Lifelong technologist with roots in research and early open source. Previously @Brave, @Mozilla, @Debian

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Joined February 2007
non technical folks asking if I can help them find a co-founder: Be amazing at sales and start selling the product before it exists, and devs will show up to build it with you. Thats your leverage. – at San Francisco, CA
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anons are judged on their actions, not who they are.
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lord give me the confidence of a seed stage CEO on Twitter making 11 threads per day about how to run a company.
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How to repeal the First Amendment: 1) place media distribution in the hands of a corporate oligopoly. 2) threaten to break them up unless they control disinformation. 3) define disinformation as speech you don’t like. Easy.
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Some traders are more equal than others
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This is how the system is rigged. The elites aren't even trying to hide it. Robinhood, who's revenue is largely tied to Citadel, restricts trading in $GME, $AMC, and $NOK. Users can only sell, not buy. seekingalpha.com/news/365553…
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The clearest sign of a healthy democracy is all the media conglomerates instantly shifting their positions depending which government official they intuit to be winning at the moment.
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Hard work in itself can be a source of happiness. People talk to me about hard work as a cost one must pay to accomplish a goal. Yes, but accomplishing the goal is only part of it. Persistence in the face of struggle, in itself, makes life fun. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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Replying to @KevinHoffman
Disabling slack notifications is a huge quality of life improvement, except that Slack pops up an in-app notification periodically about how sad it is that you've disabled notifications.
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Folks cheering this have the ability to see about 2 inches in front of their face.
Wow. twitter going even further than FB and is no longer letting ppl tweet the NYPost story. This is what pops up if you try.
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Copyright wars in a nutshell: is the Internet going to be a communications network supporting innumerable uses, or a "distribution system" for Big Media, like cable TV? BTW, we already have cable TV.
.@RepLouCorrea describes the internet as a "distribution system" for music & creative works ignoring that 229 million Americans use it for communications, organizing & commentary. That speech can be chilled by fraudulent takedowns under the #DMCA #Copyright #Section512
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I love how VCs criticize founders who derisk by giving themselves a market salary or taking secondary, yet none of them are willing to give up their 2% management fee.
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Replying to @xtat
@xtat and I are looking for a Audio/Speech/Signal Processing Adept to join us at Claraphone. angel.co/company/claraphone/… A playful, solution-oriented mind would make a great fit.
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Our Nightly version for North America now features Brave Together, our private and unlimited video calling service based on open source @jitsinews. Click on the widget & start connecting with friends/colleagues. Feedback welcome at community.brave.com/c/nightl… for this trial version.
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Do not ignore this quoted tweet. There are layers and layers with this. I think @jack is likely moves ahead here. Don’t let your frustrations with current Twitter and it’s Terms of Service or Trust & Safety issues blind you to what is likely to be the fate of social media.
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@jack11 Dec 2019
Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. 🧵
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Listen, I can connect you to our outside counsel and they'd tell you that those terms are standard too...
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Zcash is under attack. You don’t attack things unless you perceive it a threat. Zcash is a threat to power.
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Lupex is the first exchange to list the first ever Gold stablecoin, $PAXG. lupextrade.com
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