Derek Thompson speaks to what I’ve been thinking hard about, but far more eloquently than I could: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
I'll hold my nose and vote for Biden in the general election if it comes to that, but there is no way in hell I'm voting for him in the primary. Guess I'm a reluctant Bernie supporter now… #ThankYouWarren
I wonder if Corona Beer is profiting or losing money from the #coronavirus epidemic.
Practice of repair is always predicated on situated notions of ‘correctness’ and speakers presume a minimal degree of linguistic right and authority to perform it; the act of correcting linguistic form or usage is fundamentally ideological
-Aria Razfar
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Are GDC events still happening even though it's cancelled?
Practice of repair is always predicated on situated notions of ‘correctness’ and speakers presume a minimal degree of linguistic right and authority to perform it; the act of correcting linguistic form or usage is fundamentally ideological -Aria Raz… quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/2020/03/06/pra…
Thread. Jessie just said everything I've been screaming into a pillow for the last two weeks.
Here’s what’s going on with conference organizers right now: a thread of unknown length because I’m rambling. [1/?]
John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)

Using multiple GitHub accounts from a single macOS/Linux account

Yes, it's happening. I'm gonna be all "sí!!" and "gracias" for at least a month 👋😅
OMG hello a—chicken!!👋😁 (sorry, spent too much time in Argentina 🙈)
Do you think companies are overreacting to the coronavirus epidemic?

I made the mistake of saying something non-snarky about COVID-19 on Twitter this morning:

Collective action is hard. It’s Seattle’s moment to decide the path ahead.

I stand by that statement because it strikes me as straightforward: our collective action, right now, can meaningfully alter outcomes in the Seattle metropolitan region. I’m impressed with the measures King County public health has taken so far, including yesterday’s request that all employees who can work from home should work from home. I was happy to see Microsoft and others in the tech community quickly follow suit.

My statement also came with a retweet of Scott Gottlieb arguing that we need to go further. This led to a tart reaction from a fellow traveller in the local tech community:

People need to stop confusing “first US outbreak” with “only fucking place we are testing because we said fuck waiting for those test kits”

There are several things to tease apart here.

First: yes, Seattle has a better understanding of where it stands than probably any other region in the US because smart researchers in our area effectively routed around the CDC. We’re both lucky and good.

Second: as of relatively recently, we are not the only region in the US to test for COVID. Community spread has been detected in CA, OR, NY, NJ, RI, and NC. I don’t know what the state of testing is across the US, or even in those regions, but it’s definitely not zero.

Third: we have more confirmed COVID deaths in Washington State than anywhere else. Some of this is unquestionably due to lack of early testing elsewhere. It’s not impossible but it does seem unlikely that, as of today, this volume of COVID deaths has been missed in any other region. As a result, I think it’s fair to assume that while there are plenty of undetected cases of COVID across the states, the Seattle metropolitan region and perhaps the Bay Area are probably further along than most.

Finally: at least one Twitter reply described Gottlieb’s thread as “extremely dangerous”. I suspect we read it quite differently. I read it as an argument that Seattle should seek assistance from the federal government, and that the federal government should tie such assistance to the enactment of even sharper measures to curtail the spread of the disease. Gottlieb appears to argue that Seattle should go first because, by luck of the draw, all eyes are on us. This all seems sensible to me and I generally agree with it. On the other hand, if Gottlieb intended to suggest that the federal government should seize control of public health response in the Seattle region, or that Seattle is the only region for which measures must be taken… well, no, I wouldn’t agree with that at all.

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Living in a future ghost town

Any UX Researchers want to lead a research roundtable at next #UXNight on March 19th in SF? We want to solve how researchers and designers can work better together. No prep is needed! Here are details: uxnight46.eventbrite.com. Please RT!
Funding to fix the internet: "The internet is broken. And yes, we tried turning it off and back on, but that didn’t work." So they are funding early-stage startups ... reb00ted.org/quick-notes/20…
Excited to rebuild my last site that is still on wordpress with @nuxt_js to help save the penguins. So much good information in @debs_obrien's talk at @vueconfus and so much energy. Super motivated to poke around with nuxt now!
Pretending I'm still in Austin, hanging out with cool Vue people and Vuenisaurs and learning so much. @vueconfus was great! Can't wait to try all the new things ift.tt/3aBZQI1