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This is something, but it would be nice to see real ActivityPub support in a way that would allow Spoutible profiles to be first-class profiles on the fediverse. Still, the nice thing about building in support for Mastodon and BlueSky is that - unlike when I built support for Twitter
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"The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint Tuesday alleging Mozilla refused to hire Scarlett because of her past labor activism. The agency’s prosecutors called on Mozilla to offer Scarlett the position she applied for in 2021 or a similar role, and to otherwise make her whole for
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This data was widely cited and used to justify some frankly racist rhetoric. I particularly noticed it in the usual circles who complain about the decline of San Francisco supposedly due to progressive policies. It speaks to the power of data to tell stories, and to peoples' willingness to
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Some of the worst humans on the planet, crediting a third worst human on the planet for paving the way for their noxious ideology. "Now everyone’s a white identitarian. Maybe not fully, but certainly it’s far more acceptable in the conversation — even the word white — than it
Matter - coaching, consulting & training for executives and entrepreneurs. Plus managing 74 accelerator investments from 2012-2018. Matter - an iOS app designed to help you capture the best moments in your life, collect and reflect on your memories of good experiences, understand how those experiences affect you on a molecular
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Nobody should need to prepare for a mass shooting. Nonetheless, across the country, many children do. That the police at Uvalde were less prepared than an eight year old is a travesty. #Society [Link]
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Bruce Schneier on the inevitable application of AI to mass surveillance: "Knowing that they are under constant surveillance changes how people behave. They conform. They self-censor, with the chilling effects that brings. Surveillance facilitates social control, and spying will only make this worse. Governments around the world already
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"Harvard University dismantled its prestigious team of online disinformation experts after a foundation run by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated $500 million to the university, a whistleblower disclosure filed by Whistleblower Aid reveals." If this is true, it's damning: essentially a
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I see myself very clearly in this post, which is a somewhat rare and lovely thing. I've called myself a technologist for over a decade, but the definition in this post is better than anything I've offered. Thank you, Robin. Also, this: "The past few
I’ve been struggling a little bit to re-find my creative rhythm and balance it with the needs of having and supporting a family. My day — every day — looks like this: * Woken up by baby * Get baby ready for daycare (breakfast, clothes, etc) * Walk to daycare and back * Eat
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Well, of course. Brexit was a massive own goal at the hands of regressive nationalism. As a European citizen who grew up in the UK, I took the Brexit vote very personally. Not being able to legally live in the place you used to call home is very hard (although
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Duke University Libraries says "no" to 37 Signals based on DHH's blog posts: "When we enter into business with a company whose boss takes delight in the mass layoffs of tech workers because it disempowers those who might speak out against their company keeping a