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Proposal: let's create "Gerrymandering: The Jigsaw Puzzle"—a puzzle of all voting districts in the USA— and donate copies to every school.
For a platform where people rage against the media so often, remarkable number of folks here taking this framing at face value. Notice the only actual quotation here is pretty bland. The rest is all careful framing to make the subject look absurd.
Zoelle Egner retweeted
Launch day! Pool now works with personal agents. 🎉
Big banks are going to great lengths to restrict access to personal agents, which is understandable! Those accounts weren't built for this.
But what if there were an account that was? That’s what we’ve been building at Pool (@ourpools). Starting today, you can connect a compatible agent and put it to work.
I asked @bot to explain why Pool was useful, and here's what I got back.
We know this is all incredibly early. There's a lot to learn about how people will use agents to manage money, and we're committed to building the trust, permissions and controls that make it possible.
We'll be sharing more along the way :)
Read the post: poolmoney.com/blog/agent-fin…
The word status is doing a lot of work here to obfuscate a real and useful point: although "status" absolutely shouldn't shape our view about any person's *inherent* value or worth, pretending that *credentials* are not the original way to accelerate trust is just lying 🤷♀️
Zoelle Egner retweeted
When I was a young man I thought older people had low risk tolerance.
I’ve come to realize though that older people just have way more things that rely on them.
And in fact when you account for what’s at risk, grown adults are actually taking way, way more meaningful risks on a regular basis than me at 23.
I literally never reached the point where I couldn't talk because of contractions. I came in bc I'd been in "false labor" for 48 hr, had a nice chat w the nurses, was told the baby sounded great but my vitals were a little up. Checked dilation, then admitted asap bc I was at 9 🤷♀️
I called the doctor three times that evening, which was exactly what they said I should do, and here’s how every convo went:
“My contractions are now 2-3 minutes apart and very intense, should I come in?”
“Um, sigh, well….thats kinda up to you, but we really don’t need to see you until you’re in active labor.”
“Well (breathing heavily and unable to speak well during intense contractions)…h..how do I know if I’m in active labor?”
“Well, there’s no way to know for sure, but you won’t be able to really talk during contractions.”
“That’s ….me….. now..”
“Well it seems a bit too soon for that, try to get some sleep.”
“Sorry there’s zero chance I’m sleeping through this, I’m writhing in pain every 3 minutes.”
“Sigh, well, I’m not here to tell you what to do, just inform your decisions…”
(Why the fuck do they tell me to call then) “Um, ok, I think I need to come in.”
“If that’s what you want.”
“It’s not about what I WANT, I’m just saying if I’m having the baby in the hospital I should probably come to the hospital.”
“Sigh, yeah, we can check your dilation when you get here.”
I drive 45 minutes to the hospital and check in and get into a bed, a somewhat perturbed nurse checks me “you’re only 4 cm, at this point we usually recommend you return home to get some rest then come back during active labor).”
“So you want me to drive 45 minutes back home, writhe around there, then sort of magically feel out when I think I might be 1 more cm dilated and then drive 45 minutes back here?”
“Yes, and try to get some sleep.”
-____-
Everything after this was great but the entire when-to-go-to-the-hospital situation was needlessly frustrating.
Zoelle Egner retweeted
Friends please be aware, a Tsunami is a series of wave carrying a large extra mass of water to our coast.
This will NOT be a single wave.
Do NOT try to go to the coast to take photos.
You're not just putting yourself at risk, you will also be putting rescue teams at risk. #CAwx
⚠️TSUNAMI ADVISORY in effect for the California coast. Stay away from the water! Stay away from beaches and waterways! Remain away from shore until local officials say that it is OK to return. #KnowYourZone at conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsun…. #CAwx #Tsunami
ALT A Tsunami Advisory is in effect for the California coast, including all coastal regions in the Bay Area and Central Coast, due to an 8.7 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka. Stay away from the water! Stay away from beaches and waterways! Remain away from shore until local officials say that it is OK to return. Estimated time of arrival is 12:15 AM on July 30 at Monterey and 12:40 AM on July 30 at San Francisco.
It is pretty deeply unacceptable that the California state tsunami website isn't working during a coast-wide tsunami alert.
Zoelle Egner retweeted
It's too hard to find grants as a disaster survivor.
You've just lost everything.
You're overwhelmed.
You have no clue how you're going to pay to rebuild your life.
And then you see on the news that hundreds of millions of dollars were raised to help!
But... how do you get a piece of that?
Zoelle Egner retweeted
Why is a former FEMA administrator joining a startup?
In his words: "This is the first organization I’ve seen that’s building for what disaster recovery should be, not just what it has always been."
Welcome to the team, @femapete. We're honored to have you on board.
Zoelle Egner retweeted
🎉 Some very exciting news: @meshhq has been acquired by @automattic!
Clay will live on as a standalone product and continue to grow—with our entire team remaining at the helm, more resources, and broader reach.
Automattic is the parent company of @WordPress (which powers over 40% of the internet) and other fantastic products like @beeper, @tumblr, @dayone, @pocketcasts, and more.
Clay has 150 million relationships under management and growing, with everyone from Fortune 500 execs to students using it daily. We’re very thankful to our talented team, amazing investors, and loyal members for being the true champions of this tremendous milestone.
I also need to pause here and specially thank my co-founder @Achariam, whose product vision, design excellence, and dedication turned Clay from an idea into the product and business it is today. Building a company is hard. Building one with a co-founder and friend like Matt is a rare gift.
That said, we’re not going anywhere! A few things:
1️⃣ Our product and team will be growing, unlike every previous app or product in this space.
We started Clay because we had been burned by spending days adding people and notes into apps that eventually shut down.
Plaxo, Contactually, Connected, Refresh, Rapportive, Accompany, Brewster, Humin, Xobni, Gist, Cobook, Soocial, RelateIQ — all abandoned or shut down.
Clay is a paid product where you are the customer. And Automattic has a number of beautifully-designed, continually-maintained, privacy-conscious apps like Beeper, Day One Journal, and Pocket Casts that have the same philosophy. We are joining the pantheon of beautifully-designed, privacy-respecting, tech-advancing apps.
Automattic is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month. It thinks in 100 year increments, and keeps apps running for decades.
2️⃣ We are your best choice for anything contacts, network, or CRM related. If you believe in any part of our mission, join us.
Our team is obsessed with building a great product for your people and relationships, and we ship daily.
If you’ve ever wanted a better way to send gifts to friends, or remember birthdays, or scan business cards, or intro people to each other, or search your LinkedIn connections with AI, we either do it today or we will soon. Sign up for free, and say hi at care@clay.earth!
3️⃣ Digital identity and relationship graphs are more important than ever.
As AI continues to power our everyday software, your contacts, network, messages, people, and relationships are the last, most sensitive piece of the puzzle. That information shouldn’t be part of LLM training data, ever. But when done locally, just for you, with your permission, it can unlock magical product experiences that bring us closer together.
We’re excited to have you with us on this journey, and we look forward to building a brighter, more connected world together.
So — thank you for being a part of the Clay community. Let’s build something extraordinary together.
We wanted to take a moment to share some great news! Clay has been acquired by Automattic.
By joining forces with @automattic, Clay will not only live on but continue to grow and improve—with our entire team remaining at the helm.
Zoelle Egner retweeted
Its only called ‘Forward Deployed Engineer’ if its from the Palantir region of France. Otherwise it’s just ‘sparkling enterprise sales with consulting services’
In all seriousness I have had to change my personal writing style somewhat meaningfully because the LLMs and I trained on the same content 😑
Zoelle Egner retweeted
Parents: there thousands of families around #STLouis without power right now. Share your best tips for keeping the kids entertained during a blackout.
We'll go first:
– Shadow puppet stories on the wall
– Flashlight scavenger hunt around the house
– “Camp inside” with flashlights, snacks, and ghost-free ghost stories
- Play cards! Even by candlelight you can play Go Fish, Hearts, or King's Corner games for hours of fun
- IMPROMPTU ICE CREAM PARTY! When the power goes out, any ice cream in the freezer won't be long for this world, so why not break it out for everyone to enjoy?
Y'all, I decided to check this for myself last night. My insurance company doesn't even have the right number of bathrooms listed for my home. Go check.
