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How We See Things Like a Bank Collapse http://kinlane.com/2023/03/19/how-we-see-things-like-a-bank-collapse/
Your belief that artificial intelligence is the future is proportional to your lack of understanding and faith in humanity.
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Meet “Ugly Gerry” - a #font using outlines of gerrymandered US congressional districts.
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This is really, really interesting. Open Collective is allowing those who use their platform, and have funding, to be “hired” under their umbrella to enable things like payroll, healthcare, taxes, etc to be handled. It doesn’t help projects that can’t get funding, but those that have ample funding to support maintainers full time now have an option for “employment”.
https://opencollective.com/opensource/updates/open-source-collective-is-hiring-maintainers
https://opencollective.com/opensource/updates/open-source-collective-is-hiring-maintainers
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Badass story on tribes being badasses, stocking up on billions of seeds and planting Native trees to start restoring the landscape before Klamath dam removal even begins.
The #Yurok Tribe recruited riparian ecologist Joshua Chenoweth, who helped restore the Elwha River after what was then the biggest dam removal in US history, to help with the massive undertaking on the #KlamathRiver.
#Indigenous #NativeMastodon #Karuk #HoopaValley #KlamathTribes
So, what did we learn this weekend?
Listening to For Profit, A History of the Corporation- https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/william-magnuson/for-profit/9781541601581/ - covered an interesting mix of corporations from The Medici to private equity.
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Oh wow, the Treasury, FDIC, and Fed installed a backstop #SiliconValleyBank https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20230312b.htm
Poppy likes her monstera plant. We keep moving her bed but she moves back.
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**Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone**
by @stokel
"The cheapest, Small Package, gives access to 50 million tweets for $42,000 a month. Higher tiers give researchers or businesses access to larger volumes of tweets—100 million and 200 million tweets respectively—and cost $125,000 and $210,000 a month."
#Twitter #TwitterAPI #SocialMedia #ElonMusk #TwitterTakeover
https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-data-api-prices-out-nearly-everyone/
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Silicon Valley Bank, Santa Clara, California, was closed today by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation
Oakland's abandoned Greyhound bus station was once 'magnificent' https://oaklandside.org/2023/03/09/oakland-greyhound-bus-station-abandoned-history-underground-raves-party-alden-global/
Folks who are building and evangelizing programming language specific solutions to compete with OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and JSON Schema are missing a massive aspect of why APIs, and API specifications matter.
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Department of "Do Not Buy Ring Surveillance Devices" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/07/privacy-loophole-ring-doorbell-00084979
I'm A Virgo - Official Teaser | Prime Video https://youtu.be/DYfpWY330mM
Reading a book on the early days of phone networks and regulation and happen to switch to a random 1947 National Geographic I have with a Bell Telephone network advertisement for a Boston to New York microwave network.
I was trying to describe a Bowie Knife to the wife on Friday from a TV show and I couldn't remember Jim's name and I called it a "David Bowie Knife" -- now I have been thinking of what a David Bowie Knife would have been like all weekend!
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