Brian Dusablon | Duce | Drifter Life
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Curious explorer. (He/Him | MSW, CPACC). I love: rugby, libraries, nature, learning, music. Working toward a future of peace, access, inclusion, & collective liberation. https://ethicalmethods.com https://drifterlife.com #PositiveImbalance ☮️❤️
Crypto and AI super PACs spent $250 million on the midterms. In competitive races, their candidates got clobbered: nine losses out of 12 called so far, including Ohio, where crypto spent $64 million and still couldn’t beat Sherrod Brown. www.citationneeded.news/2026-electio...
Crypto and AI’s $250 million election goes sideways
The industries’ biggest bets lost almost across the board.
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OK, Dems. IF this is as great a night as we're all hoping it will be you folks are going to have to actually DO THINGS in the next two years like A LOT OF VERY GOOD THINGS please attend the Zohran Mamdani school of GET SHIT DONE FOR PEOPLE over the holidays because you will have ONE SHOT
Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.
Please stop using emojis as bullet points! Screen readers announce each emoji by its name. Exact wording varies, but if you use 👉 as a bullet, it will read something like, "backhand index pointing right," before every item.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. funded enhanced security for himself by taking funds from the department’s Office of Minority Health.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
September 23, 2026
Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...
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“These little patterns of worry and resolution -- empty tank, full tank -- make up daily life, and daily life can be taken for granted. But what if an empty gas tank were a real danger?” snyder.substack.com/p/a-meditati...
A Meditation on Gas Stations
On Total War and Individual Responsibility (1/2)
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“What are your dreams? Where are your elemental waters? Are you moving toward them? Do you think it's too risky? Is it a bigger risk to stay where you are, only half in, and rot on the vine? As David puts it, ‘halfway will kill you.’” www.drifterlife.com/awkward-like...
Awkward Like the Swan
I've been reading David Whyte's Crossing the Unknown Sea off and on for several years. My friend MJ sent it to me during a major time of transition when I found myself wondering what was next. In rea...
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A Wikipedia editor put it well: "You almost want to pat them on the head and say 'Yes, of course it will' in the same way you'd tell a small child that Santa Claus will be delivering their presents."
I love discovering random books. www.drifterlife.com/discovering-...
Discovering Random Books
I just finished "The Reader." I don't remember where I picked it up, but I think it was off the $1 shelf at our local bookstore, Orca Books. I didn't read the description or look it up online. I just...
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Had a little guest near our campfire last weekend. Amazing how good this phone camera is. #Nature #OlympicNP
Build an LGBTQ+-inclusive travel and mobility policy; assess risk by country and region; design safe, inclusive travel processes; prioritize trans and nonbinary inclusion; support relocation and long-term assignments. mygwork.com/news/lgbtq-t... #mygwork #protecttransfolk #inclusion
LGBTQ+ Travel and Relocation: practical guidance for inclusive employers
Global mobility is central to modern business. As organizations send people across borders for projects, assignments and relocations, LGBTQ+ employees often face distinct risks and barriers.
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daringfireball.net/linked/2026/... "My impression of consulting giants like Accenture (McKinsey, Bain, Deloitte, KPMG...) has always been that they are very good at looking smart but in fact very bad at actually being smart." Same.
Maybe ‘Steal Underpants by Blowing a Fortune on AI Tokens’ Is, in Fact, Not a Good Business Plan
Link to: https://www.404media.co/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here-companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-spending-so-much-on-ai/
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anildash.com/2026/04/28/o... “If this small team of creators who aren't even a tech company can make an AI that does the right thing, how come the biggest companies in the world can't?"
(One) Good AI Is Here - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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"I suspect an Electron codebase is like sap, though — sticky, dirty, and harder to wash off the longer you wait." daringfireball.net/2026/07/clau...
Claude’s Criminally Bad Electron Mac App Is an Inside Job
Felix Rieseberg, quite obviously, is the answer to the question why Claude is an Electron app. It’s like wondering why all the screws in a building were hammered into the walls, and then finding out t...
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www.yahoo.com/news/weather... This is some Ministry for the Future level shit. Damn.
Forty drown in France as people seek relief from Europe's heatwave
PARIS/MADRID, June 23 (Reuters) - Forty people have drowned in France over recent days as they sought to cool down to escape record heat, the prime minister said on Tuesday, as a heatwave swept across...
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“People were willing to disable FileVault and System Integrity Protection to get consistent window corners.” mjtsai.com/blog/2026/06...
Michael Tsai - Blog - Golden Gate Window Corners
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This is cool. And VERY difficult. My first squad had Kareem, Chris Paul, and Bernard King and went 41-41. I just went 68-14, think you can go 82-0? www.82-0.com/share?id=LHl...
82-0 — Can Your All-Time NBA Roster Go Undefeated?
Draft an all-time NBA team and simulate an 82-game undefeated season. Build your roster, beat the algorithm, share your record.
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daringfireball.net/linked/2026/... “Reframe the question and the absurdity of this proposition becomes even more clear.”
Trump Lawyer Argues Trump Can Tear Down Statue of Liberty
Link to: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-can-tear-down-statue-of-liberty-says-trump-lawyer
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“JavaScript, as I have suggested many times, was a terrible mistake for the web. It’s absurd that a web page can access local storage space.” daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...
Researchers Publish Method to Surveil Web Page Visitors by Analyzing Their SSD Activity
Link to: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/websites-have-a-new-way-to-spy-on-visitors-analyzing-their-ssd-activity/
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“up to 90 percent of ocean life remains a mystery.” www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/05/ocea...
In a Single Year, Ocean Census Scientists Discovered More than 1,100 New Marine Species
According to the collaborative marine research initiative, up to 90 percent of ocean life remains a mystery.
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This cool gold dragonfly let me get super close. Never seen anything like it! I was in Eugene at my folks’ house. He stayed there for a while. #Nature #Dragonfly
“move away from capitalism's sad notion of what constitutes abundance – lots of joyless stuff, not so much time for connection – to a vision in which maybe we have less material stuff but more immaterial wealth…” www.meditationsinanemergency.com/this-may-wel...
"This May Well Be the Most Consequential Case in the History of Humanity"
Something huge just happened. Or rather another step was taken in the successful trajectory of the most important climate action you probably never heard of. It was a follow-up to maybe the biggest th...
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stringinamaze.net/p/rich-guy-q... “if you want to improve your media literacy, one simple way is to ask yourself whether you’re reading the news or just some rich guy’s opinion.”
Rich Guy Quote Journalism
How the media turns rich guys' opinions into news
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I'm curious. I want to know what's in your soul, your being, your creative mind, what energizes you. www.drifterlife.com/on-thinking-...
On Thinking and Letting Go
I'm curious. I want to know what's in your soul, your being, your creative mind, what energizes you. If you've been thinking about sharing but holding back, just put it out there.
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