#DearProfessorFord,
We want you to know that you are not alone. You are a survivor. Millions of us have your back.
We call on Senators to demand a full, fair and trauma-informed investigation.
Signed,
Your Sisters
I'm reading the Mueller indictments in the original PDF-legalease format. All the way through, because I'm not a Republican member of Congress and think this is actually important.
Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. #goodtrouble
when i was in jr high my parents were worried about me getting through life because i was so... soft. i told them that if you threw a glass bottle out of a window it'd break but if you threw a kleenex it'd be fine, and like the kleenex i would be fine
Echo chambers work just as cults do: by systematically alienating their members from all outside epistemic sources. Last week’s most read: https://t.co/675iBor4W0
I dated a girl in college whose mom tried to talk her out of being gay by telling her she'd have to go through life w/out someone to open jars for her. At the time it was upsetting but in hindsight I kind of love that jar opening was the only use for men she could think of.
The problem with Facebook is not *just* the loss of your privacy and the fact that it can be used as a totalitarian panopticon. The more worrying issue, in my opinion, is its use of digital information consumption as a psychological control vector. Time for a thread
Incredible moving image by Ami Vitale for National Geographic Creative. The last moments of the last living male Northern White Rhino on plant Earth 😥 #Photography
Happy International #WomensDay!
#TimeIsNow to support each other, believe in each other & encourage each other to speak up for rights & gender equality! https://t.co/Non0GlY9S5 #IWD2018
I'm an engineer at heart, which means my eyes are rarely pointed up towards the clouds. I'm usually looking down at the pothole in front of me.
But in my biggest, broadest vision, 5-10 years from now, building tech for the State of California would carry the prestige of Google.
Two rounds of deep analysis of employee performance data at Google show that the top predictors of success are being a good communicator in a team where you feel emotionally safe: https://t.co/9ZjLbK2pkd
In one bill the @GOP have perfectly summed up their priorities:
Millionaires over children.
Corporations over middle class.
Wealthy over sick.
Money over morality.
Party over country.
G.reed O.ver P.eople
"The forbidden words are 'vulnerable,' 'entitlement,' 'diversity,' 'transgender,' 'fetus,' 'evidence-based' and 'science-based.'" https://t.co/0OGROat83P
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it,” George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four https://t.co/agVzJDG9K0
Great thread that combines explaining the technical details of what net neutrality means with the current economic reality and political consequences. https://t.co/rad3XGdQKo