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words, the web, and worlds to come 🌻 theory x practice at @reboot_hq @substackinc @mozilla
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We published a paper today! I'm very excited about this affirmative vision for what open & public AI can look like:
Today, Mozilla is releasing a new vision for Public AI
We’re making a big push to promote public goods, public orientation, and public use throughout every step of AI development and deployment 🧵
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we did it! 36 hours on the zephyr from san francisco to denver—the train is an excellent place for focus & flow
trip report below
writing retreat but it’s just taking a very, very long amtrak ride
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attending stanford polisci's grad ceremony is just hearing 100 variations on “emma coleman’s thesis is on deconstructing whiteness: using LLMs to parse hate in online forums... as her next step, she plans to join the CIA as their director of AI"
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tiktok lied to me about what a day in the life of a pm would look like
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DEM CANDIDATES AS TECH FOUNDERS, a thread
(no nuance allowed)
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i know there are bigger things rn, but it is SHOCKING how callous the Dean of
@StanfordEng
has been in response to students' requests for academic accommodations in her class during this crisis.
let me tell you about this fucking fiasco 👇
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tech literacy is gen z's greatest contribution to activism
they combine fluency in data, virality, platform mechanics, and network mapping with the power of no-code creative tools like canva, tiktok, gdocs, and carrd
to hell with hackathons, THIS is tech + social good
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even if daos *can* be used for coops/participatory democracy/etc, nothing about the tech *guarantees* this — it's dangerous to conflate technological and sociopolitical progress & we should remember to tell the difference
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BERNIE SANDERS is WIKIPEDIA
- diehard volunteers
- once again asking for your support
- not for profit
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MICHAEL BLOOMBERG is UBER
- rampant misogyny
- too much cash
- made NYC worse
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wtf are "css" and "javascript" i just want the "tenured professor" site aesthetic to come back in vogue. 12-pt times new roman in plain html all the way
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living somewhere walkable and sunny is the best life hack i know
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be honest are you a transit enthusiast or do you just not know how to parallel park
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also: does anyone know how Seeing Like A State became such a silicon valley bookshelf fixture?
this one's for the architecture nerds
@noah_putnam
on Le Corbusier, The Sphere, and architectural futurism
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my hometown in WA has 200% the coronavirus deaths of shanghai and 5% as many cases.
@CDCgov
refused to test an infected senior center because they hadn't traveled - it's too late now.
think about that next time you blame coronavirus on china for being dirty, lawless, etc
UPDATE: A doctor for EvergreenHealth said they have 6 coronavirus deaths, including 1 person from Snohomish County. That news has seemed to surprise some folks, so we are waiting for more confirmation before settling on that number.
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almost every junior i've spoken to is thinking of going on leave rather than take another quarter of zoom uni (or "hybrid" education) this fall
but we're all panicking as we figure out how to enter a cursed new grad labor market that absolutely no one prepared for
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most mainstream tech discourse comes in two flavors:
either (1) all tech is evil + run by white supremacist megacapitalists, or (2) startups are the root of progress + paul graham is literally god.
both options are dissatisfying. here's my alternative:
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TOM STEYER is LYFT
- industry shouldn’t exist
- getting eaten by uber
- he’s the better one though
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Stanford's been hit with an epidemic of hate crimes and sexual violence, and the admin responded with... a hackathon against racism ⁉️
The absurdity of this idea proves they understand neither racism nor the needs of their students 👇
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taste can only be developed slowly; by living as well, as expansively, and as attentively as you can. the taste comes with the living
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stanford commencement keynote bingo
✅ reed hastings streaming in bc he got covid
✅ boycott fb and google banner flying overhead
✅ citing yuval noah harari, dunking on marx, and hacking our way out of climate change, racism, and world war iii
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@lovelapsed
@shmoneyrah
one more thing to add to everyone’s very good answers —
prisons not only fail to help survivors and abusers, but are themselves propagators of physical, financial, sexual, and emotional abuse — in their physical infrastructure, prison guards, and warped social environment
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PETE BUTTIGIEG is LAMBDA SCHOOL
- VC hype
- long tweet threads
- selling out the poor
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AMY KLOBUCHAR is AWAY
- lean in feminism
- yelling at workers
- same fanbase as pinterest
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academic accommodations seem trivial compared to the violence people face in the streets, but the Dean's refusal shows how elite institutions protect meaningless signals like rules & grades over students' lives. they'd rather analyze crime data than play a role in preventing it.
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we still have a project, assignment, and final week "midterm." Dean Widom still hasn't made a single classwide announcement. Black students are still suffering in the silence of their state and now their school.
and
@StanfordEng
wonders why it looks like 👨🏻💻👨🏼💻👩🏻💻👨🏼💻👩🏼💻👨🏻💻👨🏻💻👨🏼💻
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JOE BIDEN is HEWLETT-PACKARD
- the one your uncle knows
- name drops both founders
- worked better 10 years ago
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ANDREW YANG is TESLA
- fanboy army
- self-driving campaign
- overly optimistic production targets
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writing retreat but it’s just taking a very, very long amtrak ride
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ELIZABETH WARREN is MEDIUM
- early idealism
- made some bad pivots
- thought leadership
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@sabrina
also, only a white woman can make stealing a "fun and quirky intro" but when Black/Brown people steal necessities they're called criminals and get arrested
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ongoing thread of things i'd like to host in nyc:
lmk if youre down to attend or cohost 👀
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by popular request:
KAMALA HARRIS is NEXTDOOR
- bay area native
- tough on weed, truancy, and black people
- suburban moms love her
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one student's friend was shot 3 times in the aftermath of protests. she hears gunshots, shouts, and sirens every night while studying.
she should be with her friend at the hospital, but instead has to import scikit to predict netflix ratings.
()
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in light of the elon news, i talked to legendary tweeter
@jasminericegirl
about building platforms that actually give a shit about the people who make them fun
give it a read! we talked about...
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today is my birthday! life has been kind to me. i am vastly happier, more fulfilled, more confident, more excited for the future, and more all-around self-actualized than i was a year ago.
here's a messy list of things i learned about myself this year (cw: earnestness, fluff)
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i’ve become a lot happier since coming to terms with the fact that i am a huge fucking nerd
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i wrote about choosing the same things again and again
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TULSI GABBARD is PALANTIR
- shrouded in mystery
- friendly with authoritarians
- military experience
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Stanford Phi Kappa Psi invited Palantir founder Joe Lonsdale to campus. He was once banned from Stanford for an abusive relationship with an undergrad mentee (he was 29!).
He is NOT the kind of role model Phi Psi should promote. If you don't draw an ethical line here, then who?
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for halloween i dressed up as a contrari—i mean, devil’s advocate
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@NickBurns
i can see how you might misread this w/o context, but i know theresa well — she NEVER planned to work at google & helped launch
#NoTechForICE
at Stanford (+ countless other campaigns)
idk anyone here who’s invested their name/time as much as she has👇🏼
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tech always seems to be embroiled in a mortal battle with its critics. there's low trust, low precision, and bad faith on both sides.
for
@reboot_hq
's 3rd birthday, i wrote an essay to ask: what's the point of tech criticism?
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just concluded a six-part course on the key knowledge independent writers need to build a newsletter, whether you're just starting out or expanding an existing pub.
we've made the notes, case studies, and videos available on the
@substackinc
blog & linked in the 🧵 below!
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ugh i meant tech companies not tech founders
i’m exhausted by the Discourse today; if i get 1 (one) serious reply i will scream!!
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i wrote 3,000 words on what legendary urbanist jane jacobs can teach us about online communities 🌇✨
ft. reddit, skateboarders, and the ~eyes on the feed~
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for a long time, tw*tter was the only social platform i felt at-home on—a true nerd haven
but we’ve now built a full-stack alternative: a social app fully dedicated to readers, writers, and the discovery of great ideas
check it out :)
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a very accurate description of SV's intellectual culture—its virtues & limitations
there’s a way to read this as a tech bro takedown, but it isn't one. the "silicon unity of intellect and action” is the thing, more than anything else, that brought me here in the first place
New Essay: "The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite"
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more students begged, writing 1000s of words, sharing personal trauma in hopes the Dean would change. they went to office hourrs, emailed, posted on Piazza.
she didn't reply to a single post. TAs said she wouldn't budge unless uni policy did. she's the Dean—SHE sets the example!
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wishing hell on every man who's ever told me that asian women should feel lucky to be so 'desirable' in the dating market
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finally, if you have time, please read these absolutely heartbreaking letters from students, since the Dean did not.
and thank you to
@paybailfunds
and everyone else who's spent the past few days advocating for their peers in this course.
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also, keep donating, protesting, learning.
here are some orgs I gave to in honor of this bullshit:
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@code2040
: supporting young Black engineers
-
@campaignzero
: using data science against violence
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just found out that there are people who live in nyc but won't take the subway... crying and throwing up rn
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the number of y'all that flip-flopped on trump or zuckerberg based on a cool photo alone... dark times for critical thinking in silicon valley
ngl if youve started liking tr*mp in the last few months I think you should consider yourself as having a “weak memetic immune system”
whatever beliefs you hold are flimsy enough to be swayed by good stories and good PR and politically you’re little more than an infection vector
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@lovelapsed
@shmoneyrah
this is a resource I like for community-based accountability around sexual violence:
but point is, prisons exponentially multiply abuse by existing
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it's always eerie to talk to someone about tech platforms & realize that they identify more with the corporation than with the users and creators
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PSA: most big public library systems loan out ebooks + sync with kindle! i read most of my books this way
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why do kids today want to grow up to be creators? why is the passion economy such a compelling meme?
it's the dream of nonfungibility: that in an economy insistent on turning humans into units of labor, there are still ways to thrive off the qualities that make you unique
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first, context. CS 102 is designed for non-CS majors to learn basic data skills. the only prereq is 106A, our absolute beginner course.
yet lectures are EXTREMELY fast-paced. in 2 months, we've covered excel, SQL, Tableau, Python, Pandas, R, and basic ML with scikit/tensorflow.
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i'm writing an essay on the philosophical impetus behind reboot: about my disillusionment with tech and reillusionment with humanity; about the magic of collective organizing and creation, past and present; about cypherpunks and afrofuturism and ai policy and daos.
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bookstore blind dates 📚
meet at a used bookstore with a group, then pair people off to spend 10 minutes talking then buy books for each other
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since the protests began, students asked Dean Widom for classwide accommodations to alleviate stress on students (esp Black students) who are busy protesting, grieving, and caring for each other. not to mention how much COVID already shook up schooling.
the Dean said nothing 😶
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recently, many CS and non-CS courses made final projects optional, and stanford had already banned final exams after COVID.
yet Dean Widom made FORTY PERCENT of students' grades based on this last week of class: a project, assignment, and "final week midterm," aka final exam 🤔
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been looking for an excuse to drop this photo and now I have one —
join me next Thursday at 4pm PT for a conversation with
@BigMeanInternet
about his opus Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and The World!!
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also known as “palantir”
Neoliberal and socialist grand compromise: defund the police and use the money to train cops to code
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i avoided crypto discourse for ages - i assumed that it was a space full of get-rich-quick grifters and rabid anarcho-capitalists (they certainly exist).
but here's why i think crypto is worth understanding, especially for those interested in tech's social implications:
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young people understand
- how to make something go viral
- how to hijack a narrative
- how algorithms shape reality
- hype cycles and their transience
- the power of group identity
- the fluidity of individual identity
- that truth is anyone's game
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@nikitabier
if you think this is how the student debt crisis works, i'll chip in $10 of my monthly ubereats budget to get you a sociology degree
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this one's for the architecture nerds
@noah_putnam
on Le Corbusier, The Sphere, and architectural futurism
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went on a crypto pod & got to talk about all my favorite things (debate, prison abolition, community-building, chantal mouffe)
thank you
@chaserchapman
for such a fun conversation — episode here! 💫
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every few weeks, i catch myself thinking — why do i talk about writing so much if i'm not even very good at it? — and then have to remind myself that actually, we're allowed to just... like things!
hobbies are hobbies; no competency required
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bitches who talk about doing the nyt crossword mini are the same ones who used to act like the oxford comma was a personality trait. (it's me, i'm bitches)
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@NickBurns
she's advocated for housing justice w/
@SCoPE_2035
, against Palantir w/
@slapliberate
, for ethnic studies w/
@whosteachingus
, against sexual violence at the Big Game + Joe Lonsdale's talk, and spent last summer at
@AAAJ_Chicago
.
erasing that bc of a misphrased tweet is.. a lot.
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a perfect relationship is where each person reads 60% of the links their partner sends them
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my travel personality is going to 5 new locations every day to do the exact same thing (read, journal, have a fun little drink)
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nobody:
pete buttigieg, since he was 6:
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i'm so incredibly proud to launch
@kernel_magazine
issue two today ⚡️
we've worked hard to foster a diverse, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational discourse on technology, justice, and the future — spanning topics from web3 to whistleblowers, ecology to open-source
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the sovereign individual does not exist — not with the internet, crypto, metaverse, or anywhere else.
our future ought to lean into the interdependence of digital and physical, individuals and institutions, technology and ecology.
this project is a starting point:
Over the last week, we wrote “A Declaration of Interdependence of Cyberspace”.
This work was precipitated by Facebook’s rebranding as Meta, & is a direct fork of Barlow’s Declaration, a foundational cyberpunk text.
Read it here:
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relatedly, we should probably retire the use of "dao" sans modifiers — huge variance in levels of transparency, decentralization, how much is on chain...
would love to see someone write a litmus test for what makes a dao genuinely pro-worker, pro-user, or otherwise democratic!
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anyway as a great man once said… they say, oh you graduated? no, i decided i was finished
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i am *extremely* excited to host
@TaylorLorenz
and
@semaforben
next tuesday for a retrospective on the last decade of digital media & their thoughts on where the industry goes next 🗞️⚡️
we'll talk institutions vs. influencers, ads vs. subscriptions, tiktok, ai, and all the rest
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the next era of the social internet is about quality > quantity, communities > networks, and signal > noise
i'm excited to launch what i've been working on for the last 6 months
@substackinc
: a conversation space designed for ease, intimacy, and control
Today we are launching Chat, a new space for writers and creators to host conversations with their subscribers.
Try Chat now:
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it’s happening!!!
the SF launch party for
@kernel_magazine
's third issue is happening next saturday 9/16!
come through if you love parties, print magazines, and thoughtful conversations on technology & our shared future ⚡️
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the goal isn't to stop caring what anyone thinks of you; it's to pick the right few people whose opinions to care about
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i started an innocuous essay about the queen's gambit and ended up with one of the most honest newsletters i've ever written. on our obsession with obsession and the complicated value of anger:
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hello 👋 subtle asian traits is not only hilarious and viral, but also a natural next step in the history of Asian diaspora media — think the move from content consumption (AsAm YouTube) to democratic creation & self-representation in Gen Z
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it's far more important to have a values-aligned network than it is to have a big or powerful network. your life trajectory is heavily influenced by those around you, so don't give that power to people who don't live lives you'd be proud of!
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mom: When are u coming home
me: 11
mom: Come back at 9
me: fine, 10
mom: 👍
math, y'all. wechat is for math.
For the love of God, can the
@nytimes
please hire some people who have actually used WeChat or know people who use WeChat.
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thinking about this 1882 magazine cover, issued shortly after the chinese exclusion act
the skeletal specters of malaria, smallpox, and leprosy are illustrated rising from SF chinatown, looming over the city
A woman wearing a face mask was allegedly assaulted and called "diseased" in an incident in a New York City subway that was apparently sparked by bias over the coronavirus.
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