Kristin Lee
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@Waystar Comms. @ObamaWhiteHouse @WHOSTP44 @Microsoft @HillaryClinton alum. Mom of two. Passionate about #tech #science #cleanair & #music. Personal account.
Joined February 2010
Congrats @KumarAGarg and team! Can't wait to see the continued impact you will have.
I’m excited to announce that I’m launching a new non-profit organization today: Renaissance Philanthropy. Renaissance will work with philanthropists to design and implement ambitious efforts leveraging science, technology, and innovation.
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“My pitch for this episode is simple: Jennifer Pahlka has written one of the best policy books I have ever read.” - Ezra Klein https://t.co/ovq93yHgJQ
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In “Recoding America,” Jennifer Pahlka offers a deeper theory for why the U.S. government struggles to provide services to its people.
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This is going to be ⚡️🔥💯!!! Join the conversation w/ @pahlkadot & me at @cwclub! Tix available (for now)!
Congratulations to @pahlkadot Jennifer Pahlka—it's pub day for "Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age & How We Can Do Better" (@HenryHolt) You can see her live in San Francisco in conversation with @dpatil June 22. Tickets: https://t.co/Q07RSQ34eZ
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Carbon removal technologies are a vital part of the global response to the climate crisis. That’s why Meta joined with others to found Frontier. Today Meta is joining its Frontier partners in our first large-scale carbon removal purchase from @CharmIndustrial, who use a process
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Today, @Meta is announcing that we’re open sourcing our build system Buck2. Thousands of our developers at Meta are already using Buck2 and performing millions of builds per day, with builds completing twice as fast as with Buck1. Learn more:
engineering.fb.com
Buck2, our new open source, large-scale build system, is now available on GitHub. Buck2 is an extensible and performant build system written in Rust and designed to make your build experience faste…
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Amazing news. Thanks @JenEricksonDC, @GregSegal613, and team for all you've done to fix this broken system and save lives.
YES! So glad this is getting done! The organ donation system is BROKEN! And it's fixable! https://t.co/oP6Ciw5iKt
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YES! So glad this is getting done! The organ donation system is BROKEN! And it's fixable! https://t.co/oP6Ciw5iKt
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Federal health official announces plans to break up the monopoly power of the United Network for Organ Sharing, which has run the system for nearly four decades.
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Ray-Ban Stories 🕶️ is one of the most exciting & difficult engineering projects @Meta has ever worked on. During the pandemic, Meta’s teams had to find the balance between fashion, function, & privacy. Here's a behind-the-scenes on how they made it happen: https://t.co/ZpcHb42fGm
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Based on Instagram’s user growth, our projections showed that we were running out of capacity to provide 📲 video uploads for everyone. But we found a way to scale our infrastructure through engineering innovation rather than adding more machines. 1/3 https://t.co/TtGSVQVRUy
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Georgia! It's #VoteEarlyDay and I’m at a grassroots event in Atlanta to support some incredible Democratic candidates up and down the ballot. Tune in live.
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As more wind & solar farms are added to the 💡 electrical grid, new tools are needed to support the grid’s transition. To help boost electrical reliability & reduce emissions, Meta & its partners have launched an energy pilot in Texas. Learn more:
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Energy storage boosts grid reliability and reduces emissionsExploring energy storage for grid innovationMeta partners with others to use energy storage to improve grid reliability and help reduce...
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This is part of a long history of Meta engineers building foundational tech—when web frameworks were hard, we built & open sourced React. For mobile, React Native. When data centers needed to scale, we open sourced data center hardware & design with the Open Compute Project
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A big moment for a key piece of open infrastructure powering the AI revolution. Introducing the #PyTorchFoundation! https://t.co/SVf1ClZo6q
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PyTorch is moving to a new, independent PyTorch Foundation. The project will join the Linux Foundation with a diverse governing board composed of representatives from AMD, Amazon Web Services, Google...
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Introducing #Velox, an open source execution engine for data management systems that both unifies & accelerates common data computation engines, like Spark & Presto. Learn how Velox improves computation-intensive data workloads & how you can participate:
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Tonight, Kansans used their voices to protect women’s right to choose and access reproductive health care. It’s an important victory for Kansas, but also for every American who believes that women should be able to make their own health decisions without government interference.
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In 1972, we started adding leap seconds every 1.5 years to ensure our clocks reflected the Earth's rotation speed. However, they've become disruptive to timekeeping on the internet so Meta is backing an effort to stop introducing new leap seconds: https://t.co/MyrYmOjwu8
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The Supreme Court has now officially given politicians permission to control what we do with our bodies, deciding that we can no longer be trusted to determine the course for our own lives. But make no mistake—we are a movement that will demand we are treated like equal citizens.
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Here is how Meta engineers developed a growing hardware and software infrastructure capable of delivering quality, cloud-based game experiences to people using @FacebookGaming all over the world:
engineering.fb.com
The promise of cloud gaming is a promise to democratize gaming. Anyone who loves games should be able to enjoy them and share the experience with their friends, no matter where they’re located, and…
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We're excited to announce that we are transferring Jest to @openjsf! We look forward to the future of Jest as a project led by the Jest community! https://t.co/4ECkfWFxaY
engineering.fb.com
Meta Open Source is officially transferring Jest, its open source JavaScript testing framework, to the OpenJS Foundation. With over 17 million weekly downloads and over 38,000 GitHub stars, Jest i…
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