caroline mccarthy 🦝

Tech optimist ✌🏻 | Xoogler, TED Resident | Infuriating centrist Abundance YIMBY, pro-nuclear, pro-🍄, pro-resurrecting saber tooth cats 🐈‍⬛

[caroline mccarthy 🦝 @caro]

Why aren't we better educated on the policy issues that govern the technology we use every day of our lives? Here's my argument from @tedxboulder for why you should care as a citizen (and how to get started). https://t.co/xlXBt5vIlE

[caroline mccarthy 🦝 @caro]

@owenthomas @SwarmApp @kerrymflynn you rang?

[caroline mccarthy 🦝 @caro]

@alexisohanian (And it is not wholly voters' faults. With the exception of outsider candidates like @AndrewYang, politicians have never prioritized tech policy in platforms or engaged voters around it because it doesn't fit an easy left-right dichotomy.)

[caroline mccarthy 🦝 @caro]

@alexisohanian It's going to be way messier than anyone thinks. I gave a talk in 2019 about how voters needed to start taking tech policy seriously or otherwise it was going to be determined without them. And now we're seeing the latter scenario play out.

https://t.co/xlXBt5vIlE

[caroline mccarthy 🦝 @caro]

@michaelmiraflor I agree. They announced this one on unusually short notice, which makes me think it’s more or less already set up to be a members’ club and they just have to throw up some decor.

[caroline mccarthy 🦝 @caro]

I just regret that I never said hi to @HunterBiden or offered him a high-five or fist bump when I was briefly his neighbor in Venice Beach.

[caroline mccarthy 🦝 @caro]

@moseskagan I completely tune people out and think less of them if they refer to normie U.S. political candidates as "commies." It signals to me that they are not serious people and that social media and its need for hyperbole has broken their brains.

[Bay Area New Liberals 🌐 @BayAreaNewLibs]

Some of us really tried to warn them, but tech guys are not good at politics.

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

I think the normalization of vulgarity and barbarism in politics is bad, but Trump and the new right mainstreamed it. When Rob Reiner and his wife were brutally murdered, Trump danced on their graves, and the right thought it was hilarious. When he mocks widowers, the right thinks it's hilarious. When JD Vance was asked if he would apologize for slandering Alex Pretti as an assassin after the feds killed him in cold blood, Vance smirked to show just how much he does not care about Americans being murdered by his administration, and the right loved that too. You can't break all the rules of decorum, say "Fuck your feelings," which the right has, and then cry like a baby when people treat you the way you treat them.

[caroline mccarthy 🦝 @caro]

My family is from Augusta and I cannot underscore just how much Collins' last opponent sucked. She moved to Maine from Rhode Island and immediately ran for office. She repped Freeport, aka Maine Disneyland. She wore white jeans and boat shoes to campaign in Bangor. BANGOR.

[caroline mccarthy 🦝 @caro]

Six years ago I went against the grain and shared the unpopular take that Susan Collins' opponent who was allegedly ahead by 10 points in the polls was probably going to lose. I was right.

In case anyone cares about what I think this time around: Platner is legitimately ahead.

[caroline mccarthy 🦝 @caro]

*cracks knuckles loudly*

GOOD MORNING, TWITTER

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[caroline mccarthy 🦝 @caro]

Startup life: "I'm trying to dig up the conversation about post-launch push notification strategy but everyone in that channel on Discord just started talking about subway rats and so I have to go through all the subway rat messages to find it."

[caroline mccarthy 🦝 @caro]

@IamTheSherm Pretty much

[caroline mccarthy 🦝 @caro]

So I got to have the best morning of my life today

[caroline mccarthy 🦝 @caro]

@mvanhorn @willium @kevinrose @shawnfanning @davemorin OMG DAVE

[caroline mccarthy 🦝 @caro]

@mvanhorn @willium @kevinrose TBH, the Path launch story I wrote remains one of my faves of all time https://t.co/5I1kUyn4No

[caroline mccarthy 🦝 @caro]

@willium @mvanhorn @kevinrose OMFG throwback. Also, Path was such a vibe

[caroline mccarthy 🦝 @caro]

A signal that @Tesla sees its Robotaxis as a real business: It's raised prices. My client @obiriders just released new data that shows the average fare is up by 41% in San Francisco in just three months. https://t.co/LH1jPG5l3F

[Congressman Jared Moskowitz @RepMoskowitz]

Nearly 65 years after John F. Kennedy challenged America to go to the Moon, we’re on our way back.

Godspeed to the incredible astronauts aboard Artemis II as they embark on their historic journey to the final frontier.

As America’s Space Coast, Florida couldn’t be more proud.

[caroline mccarthy 🦝 @caro]

@icebeanie Thank you! ❤️

[reason @reason]

Despite their general ignorance of constitutional law, bears pose a much less grave threat to your civil liberties than humans do.
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