I mean, not for society. For society it's a complete disaster. But, you know. Selfishly. For me.
In which we learn Ted Cruz forlornly eats a can of soup every night, while playing Candy Crush. https://twitter.com/bronwendickey/status/713354631066345472
Seeing some criticism of Kik in the npm fiasco, but they had to defend their trademark by law, or risk losing it entirely. Complicated.
Public transport drives local economies. If you have something against it, I'll be honest: I hate you a little bit. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a20019/taylor-huckaby-bart/
Congratulations to my friends at The History Project: now backed by both the New York Times and the AP. https://medium.com/matter-driven-narrative/the-next-chapter-in-the-history-project-s-story-15a09feb8...
An incredible story from inside Facebook. I'm sure it's not the only example. https://www.facebook.com/notes/robin-sloan/julie-rubicon/985697811525170
@the_reviewist I think most of my friends should feel like they're in that category. Certainly here in SF.
@The_Reviewist I wholeheartedly agree. But for those of us who have disproportionate privilege and comfort already, it's time to move on.
@the_reviewist I just mean it's more interesting to think about how we can make life better for more than just ourselves.
Things I want to read less about: personal productivity lifehacking.
Things I want to read more about: better, fairer world hacking.
ThinkUp reimagined as a bot or app notifications could be a huge asset. https://twitter.com/ginatrapani/status/712665543262781440
I'm not okay with jokes about trigger warnings, but here, have some zeitgeist: http://fusion.net/story/283080/nyt-millennial-trend-story/
The US public are hardly strangers to misinformation, and this probably just brings law in line with practice. http://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-legalizes-propaganda-2012-5?IR=T
@C_LosRun I haven't even started yet! #whatamidoingwithmylife
That moment when you realize the phrase is "house of cards", not "deck of cards", and you're past the exhaustion point again.
Feeling pretty solid with my past decision to copy dependencies rather than deploy using a dependency manager. #opensource #deckofcards
If you're curious about @mattervc or thinking about applying, there's a video AMA at 12pm PT on Friday: https://huzza.io/mattervc/live-stream/ama-with-matters-managing-partner-corey-ford
Fascinating portrait of Jacobin Magazine. And, in parts, weirdly uncomfortable. http://www.vox.com/2016/3/21/11265092/jacobin-bhaskar-sunkara
Thinking of everyone in #Brussels and all the people who lost loved ones today.
#stophatred #stopwar
This "must be willing to relocate to San Francisco" meme is a pretty good opportunity for anyone looking to hire remote workers.
What the War on Drugs was really about, straight from the horse's mouth: a war on the anti war left and black people. https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
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