I think this would integrate well with Yuka
All data will be published publicly, so Yuka will be free to use the data if they'd like
Readit NewsThis is really cool - it'd be great to test for other chemicals like heavy metals.
Specifically, rice seems to contain a good deal of arsenic (https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2015/01/how-muc...) and I've been interested for a while in trying to find some that has the least, as I eat a lot of rice.
Thanks! I would like to expand testing into other areas beyond plastic chemicals (like heavy metals) if and when the project grows.
Currently a one-man side project:
Last year PlasticList discovered that 86% of food products they tested contain plastic chemicals—including 100% of baby food tested. The EU just lowered their "safe" BPA limit by 20,000x. Meanwhile, the FDA allows levels 100x higher than what Europe considers safe.
This seemed like a solvable problem.
Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent testing of specific products you actually buy. Think Consumer Reports meets Kickstarter, but focused on detecting endocrine disruptors in your yogurt, your kid's snacks, whatever you're curious about.
Here's how it works: Find a product (or suggest one), contribute to its testing fund, get detailed lab results when testing completes. If a product doesn't reach its funding goal within 365 days, automatic refund. All results are published openly. Laboratory.love uses the same methodology as PlasticList.org, which found plastic chemicals in everything from prenatal vitamins to ice cream. But instead of researchers choosing what to test, you do.
The bigger picture: Companies respond to market pressure. Transparency creates that pressure. When consumers have data, supply chains get cleaner.
Technical details: Laboratory.love works with ISO 17025-accredited labs, test three samples from different production lots, detect chemicals down to parts per billion. The testing protocol is public.
You can browse products, add your own, or just follow specific items you're curious about: https://laboratory.love
cjflog commented on PlasticList – Plastic Levels in Foods plasticlist.org/... · Posted by u/homebrewer
While PlasticList has already tested hundreds of products and found plastic chemicals in 86% of them, laboratory.love lets you crowdfund testing for the specific products you actually buy.
Think of it as democratizing PlasticList's methodology: you choose what gets tested, we handle the logistics of sample collection + lab work, and results are published openly to pressure companies toward cleaner supply chains.
cjflog commented on Product Lessons from Dan Robinson (Ex-CTO of Heap) johnjianwang.medium.com/p... · Posted by u/johnjwang
Goat. Low-key would vote Dan Robinson for mayor
cjflog commented on How to Start a New Country 1729.com/how-to-start-a-n... · Posted by u/allenleein
This reminds me of --
- Networks of "safe spaces" marked by rainbow flags or triangle icons.
- The vision of WeWork, before it imploded.
- White-nationalist and right-libertarian groups who invest in militias and firearms.
- Black separatist movements, like the (peaceful) one happening in Freedom, Georgia: https://thefreedomgeorgiainitiative.com/
- CHAZ and other "autonomous zones".
- British Zionism before the existence of Israel.
- Other nationalist movements, like Irish Republicanism. See also the IRA.
- Charter Cities: https://www.chartercitiesinstitute.org/
- The creation of new subreddits. Opaque and off-putting vocabulary, like WSB's.
- The Amish system of communal aid and health care.
- American utopian communities, like the Oneida community.
- The Islamic State, and its publication Dabiq.
- 70s-90s subcultures, e.g. hippies and punks.
- The Mormon Church.
A number of properties seem useful:
- Barriers to entry. E.g. a language (resurrect a dead one, like Gaelic or Hebrew, as done by previous nationalist movements? Or Arabic, as was encouraged by Dabiq? I see possibilities for indigenous languages (e.g. there is a fringe neo-Aztec movement), for Latin, for Sanskrit, and for a reverse-engineered PIE).
- A coordinating media apparatus (again, Dabiq is a good example).
- Risk-pooling with defenses against free-riding (see the Amish).
- Significant exclusive advantages to members. (The Roman system of earned citizenship is one example.)
- A strong reproductive capacity, whether purely memetic (LGBTQ movement), or biological. In the latter case it's vital that the ideology minimize within-group gender conflict (ideally without domination), and assist productive heterosexual union. Consider the symbol of the upturned triangle (male) and downturned triangle (female) interpenetrating to form a union with new symmetries; in some cultures this is the "Star of David", but it is also known outside those cultures. This might be achieved through separate (but interacting) male and female aspects of the culture, instead of through a completely unisex culture. It needs to achieve r > 2.1 or it's dead in the water.
- Mechanisms of self-defense, ranging from passive denial of benefits (blacklisting), to coordinated harassment (Twitter), to limited and mostly symbolic violence (parades, protests, street riots), to real organized violence (militias). It's a good sign if people are afraid to criticize symbols of your tribe (see Charlie Hebdo). Though insularity, stealth, and non-aggression -- a purely defensive strategy -- might get you reasonably far if you can quietly obtain resources.
- A moral narrative about the inherent goodness and righteousness of your people and your cause. The weakest would be a pluralistic "we have a right to exist too"; the strongest is "we are morally superior" -- whether because you are the "Master Race", or "chosen by God", or those most downtrodden and deserving of justice, or those with the best principle ("liberty"). But the first step of war is always demoralization of the enemy, so you can't neglect this. Fake corporate values don't work. Cynically, the moral case has to be a stealth restatement of the interests of the group members.
- An immune system capable of dealing with agent provocateurs, whether by embracing them ("Nothing is too radical!"), or by ejecting those who violate some more nuanced concept of "good".
- A founding myth. Ideally a true one.
- Heroes.
Balaji recently said he was in favor of reducing military capacity. Whether that's a good idea or not, it shows that his preference with a cloud country is a non-violent one.
One interesting aspect of a cloud country, or networked state, is that it would be distributed/decentralized. In theory it would be hard to attack in the real world as there may not be traditional borders at all. If if distributed globally it's certainly resistant to nuclear type attacks. A country with a capital "in the cloud" has a digital defensive structure similar to the Củ Chi tunnels from the Vietnam war.
cjflog commented on The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned troyhunt.com/the-facebook... · Posted by u/helb
I have been pwned. Also of note, while my phone number was on my Facebook account, it has had its visibility set to "only me" for years. Still leaked.
Often desired something like this so thank you for making this happen.