Roy3

Sharing the memes of production. My thoughts on entrepreneurship, technology & society.

[Roy3 @royking3]

"Crypto wasn't created to make you rich — it was created to make you free."

The cypherpunk truth from @owocki, h/t to
@RyanSAdams, on the og role of crypto(graphy) in society and the potential for solving wicked coordination problems through decentralized protocols.

[Aya Miyaguchi @AyaMiyagotchi]

1/ Introducing the Ethereum Foundation Report, 2024 Edition. Learn more about EF, our recent work, Ethereum’s ecosystem of funders, new organizations and policies. The full report is here: https://t.co/koL7Et0n6B

[XtraMath | Math Fact Fluency @XtraMath_US]

Happy national STEM day💛👩‍🔬

@freethinkingteacher on Instagram did our Paper Bridge XtraSTEM activity with her class today!

#Teachers how are you celebrating with your students?👇💭

[Roy3 @royking3]

@ArlanWasHere Yes, a failure of the justice dept.

[Roy3 @royking3]

Cynicism is obedience.

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

No matter how exhausted you are today, how outraged, how frustrated, please remember that cynicism is obedience to power.

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

No matter how exhausted you are today, how outraged, how frustrated, please remember that cynicism is obedience to power.

[Rick Steves @RickSteves]

America could wake up on Wednesday with all three branches of our government — the — Executive, Legislative, and Judicial — Trumpist.

With this clip, take five minutes to ponder Germany’s memorials and the price that nation paid for being bamboozled by a bombastic autocrat. Listen to the heartfelt message of my German tour guides, for whom these memorials are like ghosts of mistakes made and evils allowed… ghosts that haunt their society still. These are the same guides who clink glasses in the beer halls and yodel from the hilltops with our American tour members. They admire America. They love America. And they are worried for America.

If we vote for fascism, it’ll likely be won by one or two percent (or even less)…and perhaps just a few stadiums of people will tip the balance. And history has taught my European friends that the cost of a course correction is infinitely more heartbreaking after a wannabe dictator wins an election than before. We are all participants, we are all responsible, and we will all bear the consequences of our collective choice.

[Courtney Howard @Lulamaybelle]

Please don’t let the horse loose in the hospital again.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

Back in reality, today I interviewed Ken Block — who the Trump campaign hired in 2020 to prove claims of voter fraud — and explained to me how not a single theory they tested or came across was proven out.

Tweets like this are sowing doubt in an election where there is a good chance Trump loses. Irresponsible is not an adequate word to describe it.

[Rick Steves @RickSteves]

A century ago, Germany’s democracy was hijacked by a bombastic and charismatic tyrant — and in this five-minute video, you’ll learn how he did it. Why did I produce this? Because I believe that history is speaking to us, and all too often, those who refuse to learn from it are doomed to repeat it.

As you watch, imagine filling out a Bingo card filled with Germany 1933/USA 2024 parallels: big rallies, rage-filled and hateful rhetoric, simple answers promising quick and easy solutions to complicated problems, empty promises of a great-again future, scapegoating outsiders, and political enemies silenced on day one. And notice the caring wisdom and concern from my German friends as they share these lessons from their dark history.

It’s hard to understand how Trump could, on the eve of a tight election, paint a picture of Liz Cheney before a firing squad by actually saying, “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? And let’s see how she feels about it when the guns are trained on her face.” You can’t get into the mind of a dictator with an insatiable appetite for power — but you can recognize the playbook they all seem to follow.

Just watch this clip. It’s excerpted from my hourlong public television special “The Story of Fascism in Europe,” which is streaming free (and ad-free) at https://t.co/YA10kVH0V8. If you care about our democracy and love our country, it’s hard to stop watching.

When I produced this in 2018, I hoped this day would never come in our country. But November 5th is upon us. Please share this with anyone in your life who might need a reminder that the stakes are high...and this is very real.

[LeVar Burton @levarburton]

Happy Wednesday, y’all.

Humaning 101.

Remember to breathe.

I’m continually surprised at how often I am holding my breath unconsciously especially during moments of stress, which these days is all the time.

Remember to breathe, y’all. This is Humaning 101.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Dear Mr. Bezos:

We don't believe you. At all.

We don't think this is about encouraging news neutrality or building trust or fighting disinformation or competing against indie media.

You know why?

Because you did it 11 days before the election, after your editorial board came to a conclusion and drafted an endorsement, after your senior brass gave a green light internally.

If this were somehow about principle, you could have nixed the endorsement before the general election began.

Hell, you could have done it the day Pres. Biden stepped aside as an understandable moment for a reset.

But you didn't.

You claim major newspaper endorsements largely don't matter in a presidential election.

And honestly, I'm inclined to somewhat agree. I think their influence is overrated.

Unless it's an outlet endorsing their perceived ideological opposite (ex: NYT or WaPo for Trump, WSJ or New York Post for Harris), it doesn't matter a whole lot.

Although it's quite curious you claim to believe WaPo's presidential endorsements are too impotent to matter in elections, yet too powerful over public attitudes to be allowed to continue.

That doesn't make sense.

But it's also missing the point.

People aren't angry at you because we think Harris will somehow lose based on WaPo not endorsing her.

We're furious because you, one of the richest people in the world, bought one of the leading newspapers in our country--a storied bulwark against censorship and corrupt governing--and abused that power to kill the autonomy of the staff of that newspaper.

You have subverted the free press right before a presidential election in which one of the candidates is aggressively totalitarian in outlook, and you now pretend to be surprised at the shock and outrage.

We do not trust you.

We now find it very difficult to trust your newspaper despite the many excellent journalists who work there.

And we believe you either ultimately care only about your own greed OR you are dangerously incompetent regarding the importance of a free press.

Maybe both.

In any case, there's no way in hell I'm paying for The Washington Post while you still own it.

[Roy3 @royking3]

@Ike_Saul

[Roy3 @royking3]

I voted for Kamala and Tim!

[Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath]

Courage is contagious.

Do not obey in advance.

[Variety @Variety]

Michael Keaton tells Donald Trump and Elon Musk supporters: "They don’t really respect you, they laugh at you behind your back, they think you’re stupid."

"They don’t want to hang out with you. They have nothing in common with you. They’re not your bros. When Trump years ago said ‘I could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and they’d still vote for me,’ basically what he is saying is that these people are so dumb and so stupid they’d still vote for him. They have no respect for you, trust me."

Read more here: https://t.co/DqPsrBcJzx

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

NYT tweeted this to its 55 million followers and it has under 500 retweets - presumably suppressed due to the link out. “John Kelly, Donald Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff, said Trump met the definition of a fascist and would try to govern like a dictator if elected”

[😼 @dutchessprim]

It’s always the ones you expect the most

[Michael Thomas @curious_founder]

This is crazy

[Bill McKibben @billmckibben]

This may be the most incredible set of weather records..on record
Three weeks straight of all-time highs in Phoenix.

And yet this state may vote for a climate denier