Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one
Economist. Antitrust policy; industrial organization; history of economics
Joined Mar 2020
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UseR! 2025 Call for Proposals is open until March 3rd! We invite R users and developers from around our region and the world to submit abstracts for useR! 2025.
Deadline: Monday 3rd March 2025
useR! will be held from August 8th to 10th at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA.
user2025.r-project.org/call
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"Our digital lives are actively abusive and hostile, riddled with subtle and overt cons. Our apps are ever-changing, adapting not to our needs or conditions, but to the demands of investors and internal stakeholders that have reduced who we are and what we do to an ever-growing selection of manipulatable metrics."
Great summary of the importance of changing the trajectory of the tech industry, by Ed Zitron in his article "Never Forgive Them."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
This was an interesting read:
America’s “First Car-Free Neighborhood” Is Going Pretty Good, Actually?
https://www.dwell.com/article/culdesac-tempe-car-free-neighborhood-resident-experience-8a14ebc7
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I joined NPR's Here & Now to discuss car bloat:
“There's been no accounting through regulations or taxes to push people who are buying a car to consider the societal impact...When you don't price [negative externalities], you end up with people buying more big cars than is societally appropriate."
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/02/12/suv-health-hazard
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My friend Martin Ratcliffe recently shared his photo montage of the 2023 annular solar eclipse over Bryce Canyon, Utah.
I may be biased, but I think it's spectacular (and it got selected for an astronomy picture of the day).
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231019.html #science #photography #art
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Many of us are aghast at the unprecedented dismantlement of the US administrative state. All around me, people are trying to connect what’s happening to historical events. Here's my attempt to offer a few possible frames for sense-making right now: www.zephoria.org/thoughts/arc...
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Welcome the Marx Bros. to the public domain!
Their first film THE COCOANUTS (1929) is now on Tubi in a P.D. transfer.
Distributor Shoreline Entertainment's website says their classic film P.D. titles are “legally sourced from the owner,” which may explain why the transfer looks so good.
#MarxBros #TheCocoanuts #Film Mastodon #PublicDomain
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I don’t usually do this kind of evangelism, but if you’re looking for a reason to try #XMPP on #GlobalSwitchDay, now’s the perfect time: #Conversations_im is currently free on Google Play!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conversations
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After a day spent fighting with R about fonts, preventing the rise of authoritarianism in the US seems like a reasonable and achievable goal.
@postmarketOS Wait hold on, an iPhone?! 😯
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Coming soon: When you add a linked device (Desktop or iPad), bring your whole chat history + last 45 days of media. The transfer process is end-to-end encrypted & completely optional.
Don't want to leave the past behind? We leave you to your own devices.
https://signal.org/blog/a-synchronized-start-for-linked-devices/
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You can watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole with employee policies and public websites on GitHub, which is automatically cataloguing all of the changes the 18F agency is frantically making to its internal and external webpages:
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Richard Donner’s INSIDE MOVES (1980) is on Prime if you need some positive energy in your life.
John Savage, Diana Scarwid, and David Morse lead a quirky ensemble in this tale of second chances and the power of found family.
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someone in the chat asked if the flx1 can run a KVM machine and my initial thought process was well, probably not out of the box since during the boot process EL2 is locked and even if kernel has KVM, it will never initialize correctly.
so today after finishing my daily tasks i decided to take a stab at our bootloader, preloader and trustzone's source code.
Lo and behold, turns out i did indeed cook.
Docker support will land in the next release too!
@danirabbit Yelp fully blocks me from using their site on a mobile browser, you get a pop up to open the app and no alternative way forward. I don't want their app. And I also don't get why they do that.
@cyberlyra Lots of info presented concisely and clearly. Nice. I recently did some of this, moved my contacts into Nextcloud.
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Get ready to leave toxic Social Media by ensuring your contacts and calendars are up to date and stored somewhere that isn't owned by a Big Tech Oligarch.
Up next, secure messaging -- then we really start pulling the plug. :)
@interfluidity Is anti-monopoly more popular than anti-crypto?
@davidzipper Interesting connection. For a while, there was talk about taking on sugary beverage industry using the anti-tobacco playbook. But I think you are right that that analogy misses a key element, but SUV bloat does have that element.
Economist. Antitrust policy; industrial organization; history of economics
Joined Mar 2020
