Lane Becker

Prestidigitation, double shuffling, honey-fugling, hornswaggling, & skullduggery. @wikimedia & @iftf, previously @18f, @gsa_tts, & @codeforamerica.

[Robin Rohwer @RobinRohwer]

Mom asked, "I wonder when cherries bloom in Japan?" So I found 1200 years of data online and made her a plot.

[Lane Becker @monstro]

Come join us at this!

[Creative Commons @creativecommons]

Are you at #SXSW? Join Creative Commons and the Wiki Community Tue 14 March at our #open house party to talk about #BetterSharing for a #BetterInternet and all things OPEN, hosted by @HacksHackers. Shoutout to @nounsdao for supporting this gathering! https://t.co/8NSdluHxLn

[Lane Becker @monstro]

@porestar * Wikimedia Enterprise team, that is. Autocorrect disapproves of our actual name.

[Lane Becker @monstro]

@porestar The Wikipedia Enterprise team is discussing the possibility!

[Lane Becker @monstro]

Tech folks! My team at the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Enterprise — the for-profit arm of our non-profit Foundation — is hiring! Senior Software Engineer, Wikimedia Enterprise: https://t.co/UdZUDHCInt We have an opening for an intermediate engineer as well.

[Lane Becker @monstro]

@ronbronson That’s an amazing book that completely reoriented my worldview about tech back in the 90s. Also recommend her later book, Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag https://t.co/uR1eQXXiQ1

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Tom Lehrer has put all his songs online (including lyrics & sheet music), and given away all rights to them. The site will only be up for a limited time. This is a very niche tweet that will make a small segment of people very happy. https://t.co/sowetybPhT

[Lane Becker @monstro]

“An obliterating narcissism and sawed-off selfishness is latent in American culture like lead in contaminated water; in the absence of countervailing principles, it will naturally make its presence felt over time.” https://t.co/E7wULiIQ56

[Lilly Rockwell @LillyRockwell]

Local politics will always be fascinating to me and this election was the most interesting one in a LONG time. Because it marked, for the first time, a major shift from the Boomer-centric politics of Austin yore to the Millennial/Gen Z demographic. #austinpolitics

[Austin Sanders @daustinsanders]

Probably the biggest consequence of last night's Council elections is that the caucus of diehard supply side skeptics has been reduced to two.

There's now a veto-proof majority for a broader, more rapid approach to increasing the housing supply in Austin.

[Lane Becker @monstro]

“Although the choices of those with privilege have created these systems, for some reason it seems to be the job of the marginalized to ‘fix’ them.” https://t.co/q5LHJXwtpd

[Lane Becker @monstro]

“We don’t have to accept this housing denialism as part of our civil discourse. The sea levels are rising. Astronauts did land on the moon. And Austin does need more housing.” https://t.co/OoDxh3ixvQ

[Lane Becker @monstro]

Please don’t vote for Linda Guerrero. To still be arguing in 2022 that Austin doesn’t have a housing shortage is delusional. Let’s be done with that sad, desperate perspective on the city council and move on to actually solving our problems instead. https://t.co/AhN4iG6LYg

[Lane Becker @monstro]

“I’m not saying to convert to Judaism for the purpose of maintaining Jewish enemies, but it is worth considering.” https://t.co/gI3HzkxXZ4

[Lane Becker @monstro]

“You see, he is not done ruining things yet.” https://t.co/TACdhv2TRX

[Saadia @Saadia___M]

I just heard someone call Texas the land of gun care and health control; never heard something more true.

[Lane Becker @monstro]

“The Estate of Édouard Manet Wishes to Remind Museum Visitors That the Best Way to Prevent Climate Change Is to Throw Bucket After Bucket of Hot Sloppy Soup on the Eminently Mediocre Paintings of That Son of a Bitch Monet” https://t.co/oMRO8Fmpjt

[Lane Becker @monstro]

“The entire history of capitalism is a lesson that you can be very successful and also very terrible.” https://t.co/SHBWtcscBp

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

That Time a Car Manufacturer Decided He Wanted to Own a Publisher in Order to Advance His Own Political Agenda

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[Lane Becker @monstro]

Last day to buy fancy nuts and chocolates at slightly inflated prices to support my lovely daughter Evabel's Girl Scout troop! https://t.co/n4xPXs9ZNc