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“Wikipedia hosts 1.7 million biographies. Not even 20 % of those are about women. If Wikipedia wants to become the sum of human knowledge, this needs to change. With such a large gender gap, we are far from reaching the goal. International Women’s Day is an important moment to remind ourselves of the gender gap for women and all underrepresented groups and to renew our efforts to close it.”

meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender

Is there an equivalent of GCP Cloud Run from public cloud providers?

Disinformation infections are a degenerative disease with no known cure.

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

Internet creators: make sure your voice is heard on how copyright bots will make your work impossible to do. act.eff.org/action/creators-st

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 🇸🇪.

Tired of this scripting language serving us endless episodes of predictably lackluster performance: RuPaul on Rails

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.

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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

Why should you care about data privacy, even if you think you have "nothing to hide"?

Because our data is being used to push increasingly polarized content and capitalize on divisiveness.

Disrupt surveillance capitalism. Take back your privacy. Use Tor.

vox.com/recode/22250897/facebo

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.”

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