I don’t know if these problems have gotten worse since I left America 3 years ago, but my heart broke every day this week because of them. I would rather pay a 50% tax rate in the middle class and have these problems solved, like in Sverige.
This is not a dig at San Francisco.
This is shame for a country that has a bunch of billionaires, but doesn’t tax them enough to guarantee everyone a minimum level of decency.
Bus-, bike-, and taxi-only Market St is 💯. The new Muni and BART busses and trains are a nice improvement, but they’re filled with sick people who need healthcare.
On this Presidents’ Day, all I can think of is how much I want #PresidentWarren.
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The garbage fire that is iPad multitasking is a good example of what happens when you start with an oversimplified interface paradigm and then just bolt more complex stuff on later, because you're afraid of people rejecting change.
https://daringfireball.net/2020/01/the_ipad_awkwardly_turns_10
💥 One of the creepiest things Facebook does is allow companies to send your data to it. You can now delete it.
1️⃣ Go to https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/ and “Clear History”.
2️⃣ Click “More Options” in the right menu and click “Manage Future Activity”, toggle the switch off.
I am disappointed so many of the people who tweet about #SurveillanceCapitalism and #IndieWeb have not setup a Mastodon account somewhere. It’s federated. It works well. There is Twitter cross-posting to ease the transition. I subscribe to https://librem.one/ .
2020-01-26 /now page update https://www.jeremiahlee.com/now/?2020-01-26
how are there British Romulans in the 2300s #Picard
Channeling my anxiety into something productive by subscribing to Climeworks. They’re doing carbon capture at scale and verifiably, unlike tree planting and other carbon offset efforts I researched.
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I work in tech, fight for digital rights and the environment, kiss dudes, cycle, lift heavy things, and don’t eat animals. Swedish immigrant, US American emigrant. Occasionally shirtless.
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