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Doug Bowman
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Designer, advisor, father. Previously led design teams at Twitter, Google, Wired. Giants fan. Deutsche lernen. Wanna-be runner.
@coachtony It’s encouraging to even see people thinking hard about these policies, how to apply them fairly and proactively, and that Medium already had a base set to start from. And you’re talking about all this publicly. I signed up for an account on me.dm a few days ago to move off this .cloud instance. Unsure how long the review queue is tho.
@Dtl @cstross Massive uptick in phishing emails and offers to buy my 4-char Twitter name too. Emails. Even texts to my personal phone number, which I’ve never published or associated with my account. I don’t get it. I hum along for 15+ years there with nothing, and suddenly it’s valuable as the platform turns toxic?
@chriscoyier Robin being both astute and poetic with that. I think I wondered if I’d care too. Though as I invest more time here, I’m finding that it surpasses *recent* Twitter in terms of value and vibe. Like everyone says, this feels more like Twitter in its early days. But that might just be because of the tech and “early” adopter crowd has migrated first, even though most of us are years behind the federation formation.
@chriscoyier Everyone has a different line (or even a gradient). Once I crossed it, there was something liberating about it, freeing me from the false premise that I’d never be able to recreate a similar social graph elsewhere.
@gboone @anildash @tantek.com If I remember right, my experience was on Movable Type. And I was using static file generation instead of a database. So cleaning up the spam afterward was extra painful.
@anildash @tantek.com Omg, trackbacks. I left that setting on after one of my upgrades once, and I’ll never forget the deluge of spam I had to wade through the next time I signed in. Hopefully we’ve evolved since then.
@coachtony Maybe so. Honestly, I’m a little relieved that this place isn’t swallowed up in political stuff yet (or I just haven’t found/followed any of those accounts). Ftr, she RTs a lot. Today’s newsletter can be sampled here though if you’re into daily summaries of current events and deep dives into specific moments in Am history. https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-12-2023
January 12, 2023
After news broke yesterday that President Joe Biden’s lawyers had found a second batch of documents in his home in Wilmington, Delaware, Attorney General Merrick Garland today appointed Robert Hur as special counsel to investigate Biden’s handling of classified documents. After law school, Hur clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist and then served as special assistant to Christopher Wray—then an assistant attorney general, now FBI director—before being appointed by former president Trump as the U.S. attorney in Maryland. Since he left office in February 2021, he has been in private practice.
@coachtony Don’t think she’s here yet, but Heather Cox Richardson is amazing for American History. On the bird at HC_Richardson, and a near-daily email newsletter.
@biz It sleeps and eats and poops too!
@stevesilberman 🤦 Ugh, never thought I’d see my own school in the news, and especially for something this bad. Maybe it’s time for third graders to lead the discussion about how economics and race are institutionally linked.