Pint of tea
Pint of tea
Makes me the best that I can be
Pint of tea
Pint of tea
Also makes me all bloaty
Can we please all agree that if you provide an API endpoint, it shouldn’t have opening hours?
This message brought to you by the US financial industry.
John Lennon’s Imagine is a perfect song with a perfect message.
Moving from Goodreads to The Storygraph. Unfortunate friends search there sucks. Who else is there? I’m benwerd, as always.
Just saying, but all of you paying 40ETH on a picture of a whale could be helping an entire startup with the potential to change the world to get off the ground.
So many "new year's resolution jokes" and not ONE of you picking 320x200
What idiot called it “social media” and not “the pogrommable web”?
If you were buying interesting, modern furniture and light fittings for a new house and also didn't want to bankrupt yourself, where would you look?
Electric car charging ports need to be open sourced and standardized ASAP. Gas stations serve all gas cars; an electric car should charge at any port. An absolute hard requirement for a post-gas future.
As it turns out, I spent hours on Friday with the cofounder of a 1-800 number and domain name squatting company that was the subject of a ReplyAll episode last year. I need to keep up with my podcasts …
I know I shouldn't anthropomorphize objects, but I just sold my gas car, and I feel kind of guilty. I'm sorry, car. May you find a fine new home. Thank you for the adventures.
Really enjoyed Katherine Vermette’s A Girl Called Echo series of comics about Canadian genocide and historic resonance. Shades of Octavia Butler’s Kindred. I picked it up at Red Planet, the only indigenous comic book shop in the world (in Albuquerque, NM). Worth checking out.
I’m generally very pro-immigration, but man, we’ve got to stop the practice of selling residency visas to rich people.
It’s impossible to have a good relationship - romantically, with family, at work, or with friends - without strong, open, honest communication.
It’s impossible to have strong, open, honest communication without emotional safety.
Openness and kindness matter.
Until next time,
One of the things Trump should have taught us is that a fascist government is possible.
What would a competent fascist do with surveillance capitalism and the cloud?
How can we engineer a world, and online services, where that’s impossible?
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
Rest in power, Desmond Tutu. Thank you for making the world a better, more equitable place, and I’m sorry you had to.
Here’s my 5G conspiracy theory: it sucks in every densely populated area I’ve ever tried it in.
Remembering that trickle-down economics is a myth, and understanding that the US is a radically conservative country in many ways, how can we best directly help the millions of people who live in poverty here?
Scalability is a tech approach, but more than that, it's a mindset. Building organizational processes and defining products as if they're for a traditional professional services company does not work in a scalable tech context. The first step is understanding the distinction.
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