alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦
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Journalist. @twistartups, @CaOptNews. Dad x2. He/Him. Black Lives Matter. I podcast and write. Hey!
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ok wfh team, what do you eat for lunch. i either 1. do not eat lunch and get very cranky 2. spend $10349 ordering four tacos or 3. eat one (1) banana.
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stop teaching students to put two spaces after a period what the hell is wrong with you.
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I am not a huge AA person as I am roughly as religious as a small stone, but I am going to a meeting tonight for the first time in like 1.5 years? Wish me luck.
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Trading apps: Here, have zero-cost trading and options access, go wild. Also trading apps: Woah not like *that*.
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if all goes well at pickup, we get to adopt our next pup on sunday and i am so excited i could burst - here's the only pic of her that we have
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companies who ship ram-eating software that turns modern PCs into stuttering messes are my true enemy.
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if nothing else, @TaylorLorenz is doing a good job exposing that the general public doesn't really know how journalism works, and expects far too much deference.
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Unpopular opinion: the best thing young people can do early in their careers is to win the lottery, invest the money in index funds and retreat from public life.
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I wish uber would solve the “driver drives away from you until you cancel and then charges you $5 for the driver doing that” issue.
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I got my first gun when I was 12. My dad hunted when I was growing up. We have a gun safe at the house in Oregon. I’ve had a lot of fun shooting guns on in the woods. Fuck it, take them all. I don’t understand ppl who won’t give up a hobby to save kids’ lives.
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Excited to announce that I am taking on the Editor in Chief role for @TechCrunchPlus, once again reporting to @panzer. Super hype about the project and helping it grow this year. And I am hiring, so don't be a stranger!.
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good rocket day coverage.
New: Amazon denied Patty Hernandez, a 23-year old warehouse worker in Tracy, California, pregnancy accommodations in October, then she miscarried at work. I spoke to her about the nightmare Amazon put her through just to get lighter duty.
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mark meadows is a fascist apologist and was more than willing to try to subvert the us government in opposition of the will of the people - what a sad little sack of shit.
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I keep being amazed at how Google is bigger than ever in terms of ppl, but search is getting worse, Gmail is stagnant, Docs is still pretty subpar (only good idea was co-authoring, which is now old), etc. What are they doing over there.
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two years not drinking as of today, if I have my calendar correct - yay!. obligatory fuck you, alcohol.
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we are threatening a nato ally (Denmark)???.
Q: Can you assure the world that as you try to get control of areas like Greenland or Panama you are not gonna use military or economic coercion?. TRUMP: No. I can't assure you. I'm not going to commit to that. It might be that you'll have to do something.
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re: the startup/working hours/hustle debate, keep in mind that everyone saying you should work insane amounts are the same folks holding the equity that your labor will enrich; if you are getting a material %, work your ass off. if you own little or nothing, maybe don't.
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startup idea: build a browser that can handle having 100 tabs open on machines with 16/32 gigs of ram; charge users $10/month for it or more. I would 100% pay for something that could handle my workload.
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today is three years of not drinking for me, thanks to everyone for being so lovely along the way
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if i talk to your company that doesn't mean i am writing a feature on it.
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great now jeff use ur clout at amazon to better pay and care for drivers and warehouse workers.
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Idea: A Macbook Pro, but it has regular USB ports, and LOTS of them.
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doing some thinking about API-led startups — what are the companies I should look at more closely?.
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Twitter, I will pay $10/month for ad-free Twitter. Spotify, I will pay 2x to give more $ to artists at the current revenue split.
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I only have 4k left of student debt give or take, but I would gladly watch folks who haven’t paid dowin a penny get theirs 100% taken away. If you are mad that you made more progress than others who might get more help, you suck. thanks for coming to my ted talk.
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My wife heard about the GameStop thing on npr and asked me about it, which made my job relevant to our relationship for the first time in ages - kinda fun.
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Due to some things we had Ada by c-section an hour ago. Baby healthy. Mom healthy. Now in recovery with her. ❤️
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New baby is here. Mom and kiddo healthy and happy. Will share a pic when I get one approved. Full of love rn.
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I couldn’t think of the best way of saying that we’re having a kid in mid-December so this was it - we’re very exited ❤️.
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Coffee is good, dogs are lovely, friends make life worth living, food is a delight and books are cheap trips out of this universe.
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Got married to @Lizaswagner today! After a breakfast in the sun with everyone we got married at Liza’s church, and then had a second line parade with @whatcheerb through downtown Providence to the party. Full of love. ❤️🥰.
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I guess what annoys me is that now that we know the M1 is possible, what the fuck was Intel doing all those years?.
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just realized that @beckpeterson works for Insider, which makes the following exchange even more amazing
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Is it possible to work, work out, be an active parent, have hobbies and get enough sleep? I am failing here and sleep keeps getting cut.
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sadly no one seems to think that my "a banana will fix it" approach to not starving is winsome.
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I guess my question is, if we lay off tens of millions of workers and the economy is fine (per the stock market). what the fuck does that mean.
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in ironic twist, that one bedroom apartment is now also worth $140B.
Salesforce is the world’s leading CRM software, valued at $140 billion. But did you know the company started 22 years ago in a 1 bedroom apartment?
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this is not just a google issue, but a slack issue, a tweetdeck issue, etc.
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Good thing we financed his pr while his father in law was president.
Seeking Backers for New Fund, Jared Kushner Turns to Middle East
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ok so hubs:. Seattle: cloud.Colombus: insurtech.SF/bay: software.LA: creative-facing tech. what else?.
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The @Blizzard_Ent faux apology is bad. Not watching Starcraft games until the company does better.
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i never get tired of talking to founders, such a jam to talk to ppl fired up about something.
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look i am a west coast kiddo living on the east coast and it’s fine but if we get spider paratroopers i am fucking *out* of here.
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People who like this meme / brands trying to find a way to cash in on it / people who have found a way to mute it / your father.
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therapist: what if you derived less self-worth from work?. me:.
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shit I broke 1,000 days and didn't notice, so happy 1,001 days of not drinking to me
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symphonic metal fans alert:.
I could not be more honored and prouder to perform the Dutch national anthem at this year's @F1 @f1dutchgp! 🧡 . #DutchGP #Formula1 #Zandvoort
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@yagizsozmen @lucasmtny Yes, well, no, I would sell it first and use that money to continue employing them.
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Is there a way to disable alcohol ads on twitter - not to be the boring recovering alcoholic or whatever but I’d love fewer whiskey ads while in recovery thx.
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*takes puppy outside.*puppy plays around on lawn, nothing happens.*takes puppy inside, puts in gated space with peepee pad.*makes tea.*puppy pees on floor where there is no peepee pad.*alas.
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here's what you're missing at YC demo day, in terms of charts:
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I’m sorry but am I reading correctly that musk is suing zuck for hiring the people he fired?.
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put fucking publication dates on your blog posts for the love of god.
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It's scary to see people far more talented than yourself get laid off.
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