Aaron Parecki

My friend’s 3 year old daughter asked her mom when she will stop watching the “map show”

One silver lining of the entire shitshow: mainstream TV/media outlets reporting on the elections via data visualization and casual, real-time simulation browsing. 📊
To me that indicates increased sophistication/data competency in the mainstream audience. That’s good! 💪

Data visualization insights:
Land doesn't vote. People do.
#USElection2020

Me meeting Randall Munroe: hey, big fan of the comic, feel free to let me know if you ever have any linguistics questions!
Randall Munroe:

Words to replace "crazy": strange, preposterous, ridiculous, remarkable, silly, weird.

Possibly bananas? How do people feel about bananas

Look, I'm just fantasizing about some crazy scenario where the person more people voted for becomes president.

All the maps are bad, that’s my take. All maps are bad, as are computers and the internet. It was all a mistake.

Regardless of how this election goes, millions upon millions of people will have chosen small-minded bigotry over an inclusive, open society. Where do we go from here?

Accurate.

Those nutjobs who want to break Cascadia off into it’s own country are sounding a bit less nutjobby tonight.

Content creators/influencers not liking being called content creators/influencers feels exactly like Emo kids in the 2000’s not liking being called Emo kids.

I just wanted to say thank you to @Blackmagic_News for the latest firmware update for the ATEM Mini line. Really nice to NOT have to reload all graphics into the media player for every livestream. Dimmable buttons are nice as well. 👍

An effort to standardize a robust defense against #OAuth Mix-Up attacks: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-meyerzuselhausen-oauth-iss-auth-resp-01.html

"Normals" *hate* markdown with the heat of a million burning Californian developers' ranches, and feel trapped by it because devs always say it's "easy."

It's *literally* HTML version -2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Generalized_Markup_Language

At Conde Nast, we had hundreds of editors producing articles in Markdown. It was a disaster, and has taken *years* to clean up. The fundamental problem is that *everything* is valid markdown, so it's unparseable.

"It turned out that threatening to reveal all your private data if you unsubscribe really reduced our churn!"

Okay, @prezi, I'm not sure you've properly thought through the privacy implications of this one.

I legit don't know how these YouTuber have the patience to edit AT ALL. Good lord.

Next week has been exhausting.