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I am an American, and most of the other folks on the project were as well. I did go through an interview with Customs officers when I returned to the US, but it didn't affect my ability to use GlobalEntry. I don't have clearance, but it might cause questions if I did apply for that in the future.

I've also been to Syria as a tourist several times, and at one point had to maintain a second passport for visiting Israel or the West Bank. You can't travel to most of the Arab world if you have Israeli stamps, but you can get another book from the US to keep them separate.

Sorry for your friend. Borders are bullshit.

Thank you, I’m never letting the domain go.

A modest proposal to turn Alameda's former naval station into an AI and robotics hub.

"All it would take" is

- Exercising the Endangered Species Act 7(j) exemption to reactivate this plot of land, a former US Naval base that closed in 1997

- Invoking the National Emergencies Act to maximally accelerate federal permitting across all domains, and

- Transferring ownership of the land from the VA to the Department of Defense.

This seems like it goes against most standard development practices.

Phrenology 2.0!

You can tell that this author knows their shit because the blog post is entirely illustrated with furry memes.

I did a project at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media on building a hyper-local radio platform, and we'd always use Car Talk as an example of the kind of interactions we wanted to enable. Like, what if you were a vet in rural Uganda, and you wanted to have a show for farmers to describe their problems and get expert help. Call it Goat Talk, and we'd descend into bleats and baahs.

This was an informal thing for a long time, but I didn't know that there's now an actual certificate. I may have to go back and request mine retroactively.