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Jason Kratz

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This is one of the assholes currently with access to unprecedented amounts of US Treasury data. Luke Farritor: Dropped out of college as a senior. What could possibly go wrong. Interesting how much stuff has been deleted off the Internet about this group of fucking clowns.
One thing in the Things vs. OmniFocus debate: sync speed. Things syncs far faster than OmniFocus does. That said I've also found OmniFocus to be far more accurate in syncing. Things is terrible with proper syncs when a given device hasn't logged in and synced for
Glad to see that exporting this blog from the old Pikapod it was running on to a new one seems to have fixed the issues I was having before where it would just stop running.

On why we should be writing

I go through a crisis of purpose in maintaining this blog often, very often. The usual litany of questions I think many like me ask: why am I doing this? Will anyone read it? Am I doing it well? Etc. I ran across this great but of wisdom from Akindele

What does it say about me that in today's Connections game on NYT Games I found the hardest item first because I instantly recognized "The Shining"?
Also glad to see from the stats that crap is over. People on the same side in a fight should not be shiving each other over who is more right. It's ridiculous.
Why am I not surprised that the "Torches and Pitchforks" post got more views than my explainer post on the same day when I had linked to the explainer at the top of the original post? People are funny.
Shutting down the Pika blog for now. Have quite awhile left on the subscription so "shutting down" means making it private and removing the custom domain. Will concentrate on this site for now where I have full control but eagerly watching what happens over there.

Thoughts on supporting marginalized groups

After calming down a bit once the heat of the moment had passed I started thinking last night about the issues of showing support of marginalized groups [1] online. I decided to try stepping into Adam Newbold’s shoes for a minute or two to really try to understand where

From the NYT: Senator John Thune, the South Dakota Republican and brand-new majority leader, must be breathing a sigh of relief at the outcome. A defeat of such a high-profile nominee so early in Trump’s term would have marred the start of Thune’s own tenure. A yes a