I am one of those people. I think it’s gross. The devil’s agreement one makes with this device is that you permit an enormous corporation an outpost in your backyard.
It skeeves me a little. I think it should skeeve anyone.
Jeff Bezos sells me a holodeck.
Not as fully-appointed as the facilities you’ve seen on television, but the part of me that reads has never been happier in my LIFE
I am one of those people. I think it’s gross. The devil’s agreement one makes with this device is that you permit an enormous corporation an outpost in your backyard.
It skeeves me a little. I think it should skeeve anyone.
A multi billion dollar company.
Hoovering up data about the things you put into your BRAIN. Explicitly. Because you want it to.
Because you need more shit for your brain. You’re hooked on feeding it now.
You tell the thing what you want to read.
30 seconds later, you are reading it.
The convenience of summoning any book you want, at any time, even if it’s 3 AM and the book shop is closed.
No weight penalty. Nothing heavy to haul around.
The process is so painless.
We get all smug with our highly centralized, integrated information technology project. And then the complexity gets away from us.
There are consequences we didn’t anticipate.
They’ve got gadgets that monitor your neighborhood.
They’ll sell you a security drone, now.
At some point what a company like Amazon knows about you, your neighborhood—only the most fanatical surveillance state could have fantasized about it
Then handles the logistics of physical goods.
If you do commerce, Amazon is taking a cut somewhere down the stack.
Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google—they’re all empires
They are in the business of building roads.
And tollbooths.
And billboards.
Sometimes, when you’re not careful: colonoscopies.
They know when my cat needs something I can’t get locally.
They know… anything they want about my IT situation at any given moment. Network configuration, IP, devices active, overlapping
God knows how much other trivia.
They have it for my neighbors.
They have it for Whole Foods shoppers.
I could draw sets and sets of people out of a hat and we’d find ways Amazon’s got them.
The mainstreaming of OnlyFans even makes it all horny enough that we’ll recognize it as real.
The dystopia’s all so low rent, is what’s really going to throw us off. We were promised neon holograms and instead we have Snapchat filters.
we’ve got a shitty gig economy app on a tiny fragile phone deciding, via algorithm, if someone is going to make enough money to cover food and rent for their family.
That’s some low budget shit!
The machines are here.
The guys who own them want to pick your pocket. Or some other party’s pocket, while on its way to deliver things to you.
All this pocket picking means we get caught in the middle.
Now we’re going to talk about what an ABSOLUTE FLEX it has been, from the beginning, that the Kindle with cellular radio will work in any country without roaming fees or any particular intervention.
This is some kind of birthday gift James Bond gives his librarian.
What an imposing flagship.
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👨💻 Last resume I sent to a startup one year ago, sharing with you to get ideas:
- Forget what you don't have, make your strength bold
- Pick one work experience and explain what you did in detail w/ bullet points
- Write it towards the role you apply
- Give social proof
/thread
"But I got no work experience..."
Make a open source lib, make a small side project for yourself, do freelance work, ask friends to work with them, no friends? Find friends on Github, and Twitter.
Bonus points:
- Show you care about the company: I used the company's brand font and gradient for in the resume for my name and "Thank You" note.
- Don't list 15 things and libraries you worked with, pick the most related ones to the role you're applying.
-🙅♂️"copy cover letter"
"I got no firends, no work"
One practical way is to reach out to conferences and offer to make their website for free. But make sure to do it good. You'll get:
- a project for portfolio
- new friends
- work experience
- learnt new stuff
- new thing for Twitter bio
If you don't even have the skills yet, why not try your chance for @LambdaSchool? No? @freeCodeCamp. Still not? Pick something from here and learn https://t.co/7NPS1zbLTi
You'll feel very overwhelmed, no escape, just acknowledge it and keep pushing.
- Forget what you don't have, make your strength bold
- Pick one work experience and explain what you did in detail w/ bullet points
- Write it towards the role you apply
- Give social proof
/thread
"But I got no work experience..."
Make a open source lib, make a small side project for yourself, do freelance work, ask friends to work with them, no friends? Find friends on Github, and Twitter.
Bonus points:
- Show you care about the company: I used the company's brand font and gradient for in the resume for my name and "Thank You" note.
- Don't list 15 things and libraries you worked with, pick the most related ones to the role you're applying.
-🙅♂️"copy cover letter"
"I got no firends, no work"
One practical way is to reach out to conferences and offer to make their website for free. But make sure to do it good. You'll get:
- a project for portfolio
- new friends
- work experience
- learnt new stuff
- new thing for Twitter bio
If you don't even have the skills yet, why not try your chance for @LambdaSchool? No? @freeCodeCamp. Still not? Pick something from here and learn https://t.co/7NPS1zbLTi
You'll feel very overwhelmed, no escape, just acknowledge it and keep pushing.
TW: suicidal ideation.
At the darkest days of the abuse I was being subjected to I decided to attend a conference for women in Los Angeles. I convinced my mother in law to pay for it because I couldn’t afford it. @ChristineCaine was preaching. I was desperate...
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I wanted to die, I didn’t see a way out and I had tried everything. I imagined many ways to die daily. The most recurring one was throwing my car down a bridge I had to drive over every day. I never did it because my kids were in the car and I was afraid one of them would...
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survive or I’d kill someone on the way down.
Christine spoke about honoring your pastors even when they weren’t great, she spoke of us expecting too much of pastors and how wrong that was. She said God would use our testimony if we submitted to our pastors.
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She said “honor your pastors, God will honor you.” She said more about having disagreed with her pastors but she submitted and God honored her and now she’s blessed. How if they are faithfully serving God, we need to support them and not forfeit what God has for us.
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I felt my heart drop into my stomach. I got up and went to the bathroom because I couldn’t breath and I felt like I was going to faint if I didn’t scream. I now know I was having a panic attack. I sat on the toilet w/my head between my legs, breathed and wept..
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At the darkest days of the abuse I was being subjected to I decided to attend a conference for women in Los Angeles. I convinced my mother in law to pay for it because I couldn’t afford it. @ChristineCaine was preaching. I was desperate...
1/
There are many reasons why the unfolding news of Ravi Zacharias\u2019 abuse is enraging. But for me, there\u2019s one other piece. The women he chose to abuse were young, massage therapists, ethnic minorities, likely women who were not in positions of power or education.
— Devi Abraham (@devi_writes) February 12, 2021
I wanted to die, I didn’t see a way out and I had tried everything. I imagined many ways to die daily. The most recurring one was throwing my car down a bridge I had to drive over every day. I never did it because my kids were in the car and I was afraid one of them would...
2/
survive or I’d kill someone on the way down.
Christine spoke about honoring your pastors even when they weren’t great, she spoke of us expecting too much of pastors and how wrong that was. She said God would use our testimony if we submitted to our pastors.
3/
She said “honor your pastors, God will honor you.” She said more about having disagreed with her pastors but she submitted and God honored her and now she’s blessed. How if they are faithfully serving God, we need to support them and not forfeit what God has for us.
4/
I felt my heart drop into my stomach. I got up and went to the bathroom because I couldn’t breath and I felt like I was going to faint if I didn’t scream. I now know I was having a panic attack. I sat on the toilet w/my head between my legs, breathed and wept..
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