Socially Distant Jim

Philadelphia via Western NY. I like food, beer, games and technology; hopefully not annoyingly. Also privacy and respecting others; annoyingly. (he/him)

[Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin]

Wherever you live in America, here’s why you should care about Governor Abbott’s removal of school board members in Houston:

[Damionw @Damionw]

I know we all tend to wait until the last minute to get our DevOpsDays Philly tickets, but if you think you want to attend, please buy soon. We've had a lot of verbal interest like normal, but we're significantly behind in actual ticket sales and might have to push to next year.

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

Meta turned over their DMs, used as evidence to convict them on felony charges for accessing criminalized healthcare. Meta had no choice -- they had the data so had to hand it over.

End-to-end encryption keeps people safe. https://t.co/exg0lTXpFN

[Socially Distant Jim @JimRocks]

@Nnedi It was equal parts the opportunity to make a really bad joke!

[Chris Albon @chrisalbon]

How many tweets could you possibly read, Michael? 600?

[Kimberly D. Manning, MD, MACP @gradydoctor]

"But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life." - Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

#thatpart

[4n6lady @4n6lady]

Interviewer: Can you explain this 2-year gap in your resume?
Candidate: I would, but I can't. I signed an NDA. 😎

[Kim Kelly @GrimKim]

Always Philly /// Never Phascist

[Kim Kelly @GrimKim]

Happening now: led by @ACTUPPhilly, community members have gathered outside @AmRevMuseum to demand that they cancel their event with racist, transphobic hate group M*ms for Liberty on June 29

[Kim Kelly @GrimKim]

This is about to be all of Philadelphia when the disgusting bigots M*ms for L*berty come through at the end of the month https://t.co/3z1pUaoiIY

[Turner Novak 🍌🧢 @TurnerNovak]

Last year my startup was failing. We were a remote team, and I immediately mandated a return to office.

The next day, a random encounter at the water cooler unearthed a new product that reversed our sales decline within a few hours (now growing 100%/week), revived my dead goldfish, and one of our interns discovered a cure for cancer.

This would have never happened if we worked remotely.

[Mekka 💉x7 @[email protected] @mekkaokerekebye]

Every person in every org I manage, gets a growth plan.

https://t.co/fh2p9vR4Fw

If you don't have a growth plan, the chances that you might be misaligned with your manager on what it really takes to get to the next level, is pretty high.

Don't leave it to chance.

[Marco Rogers @polotek]

This is a good list. I've also talked about it quite a few times in the past.

But there's one piece of advice that I really want people to understand. Not everything about getting promoted is under your control. Sometimes it's just not possible.

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

I'm reminded, yet again, that there is no non-radical future.

There's a future filled with fire and flooding, or a future with radical positive change that prioritizes life over profit.

Those are the paths we can take.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

420,000 Americans gave their lives to stop fascism in WWII. All you have to do is vote against it in 2024. #MemorialDay2023

[Charlie Knight [they/them] @CKnightWrites]

I see we need another talk about apologizing. It's an incredibly important skill, maybe the most important social skill any of us will learn, so let's take some time out of our day to do this.

A 🧵on HOW TO APOLOGIZE...

[Otaking 🇵🇸 @TheOtaking]

Posters made for the Chinese remastered re-realease of Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away".

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

There was a shoplifting ring in my hometown who was known for dropping huge sums of money on designer clothes.

Everyone in town knew who they were, but they NEVER got caught.
Some high end stores would even let them shop freely, KNOWING they were thieves

Why?

A thread