Has anyone analyzed the demographics of mass shooters? We know they're white, but what about economic status, etc?
Yet another mass shooter. You don't get to filter this out. We're adults in a democracy: it's our job to fix this.
@beckybowring Awesome! I'll be downtown on Friday. Let's loop back and touch base then?
@fj My plan for 2016 is to refocus on personal sustainability. Getting too old not to.
Something that worries me just a little is seeing people from previous tech waves who *didn't* make millions now not able to make ends meet.
@holden @scottros @dkernohan That one's got a sting in the tail, of course, but I'm glad he's doing well at Slack.
This has been an awesomely productive week so far. Lots on the plate today - and having fun.
Started the morning with a fantastic conversation with @holden & @dkernohan about business models. Really appreciated.
@holden @dkernohan Ads are dying. Alphabet is a restructure to downplay ads. See also YouTube Red. Market is being prepped for subscriptions
@holden @dkernihan Ads are dying. Alphabet is a restructure to downplay ads. See also YouTube Red. Market is being prepped for subscriptions
@holden @dkernohan Also very hard technical hurdles to get to the required UX. How do you find people? Or follow a worldwide hashtag?
@holden @dkernohan I know / knew a lot of those guys. It was just a convenient business model so they could concentrate on building product.
@holden @dkernohanI know / knew a lot of those guys. It was just a convenient business model so they could concentrate on building product.
@holden @dkernihan That's broadly it. And it's why there will never be a fully federated social web. And alternatives like Tsu are doomed.
@dkernohan @holden To be fair, that delusion came from lots of people making a lot of money from consumers who then got free services.
@dkernohan @holden Do you mean shareware here, or open source? Two different models.
@wolfl No argument with that at all. In this case, while it was questionable in all sorts of ways, value wasn't "stolen" from us.
@dkernohan It sounds like it would be very useful research in the instructional technology / digital humanities fields, for sure.
@dkernohan I think most people aren't aware of the transaction: they just think of the web as a free thing that is somehow provided to them.
@dkernohan Facebook inherited a web landscape from Google & Yahoo that was already hooked on free services funded by invasive ads.
@wolfl Yes. My argument is really with people who don't like the concept of profit, or who think Facebook should pay them.
@dkernohan In fact, I'm trying to build one right now! There has been some well-poisoning, though: people now expect everything for free.
There's nothing inherently wrong with making a profit. The issue is *how*. The meme that Facebook should pay its users misses the point.
@dkernohan Totally. But profit isn't *inherently* bad. The solution isn't that FB should have to pay its users. That's not the relationship.
Facebook does lots of questionable things. Tracking? Sure. Real names? Yikes. Censorship? Uh oh. Making a profit? Nothing wrong with that.
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