Allen Zhang the creator of WeChat (I am a fangirl) gave a 2 hr long speech yesterday abt his thoughts on the product on the eve of its 10th anniversary.

It's a lot on Channels (the new video function in WeChat).

Here are my notes & comments in parentheses:

WeChat daily usage looks like this:

1.09 Bn users log in, 330mm use video chat
780mm users view Moments feed (like FB feed), 120mm users post to Moments
360mm read articles, 400mm use mini programs

Why're we going after video?
In last 5 years, users are sending 33x more video msgs in chat, 10x more videos into their Moments feed.
Not everyone can write long content, but doing video requires new acct system (current public acct system is subscription based), we tried in 2017

but didn't get too far. But since video SO obviously the big thing in next 10 yrs, we began working on it for real in 2019. (Very late, if you ask me).
Channels is NOT like your WeChat ID, which is for PRIVATE comms. It's WeChat's foray into public content.

So now, you need a new Channel ID to make content, but not view content (use your existing WeChat ID & leverage social network / relationships).
WeChat tried 3 separate internal algo teams. Found that algo rec was much worse than people rec content performance.

Out of all the technological hacks I've used to better the quality of my life, the single most painful yet effective way to increase wellbeing, throw people out of your life who do not align with your values.

Don't wait; the soon, the better.

I'm not talking about disagreements; I'm talking about fundamentally how we treat each other when we are communicating & solving problems.

This means freedom to express all your feelings, not just some. Especially the ones you're afraid of sharing because of shame or confusion.

Yet, while my skill for expressing myself in person, online and onstage has increased exponentially over the past decade, my ability to not be isolated by these skills has continued to dwindle.

The irony of maturation.

On the one hand, to communicate effectively, you need a command of the language, a sense of self, and autonomy over interconnected reality. Oddly enough, the exact opposite skills need to be utilized to be understood.

In the past year, I have had two different scenarios with people I respect; both ended in months, the other in a day.
Neither relationship is gone, I hope, but the ground in which those relationships were changing, partnerships, agreements, deepening of commitment have vanished

I started learning Clojure in 2021 and there are a lot of things that I like about this language/ecosystem. I will try to summarize my experience in this thread.

If you're not familiar with Clojure, here is how the code looks like. Clojure is a Lisp-derivative which is different than most Fortran/C-derivative languages that we use today.

At first, the syntax was very off-putting (my god these parentheses!!), but then you start appreciating the elegance of the language and after sometime you stop being bothered by the syntax.

One of the things that Clojurists (I guess that's what they call themselves 😅) always talk about is how they think of everything as data even the language's syntax! Every Clojure expression is just a plain ol' Clojure list that the complier reads and executes.

And for that reason macros in Clojure are first class citizens (in fact a lot of Clojure built-in functionality is built with macros). Macros are functions that take your code as input (remember your code is just a list data structure) and it transforms your code into...

@Ayjchan @MoNscience @nicholsonbaker8 Is this not "willfully bioengineering"?
No one's implying "for nefarious purpose"

Maybe I made it up myself or copied it from an scam site?

Check out the authors:
https://t.co/Llb6NKUEPc

@MoNscience @nicholsonbaker8

@MoNscience @nicholsonbaker8 That *these* "researchers were willfully involved with bioengineering SARS-CoV-2" is published demonstrated fact.

🧵 Two of my most- and first-used checks when doing a performance audit are surprisingly old school: 1) Validate HTML 2) Disable JS.

Validate HTML? Yep. We haven’t really cared about ‘valid HTML’ for valid HTML’s sake for about a decade, but certain errors can actually be pretty significant. What’s wrong with this picture?

It’s this lil’ fella right here. isn’t allowed in the , so when the browser encounters the , it assumes the should have been closed already.

This is a feature. This is what allows us to omit certain closing tags like

, , , and—you guessed it!—. The appearance of certain opening tags implies the closing of certain preceding ones.

The practical upshot of which is that non- elements early-terminate the tags, pushing all of your important resources into the . Oops!

okay so here's a snippet of what you missed on #neurodiverse TikTok yesterday; there was two things happening at once and they intersected so it got confusing

both things basically involved autistic tiktok vs ADHD tiktok which probably got really confusing for the people who are diagnosed as both. One issue was around gatekeeping and lateral ableism, and the other a more serious issue around research ethics vs. grassroots understanding

I know ppl on both sides of the research ethics debate & it's being dealt w already so I don't want to comment more on what happened there; let's just say that there are a lot of exciting and scientific things that eager ADHD folx are learning that COULD deepen our understanding

of neurodiverse physiological and metabolic practices but these are purely hypothetical and as neurodiverse people seeking to understand ourselves, we get excited, we info-dump and it becomes more of a question about when do you have responsibility as a content creator to clarify

and make sure your audience understands what you are saying and what you are NOT saying about things that have been scientifically proven to be related to ADHD?

That's probably as clear as mud but that's all I wanna say about that: onto the other thing!

Grad school app season is (mostly) over, and since academic twitter is going nuts about the idea of paying research assistants $15/hr...

Let's talk about how expensive it is to be a student applying to graduate school--especially for underrepresented students.

(1/14)

This fall, I spent $515 on applying to grad school. This might sound high, but in fact, the cost was ~4 times less than it would have been in a normal year for me. Why? Mostly, the GRE.

(2/14)

Since the GRE subject tests were cancelled bc pandemic, every school I applied to no longer required the GRE, general or subject. I also had application fee waivers to 2/3 of the schools I applied to through various programs like AISES.

(3/14)

The general GRE costs $205 and the subject tests cost $150. Sending scores to more than four schools will cost you $27 for each test.

(4/14)

If I didn’t have fee waivers for 2/3 of my apps and if every school had required the GRE tests—which almost every grad school did before 2020—the estimated cost for me to apply to grad schools is well over $2000.

(5/15)

Everything creators and bloggers need to know about SEO to drive massive traffic from Google.

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1) Align your topic with the exact keyword your audience is searching.

You can write about whatever you want... But if you don't use your audience's language patterns... They'll never find you!

High search volume and low difficulty phrases are the

2) Double-check the intent behind the keyword.

You found your keyword, but you need to check and see if Google & your audience think that phrase means what YOU think it means.

Do a quick Google search of the phrase. Do the results match your topic

3) Write your Title/Description at this point.

You've got Google open from the intent research, browse the titles ranking... Are they listicles? "How to" articles?

Your title is the promise of your post. Make it bigger, bolder and more compelling than what you see on pg1!

4-A) Outline the post based on the additional topics/questions/suggestions Google is showing you.

This outline will help you in 2 ways....

A) You will write MUCH faster

B) Your end product will be SEO

#SamsungUnpacked
1/9
THREAD ABOUT SAMSUNG and my Disappointment:

Samsung, when are you gonna make a device again which makes the fans not being disappointed in you?

In the past couple of years, when i watch Unpacked, my reaction is not "Awesome" or "Cool" or "i like that"

2/9
mostly it's "Oh no, another disappointment"

Why?
A few reasons here:
Removing Headphone jack, Removing Iris Sensor, Removing SD Slot, Removing Charger, Removing Headphones, Removing Heart rate Sensor, Removing IR Blaster, yet still Increasing prices and so on and so on.

3/9
I use your products for over a decade and i never was so disappointed in you like in the past (2 to 3 years)
You were a company that listened to the consumers.

If we weren't happy with or about something, you changed it with the next S or Note Device.

4/9
But now, all that counts is just the Money and that's actually pretty sad.

You mock Apple and other companies, just to follow them a few weeks or months later.

I appreciate your commitment to new technology and innovation but i CAN NOT support you with your decisions you

5/9
made in the past 2 to 3 years.

It makes me sad to see which path you're taking and that you don't care that you leave your roots.

But hey, who am i, right? I don't have millions of followers. So no reason to listen to me?!

For the record, there are technological means to jump timelines,
but our information here deals with human consciousness, and how you, through the power of your own awareness and intention, can jump timelines.

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World needs a new Internet. Let’s get our shit together and finally build the Web3. Otherwise this world will be either in flames or under digital totalitarian control. Thread

Today's internet has massive integrity problems making the global human community vulnerable. We can’t verify who we communicate with or what the source of information is.

Our digital identities and information are managed by very few oligopolies, and our access to the services we need can be blocked by those very same oligopolies.

For application developers, the current internet does not work either. Their access to consumers can be blocked by their application being removed from a store or by not getting accepted into the app stores app's business model not matching the oligopolies’ business models.

Governments have their share of challenges with the current Internet as well. While freedom of speech is the core value of democratic societies, the social media platforms offer an incredibly powerful tool for bad actors to spread misinformation and manipulate masses.