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  @gleick I agree with you, I feel the same way and I have not been published. I’m really enjoying The Three Ages of Water. I slowed down my read to really enjoy your writing and the amazing breadth of knowledge in it.

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  @greg thank you for following me. If you hadn’t, I never would have seen this. It dove tails so nicely with so many things in my life: my GTD practice, my righting my sails from trauma and my years of deferred decisions. The quote that hit home most was: Capture without review = hoarding. Enjoy the day, you and the author have made mine.

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  @pluralistic What is the moat for AI? I’m thinking about the whole enshitification pattern And watching everyone train AI with what they know The pattern for investors to ask about was “what’s your moat” and ? Lots of people are growing their dependency on AI When is the rug pull? Or is it more a Matrix thing. Connected and occupied while providing value to extractors Enjoy your work. Maybe it’s time to reread the authoritative text on enshitification.

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  You don’t want a CEO delivering services you are forced at the barrel of a gun to buy/pay for. Tax money pays for public services that public servants are paid a salary to provide and suppliers competitively bid to supply, overseen by inspectors general. Do you want a CEO whose primary job is to profit from and generate the most revenue extracted from the person served and the material providers? (Can anyone say #MedicareAdvantage appeal denial because you aren’t going to out live appeals? A...

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  If you’d like to see the plot outcome of the tech bro race for artificial intelligence, just read the Sprawl series by #WilliamGibson to see their playbook’s results, starting with #Neuromancer #enshitification #oligarchy

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  I wish Michael #Popok would listen to how #HeatherCoxRichardson pronounced Representation Joyce #Beaty ‘s name on her last name. Our #Ohio representative deserves to have her name pronounced the way that she does. #MeidasTouch and #LegalAF should respect an honorable Representative and Kennedy Center Board member.

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  Just put @helenclayton‘s mum’s recipe of banana porridge cake into the oven. Looking forward to yummy soon.

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  The income tax structure is set up to incentize businesses to create wealth and to remove the ability of workers to create wealth. We incentivize business in the tax structure by allowing deduction of costs of materials, costs of doing business, costs of paying employees, and depreciation of working assets. We don’t incentivize workers to work by allowing the deduction of the costs of materials to make us able to work (food, clothing, water, healthcare), and costs of working (transportation,...

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  @agiletortoise I must take the time to say that every time I use @drafts or go to the forums or docs I have an enjoyable experience and it always works for me. Thanks for creating such a great service every day. My annual pro subscription came through and I am happy to keep it.

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  Today’s #Cryptogram is so spot on: Many folks believe in law and order - provided they are allowed to lay down the law and give the orders. #LawAndOrder #oligarchy #AmericanConfederacyLives

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  You and me spells teamwork