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there are two classes of people, those who have learned the distinction between a class in itself and a class for itself and those who have not

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showing that your beard does not need to connect in order to connect with voters.

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one thing i like about abdul el-sayed is the representation he is giving to the weak-bearded.

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been listening to gen z country, and it's good.

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a rare two memo day for me.

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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 29/09/2026

i'm very sorry to hear that.

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Several civic technologists, civil servants, and concerned citizens signed on to an open letter to GSA leadership and members of congress asking them to protect USWDS as a piece of critical digital infrastructure. I'm proud to be one of them. fedscoop.com/websites-jeo...

fedscoop.com

Websites ‘in jeopardy’ amid U.S. Web Design System takeover, coalition tells GSA

The letter comes after administration officials changed leadership for the system, implemented new AI tooling, and shut out members of an open-source community.

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maybe i need a faster computer

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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 29/09/2026

tthe plant was sold to cargill in 1987 (1), and then cargill sold the plant to jbs in 2015 (2), and if you look at google street view image of the plant, it says jbs. 1. www.themilitant.com/1995/5933/59... 2. cbs2iowa.com/news/local/o...

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Princeton professors Ellora Derenoncourt and Elizabeth Ellis have been awarded 2026 MacArthur Fellowships: bit.ly/4hg0dgs Princeton graduate alum Kaiyu Guan *13, now professor at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, has also been named a 2026 #MacFellow.

The words: "Princeton professors Ellora Derenoncourt and Elizabeth Ellis awarded MacArthur ‘genius’ grants" with photos of Ellora and Elizabeth

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Derek Eder @derekeder.com · 29/09/2026

"The problem is not that the industry is immune to strikes, but rather that the way tech workers can strike effectively has yet to be discovered."

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A great weekend for meeting with residents and collecting petition signatures to get on the ballot for April 6! I've collected 635 signatures, meeting the minimum required to get on the ballot. I'll keep going and turn in the maximum allowed. Thank you to all my petition gathering volunteers!

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 26/08/2026

happened again. fuck him.

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tech reducing the friction of everything will show us that collective rights matter and we have an obligation to each other

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is this happening in the courts too, or do filing fee act as another gate there?

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i still believe your chatgpt story. CB cases are on track to be up 30% over 2024.

Culinary Workers Union Local 226 a/w UNITE HERE International Union (Signature Condominiums at MGM Grand) | National Labor Relations Board

those are the CB filings for NLRB region 28 (phoenix). it's almost all 202 filings individual filings against culinary workers union local 226 made in july and august that all look like this:

nlrb.gov

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they are ascetic practices, + serve the same functions of daily meaning making. what's remarkable about them is how unconnected practice is to larger questions. GTD will help you get things done in your life, but will not really help you think about what you should aim your life at.

it obviously can, as centuries of american religion show richly shows. it is still suprising how worldly so much religion is.

i was thinking more about the aesthete or cultured person as one of the models of what a life could be. interesting that there is not *more* antipathy between the self-management world view and religion.

perhaps this is one reason for the antipathy to the humanities, because it is sometimes provides a remnant for a different vision of what it means to become a better (or at least more interesting) person.

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i think these are sharp points, but also all the nearly all the mainstream, secular, contemporary models of self-cultivation claim that the path to being a better person is one of optimization and self-management.

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