Lately, I've been mixing my Margaret's Hope Darjeeling tea with a little soymilk, sugar, and ginger. That's delicious. This morning I had it straight with a little sugar for the first time in a while. I had forgotten how lovely it is alone. #TeaTwitter
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"...we have a sentinel on our behalf give them the model legislation so it has that grassroots, from-the-bottom-up type of vibe."
SCOOP from me & @NickSurgey: In new leaked video dark money group Heritage Action brags to top donors about writing “model legislation” making it harder to vote in GA...
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The fact that Kevin McCarthy, the House @GOPLeader, stripped Justin Amash of all committee seats for criticizing Trump, but has worked to protect this person from consequ...
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First day post-2nd-dose and trying to convince myself to get out of bed because I feel like I weigh twice as much as usual. Otherwise, all good! 🥴
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Enjoying getting back to my roots as an exotic dancer tax preparer this Saturday. Send me your tax questions and tune in for the answers! I’ll keep my clothes on though.
Who almost forgot about tax day? 🙋🏻♀️ Monday, May 17 is US tax deadline. I’ll be answering your last minute tax questions, no judgement, this Saturday at 5...
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It’s happening! Can’t wait for the movie t-shirt club. @jacksonpublick that’s happening, right??!! #VentureBrosMovie #GoTeamVenture
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I remember watching this on television. It was horrifying.
twitter.com/berniceking/st…
A mere 36 years ago.
United States of America.
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I’m Palestinian, My Roommate is Jewish
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[guy who eats like shit, has a pot of coffee every morning and 3 hazy IPAs every night]: "Wow, being in your mid 30s is rough."
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This is incredible.
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Google has filed an amicus brief to protect a work authorization program for the spouses of H-1B visa holders — a group that is 90 percent women:
Google files legal brief to protect work program for immigrant spouses theverge.com/2021/5/14/2243…
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Every pro-Ruby web developer needs to listen to the last 10 minutes of this episode.
Folks, on-boarding newcomers to Ruby—especially where Jekyll is concerned—is really problematic.
We've *got* to do better at this.
atp.fm/430
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Just because vaccinated people can go maskless doesn’t mean you can stop accommodating people with disabilities and chronic health conditions. If having remote meetings and work and paid sick days and allowing masks was possible for the last year, it is still possible now.
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I'm live with Natashia Tjandra, Senior Product Design Manager at EA, who is sharing how UX hiring managers evaluate talent and what they look for in candidates. Join us on YouTube! youtube.com/watch?v=uN10bP…
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You know something's gone very wrong when Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney are the good ones, relatively speaking.
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The idea that private room karaoke with fully vaxxed friends is now theoretically safe just.. does not compute. Spending so long fearing the air out of people’s mouths really does a number on me
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"text": "The idea that private room karaoke with fully vaxxed friends is now theoretically safe just.. does not compute. Spending so long fearing the air out of people\u2019s mouths really does a number on me"
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"text": "Jeet Heer recently wrote a piece (on Substack) entitled Can We Bring Back Blogging? where he waxed a bit nostalgic for the old blogosphere.\nThis makes me wonder: did blogging die off because the tools changed?\nEveryone had their own space on the internet and the internet itself was the medium which opened up the conversation. I could use WordPress while someone else might have been on Blogger, Moveable Type, Live Journal, TypePad, or something they made in HTML themselves.\nNow it\u2019s all siloed off into tinier spaces where content is trapped for eyeballs and engagement and there\u2019s not nearly as much space for expression. Some of the conversation is broken up into 280 character expressions on Twitter, some on Instagram, and now people are aggregating content inside Substack. Substack at least has a feed I can subscribe to and a free form box to add a reply.\nI appreciate Jeff\u2019s comment about the \u201cflywheel of social media\u201d. We\u2019re definitely going to need something like that to help power any resurgence of the blogosphere. I also like to think of it in the framing of \u201cthought spaces\u201d where the idea of a blog is to give yourself enough space to form a coherent idea and make an actual argument. Doing that is much harder to do on a microblog where the responses are also similarly limited. It just feels so rude to post 250 words in reply to a sentence or two that probably needed more space to express itself too.\nI suspect that if we want a real resurgence of thought and discourse online, we\u2019re going to need some new tools to do it. As Friedrich Nietzsche famously conceded to his friend Heinrich K\u00f6selitz \u201cYou are right \u2014 our writing tools take part in the forming of our thoughts.\u201d\nIt would help if we could get back to the bare metal of the internet in which to freely operate again. Substack at least feels close to that, though it could be much better.\nCan we have a conversational medium that isn\u2019t constrained by a handful of corporate silos that don\u2019t allow conversation across boundaries? Can we improve the problems of context collapse we\u2019re seeing in social media?\nI\u2019d like to think that some of the building blocks the IndieWeb movement has built might help guide the way. I love their idea of Webmention notifications that allow one site to mention another regardless of the platforms on which they\u2019re built. Their Micropub posting tools abstract away the writing and posting experience to allow you to pick and choose your favorite editor. They\u2019ve got multiple social reader tools to let you follow the people and content you\u2019re interested in and reply to things directly in the reader. I presented a small proof of concept at a recent education conference, for those who\u2019d like to see what that experience looks like today.\nPerhaps if more platforms opened up to these ideas and tools, we might be able to return, but with a lot more freedom and flexibility than we had in the nostalgic blogosphere?\nYet, we\u2019ll still be facing the human work of interacting and working together. There are now several magnitudes of order more people online than there were in the privileged days of the blogosphere. We\u2019re still going to need to solve for that. Perhaps if everyone reads and writes from their own home on the web, they\u2019re less likely to desecrate their neighbor\u2019s blog because it sticks to their own identity?\nThere\u2019s lots of work to be done certainly, but perhaps we\u2019ll get there by expanding things, opening them up, and giving ourselves some more space to communicate?",
"html": "<a href=\"https://jeetheer.substack.com/people/535432-jeet-heer\">Jeet Heer</a> recently wrote a piece (on Substack) entitled <a href=\"https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/can-we-bring-back-blogging\"><em>Can We Bring Back Blogging?</em></a> where he waxed a bit nostalgic for the old blogosphere.\n<p>This makes me wonder: did blogging die off because the tools changed?</p>\n<p>Everyone had their own space on the internet and the internet itself was the medium which opened up the conversation. I could use WordPress while someone else might have been on Blogger, Moveable Type, Live Journal, TypePad, or something they made in HTML themselves.</p>\n<p>Now it\u2019s all siloed off into tinier spaces where content is trapped for eyeballs and engagement and there\u2019s not nearly as much space for expression. Some of the conversation is broken up into 280 character expressions on Twitter, some on Instagram, and now people are aggregating content inside Substack. Substack at least has a feed I can subscribe to and a free form box to add a reply.</p>\n<p>I appreciate <a href=\"https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/can-we-bring-back-blogging/comments#comment-1854329\">Jeff\u2019s comment about the \u201cflywheel of social media\u201d</a>. We\u2019re definitely going to need something like that to help power any resurgence of the blogosphere. I also like to think of it in the framing of \u201c<a href=\"https://boffosocko.com/tag/thought-spaces/\">thought spaces</a>\u201d where the idea of a blog is to give yourself enough space to form a coherent idea and make an actual argument. Doing that is much harder to do on a microblog where the responses are also similarly limited. It just feels so rude to post 250 words in reply to a sentence or two that probably needed more space to express itself too.</p>\n<p>I suspect that if we want a real resurgence of thought and discourse online, we\u2019re going to need some new tools to do it. As Friedrich Nietzsche famously conceded to his friend Heinrich K\u00f6selitz \u201cYou are right \u2014 our writing tools take part in the forming of our thoughts.\u201d</p>\n<p>It would help if we could get back to the bare metal of the internet in which to freely operate again. Substack at least feels close to that, though it could be much better.</p>\n<p>Can we have a conversational medium that isn\u2019t constrained by a handful of corporate silos that don\u2019t allow conversation across boundaries? Can we improve the problems of context collapse we\u2019re seeing in social media?</p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to think that some of the building blocks the IndieWeb movement has built might help guide the way. I love their idea of Webmention notifications that allow one site to mention another regardless of the platforms on which they\u2019re built. Their Micropub posting tools abstract away the writing and posting experience to allow you to pick and choose your favorite editor. They\u2019ve got multiple social reader tools to let you follow the people and content you\u2019re interested in and reply to things directly in the reader. <a href=\"https://boffosocko.com/2021/04/26/a-twitter-of-our-own-at-oerxdomains-2021-conference/\">I presented a small proof of concept at a recent education conference</a>, for those who\u2019d like to see what that experience looks like today.</p>\n<p>Perhaps if more platforms opened up to these ideas and tools, we might be able to return, but with a lot more freedom and flexibility than we had in the nostalgic blogosphere?</p>\n<p>Yet, we\u2019ll still be facing the human work of interacting and working together. There are now several magnitudes of order more people online than there were in the privileged days of the blogosphere. We\u2019re still going to need to solve for that. Perhaps if everyone reads and writes from their own home on the web, they\u2019re less likely to desecrate their neighbor\u2019s blog because it sticks to their own identity?</p>\n<p>There\u2019s lots of work to be done certainly, but perhaps we\u2019ll get there by expanding things, opening them up, and giving ourselves some more space to communicate?</p>"
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Yikes. This is a use case I hadn’t thought of. wired.com/story/opinion-…
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A majority of Americans no longer get cable?
twitter.com/rbreich/status…
Serious question: What does it say about America that Tucker Carlson has become the #1 most watched host on cable news?
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"text": "Serious question: What does it say about America that Tucker Carlson has become the #1 most watched host on cable news?"
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