CodyyyGardner | Buzz Chronicles

I quit my job today and started a Twitter account for my cat (@KCPuppyCat). Why is going to take some time to explain. At least on the first count, anyway. Puppy deserves his own Twitter. But the job is about #a11y(accessibility) & a company with zero respect for their employees.

No, I'm not going to name the company. Suffice it to say they are in healthcare and provide customer service and other things related to benefits offered by other companies. They're kind of a middle man, controlled quite a few government regulations. There's lots of those around.

If you read the reviews of a company and there are a few disgruntled former employees saying horrible things, it's normal. If you look and nearly every review talks about how badly employees are treated, that's something else. I should have known. I thought I was prepared.

There were complaints about how "you only get 15 minute breaks and they count points against you if you're a minute late." But that's normal. There was talk of favoritism...that's pretty common too. Even the talk of mandatory overtime didn't ring any alarm bells at first.

What didn't concern me at first that should have was talk of how incomplete training was, how employees were expected to do 2 weeks of training and be on the phones right away. I've had a job where that was the norm, but training was actually decent and we were actually prepared.

mark pincus
@markpinc

Tomorrow, Zynga shuts down FarmVille on Facebook after 11 years. I wanted to share the story of how we created it and why it has played such an important role in the evolution of gaming. 1/x

The real innovation of FarmVille was in making games accessible to busy adults, giving them a place to invest and express themselves and be seen by people in their lives as creative. People thought of FarmVille as a sort of Etch-a-Sketch. 2/x

It was the first game at scale that leveraged big data, and almost everything inside the game was tested and optimized. FarmVille became a training ground for a generation of entrepreneurs and product managers. 3/x

In 2008, Happy Farm reached 20+ million daily active users, setting off a wave of competition from game developers, and numerous farming games began to hit the market. 4/x.

On February 6, 2009, FarmTown reached 1 million DAU on Facebook. Farm Town combined the moving maps from MyFarm with avatars in Zynga’s YoVille. I wrote the date on the wall, and said we need to count the days until we are in the market with our own game. 5/x

Jonathan Joestar | Mus...
@jonathanjoenajm

Istigatha - a thread 🧵.

Found in the collection of risaa’il and fataawaa of Shaykhul-Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullaah) found in the Maktabah ath-Thaahirriyah,

In the screenshots, what is found in brackets is an addition from Mukhtasar al-Fataawaa al-Misriyyah.
(1/25)

(2/25)

It is not allowed for one to worship anyone except Allah. Dua is a form of worship. We must call upon Allah alone

It says in Surah Jinn verse 18

“And the masaajid are for Allaah (Alone), so do not call upon anyone along with Allaah.”
(3/25)

(4/25)

Abdullah bin Mas’ud (radiyallaahu ‘anhu) said: “People used to make du’aa to the Angels, and ‘Uzayr and al-Maseeh (the Messiah, Isa bin Maryam, alayhis salaam), so Allaah the Most High said:
(5/25)

$Amanda Palmer \U0001f3b9$

Amanda Palmer 🎹...
@amandapalmer

happy new year, all. i’ve barely had time to absorb new music or artists in 2020, because mostly i’ve been listening with ash, and all he wants is the Grease soundtrack over and over (and over. and over). but here’s a little list of my top ten. ready?

1. Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters
In Three Words: homespun percussive truth-bangers
For Fans Of: feminism, confessional lyrics
Note: not background listening

2. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
In Three Words: scream of consciousness
For Fans Of: kimya dawson, courtney barnett
Note: kills you softly

3. Laura Jane Grace - Stay Alive
In Three Words: laura spills survival
For Fans of: against me, punk, confessional songwriting
Note: listen to our podcast dammit

4. Reb Fountain - Reb Fountain
In Three Words: soft dark-soul dive
For Fans of: kathleen edwards, mazzy star
Note: she’s a new kiwi friend. and i just found out red is my COUSIN.

$\U0001f4a5California Love is Available NOW\u2763\ufe0f\U0001f4a5$

💥California Love is Av...
@kenyagoreebell

💞𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚'𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 2020💞

I didn’t read as much as I normally do because I was writing my own books in The Mogul Series which you can find here: https://t.co/0sODsY2S21
🥰

There are a ton of books I just did not get a chance to read that are on

my TBR which is why this is a FAVORITE list and not a BEST of list; bc I mainly read for pleasure. I was introduced to some new authors who blew my fcking mind.

Many of these books challenged or comforted me in some way; so I want to thank these incredible authors for putting their heart on the line and sharing their words with us and making this tumultuous year a little bit brighter. 💖

🌟𝐓𝐇𝐄 2020 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓🌟
1. Queen Move — Kennedy Ryan
2. Our Reckless Hope — Love Belvin
3. Villian — LJ Shen
4. Shu — Alexandria House
5. The Duke the Lady and a Baby — Vanessa Riley
6. Daring and the Duke -- Sarah MacLean
7. Charming the Scottish Bastard— Melissa Blue

8. Andre - Jayce Ellis
9. Rock the Curves— Twyla Turner-Author
10. Truly— Carmel Rhodes
11. Jaded by Love — AJ Alexander
12. Cry of Metal and Bone— Leslye Penelope
13. The Jezebel— Dylan Allen
14. Black Out— Lynn Raye Harris
15. In Fury Lies Mischief — Amo Jones

Xavier Helgesen
@XavierHelgesen

Did you know that 30% of funded search funds end up not making an acquisition?

We have bought eight beautiful businesses this year and learned a lot about what works and what doesn’t.

Read below for case studies of the two best (20x) acquisitions I have seen. Happy New Years!

First - you pay for existing profits, but you usually pay nothing for the growth potential. Buying at 4x EBITDA and doubling a business, you now paid 2x. Your loan payments are only based on the price you paid. You keep all the growth as equity.

So there are businesses out there that have both boring, predictable profits today AND potential for substantial growth. Make sure you find one with both.

Business #1: Buyer paid $400k for an ecom business. High margins, bad marketing. Paid about 4x cash flow. Put 100% of his energy on social media growth marketing. Kept going and testing until he had the formula.

Key ingredients there: low purchase price, proven useful product, Hugh margins, poor marketing. The buyer brought the hustle and creativity to scale through social media marketing. It wasn’t a passion product for him, but he liked the market.

$\U0001f37a\U0001d401\U0001d41e\U0001d41e\U0001d42b \U0001d41a\U0001d42d \U0001d42d\U0001d421\U0001d41e \U0001d40f\U0001d41a\U0001d42b\U0001d41a\U0001d41d\U0001d41e\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f$

🍺𝐁𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞⭐️⭐...
@Beer_Parade

Fun with speculation...

1: Lin Wood tweets that Epsteene is still alive (no way you let THE key witness die in jail).

2: DJT is the consummate showman.

3: DJT tells his loyal supporters to be in DC on the 6th for a "wild party".

(con't)

PunisherPatriot
@PunisherPatrio3

(Thread) Mid-2020 GITMO Update: Arrests, Indictments, & Executions

So before we get started, let us first understand that before Trump was POTUS GITMO (Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp) was a fraction of the size it now is. This can be clearly confirmed by the following visuals, identifying a significant amount of expansion...

for what is expected to be tens of thousands of new ex-elite prisoners. Well, those who are not executed via military tribunal at least. ow, if you are not aware of these indictments I am referring to, that makes perfect sense because they are still sealed and not yet...

Public knowledge. Please allow me to enlighten you. These equate to roughly 222,00 sealed indictments and pertain to the most disturbing and corrupt crimes against humanity. These range from human trafficking, organ trafficking...

child sex trafficking, slavery, treason, terrorism, fraud, misuse of AI, genocide, brainwashing, defamation, 5G endangerment, religious discrimination, misrepresentation, censorship, privacy infringement, and prevention of saving humanity from biotech endangerment.

PunisherPatriot
@PunisherPatrio3

(THREAD CONTINUED)
As mentioned in the above videos human cloning has been confirmed and many of the elites you are now seeing are in fact clones or doubles standing in for themselves. The reason for these clones is because humanity has not yet awakened enough to handle knowing

all the crimes these sick disgusting Deep State Freemasonic Illuminati Cabal Globalist Satanists are truly involved in. The majority of society would literally go mentally insane if they learned all of this information at once.

$Tilman Winkler \U0001f50b\U0001f50c count all votes$

Tilman Winkler 🔋🔌 coun...
@TilmanWinkler

A thread on $TSLA / $TSLAQ the stock in 2020:
Don’t retweet this, @gordonjohnson19 would not like the unit of #Gordon to trend. /2

/2 Some of you may ask: “What is a #Gordon?”
This used to be easy to answer. @gordonjohnson19 was famous for his bearish price target on $TSLA: $ 87. Prior to the 5/1 split. /3

/3 His price target (one #Gordon) translated into $17.40 post split. That price target was supposed to be the real value of the stock, those targets are usually for a twelve month timeframe: @Tesla the company ~ 1 #Gordon. /4

/4 One #Gordon wasn’t meant to tell us by how much the stock would rise every 10 days in 2020, but it ended up doing just that: $TSLA started the year at $86.05 or $430.25 pre split. It ended the year at $705.67, hence went up $619.62 ($3,098.10) or 35.6 #Gordon. /5

/5 So on average $TSLA added almost 1 #Gordon every 10 days. That’s despite falling to it’s annual relativ low on March 20th. /6

Steve Hyndside
@SteveHyndside

I’m feeling really sad today thinking about what we’ve lost over the last 5 years. But this is mixed with proud knowledge I, and many around me, did all we could to avert this disaster unfolding. This is a short thread to give a shout out to some of them 1/

First up is @GreenPartyMolly - I’ve already rung her today to say this and more. But she was both astute and persuasive in her tireless work before and after the referendum. I remain proud to have worked for her and supported her.

Second up is @ewgjones - one of the few who threw himself into election mode before the referendum and saw the pragmatic need for a persuasive targeted GreenerIn campaign. Without him @SW_GreenerIN probably wouldn’t have happened (or certainly looked very different)

Third up is my former colleague @aw_bell who pivoted quicker than anyone I knew through the grief of 2016 to try & make the best of the awful situation post referendum. He metaphorically shook me awake when I kinda wanted to hide under a duvet (and I think he did this for many)

Fourth up is Joe Williams - friend who helped set up @Bristol4Europe (who really led the national response post referendum). He was a calculated head in a room who dared to think big when others were panicking.

Denise Balkissoon
@balkissoon

Never forget that 2020 was the year that Black, Indigenous and otherwise racialized journalists in Canada stopped whispering and said it all out loud. In the order that I remember:

"Objectivity is a privilege afforded to white journalists," @Pacinthe on her time at CBC

Imani Walker, while still at the CBC, takes on one of its biggest names

"For Black women in media, a 'dream job' is a myth," @KathleenNB on her time at CTV

"Black Canadian voices are more visible now than ever — but will corporations act before this month’s motivation wanes?" @MorganPCampbell on his time at the Star

$Dr. Rick Barnett, PsyD \u2744\ufe0f\u2728\U0001f525$

Dr. Rick Barnett, PsyD...
@drrickbarnett

https://t.co/0BbPc11eTD
The Top 10 Psilocybin Research Papers of 2020
- FS Barrett, MK Doss, ND Sepeda, et al. – Emotions and brain function are altered up to one month after a single high dose of psilocybin. @FredBarrettPhD 1/10

SB Goldberg, BT Pace, CR Nicholas, et al. – The experimental effects of psilocybin on symptoms of anxiety and depression: A meta-analysis. “meta-analysis of studies using psilocybin along with behavioral interventions to treat elevated symptoms of anxiety and depression.” 2/10

GI Agin-Liebes, T Malone, MM Yalch, et al. – Long-term follow-up of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for psychiatric and existential distress in patients with life-threatening cancer. “follow-up approx 3.2 and 4.5 years later, w/ 15 of the 16 participants still alive” 3/10

F Blei, S Dörner, J Fricke, et al. – Simultaneous production of psilocybin and a cocktail of β‐carboline monoamine oxidase inhibitors in “magic” mushrooms “paper was chosen for Psychedelic Science Review’s 2020 Editor’s Choice Award for best study on psychedelics and nature” 4/10

J Sloshower, J Guss, R Krause, et al. – Psilocybin-assisted therapy of major depressive disorder using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a therapeutic frame “lays out how to combine therapy using antidepressant medication (like psilocybin) w/evidence-based psychotherapy” 5/10

$Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa \u2736$

Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Ro...
@CDRosa

As we celebrate the end of this difficult year and welcome 2021, I’d like to take an opportunity to review the past year in our 35th Ward. Thread🧵👇🏽

We started this year by passing our 606 demolition moratorium, which has helped preserve our built environment, promote environmentally sustainable building practices, and protect affordable two- and three-flat apartment buildings near the 606 trail.

In January, we also amended Chicago’s sanctuary city ordinance to require our police department to report any requests they receive from ICE. This was a major step forward for accountability, transparency, and immigrant protections.

In February, we continued our work to address displacement and win housing justice for all Chicagoans by advocating for Just Cause for Eviction legislation.

We also continued to advocate to close the loopholes in our sanctuary city ordinance.

Deepti Gurdasani
@dgurdasani1

I've been seeing a lot of discussion around the dosage gaps recommended by government for the Astra/Oxford & Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines. My thoughts on the potential benefits & risks of such an approach, and the need for much greater transparency around these decisions. Thread.

The UK govt announced recently that both the Oxford & BioNTech vaccines would be now administered with a gap of between 4-12 weeks (so prioritise administration of first dose, given limited resources).

What is the basis of this?

The basis that's been discussed seems to be that
1) the first dose is likely to confer some degree of protection against disease, so better to roll this out as fast as possible, and
2) that for Oxford/Astra efficacy may be higher when the gap between doses is greater.

I discuss some of the technical details around the Oxford trial below for those interested in these. If you'd just like a summary of this, please skip to the summary tweet titled 'SUMMARY'.

What does published evidence show? The Astra/Oxford data are a bit messy because of protocol changes during the trial. This is because the trial was originally planned as a single dose trial, but a booster dose was added when developers realised that this would likely help.

$Christmas Spirit Balding \u5927\u8001\u677f$

Christmas Spirit Baldi...
@BaldingsWorld

Since I have received many questions and crazy accusations, on this last day of 2020 let me give you a random collection of thoughts to close out this year. 1/n

1. I miss Asia. It's awesome. Most countries have a sense that things are getting better and that opportunities exist. From people starting businesses to sending their kids to better schools, there is a vibrancy and optimism that is infectious 2/n

2. Americans are a whiny narcistic self absorbed lot that rather then get down to a task and make things happen are content to complain ad nauseum. The world don't owe you $#!+. Get down to it and get on with it 3/n

3. I was wrong about some key things about corona but also right about some key things. Compared to public health experts I'm probably about even. 4/n

4. I don't really identify with either party. I am pro-immigration and anti-death penalty. I am a foreign policy hawk. I am pro-market but believe anti-trust regulation needs more focus. Socially liberal but think wokeness is idiotic. My issue views do not align with either 5/n

David Hundeyin
@DavidHundeyin

🚫Things to leave behind in 2020:

1. Leaving the diaspora and moving to "Gohna🇬🇭" without a plan for earning income, then trying to survive in Gohna by monetizing your new YouTube channel about life in Gohna.

This thing is becoming a ponzi scheme and it must stop⛔

There\u2019s a YouTuber who interviews people who\u2019ve moved back to Africa from the diaspora and somehow all the videos sound like this to me pic.twitter.com/jwjMZMkueZ
— Nelumbo N. (@vuyanzi93) December 31, 2020

2. Uploading photos of your snowed-in car or 2-bedroom house in Mississauga with the caption, "Still want to come to Canada?"

Just drop your photo, write "I escaped" and go.😐

3. Writing "Sapiosexual" on your Tinder bio.

Facebook. You need Facebook.

4. Headhunting someone and taking them through an entire interview and testing process after reaching out to them yourself, only to hit them with the "We like you but" email.

This one baffled me because I was literally by myself and you came to meet me. What was the reason?🤷🏿‍♂️

5. Using the phrase "Good PM" for any reason whatsoever.

Return to Ìbàràpá from whence you came, foul creature

Jonathan Grant
@Brambleman

Thread: Voter info on 16 counties w/ polls open on last day of early voting for runoffs. See yours? RT: Chatham, Clarke, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Dougherty, Douglas, Glynn, Gwinnett, Henry, Houston, Liberty, Lowndes, Muscogee, Richmond, Rockdale

Source map: https://t.co/qJiUaGNNSq

Chatham (Savannah)

CHATHAM COUNTY HAS EARLY VOTING THURSDAY, DEC. 31 https://t.co/WieXrVLAcv
— Jonathan Grant (@Brambleman) December 31, 2020

Clarke (Athens)

Athens-Clarke County has early voting Thursday, Dec. 31. Details: https://t.co/oDQRLUbKbz @DG4DA won big here earlier this month!

A word on turnout: Clarke lags slightly Georgia's 35% turnout but low t/o precincts (red) are in heavily Dem HD 118. Map https://t.co/jpT4DqPw8M pic.twitter.com/580imTQaiR
— Jonathan Grant (@Brambleman) December 31, 2020

Clayton (Jonesboro)

Clayton County has early voting Thursday, Dec. 31.

OPEN TIL 7 pm!!

Details: https://t.co/S20fQct5rf

Clayton had low turnout in November and lags Georgia's 35% runoff turnout by about 3 points. Many low t/o precincts (red, yellow). Interactive map: https://t.co/jpT4DqPw8M pic.twitter.com/SeRTtLYiuu
— Jonathan Grant (@Brambleman) December 31, 2020

Cobb (Marietta)

Cobb County has early voting Thurday Dec. 31 for #gasen runoffs: 7am-3pm. Details https://t.co/bq5XTh4LTx

Cobb flipped hard to Blue this year in county races!

Cobb turnout = Georgia overall but many low t/o precincts (red, yellow). See interactive map https://t.co/jpT4DqPw8M pic.twitter.com/LGBCsdayi9
— Jonathan Grant (@Brambleman) December 31, 2020

$Coopahtroopa \U0001f525_\U0001f525$

Coopahtroopa 🔥_🔥...
@Cooopahtroopa

2020 was a game changer for Ethereum.

The vast majority of its success was fueled by #DeFi.

Here's what happened in 5 Tweets 🔽

1) Governance Tokens 🪙

Projects gave complete ownership of billion dollar protocols to their users, often using retroactive airdrops.

Early adopters earned tokens for past usage, and token-based voting now dictates all technical

It pays to be a web3 power user.

Five networks that issued retroactive airdrops to value added actors \U0001f4dd
— Coopahtroopa \U0001f525_\U0001f525 (@Cooopahtroopa) December 9, 2020

2) Liquidity Mining ⛏️

Power users were the first to earn on-going distribution by providing liquidity.

$COMP sparked the wave, with $BAL coining the term a few weeks

BAL is live!

The 435k BAL for liquidity providers of the first three weeks of liquidity mining (145k per week) have just been sent out to the wallets used to provide liquidity on Balancer.https://t.co/pkXFzwzPVC
— Balancer Labs (@BalancerLabs) June 23, 2020

3) Yield Faming 🌾

Projects coupled liquidity mining and governance tokens to boost 'yields' by combining lending rates with an incentive layer.

APYs peaked as high as 1M% during 'DeFi summer', leading to a 'food coin' craze like $YAM and

Check out @Cooopahtroopa's latest post for all the #DeFi farmers out there \U0001f468\u200d\U0001f33e

Turns out @synthetix_io & @CurveFinance were ploughing the fields long before $COMP & $BAL came along.

Learn how to put your #crypto to work with this #yieldfarming 101 \U0001f4b8

\U0001f449 https://t.co/zYUKtqx3BK
— Zerion \U0001f3e6 (@zerion_io) June 26, 2020

4) Fair Launches ✅

Who needs investment when you can launch using yield farming?

@iearnfinance debuted $YFI with no formal funding, seeding a community treasury for self-sustainability.

The notion of a core team and community became one and the

2/ What is a Fair Launch?

A FL enables founders to bootstrap new crypto networks that are earned, owned, and governed by their community from the outset.

In this dynamic, everyone participates on equal footing\u2014there is no early access, pre-mine, or allocation of tokens.
— fair launch capital (@fairlaunchcap) August 26, 2020

Tube Time
@TubeTimeUS

Tube Time: a 2020 retrospective 🧵

i started off the year by releasing a new Micro Channel sound card, the Plaid Bib CPLD edition. little did i know that this would not be the only sound card i would release this

i'm happy to announce a new sound card clone, the Plaid Bib CPLD Edition! this is a version of the Ad Lib clone I designed for MCA bus machines, now with a CPLD instead of the hard-to-find bus interface chip: https://t.co/UCi1vT4QyD

happy new year! \U0001f600 pic.twitter.com/aUPrtFhwh5
— Tube Time (@TubeTimeUS) January 9, 2020

later, i took apart my apple II and found a capacitor inside. and inside that through-hole capacitor, i found a tiny surface mount

so i took apart this axial-lead ceramic capacitor and found a tiny 0805 surface mount capacitor inside!

(i put a regular 0805 next to it for scale.) pic.twitter.com/JfY73fYO84
— Tube Time (@TubeTimeUS) January 25, 2020

at my favorite electronics surplus store (the only one left in silicon valley!) i found an incredibly cute computer, and fixed it up and got it

whoa, what have we here? pic.twitter.com/aZSiEJnZe7
— Tube Time (@TubeTimeUS) January 31, 2020

in february, i played with some tone reeds, an unusual electronic component.

here's some unusual electrical components. these are tone reeds. they're used in older radio equipment, such as public safety radios and ham radios. they are used to send or receive CTCSS tones. let's take one apart! pic.twitter.com/rgWOvnv2VZ
— Tube Time (@TubeTimeUS) February 2, 2020

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