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2024-10-24 15:40:04

"There’s a twisted irony to the fact that the same groups bellowing about the threat of mysterious illegal voters are almost entirely funded by anonymous donors themselves. If it’s such a noble cause, why not put your name on it?”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/non-citizen-voting/

2024-10-05 22:07:14

“Let’s be clear: it’s nothing more than a billionaire embracing right-wing politics that are designed to serve his interests.”
https://disconnect.blog/mark-zuckerbergs-rebrand-is-a-master-class-in-distraction/

2024-10-05 03:45:36

“Trump has now survived a second apparent assassination attempt, and Zuckerburg’s company has made millions of dollars through political advertising tied to these and other violent acts.”
https://themarkup.org/investigations/2024/10/04/how-meta-brings-in-millions-off-political-violence

2024-09-21 00:44:35

when you want the answer now, not after watching 15 minutes of a YouTube video
(not free, I guess they have to make money somehow, on top of the video makers that stretch the video just enough for an ad insert)
https://www.skipit.ai/
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2024-09-20 23:54:59

sometimes people add AI to things because why not
this is basically Google Sheets and ChatGPT come together
it has database access, charts, array of integrations, and other useful features you'd expect in a work spreadsheet
but mostly it's $20/month license to spreadsheet and ChatGPT with it
https://sourcetable.com
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2024-09-20 22:18:45

Toward a more sustainable California
“The progress is encouraging as that share of car sales increased in 2023, when 1 in 4 cars bought in California are zero-emission.
California continues to expand the role of renewable energy in its electricity grid. Around 50% of the state’s power comes from wind, solar or zero-emission nuclear power.”
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-09-20/california-emissions-drop-2-4-due-to-electric-vehicles-cleaner-fuels

2024-09-20 18:53:22

may they forever be successful in their effort! 💪
Cards Against Humanity Sues Elon Musk For 15 Million Dollars
https://www.elonowesyou100dollars.com
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2024-09-20 18:14:47

So Sunday they shot 4 people over a $2.90 fare evasion in the NYC subway.
Wednesday, they published this article informing us that BART installed new security gates to tackle fare evaders.
I’m sure the timing is incidental, because BART unlike NYC transit police does not make excessive use of force.
Ok, sure BART police did shot Oscar dead, and there was a famous movie about it, and a lot of people did not feel safe walking to their train …
https://sfstandard.com/2024/09/18/bart-evading-fares-new-gates/

2024-09-20 16:01:42

“The planning documentation for the Lower Thames Crossing, a proposed tunnel under the Thames connecting Kent and Essex, runs to 360,000 pages, and the application process alone has cost £297 million. That is more than twice as much as it cost in Norway to actually build the longest road tunnel in the world.”
390,000 pages … too many tokens for even a modern AI to summarize :(
(yes, I'm making a dad joke about AI, because the situation in UK is otherwise pathetic)
https://ukfoundations.co

2024-09-19 23:09:43

Terminal screenshot tool, which takes the console output and renders an output image that resembles a user interface window.
https://github.com/homeport/termshot
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2024-09-19 23:07:13

when you want to show a spinner, but only if it takes more than X ms to make a request, and not for less than Y ms
if this makes no sense, their explanation is much better and a lot of UIs would benefit from that
https://github.com/smeijer/spin-delay
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2024-09-19 22:19:20

ts-remove-unused will remove unused code from your TypeScript project
Similar to knip but doesn't handle dependencies, only your code
https://github.com/line/ts-remove-unused

2024-09-19 21:49:59

“If talent wants to draw a dick on the white board in the video or do something stupid, let them… Really do everything you can to empower the boys when filming and help them make content. Help them be idiots.” — MrBeast's employee handbook
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/mrbeast-amazon-sued-beast-games-contestants-class-action-1236148181/

2024-09-19 12:21:06

“And it seems exceedingly likely that, should someone in the Russian government want to further shape US conservative opinion to their benefit, there are more influencers who, for the right price, will be willing to act as eager salespeople for whatever they’re trying to peddle.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/lauren-chen-tenet-russia/

2024-09-19 01:38:10

"I hope this email finds you …” is the bane of my existence, but some people that's how they work, and if you need an automation to make your email life more super, this looks pretty affordable ($99/mo is peanuts for a sales team)
https://supersend.io/
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2024-09-18 19:33:52

look this is really cool but it needs to be a feature of the calendaring app and not its own website
this AI magic turns any text into calendar events, like the email you received reminding you about the party and next day’s kid's play date
https://agendahero.com/magic
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2024-09-18 18:11:15

Jimp is for most things a great alternative to Sharp — find image size, crop, resize, manipulate, combine, write to a different format, etc — pure JavaScript so no need for extensions, can run in the browser (eg I'm using it to check image size in the browser before uploading to manipulate on the server)
https://jimp-dev.github.io/jimp/
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2024-09-18 18:04:08

Scramble wants to be an open-source alternative Grammarly
I don't know how I feel about that
It's a Chrome extension so not usable everywhere, not available in the Chrome store, you have to build it yourself, and you have to plug your OpenAI API key
I feel like it's missing the point on "privacy-respecting alternative to Grammarly”, or am I just clueless?
https://github.com/zlwaterfield/scramble

2024-09-18 14:17:05

In other news, Tupperware still exists
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/18/tupperware-files-for-bankruptcy

2024-09-18 13:56:58

Your regular reminder that “cup of coffee” is 4 oz.
So a regular 12 oz Starbucks cup is 3 cups of coffee, and a Venti is 5 cups.
So yes coffee is good for you, but “in moderation” is a far cry from 2~3 Venti a day.
https://flipboard.com/@sciencealert/health-43m5auulz/-/a-kRriEUOdTY6aVTO37KksIg%3Aa%3A565656366-%2F0

2024-09-16 20:06:19

Boeing just being Boeing
new CEO buys $4.1 million house because of course that's what a CEO would do while their workforce goes on strike because they're not paid enough
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-ceo-kelly-ortberg-buys-a-home-in-seattle/

2024-09-16 19:33:28

so the most manly man that ever manned spends $2.4m a year on personal security?
which granted is still pennies compared to Zuckerberg's $23.4m spend, so I guess Leon is not all that important?
https://archive.ph/nCFup
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2024-09-16 18:22:06

“undecided” voters
“There’s a part of me that longs for Dick Cheney, Mitt Romney, John McCain,” Faith said.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-09-16/column-how-can-millions-of-voters-still-be-undecided-between-trump-and-harris-here-are-their-reasons

2024-09-16 01:02:47

I'm not recommending this tool, I haven't used it to gauge if it even works
I just wanted to point out that “AI detection" is a category of products that exist, and so “AI detection-avoiding AIs" is also a category of products that exist
https://www.getconch.ai
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2024-09-16 00:28:39

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2024-09-15 00:39:43

Infisical — secret management but open source
(I'm going to stick with Doppler, but this does look really good, and quite useful docs about getting started, migrating from .env file, etc)
https://infisical.com
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2024-09-14 20:18:20

"‘Founder mode’ is the latest Silicon Valley buzzword telling toxic bosses they’re great”
bingo
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/11/business/founder-mode-meaning-vs-manager-nightcap/index.html

2024-09-14 17:27:21

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2024-09-13 20:07:09

The Modern CLI Renaissance
https://gabevenberg.com/posts/cli-renaissance/
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2024-09-13 18:40:05

Penify will document everything for you: PRs, code changes, repos, architecture diagrams, APIs, etc
at some point I'm not sure why we need AI to document anything, why not just use AI to read the code? but I guess if you like docs and you get paid by the page …
https://www.penify.dev/
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2024-09-13 17:36:29

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I have no opinion about Canada, but there's a notable movement of people leaving New Zealand, so do we trust CNBC?
https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/people-leave-new-zealand-record-numbers-economy-bites-2024-08-13/

2024-09-13 16:51:21

so it's a race car that's real size, actually drivable, yet made out of 342,817 pieces of Lego???
(I'm not going to buy 342K Lego pieces and try to build one myself)
https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/lando-norris-drove-lego-mclaren-p1-supercar-around-silverstone-1235858724/
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2024-09-13 16:46:06

I'm so happy to not be a traffic intersection designer …
What This Iconic Photo Says About America’s Road Planning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0C7rb9a4mk

2024-09-13 16:01:40

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if you do the math it's about $650/LA resident ($2.4b a year over 3.8m people), and since we do have progressive taxation here in CA, and our fair share of billionaires, I'm not financially worried — I think we can afford it
not to mention so many office buildings are sitting empty now, that we do have the space to build new homes

2024-09-13 15:59:27

Mayor London Breed is developing a proposal to tow away homeless people who are sheltering in their RV.
Meanwhile LA, which is due to host the olympics in just 4 years, is considering investing money to solve homelessness by 2032. Which, I don’t think they’ll solve it, but I do believe they’ll make some remarkable progress in the next 4 years.
Because incentives.
https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2024-09-13/los-angeles-homeless-proposal-20-billion

2024-09-12 18:54:23

3. Firecrawl: an API service that takes a URL, crawls it, and converts it into clean markdown.
https://docs.firecrawl.dev/introduction
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2024-09-12 18:53:44

2. Reader: get LLM-friendly input from a URL or a web search, by simply adding r.jina.ai in front. Can also handle images and PDFs.
https://jina.ai/reader/
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2024-09-12 18:52:30

1. Reader-LM: a small language model for cleaning and converting HTML to Markdown
https://jina.ai/news/reader-lm-small-language-models-for-cleaning-and-converting-html-to-markdown/
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2024-09-12 18:03:58

I think there's some other thing Japan could do to get more woman to marry and raise children, but obviously fixing gender roles, work habits, and child-care costs is a bit more complicated than dumping money at the problem
https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/gender-diversity/article/3277909/low-desire-society-japan-shelves-cash-incentive-city-women-wed-rural-men-after-backlash

2024-09-12 17:31:47

this is really bad:
"Many dogs were supplied by breeders cited or charged with abuse and neglect … knowingly transported puppies that had been diagnosed with the deadly and highly contagious parvovirus”
this I don't get:
"Dogs brought from out of state are often rebranded as California-bred, fetching hundreds to thousands of dollars each.”
isn't giving the dog a better home what raising a dog is all about?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-12/puppy-mill-pipeline

2024-09-12 17:09:27

“A sizable portion feel that government is the problem, not the solution,” Baldassare says. “They feel ignored. One way to get attention is to say, ‘I’m for Trump. Listen to me.’”
definitely you get attention when you claim you're voting for Trump because he “speaks to the proverbial forgotten man” … definitely that's his shtick
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-12/column-skelton

2024-09-12 01:01:28

Business Insider would like you to know that your boss thinks they're paying you too much:
“Google cofounder Sergey Brin said engineers at the tech company aren't using artificial intelligence as often as he thinks they should.”
you're really just working too many hours for whatever little you produce
btw this was a wonderful event hosted by the most caring and loving people in the tech industry, people like Chamath, Calacanis, Sacks, and Friedberg
https://archive.ph/W3W5C#selection-1953.0-1969.144

2024-09-11 23:32:23

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2024-09-11 15:46:35

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good!

2024-09-11 15:44:58

I have it on good authority that no Haitian immigrants are eating these call ducks … because they're too damn adorable!!!
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/119/690/339/183/628/original/399d8e2da1191d21.mp4

2024-09-11 15:42:56

what if AI could catch founders of AI companies in their bold lies?
"Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of OthersideAI, also known as its signature AI assistant writing product HyperWrite, has broken his near two days of silence after being accused of fraud when third-party researchers were unable to replicate the supposed top performance of a new large language model (LLM) he released on Thursday, September 5.”
https://venturebeat.com/ai/reflection-70b-model-maker-breaks-silence-amid-fraud-accusations/

2024-09-10 19:24:31

if you live in San Francisco you will never die
or you'll run out of money, not sure which will happen to you first
"The Don’t Die Summit offered an “amusement park” of longevity-focused booths where attendees could stretch, swab their cheeks for DNA testing, or learn how their skin is aging.”
https://sfstandard.com/2024/09/09/bryan-johnson-dont-die-summit-blueprint-diet/
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2024-09-10 18:22:47

the day I've been waiting for the last 9 years … drum roll!!!
Express 5.0 is finally released!
oh wait I moved on from Express over 5 years ago, but still …
https://github.com/expressjs/express/releases

2024-09-10 17:38:46

A fool and his money are soon parted
"As many as 30,000 Cybertruck drivers have already paid $12,000 for FSD and have been waiting to receive it since the first deliveries went out in November, according to Autoevolution. In April, Tesla dropped the price to $8,000 without refunding customers the difference.”
https://www.flyingpenguin.com/?p=61143

2024-09-10 17:36:45

so white supremacy is a fairly new concept that's rooted in christianity …
“Spanish anti-Judaism started to include ideas about the purity of blood (limpieza de sangre) in the 14th and 15th centuries, framed in terms of whether someone was Christian or not”
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-prehistory-of-scientific-racism/

2024-09-10 17:31:06

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ha :) AppleScript is something I know nothing about (tried it once many years ago on a small work project, so not enough to learn much)

2024-09-10 15:49:04

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https://arc.net/download is pretty good. They might not last the year (financially) but it looks promising.

2024-09-10 02:07:32

So crypto is a $5.6b industry …
https://universeodon.com/@memeorandum/113109430369721404

2024-09-10 01:49:26

USA 2024: “convince a judge to restore her rights, including her gun rights, which are a prerequisite to restore voting rights.”
https://www.rawstory.com/tennessee-voting-rights/

2024-09-10 01:32:31

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depends on the case https://arc.cc/

2024-09-09 23:15:56

this Exxon Heat Wave is not kind to South California
"Southern California continues to be battered by extreme heat that will continue for one more day after sending temperature records tumbling all weekend.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-09/brutal-heat-wave-breaks-records-across-southern-california-when-will-it-ease-up

2024-09-09 23:07:35

what prize do they win?
"The Mormon church’s oldest-ever president turns 100”
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-09-09/the-mormon-churchs-oldest-ever-president-turns-100

2024-09-09 22:33:53

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on the Apple store?

2024-09-09 22:14:27

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little known fact all these features are part of macOS, they’re just offering a simple and usable UI

2024-09-09 18:40:45

About 120 current/former employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind and Meta issued a statement in support of California's new AI regulation bill (SB 1047).
However, OpenAI opposes SB 1047, and so do Pelosi and Breed.
So you know it's probably defanged enough that most employees accept it as ok, but maybe just strong enough that this bunch opposes it.
(if this reads like gibberish, ask an LLM to explain it to you)
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/09/openai-anthropic-deepmind-employees-ai-bill

2024-09-09 18:28:51

“Existing evidence suggests a significant association between exposure to PM2·5 and incidence of dementia and nonsignificant association between dementia and NOX, NO2, and O3 exposure. However, results should be interpreted in light of the small number of studies and high heterogeneity of effects across studies.”
https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000201419

2024-09-09 18:23:37

at last!
Start-Up Investors Push Back Against Venture Capital’s Bigger-Is-Better Mantra
https://archive.ph/j1vsU

2024-09-09 18:14:51

throwing baby puffins off a cliff is actually a good thing
or not, maybe just too much development
https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/sci/iceland-throw-baby-puffins-cliffs.html
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2024-09-09 16:56:05

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2024-09-09 16:55:14

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2024-09-08 20:23:15

Helicone is LLM-observability and it does look quite interesting — I just started using it, so far pretty good
https://www.helicone.ai
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2024-09-08 18:42:09

Spooky
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2024-09-08 17:52:19

When you need callable functions in your React app
https://react-call.desko.dev/

2024-09-08 17:30:21

“The publications were related to three issue areas—health (14.5%), environment (19.5%) and computing (23%)—with key terms such “healthcare,” “COVID-19,” or “infection”for health-related papers, and “analysis,” “sustainable,” and “global” for environment-related papers”
https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-on-google-scholar-key-features-spread-and-implications-for-preempting-evidence-manipulation/

2024-09-08 16:28:22

in another story about a couch …
“Although they said they could not yet name him a suspect in Saturday’s shootings along busy Interstate 75, authorities said they consider 32-year-old Joseph A. Couch a “person of interest” and were searching for him in a remote area of rugged and hilly terrain north of London, a community of about 8,000 people roughly 75 miles south of Lexington.”
literally a. couch …
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-09-08/authorities-search-for-a-man-who-might-be-linked-to-the-kentucky-highway-shootings-that-wounded-five

2024-09-07 19:36:53

You can now bet on US elections 🤦
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/are-you-ready-to-bet-on-u-s-elections-a-judges-ruling-opens-the-door-556abc73?mod=RSSMSN

2024-09-07 19:33:06

Why I pay no attention to the latest eyeball garb from Dave Winer or Paul Graham
https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/09/07/why-do-people-get-the-history-of-apple-so-wrong/

2024-09-07 19:31:24

New book fails to ask wether AI is worth battling over
Buy you should buy the book so we earn a commission
Did AI make this?
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2024-09-06 18:00:26

And now for a delightful looking e-book reader with longer battery life (though weighs about 3x iPhone)
11.8" color display, 525g, two-week battery life, paper-like texture, handwriting recognition, and more, starting at $579
https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-paper/pro
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2024-09-06 17:42:31

because of course they’ll use an app advertised as erasing any evidence of the crime
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/05/snap-sued-new-mexico-kid-sextortion.html

2024-09-06 17:37:08

👍
Chappell Roan Says She’s Canceling Scalper-Bought Tickets for Tennessee Show, Offers Fans an Alternative Shot at Getting In
https://variety.com/2024/music/news/chappell-roan-cancels-scalper-tickets-tennessee-concert-1236130117/

2024-09-06 17:29:17

maybe it's best to keep your distance from the Salesforce tower …
https://sfstandard.com/2024/09/06/salesforce-east-window-pane-falls/

2024-09-06 00:57:44

artificially inflated music streaming
"Michael Smith, 52, allegedly used AI to create hundreds of thousands of fake songs by nonexistent bands, then streamed them using bots to collect royalties from platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music”
but it's not about the generative AI:
"While the AI-generated element of this story is novel, Smith allegedly broke the law by setting up an elaborate fake listener scheme."
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/fbi-busts-musicians-elaborate-ai-powered-10m-streaming-royalty-heist/

2024-09-05 18:06:59

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nah.
A few customers will leave — and there are some cheaper competitors than Adobe — but Canva will make up for that by 3x revenue increase and by IPO revenue would also double

2024-09-05 17:46:53

“Canva says its AI features are worth the 300 percent price increase"
just so we’re clear, you're not charged 3x for Canva because of some new AI features (which maybe you think are totally worthless but you can't opt out)
you're charged 3x for Canva because they're planning to IPO in a year and need to boost revenues ahead and need to somehow justify the price bump as “but we're giving you new feature”
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/3/24234698/canva-price-increase-300-percent-ai-features

2024-09-05 17:40:49

the 2024 winning photos taken on an iPhone
https://www.ippawards.com/2024-winning-photographers/
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2024-09-05 16:16:49

When you want an LLM that can pick up the phone and answer but too lazy to write the code yourself
https://www.retellai.com/
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2024-09-05 15:42:18

so The Mushtery Machine was parked just outside my house …
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/085/706/050/885/817/original/79a6419dd34dba7f.jpeg

2024-09-05 01:39:31

this is pretty amazing
Brainybear promises to build a chatbot for your website in just 3 easy steps:
"Instantly answer your visitors' questions with a personalized chatbot trained on your content.”
and in just 3 easy steps it will be utterly useless and can't answer even simple questions 🤦‍♂️
https://brainybear.ai/
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2024-09-04 21:33:15

“Perfect marketing strategy for your product in 5 minutes”
can AI help you with your marketing strategy? I doubt it
but here's a winning strategy — copy everything this site does — the fancy name, demo video, green CTA button, widget showing you live orders, walls of testimonials, etc — and soon your site will also convert random visitors into paying "customers”
https://founderpal.ai/marketing-strategy-generator/
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2024-09-04 19:24:19

“As far as I can tell, the politics of crypto are simple. First, the crypto cartel seeks legitimacy in order to part a greater number of people from their wealth. Second, it wants "sovereignty" in order to evade world governments and laws as it amasses ungodly amounts of wealth to become a rival power in a post-democracy world. After that, world domination. (I'm workshopping this definition.)”
https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-project-2025-peter-thiel-and-right-wing-san-francisco-2/

2024-09-04 17:48:15

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2024-09-04 17:30:54

surprising to whom?
"When officers of the state Department of Cannabis Control swooped in on a neighborhood in the Bay Area city of Antioch this spring, they found what they were looking for — about $1 million in illegal marijuana — and one surprise.
One of the three houses they raided was owned by an officer of the Oakland Police Department.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-03/oakland-police-officer-home-illegal-weed-grow

2024-09-04 17:28:39

“San Francisco police said they responded to a report of a crash at 4:39 p.m. and found two vehicles that were involved.
It was not immediately clear whether the vehicles collided before careening off the cliff. Police are investigating the cause of the crashes.”
https://sfstandard.com/2024/09/03/1-dead-after-2-cars-go-over-cliff-below-historic-sf-restaurant/

2024-09-04 16:52:52

llms.txt
if I get it right, this is the future of robots.txt (RIP)?
https://llmstxt.org
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2024-09-04 02:02:15

took them a while but better late than never
https://mas.to/@trendsbot/113075064567483820

2024-09-04 01:30:05

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yeah; I got one of these yesterday, although their Google Maps photo was pointing at the opposite side of the street, I think maybe low-hanging bug

2024-09-04 00:06:10

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if you want to understand what Trump is cooking up for 2025, you don't need to venture any further than reading news about Venezuela

2024-09-04 00:04:17

when you run a dictatorship and claim you "won a democratic election”, spreading lies is a feature not a bug, hence why not relocate x-mas to a new schedule?
Venezuelan President Maduro moves Christmas to Oct 1 amid post-election turmoil
https://japantoday.com/category/world/maduro-moves-christmas-to-october-amid-post-election-turmoil

2024-09-03 23:59:55

I'm digging this font
Monospace with a lo-fi technical vibe
Sometimes this is exactly what you need
https://departuremono.com
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2024-09-03 21:34:26

feeling lucky? then play The Human Slots Machine
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/075/766/022/277/165/original/ea966e999a073936.mp4

2024-09-03 18:51:21

"Viewers and Emmy voters are finally catching up: Everyone needs to see ‘Slow Horses’"
yes. Slow Horses is really really good. put it on your watch queue.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-09-03/slow-horses-season-4-apple-tv-gary-oldman-jack-lowden-kristin-scott-thomas
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/075/124/752/647/761/original/b557d5f698aa7b79.jpeg

2024-09-03 16:18:23

the most affordable cybertruck
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/074/523/303/453/628/original/829c769dfaff0dc2.jpeg

2024-09-03 16:17:23

does this count as dress for the job you want?
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/074/519/372/278/866/original/5797245d47dfb943.jpeg

2024-09-03 16:15:29

room with a view
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/074/511/850/074/893/original/931610375259c80e.jpeg