Nicholas Abel

I don't tweet often (read: ever), but like everyone else, I'm scanning the room, checking who left, and trying to decide if I can even pretend everything is the same.

@WestSeaWx Thank God. The world needs you. Or at least Twitter does.

UPDATE: Marked improvement in symptoms, no fever for over 24 hrs, mild cough (not constant) minor aches, lethargy. Still moderate/severe chest/rib pain but overall body, respiratory improvement. Been nearly a month since I've felt this good, finally beating this virus.

A very different view of Seattle when flying into @PaineField on @AlaskaAir. Downtown, Lake Union, and The Mountain! #iflyalaska #wawx @NWSSeattle

one of those days

Wordle 272 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 @sjnglim Haha! Sauced!

Congratulations @powerlanguish! I'm always see a personal project, the kind to which we give our valuable time, and share freely, rewarded with good karma. You deserve this! New York Times Buys Wordle wsj.com/articles/new-y…

A quick thread about something I find interesting: A specific visual aesthetic that is 100% lost to time. It's just gone. Nobody cares about it. Nobody is replicating it for nostalgia. Most people don't even know how it was done. Let's start with this video (via @stevesi)…

@johntamny Or, could it be that an optimized and decentralized global economy has little ability to absorb systemic shock. A global economy is highly exposed to truly global disasters, like COVID. And redundancy and overstock is fat to be cut by classic business logic.

#SupplyChains aren't some tangible object; rather they're a miracle consequence of billions of workers entering into trillions of commercial arrangements. These were vitiated by command-n-control in 2020. No shortages, no inflation. Just central planning. forbes.com/sites/johntamn…

The storm track returns to Western Washington much of next week. The 1st system will arrive on Sunday with a 2nd on its heels for Monday. Unsettled conditions persist into Tuesday with snow levels dipping as low as 5000 feet. Stay tuned for additional details this weekend. #wawx

@richgel999 I think Epic saw this as a way to buy customers, which seems to be the standard for neuveau-riche Epic. RAD is familiar, more than anything else. Maybe this gets Unreal in the door at orgs who currently roll their own legacy tech. We'll see what happens to current employees.

My current opinion of the RAD->Epic buyout event: the valuation factored in IP+talent+brand. It was a good deal for Epic. We have many contacts at very big tech corps who care about this which have influenced this opinion.

@Osso_VR @GSRVentures @SignalFire @OCAVentures @ScrumVentures @vatortv Congrats to @jbhungry and all of Osso. Y'all deserve this. I know ;)

We’re so excited to share that Osso VR secured $27M in Series B funding, led by @GSRVentures, with participation from @SignalFire, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, @OCAVentures, @ScrumVentures, Leslie Ventures and Anorak Ventures. Read more from @vatortv! hubs.la/H0RNmMW0

@GailSimone Ageism is another huge issue. There are a lot of older men and women playing games, yet when was the last time you saw a playable badass grandma or grandpa. Again? Small minds at the top think kids can't handle having someone older than their parents in the character select.

I worked with three massive video game franchises in the past couple years where women working on them each individually told me their bosses were shocked and unprepared for the number of women and girls buying their games. Some expressed disbelief rather than delight.

@GailSimone And that's to say nothing of the straight misogyny that remains rampant in the industry. At all levels.

@GailSimone This is my favorite tweet ever. I think it come down to respect and trust, neither of which corporate has for their audience. They're so damn scared of insulting what they think is their core demographics (needy boys with complexes I guess) that they willingly shut out women.

This was not the first time that a group of Americans decided that winning an election was more important than maintaining a democracy. 53eig.ht/2REoKTp

I get the longing--I even share it--but the naivete is annoying. Online pundits should know (and factor in) that social media as a "public square" where "good faith debate" happens is a thing of the past. Disagreement here happens through trolling, sea-lioning, ratios, dunks.

BREAKING: Access Fund Purchases Climbing Areas in Leavenworth! bit.ly/3d2BUOx

absolutely devastated after going down to pitch in at the capitol hill autonomous zone organizing tent only to find out the anarchist commune already has an L2 AWS cloud solutions engineer