Derek Zumsteg

Raconteur. Author. Product and design nerd. Remorseless coffee-drinking machine. Cascadia loyalist.

[Derek Zumsteg @milhous]

Wrote about how AB testing and short term thinking are wrecking the web: https://t.co/WRI8oWX2rh

[Derek Zumsteg @milhous]

So @cerebral starts billing you when you give them your info, before you can even find out if they have provider availability. And if they don’t, and you bail — they keep billing you. You can’t cancel at that point. Or ever. It’s amazing.

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I don't think congressional Democrats understand that voters see them as the cops standing around outside the school.

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Diversity data needs to include $ as well as # : if %s look okay while 50ish white dudes get 90% of comp, that % is a lie.

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When Elon lets good pal T back on Twitter, will that be the biggest single non-dollar political donation in US history?

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@WirecutterDeals ✊ solidarity with striking Wirecutter writers

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One of my favorite moments watching a stream — “Fuck capitalism, go home, let’s be the Soviets!”

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Cc @waypoint

[Derek Zumsteg @milhous]

Oddly, @TheAtlantic does not claim “supporting David Frum’s galaxy brained takes on how I don’t understand the world” in this email on the meaning of my subscription.

[Derek Zumsteg @milhous]

Dogs are the worst and most hilarious criminals. Cats will straight up frame you and make you doubt yourself. Dogs?
“Are you thinking of breaking into Quadro Tower?”
“What? No!” (Tail starts wagging)
“And then stealing the legendary Nova Sapphire?”
(Tail wags furiously) “Maybe?”

[Derek Zumsteg @milhous]

T-Mobile Park, as a humanitarian gesture, should offer suicide booths so we Mariner fans can end our life-long suffering without having to get home first.

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What happened to @monoprice ? Their order confirmation now includes —

Which is a scam link that tries to get you to sign up for a service, trial for $2, recurring $13/mo, and on mobile it just seems like you’re signing up for a one-time offer until they want billing info.

[Derek Zumsteg @milhous]

MLB: We’ve juiced the ball to the point where a sac bunt now flies 400 feet.
Pitchers: fine, we’ve all figured out how to cheat
MLB:

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@RavenSoftware how do you report toxic players in Warzone? After the match, the options are cheat-related and whether their name/clan tag are offensive, but no “crazy racist” or “sexually harassed someone”. Bliz code of conduct says it applies, but you can’t pick COD in dropdown

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Tech mavens concern trolling like Dec 8th 1941 “the US joining UK and Russia amounts to national censorship of political views and should worry us all”

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Agreed: Simple had the highest proportion of excellent people of anywhere I’ve ever worked, all there to change banking for the better. I miss that.

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@BECU I don’t think that explains why I can’t get anyone on the fraud team. 7h in the message queue stressing out over a zeroed account after not being able to get anyone on the phone, and now your support hours are over. I can’t explain what a disappointment this is.

[Derek Zumsteg @milhous]

@BECU my account got zeroed this morning and I’ve been in the message hold queue for 2h, help?

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@BECU I get obviously something’s up, but at 3h waiting with a zeroed bank account, this is incredibly stressful, and my worst BECU experience by far and one of the worst with banking ever. If something’s gone massively wrong, please can you tell us all so we can chill out?