Aaron Parecki

The mask debate, like virtually every other major conflict in American politics, can be boiled down to "I don't know how to convince you to care about other people."

I’m beginning to think “hindsight is 2020” was some kind of message from a future time traveler that we all misunderstood.

👁👄👁 masterfully harnessed:
-Boredom
-FOMO
-TestFlight exclusivity
-Memes
-Social cults

...to parody the startup hype cycle, distract us from *everything*, and raise money for charity.

That is what the Internet is...for.

This kind of vile slander might poison minds and further divide our country, but it also makes facebook a ton of money, so it's impossible to say if it's good or not

I spend a bunch of time scheduling games & social time with international (mostly western) friends and the discussion of timezone conversion is often a lot so I made this tool so I can say things like "I'm free in orange & green times tomorrow". Hopefully it's useful to others?

It is a great art piece 🔥https://twitter.com/itiseyemoutheye/status/1276729816469975040?s=20

👁👄👁 WHAT IT REALLY IS 👁👄👁

if we stop checking people’s immigration status we would see a lot less undocumented immigration

also looks like the mac is getting touch soon.

*looks at the uploads list*

@JmacDotOrg I assume.

I mean yeah who is the likeliest "webmentions talk at a perlish conference" person.

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I completely agree. Physical conferences exclude the vast majority of the community they are serving... almost 100% of the time. Streaming the live proceedings isn’t the same.

Building for the online audience exclusively - allows nearly everyone to join in.

It’s the future.

controversial take but if you’ve demonstrated that videos you made 9 years ago don’t represent your worldview anymore- then people who throw that back at your face even after you had hid those vids are not doing it out of care for progress. they’re just assholes.

What YouTube looked like in 2009 when we aired Episode 100 of Halo 3 Tricks. I took this screenshot when the video hit 111,777 views. Because of course. #TBT

Humans are never perfect, and if more people were like Jenna and were able to recognize, apologise, learn and actually do better over time, isn't that what we all strive to do? To always try and do better?

I guarantee people are learning more about history reading about why statues are being torn down than they ever learned by looking at those statues.

“If your system doesn’t treat usability as a primary concern it will be use(r)less.” — Me, just now

100% This "In a nutshell, #IndieWeb is about using the World Wide Web itself as a social network, through a set of open standards for communication and identification of content and people." https://davidyat.es/2019/06/24/indieweb/ #edtechchat #oer