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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Simulacra from #TaylorSwift’s postmodern #ErasTour in #Toronto. Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill, eat your heart out! 😳

Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

When your brief healthy food campaign only reaches Whole Foods shoppers, while billions are binging on fries 🍟💀 twitter.com/PicturesFoIder/status/1…

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Best election analysis tonight courtesy @TheOnion - props to old friend and new owner @jeffiel :-) #GoBlue twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1853968…

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

So excited for @KallMorris's launch today aboard the @SpaceX CRS-31 mission to the International @Space_Station - a long way from #Marquette, Michigan! #robotics #spacetech #angelinvestor

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Fear, loathing, and embezzlement on the Trump campaign trail! 😵 “Only the best people…” ☕️💀 twitter.com/TimAlberta/status/18526…

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Halloween Hellbomb!!! 🎃 💣 Congrats Kanaan & Dalton Dern on going pro for Zero & Heroin!🤘#skatetwitter twitter.com/vidsthatgohard/status/1…

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

My 2nd time watching #Eno, the 1st generative feature film that is different every time; also met legendary director @gary_hustwit (Helvetica, Rams) in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Palmer House! #AnnArbor

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Train Spot. See Spot Run. Oh Spot, No!!! 🤖🐕😵 Congrats to @michigan_AI on another excellent symposium - and apologies to @newindustrials for the robot abuse ✌️

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

A bit of #AnnArbor / #Ypsi in #Bangalore - @ArborBrewIndia, #India’s first American-style craft brewery :-) cc: @ArborBrewingCo

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

What a #MITechWeek! Started out hosting #Baltimore foundation & startup ecosystem leaders to share their #equitech & #TechHubs journey with major foundations in #Detroit #CharmCity 🤝 #MotorCity

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

#Baltimore’s public / private / philanthropic partnerships are incredible. LivingClassrooms.org, ReBUILDMetro.com, Bisciotti family’s blackbirdlab.org, @GBCorg’s Precision Medicine Tech Hub w/@upsurgebmore, @JohnsHopkins, & 40+ others. Thank you @bmorehomecoming!

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

“Borders draw one map of the world; money draws another.” Last year in Dubai, I met #NetworkState digital nomads, crypto-solarpunks, crypto citizens, and these Galt’s Gulch tech secessionists under the aegis of the Honduran military (!) twitter.com/GarrisonLovely/status/1…

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Come to my talk on raising smart money (and managing it smartly) Weds at #MITechWeek! 👐💸 #Detroit #startups twitter.com/MITechWeek/status/18408…

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

Honored to keynote @mhacks 11 years after @davefontenot, @jumploops, et al. fomented a global movement of student hackers! A legacy of creativity, collaboration, and community… started in #Michigan! twitter.com/davefontenot/status/184…

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

#Baltimore on the rise - congrats to @EcoMapTech & @JHTechVentures on their inaugural #SuperConnect & Innovation Summits! Excited to host @upsurgebmore @BMoreHomecoming in #Detroit next week!

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

In #Atlanta for @familygiving nat’l forum with @pauljudge, on Mayor Dickens’ committee - surprised to learn their city budget is the same as #Detroit’s ($2.7B) - yet their GDP is nearly double!! #ncfpforum

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Proud to support @UMWallaceHouse with our $1 million gift to help strengthen local news ecosystems, and defend against misinformation & unaccountable leadership. Grateful for @lclemetson & team, and all the Knight-Wallace fellows! twitter.com/SarahRahal_/status/1833…

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

#Michigan: dead last in venture capital investment per capita, per @MalloryMcMorrow, chair of MI Senate’s Economic & Community Development committee

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

In granite, for our fallen soldier. Big ups to beardedcheetah & #Ypsi’s Prospect DIY crew, RIP Dan ❤️‍🩹

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Startup communities must be led by entrepreneurs. Proud to be speaking at the inaugural #SuperConnect summit in #Baltimore for startup ecosystem builders - and joining @JHTechVentures inaugural tech summit the next day! twitter.com/EcoMapTech/status/18244…

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

“Ancestral love moving us forward” - remembering #Cleveland / #Oakland’s Jen Angel, founder of @Allied_Media, at the grand opening of #Detroit’s thelovebuilding.org ❤️‍🩹 #CoreCity

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Manager mode: Ship it🫡 Founder mode: Send it 🤙

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

.@Acrisure is our 7th #Michigan unicorn (#GrandRapids), 2nd PE rollup to achieve billions in revenue pre-IPO, and 2nd CEO named Greg(g) Williams to do so quietly under the radar ;-) twitter.com/Rick_Zullo/status/18139…

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 18/08/2024

#Portland’s 25th annual @PDXSoapboxDerby reminded me of #AnnArbor’s punk week shopping cart race, but all grown up! Thx @pheezy, and get well soon Karl! ❤️‍🩹 cc: @monkeyorg #WrathOfTheMath

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

#Olympics cultural studies pop quiz: #Raygun 🇦🇺 is to breakdancing as

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

̵̠́A̶̛̭n̷̡̉ä̷͍́r̴̫͂c̷̖͊h̸̬͝ỳ̶͙ ̸̳̚ Accelerationism in the UK, with US support for Alt-tech + Alt-right → Alt-Reich x.com/dugsong/status/18137736906994… twitter.com/NafeezAhmed/status/1821…

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

Huge congrats to Olympian @andymacdonald!!! 🛹🇺🇸 Andy grew up skating #AnnArbor’s Veterans Park ramp with the localchaos.org crew, and helped us open @a2skatepark there a decade ago 🤙 twitter.com/NBCOlympics/status/1821…

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

What the best teachers, coaches, and command sergeant majors have in common… #HereToServe

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

“Do a kickflip!” Broken decks and cashing checks in #NYC 🤙 Qualifying for the #SkateDad fossil #Olympics

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

Big week for #Michigan’s @OneStream_Soft & @OneLineage, with blockbuster IPOs in NYC! Big week for my daughter & family, seeing @BTTFBway, The Outsiders, @AndJulietBway, @SixBroadway, & @IllinoiseStage on Broadway! And a gentle memory for myself, of the road not taken 🙏💚

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

And congratulations to @Greg_Lehmkuhl and team at #Michigan’s @OneLineage on their IPO today - the biggest of 2024, now valued at $19B! Greg previously led Con-way Freight (now @XPOLogistics) based in #AnnArbor twitter.com/greg_lehmkuhl/status/18…

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

Congrats to Tom Shea & team on #Michigan’s @OneStream_Soft IPO yesterday - now worth $6B+ in their first day trading! twitter.com/OneStream_Soft/status/1…

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories. #봉봉 #NYC #LawAndOrder

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

“General George Washington Resigning His Commission”, in the rotunda of the US Capitol. A selfless, defining moment of moral leadership for our country 🥺🇺🇸🙏

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

Timewarp to 2010, when George was CTO of McAfee, not CEO of Crowdstrike. Old security architectures, old problems www.zdnet.com/article/defective-mca… twitter.com/davetroy/status/1814204…

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

Accelerationism now unites crypto-libertarians/billionaires with far-right extremists trying to foment civil war (or racial holy war, like weev) - Groypers, NRx fascists, Red Caesarists, etc. Bad news for America: t.co/AOP5nBlmzm Background: t.co/Y3BCkrWUZE t.co/kCi5OrxyHH

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Duḥkha Saṃsāra ☸️ @dugsong.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

25% of #Michigan residents aren’t sold on democracy; 5% believe violence is acceptable if their presidential candidate loses - even in a fair election. From May 2024 @DetroitChamber poll www.crainsdetroit.com/politics-poli… #MPC24

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