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I was replying to a post claiming Bluesky is centralized, since it's not, really. Maybe I should have left Mastodon out of it :) I think they're both good, but different tools for …

I see why people might say it but "Bluesky is centralized" isn't an especially accurate criticism. The protocol allows essentially any aspect of Bluesky to be decentralized, up to …

IMO Bluesky (really atproto) is decentralized along the axes that matter, while Mastodon is decentralized along the axes that don't. It's sort of a figure-ground inversion in think…

It's great the union was pushing for unscented cleaning supplies. I have a friend who is very sensitive to scents. She may not be able to work in a typical office again because of …

Asterisk Mag had a really good look at the state of the research for/against plant-based protein diets https://asteriskmag.com/issues/02/cows-vs-chemists-the-healt...

On the topic of objective curation, I've been appreciating The New Paper [1] enough that I started paying when they went subscription-only. Top five or so stories of the day with a…

That would be great to see. Not exactly what you're describing, but here's where someone did a fairly detailed analysis of which federal, state, and local programs their salary goe…

https://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2021/01/16/winter-k2-update... > There are around 20 climbers aspiring to summit, and claim a winter K2 summit. Some have acclimatized to Camp 3 bu…

Along similar lines, this list links to the best MOOC for each course in a core CS curriculum: https://github.com/ossu/computer-science

Ben Thompson has a nuanced piece on this: https://stratechery.com/2021/trump-and-twitter/

Apartment List did an interesting analysis examining how rent dropped this year as vacancy rates increased https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/vacancies_and_rents_2...

Derek Lowe wrote a post this week on the "bradykinin hypothesis," and how it has been gaining traction as a unifying model that can explain many of the observed effects of infectio…

A question I'm asking myself is: "What would it take for anarchism to work?" (See also: "What would it take for capitalism to work for everyone?") Some ideas to consider: 1. @visak…

I agree. I've always been in the camp favoring freedom of speech and the marketplace of ideas. My thinking became more nuanced when I read the book Twitter and Tear Gas by Zeynep T…

The economist Paul Romer has done a lot of work on the idea of charter cities. https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer

Anybody have a recommendation for an A/B testing service? We've talked to Optimizely but their pricing was going to come in at the same ballpark as our AWS spend (into the six-figu…

Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez tells the author's story as his company is acquired by Twitter and he goes to work for Facebook. It's an really entertaining read and he in…