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rabble
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rabble
@rabble
Hacker and hopeless optimist
I built divine.video as a way of reclaiming social media by and for humans, social media for people not AI or corporations
- In the Irish potato famine there was enough food but the land owners exported the wheat and let the population try and survive on blighted potatos. Plowing under crops when food shelters are overwhelmed is immoral.WATCH: As California farmers make the hard decision to plow through crops no one is buying, analysts say the drop in food supply will be felt in a few months by consumers eager to buy produce at grocery stores reut.rs/2KbuZ9X
00:00 - If you want to understand what happened with Shadow and the failure of the Iowa Caucus app you have to understand how electoral campaign tech work is done and funded. Let me tell you a story to make sense of it.
- Twitter is important, but it's always been vulnerable as a company. When Twitter does something which upsets the community of users, it is often due to this vulnerability. Let me tell you a little known story about an earlier time a billionaire tried a hostile takeover of twitter
- The thing that pisses me off is the board and Parag were doing the “right” thing by selling for maximized shareholder value that then destroyed everything they’d built. How is this ok? The twitter shareholders got a payday but employees, users, and society all lose.
- "A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation." @petrogustavo Mayor of Bogota
- just setting up my twttr
- Replying to @rabbleThe caucus app is firebase / react app built by one senior engineer who’s not done mobile apps and a bunch of folks who were very recent code academy graduates who as of a couple months ago worked as a prep cook for Starbucks and receptionist at Regus.
- Replying to @rabbleThere is no way they could succeed. The problem is structural, the way we’re funding campaign tech is wrong. We need it to be based on open source technology, we need a community of companies, parties, and third party groups funding it. It needs to have funding between cycles.
- Replying to @rabbleThe company has always been more important to its users and society than it has been a cash cow. Today it's profitable, but that's almost an accident. Twitter is a 'public good' sustained by a private company with stock that anybody can buy.
- Replying to @rabbleThat's why twitter bought TweetDeck and then didn't do anything with it. The whole point was to take TweetDeck away from Bill Gross, prevent it from being used as a weapon against twitter.
- Replying to @rabbleWhat should have been done? The app shouldn’t have been built. This didn’t require an app. There are lots of ways to submit and verify vote counts without needing a custom app. At least they kept the paper backup. The sexy desire to have an app is something we should avoid.
- The presidents of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile today vs in the 70's. We've made real progress!
- Replying to @sighborgsGee I was five when I was shamed in to not wearing dresses at kindergarten. Oh wait. Maybe we should start believing kids and their own understanding of their gender and sexuality. Cute story, and come back line by the dad anyway.
