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Posts by William Thurston

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The Mystery of Food Deserts They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

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I made a Black women in tech starter pack because I couldn’t find one and it annoyed me.

go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ

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the reason this guy runs the internet is basically nobody else is even capable of doing "your shoes were so fugly I called the FBI" and have it be a factual statement

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Welcome to Marvin - Marvin A batteries-included library for building AI-powered software.

Yes! Check out askmarvin.ai or guardrails.ai for tools which force gpt responses into well structured formats.

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Casey nailed it. Twitter took hold largely because of the creativity of third party devs. It’s that kind of energy that will make Bluesky and AT grow.

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