@cthydng

tech worker ♡ thought follower ♡ RTs≈endorsements tbh

 San Francisco, CA
cathydeng.github.io/
Joined February 2010
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hi. i’m an engineer who has spent some time optimizing webpages to collect more $$ happy to offer a lil pro-bono consulting to any abortion funds that want help improving online donations or understanding donation behavior, if that’s useful
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hahaha i am in the sierras, on a multi-week hike of the JMT, and ofc this trip perfectly coincides w/ the first severe CA wildfire of the season. love living in the anthropocene!! 🫠 #oakfire
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i am learning that many online resources w helpful info, like the airnow smoke map, do not work well on a phone w one bar of service 😭 #oakfire
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vaccinated & boosted & now have a breakthrough covid infection 🥲 reminder to stay vigilant and keep masking indoors
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i’ve found rapid tests pretty confusing, so here’s my anecdotal experience if useful: day 0: exposed at a wedding (welp) day 3: developed sore throat, 2 negative rapid tests day 4: sore throat, negative rapid test, pending pcr day 5: sore throat, positive rapid test
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one learning: i previously figured that once you have symptoms, rapid tests would be able to pick up signal…but nope, turns out that’s not the case false negatives are quite tricky; it’s surprising that tests come w lotsa info on procedure, little info on interpreting results
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baby’s first class action lawsuit 🥰 thanks, illinois biometric data laws!
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in toronto, bikeshare is free for one day every week?? rapid tests are abundant and free at pharmacies?? coming from the us, these lil bits of public generosity are mind-blowing
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used to think i’d get bored if i took more than 2 weeks off between jobs …i am here to report that i was an absolute fool
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(i’ve heard similar things from many ppl; if you happen to be the type to believe that you need to have work obligations to stay sane / that rest is boring, it’s worth questioning imo)
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just downloaded twitter again after deleting on a whim…2 yrs ago. hi friends! sup??? what have i missed?
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71%not much
35 votes • Final results
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one thing i’ve noticed: w regular twitter use, i feel like a lotta stuff is happening all around me while i stay pretty constant. but w more time off, i feel like my life has changed so much (eg i’m reminded that i lost the sweet doggo in my pic) but idk what changed around me
camping is great b/c: - nature is majestic - so much overlap between camping gear & emergency kit supplies, disaster prep becomes nbd ready.gov/kit
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~personal news~ i left my job at patreon my new roles and responsibilities: hiking, knitting, reading, and snuggling with my animals 🥰
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what exactly is the argument against allowing felons to vote, are they all gonna get together and elect a pro-felonies candidate
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i think i finally get why this website bums me out more now: everything requires context. you used to be able to curate a feed of unrelated thoughts/jokes/ideas/pieces but now it feels like most tweets are a response or take on some invisible topic "everyone" is talking about
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from a product lens...news articles are a truly bonkers format for transmitting info 🤷‍♀️
Emily Withrow@emilywithrow17 Dec 2019
Through the mist, through the woods, through the darkness and the shadows, it's a nightmare, but it's one exciting riiiide niemanlab.org/2019/12/the-ye…

The year we kill the news article

"A one-size-fits-all approach fits no one in the end. It places a heavy burden on the reader/viewer/listener/user to do the work of sifting through the story and mapping it to other relevant content...

niemanlab.org
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being able to get off a waitlist for a workout class in the marina bc so many ppl are hung over = the only time i have ever been grateful for santa con 🥰
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i’ve always felt icky about Effective Altruism even tho i’m sympathetic to some of its core elements (like accountability, data savvy) and that ickiness comes from how the act of measurement, despite seeming impartial, can shape what you value:
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some things are easy to measure / quantify, e.g. health outcomes other things are hard to measure, e.g. the impact of art and culture and effective altruism as a framework will always undervalue the things that are hard to measure, the things that lack good data sources
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tl;dr if you have extra money to give, allocate more of it to art and cultural production 🤗
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