Sean Williamson

I asked a group of 6 year olds to 'Pitch me a new film idea' Move over Hollywood A THREAD

I don't know how else to put this, it really appears that capitalism has basically created fraud as a tradeable asset class so Wall Street can bet on timing the crooks and schemes directly now.

Dear all developers who build UIs - stop refreshing content on app load! It is infuriating to start a click action/gesture only to have a UI swap out under you, use "Click to Refresh". Anything that _may_ interrupt a user's input *will*. The industry has taken a wrong path.

Well, here I am again. This does not bode well…

@aaronoellis “What are you, a Russian Tsar?”

@aaronoellis I wonder how the corpus has changed - word complexity and all that jazz

Cannot believe this needs saying again... Breonna Taylor’s murderers are Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankinson and Myles Cosgrove. One has been fired, two are still being PAID. Where are their arrests? Prosecutions? Prison Time?

Super clever approach to stop companies who are accelerating climate change through fossil fuel extraction: >> Go after the open-source code they depend on. Get major open-source software libraries to use this: 🌏Climate Strike Software License #climate-strike-software" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/climate-strike…

@cmyeaton This is Hong Kong 2 days ago. During rush hour. 96 active cases out of 7.5 million people. They get 99.9% voluntary compliance. No community spread in 15 days.

A friend who lives in Thailand wrote me this: The mask and mutual respect is why Thailand with 70 million citizens has only lost 58 to covid. Think about that. Mutual respect. Doing what's right for the common good.

A "line of best fit" from the Deloitte report that is being used to adjust university fees.

@drisoremus React is so 2019. HTML + minimum JS is 2020 😄✌️

@leftside Big +1 to that

Patagonia is proud to join the Stop Hate for Profit campaign. We will pull all ads on Facebook and Instagram, effective immediately, through at least the end of July, pending meaningful action from the social media giant.

Facebook is now worth $650 billion largely due to the monetization of our data. How much of that value are users seeing? At this point Facebook should be paying users for the privilege of using our data.

The pandemic caused a major decrease in CO2 emissions and the fact that we can't wait to get everything up and running at full steam again tells you everything you need to know about our commitment to climate change as a society.

me explaining parser combinators

Thanks to anti-spam regulation 17 years ago, unsubscribing from marketing emails has become a familiar task. Now we need the same consistency across websites to make it easy to opt out of data collection and request data removal. cylab.cmu.edu/news/2020/06/1…

@ZillySqueaks @LesseFrost

Voting by mail should be implemented nationwide. Pass it on.