Chris Dawson

Father of 3. My book: Building Tools with GitHub ( Japan&Brazil. UWash CS. Black Lives Matter.

[Chris Dawson @xrd]

Will a cryptocurrency steal my handle?

[Chris Dawson @xrd]

@ChristianJauvin This is the first actual usage of my twitter handle in years in a tweet! I'm so excited! Unfortunately, my handle is also a cryptocurrency, so I get a constant stream of notifications with people shilling cryptojunk. I really loved your post, going to use it for my own learning.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

My take on whether Tylenol causes autism is why is the government refusing to release the Epstein files? Who are they protecting?

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This is just some of the disgusting things that are happening at the Broadview Processing Center in Illinois.These are Peaceful Protesters that are standing on the Public Sidewalk & this is how aggressive these masked men are to them for no reason & it’s only women being attacked

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Journalist and college professor Stacey Patton goes viral by penning a stunningly powerful statement about how she was on Charlie Kirk’s “digital hit list” and recounting the horror that he inflicted on her.

We cannot allow this tragic assassination to whitewash Kirk’s legacy…

“I am on Charlie Kirk’s hit list,” Patton wrote to her 215,000 followers on Facebook. “His so-called ‘Professor Watchlist,’ run under the umbrella of Turning Point USA, is nothing more than a digital hit list for academics who dare to speak truth to power. I landed there in 2024 after writing commentary that inflamed the MAGA faithful. And once my name went up, the harassment machine roared to life.”

“For weeks my inbox and voicemail were deluged. Mostly white men spat venom through the phone: ‘bitch,’ ‘c*nt,’ ‘n****r.’ They threatened all manner of violence,” she continued.

“They overwhelmed the university’s PR lines and the president’s office with calls demanding that I be fired,” Patton wrote. “The flood was so relentless that the head of campus security reached out to offer me an escort, because they feared one of these keyboard soldiers might step out of his basement and come do me harm.”

“And I am not unique,” she added.

“Kirk’s Watchlist has terrorized legions of professors across this country. Women, Black faculty, queer scholars, basically anyone who challenged white supremacy, gun culture, or Christian nationalism suddenly found themselves targets of coordinated abuse,” Patton wrote.

“Some received death threats. Some had their jobs threatened. Some left academia entirely. Kirk sent the loud message to us: speak the truth and we will unleash the mob!” she continued.

“That is the culture of violence Charlie Kirk built. He normalized violence. He curated it, monetized it, and sicced it on anyone who dared to puncture his movement’s lies,” she wrote.

“And now, in the wake of his shooting, there’s all this national outpouring of mourning, moments of silence, yellow prayer hands, and tributes painting him as a civil debater,” Patton continued. “But the truth is that Kirk and his foot soldiers spent years terrorizing educators, trying to silence us with harassment and fear!”

“And now the same violence he unleashed on others has come full circle.”

“But what i find especially jarring is the dissonance in public mourning for a smug white man whose life work was actively hostile to certain groups,” she continued. “Kirk spent years demonizing LGBTQ people, mocking gun survivors, spewing racism about Black folks, and pushing policies that literally shorten lives.”

“It is so revolting to watch a bipartisan wave of grief sweep over this hateful racist as if he was a neutral community servant,” she concluded.

This is pure unvarnished truth from Patton. Charlie Kirk did not deserve what happened to him, but nor did his victims deserve the hell that he unleashed on them. If Americans are going to build a more peaceful future for ourselves we must condemn political violence while also condemning the hateful, bigoted rhetoric that made Kirk a multimillionaire.

Please retweet and ❤️ if Patton’s message struck a chord with you!

[Paul Graham @paulg]

My God. Each pair of shoes is a child's life.

[Chris Dawson @xrd]

I wanna live in Grok's world. Trump is the former president? What breaking news did I miss?

[Bay Area People’s Republic 🚩☭ @21stcentury_ML]

A Chinese man impersonating Trump speaking Spanish selling light-up letters

It’s over. China has won

[Keith Boykin @keithboykin]

Trump announces reparations for white people. He says he will ask the Justice Department to penalize colleges that consider diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and fine them so he can pay “restitution” to white people who he considers the real victims of racial discrimination.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If you haven't decided yet who to vote for, here's why I think you should vote for Harris.

[Lindsay Owens @owenslindsay1]

🧵Ok I'm someone who has followed the @RealPage price fixing conspiracy in the rental market closely, but this weekend I read the full @TheJusticeDept complaint and my jaw hit the floor. This was flagrant, far reaching and deliberate. Let's dig in. 1/7 https://t.co/Eduv3f9tBR

[Chris Dawson @xrd]

AI Fundamentals: Energy-Based Models https://t.co/FxIw46gjCy via @@michal_pandy

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

If you're wondering how the "race-baiters" are going to make the SCOTUS ruling about racism, well...

Here's what the Trump decision has to do with the history of white supremacy, racial terrorism and even the death of George Floyd.

A thread.

[Alessio Fanelli @FanaHOVA]

WebAssembly is aliveeeee 🔥 Gemini Nano will be included in Chrome itself with WebGPU + Wasm.

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

At 37signals, three is a magic number.

Nearly all new product work is done by teams of three people. A team of three is usually composed of two programmers and one designer. And if it’s not three, it’s two or one — not four or five. We don’t throw more people at problems, we chisel problems down until they can be tackled by three people, at most.

We rarely have meetings, but when we do, you’ll hardly ever find more than three people on a call. Any conversation with more than three people is typically a conversation with too many people.

What if there are five departments involved in a project or a decision? There aren’t. Too many dependencies. We don’t work on projects like that — intentionally.

What is it with three? Three is a wedge, and that’s why it works. Three has a sharp point. It’s an odd number so there are no ties. It’s powerful enough to make a dent, but also weak enough to not break what isn’t broken. Big teams make things worse all the time by applying too much force to things that only need to be lightly finessed.

The problem with four is that you almost always need to add a fifth to manage. The problem with five is that it’s two too many. And six, seven, or eight on a team will inevitably make simple things more complicated than they need to be.

Just like work expands to fill the time available, work expands to fill the team available. Small, short projects become bigger, longer projects simply because all those people need something to do.

You can do big things with small teams, but it’s a whole hell of a lot harder to do small things with big teams. That’s a disadvantage of big teams! Small things are often all that’s necessary. The occasional big thing is great, but most improvements come as small incremental steps. Big teams can step right over those small moves.

Three keeps you honest. It tempers your ambition in all the right ways. It requires you to make tradeoffs, rather than keep adding things in. And most importantly, three reduces miscommunication and improves coordination. Three people can talk directly with one another without introducing hearsay. And it’s a heck of a lot easier to coordinate three people’s schedules than four or more.

Three is all-in for us.

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

7 years ago, I wrote a small piece about a man who was falsely accused of a crime.

A few days later, I got an anonymous telling me to look up the woman they called “the evilest white woman on earth.”

What happened next is the absolute wildest story you’ll ever hear

A thread

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

National media wasn’t even on this story. But I just looked where they told me to look.

The only reason I thought about this was that when I woke up this morning, one of them had texted me this:

“Look what we did…

No one else.

Just us.”

https://t.co/ZgMo5y1zIr

[Iain @maccoinnich]

Cherry blossoms at Waterfront Park, Portland

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Three years ago, I realized one of my lifelong dreams that reflects the racial progress this country has made throughout its history.

I became a diversity hire.

A thread.

[Chris Dawson @xrd]

@keiko713 We will be in Kanazawa in two days. I lived there twenty years ago. Do you have any restaurant recommendations? I used to love Dai-nana gyoza near the university long ago...