The European female founder journey: 1. Have a groundbreaking idea for a period tracking app 2. Recruit four other female co-founders 3. Spend 6 months designing the logo 4. Get rejected by Y Combinator, blame it on "tech bro culture" 5. Raise €25k from a Berlin Female Founders Fund instead 6. Pay Forbes €10k for an article titled "Building A Company Without Toxic Masculinity" 7. Speak at six panels about being a woman in tech 8. Launch MVP with 12 users 9. Win "European Female Innovator of the Year" award 10. Meet a 62 year old divorced French VC at a sex party 11. Marry him, shut down company, become a trad wife

Letonyalı bir kadın, evli ya da bekar olan tüm erkeklerin tek başına yapacağı Letonya ziyaretinde, Letonyalı kadınların üzerlerine atlayacaklarını çünkü ülkede yeterince erkek olmadığını iddia etti.

The US government told a 23-year-old math student in 1995: "Your code is a weapon. You need an arms license to share it." He sued them. Won. Then built the encryption protecting every message you've ever sent. 🤯 Meet Daniel J. Bernstein 🇺🇸 > Born in New York, 1971. > Finished high school at 15. PhD in Math from UC Berkeley at 24. > 1995: wrote new encryption code to protect people online. > US government classified it as a military weapon. > Required an arms export license ~ like selling missiles ~ just to publish it. > He filed a lawsuit against the United States government. > Fought for 4 years through federal courts. > Won in 1999. Court ruled: writing code = free speech. 🚀 > One lawsuit. Changed internet privacy law forever. > Then got to work. > Designed Curve25519 ~ the math locking your private messages. > Designed ChaCha20 ~ the code scrambling your internet traffic. > Designed Ed25519 ~ the signature securing your logins online. > Built qmail ~ an email server almost nobody has ever hacked. > Signal. WhatsApp. SSH. WireGuard. Tor. > All of them. His math. Your privacy. > Puts $1,000 of his own money on the line for any bug in his code. > No interviews. No fame. > Still a math professor in Chicago. Just ships code. He didn’t seek power or profit ~ he shipped protection. Absolute Legend 🐐

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Dr. John Campbell makes clear the hantavirus is not a pandemic threat in any way. “I’m not really remotely concerned about it.” “If I was, I would certainly tell you.” “In this case, the risks are absolutely negligible to public health.” “Fortunately, it’s not very transmissible and there’s not much of it.” “I expect these cases will be isolated and this will simply die out.”

People who want to blow off Hantavirus because COVID turned out to be no big deal: COVID had a fatality rate of 1%, concentrated among the elderly. Hantavirus has an incubation period of up to 8 weeks and kills 30-40% of people who show symptoms. Whole different beast. It’s not pandemic yet and probably won’t be, but if it were, the rational action would be—lockdown

Seems a lot like the early bullshit out of Wuhan. Don’t forget, the first time they locked us down, they set us up to expect a much worse pathogen than was circulating. This time, the pathogen IS highly virulent (destructive) but it is also, at worst, barely contagious. Unless they’ve enhanced it. None of us know. But our skepticism should be turned up to 11. Hantavirus in humans is not new, and in its natural form, it is not a pandemic risk.