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morisy

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About morisy

founder, MuckRock Foundation: Open Our World.

Our portfolio of open source transparency tools: * https://www.muckrock.com * https://www.documentcloud.org * https://otranscribe.com * https://www.foiamachine.org

email michael at muckrock, but I'm often slow to respond.

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    once you update to the latest iOS, there's an option to join the waitlist. No indication of timing, but until that moves forward Siri is what you get today, as far as I can tell.

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    The class was led by Norfolk County's pension fund but seems to include a much wider range of investors: > The claimants in this case were all investors who had bought shares betwe…

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    Big Board DC does this, minus the train station ticker: https://wamu.org/story/11/11/04/inside_the_beer_and_burger_s... http://thebigboarddc.com I could have sworn I've been to a p…

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    Comment #38604139

    I was trying to think of this as well. I think recently there's the great example of NFTs, but in 1998, I think that was around the era Beanie Babies collapsed in part from the spe…

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    A lot of things about Zelda's plotting clicked for me in a new way when I read about how the directors were inspired by Twin Peaks and just surreal little characters and moments: h…

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    Comment #38016642

    If you're interested in this area, Lean Startup (book or general resources from that area) might be helpful. One example from the [Wikipedia Page]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le…

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    Just as an informational point, it's generally highly discouraged for foundations or non-profits to have board members (the ones that have the legal control) take a salary as it cr…

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    If you're living off the land IRL, you forage and take what nature gives you, and it's important to recognize safe plants, fungi, etc. you can use because you can't go shopping. In…

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    Oh awesome, didn’t know!

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    Comment #37583448

    Tap the down arrow by the PDF, then click “share” and you can email it, move to Dropbox, whatever. They don’t make it obvious it’s just a regular PDF!

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    A few folks have talked about digitizing paper documents, so one of my favorite tricks for iPhone havers: iPhones have very nice scanning tools built in, but it’s buried in the Not…

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    If you're a publisher, just the insurance for lawsuits like this can cost $10,000 to $20,000 at the low end, and even if there's little merit to the case the litigation costs can e…

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    It’s got a very ideologically-driven focus, including an anti-capital source license: https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/blob/main/LICENS... I think the focus on federatio…

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    Comment #36702398

    Indeed: From the Manhattan Project, no less.

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    Been using Memmy — a few weeks ago, it felt like a very impressive beta app, and since then it's gone to just feeling like a great app. Seems to have taken a lot of good lessons fr…

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    > so I guess it was just too obvious to demo. Or is it? I certainly don't think so? My guess going in was that fitness would be one of the main plugs — especially because high-end …

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    This is exactly the promise and there’s a number of handwavey demos, and it feels like it should be easy enough to have something exactly like this as a “hello world,” but I haven’…