Makoa Johnson

politico.com/news/2024/02/2… A good but not a pleasant read. Concerning is a dramatic understatement. We need to be doing everything in our power to remove religion from government! Laws and leadership must be built and guided by open empirical data not insular antiquated beliefs.

@canton thank you for making your astronomy calendar public! A great solution to the seemingly arbitrary restriction of google calendar's built in lunar phase calendar being unable to sync to their mobile app. I also appreciate the addition of some non-lunar event notes as well!

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I was told not to tweet this until the houses adjourned for fear of jinxing it, but the Minnesota legislature just completed what is probably the most productive session anywhere in the country since probably the New Deal. Sweeping bills and reforms across every area of life.

This is a staggeringly impressive piece of reporting. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/w… Also just the story itself and some of the quotes within it made me want to throw my phone. We have so much work to do in this country to wrestle power away from those who desire a disengaged citizenry.

The band and I while arranging a song that takes four minutes to pay off...and then still ramps up for another minute after that lol

Apropos of nothing, just a friendly reminder to audio plugin manufactures that there are exactly zero plugins that are so important we'd rather subscribe to your entire company than find a single perpetual alternative. Also while you're here, hampering offline use is not the way.

@lkherman big ☯️ energy lol

Is it just me or are a lot of the core services of the internet getting worse? To me it seems like everything from social feed / content platform recommendations, to ecommerce store flows, to just baseline search results are all of a noticeably lower quality now than in the past.

We have a new song out today! It's called A Letter. It's short, sweet, and will (probably) bring you good fortune if you listen to it. song.link/aletter

@wesleycberger Believe it or not I'm less online now 😂

@MakoaJohnson Kinda rare to see you tweet.

Kinda rare to see a mastering engineer featured on a more mainstream entertainment website. vulture.com/2023/02/grammy…

The 2022 midterms are just over a month away! Plan ahead and make sure you’re ready to hit the polls on November 8. nationalvoterregistrationday.org/get-voteready/

npr.org/sections/healt… Man this article paints a dark picture, nowhere is perfect but this country desperately needs to start learning. It's not theoretical either, we can objectively see that other flawed humans can and do plan, build, maintain, and live within better systems.

@lkherman "the Piasco"

@lkherman He's doing the Ricciardo move...except to a team with even more questionable prospects of getting to the front. Unless the environment at Alpine/Renault is truly miserable imo they both would have had more enjoyable ends to their careers if they just stayed with 🇫🇷 for a while 🤷‍♂️

This is such a good thread and I agree with essentially every point.

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@lkherman This account is a quality follow: instagram.com/lollipopmancom…

The more times we all watch this country repeatedly betray its population, the less sustainable the current structure gets. We also (frustratingly) understand better alternatives have already been successfully implemented in many of our "peer" countries & this was not inevitable.

@C_Siegert Haha nope, just a motorsport fan with some opinions. I guess in theory if steering is automated those parts would need a way to send positioning feedback to the brain, so maybe there are ways to measure those tolerances...but I'm definitely not qualified to even speculate on how.

Can you imagine if a company tried to sell a car with non user-replaceable tires? It's unthinkable because it's obvious the useful life of cars is orders of magnitude longer than the useful life of tires. Devices with non user-replaceable batteries should be equally unthinkable.