Overall seems like a pretty balanced board. Al Shafei and Bezuidenhout have backgrounds aligned with the type of Mastodon I want to see. The lawyer guy dabbles in crypto law, but also did tons of pro bono work for Mastodon. Seems to me like he’s just passionate about emerging tech. Biz Stone is also an interesting inclusion. He’s obviously well connected to the VC space but has been pretty critical of Elon Twitter.

Hang in there! I’m a teacher and we just had our last day yesterday. Summer break is right around the corner!

I have a sneaking suspicion that there are more than a few Chinese EV companies with flimsy finances or finances that are propped up by the state. The growth of the Chinese auto industry just stinks of artificial growth through government patronage to me.

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Awesome! Gondolin is an underappreciated piece of Tolkien lore.

Relatively small shifts on the margins can have huge consequences in the electoral college.

Just started Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson. Excited to work my way through his kickstarter books.

Our governor is generally sane, I’d be surprised if he supports this. Our state legislature on the other hand is exactly this stupid.

Babel didn’t grip me as a book, but the magic system using word pairs was so novel and cool.

The battles over AP curriculum were already partially this.

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I heard about a year ago that a second season was in the works but I haven’t heard any rumblings since. Hopefully they haven’t canned it!

I do think there were financial backers of Elon’s that are hoping to kill certain online platforms and see Elon as a useful idiot, though. I’m thinking specifically of people like Thiel and the Saudis

Antennae are such a neat feature that I have yet to play around with.

Very interesting take on thread browsing! I’m not sure if I caught it in the video, but do you have to click on the parent comment to view the children comments in the breakout viewer? Or can you still view threads like normal (Apollo style, if you will).

I’d prefer a both/and approach. Perhaps Apollo-style as the default with the ability to pop out a thread (as you’ve done here) if I really want to zero in on it.

Really great work. I’ll be following this closely