Jeremiah Lee @jeremiahlee@librem.one

QAnon is holding my family’s brains hostage and there is no ransom I can pay to set them free.

Tech press, repeat after me:

$1bn+ valuation does not make a company a unicorn anymore. If it did, then we would have to accept that unicorns are as populous as horses now.

$1bn+ in annual revenue and profitability make a startup a unicorn now.

$1.99/month CPanel shared hosting providers are still the best cheap managed PostgreSQL option for small serverless projects.

Why is making noun plural in svenska so fucking complicated

I am looking for a registered investment advisor (RIA) who works with Americans abroad on financial / retirement planning.

Does anyone have a recommendation?

Bonus points if they happen to be familiar with Sverige 🇸🇪.

The EU needs more chip fabs. Someone start that. #EUTech

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-seeks-to-decouple-from-us-china-chip-war/

Mastodon didn’t make the #DragRace Rusical. Huh.

#WhyYouGottaActLikeSuchANastyTrollOnlineBitch

I have had to question more things than I am comfortable questioning simultaneously this week.

I hate feeling ready for the weekend. I much prefer looking forward to work.

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I have the same criticism for most of the recent Star Trek storylines.

The thing that made Star Trek so great was that civilizations had moved beyond violence. Violence was a last resort. Violence was what primitive beings resorted to.

I don’t like most comic book media because the stories rely on solving problems with violence. That’s a terrible message to reinforce in society. Also, lazy and trite.

Where is the Marvel diplomat? The organizer? The legislator? The whistleblower?

The pandemic has everyone wanting to be play reverse “Big Brother” where we are begging to be voted out of the house.

I rarely get to say Facebook is right about something, so it’s a delight to say it:

Facebook is right to not give in to Murdoch & Australia’s pay-to-link break-the-Internet scheme.

“You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress, simultaneously.” —Sophia Bush

With the exception of Netflix, I treat streaming services like curable STIs.

“You haven’t seen ‘Mulan’‽ We should watch it while we’re still Disney positive.”

What happened to Entropic? Npm seems no less problematic under Github/Microsoft.

“Ally vs Co-conspirator” #BlackHistoryMonth https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4878763/user-clip-ally-vs-conspirator

What are some _specific_ fair labor practices you wish were more common in tech companies?

• Balanced Employee IP Agreement (BEIPA)
• post-termination exercise (PTE) windows > 5 years
• open pay bands
• remote work in all countries
• 9+ months gender equal parental leave