Tech lawyer. Trust & Safety gadfly. Three memes in a trench coat. Knowhow is fine, but what about Knowwhy...https://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3m5a3du6onk26So then I was like, look, bro if you think you can do so much better than Giuliani maybe you should run for mayor but once you’re in, don’t let anyone ever tell you to pull out of that race…09 Nov 2025 21:45 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5a3du6onk26https://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3los3jkb7v22410 May 2025 04:18 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3los3jkb7v224https://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3lkkd7qrydc2cWhat’s the opposite of optimizing? Asking for a friend who wants to do that …17 Mar 2025 04:33 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkkd7qrydc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3lcvlrti7vc2sI hope Dave Franco is clearing his schedule09 Dec 2024 20:44 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcvlrti7vc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3lapaghesyk2zIt’s always encouraging to see a company engage with trust and safety issues at the board level — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFvqDaFpXeM11 Nov 2024 21:15 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lapaghesyk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3l7h42fevf42xHow is it that there has never been a serious TCPA class action against a political party or campaign? This volume of trash is something commercial spammers could only dream of …26 Oct 2024 22:10 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7h42fevf42xhttps://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3l4sinew3vb2yJust one sign of a life well lived — being reported to the FBI by Philip K. Dick for Marxism: http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/print/0105/cover.html23 Sep 2024 06:39 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3l4sinew3vb2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3l4si2u2mh726During grad school I lived in a shared house of lit and English students, one of them would occasionally house sit for Jameson, look after the pets, throw out the junk mail, etc.23 Sep 2024 06:29 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3l4si2u2mh726https://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3ksddavzihc2jIs “I’m looking for a man in finance” the first crowdsourced summer banger?12 May 2024 23:41 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3ksddavzihc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3klb6c2yxwi2wI don't even know what we did before Zillow rationalized this housing market ...13 Feb 2024 01:10 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3klb6c2yxwi2whttps://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3ketl5vx2zi2g23 Nov 2023 06:52 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3ketl5vx2zi2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3kesp7trdrt2wConsidering naming our first born child "Builder's Remedy" ...22 Nov 2023 22:32 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3kesp7trdrt2whttps://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3keishwdfig2m19 Nov 2023 00:04 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3keishwdfig2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3katdgegmg32qI see endless news articles about drug use in tech but in all my decades have never seen an article about whether, say, cocaine, might have some role in wall street trading patterns ...03 Oct 2023 06:53 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3katdgegmg32qhttps://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3karbt44pmt2fWhat is it about big tech biographies that makes journalists with great track records self-immolate...?02 Oct 2023 11:19 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3karbt44pmt2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3k733mdte4b2fTBF, the monkeys were red bull pounding gamers working at a fast-paced startup...10 Sep 2023 22:04 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3k733mdte4b2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3jzbkz54l4n2rEvery startup founder should get a little piece of that submersible to keep on their desk like the Berlin Wall29 Jun 2023 03:24 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3jzbkz54l4n2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3jwswlo7k7k2fHere's a thought -- instead of describing a new tech in terms of the problems you hope it solves, describe it in terms of the problems it's likely to create. If we took on the more modest goal of creating interesting new problems, at least all this would make sense ...28 May 2023 20:51 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3jwswlo7k7k2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3jwsu4q3icr2zContent moderation is mostly human problems with a thin tech coating. If you think it’s fundamentally a set of tech problems, you’ll never even make it to the part where the failures get interesting.28 May 2023 20:07 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3jwsu4q3icr2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3jwstuchud32iFor folks new to trust and safety, a thought — your language should always show the due humility that fundamentally human problems require. Don’t say “we’re solving x.” You are solving nothing. You’re at best making a novel collage. Which is ok. Don’t sound like Jared off to “fix” the middle east.28 May 2023 20:02 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3jwstuchud32ihttps://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3jvrzdr43sw2jHas a more succinct summary of the enclosure movement ever existed?15 May 2023 18:43 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3jvrzdr43sw2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3jv3qgworga2eCurrent vibes here remind me of cool afterschool club like newspaper or theater where you can hang out and complain about the asshole fascist teacher down the hall…06 May 2023 22:05 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3jv3qgworga2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/feerst.bsky.social/post/3juv5yztzm62zThere’s a brief moment when all the dark, Sisyphean lessons of trust & safety are not yet relevant, and it is beautiful.04 May 2023 07:19 +0000at://did:plc:svnqyrraivesrt53cws4etmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3juv5yztzm62z