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This is from Dan Hon's newsletter. He's British, living in the US.

This analogy of Americans treating Disneyland as a magical place where there's infrastructure and drinkable water resonates really hard for me.

I shouldn't laugh too much, as the UK is currently headed in this direction. However, I do have a hard time in explaining to a *lot* of Americans that over in Europe there's an approach which isn't rampant individualism.

newsletter.danhon.com/archive/

How is it that bowling alley wood floors are indestructible, but wood floors anywhere else are damaged merely by looking at them the wrong way?

I don’t know how many "infrastructure" companies need to hear this, but there is no reward for being the most neutral when it comes to doing business with people who promote intolerance of others’ humanity—other than profiting from their hate.

C++ is the new $14/month full-access commercial-free version of C.

In response to , the Iranian govt is blocking many websites and apps.

There has been a huge surge in usage of @TorProject in Iran to get around the censorship.

YOU can help support protestors simply by running a browser extension.

snowflake.torproject.org/

We also discuss this article by Hanzi Freinacht about the "3H" population: Hackers, Hipsters, and Hippies.

metamoderna.org/hackers-hipste

Hurray. Got my favorite Swedish healthcare interaction before 9 am: judgement for not understanding enough Swedish.

for whatever european home owners exist in the town && wider fediverse: remember that you can heat the people and not the space this extremely costly winter

lowtechmagazine.com/2015/02/he

Legit crying reading some of the lyrics to my husband before bed. Rina wrote poetry and pop to a trauma many queers survived (and didn’t survive).

genius.com/albums/Rina-sawayam

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Rina Sawayama follows up the song of Pride 2022 (“This Hell”) with a full album of bops about healing from a religious upbringing.

Strong candidate for my favorite album of the year.

songwhip.com/rina-sawayama/hol

Don’t mind me. I’m just thinking about how much my RSUs would be worth if Clark from InVision had listened to customers/customer facing teams/everyone in the company and not dismissed Figma for a year.

Market opportunity: Figma but open source and self-hostable with a hosted SaaS offering. Go.

When I was a kid, we only had Snapple lids as fidget toys.

As an adult, I upgraded to an Infini from Urban Toy Lab.

urbantoylab.com/urban-toy-lab

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” was one of the most incredible movies I have seen in years.

Skip the trailer (too many spoilers). Just start it and give it at least 20 minutes.

🚨 The EU Commission intends to destroy the end-to-end encryption privacy features of SignalApp, Telegram, and WhatsApp.

✊ The time to protest is NOW.

✍️ Submit formal feedback before Sept 12.

Here’s how: jeremiahlee.com/posts/2022-eu-

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