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Why aren't we better educated on the policy issues that govern the technology we use every day of our lives? Here's my argument from @TEDxBoulder for why you should care as a citizen (and how to get started).
caroline mccarthy 🦝
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caroline mccarthy 🦝
@caro
Tech optimist ✌🏻 | Xoogler, TED Resident | Infuriating centrist Abundance YIMBY, pro-nuclear, pro-🍄, pro-resurrecting saber tooth cats 🐈⬛
- Peter Mayhew was kept under close watch on the Northern California set of “Return of the Jedi” out of the fear that if he wandered off set in his Chewbacca costume he’d be shot by hunters who thought he was BigfootWhat is a fact that sounds like a shitpost but is 100 percent real?
- I’m voting for Andrew Yang in the Democratic primary.
- I was today years old when I learned that there were two assassination attempts on Gerald Ford, both were within the same month, and both perpetrators were women. Once again as a millennial I don’t think I will ever be able to grasp how insane the ‘70s were.
- Replying to @caroThinking of pulling a Tom Sawyer and getting Twitter trads to pay for the privilege of doing our invasive plant management this year. It’ll be like spa day!
- I feel the need to issue a friendly reminder to my friends on both sides of the political aisle that Kanye is a master of attention and all this is part of it. Lefties: Stop getting outraged about how he's allegedly "redpilled." Righties: No, he isn't really on your team now.
- Really missing @AndrewYang’s off-the-cuff, plain-spoken remarks in this debate. Without him everyone seems so much more rehearsed.
- That's the daily resistance and mobility training, silly! ;)
- Mini thread: If you spend about 5 minutes on the @AndrewYang subreddit (/r/YangForPresidentHQ) you’ll encounter people saying that they’d never been excited for a candidate before and that the current state of affairs had made them literally depressed. It’s really remarkable.
- I have legit sympathy for New Yorkers who live in true transit deserts, but kudos to whoever got an interview with the guy who lives in one of the most expensive and transit-rich parts of the city and claims he has to drive to see his kids who live less than 20 blocks awayCONGESTION PRICING: Upper East Side resident Andrew lives on 61st street and 5th Avenue, in Congestion "Relief" zone, the second he moves his car, he’s hit with a toll. His kids live on 79th street and he will have to pay congestion price every time he goes to see them.
00:00 - Replying to @daveweigelYang was pushed offstage before in part because of a December polling drought. And then he turns around and gets the four polls he would need to qualify in a single ten-hour period.
