal cover, which Western systems are especially bad at stopping.
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Short version: chasing the hardline party’s voters without any real principles of your own makes you lose your own base and convince fence-sitters to support the hardline party, not you.
What the Democrats can learn from the UK Labour Party's complete implosion after moving right on immigration
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
December 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Short version: chasing the hardline party’s voters without any real principles of your own makes you lose your own base and convince fence-sitters to support the hardline party, not you.
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it is always going to drive me insane that we discovered a mathematical model of the conception of all human language and ketamine-brained billionaires have decided that its best use is writing scam emails. go to hell
December 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
it is always going to drive me insane that we discovered a mathematical model of the conception of all human language and ketamine-brained billionaires have decided that its best use is writing scam emails. go to hell
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When illegal slave ships were intercepted by British, French, Portuguese and other antislavery patrols in the 1800s, African captives were not freed - they were sent into indentured servitude. More than 700,000 souls. It’s a huge story in the history of abolition.
From the current issue: “Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–1920”
by Henry B. Lovejoy (@colorado.edu)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by Henry B. Lovejoy (@colorado.edu)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–1920*
Abstract. A new survey of ‘Liberated Africans’ exposes how global calculations of involuntary African indentured labour after 1800 have been significantly
doi.org
December 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
When illegal slave ships were intercepted by British, French, Portuguese and other antislavery patrols in the 1800s, African captives were not freed - they were sent into indentured servitude. More than 700,000 souls. It’s a huge story in the history of abolition.
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"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
December 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
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I don't think it's fully appreciated, just how much the sudden end of ~two centuries of extensive and reasonably straightforward daily reporting on every neighborhood/town/city in the US, in a standardized and searchable format, is going to screw up future historical research.
Furthermore, it's important for journalists to spend the first 10 years of their career in the type of city that people turn their noses up at. Not only does it give you a better appreciation for what journalism is for, it forces you to understand that "real Americans" aren't just Ohio Cletuses.
"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
December 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I don't think it's fully appreciated, just how much the sudden end of ~two centuries of extensive and reasonably straightforward daily reporting on every neighborhood/town/city in the US, in a standardized and searchable format, is going to screw up future historical research.
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Prasad also pressured FDA scientists to withdraw a vaccine study that was still under peer review. The paper, which supported vaccine efficacy, was forced into silence before it could be published. The message was clear: evidence that contradicts power will never see the light.
December 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Prasad also pressured FDA scientists to withdraw a vaccine study that was still under peer review. The paper, which supported vaccine efficacy, was forced into silence before it could be published. The message was clear: evidence that contradicts power will never see the light.
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The tragedy of Rob and Michelle’s deaths are incomprehensible.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
December 16, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The tragedy of Rob and Michelle’s deaths are incomprehensible.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
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"Princess Bride" is a very good movie.
December 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"Princess Bride" is a very good movie.
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This tweet from Big Balls says the new “Tech Force” website is their first using the “America Design System.” Here are just a few reasons why that sucks. 🧵
December 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This tweet from Big Balls says the new “Tech Force” website is their first using the “America Design System.” Here are just a few reasons why that sucks. 🧵
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Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
December 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.