🧵Today is one of the darkest days yet in modern journalism. I want to write a thread about the martyrdom of journalists Abu Hatab & Omar Zaino, who are among the 30+ people massacred at a café journalists used for its WiFi, and about Bayan Anu Sultan, who was badly wounded.
Rep. Maxine Waters: "If Trump wants to start looking so closely to find those who were born here and their parents were undocumented, maybe he ought to first look at Melania.....We don't know whether or not her parents were documented. And maybe we better just take a look."
I think it really is a thing, like a shift in the core values of technology makers. There’s like a frontier between “boring and reliably works every time” on the left and “spectacular when it works but regularly fails” on the right and we used to stay much closer to the left.
I feel like a turning point here was the release of Siri which sent a signal to the industry that it’s ok to ship half baked stuff that doesn’t do what it’s supposed to reliably and we have just steadily inched further in that direction ever since
Am I boomer or is true that for a brief period from between maybe about 15 to about 8 years ago or so it really seemed like technology just basically worked in a way that it largely just doesn’t anymore