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Naïve question: I'm in favor of drug legalization & regulation as a route to helping battle addiction and help prevent deaths from unregulated substances. Should my position be modified in light of the current prescription opioid health crisis?

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@girlziplocked Your current Twitter background accurately conveys my feelings on this issue

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Hollywood: too many movies about evil witches, not enough about the real women who were decried as witches. A weirdly sexist trope in 2016.

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Do you use chatbots at work? What for?

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@murphstahoe Irreverent Howdy replies aside, yes! We do IRL standups, so this isn't me being flippant about process.

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Univision, which already owns Fusion, just bought a controlling stake in The Onion. New satirical TV ahoy? http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/19/463535648/area-satiric-publication-the-onion-sold-...

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I'm an enormous fan of @SlackHQ as a company and @Stewart as a CEO. Case in point: https://medium.com/@ericajoy/a-message-from-stewart-butterfield-to-slack-employees-9f794f0a0821

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America deserves universal healthcare. It works, and will save the average family thousands of dollars a year. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/bernie-sanders-announces-health-care-plan-ahead-debate

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NBC News highlighting pro-Clinton, anti-Sanders tweets during breaks in the . Whether intentional or not, it feels biased.

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@coreyhaines It passed the "it's cheaper to buy a new car than fix it" threshold. So: new car. I would prefer I didn't need one, but *shrug*

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Ode to my 96 Dodge Caravan:

275K miles
& sticky doors;
Who needs AC anyway?
Farewell, old friend
May your brakes squeak well
In Heaven.

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Where should I be in San Francisco tonight? I'm showing around a friend and I'm stuck for non-bar suggestions.

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@frankbonsal I fully understand that state of mind ;) We've done lots of research and prototyping to refine and validate the "who".

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@frankbonsal ... And there's a big missing piece we'll *definitely* do that for.

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@frankbonsal We covered some of that in "why", but I think you're right: going deep on why people use it and wait it is important. Okay!

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After "why we built Known" & "how we built Known", I'm looking forward to writing "who built Known": probably the most important of the set.

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Some dancers from the Mud Water Ballet did a guerilla performance on my BART car. I see these dancers often, but have a new appreciation of what they're trying to do. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1811968994/mud-water-a-groundbreaking-street-dance-theater-ex

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Replied to a post on werd.io :

I loved living in Britain. It was an amazing place to grow up. But it feels like the Tories are set on undermining what makes it special.

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I'm personally offended by this UK immigration legislation, which would have seen my mother deported. Evil. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-urged-to-rethink-new-35000-earnings-thresh...

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This assessment has been going around technical circles for a while, but worth repeating: Bitcoin is toast. https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7#.yrnr6p797

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