My friends at Shady Pines Radio are running a fundraiser to cover their costs for 2022. It’s been really fun watching Callie and Brian build this station. When they moved to Portland a few years ago, they converted the basement of their house into a recording studio; as well
“Last week, a Mississippi mayor tried to strong-arm a local library into banning some books. The result was swift, and in retrospect, entirely predictable: A group of furries got on Twitter to do something about it.” Lovely! [Link]
““The use of personal data in advertising is already tightly regulated by existing legislation,” [IAB Europe Director] Mroczkowski said, apparently referencing the GDPR, which regulates data privacy in the EU generally. He further noted that the new rules “risk undermining” existing law and “the entire ad-supported digital economy.”” Let’s
“The first thing you need to know about Boris Johnson is he’s a liar.” This is brilliant: Jonathan Pie explains Johnson to the New York Times in video. Easily the best thing the Opinion page has ever done. [Link]
“According to the report from the National Women’s Law Center, 17 states allow the permanent, surgical sterilization of children with disabilities. The report is written in plain language, designed to be understood by at least some of the people impacted most by these laws.” [Link]
“From the start, online businesses have presented themselves as making culture, even as they really aimed to build financial value. Now, at last, the wealth seeking is printed on the tin.” [Link]
I’m posting Fairness Fridays: a new social justice organization each week. I donate to each featured organization. If you feel so inclined, please join me. This week I’m donating to HealthRIGHT 360. Based in San Francisco, HealthRIGHT 360 provides “integrated medical, dental, behavioral health outpatient and residential treatment,
This year I’ve directly hired for lots of different engineering positions and skillsets: in particular, Ruby on Rails, React, DevOps, and QA. In the process, I’ve read through thousands of resumes. Some patterns and anti-patterns have become clear. I can’t speak for any other Head of Engineering
To illustrate why geographic ecosystems are important, I used to tell a story of three cities. It went something like this: I founded my first startup in Edinburgh, Scotland. At the time, there was no startup ecosystem at all: there was no money, and no culture of support. Everyone told
I love Wet Leg. Their latest song is all about social media addiction and (like everything else they’ve done) it’s brilliant. [Link]
“What we see over and over again is that humanitarians are being expected to hold some of the most sensitive data in the world of the most vulnerable people in the world and have the resources of mall cops to protect against the cyber hacking equivalent of Delta Force.” [Link]
“Enda Brophy, associate professor of the labor studies program at Simon Fraser University, says there’s more frustration with capitalism as a system now than at any time since perhaps the 1960-’70s. “Significantly, poll after poll tells us that younger generations and millennials above all have highly negative opinions