Jennifer 8. Lee
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CEO of @plympton . @sundanceorg fellow. Doc producer. Emoji activist w @emojination . Credibility w @credcoalition . Once @nytimes jenny @jennifer8lee .com
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This is a huge deal in St. Louis politics. Cori Bush (once homeless with two kids) ousts 20-year incumbent William Lacy Clay (whose dad also held the seat for three decades before him) on second try. First try was 2018, covered in Knock Down the House.
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Corky Lee, the unofficial photo laureate of the Asian-American community, has died of COVID. The photo that epitomizes his work was this recreation of the famed Golden Spike Transcontinental Railroad with descendants of railroad workers.
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Sundance announces 112 films from 4,018 feature-length film submissions. Documentaries include pics on Toni Morrison, Elizabeth Holmes, Leonard Cohen,
@Ocasio2018
and Dr. Ruth.
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The day has finally come. Chef Peng, the creator of General Tso's Chicken, has died.
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The piece on TikTok that
@LatoyaPeterson
(and I) have been waiting for someone to write.
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They’ve made little round human parking spots in Domino Park in Brooklyn! (This park is often the poster child for social distancing fácil).
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As we were landing, the flight attendant said, “We know today is not the easiest day to step on a plane.” And thanked us, reminding us not to forget 20 years ago.
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My favorite piece of art at
@burningman
. Two children inside two sad adults.
http://t.co/2pp9MsjdY7
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Have to get to last line before you learn that Julie Su, Biden’s new nominee for US Labor Secretary, received a
@macfound
“Genius” award decades ago for her labor work on behalf of Thai seamstresses who were illegally being underpaid.
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Editor: Domestic homicides not newsworthy bc they happen all the time. Me: Aren't they newsworthy BC they happen all the time?
#YesAllWomen
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Dumpling emoji (and posse) is here! For those of you who can see them:🥟🥡🥠🥢. Billions of keyboards impacted. My life’s work is done.
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One of my surprise hit articles for the
@nytimes
DC bureau was in 2004 on the culture of unpaid internships on the Hill and elsewhere. It ran inside, bottom of the page but became one of the most emailed for quite a bit. Clearly hit a nerve. So glad
@Ocasio2018
is paying interns.
Time to walk the walk.
Very few members of Congress actually pay their interns. We will be one of them.
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Twitter's deletion of hydroxychloroquine Tweets by Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro, Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, and U.S. Rudy Giuliuani sets notable precedent on platforms taking a stance on ground truth. Trump's tweets still up, skirts the line.
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The lawsuits begin, from MIT and Harvard. “The order came down without notice—its cruelty surpassed only by its recklessness” wrote Harvard President Larry Bacow. “We believe that the ICE order is bad public policy, and we believe that it is illegal.”
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Talking to San Francisco/Bay Area friends about how they coped with the bad air during the wildfire is a revealing small slice of how climate change impact will be split along class: one couple flew to Seattle, another to Lake Tahoe, another left for Thanksgiving early.
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My mom still has this picture of me and
@sewellchan
and David Dinkins from high school on the piano!
.
@jenny8lee
and I interviewed Mayor David N. Dinkins in 1993 for our high school paper. His vision of NYC as “a gorgeous mosaic” inspired me. RIP.
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Small observation deep in piece by
@zeynep
about air flow and distance and activity re COVID transmissions. She notes no súperspreader events traced to movie theaters. Posits maybe because in movies people were facing same direction and not talking.
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Biggest startup epiphany of last month: revenue = non-dilutive capital.
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This is a sign encouraging people to wear masks in Washington DC. 😷 for 👩🏻⚖️
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This NYC complaints against police database is downloadable.
“The database gives the people of New York City a glimpse at how allegations involving police misconduct have been handled, and allows journalists and ordinary citizens alike to look more deeply at the records of particular officers.”
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Really excited to see Utkarsh Ambudkar, UTK, get time on stage at the Oscars. Some background about his experience of Hamilton and “Freestyle Love Supreme.” Huge fan.
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Emoji art by my friend Gus Deardoff:
🤜👇👇👇👇👇👇👇🤛
👉🤜👇👇👇👇👇🤛👈
👉👉🤜👇👇👇🤛👈👈
👉👉👉🤜👇🤛👈👈👈
👉👉👉👉👊👈👈👈👈
👉👉👉🤜👆🤛👈👈👈
👉👉🤜👆👆👆🤛👈👈
👉🤜👆👆👆👆👆🤛👈
🤜👆👆👆👆👆👆👆🤛
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Great to see so many familiar Sundance names (directors, writers, actors, editors) invited into the Academy, including this year’s winner of the Grand Jury Award for US Drama, Chinonye Chukwu!
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One interesting note, Jon Fine, the deputy general counsel for American Media who sent the email to Bezos’s lawyer, himself used to work for Amazon. He gave out the literary grants!
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At Eastern Parkway subway stop in Brooklyn. Confused me when I first saw it from the train. Then looked closer.
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You can hire surrogate Pokemon walkers for you while you are at work. $8/hour in NYC. The
#pokemoneconomy
.
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Cannes premiere of The Lighthouse by Robert Eggers (of The Witch) starring Robert Pattinson and William Defoe.
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The NY Attorney General’s suit against The Weinstein Company contains painful details of how various groups of women were used to facilitate Harvey Weinstein’s sexual conquests.
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Since this lawsuit was filed, Massachusetts, California, Delaware, Oregon and Puerto Rico have passed laws that block managers from requesting an applicant’s prior salary.
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Samantha Bee's show used a blind submission process for writers. Result; 50/50 gender split.
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Here is the "Trump Effect" report about increased bullying and anxiety that Hillary Clinton mentioned in debate.
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So
@jenniferdaniel
tells me that Google slides finally (FINALLY!) supports up to date emoji rendering in display mode so your presentations don’t break on the screen. As of today.
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@paulg
During the last four years, when people asked me the customary greeting, “How are you?” Instead the perfunctory “fine”, I would honestly say, “Anxious about the decline of the republic.”
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This was a lovely email to get. A high school teacher in Wisconsin got a grant to buy 120 copies of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles for the freshman class curriculum. He’s designing the materials now and will give to me to share with other teachers.
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If you have been frustrated by the lack of PPE (masks etc.), a group of nonprofit folks, doctors, and people with *very* good ties to Chinese factories are buying masks to directly send to New York City hospitals. You can donate:
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FLY emoji coming to iOS in a few weeks 🪰. I feel like it missed its moment just now.
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Full horizontal version of
@KamalaHarris
art has her also in hiking books and Converse sneakers as well as the high heels. Below, the quote: "That little girl was me."
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1.5 million books read under Obama administration's Open Ebooks program, bringing digital books to Title I schools.
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Given the fact that there are ~7 cases of bubonic plague a year in the United States (), unclear from context why a single case in China is newsworthy for an article. Is the low level alert by the region?
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Apple’s new interface for interracial couples in iOS 13.2 gives hints of multiracial family interface to come. Proud for our
@emojination
team to have played a role in this. (Photo from
@emojipedia
). Not an interface that
@apheemesser
and I had predicted!
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Benefits of going home for Thanksgiving. Finding this old picture of me and
@sewellchan
with Mayor David Dinkins when we were editors in chief of our high school newspaper at Hunter.
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Big reveal of Whitney Houston doc at Cannes is she told others she was sexually abused by her cousin Dee Dee Warwick (sister of Dionne) when she was a girl. Her brother also says he was abused by Dee Dee, who died in 2008, in the doc.
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Today in
@TheLancet
: estimates of case fatality, infection fatality, hospitalization rates for age groups based on data from Wuhan, Diamond Princess and repatriated foreigners from Wuhan (who were tested). Average time from onset to death is 18.8 days.
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Random guy in Seattle walks by on street and touches my butt. I was so completely offended that I chased after him and made him promise to never do it to anyone again,
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Women should repeat after Paul Ryan: "I cannot and will not give up my family time."
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Likes this line about creativity=enthusiasm+experience quoted in
@pmarca
's eBook.
http://t.co/6BvFjOnwWD
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How critical design differs from affirmative design at
#knottyobjects
. Challenges status quo, is a medium, satire.
http://t.co/RD3MSJVC5Z
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Tracked down the artist/design shop via
@rachelbethgross
: Bria Goeller () and good trubble design. Original post on Facebook. Tshirts available.
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If a HIJAB emoji comes to be, it will be thanks to a 15-year-old Saudi Arabian girl who lives in Germany.
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Credit to BEAVER emoji goes to
@BostonJoan
, who promises me it will be the first line of her bio when it arrives, ahead of all her academic research (and thanks to
@TheoSchear
for shepherding it across the Unicode finish line).
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Oh wow. Just learned that the ampersand ("&") is actually a morphing of the letters "e" and "t" for "et" into a logogram.
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A family of four earning $117,000 a year is now classified as low income in the San Francisco area.
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At
#emojicon
from Berlin! 15-year-old Saudia Arabian
@rayoufalh
speaking about her quest for a hijab emoji.
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Meet the figures fighting for emoji representation on your keyboard in the new trailer for The Emoji Story documentary (
@emojistorydoc
). Coming next week to virtual theaters and the week after that to iTunes etc.!
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Barack Obama's official Facebook page call to action is "Sign Up.", whereas Donald Trump's says "Shop Now."
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One of the most eloquent and elegantly written pieces against Trump's executive order, by Angelina Jolie
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Love this. From
@harvardbooks
. Blind date with a book! Surprised used books in brown paper packages (not tied up with string).
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This hat with a hole cut out for the mohawk is quintessential Tony Hsieh. The combination of quirky and practical.
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And here is the DHS photo for the award. Curious how David Cho’s Korean American parents feel about all of it!
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Big announcement! Smithsonian’s design museum,
@cooperhewitt
, has collected 🧕🏻 and 👩🏻🤝👨🏾👩🏽🤝👩🏼👨🏿🤝👨🏽 emoji proposal guidance images for its permanent collection. The journey of hijab emoji covered in
@emojistorydoc
out tmw. From
@AP
.
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If you ❤️ a tweet with
#ivoted
, you get a surprise. But not always. Who is not getting anything on the ❤️ and what operating system and mobile/web?
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A tribute in
@newyorker
to Corky Lee's presence in Asian American events large and small by
@huahsu
(under editorship of
@michaelluo
, editor of ). He made us visible, capturing events at a time when photography was not ubiquitous.
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In his experience, the creator of Python sees incompetent men’s ideas gaining acceptance more often than merited because they are more forceful in how they present them.
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They had to draw in the 8. because it broke the ID machine.
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New emoji for 2018 officially announced! Of the 60+ emoji characters, Emojination helped create over 40 of them: women's flat shoe, mosquito, lobster, ball of yarn, test tube, badger. Left on cutting room floor, frowning poop emoji.
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Talking with Senate staff about all the legislation that could actually get passed now. Paid family leave. Minimum wage. Also! State and local help for COVID. That will touch us on an almost immediate basis, including help for local transit budgets which were going off a cliff.
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One of my
@nytimes
articles from 2002, about spammy scammers, has been purged by Google in right to be forgotten.
http://t.co/G7zEMajYAr
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In emoji bureaucracy news, I am now one of the new vice chairs of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee.
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In 5th grade, I went down to the music room and saw 6th grade Bobby Lopez playing a song I didn’t recognize. “What are you doing?” I asked. “Writing a musical,” he said. Huh. I didn’t know people who were alive could write musicals, I thought. It’s been amazing to watch.
At 43, Robert Lopez now has two Oscars, two daytime Emmys, three Grammys, and three Tonys
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Btw. Does anyone know who the Asian guy on the inauguration dais was? In lots and lots of shots. Government friend said part of Biden’s security detail.
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A friend texted me today this thought: There comes a point when you can't make old friends anymore.
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The cost of the 2nd amendment. Darren Wilson shot more bullets than the entire British police force did last year.
http://t.co/Wc8uAM7s6D
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Introducing the chork (chopsticks+fork) from
@PandaExpress
. This is revolutionary in the history of eating utensils.
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Pokemon Tourism: where people head to cities with heavy concentrations of specific desired Pokemons. Maps at
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Alternatively, (overheard today during Dim Sum): "Pokemon GO has better for meeting people than Tinder."
on my second pokéwalk today. my friend: "this is where it's at, being single and doing pokéwalks"
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People ask female CEOs how they balance being moms, but not male MongoDB CEO about being a dad. He's choosing dad.
http://t.co/XWvGrEPGK3
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A powerful essay about a father coming to terms with white privilege and trying to explain it to his son.
http://t.co/6MFHVVnLFn
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The rock with googley eyes from Everything Everywhere All at Once sold for $13,200 in an A24 auction to raise money for Asian Mental Health Project. And this is just the stunt double rock!
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So
@emojination
proposed the kneeling emoji using
@pleaseenjoy
images below, and it passed with these as reference images. But except for Google and
@jenniferdaniel
all the other vendors made it on two knees🧎♀️ 🧎♂️ , which basically has the OPPOSITE meaning.
I realized there was no "Kneeling" emoji so I designed it two years ago. Hello
@unicode
, can we please make this happen?
#blacklifematters
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Sorry to Bother You premiere at
#sundance
! Directed by Boots Riley. Cast includes Lakeith Stanfield, Arnie Hammer, Tessa Thompson, Steve Yuen, Donald Glover.
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I’m allowed to say this now: But tonight I’m going to be appearing on
@JimmyKimmelLive
for my
@emojination
work. Pre-taped field produced segment. I’ve been 🛌 🤒 all day today, so not in LA. It’s a fun piece I’m told. I don’t have a TV so tell me how it is!
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So amazing to see so many of our emoji from
@emojination
finally hit iOS! Including LLAMA, LEAFY GREENS, LOBSTER, MOSQUITO, HIPPO, TOILET PAPER, WOMAN’S FLAT SHOE, DNA, MOONCAKE, BALL OF YARN, TOOTH, LEAFY GREENS, BAGEL, BROOM, TEST TUBE, BONE and many others.
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Wow.
@zenefits
had 15 employees beginning of December. They just hired their 237th employee.
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Upworthy is now finding that descriptive headlines overtake the teasing ones as other media outlets use them.
http://t.co/CHSb1pLQrh
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Just found 2005 interview notes on my computer with
@sacca
(then at Google) about
@paulg
and
@ycombinator
for this.
http://t.co/QxdEdlGfDL
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