Shannon Clark

Looking for next opportunity. VP/Director of Product, serial entrepreneur, geek dad, writer, chef, gamer, always GM (he/him) @[email protected]

[Shannon Clark @rycaut]

What is the best site(s) covering the modern, best of breed, technology stacks broken down by industry/size/stage of company? Both for product development and to just run the business (whether online or retail, B2B or B2C)

[Shannon Clark @rycaut]

@susanthesquark It’s only taxable if the payments were for services or for a side hustle of reselling items (and there you could deduct costs like the costs of the items etc). All of which was true before this change but people often don’t report it. For many this will simplify tax paperwork

[Shannon Clark @rycaut]

@susanthesquark You won’t be taxed - it will be reported but if all the transactions are as you described bill splitting etc those aren’t taxable. Neither are sales of personal belongings at a loss (as the article you linked to shows a couch you paid $600 for sold for $200 via FB etc)

[Shannon Clark @rycaut]

@winnig More Unix than Linux but yes and so far haven’t used any of that with Mastodon (not running my own instance yet - but likely will set one up in a few days - considering some business opportunities around it)

[Shannon Clark @rycaut]

@goofrider @mmasnick Yes though what’s automated & what’s outsourced to underpaid (usually) workers reviewing endless often horrific content is not always clear esp if things like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk are used - my point was not to forget that those moderators are human even if largely anonymous

[Shannon Clark @rycaut]

@goofrider @mmasnick Worth remembering that the moderators on “big” sites are, in fact, also real people - but they are typically contractors working for a 3rd party, often in rather bad working conditions, and likely prevented from discussing their work by terms of their contract

[Shannon Clark @rycaut]

@textfiles @gmail perhaps trying putting the domain into https://t.co/5EK3rOtaCO and see what suggestions they have? (that's Google/gsuite's own tool)

[Shannon Clark @rycaut]

@tonyzeoli It really isn’t too complicated. Most exciting tech I’ve seen in probably a decade. Also Wordpress is part of the Fedisphere (ActivityPub instances) that Mastodon is example of. I’m shifting most of my time there now

[Shannon Clark @rycaut]

@digiphile @MIT Let’s just say I’m exploring some ideas - haven’t been this excited about a tech in years and am seeing a lot of different opportunities

[Shannon Clark @rycaut]

@digiphile @MIT Sure. I think there will be a reasonably good business (or service of an agency) in managing hosted instances of ActivityPub servers perhaps with government specific additional features (like formal, permanent archives; integration to identity management systems etc)

[Shannon Clark @rycaut]

@digiphile @MIT I would think that potentially specific agencies might want their own instance of Mastodon (or similar ActivityPub platform) so like email all users/accounts there would be clear which agency so perhaps name at agency dot social dot is dot gov or similar?

[Shannon Clark @rycaut]

@EricaJoy Their local food banks (or food banks in other areas as well) sadly they always need more funds as usage has gone way up during the Pandemic. Here in Silicon Valley (one of the richest areas of the US) Second Harvest feeds 450,000 people a month (an 80% increase over pre pandemic

[Shannon Clark @rycaut]

@jowyang It’s clueless on a lot of levels. I would never work for him (or any firm that took this approach). Twitter (and indeed most companies) is not a software and servers business - social media, advertising, communications is a human business that tech facilitates but does not lead

[Shannon Clark @rycaut]

Small tactic I’m using these days on Twitter - instead of clicking on a link in ad here I take a screenshot and if actually interested I go direct to the business (after researching further) - fewer and fewer ads being shown are even marginally targeted but…

[Shannon Clark @rycaut]

The need for stories like this as rebuttals to bad pieces in the NYTimes makes me rethink my (digital) subscription. One I keep because alas there are too few news options left. Sad that such rebuttals are needed and indeed furious

[kelsey mckinney @mckinneykelsey]

Really proud to have this piece on the site today and furious that @theisen95 had to write it: https://t.co/3qhJ8AQLOu

[Shannon Clark @rycaut]

every. vote. counts.

[Chris Murphy ���� @ChrisMurphyCT]

Sometimes Democrats win not due to national messaging, but bc we have great candidates who work hard.

In my old state legislative seat in Southington, high school teacher Chris Poulos personally knocked on 5300 doors.

He won by 1 vote.

Here’s a text he got last night.

[Shannon Clark @rycaut]

@winnig Heh I may have bought the last sale one the. Literally just ordered it a minute ago

[Ben Sauer @bensauer]

The Twitter debacle is at least partly explained by Karl Popper's 'Clouds and Clocks' theory. I wish it was more widely understood, so here's more.

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[Shannon Clark @rycaut]

@blaine @harper Eh not next. Been seeing those already for a while now

[Shannon Clark @rycaut]

@wes_chu It was designed to make it easy for wealthier, white male voters (and later their wives) as well as older retired voters to vote while making it harder for the working poor, minorities and younger voters to vote (who less often can take time off from work or school to vote)

[Shannon Clark @rycaut]

@wes_chu It is a relic that is considered important in part because it makes voting difficult so weeds out the number of voters (which allows motivated blocks ie parties to have a greater influence than their actual numbers) ie part of the sad history in this country of barriers to voting