I've joined the @women_make_ challenge to create and ship the @AwsNewbies "Intro to #AWS" 💨 course in 2 weeks! (I'll be on vacation for 2 weeks this month.) It's a stretch but any progress is good progress 💪 #WomenMake

This is my #WomenMake project! I've managed to snag product #100! 💃

Didn't have a moment to post Day 2 Update for #WomenMake, so here it is:

This is the new app I'm working on.

It records time-lapse videos of your screen. Useful to show off your work process and to create catchy content for your social media pages ✨

Anyone here would be interested in such a thing?

Republicans' goal is to rush this vote so dramatically America and the media don't have time to realize CORROBORATING EVIDENCE isn't defined ANYTHING like Republicans say it is—and that the now four Kavanaugh accusers have ALL offered SUBSTANTIAL corroboration. Wake up, US media!

Republicans ALSO want to devise a NEW STANDARD never before applied in the history of the Supreme Court: that MULTIPLE PERJURIES by the nominee—CONFIRMED by BOTH testimonial AND documentary evidence—AREN'T an automatic disqualifier from confirmation. But they ARE. They're CRIMES.

Given that Trump gave the FBI a week, handcuffed it, lied about that, promised to stop, then didn't, the FBI has an ethical obligation to:

(1) Notify Trump that more interviews are needed;
(2) Document every tip or lead it acquired, whether or not pursued.

RETWEET if you agree.

There are valid reasons not to build your project on Ethereum, but it's a pretty short list. "Because scaling" is not one of them. I'm increasingly skeptical of projects that decide to build their own chain. It's far harder than most people think. (1/4)

There's the technical challenge, but user adoption is even harder: getting people to transact on your chain, or run a node, is already harder than getting them to download your crummy mobile app, and we all know how well that's going for consumer tech startups. (2/4)

There's one more aspect, often overlooked: finding product-market fit. You can't find product-market fit in a market that doesn't exist yet. The Ethereum marketplace is young, and relatively small, but it's vibrant and growing. Good luck bootstrapping tech, community, AND market.

You have a nifty idea. That's great, so does everyone else. Show me a working prototype. Show me at least some traction, some users, some revenue. You can't do that today without Ethereum. Being lean in Web3 means building on Ethereum, and will for some time. (fin)

Yt people constantly ask me how they can do better & be better & the very 1st step is the most painful & that is understanding that everything you’ve ever believed about yourself, your history, your autonomy, you advances, your accomplishments, & your heroism is a huge lie.

It's a huge lie that’s been perpetrated to protect whiteness from its crimes against humanity.

All your heroes are villains.

All the values you claim define you are rooted in the murder and exploitation of others.

Every accomplishment you have today is at the expense of many other people who never have the opportunity to compete because violence, poverty, and lies lock them out of access.

Yt people cannot envision, much less create a “success” that isn’t at the expense of other people.

And until you can absorb and accept that truth, that you, your parents, your grandparents, and everyone that came before built their legacies in the graves of others, intentionally, then collaborated to scrub it from history, you will ALWAYS be the villain in this narrative.

And even once you realize and accept this, if you do not choose to fight against your best interests, because your best interests are the poison offspring of horrendous abuses and atrocities, you are still the villain.

1/Today at the Tory Party Conference Theresa May has done the impossible .
She has made Jean-Claude Juncker look Statesman like.
Our Prime Minister has today made herself and all the people in the U.K. look stupid.
Her behaviour in dancing like a crab has disgraced this Country.

2/ Heads of Government don’t behave this way.
The EU will be rightfully laughing their socks off.
She needs to be medically examined as do all those who
thought her speech good.
She is not Compos Mentis.
Oh dear.

Facebook's new "group history" tool is amazing. You can see, for example, that one of the largest pro-Kavanaugh groups on FB was previously called "ISIS SUPPORT GROUP" and "WHO FARTED? !!!!"

Meanwhile, "We Believe Christine Blasey Ford (official)" was called "Donald Trump 2020 MAGA (OFFICIAL)" until June, and a LGBTQ pride group before that.

When FB decided to promote "meaningful social interactions" by prioritizing groups over public pages, I'm not sure they accounted for scammy group-hoppers who just change their groups to whatever will get them the most engagement that week.

STRECHMARK MOMS FROM TEXAS

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.

Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.

Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.

Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture.

In 1984 people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World people are controlled by inflicting pleasure.

Kavanaugh vs. Yale college friends, classmates (from both parties)

Excessive drinking, including to point of not recalling events?

"Kavanaugh portrayed himself in his testimony as enjoying a beer or two...but not as someone who often drank to excess during those years." 1/

A thread on the Good Friday Agreement. I mean, everyone's talking about it after all. Is it really in danger? Let's look at that...

The Good Friday Agreement is made up of two parts – the Multi-party agreement between most of the political parties (but not the DUP) and the British-Irish Agreement between the two governments.

This second Agreement is the international treaty between sovereign states, registered with the UN. The British-Irish Agreement’s function is to uphold the multi-party agreement. So changing the treaty would logically require a new multi-party agreement.

The issue of membership of the EU is a reserved matter for Westminster, consequently any impact of withdrawal from the EU is a matter to be dealt with also by Westminster and is not within the legislative gift of devolved administrations in Stormont, Holyrood or the Senedd.

The Good Friday Agreement was premised on EU membership by both Britain and Ireland although it could not bind either country to maintaining that membership, nor (as a court has decided) could it be used to prevent the triggering of Article 50.

Furious about Kavanaugh? Don’t just sit there. We need your power. The truth is, there’s a LOT you can do. We may only have four days until the final vote, and your voice is needed now. This is a thread about what’s coming, and how you can help. Please follow along and share. 1/

What do we stand for? What are we? We are a small bunch of lads who enjoy a Chennayin FC match day and like to sing and dance to the songs of the hometown club and it's representatives. Are we the biggest fanbase in this country? No. Do we really want to be? Truly, we don't care.

What we want is for us to be acknowledged. Our opinions, representations and beliefs. My football club is this one, this never changes. Till either me or the club ceases to exist, this relationship lasts.

Whether I could walk to the terraces or if I could only reminisce about the days I did breathed that dense air.

I'm me. I'm a Chennai boy who fell in love with a club like a pup to its master. There's no going back but there's more.

I want my club to represent me, not stereotype me. I don't dance to the songs they think we dance to. I don't even listen to them. I don't wear the clothes they think we wear. I don't respond to any name they think is our name.

I'm a Chennai boy, I'm in this till death. If someone else can name me, I think I have a right to name me something as well.

Last week, I started teaching #ElixirLang. First week I gave a presentation about the language, its history, its features and its community.
Yesterday I started teaching the language.
#myelixirstatus

The students installed the language on their machines (not as easy as I expected).
Then I presented iex, values, a bit of pattern matching (not much).

After that I used @pragdave book (which they got free from @pragprog as they have a .edu email address) to show them anonymous functions.

I am not sure if showing anonymous functions before showing them named functions and modules is a good idea.
After all, the dot after the name of the function is ugly and it is not used with named functions.

Everything is an experiment. It is the first time I teach Concurrent Functional Programming.
It is a graduate level course.

First time for me in Japan. Impossible to not think of what happened here 4 years ago. We miss you Julio, I'll push to make a good week-end for you ❤️ @julesbianchi17

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Za Robertem i jego kampanią 2019 stoją duże pieniądze? Takie głosy z padoku przekazał AMuS. Mam nadzieję, że jest w tym ziarno prawdy, bo takie wsparcie z pewnością nie zaszkodzi. #F1pl

Z drugiej strony taka plotka, na tym etapie sezonu idealnie gra z zamiarami Williamsa, żeby czekać z potwierdzeniem kierowców jak najdłużej. Taka mała powtórka z zeszłego roku... #F1pl

It's 5am in Brighton and we're on our coach to London for #NYKConf.

With just a few hours to go, we'll be tweeting updates and insights throughout the day.

Here's to the best Now You Know yet!

We've arrived. Time to get ready.

The Vizia booth is looking incredible as always.

We're very, very excited about Brandwatch Insiders. Make sure you sign up! There's a pin badge in it for you.

Our CMO is pretty excited. #NYKConf

I think we should cut our artistes a slack. Unlike in the States when a celebrity performs for a politician it mustn’t be seen as a shared belief in ideology. It is just a paid commercial. Avoid blaming them for the woes of such political party or politician. I may be wrong. 🤔

Morals you say...listen we are wired differently. Snoop Dog didn’t raised his kids based on the social construct you see in his music videos. Steve Jobs kids don’t use the iPad or have socialmedia accounts. Many TV stars don’t raise their kids in reality TV shows. It’s for others

You must never get high on your own supply. Only outliers who are not commercial represent their beliefs publicly in a world that demands that you lie to them. We bury the realists and praise the fraudulent. Not every artiste put themselves out there. They feed your fantasy.

See...our issue is with control. Because we like people we want them to conform to our sentiments and sell what we would love to buy. But brand managers and artiste publicist will focus on what it is they are selling...influence period.

Look, every time celebs and twelebs respond to personal attacks, it’s because some of these negative jabs seeped through & their ego got pinched. It doesn’t stop the rating of their music, art or acceptance of their lifework. Their true essence is not under attack here.