Aaron Parecki

So..

100k+ people died and we debated the ethics of lockdown and public good versus personal freedom.

1 police station was burned and a couple 100 stores looted. And we have national guard enforced curfews in cities across the nation.

If you follow people to “keep tabs on them,” and denounce them, consider making a private list instead.

People won’t be alerted that you follow them when they click to their profile. Follows and RT are endorsements. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Headline of the day.

the data is stored for all time. it's sold to parties who are never disclosed. you will never get the data back and never learn who has access to it. you will never get to "undo" the tracking.

so some laws need to change around all that, i think.

note: we've deleted the data

I’m a fan of this post by @aaronpk covering the topic. Made it easy for me to understand the problem.

https://aaronparecki.com/2020/05/31/30/the-real-cause-of-the-sign-in-with-apple-zero-day

it would certainly be SHOCKING if one of those imperative OSS npm packages that every single FAANG company relies on...idk went offline until they fix their shit??

there's like 39,951 options here 👀

The number of times I get blocked for just correcting people based on history is hilarious. It's okay to be wrong as long as you let yourself change to right.

There's a million and one reasons why the "few bad apples" argument is BS, but I feel like there's really no excuse for it after seeing video after video of the MANY MANY bad apples being sent to mis-handle this situation right now every day.

These are not the words of a president. They are the words of a dictator.

“I am dispatching thousands of thousands of heavily armed soldiers” - a sentence I expect to hear from leaders of authoritarian countries, not the President of the United States, in reference to my own city

Not impressed by the care taken in crafting these messages. No matter how patient you may endeavor to be, it proves trying to simply accept a note like this one:

Validate user input. Sounds simple and sensible until it gets forgotten.