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Canadian Cory Doctorow in the FT today with a clever suggestion
“The digital countermove to Trump tariffs“
https://on.ft.com/4dh0zjr
. . . . .
What’s a (former) trading partner to do? In Canada, Mexico and all around the world, leaders are trying to formulate a response to the Trump tariffs and they’re all landing in the same place: if US President Donald Trump tariffs us, we’ll tariff him. But tit-for-tat tariffs are the stuff of 19th-century geopolitics. Here in the 21st century, aggrieved foreign leaders have an exciting, digital countermove that could have a devastating effect on the most profitable lines of business at America’s most profitable companies.
The countermove, which could make things cheaper while removing the monopoly profits extracted by the most economically important companies in the US, is to repeal a highly technical intellectual property law called “anticircumvention”.
“The digital countermove to Trump tariffs“
https://on.ft.com/4dh0zjr
. . . . .
What’s a (former) trading partner to do? In Canada, Mexico and all around the world, leaders are trying to formulate a response to the Trump tariffs and they’re all landing in the same place: if US President Donald Trump tariffs us, we’ll tariff him. But tit-for-tat tariffs are the stuff of 19th-century geopolitics. Here in the 21st century, aggrieved foreign leaders have an exciting, digital countermove that could have a devastating effect on the most profitable lines of business at America’s most profitable companies.
The countermove, which could make things cheaper while removing the monopoly profits extracted by the most economically important companies in the US, is to repeal a highly technical intellectual property law called “anticircumvention”.
It’s happening here now too (further north than many)
"New study reveals wealth inequality was never inevitable" — so it really doesn't need to be this way. Love when something drops that reinforces my cognitive bias.
https://archaeologymag.com/2025/04/study-reveals-inequality-was-never-inevitable/
https://archaeologymag.com/2025/04/study-reveals-inequality-was-never-inevitable/
Bluesky's @horsefacts.eth event coming up. iykyk
https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/bluesky-open-social-media-tech
https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/bluesky-open-social-media-tech
High-quality rants embedded in farcical radio call-in sitcom
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0frw494
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0frw494
English has a rule for this. The more a new compound gets used, the more it gets closed up.
Might as well close ’em up now since that’s where we’re going. 🧑⚖️
`onchain miniapp`
Might as well close ’em up now since that’s where we’re going. 🧑⚖️
`onchain miniapp`
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Building Back Better™ today, maybe
Downed tree and powerline cleanup ongoing
Downed tree and powerline cleanup ongoing
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People aren’t silenced (well, ofc they are, often) as much as just not listened to. You can follow #solarpunk on Masto without making an account to listen in on what fedi folks are getting up to wrt saving the world
If you do want an account, mas.to is the one that will save you rabbitholing on which server to join. Bonus to mas.to for winning the short url game
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“Some weeks ago, I decided to follow the hashtag #solarpunk and I’m so glad I did. It feels good to have regular reminders of the work that needs to be done and is being done.
All advice is autobiographical: consider following a hashtag of something you would like to see more of, in the world.
https://social.coop/@copystar/114415381286598643
If you do want an account, mas.to is the one that will save you rabbitholing on which server to join. Bonus to mas.to for winning the short url game
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“Some weeks ago, I decided to follow the hashtag #solarpunk and I’m so glad I did. It feels good to have regular reminders of the work that needs to be done and is being done.
All advice is autobiographical: consider following a hashtag of something you would like to see more of, in the world.
https://social.coop/@copystar/114415381286598643
Had to creep slowly across/around a big tree across the road down from a big wind event last night
Nothing like the Euro outage, still feels like solidarity wrt fragile infrastructure
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“The tl;dr of the power outage thing:
- It started in Spain
- Portugal and France partially impacted, they're bordering countries with interconnects
BBC tracker: bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd
Power outage at 11:32am in Spain, marked in red - the frequency fell, likely things shut down to protect themselves, will need safe restarts, takes a few hours.
Not a doomsday thing, in basically all cases like this it's a squirrel or some such.
— https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/114415495874763376
Nothing like the Euro outage, still feels like solidarity wrt fragile infrastructure
- - - -
“The tl;dr of the power outage thing:
- It started in Spain
- Portugal and France partially impacted, they're bordering countries with interconnects
BBC tracker: bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd
Power outage at 11:32am in Spain, marked in red - the frequency fell, likely things shut down to protect themselves, will need safe restarts, takes a few hours.
Not a doomsday thing, in basically all cases like this it's a squirrel or some such.
— https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/114415495874763376
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Friends got a new puppy. Meet Lulu. Proof that those eyes are how they got to us.
Hmmm Tyler handed @cdixon.eth an opening to mention FC that he didn’t take advantage of
"That's now a bunch of years ago. No one has come to me in at least five years and said, oh, Tyler, you need to try this new decentralized service."
― Tyler Cowen
https://share.snipd.com/episode/6c163ccc-9d95-42d2-bcb5-4029b7320df9
"That's now a bunch of years ago. No one has come to me in at least five years and said, oh, Tyler, you need to try this new decentralized service."
― Tyler Cowen
https://share.snipd.com/episode/6c163ccc-9d95-42d2-bcb5-4029b7320df9
“…I spent more time asking Gemini for help than I would have if I'd just written the draft myself. Remarkably, the Gmail team has shipped a product that perfectly captures the experience of managing an underperforming employee.”
https://koomen.dev/essays/horseless-carriages/
“Render unto the user what is the user's. My core contention in this essay is this: when an LLM agent is acting on my behalf I should be allowed to teach it how to do that by editing the System Prompt.”
https://koomen.dev/essays/horseless-carriages/
“Render unto the user what is the user's. My core contention in this essay is this: when an LLM agent is acting on my behalf I should be allowed to teach it how to do that by editing the System Prompt.”
“My big fear is that when the 31st century history books are written, it will be realized that NATO and the Warsaw Pact were THE BEST WE EVER GOT at not unleashing thermonuclear war, and it was all downhill after 1989 (after the cold war memories faded).”
https://wandering.shop/@cstross/114404187597041250
https://wandering.shop/@cstross/114404187597041250
DTSS Honeywell 66/40A terminal at Kiewit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_Time-Sharing_System
https://www.roughtype.com/?m=201310
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_Time-Sharing_System
https://www.roughtype.com/?m=201310
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“…emphasis is on keeping a very tight leash on this new over-eager junior intern savant with encyclopedic knowledge of software, but who also bullshits you all the time, has an over-abundance of courage and shows little to no taste for good code”
https://x.com/karpathy/status/1915581920022585597
Collecting up these posts on current strategies. 6 months from now will all changed ofc. Working on a thing this month.
https://x.com/karpathy/status/1915581920022585597
Collecting up these posts on current strategies. 6 months from now will all changed ofc. Working on a thing this month.
Appreciated travel notes like these by thoughtful folks like Jack Cheng
“The streets in every city I’ve visited feel human-scaled, with wide sidewalks and tightly planted street trees. One thing I loathe about Detroit is that even in denser neighborhoods you can’t always find shade to walk in. In Shanghai, vines are also being trained to go up the concrete piers of many elevated freeways, which gives off mild – though not entirely unpleasant – Last of Us vibes.”
Noting also the 🦎solarpunk to last-of-us slippery slope 🐊
https://www.jackcheng.com/sunday/441-china-core-sample-2025/
“The streets in every city I’ve visited feel human-scaled, with wide sidewalks and tightly planted street trees. One thing I loathe about Detroit is that even in denser neighborhoods you can’t always find shade to walk in. In Shanghai, vines are also being trained to go up the concrete piers of many elevated freeways, which gives off mild – though not entirely unpleasant – Last of Us vibes.”
Noting also the 🦎solarpunk to last-of-us slippery slope 🐊
https://www.jackcheng.com/sunday/441-china-core-sample-2025/
4 and 20 blackbirds
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I read a lot and widely and my SS subs are a lot. Since I turned off the email option about two weeks ago, have hardly read any of all y'all. Be careful of the company you keep?
SS Home isn't the answer and also is using an algo that keeps putting old notes at the top when I just want to see what's come in the last day or so. Let me keep scrolling when I want to go further back. Even LinkedIn lol let's me use chronological over algo if I want. Here on FC I bounce btw Following and Home feeds and that seems perfect for what makes sense to me for now.
til where the full list lives
https://substack.com/@jdbbb/reads
home since took me a while to find this, really
https://substack.com/home
SS Home isn't the answer and also is using an algo that keeps putting old notes at the top when I just want to see what's come in the last day or so. Let me keep scrolling when I want to go further back. Even LinkedIn lol let's me use chronological over algo if I want. Here on FC I bounce btw Following and Home feeds and that seems perfect for what makes sense to me for now.
til where the full list lives
https://substack.com/@jdbbb/reads
home since took me a while to find this, really
https://substack.com/home
til "Irvine purple"
"The Irvine Water District is a model of urban water infrastructure. The IRWD recycles sewer water for irrigation. So that people don’t drink this reclaimed water, all the irrigation pipes in Irvine are purple. Irvine purple — an internationally known shade among water managers."
Seeding some Catherine Liu over here.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-162013029
"Irvine is completely its own thing: its ‘villages’ only refer to other ‘villages’ in Irvine. Its neighborhoods are compromises between an urban planner and a real estate speculator. Its houses are not well built or well designed, but they are so utterly comfortable. Irvine is completely and utterly anonymous, prosperous, rich, decentered. It is the inhuman future of a frictionless Internet made flesh. It is Artificial Intelligence embodied." 1/2
"The Irvine Water District is a model of urban water infrastructure. The IRWD recycles sewer water for irrigation. So that people don’t drink this reclaimed water, all the irrigation pipes in Irvine are purple. Irvine purple — an internationally known shade among water managers."
Seeding some Catherine Liu over here.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-162013029
"Irvine is completely its own thing: its ‘villages’ only refer to other ‘villages’ in Irvine. Its neighborhoods are compromises between an urban planner and a real estate speculator. Its houses are not well built or well designed, but they are so utterly comfortable. Irvine is completely and utterly anonymous, prosperous, rich, decentered. It is the inhuman future of a frictionless Internet made flesh. It is Artificial Intelligence embodied." 1/2
