Jack Jackson

Senior SDE, formerly at Amazon Music. Opinions expressed are my own. He/him. Unused account - find me at @[email protected] or

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[Jack Jackson @jacksquaredson]

It's been a good run, Twitter. Find me at @[email protected] and/or https://t.co/a1WT1L6ltO

[Jack Jackson @jacksquaredson]

@docvalentine

[Imani Gandy is at BlueSky Now @AngryBlackLady]

Wow. I mean. WOW. The under the breath congratulations…

[Jack Jackson @jacksquaredson]

This *has* to be parody. There's no way someone let him honestly think this?

[Jack Jackson @jacksquaredson]

Reinstating Trump the weekend of the World Cup is an...interesting choice.

A way to spin "we fell over because of high load" as a positive thing ("because Trump is so popular")? Or just literally didn't think about the interaction of two massive load-generating events?

[Jack Jackson @jacksquaredson]

@hunterwalk @sriramk Oh, we know it's of interest to some people.

People who have been brainwashed by capitalism into poor boundary setting, and who can't tell the difference between a promising startup and a company that's just been mortally gutted.

"Good/worthwhile" is different from interesting

[Jack Jackson @jacksquaredson]

@f3ew @BobTechThoughts @norootcause Terry Pratchett (et al.), "The Science Of Discworld" - I don't have an appropriate URL to link, but that explores it too! Calling teachers (respectfully) "Liars-to-Children"

GNU Terry Pratchett

[Jack Jackson @jacksquaredson]

As the famous Mark Twain quote says, "When everybody is digging for gold, it's good to be competing with them for ever-decreasing slivers of opportunity"

[Jack Jackson @jacksquaredson]

Man, the replies to this are really proving the point.

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

I’ve figured out why Musk and Twitter bothers me so much:

It’s so distinctly the sensation of being bullied

[Jack Jackson @jacksquaredson]

@crypitos @brentonwalters @drskyskull Billionaires have no understanding of real human experience. They cannot - they live in a different world. Just like you or I cannot rally understand what it's like to be an ant, or a tree. We can guess and estimate and measure, but true understanding is impossible.

[Jack Jackson @jacksquaredson]

@_Mark_Atwood @whstancil This can most charitably be interpreted as "actually good advice, delivered in a condescending and tone-deaf way". I hope that was what it was, and not something intentionally belittling.

[Jack Jackson @jacksquaredson]

@ranatalus @bromid Yuppp. You can be still be exploited, mistreated, disrespected, or dehumanized while earning (comparatively) big bucks - in fact, the compensation will make it harder to perceive (and even harder to talk about!)

[Jack Jackson @jacksquaredson]

@RaniezRage https://t.co/7s7nGMjENm

Thankfully someone had already addressed it perfectly, so I just had to show up and cheer them on rather than doing any troublesome thinking 😊

[Jack Jackson @jacksquaredson]

@ranatalus @bromid I have literally nothing to add because everything in this thread is 100% exactly what I was going to write, but better than I would have phrased it. This is /thread. (but happy to talk more over Signal if you want!)

[Jack Jackson @jacksquaredson]

@ranatalus @bromid Actually, a different spin on the first tweet - not only demonization of "dirty" work, but also perception that tech workers have it good, so aren't justified in asking for support (we do, but we are! Particularly, for privileged to support vulnerable - H1Bs, Trans workers, etc.)

[Jack Jackson @jacksquaredson]

@ranatalus @bromid I have literally nothing to add because everything in this thread is 100% exactly what I was going to write, but better than I would have phrased it. This is /thread. (but happy to talk more over Signal if you want!)

[Tim McNamara @timClicks]

S3 seems like a pretty simple app. I mean, how hard is PUT and GET? Shouldn't need more than 4 to 6 engineers to maintain.