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22 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I was gonna make a pithy comment about American's should be burning shit down. Then I remembered that there's absolutely no excuse for property damage no matter the circumstance. Everybody go home and write stern letters to your congressperson. I'm sure it'll work this time.
Because this is not really the time for subtly, let me be clear. The same indoctrination that makes white Americans support and justify the oppression of PoC is the same shit that is making you ineffectual in stopping your own oppression in this moment.
You let them take away all of your tools to fight back. Because they told you it might be used to help us, and you were afraid of that. Now you're sitting at home with your $600 while people call you lazy and tell you to just accept the death of your community as normal. Welcome.

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21 Dec
When you have a whole body of work on twitter, you gotta get good with advanced search. Protips:

- "from:polotek" tweets from me, including replies
- "to:polotek" replies aimed at me

You can add more words in order to narrow down the search.
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Find quote tweets specifically is hard. They're just treated like regular tweets. Can't explicitly find people who have quote tweeted you as far as I know.
People who you've muted still show in search. Blocks have undefined rules. Sometimes they show, sometimes not. 😬
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19 Dec
I’m pretty sure at least one of these recent hate follows is Marc Crouch on a burner account. The rest of them, I don’t know. But they are extra pissed that I asked a dude if he considered not being obnoxious.
There is a whole Twitter community here I think. A bunch of shitty dudes who think men are getting a bad wrap these days. Their daily Twitter topic is being pissed that some guy wasn’t allowed to live in obnoxious cluelessness. And eventually they show up to be mad at me about it
Most of them don’t make it through my content filters. I can’t even see them unless I go looking. There are probably way more than I think. Seriously, turn on your content filters.
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13 Dec
Economics just isn't this simple. I wish that people who wanted to use this simple definition would admit that they're incentivized to do so because it benefits them in their current situation. It's okay. Just call it what it is.
Many employers are absolutely selling a lifestyle. Why does it make sense for an employer to upgrade their healthcare plan when the actual work hasn't changed? Because it's something their employees value and raises their standard of living. It makes the company more competitive.
Why does it make sense for a company to move to open a new office in a different location or even relocate the whole company. Part of the calculus is always that folks in that area will accept less money because they can still achieve a similar lifestyle there.
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13 Dec
"...even with artificial intelligence and third-party moderators, the company was 'deleting less than 5% of all of the hate speech posted to Facebook.'" buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/ryanma…
"The implicit vision guiding most of our integrity work today is one where all human discourse is overseen by perfect, fair, omniscient robots owned by Mark Zuckerberg."

That's a hell of a sentence.
I was debating this with @operaqueenie. She says facebook is a big problem, but not the only problem. And I found myself making a very passionate case that, yes, Facebook is the *whole* problem. Not the tool per se, but the power it wields and how it wields that power.
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13 Dec
Oop! Shots fired.
They’re referring to this thread, which has been going around in coding circles. It’s highly entertaining. These kinds of technology “war stories” usually are. But we do have to ask if it was at all necessary.
I hesitate to share these kinds of stories these days. Because I realized that while they are interesting to hear, they are not fun to live through. It’s actually a story of a bunch of people being damn near run into the ground for the benefit of their employer.
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12 Dec
Having a place to post this is seriously the only reason I spun up a new blog. If I could have one single idea take hold in tech management it's to stop talking about project updates in 1:1s.
Let me be clear though. You need to talk about project updates. In fact, you probably need to talk about them more often. I see a lot of places where they are locked up in short 1:1 conversations. Change your process so you are hearing them all the time in other venues.
Get project updates out of 1:1s and you'll have room for much more important conversations with your individual direct reports. If your org is stuck in update mode, it will take some time to make this shift. But you will be glad you did.
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