Aaron Parecki

Dear corporations and venture capital firms making supportive posts and vowing to be part of the solution,

I am available to join your board.

#RepresentationMatters

Hi if you have white privilege you can't renounce or ditch it.

Entire systems and structures have been set up to give you unearned advantages. Many of the conditions of yr life, education, career, health, home, etc have unearned advantages.

Face this, AND do antiracist work.

Black Lives Matter.

That's an objective truth. It baffles me that it is considered a controversial/political statement in an industry that prides itself on logic and facts.

#TechTwitter, we need to do better.

As @danielpunkass described, this is a solid move. You literally can’t do anything else in For You, Browse, or Radio except listen to this Beats1 station. Love this from @AppleMusic

And for the complainers, you can still search and access your library. Calm down.

Apple Music just fucking snapped. Blocked all the stations and you can only hear Black music

People are saying that whitelist/blacklist are etymologically not discriminatory and have nothing to do with races. You're probably correct, but there are modern connotations, so the etymology doesn't matter.

Everyone in the tech industry has come across the terms "whitelist"(desirable) and "blacklist"(undesirable). We should start deprecating this terms for less racially charged language, like "safelist", "blocklist". Tech can be less exclusionary @venikunche @EmmaBostian @ugonna_t

While I don’t pretend to have all the answers, I’m encouraging creators to create and post their content for the people who need it and rely on them.

But to respectfully not push or promote in conversation platforms.
Respect that.

I feel it’s an appropriate balance.

Everyone Shut up.

I don't normally share my thoughts on important topics because I hate confrontation, but y'all have irritated me to the point of vocality.

Want to amplify black voices? Then listen to me. You better fucking share this.

This is going to be a long ass thread

Here are a bunch of Portland Black-Owned Businesses you can choose to shop at this week. https://mercatuspdx.com/directory/black-owned-businesses/

Podcasters! You have America's ear. Develop talking points as a group and get these into your shows every damn day from now until the election. You have more power than you think. @romanmars @jatomic @iraglass @marcmaron @fakedansavage @JadAbumrad

Shouts out to this Woman for nearly busting this mans head for pushing protesters. We not letting this slide no more

ppl out here think ethics in tech is just about using diverse illustrations on their landing page, and not whether their apps can be used as tools of the police state

"Happy Birthday to y-"
"ALL BIRTHDAYS MATTER!"

The system isn't "broken"; it has been intentionally evolved over hundreds of years to continue to legally oppress, harass, and kill Black Americans without consequences. All non-Black Americans have contributed to and benefited from this oppression. #BlackLivesMatter

The phase "what are you going to do about it?" should never come out of a cop's mouth.

My latest: A dispatch from the Failing States of America.

How Western media would cover Minneapolis if it happened in another country https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/29/how-western-media-would-cover-minneapolis-if-it-happened-another-country/

i feel sorry the kids who are gonna study 2020 in history 😭, this chapter is HEFTY.

Boy you’d think a country that can equip every cop like a soldier could equip every doctor like a doctor

why is the active voice used for protestors (“protestors struck a journalist”) but not for police (“a photographer was shot,” “a reporter was hit”)?