iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

putting the onus on epic then gets you the standardization, opening the door to better tech and allowing providers to switch with lower overhead when that tech is ready

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in this case i lean more toward the responsibility falling with epic than individual providers - the method of adoption should be “this is the easiest and best tech to use” rather than being forced to use subpar tech/processes.

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maybe you don’t have to break up companies if you just severely reduce their moat and the barrier to entry for their competition.

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This is maybe one of the spaces where i feel forced interoperability could make decent progress. one method of anti-trust is to say “hey you’re the big player, you have a responsibility to open up your api / a protocol / etc. what happens if Epic is required to open its equivalent to atproto?

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“the percentage who exit to some form of permanent housing is significantly higher than the city-run sites — about 60 percent, compared to 42 percent.”

“Dignity Village’s annual operating budget: $60,000, or about $1,000 per person. He said Portland’s city-run tiny home villages cost taxpayers approximately $40,000 per person annually.”

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drew mca @drewmca.net · 26/09/2026

turns out people should be involved in decisions that affect them! in this case, 40x cheaper and 50% higher success rate (60% exit to some form of permanent housing vs 42% at comparable city-run sites).

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it’s especially frustrating given how the jackson campaign is being run. i noticed the difference before the nymag piece confirmed it, but bringing that up gets lumped in with the rest of Grim’s takes 🙃

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drew mca @drewmca.net · 25/09/2026

socialists are aware of all this already. the audience of this speech was not socialists.

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drew mca @drewmca.net · 25/09/2026

i should have included this visual - yes the artists make more because they keep 100%! what’s interesting is that so far, subvert has also made more than bandcamp’s mandatory 15% fee, averaging 27.7%.

drew mca @drewmca.net · 25/09/2026

screencap of a helpful graphic from 1:35:14 of the linked video!

screenshot of a slide from the AGM presentation. shows austin robey speaking, title “state of subvert, voluntary contributions model”
from left to right, a histogram of contributions from the first four thousand transactions. 12.6% gave 0, 17.6% contributed a 10% tip, 43.1% contributed 15%, 19% contributed 20% and 7.7% of transactions contributed 20%+
one custom contribution was $1000, and users contributed an average of $0.28 on free downloads.
last shows two bars, one where the platform takes a 15% cut, and artists receive 85%, and subverts model wehere the artist keeps 100% and subvert gets voluntary contributions averaging 28%

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"We make more by allowing people to give, rather than taking"

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Subvert Cooperative Annual General Meeting

recording of the 2026 annual general meeting, timestamped to the piece i'm referencing www.youtube.com/live/wWvxuDa...

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YouTube video by Subvert Co-op

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Really cool piece from the @subvert.fm coop annual general meeting (at 1:35:20): They went for an optional contribution at checkout, rather than taking a percentage of artist's revenue. They saw an average contribution of 27% per transaction, almost twice as much as bandcamp's mandatory 15%.

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drew mca @drewmca.net · 22/09/2026

corporations own the means of production and govern our economy, is how i’d interpret that

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wouldn’t he rather be the 51st vote like manchin or lieberman, holding up dem policies unless he gets what he wants?

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drew mca @drewmca.net · 20/09/2026

it’s also farmer-owned, which is literally socialism

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drew mca @drewmca.net · 18/09/2026

this is obviously a direct result of Angie Nixon telling Kalshi to stfu over on threads

drew mca @drewmca.net · 16/09/2026

fun fact, German football clubs in Bundesliga are protected from external investors en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50%2B1_...

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50+1 rule - Wikipedia

drew mca @drewmca.net · 13/09/2026

I had a similar thought about earthquakes, we could even trigger small scale ones to relieve the pressure that cause big ones as a preventative measure

drew mca @drewmca.net · 08/09/2026

r < g lives rent free in my brainspace

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drew mca @drewmca.net · 06/09/2026

Boston is an old boy’s club

drew mca @drewmca.net · 03/09/2026

opencollective x political campaigns? i have some thoughts, if you'd like to dm/email!

drew mca @drewmca.net · 27/08/2026

here’s what he did say bsky.app/profile/blba...

drew mca @drewmca.net · 26/08/2026

for context the district was D+0.7 in 2022 and R+0.8 in 2024, the 5th and 7th closest house races respectively. that’s not to say waffling is the correct strategy here, obviously.

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drew mca @drewmca.net · 22/08/2026

MA-6 (with six candidates in the Dem primary) makes me even sadder that RCV didn't pass back in 2020 🥲 #mapoli

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drew mca @drewmca.net · 20/08/2026

@votewithsway.bsky.social just found Sway, essentially a platform for making ballot recommendations. neat platform, lots of cool possibilities here!

drew mca @drewmca.net · 13/08/2026

polling is really modeling, and modeling a primary electorate is really hard. general elections are easier bc of partisanship, but guessing who will actually turnout and for whom within a party is much harder

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drew mca @drewmca.net · 12/08/2026

There are also a handful of VT statehouse seats that will be decided by write-in campaigns in November, i wonder how those will go down.

drew mca @drewmca.net · 07/07/2026

Mills would lose. @troyjackson207.bsky.social is a better representation of the policies Mainers voted for

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drew mca @drewmca.net · 25/05/2026

this is how i describe a lot of my politics: build infrastructure that lets people help each other

drew mca @drewmca.net · 17/05/2026

also if you’re looking at that on a big screen, let me know how the sliding panes UI looks!