Bluesky is so much better than Twitter. That's the post.
My relationship with Big wasn’t the only thing I blew up that day. At the Trinity test site I detonated the first plutonium bomb, unleashing a 22 kiloton blast. Had I become Death, destroyer of worlds? Meanwhile uptown, Samantha had her hands full with her own “Manhattan project”
I don't really use TikTok that much, but I find it fascinating that our government is on the verge of banning an app for national security reasons that are still unclear in the same week that Meta, the largest social media company, says it's now fine to hate LGBTQ people and call us mentally ill.
If you don’t have a local library card, it should be your New Year’s resolution to get one. It’s an easy resolution to keep and you’ll actually use it, trust me.
One of the weirder things about watching the hard right turn of big tech is that it really reminds you that they don’t think people outside America are real
Just in awe of how many people and businesses are pulling together to help those who lost everything. I love LA. 🥹 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
“studio ghibli cat” - my niece seeing this pic of nyx
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2024 was a big year for atproto! We've got an update looking back at progress that has been made, and some protocol work in progress. Will have a 2025 roadmap to share soon.
Meta is making big changes to hiring practices, sources told me and - no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses - no goals for hiring women and minorities
in retrospect, one of the funniest headlines of all time
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This morning’s window frost
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sometimes walmart's inspirational Luigi wall sticker is all that keeps me going some days
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Seeing a lot of people today post some variation of "TikTok needs to be banned because it's rotted everyone's brains." It's not TikTok. You're uncomfortable with how normal people use the internet — which will always be strange and ugly — and you'll say the same thing about whatever replaces TikTok.
Heading into the weekend.
My DMs this entire week as a Meta employee.
Why do video games cost so much to make these days? A recent NYT article pinned bloated budgets on the graphical arms race, but that's only a small part of the equation. The real problem? Rampant mismanagement. This week's column is a spicy one: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Good morning from 100 Centre Street in Manhattan, where the President-elect is set to be criminally sentenced on 34 felony convictions for falsification of business records. I’m here with and for . Follow along 👇 ⬇️🧵
The 13th Amendment allows for modern day SLAVE LABOR. They risking their lives for pennies.
Hundreds of incarcerated firefighters are fighting the wildfires raging across southern California for $5.80-$10.24 per day When responding to disasters, they may earn $26.90 over a 24-hour shift
Brief check in- Bleak House was so far, spared. We hand carried over 100 pieces out of the collecton. Many friends lost their homes. Helping them now. Will be absent here for a while. Stay safe.
NEW: Platformer has obtained the dehumanizing new guidelines moderating what people can now say about trans people on Facebook and Instagram. Employees tell me these changes are likely to inspire more violence against LGBT people: www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...
mentioned it to a couple people now but: I’m feeling really good with where the app is right now. it’s never looked or felt better and I’m really proud of our lil team
Dear LA residents: a reminder. When traffic lights are out, an intersection should be treated as a four-way stop, not as a venue for expression of psychosexual insecurities. Thank you.
A few reasons why I love clouds! 😊
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PR DIRECTOR FOR BRAN CEREAL: please... think of the fiber optics
Smudge update: Still recuperating but doing all right. Who knew male cat urinary tracts were so damn fiddly.
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