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i’da needed someplace to park. of course once i arrived in Bkln, we walked or took the subway everywhere.

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so traveled in and out of brooklyn, briefly crossing lower manhattan, following Apple Maps, and was twice congestion-priced-by-mail. might be good policy, but i gotta say i don’t love the surprise! i don’t know why my FL sunpass didn’t pay, so i’m stuck with a 50% premium for toll-by-mail.

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(i think there’s supposed to be some kind of bundle pricing with the tunnels? but doing sunpass for the tunnels but toll-by-mail for the congestion pricing breaks the bundle? it feels very screw-the-outsider. i guess as a person who lives in Florida, what’s good for the goose, i shouldn’t complain.)

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they really want you sober nowadays while you lose your shirt, i guess. you should really feel it.

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where are the free drinks, the comped rooms and meals?

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i think this one still holds up pretty well. www.interfluidity.com/v2/1781.html

interfluidity » Should we be scandalized by IPO pops?

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i wanted to joke like a sweaty person meme saying the temperature is a SCAM! except that’s not a joke at all that’s literally the position on climate change.

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"Extension of individual rights amounts to an extension not an attenuation of coercion: it calls for a reinforcement of the police function to contain the consequences of inequality…

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"Communitarian empowerment of 'ethnic' and gender pluralities presupposes and fixes a given distribution of identities' in a radically dynamic society…

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"'Empowerment' legitimises the potential tyranny of the local or particular community in its relations with its members and at the boundary with competing interests. It is the abused who become the abusers…

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"no one and no community is exempt from the paradoxes of 'empowerment'." ~Gillian Rose via @poetryforsupper.bsky.social

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there’s bsky.app/profile/did:...

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historically, are BLS initial nonfarm payroll numbers a biased or unbiased estimator of the ultimate revised figures?

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where are the planning board meetings full of nearby residents shouting over neighborhood character and traffic and how the deadbeat drunken diplomats urinating on stoops after hours is already bad enough, thank you, to block this?

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AI business will truly take off when you can replace not only your employees with markdown files you call “agents”, but also your vendors and customers.

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"'Hegemony' is neither a birthright nor a permanent condition; it is a practice, fragile and perishable, dependent on the continual renewal of both material capabilities and the legitimacy of leadership." @delong.social braddelong.substack.com/p/a-note-on-... ht @dhnexon.bsky.social

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A Note on the Closing of the Path to Future U.S. Hegemony—Economic, Political, Geostrategic, Cultural

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a few of them are sure what they are building is god, and they are competing to become the parent, teacher, and trusted advisor of the almighty. old-testament-style they imagine the tribe that exalts and exults the most capable smoter will be granted domination over the earth.

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“$100 received out of labor is not a net, but gross, wage. Because working involves disutility.” // this is an excellent essay from @brankomilan.bsky.social

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whereas yours is a take of unusual wit and brilliance!

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cc @steveroth.bsky.social

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