So then I was like, look, bro if you think you can do so much better than Giuliani maybe you should run for mayor but once you’re in, don’t let anyone ever tell you to pull out of that race…

What’s the opposite of optimizing? Asking for a friend who wants to do that …

I hope Dave Franco is clearing his schedule

It’s always encouraging to see a company engage with trust and safety issues at the board level — www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFvq...

How is it that there has never been a serious TCPA class action against a political party or campaign? This volume of trash is something commercial spammers could only dream of …

Just one sign of a life well lived — being reported to the FBI by Philip K. Dick for Marxism: linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/print/0105/c...

During grad school I lived in a shared house of lit and English students, one of them would occasionally house sit for Jameson, look after the pets, throw out the junk mail, etc.

Is “I’m looking for a man in finance” the first crowdsourced summer banger?

I don't even know what we did before Zillow rationalized this housing market ...

Considering naming our first born child "Builder's Remedy" ...

I see endless news articles about drug use in tech but in all my decades have never seen an article about whether, say, cocaine, might have some role in wall street trading patterns ...

What is it about big tech biographies that makes journalists with great track records self-immolate...?

TBF, the monkeys were red bull pounding gamers working at a fast-paced startup...

Every startup founder should get a little piece of that submersible to keep on their desk like the Berlin Wall

Here's a thought -- instead of describing a new tech in terms of the problems you hope it solves, describe it in terms of the problems it's likely to create. If we took on the more modest goal of creating interesting new problems, at least all this would make sense ...

Content moderation is mostly human problems with a thin tech coating. If you think it’s fundamentally a set of tech problems, you’ll never even make it to the part where the failures get interesting.

For folks new to trust and safety, a thought — your language should always show the due humility that fundamentally human problems require. Don’t say “we’re solving x.” You are solving nothing. You’re at best making a novel collage. Which is ok. Don’t sound like Jared off to “fix” the middle east.

Has a more succinct summary of the enclosure movement ever existed?

Current vibes here remind me of cool afterschool club like newspaper or theater where you can hang out and complain about the asshole fascist teacher down the hall…

There’s a brief moment when all the dark, Sisyphean lessons of trust & safety are not yet relevant, and it is beautiful.