Eric L. Yan

I break things at scale.

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

It’s wild that Aaron Swartz was aggressively prosecuted for scraping JSTOR articles.

Meanwhile huge companies routinely scrape the public internet and sell it for $20/month and all is well.

Aaron helped create RSS, Creative Commons, Markdown and a little site called Reddit (which now ironically sells its data to AI companies) - all by the age of 26.

All he wanted was free and open access to information. Really makes you wonder the dent he’d have made on the world if he was still alive today.

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

This is because their trip to Europe is the only time 95% of Americans walk for more than 10 minutes a day.

[@[email protected] - Bill Woodcock @woodyatpch]

Google takes a big step backward in their connectivity to the rest of the Internet:

[Eric L. Yan @ericlyan]

🔥This 🔥 is 🔥fine 🔥

[Adam Rackis @AdamRackis]

Server actions 🔥

[Rachel Tobac @RachelTobac]

🚨Turn off new default Twitter audio and video calling feature to prevent unwanted interactions🚨
Just went to my direct message settings here and found audio and video calling enabled by default (new feature, rolling out over time).
Highly recommend disabling this to prevent unwanted calls, contact, and potential harassment.
If this is going to exist, it should be opt in only (not require opting out — an action that many won’t know to take).

[Eric L. Yan @ericlyan]

In 🇳🇱 the NL-Alert system is tested every first Monday of the month. If such test scared 70% of people, it may suggest that the federal government should do this more often.

[Jimmy Patronis @JimmyPatronis]

Was this really necessary? The federal government just scared 70%+ of American with this alert. This is way too much Federal Government for me. FM/AM radio and Broadcast TV is plenty to get your alerts out.

[GermanForeignOffice @GermanyDiplo]

Yes. And it’s called saving lives.

[Jon Burke 🌍 @jonburkeUK]

"Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of...communities." ― Jane Jacobs

[Eric L. Yan @ericlyan]

LOL

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@teslaownersSV Block is going to be deleted as a “feature”, except for DMs

[Eric L. Yan @ericlyan]

@lpoinsig LOL🤣

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

The Las Vegas Council unanimously approved the Boring Company's plan to build 68 miles of Tesla's tunnel (unproven technology) in 15.5 minutes. In the same meeting, they spent 52 minutes discussing whether a homeowner should be allowed to build a vestibule...

[Eric L. Yan @ericlyan]

Meanwhile in Gotham City...

[Eric L. Yan @ericlyan]

As a road user,
I want my vehicle to be practically invisible,
So that I became a road hazard.
#ShitUserStory

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Practically invisible

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Went from “free speech!” to “here’s how much speech you can see”

[Eric L. Yan @ericlyan]

🍿

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@anothercohen The reality is that this guy (who is independently wealthy) did no actual work, claimed as his excuse that he had a disability that prevented him from typing, yet was simultaneously tweeting up a storm.

Can’t say I have a lot of respect for that.

[Eric L. Yan @ericlyan]

This is why so many people hates math: mass failure in math education.

[Eric L. Yan @ericlyan]

Whaaat? That’s my favourite show.

[Robert J Frey @financequant]

Shakespeare, Orwell, Tolkien, TV programs such as “Yes, Minister”, … have all been flagged as dangerous right wing literature by the “Prevent” scheme set up in the UK as a counter-terrorism program. https://t.co/EiK22DAaoX

[Eric L. Yan @ericlyan]

Hey @FTC, got this one for ya.