Gavin Carothers

Maker of software and sawdust. Python, RDF, Graphs. @lexmachina
He/him.

[Gavin Carothers @gcarothers]

@GergelyOrosz Sounds good to me. We can do the same for all his property too right? Make sure his land is optimally utilized as well right? 100% for everything! 🙄

[Gavin Carothers @gcarothers]

@GergelyOrosz What if you used ticketing as your primary integration platform!

[Gavin Carothers @gcarothers]

@SnazzyLabs I don’t know, I guess I’d be okay if the don’t bother me about this again flag only applied if the application binary also hadn’t changed

[Soe Gschwind @Soembie]

Since so many of you requested it...

#closetcosplay 😂

Though I would love to argue that I wore this fit first and she's the cosplayer, lol.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Some Money Talk...

Because of how the P4A works, we raise money all throughout the year now, but don't send it out until after the livestream. That means that we can have as much as a million dollars in the bank for over six months. So we put that money in a CD so that it can generate a little extra income. It's 5% for six months so a meaningful amount...maybe $25,000.

The thing is, you can look at that and say, "Oh, why not just do that? Why not take all of the money the P4A has ever raised and, instead of donating it, you could earn 5% on it and then donate the 5% forever?"

This is what endowments are and that's how they work. If we did this (WHICH WE WOULD NOT (which i'll get into)) then there would be like $15M in that account and we'd be donating $750,000 per year...theoretically forever. That sounds amazing!

There are a lot of people who are very compelled by endowments like this, because the main nugget of money never goes away and is always throwing off more good into the world.

This misses something very important. It imagines that donations are one-time goods while capital throwing off money in an endowment is a forever good.

But that's not the reality. The reality is, when you donate money, the good that money does does not vanish the moment the money is spent, it continues to do good forever, you just can't see it anymore.

If you help a mother not die in childbirth, then that doesn't just do good that one time, it does good for her and her community and her children for the rest of her life...longer than the rest of her life! Her children will have the support of that person who otherwise would have died. They will continue to live healthier and better lives because they did not lose their mother as children. They will be better prepared to serve their own community and their own children. Those returns continue /forever/.

There is economic return on donations, they are just returns that you can't see as a number in your bank account. And those returns are MUCH BIGGER than 5% per year.

If you are a person with money and you have a charitable giving account and you can see that there is currently more money in that account than you have ever donated...I'm sorry but you are doing it wrong. The money needs to get out and do good now. There isn't some future time when it will be more capable of doing more good because it has grown.

It needs to get into the world. It can be doing so much good. And if you don't know what to do with it, just send us an email at [email protected]. We've got you.

[Madison | Suop @suuuoppp]

I’m baffled to hear about the “shock” of these allegations.

You’re not shocked that they happened.
You’re shocked that someone said something.

You’re probably shocked because you know evidence for most of these issues is scarce so why would anyone risk their image to speak out.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

If Lance Armstrong actually believed people are pretending to be trans to cheat at sports, he would have tried it already

[Gavin Carothers @gcarothers]

@mholt6 @Cloudflare I went with porkbun for those. But don’t have enough experience to say if this is going to go well or not.

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

Last week, a boat carrying ~750 desperate refugees sank off the coast of #Greece -- only 104 survived.

Today, a search is on for a submersible carrying 5 wealthy individuals in the Atlantic.

Both are tragedies, but one achieved hour-to-hour media coverage.

Guess which...

[May Contain Nuts @mccannst]

And the average tax burden is higher in Texas than it is in California.

The only people who get a tread break in Texas are billionaires:

[Alexandra Petri @petridishes]

an absolutely grueling read that makes me want to chew glass https://t.co/KRqQ9S9eAy

[Gavin Carothers @gcarothers]

@IanCutress I know there used to be a web app that could read them for fish tank test strips. No idea if that survived into the modern era.

[Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama]

People on Twitter are legit arguing that Anne Frank talking about her sexuality wasn’t pertinent to the story she was telling IN HER LITERAL DIARY and I CANT I JUST CANT, SOME OF YOU ARE TOO STUPID TO BE TRUSTED WITH THE MEANING OF A SWISS CHEESE SANDWICH

[virtue (here for 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️) @activevirtues]

I taught for over a decade. My first year teaching, a girl I taught got caught kissing another girl behind the gymnasium. She begged our admin not to tell them it was a girl - just say she got caught kissing someone. They refused.

The next day she came in with a swollen jaw.

[ACLU @ACLU]

This Trans Day of Visibility, remember: Trans people exist – and have for thousands of years.

Trans people deserve to live as who we are and be treated with dignity and respect.

[The Onion @TheOnion]

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens https://t.co/LrNke2WimM

[actioncookbook @actioncookbook]

EUROPEANS: I don’t understand how so many Americans don’t have passports
ALSO EUROPEANS: I am coming to the US for three days and I would like to see Disney World, the Grand Canyon, Hawaii and New York. Any advice?

[Gavin Carothers @gcarothers]

@EWDurbin … where did you find one under 200?!