I really love this. Loomio is a worker-owned cooperative startup: http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/how-a-worker-owned-tech-startup-found-investors-and-kept-its-...
I'm a very heavy Dropbox user (on a MacBook Air with a small hard drive). This is great news: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/04/dropboxs-project-infinite-shows-all-your-files...
Creative Action Network's new campaign illustrates the global refugee experience. Great, like everything they do: https://creativeaction.network/collections/we-were-strangers-too
Rihanna, NatWest bank cashier:
"Of course we do! It's not all work work work work work."
Finding I'm fighting my internal British reservedness more than usual. It doesn't translate well to the US - basically just rudeness here.
Current status: jamming to this bootleg video of my sister's band Django Moves to Portland covering ... you'll see. http://youtu.be/CRVNTvymByI
@tedr I'm very sorry to read this. Best wishes for the fight - I think you have the whole internet rooting for you.
WOW. Stripe is inviting full startup teams to apply to be hired together: https://stripe.com/blog/bring-your-own-team #signofthetimes
Finally: Glenn Beck weighs in on Torchwood. https://medium.com/@glennbeck/our-rituals-are-gone-8d579ed6cf84#.6c24t86ou
With @Medium, "the infrastructure for the future of news is complete". https://medium.com/thoughts-on-journalism/what-next-now-the-news-media-has-lost-dad58ea0b622#.tido3b...
'I am a solicitor, and my nickname is "boobs".' https://femsplain.com/they-call-me-boobs-60e62efb79fe#.csq892wys
Budders and I came to an amicable resolution. He wouldn't eat me if I gave him head wuffles. Worst guard dog ever.
Aphantasia: how it feels to be blind in your mind. Now I'm wondering if the same thing exists for emotions. https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-feels-to-be-blind-in-your-mind/101568347...
This lifelong Whovian is happy right now. Except for the "waiting until 2017" part. http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36111598 #doctorwho
One of the first UX designers thinking hard about #bots is @erinjo. https://twitter.com/ilparone/status/723923802946711552
For argument's sake, let's say I needed a Byker Grove T-shirt within the next 24 hours in San Francisco. Possible y/n?
Genius email hack from @kevinmarks: http://www.kevinmarks.com/instantbcc.html
Hearing from folks across industries that they feel the tech industry is the enemy. I've been reflecting on this for weeks. Lots to say.
@znmeb I moved for family, but it's changed my life on every level. Seismic.
I sometimes catch myself wishing I'd moved to California earlier. But the reason I stayed was always love, and why would I regret that?
@smc90 The product really is named after a perceived good year for blogging. But the tribute is a nice touch.
@smc90 (Sadly I think Dave's is about harking back to what he perceives to be a better time for the web, rather than Prince)
Advice from @Medium engineers to their high school selves: https://medium.com/medium-eng/advice-to-our-high-school-selves-a181f2c3eeaf#.tahh9j7vc
What *is* media, anyway? I like @cshirky's definition: "the connective tissue of our society". https://medium.com/matter-driven-narrative/what-is-media-anyway-e272ffcfecb#.w8qzjvivn /by @mattervc
"The wages of smug is Trump." Has liberalism lost its empathic heart? A fascinating read. http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberalism
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