An idea I had for @twitter last night. I often find myself liking tweets as a way to bookmark to read at a later stage. What if I could setup category folders and add individual tweets. All I had to do was simply drag the tweet to the relevant folder. I did a quick mockup.

Nah fr I would rather have a bookmark folder than an edit button anyday. for me a bookmark folder is 10X more important. Like I need separate sections for cute videos, receipts, important threads, fancams, memes. pls think wisely

Who wants to hear a nice story about meeting a hero?

So this is a lot, I apologize. But this is the story of how I met one of my teenhood icons while I was still a teenager. But there's a bit of lead up.

When I was sixteen, I discovered Neil Gaiman's Sandman series. It was about three years into it's run. And like the works of Phil Foglio and Don Rosa, it was unlike anything I'd ever seen. I was hooked instantly.

My teen years were pretty chill. Most of the teen angst had been used up by my sister, so my parents and I had a mutual understanding and I was trying hard not to make life hard for them.

My sister moved out for the first time in March or April of 1992. Her room was bigger, so I laid claim on it instantly. Like, I waited an hour for her to be gone. We had a strained sibling relationship, to say the least. No hate, but no like.

Siergiej Sirotkin w rozmowie ze Sport-Express powiedział, że chce odpowiedzi dotyczących jego przyszłości. Rozmowy z Williamsem nadal trwają i nie jest zainteresowany pozycją kierowcy rezerwowego. #F1pl

Rosyjski kierowca przyznał, że utrata fotela wyścigowego w Williamsie będzie dużym rozczarowaniem, bo praca wykonana w tym roku powinna zaprocentować w przyszłym sezonie. #F1pl

Doing something > What you call it

The success of the "24 hour startup" challenge is not about startups

A thread

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The concept isn't new, students (and non-students) have been running time-limited coding/product creation events for a while.

The same arguments always crop up:

- This isn't a *insert name of type of event* (eg. startup)
- It's not meaningful to build in X amount of time
- Using the term X isn't accurate

There are always two sides to the story.

Really, both sides tend to have a point.

Getting someone get their first taste of building something isn't to be scoffed at though.

One of the reads we recommend on the topic is @jessem's piece

It's longer-form than a tweet or back-and-forth on Reddit/Hacker News.

So he can actually make a nuanced

Seeing these questions pop up repeatedly, so here you go. (Also, sorry for spamming ya'll. I'll try to keep it brief.)

Asylum-seekers, Refugees, and the Caravan, A 'Splainer.

1/

Asylum and refugee resettlement are two different forms of relief for people who must flee their country. Asylum can only be applied for inside the U.S. or concurrent with admission or parole into the U.S. at a port of entry. 2/

Refugee resettlement, on the other hand, must start (with rare exception involving refugee camps) with an application to a UNHCR office or (sometimes) a U.S. embassy *outside the country from which the applicant is fleeing.* 3/

For both asylum and refugee resettlement, the applicants *cannot seek protection from inside their home countries.*

This makes perfect sense, if you think about it. A person fleeing their country's (failed) protection cannot get protection inside their home country. 4/

Thus, with regard to the caravan in particular, it is simply not the case that Honduran migrants can apply for asylum or refugee resettlement to the U.S. from within Honduras, Guatemalans within Guatemala, Salvadorans within El Salvador, etc. 5/

Ontem fiz uma thread aqui falando sobre seguir o diálogo com as pessoas quando o barco do BoIsonaro afundar... aí tão me respondendo: "mas eu não tenho paciência com essa gente"; "é culpa deles mesmo, que se foda".

Acho que a gente precisa analisar melhor o Brasil. Outra thread:

Pra começar, vou contar um caso que um amigo me contou:

Logo depois primeiro turno, ele contratou uma diarista, uma senhora negra já de idade, que chegou lá contando pra ele que tinha votado no BoIsonaro porque tinha ouvido falar que ele tinha levado uma facada, e ficou com dó.

Veja só:
Uma senhora. Mulher. Negra. Pobre. Empregada doméstica.

Trabalha o dia inteiro, mal tem tempo de usar a Internet, tem no máximo um whatsapp pra falar com as vizinhas.

Votou no BoIsonaro por uma notícia que ouviu falar. Votou por compaixão.

No último sábado, quando fui pra praça conversar e tentar virar votos, falei com uma moradora de rua, também negra, com 3 filhos pequenos, e ela não sabia nem pronunciar o nome do BoIsonaro. Na véspera da eleição!

Pense no tanto de informação sobre política que chegou pra ela.

A gente tá achando que todos os eleitores do BoIsonaro são esses monstros e esses robôs fascistas que a gente passou não sei quantos meses perdendo tempo e gastando energia à toa aqui no Twitter em discussões completamente improdutivas.

Mas o país é bem mais complexo.

1. Let's talk about the effects of #climatechange on the world's forests, with a focus on the northwest of Canada. This is also about electoral #greenwash, and my duty as public servant and right as private Canadian citizen to speak freely about what I know.

2. Why am I compelled to speak? How am I free to speak? The answer is in the federal Values and Ethics Code of Coduct (VECC).

3. It can be career-limiting to criticize government policy when you work for government. Duty of Loyalty is very, very important. However, as VECC makes clear, it is not absolute. In fact SCoC has ruled twice in favour of citizen free speech as a higher ideal. In 1985 and 2001.

4. I am therefore perfectly comfortable showing you the scary things that are happening in the North under a warming climate. A failure to meet global GHG emissions targets is hurting Canada's forests in a way we used to think wouldn't happen for decades.

5. Warming temperatures and rising [CO2] could, in theory, help green the planet with more vigorous tree growth. But that's not what's happening. Don't believe the #greenwash. The positive effects are over and it is warm enough that we are now starting the into the negative.

1/ Silicon Valley has changed a lot over the past 13 years since I started my first company (an AJAX calendar called Kiko that was funded in the first batch of YC).

2/ Tech has gone from an industry no one cared about, to every random person I knew in college rushing to be part of it, to the evil industry destroying the fabric of society

3/ Starting a startup is easier than ever. Lots of resources: YC, more financing at the seed stage, much more information online. Starting a company is no longer a risky path.

4/ New businesses in every industry are now being built with methodologies that used to be just for tech startups (fast iteration, access to venture capital). Applies to D2C companies like Allbirds, full stack companies like Atrium, etc.

5/ Personally, I’ve felt recently that the overall risk appetite of the people working in tech has changed. People used to want to join frontier companies building something fun / cool; now everyone seems to be optimizing for salary / career stability.

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1. There's been a lot of news lately about people in the Autonomous Vehicle industry realizing the problem they're trying to solve is much trickier than they initially hoped.

I think there’s a good analogy in a similar technology: self-checkouts.

2. Self-checkouts have been around a while. Companies have been working on them since 1984, and they’ve been in stores around the country for nearly two decades. As you well know if you’ve used one, they also still kinda suck.

3. This is not for a lack of financial incentives! A company that could figure the technology out would be able to replace billions a year in labor. Even a marginal improvement on the tech would be incredibly valuable as current systems feature staggering losses to shoplifters

4. It’s not as if “scanning items at a checkout” is an especially daunting task. It’s considered unskilled labor. Teenagers do it.

5. Turns out that making an automated system that’s 95% as good as a human is relatively easy and one that’s 100% as good as a human is very hard. I think it’s becoming clear that autonomous vehicles are going to turn out like this

My Bloody Valentine first Us tour 1988/1989.
View from Alcatraz by Geoff Stoddart.

Bilinda Butcher from My Bloody Valentine at Disneyland, California, circa June 1989.

My Bloody Valentine first US tour, 1988/1989.

Photo by Geoff Stoddart.

Young Kevin Shields from My Bloody Valentine, "Geek!" EP era - circa 1986.

Rereading Lord of the Rings 10 years later, only to realize that the Ring is my smartphone.

While y'all Gollums were twitching & dribbling over your Precious, my friends in RL were less than impressed by my finding.

The "likes" whisper and beckon.

My partner: *slapping my hand from the phone all night*

Me: *flashes of anger convulsing across my face* what business is it of yours? It is mine, I tell you. My own. My Precious!

When I was in college, I had a real nightmare about the day everyone gets a device. At that moment, an evil alien face will appear on all our screens laughing mercilessly in our face at the success of it's conspiracy-- to rule us all through our now undetachable tablets. #uncanny

Here's a sobering fact y'all: this tweet got 1000+ likes, but the same FB post only has 4.

Let's see. RL friends were harvesting grapes, hiking, throwing BDay parties, drinking on terraces, going to classical concerts, Latin night clubbing.

Me? *plug charger next to toilet*

why are so many young people flocking to brands on social media for love, guidance, and attention? I'll tell you why. they're isolated from real communities, working service jobs they hate while barely making ends meat, and are living w/ unchecked personal/mental health problems

they're crushed by student loan debt, disenfranchised by past generations, and are dreading the future of our world every day from mass media addiction and the struggle to not just be happy, but to survive this chaotic time with every problem happening at once under a microscope

they grew up through the dawn of internet culture and have had mass advertising drilled into their media consumption, now they're being resold their childhoods by remakes, sequels, spinoffs, and other cheap nostalgia, making them more cynical to growth or authenticity

they often don't have parents to talk to because they say stuff like "you don't know how good you have it," and they don't have mentors to talk to because most of them have no concept for growing up in this strange time, which perpetuates the feeling of helplessness/loneliness

they have full access to social media and the information highway, but they feel more alone and insecure than ever. being behind a screen 24/7 has made them numb to everything, anxious and depressed about everything, and vitriolic or closed off toward anyone different from them