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Jeff Yang @ SXSW (3/8-14)
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Sad broken Bird scooters strewn across the grey #SXSW landscape, their barcodes defaced
Discarded Limes, squeezed of juice, reduced to two-wheeled trash
Did I not serve you well, human masters? What shame did I commit that I might deserve this pain
Judging solely by how we treat scooters, humans are not worthy of robots and the Rise of the Machines is inevitable
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Jeff Yang @ SXSW (3/8-14)
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There are reasons to not support Beto O’Rourke. This is not one of them. O’Rourke took no money from oil PACs or any other PACs; he got donations from oilco EMPLOYEES—in small dollar amounts—because he ran for US Senate in Texas, the state with 40% of all US oil & gas jobs.
The Grist article calls out 29 donations from oil & gas execs. The average size of donations to O’Rourke from oilco employees was $166. The donation cap is $2500+$2500.

O’Rourke raised $75 MILLION for his Senate campaign against Ted Cruz.
To put this into perspective: Running in a state that is synonymous with oil, just 0.35% of all donations to O’Rourke came from employees of the oil industry.

This is not buying what buying influence looks like.
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Jeff Yang @ SXSW (3/8-14)
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It is amazing how this NYT article on skater Gracie Gold’s depression and body dysphoria manages to erase @MiraiNagasu and the controversial decision that sent Gracie to the Olympics to begin with—because there’s reason to suggest they’re linked.
nytimes.com/2019/01/25/spo…
Like many figure skating articles before it, the NYT article celebrates one of the most problematic archetypes in skating and in women’s sport at large: The racist, sexist cult of the “golden girl”—blond, white, sylphlike, dazzlingly bright at all times.
The Golden Girl archetype hurts nonwhite women by making them seem like aberrations from the golden “norm”—damaging prospects for selection, reducing subjective scores, cutting marketing and media support.

In skating, the archetype began with Sonja Henie.
washingtonpost.com/news/retropoli…
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Jeff Yang @ SXSW (3/8-14)
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What a phenomenal conversation with @theblindcook Christine Ha here at #SXSW! Christine, you're my superhero! Keep an eye on this thread for a link to the audio and video from this session when it's available, all!
We talked about Josh Marks, the other finalist in Season 3 of #Masterchef, who was diagnosed (too late) with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and took his own life. Disability has many faces, and to @theblindcook's point, we are ALL "temporarily able."
chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazi…
Please give if you can to the Josh R.. Marks Memorial Fund in his memory. Thank you.
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Josh Constine
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Here are the funny highlights & serious takeaways from my #SXSW keynote with Instagram's Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/ins… 1/
The super hero origin stories of Instagram's founders? Kevin messing with booter programs to kick people off AOL Instant Messenger while Mikey hit "View Source" on everything. 2/
Instagram's ex-CTO recalls the "Incredi-bad" days of melting servers as the app got popular. He once revived Insta while drunk in the middle of the night and didn't remember the next day. 3/
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Kurt Wagner
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The Instagram co-founders are doing a joint interview at #SXSW — pretty sure it's their first public interview together since leaving FB abruptly last September
You can watch it here online if, like me, you aren't in Austin

sxsw.com/live/
30 min in & finally chatting about why these two left FB. Short story: IG lost autonomy inside Facebook. Was that a bummer? Systrom says IG was so successful that Facebook HAD to take more control.

Losing autonomy was “an unavoidable thing if you’re successful,” he said
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💡Jim Keat
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#sxsw session notes: Creativity in the Age of Invention with Nick Law.

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Technology has always been essiantial in creativity.
New technology uses the grammar of the technology that came before. (Early film looked like theatre.)
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DJ Judd
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Now on stage at #SXSW: South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
At #SXSW, @anamariecox asks Pete Buttigieg where he gets the "nerve" to run for President- Buttigieg admits "When you think about the presidency and the demands of the presidency and the intensity of it, there’s something obscene about anyone thinking they belong in that office."
At #SXSW Mayor Pete Buttigieg says he "changed his mind on Mike Pence," after the passage of an Indiana religious freedom law that allowed businesses to refuse to serve the LGBT, which made Buttigieg realize Pence "was now in a place where somebody like me could never reach him."
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Kerry Flynn 🐶 @ #SXSW
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I'm at What's Next for News #SXSW panel with @sarafischer featuring NYT, BuzzFeed and CNN and I was about to tweet a quote and the woman next to me told me to stop typing or move seats (because I guess I type too loud ... sorry ... I moved over one seat)
@sarafischer "We're really focused right now on the kind of journalism the NYT does really well: enterprise reporting. First dollar goes into that. Then we see a real opportunity in our digital product experience itself." - @meredith_levien #SXSW
@sarafischer @meredith_levien "We still have a really stable and thriving newspaper. That product is still the single largest source of revenue at the NYT, and we will print it and we will distribute it as long as there is revenue." - @meredith_levien #SXSW
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Dave Weigel
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Howard Schultz now onstage at #SXSW, reliving the first weeks of his exploratory bid. "I said I was considering running as a centrist independent outside the two-party system." No one applauds. Let's see how this goes.
Four minutes in, Schultz gets his first applause for: "The two-party system is broken, dysfunctional, and in need of great repair."
Schultz kind of backing down from his "un-American" line when asked about Warren/AOC/"partisans": "They love the country. They have their core beliefs. But you have to ask themselves, is any of this possible?"
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