Aaron Parecki

lol the tech underlying all of this is so bad on like every level (concept, architecture, implementation, policy and enforcement, operations)

Yeah this country sucks and all, but that isn't right. The Mercator map projection was created in Europe in the 1550s. And like other people have pointed out, it has to do with trying to plot a globe onto a rectangular piece of paper. Things closer to the poles are distorted more

After a couple of people told me the Alaska in a map graphic I did needed to be smaller to be in proportion to the rest of the states, I had to tell them the unsettling truth: Alaska is Too Big

The messaging around NFT's and Web3 'giving the power back to the people and to artists' is the same as the early days of streaming and the gig economy and we all know how that went.

Face ID for parents really means you can be relaxing in a chair and all of a sudden an 8year old hand appears with your phone, waving it across your face

1. This is a good idea.
2. This wouldn't be so needed in a healthy community.
3. I sure hope Twitter is collecting data on who keeps starting threads people don't want to be in and then going upstream to moderate those people.

the key thing to understand about NFTs and the entire cryptocurrency space is if you think you haven't understood it correctly because it can't possibly be that stupid, you have in fact understood it correctly

Not enough people note that podcasting is an open, decentralized, surveillance-resistant medium, and that much of the content wars happening around it are about trying to turn it into proprietary, locked-in, creator-hostile conventional tech.

a nice thing about writing with less jargon is that if what I'm saying doesn't make sense, it's easy for readers to call me on it

if you use a lot of impenetrable jargon, people will often think the problem is with *them* instead of with your writing

A man is "shirtless" while a woman is "topless." One might say this refers to women's larger variety of clothing options. More intriguingly, it implies we have not decided on men's orientation in space. Who knows where the top of a man is

when you are patiently waiting for someone to get back to you and telling yourself how busy they must be and you see them tweet their #Wordle board every morning

fwiw, I understand why people have this sentiment, but never feel like you can’t have a life (even a social media life) because someone has emailed you. Everyone knows these are different parts of our lives.

Me: “This video is not sponsored.”

Comments: “Must be nice to get all that money for being a salesman.”

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I have to admit that I was a little bit jealous when my friend told me that he was going to use OAuth 2.0 in his application. I mean, the protocol is not really that exciting.