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Jillian Ada Burrows

@jburrows

If you’re a leader and not every single being in your charge has all they need to thrive, you’re basically a tyrant.

United States Katılım Aralık 2008
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Jillian Ada Burrows
Jillian Ada Burrows@jburrows·
Also, if you just want to catch up, send me a message and lets schedule a time to chat.
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Jillian Ada Burrows@jburrows·
@SevNightingale LOL! Unfortunately, I was looking at various rust based cryptography libraries on GitHub and their websites (hosted on github pages). Looks like we need an IPFS based backup of GitHub.
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Jillian Ada Burrows@jburrows·
How wonderful. Github and many of Github pages have gone down. This is a pretty epic fail.
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drumm colin (austin, mimbres, socal)
great. now just destroy the haves and it will be finished.
Spencer Barber@spencertbarber

Our economy is quickly splitting into two. The haves and the have-nots. A friend wants to develop his grandparent's land in UT. Spending some time on the numbers, it's evident that only two products will work. Here is a breakdown of the two products. I either need very dense and small homes or very large estate lots with 5000+ sq ft homes. Anything in between doesn't pencil. The middle class, over the last 10 years, has slowly been priced out of the previous middle-class lifestyle. The small homes would need to be 1800 sq ft and sell for 475K. To hit those numbers, I would need to build the home with low-quality finishes. My margins would likely be below 20%. In Utah, the median household income is $87,000. If a buyer puts 10% down (50K), their mortgage would be $3250. That would mean 45% of their income would go towards their mortgage. On the other hand there is a growing segment of high earners that want the very best for their home. In my county, a new 4000-5000 sq ft home will go for 1.3-1.5 million I've watched homes priced over 1 million in my county go very fast. These are bought by people who are either in high-paying jobs or business owners. In today's economy, there are opportunities for people who hustle to make well over 300,000 a year. We also have many people who have migrated to our growing tech industry on that higher income level with a dual income. With a 20% down payment, if you’re buying a home for 1.4M, your payment will be $8150. At $300,000 of household income, it's very attainable. As a builder, I can build that home for $900,000, giving myself a 35% margin. It's obvious to me that developers will build homes that fit one of these two groups. In my humble opinion, I think this puts us on a crash course as a society. As we lose the middle class, resentment will continue to grow.

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Arnaud Bertrand
Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand·
This is incredible. The New York Times is complaining that "Americans invested billions in Chinese companies" and "now their money is stuck", giving TikTok as a salient example (where international investors, mostly Americans, own 60% of the capital)... omitting to mention the fact that it's entirely the fault of the U.S. government. Last I checked it's not China that asked the US to put an ultimatum on TikTok: "sell yourself to us or get banned"... It's the NYT's thing now, just like on Gaza: they'll report on the consequence of the deed but won't name the perpetrator, because it's inconvenient to do so.
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Jillian Ada Burrows@jburrows·
@evacide I’d hate to see WWIII start over chips and TicTok. Build a better platform and compete in the free market like I thought capitalists believed in. Do they want tax revenue from advertising fees that bad? I know a few companies they could tax more. What am I missing?
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores
Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores@Jairo_I_Funez·
Colonial powers have always portrayed anticolonial resistance as savagery.
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Rua M. Williams
Rua M. Williams@FractalEcho·
The racism behind chatGPT that we aren't talking about... This year, I learned that students use chatGPT because they believe it helps them sound more respectable. And I learned that it absolutely does not work. A thread. 🧵
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Elizabeth Scallon
Elizabeth Scallon@E_Scallon·
Do you think consumers should have a Right To Repair the items they own? Have the FTC create rules governing consumers’ rights to repair their own devices or have a contractor of their choice do so.  The FTC is taking comments til 2/2/24: regulations.gov/document/FTC-2… #RTR #repair
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Jillian Ada Burrows@jburrows·
@brendanorrell From an article I read, those were actually Pyramid Lake Tribal Police. What people should take away is always get permission to do an action on Native lands.
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Uahikea Maile
Uahikea Maile@uahikea·
“This is, for us, genocide.” Keʻeaumoku Kapu headlines a rare piece in a sea of reporting about the Maui wildfires. @McKayJacqueline’s article in @CBCIndigenous examines it in relation to the erasure of Kānaka Maoli & Hawaiian land rights. A must read. cbc.ca/news/indigenou…
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Vehia Wheeler
Vehia Wheeler@_vehia_·
The build back of Lahaina, Maui is an opportunity for #LandBack to Native Hawaiians And should not at all be an option for opportunists to do their continual landgrabbing kitv.com/news/do-not-se…
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Jillian Ada Burrows@jburrows·
@helioscomm Berner, A., Bruns, S., Moneta, A., & Stern, D. I. (2022). Do energy efficiency improvements reduce energy use? Empirical evidence on the economy-wide rebound effect in Europe and the United States. Energy Economics, 110, 105939.
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Paul d'Aoust
Paul d'Aoust@helioscomm·
Cautiously excited about #LK99, the purported room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor. But putting my complexity-thinking hat on, I hear a faint but persistent voice whispering 'Jevons Paradox'... will this save us, or further justify the expansion of man's reach?
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Jillian Ada Burrows@jburrows·
@helioscomm And my favorite because of how hilariously awful our energy consumption becomes very quickly: Murphy, T. W. (2022). Limits to economic growth. Nature Physics, 18(8), 844-847.
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