Kate

You're only educated when you've understood how ignorant you are

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🇺🇸 US Visa rejection rate in 2025:

🇲🇨 Monaco - 0%
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates - 2.17%
🇯🇵 Japan - 5.68%
🇨🇭 Switzerland - 5.82%
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia - 5.98%
🇦🇷 Argentina - 7.47%
��🇾 Malaysia - 7.92%
🇫🇷 France - 9.67%
🇮🇱 Israel - 11.32%
🇵🇱 Poland - 11.63%
🇿🇦 South Africa - 11.66%
🇩🇪 Germany - 12.22%
🇮🇹 Italy - 12.65%
🇨🇱 Chile - 16.38%
🇫🇮 Finland - 18.09%
🇨🇳 China - 20.21%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom - 20.44%
🇵🇪 Peru - 20.90%
🇲🇽 Mexico - 21.36%
🇸🇪 Sweden - 21.77%
🇮🇳 India - 22.04%
🇻🇳 Vietnam - 22.08%
🇹🇷 Turkey - 22.25%
🇪🇸 Spain - 23.67%
🇰🇷 South Korea - 24.73%
🇹🇭 Thailand - 25.67%
🇮🇩 Indonesia - 26.69%
🇲🇦 Morocco - 26.91%
🇵🇭 Philippines - 30.76%
🇰🇵 North Korea - 33.33%
🇺🇦 Ukraine - 33.92%
🇹🇿 Tanzania - 39.41%
🇷🇺 Russia - 40.38%
🇪🇬 Egypt - 47.61%
🇻🇪 Venezuela - 48.22%
🇩🇿 Algeria - 51.23%
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan - 51.75%
🇵🇰 Pakistan - 52.32%
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan - 52.46%
🇨🇦 Canada - 53.10%
🇳🇬 Nigeria - 57.00%
🇮🇷 Iran - 62.44%
🇦🇫 Afghanistan - 63.25%
🇲🇲 Myanmar - 64.19%
🇬🇭 Ghana - 64.34%
🇾🇪 Yemen - 67.98%
🇰🇪 Kenya - 68.23%
🇳🇵 Nepal - 69.47%
🇧🇩 Bangladesh - 61.45%
🇫🇲 Micronesia - 100%

Note: business (visa category B-1), for tourism (visa category B-2), or for a combination of both purposes (B-1/B-2).

[Kate @KateScisel]

Soo SpaceX now owns Twitter? If someone told me this back in 2006…although Twitter’s (Odeo, Instagram) first office was literally by the South Park, SF :)

[Kate @KateScisel]

@nikhilbhima @rahulvohra Tons of reasons, better branding, visibility etc etc

[Kate @KateScisel]

@v_lugovsky @rahulvohra nope, for example https://t.co/gKkxEr9NtG acquired by https://t.co/eDzRk21PLT and then the parent company renamed to Booking (there are more examples but still impressive 🫶💪)

[Kate @KateScisel]

@nikhilbhima @rahulvohra nope, for example https://t.co/gKkxEr9NtG got acquired by https://t.co/eDzRk21PLT and then the parent company renamed to Booking

[Kate @KateScisel]

@t_blom @zsims Congrats! would love to join one day if I’m around 🎉

[Kate @KateScisel]

@zsims @t_blom what do you mean he’s never played poker before? 🤔😉

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Divorce rate:

🇮🇳India: 1%
🇻🇳Vietnam: 7%
🇹🇯Tajikistan: 10%
🇮🇷Iran: 14%
🇲🇽Mexico: 17%
🇪🇬Egypt: 17%
🇿🇦South Africa: 17%
🇧🇷Brazil: 21%
🇹🇷Turkey: 25%
🇨🇴Colombia: 30%
🇵🇱Poland: 33%
🇯🇵Japan: 35%
🇩🇪Germany: 38%
🇬🇧United Kingdom: 41%
🇳🇿New Zealand: 41%
🇦🇺Australia: 43%
🇨🇳China: 44%
🇺🇸United States: 45%
🇰🇷South Korea: 46%
🇩🇰Denmark: 46%
🇮🇹Italy: 46%
🇨🇦Canada: 47%
🇳🇱Netherlands: 48%
🇸🇪Sweden: 50%
🇨🇵France: 51%
🇧🇪Belgium: 53%
🇫🇮Finland: 55%
🇨🇺Cuba: 55%
🇺🇦Ukraine: 70%
🇷🇺Russia: 73%
🇱🇺Luxembourg: 79%
🇪🇦Spain: 85%
🇵🇹Portugal: 94%

[Zack Kanter @zackkanter]

one example of why it's so hard to compete w/AWS: we ran into a roadblock implementing new AWS service. already have call scheduled for thurs. to speed things up, engineer emailed on a saturday offering to jump on a call 'any time Monday/Tuesday.'

he's been at Amazon since 1999.

[Kevin Kwok @kevinakwok]

Google pays Apple $20B a year to be their default search engine. That's 75% of Apple's entire research and development budget.

@narayanarjun pointed out to me that Google's basically funding all of Apple's r&d haha. Should put that on back of every device

[Kate @KateScisel]

Gold

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

This is Tehran University, students joined the protest against the murdering of #MahsaAmini by hijab police and chanting:
Woman, life, Freedom
Iranians are outraged. Yesterday the security forces opened fire at protesters in Saghez city but now Tehran joined the protest.

[Nazanin Boniadi @NazaninBoniadi]

Brave women in Saghez, Iran, risked punishment by authorities by removing their headscarves in protest against the murder of the 22-Year-old woman #MahsaAmini by hijab police, and chanted “death to the dictator.”

Lionesses, each and every one!

[John Collison @collision]

As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If you're wondering what was the biggest story that got overlooked today, this may be it. A paper offering strong statistical evidence that the Chinese have in fact been harvesting organs from living people.

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

Spike in use of Signal (messaging app) in Ukraine in the last 24 hours. Smaller but significant increase in the use of Telegram as well.

[Kate @KateScisel]

Can’t believe I’m quoting Jeremy here but he’s right :)

[Jeremy Clarkson @JeremyClarkson]

If you really want to know what I think: get vaccinated. It’s not a government plot. Governments can’t even mend pot holes.

[Kate @KateScisel]

Go Cyan! 💪😎

[Cyan Banister @cyantist]

Do you have an liberty minded idea to help save SF? I’m going to start giving people grants to work on these projects. Do you want to run for office? I’ll back you. Let’s change this place.

[Karim Douïeb @karim_douieb]

Challenge accepted! Here is a transition between surface area of US counties and their associated population. This arguably provides a much more accurate reading of the situation. @observablehq notebook: https://t.co/wdfMeV5hO4 #HowChartsLie #DataViz #d3js

[Kate @KateScisel]

I was a loyal user of Sprig and Spoonrocket when we were at @foundersden I remember the quality of their food was very high

[Gagan Biyani 🏛 @gaganbiyani]

Nobody talks about failure in Silicon Valley, yet 90% of startups fail.

Why?

3 yrs ago, @neerajberry and I shut down @Sprig, which raised $60M from @GreylockVC + @socialcapital & grew to $20m revenue.

Then, it all fell apart.

For an honest story about failure,

**Read on**