Aaron Parecki

i think a lot. Work from home has also been a massive shift. Ppl are home more, they are more connected to their n'hood and local streets.

Eliot residents meet PBOT in the street to air grievances and urge more traffic calming https://bikeportland.org/2022/09/15/eliot-residents-meet-pbot-in-the-street-to-air-grievances-and-urge-more-traffic-calming-363545

I bought it for live monitoring, with all the struggles I’ve had getting audio to the optimum levels. Then realized it has a plugin for Resolve, and 🤯

If you think about it, since most people have to get their eyes checked every few years. Aren't glasses/contacts just a subscription service for sight?

Web3 is pretty clearly about grift / scamming people. I withheld judgement waiting for viable use cases to emerge. I'm calling it: there aren't any that I've been able to see through the cacophony of scams.

But what especially grabs me is how *seedy* these words generally are. Consider the above examples, along with turncoat (traitor), lickspittle (toady), skinflint (miser), turnkey (gaoler), scofflaw (criminal), lackwit (fool), cutthroat (murderer) or sellsword (mercenary).

Sucks for the people at Figma that have to convince themselves and others that this is great news.

And for the folks at Adobe working on whatever the thing was that Figma was dominating.

California's antitrust case against Amazon feels anachronistic, like a witchcraft charge, or some other ancient crime that we no longer prosecute. It's true, antitrust spent 40 year in a coma! The Amazon case neatly illustrates how it was sedated, and why it finally roused. 1/