Posts by ryansingel@writing.exchange
(DIR) Post #AUQKqhj7EFrtsbXcuG by ryansingel@writing.exchange
2023-04-07T23:16:32Z
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#Substack is full of drama, losing money, building moats, and conning writers into investing to own less than 1% of the company.Meanwhile #Ghost is open source, a non-profit, growing sustainably and looks like it will make $6 million in rev this year, according to their public metrics.Choose your fighter wisely.Also if you have any interest in moving over to ghost, hit me up. Happy to advisehttps://ghost.org/about/
(DIR) Post #AUQQ0acT0XyIVHxrYO by ryansingel@writing.exchange
2023-03-28T14:11:09Z
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Smoking is dangerous to your health, possibly rapidly so
(DIR) Post #AWhhGGxx3JucP5fK9Q by ryansingel@writing.exchange
2023-06-15T04:06:01Z
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Watching people use Substack to publish their critiques of the VC and tech-bro driven meltdown of Reddit and Twitter is highly amusing
(DIR) Post #AY83lUU3AWo3bzIOTw by ryansingel@writing.exchange
2023-07-25T20:14:47Z
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Seems a good time to introduce/remind folks of the Barbie Liberation Organization from early 1980s that hacked the media by switching out the computer chips between Barbie and GI Joe dolls, so that Barbie got to say Vengeance is Mine, while GI Joe dolls said stuff like Math is Hardhttps://youtu.be/eMHMf9y-27w#barbie
(DIR) Post #AYs3Pc30Bu3zLp3V5M by ryansingel@writing.exchange
2023-08-18T22:28:32Z
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Your occasional reminder you'll probably never need a REAL ID driver's license to fly in the U.S., so skip going to the DMV with docsFor many people there are easier federal options, including a passport card. If you already have a passport, all you do is pay $35 and they mail it to you. It's a great ID w/o your address on it and isn't easily scannable for personal info at bars or restaurants.And passports/cards are now not trans/non-binary hostile (finally)https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-passport/selecting-your-gender-marker.html#RealID
(DIR) Post #AZEZesEblFq7uQvJ8i by ryansingel@writing.exchange
2023-08-29T15:32:40Z
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(bug finally acknowledged, no need for more testing thx!)Any Kaiser Permanente insurance members out here willing to help me test a bug on their website and apps?I think I'm being gaslighted. I tested this on Android iOS and the web, but I'm told either that this program doesn't exist or that I'm using some outdated tech.Login, go to COVID info (second item on app home screen) and then click order self tests to be delivered at home.Then let me know what happens
(DIR) Post #AZhp3e4wQiOcHIRI4O by ryansingel@writing.exchange
2023-09-12T23:05:30Z
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In re the FDA announcement that the crappy cold medicine on the shelves doesn’t actually work (hopefully most everyone already knew).https://apnews.com/article/sudafed-decongestants-phenylephrine-pseudoephedrine-fda-0f140bafae9a500c5fba05fe764ecb66We only had the crappy ones on the shelves because Sen. Dianne Feinstein wanted a law putting the stuff that actually works (pseudoephedrine + ibuprofen/acetaminophen) behind a counter, available by only by showing ID and getting put in a fed database to limit how often you buy it.Because the war on drugs2006: https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=7929ff4f-7e9c-9af9-770b-68728b8208b9
(DIR) Post #AZlhrpRQ5ocAApmtwe by ryansingel@writing.exchange
2023-09-14T16:33:31Z
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Oakland's soccer teams, Roots (mens) and Soul (women) are selling community shares through crowdfunding.Opened yesterday and up to $1.3Mhttps://wefunder.com/oakland/Not quite the Green Bay Packers model where community fully owns the team, and there's no profit motive in ownership, but close enough for my taste. I want to support, not profit.This city deserves and clearly wants a team that's actually loyal. Looking at you Warriors, Raiders and A's.#oakland
(DIR) Post #Ab4TlWkH4TQT7AxHAe by ryansingel@writing.exchange
2023-10-23T15:38:58Z
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The Dutch are using AI to street shame the rest of the worldhttps://dutchcyclinglifestyle.com/Here's a stretch of Telegraph in Oakland that's perfect for getting that treatment Try it yourself
(DIR) Post #AdXiCPBqNXua5aweu0 by ryansingel@writing.exchange
2024-01-05T09:27:54Z
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Indie creators ditching one VC-funded company for another one thinking it'll be different this time. It won't be. The incentives remain the same.LiveJournal was a trapMedium was a trapPatreon is a trapSubstack is a trapEtsy became a trapBeehiiv...The difference this time is that there are real indie alternatives GhostWordPressTransistor.fmFediverseOutpost.pub (self plug)ButtondownAnd moreThe hacienda must be built#SubstackMigration #Substack
(DIR) Post #AdYeMWPUBUYMidr2DA by ryansingel@writing.exchange
2024-01-03T03:18:52Z
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If you publish via #Substack and are looking to move to an indie platform, our publishers cooperative Outpost.pub can help. We help power sites like 404 Media, Tangle, and The Lever. We support sites using Ghost, an open source CMS.Drop a note at support@outpost.pub for detailsLink: https://outpost.pub
(DIR) Post #AdbS38t8nUb8I2b82i by ryansingel@writing.exchange
2023-12-21T17:57:36Z
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Friends don't let friends publish via Substack, which defends hosts Nazis and hate dealers Lots of options:Ghost (open source): self hosted or via Ghost(Pro) is the gold standard. The WordPress of membership-driven publishing. The co-op I founded, Outpost, adds power features for serious pubs. Buttondown - Indie and great for smaller newsletters Beehiiv - VC-funded, all-in-one. Beware VC incentives.Patreon - don't do it. It's a trapWordPress - Not a good idea. Spaghetti of plugins
(DIR) Post #AdbSP8DTyZjwZpb7Ts by ryansingel@writing.exchange
2023-10-17T16:06:14Z
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I appreciate the Washington Post story from Michael Coren on how to replace a car with an e-bike, but it's still stuck in car-centric thinking.https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/10/17/electric-bikes-cars-cost-testing/E-bikes are electric vehicles.E-bikes are the most popular electric vehicles.E-bikes are the most revolutionary electric vehicles.E-bikes rarely get subsidized, unlike giant e-cars and trucks, because lawmakers think of them as toys, not vehicles.E-bikes are electric vehicles.
(DIR) Post #AhFsT9BTEUhCQJiHJI by ryansingel@writing.exchange
2024-04-25T17:30:30Z
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VMWare is one of those companies that is too big to be competent.They bought Pivotal Tracker, a tool for managing software projects, and then recently decided to boot off all the paying customers that weren’t enterprise.I just found an email in my spam folder. DKIM and SPF is apparently being too difficult for them to figure out. The email said I had cancelled my paid plan.No, VMWare you decided you no longer wanted me to pay you.
(DIR) Post #AjtoouGwhBYMjAK4XI by ryansingel@writing.exchange
2024-07-12T22:55:40Z
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Elon Musk, his right wing buds at Telegram and security folks who knew better piled on the end-to-end encrypted message service Signal about its Mac Os desktop app. Hugely out of proportion to the actual threatToday AT&T admits it got hacked. 100 million people's calls and text records, likely from a system funneling data to the NSA or for data-miningUse encrypted messaging, preferably Signal, maybe WhatsApp, definitely not Telegram. Use SMS as little as possibleAnd fuck musk and his stans
(DIR) Post #Al0N4URO738D47KcO8 by ryansingel@writing.exchange
2024-08-15T22:29:54Z
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@futurebird ✊
(DIR) Post #Amhj6eg0Db1Ri6fDSi by ryansingel@writing.exchange
2024-10-05T16:55:56Z
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Holy hell. This was inevitable. Hackers, allegedly Chinese, got into the federally mandated surveillance backdoors of Verizon and AT&T's networks, snooping on everything.The mandated backdoors were first required on phone systems in 1994 by the CALEA law, then controversially extended to broadband by the FCC in '04.That's right folks. Broadband is so important that it must have backdoors for cops, but not important enough for the FCC to require consumer protectionshttps://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack-327fc63b?st=YTenau
(DIR) Post #AnxTjHiguDWYZ1hU2q by ryansingel@writing.exchange
2024-10-11T01:42:31Z
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This is for all who clapped for healthcare workers in 2020 and 2021, cared about their neighbors and getting vaxxed, but in 2024 want to pretend COVID is over, and side eye and judge those of us who still take precautions.Ed Yong, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his COVID reporting, gave a talk in August at XOXO about how his work broke himhttps://youtu.be/ddy5uMdzZB8?si=twUXPSnfADSPMEJoYes, I have posted this 3 times. I'm going to keep posting it. Shit is fucked up and brokenhttps://youtu.be/ddy5uMdzZB8?si=twUXPSnfADSPMEJo#covid
(DIR) Post #AsSpYiwvXy1H5pA8em by ryansingel@writing.exchange
2025-03-26T23:16:40Z
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It takes a lot to shake me but this abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar at Tufts is bone-chilling.Plainclothes, masked agents bundle her into an unmarked car. https://apnews.com/video/turkish-student-at-tufts-university-detained-video-shows-masked-people-handcuffing-her-109ae65a4e734b12b357897376ea443bIt appears her thought crime was co-authoring op-ed in the Tufts newspaper, asking the university to take action in opposition to Israeli war crimes.https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkjShe's been whisked off from Massachusetts to Louisiana.This is the new America.Citizens are next.
(DIR) Post #AyROT2CxdkKI0J1Fo0 by ryansingel@writing.exchange
2025-09-18T23:37:26Z
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Want to do more than delete your Disney account? Delete the tracking profile they have on you.By phone (877) 466-6669 or online.Go ask Disney for copies of the data it has about you.Then ask how Disney shared it. And then tell Disney to delete it.(You can’t do this all in one online request - that’d be too easy).YMMV depending on where you live, but it doesn’t take much time:https://privacy.thewaltdisneycompany.com/en/current-privacy-policy/data-subject-rights-portal/#FireBobIger#JimmyKimmel