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I'm leaving Web2.0 to go full-time into Crypto and Web3.0! πŸ‘‡

(and Yes I got the job via Crypto Twitter πŸ˜ƒ)
In 2016 - I started going down the Crypto rabbit hole for fun. Today, as a crypto degen, I spend almost all my time interacting with my crypto family and friends, hanging out in crypto Discord, Twitter, Telegram, WhatsApp as well as being part of awesome DAOs.
From onboarding new users to Defi, doing "intern notes", to officially helping out crypto teams across the ecosystem, my goal has always been to grow this space as best as I can, in the friendliest way possible.
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Across the #UChicago community, careful preparations are underway to ensure a safe return to campus for Autumn Quarter 2020.

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Updates from the University on important topics including instruction, housing, testing & contact tracing, and many more can be found at goforward.uchicago.edu. This site will continue to be updated.
Also at goforward.uchicago.edu, recordings of the following town halls can be viewed in full:

-College Students & Parents
-Graduate Students
-International Students
-Faculty & Staff
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Poor little Dinesh.

Just as wrong & confused as ever. Activists HAVE been targeting the slaveholding legacy of Douglas for years at the University of Chicago (a place he founded in 1856). Two monuments to him there just came down.

A @KevinMKruse style dunk on Douglas/Dinesh
For me it all started here with @TheRAUC's piece on @BlkPerspectives detailing the University of Chicago's ties to slavery via Stephen A. Douglas's 3000 acre cotton plantation in Lawrence County, Mississippi. aaihs.org/a-case-for-rep… #Twitterstorians #BlkTwitterstorians
That work was then peer-reviewed multiple times (both formally and informally) and was then published at the @JAAHistory which is the oldest and most storied academic journal for African American history in the world. Here is the full piece:
But...

journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/69… @ASALH
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.@YerkesObs
Tour guide very clear that the #uchicago announcement does not mean the observatory is closing. There are options still. Encourages ppl to bring more folks to visit the observatory for science education.
Worlds largest telescope in 1895.
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