I've reached the point where I see the new parents walking...
I've reached the point where I see the new parents walking by the playground with their babies bjorned to their chests, all smiling in fecund smugness at what they imagine to be their joyful future, and I sit here freezing on the bench and think, just you fucking wait.
I cut:
- MANY GIFs of men we now know harass.
- Many retro...
I cut: - MANY GIFs of men we now know harass. - Many retro pix of pretty ladies (unless Dolly Parton). - Peen/vag/straight sex things (uterus things OK) - GIFs w/PoC w/o a clear context - GIFs by TERFs - LOLsuicide - “Friendzone” - Dancer poops whole canned chicken GIF
oh good i was sad that being sick had interfered with...
@xarissaa oh good i was sad that being sick had interfered with your...horsing? riding. that's the word. wow. okay. good times over here with the kids.
On first seeing this music video it seems just...FUUUUUUCKED. Even for a Rubberbandits PSA. But I've now watched it about 20 times and I think it's beautiful and is forcing me to think about humans and empathy in new ways. youtube.com/...
People who follow me on Twitter might be interested to...
People who follow me on Twitter might be interested to learn that I am the co-founder of a global software platform and services company with a strong presence in Beirut. twitter.com/...
Did you know that the original cartoon aardvark from Ant...
@TheMFingChisa Did you know that the original cartoon aardvark from Ant and the Aardvark was cockney rather than Jewish and so instead of saying “I hate ants!” it was going to say “Cor! More ants.”
I've been reading a lot of Roman history lately and keep...
I've been reading a lot of Roman history lately and keep coming to the conclusion that our current era is actually more densely bizarre and populated by roughly the same amount of total kooks.
So I think a lot about how I could arrange myself to sit on...
So I think a lot about how I could arrange myself to sit on some logs with a trash bag over me and maybe my legs in another bag. I'm assuming it's nighttime and I can't start a fire.
What fantasies help you sleep? For me it's cold weather...
What fantasies help you sleep? For me it's cold weather survival. What if I were in the woods right now with only some warm clothes and a few supplies. What then?
Pretty soon I'll settle into my regular sleepytime...
Pretty soon I'll settle into my regular sleepytime hypocrisy inventory, and then I'll drift into my typical soporific fantasy of extreme cold weather survival.
Little girl has the night terrors and has gone back to bed,...
Little girl has the night terrors and has gone back to bed, but of course I'm now up, doing my soothing nighttime rituals—drinking cold water, sitting upright on the sofa, thinking of all the friends I've neglected due to self-absorption, and pre-panicking over being exhausted.
Help me help someone! An adult professional—a very smart,...
Help me help someone! An adult professional—a very smart, very creative lady PoC—wants to take a class so that she can become a more skilled writer of narrative non-fiction/memoir. Lives in Brooklyn. What's the best non-traditional or traditional class she could take in NYC?
Have you ever gone from dehydrated before lunch to really...
Have you ever gone from dehydrated before lunch to really well-hydrated during lunch, it's the best feeling. You're all mushmouthed and sore and slow and then you drink like four glasses of water and it feels like blue skies are inside you. Just sharing some good things on here.
Sujatha Gidla, who was born untouchable and now works as a...
Sujatha Gidla, who was born untouchable and now works as a subway conductor for the MTA: "One time in a bar in Atlanta I told a guy I was untouchable, and he said, 'Oh, but you're so touchable'." bbc.com/...
I was walking four recalcitrant children to school in foot...
I was walking four recalcitrant children to school in foot deep snow to help out my community when the GIF was posted by my bot (a digital witch that makes me do whatever it says).
Oh that's a nightmare topic. There is, by definition, no...
@hondanhon@PostlightStudio Oh that's a nightmare topic. There is, by definition, no way you can do anything but fail at that essay. Except that's sort of liberating too.
But yeah what you see is ACTUALLY just me making peace with...
@hondanhon@PostlightStudio But yeah what you see is ACTUALLY just me making peace with my own ambitions and failings and then asking more people for help, and hoping that I can help them too.
@hondanhon Oh no Dan I sat down with the leadership at @PostlightStudio and said, I have opportunities to write again, but it will require me to hand off responsibility, and created some structure. Then made a deal with my wife that I wouldn't need more than one weekend every six wks.
Check it out in the same @BW issue @chafkin and @sarahfrier...
Check it out in the same @BW issue @chafkin and @sarahfrier look inside Facebook to find out how the staff is dealing with chaos and “do reporting” (as opposed to what I do which is “have opinions”). twitter.com/...
Snow-day special: Want to come by @PostlightStudio on...
Snow-day special: Want to come by @PostlightStudio on Monday and talk with ALL-STARS abt how journalists shld engage with marginalized Twitter communities? Email xarissa.holdaway@postlight.com and she'll hook you up. More background: knightfoundation.org/...#twitterandnews
(I mean obviously there TONS of prior art, the one I think...
@digiphile@jvanderlan@FTC@zeynep (I mean obviously there TONS of prior art, the one I think about a lot is RISKS-L, which has been cataloging this shitshow weekly since 1985.)
One disruptor would be like, little $5 charm bracelet...
@djacobs@rebeccablood@anildash One disruptor would be like, little $5 charm bracelet computers that you give to your real friends, that build a secret VPN only you all can share. Free and private low-drama spaces that siphon people away and are hard to coopt. But FB could make their own.
David++. I'd guess it's at the codebase scale of MS Windows...
@djacobs@rebeccablood@anildash David++. I'd guess it's at the codebase scale of MS Windows or MS Office by now. FB has great engineering and tremendous talent, the VAST portion of which is not misaligned with human decency! Anything at that scale is just going to cause enormous side effects.
Hi do you enjoy the future of computing? YOU DO? I thought...
Hi do you enjoy the future of computing? YOU DO? I thought so! Then you might enjoy this podcast with Bret Victor aka @worrydream where @richziade and I talk with him about his 5,000-year project for social computing. trackchanges.postlight.com/...
I have erased the puns that were in the textbox and which...
I have erased the puns that were in the textbox and which you were probably faving for breakfast. Forgive me they were a little racist, my tweets can get old.
Doing this made me wonder how far we are from Facebook etc...
Doing this made me wonder how far we are from Facebook etc making custom personalized memes based on shit you used to like/vs stuff you like now. twitter.com/...
(1) to understand; (2) because I like immutable data...
@amyhoy (1) to understand; (2) because I like immutable data structures; (3) because my thing has hundreds of little components communicating and copying themselves into different contexts; (4) because I'm an idiot
When tweets go viral you see all kinds of people pop into...
When tweets go viral you see all kinds of people pop into your feed. It's fun to look at the snapshots of their lives. And it's taught me that while America can be divided into rich and poor, white and black, or red and blue, we are all united by one thing: Shitty beige carpet.
We got there after weeks of full-on angry wont-do-it...
@kzwa@jessamyn We got there after weeks of full-on angry wont-do-it tantrums. I wish I could remember more often to change strategy and look for fun or weirdness instead of digging in my heels and yelling. (We're also going to make a mailbox so that kids can send letters to parents.)
So my daughter wrote, for me to read: “I hate you, oh...
@kzwa So my daughter wrote, for me to read: “I hate you, oh goddamet, I hate myself, I am stipid and dumm! What the fuck. Now my hair is stipid and dumm because it hide my sad face.” And then she drew a little girl in the corner saying—“Why are you saying bad thing in front of a kid?”
So the way that works is some people have been not wanting...
@kzwa So the way that works is some people have been not wanting to practice their writing so I said they are allowed to write sentences with bad words and I will read them out loud.
i mean there's no analogue; MSFT was monopolistic but its...
@amyhoy@heretohinder i mean there's no analogue; MSFT was monopolistic but its target was other tech firms; the Bell system was monopolistic but it MOSTLY didn't control what passed through the wires; this new thing is sort of a cyber-monarchy. Maybe Janelle Monae warned us.
i'm not surprised at all it was possible i'm just sort of...
@heretohinder@amyhoy i'm not surprised at all it was possible i'm just sort of like, 50 million what were what and used for what and we're going to get WE TAKE YOUR PRIVACY VERY SERIOUSLY
It's easy to cluck at ProPublica on this painful screw-up,...
It's easy to cluck at ProPublica on this painful screw-up, but this accountability is all I can ask for as a donor and reader, and it's part of their work, too. twitter.com/...
I actually still like Menlo a little better. But the rest...
@jackrusher I actually still like Menlo a little better. But the rest of the family is VERY good for both short memos and presentations, or as I like to call them, viewgraphs.
oh there's great stuff 100% I love it, there are things...
@Skeptimom oh there's great stuff 100% I love it, there are things it's great for! I'm only saying that it's not organized like a library as much as like an ever-exploding shit orb
odds are 80% of people at google would love to do just that...
@knowtheory odds are 80% of people at google would love to do just that and it's just pure box office poison for your career if you try, whatever they're making personal airplanes now
It's genuinely weird that YouTube sees itself as a library...
It's genuinely weird that YouTube sees itself as a library while the rest of us see YouTube as a giant ever-exploding shit orb. I've never confused my kitchen for my toilet.
WAIT I WAS WRONG what happens is you hit
- CMD-V to...
WAIT I WAS WRONG what happens is you hit - CMD-V to paste - Then you [sometimes] have CMD pressed - You hit enter to move on from the paste and start typing - It interprets as CMD-ENTER - And sends the email It's not bad design at the interface level but at the interaction level
This is as close as it gets https://mailinabox.email/ for...
@provoost@JaEsf@adam3us This is as close as it gets mailinabox.email for cloud (there's also platforms like Zimbra which are up to interesting stuff). I'd love to just set up a friends-and-family-only inbox at some pt and just give friends a client pointed at it.
I know but I have 200mb/s down and ~50mb/s up at home, I...
@provoost@JaEsf@adam3us I know but I have 200mb/s down and ~50mb/s up at home, I should be able to purchase a gumstick-sized Pi Zero and plug it into my router, put in my domain name and accounts via the web admin, and have secure email forever :(
Oh interesting thanks. Yeah I don't remember too much...
@provoost@JaEsf Oh interesting thanks. Yeah I don't remember too much because it truly didn't seem important at the time. Another weird idea from crypto people based on the old Microsoft spam-fighting idea (which I guess was Hashcash and wasn't actually created by Microsoft).
i'm basically kidding, life is fine. but I think about the...
@JaEsf@provoost i'm basically kidding, life is fine. but I think about the moment where I went, "ulgh, this is probably slowing down Photoshop" VERY OFTEN, how could I not.
like it's a fair point, because 2009 is the year in that...
@JaEsf@provoost like it's a fair point, because 2009 is the year in that paragraph and the sequencing isn't great, i brought it up with my editor, but the sad fact remains that I could have mined an absolutely huge pile of bitcoins in the earliest days and thought it was pointless
The way that paragraph came together was weird—I learned...
@JaEsf@provoost The way that paragraph came together was weird—I learned about it in 2009 and ran QT-bitcoin and I know it must have been around 2010 because I read this after and though "I should have just BOUGHT some" irishtimes.com/... and I moved out of that apartment in 2010.
I think it's a genius troll that the dude who hasn't read a...
I think it's a genius troll that the dude who hasn't read a paper in two years has absolutely no idea we're on here judging him. We don't even get the pleasure of knowing that he's chosen to ignore us. He's petting his pigs right now with no idea of our tweets. We don't exist.
There's a connected point I wanted to make that we had to...
@anildash@fredwilson There's a connected point I wanted to make that we had to cut for length: That the tech industry always promises to change everything, but after the hype leaves, what we're left with is usually a better understanding of what's fundamental about human beings, bad and good.
Going to bed a little early thinking about a postmodern...
Going to bed a little early thinking about a postmodern technothriller called SIDE EFFECTS 2: GLOBAL STATE where a character called The Reducer is played by Matt Damon whose last name is moved around in the credits to be Matt Monad.
nah i definitely did at least around 2010 because i...
@theinstagibbs@nic__carter@nathanielpopper@VeryMadCommies nah i definitely did at least around 2010 because i remember the apartment i was in and downloading whatever the default client was (qt-bitcoin?) and then realizing later that @mala was probably smarter for just buying them instead of trying to mine them irishtimes.com/...
I call it my "new technology does not change the world so...
@jackiehluo I call it my "new technology does not change the world so much as reveal the things that are unchanging about the world special morning time”
If you want to understand the blockchain mess over time,...
If you want to understand the blockchain mess over time, three journalists to follow who are doing actual real work covering this subject: @adrjeffries, who is rightly suspicious, @BradyDale who is rightly fascinated, and @matt_levine who sees the very big picture.
(My NONSENSE thesis is that tech people use forms of...
@_cynar (My NONSENSE thesis is that tech people use forms of expression (memes tweets posts) to define and create territories and people who don't follow the forms as set by dudes are auto-excluded; thats how gender is territorialized online. Bitcoin is content-free territoriality.)
Great to see this out of beta and officially in the world...
Great to see this out of beta and officially in the world and many congratulations to @dpla. We were lucky to collaborate with and support DPLA in their redesign! God I love digital libraries. It's very responsive and accessible. dp.la/...
Listen here. Christa is one of my oldest friends and...
Listen here. Christa is one of my oldest friends and A-Treat makes a great ginger ale, and you should take the time to vote for Betty Duffy. It says submissions are closed but scroll down and you can still vote. twitter.com/...
The pipe organ company is an amazing hardware incubator,...
@shabbychef The pipe organ company is an amazing hardware incubator, and @starsandrobots works there and makes real things instead of just more garbage code. Unless that's ANOTHER hardware incubator in a pipe organ factory. This concludes Bay Area Fun Facts or BAFF with your host Paul Ford.
This is kind of a casual drop by kind of video but when...
This is kind of a casual drop by kind of video but when the 81 year old genius abstract painter Palestinian refugee shows the Amiga 1000 program she wrote where pixels are wiped away and refers to that effect as an “exodus” it exploded my entire brain youtu.be/...
The demand was so great that I had to abandon it. There's...
@Johnmernst@PJVogt The demand was so great that I had to abandon it. There's no ethical way to deliver a quasi-medical service to 8,000 anxious people if I'm working as one person, the cost of email would have fast gone into the thousands of dollars, and there's no way to make money on the product.
Reading this is tough but it's a good piece that taught me...
Reading this is tough but it's a good piece that taught me about my city. (Also I am paranoid people read this and go “well what could they do?” but there are very ill people who DO respond to offers of help and still never enough services for them.) nytimes.com/...
I learned that the National Wood Flooring Manufacturer's...
I learned that the National Wood Flooring Manufacturer's Association published it's own version of The Lorax. It's called The Truax. Here's the PDF. web.archive.org/...twitter.com/...
Ellie Goulding covering “Vincent” feels like eating from...
Ellie Goulding covering “Vincent” feels like eating from the trash and I will listen to it 45,000,000 times. Ulgh she nails it too with little vibrato glosses at the suicide bits. I'm angry.
My daughter told me she wanted to go as Poppy for Halloween...
My daughter told me she wanted to go as Poppy for Halloween this morning. And I totally got confused but she means a character in Trolls. So we watched some of the Internet Poppy and they thought she was a hilarious older lady and laughed hardest when she said “Amazon dot com.”
Also an amazing opportunity for a home and garden network...
@tressiemcphd Also an amazing opportunity for a home and garden network to create a TV show to broaden its reach to markets it can't otherwise reach. Hicks' Eye for the Prep Wives. (Her last name is “Hicks,” there's something there.) She's already known as a beast soother.
This is a golden truth right here blessings to @page88....
@adinars@page88 This is a golden truth right here blessings to @page88. Simultaneously our engines of culture preserve their boundaries by boxing in technology as hopelessly burgher-class pablum of mostly sociological (a lesser discipline than politics) interest.