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Nosocomial infections are interesting. They are simply: illness acquired while in a healthcare facility. In the US, they kill about 100,000 people each year, with 10% o...
This is a really fantastic, insightful piece by @JesseDavidFox about John Mulaney’s first post-rehab stand-up set last night. vulture.com/article/who-sh…
If you work at Google and have thoughts about this, my DMs are open.
Given the current violence in Israel, I wonder if we'll start to hear employee and customer backlash to Big Tech companies that work with the government and military. Tak...
Let’s do this, but the opposite. You’re on a first date with someone, and they tell you the name of their favorite book. You immediately propose. What’s the book?
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You’re on a first date with someone, and they tell you the name of their favorite book. You immediately leave. What’s the book?
Instacart employees on the central ops team are pissed. The company has said the vast majority of the company can be fully remote, but they need to come in 3x/week. The tension highlights a quandary that many tech companies will likely face as they seek to reopen offices:
Instacart tells entry-level team to return to office, senior managers can stay home theverge.com/2021/5/11/2242…
Google apparently did not communicate plans of its *massive expansion of the ethical AI team to people on the ethical AI team*
uh this is news to me twitter.com/kateconger/sta…
Just to underscore my quoted point, what is this? Without lots of context and review of the content and/or the rendered output, who knows? It's gobbledeegook.
Reasonable people may differ, but I'm definitely on this side of markup = structure and semantics, styling = visual and user interface I appreciate being able to look at...
The PRO Act could have massive implications for organizing efforts at Amazon, Google, and Uber. @kellymakena & I wrote about this pivotal piece of labor legislation, with the help of the incredible @veenadubal:
The PRO Act would reshape the tech industry — will it get the chance? theverge.com/2021/5/11/2242…
In Croatian, if you are thinking about doing something versus actually doing it, it changes all of the endings of nouns. Way to call me out for procrastination, entire Croatian language.
If someone handed you the HTML spec and you could change anything about its existing functionality, what would that be? For me, the top three choices: 1. Eliminate <div> 2. Eliminate <span> 3. Eliminate class= Bonus round: change all input type= tags to dedicated tags.
Learning a totally new language in your 30s, particularly one from a different language family, is such a good brain massage. It’s like playing Tetris.
Facebook survey asks whether I believe in COVID vaccines (yes) and whether I trust Facebook (no). Why they are in the same survey ... beats me.

Are you biting off more than you can chew during eternal Caturday?

How's this not a T-shirt yet?!
A depressing case study in defunding the police: Portugal [doesn’t really] abolishes scandal-ridden border service - InfoMigrants infomigrants.net/en/post/31558/…
Throwing in a well placed child <div> in a grid layout to satisfy a demanding parent can choke a poorly designed cms. What’s a poor editor who doesn’t know diddly about family dynamics to do?
Seriously @discord what decade is it??!? [screenshot of discord settings, manual switching between 'Light' and 'Dark' themes is possible but no option to automatically follow systemwide preference]

Save the date!

#birthday #housewarming #party
New post: fluffy rambles: Save the date! beesbuzz.biz/blog/9644-Save… #Birthday #Housewarming #Party Hey folks! That time of year is coming up… it’s my birthday in June! And what’s more, I have a new house to celebrate it at! My plan this year is to have an outdoor cookout in…
How To Murder Darius Kazemi In Five Easy Steps
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You’re on a first date with someone, and they tell you the name of their favorite book. You immediately leave. What’s the book?