Gilad Gray

ux engineer - formerly responsible for - drinks hipster coffee daily - enjoys a good adventure often

[Gilad Gray @giladgray]

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[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

People often assume that capitalism is defined by "markets and trade". But markets and trade existed for thousands of years before capitalism. Capitalism is only 500 years old. So what is distinctive about this economic system? Three things (well, more, but three for now):

[Gilad Gray @giladgray]

Wordle 207 3/6

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[Gilad Gray @giladgray]

Wordle 204 3/6

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[Oregon 🕎🎲 @OregontheDM]

since y'all watching muppet Christmas stuff thought I'd remind you this exists #dnd

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Dashers aren't stupid. They know that the difference between a profitable @Doordash delivery and one where they earn less than they spend on gas is the size of the tip they get at the end of the job.

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[Vaad HaBadchanim @VaadHaBadchanim]

For those missing the sound of leyning

***sound up***

[Gilad Gray @giladgray]

Top 🧵

[Sim Kern @sim_kern]

If any of you are under the impression that our billionaires might succeed in "escaping" to space, while the world burns, let me put those fears to rest with what I know from being the spouse of a NASA flight controller. 🧵

[Gilad Gray @giladgray]

Conceptual integrity! If you make software, read this essay today.

[Gilad Gray @giladgray]

Great thread

[Robert G. Reeve @RobertGReeve]

I'm back from a week at my mom's house and now I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand, the brand I've been putting in my mouth for a week. We never talked about this brand or googled it or anything like that.

As a privacy tech worker, let me explain why this is happening. 🧵

[Gilad Gray @giladgray]

@anfeardathuil Rejoice, for we as a society have been benefiting from this joke for nearly 40 years now!

[Gilad Gray @giladgray]

@anfeardathuil Weird Al released that song in 1983 👨‍🎤

[Gilad Gray @giladgray]

This thread 🎨

[Tomer Hanuka @tropical_toxic]

Penni Xiaoyi Peng

[Jack Hamilton @jack_hamilton]

this conan o'brien prank remains the best prank i've ever heard about

[Gilad Gray @giladgray]

Oh Experian doesn't even do passwords, they do a 5-10 digit PIN, cool cool cool

[Gilad Gray @giladgray]

Mom got scammed on the internet* and now she's filing credit freezes with the three Credit Bureaus* and these Guardians of Identity Theft* have password length limits* 🤯

* Fuck that noise

[Jon Hansen @JonHansenTalks]

The former traffic reporter in me couldn’t resist giving you a Suez Canal traffic update...

[Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey]

Passing racist laws should be one of the most serious crimes in the criminal code.

[Gilad Gray @giladgray]

Big boat