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Founder @ ?? ex-MLE@FAANG, Researched DeepRL+Affective Computing @usc
Joined June 2013
the poster boy for mass tech layoffs runs this website and somehow women still get the blame.
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LA-pro tip: NEVER fly into Burbank Airport. It’s super congested and the traffic is really bad, and the airport is confusing and inconvenient. Instead, fly into LAX, which is way better. Tell this to everyone you know.
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It’s time to acknowledge that 75% of Twitter’s staff were laid off and this thing is still running.
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In South Bay and it’s always so frustrating here. It’s called Silicon Valley so you’d think it would look futuristic with maglev trains and skyscrapers and glass domes and shit. You’d think it’d look like Tokyo! But it looks like a second tier suburb of any random Midwest city 😭.
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@pjsantoro Picking up your friends from LAX is an important cultural practice. Really you’re problematic if you don’t.
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@simonbreak The Locals have been hoarding the pleasurable travel experience that is LAX to themselves for too long. No longer should travelers have to suffer long waits at Burbank.
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People don’t talk about how much your job can change your personality over time.
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It appears Twitter’s entire Product team has recently awoken from a prolonged coma. I wish them the best on their recovery 🤗.
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@steviemctweets Yeah the whole industry’s gonna have to be a lot leaner going forward. Head count growth is not the flex it used to be.
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Now that TikTok has hit 1 billion users I want to give a special shout out to the man responsible for everything you don’t like about the app and also the black wealth gap. Congrats @JoshuaOgundu
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@lepetitereboot Ma’am, please scroll through my profile, you will find that I am not a fan of that man nor his companies.
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But no, please tell me more about how cheap housing is in that hip red state without any reproductive rights.
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So FB was down all day and our democracy didn’t seem any less dysfunctional and y’all didn’t seem any less miserable. Maybe it’s you, not us?.
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@beugmartin You must be Palo Alto’s mother cause this place has a face only a mother could love.
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Every single person you know is entering into a new phase of their lives, simply by virtue of the pandemic.
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@jefbrr @cliffordcatfish @lepetitereboot Yeah I had friends at Twitter, so it definitely wasn’t a dig. The point is, a lot of tech folks (myself included) expected this site to literally crash due to the huge cuts that were made. And it’s time to acknowledge that that didn’t happen.
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Speaking of LA, sign up for my friend’s audio-first dating app. Launches first Los Angeles.
If you would like to try out the beta for iOS when its out, sign up here
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What PM at Google thought it’d be a good idea to give you patronizing, unsolicited advice when booking a flight last minute
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Just landed in LAX, the easiest airport in the world! Just have to slay the Minotaur at the center of the maze and then the path to rideshare pickup should be revealed to me.
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We’re supposed to believe all the brutality the police state inflicts on us is worth it cause at least they’ll shoot the bad guys too sometimes. But apparently they’re just as fine sitting outside and waiting til the shooter’s finished.
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@basedtolkien Yeah I didn’t expect this to pop off. I was really just thinking about how a lot of industry folks (myself included) said this app would crash and burn with so much institutional knowledge being cut, and how that wasn’t the case, and that no one is willing to admit it in public.
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@JoshuaOgundu Eh. If you’re high performing you can get a job somewhere else. If my employer tried to force me to go back in, I’d put in my resignation pretty quickly.
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@lepetitereboot Oh zero companies should follow in Musk’s example. The reputation of the brand is in the gutter, advertisers left so the website STILL isn’t profitable despite the cuts, and the pay-to-play blue checks have noticeably destroyed the quality of the content here.
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Hill I will gladly die on: non-black people should never have started using the term “woke” and their misuse of it has divorced it of all meaning.
This Anti-woke, anti-cancel culture business went from a concern about soft or creeping totalitarianism to its own sort of all-encompassing, nearly totalitarian thought: every issue, every topic is now threaded through that one issue;.
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Twitter needs to add proof-of-income profile pictures. Let’s see if y’all making claims about six figure incomes are making six figures.
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@Frediculous @whitemaleman1 This exchange makes me feel like I’m watching a modern man trying to communicate with a freaking cave man.
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Black women, particularly older black women, are pretty under appreciated. They’re pretty much running the entire East Oakland COVID testing site.
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Imagine getting got by Vecna cause you were too cheap for Spotify Premium and ads started playing.
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@Frediculous Lmao look I hate to acknowledge it more than anyone else, but sometimes a spade is a spade.
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Nothing like busting your ass all day just to hear your multi billion dollar boss is fucking around on CH during work hours.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but there’s a big difference between people who like you and people who support you.
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@onigbindejoao Look. When that muskmobile got on here and fired everyone I was pretty confident the app wasn’t going to run AT ALL in a year. Yeah, it’s devolved into a racist cesspool but I’m surprised the servers still work at all.
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The majority of venture-backed startups fail, and early stage investors largely invest in folks based on “network”. Given that, if I were a VC, rather than telling folks to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, I’d be asking if network really is the best indicator of 100x returns.
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So much of life is about confidence. Making others feel confident and having confidence in yourself.
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Does the TL have any tips on dealing with burnout? Asking for myself.
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Still thinking about the man that followed @JoshuaOgundu and I around LA live last night asking us to freestyle. And yes, he was.
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Yeah i originally intended this tweet for my limited audience of mutuals/tech engineers and it was clearly a mistake to broaden past that circle. If you interpreted the response to this tweet or the 70% drop in valuation as a sign to replicate you’re a fucking idiot.
Next step: federal government.
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@dunkhippo33 @DelJohnsonVC Del’s thesis is quite simple: the nepotistic, patronage model and social structure of VC is what leads to its inaccessibility to poor and underrepresented folks and ultimately its underperformance as an asset class. So it makes sense for him to push back against that thread.
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Does no one in this industry have even a basic understanding of world history?.
why hasn’t private equity attempted to take over and privatize a nation.
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@generalquixote @steviemctweets Oh that too. I think Stevie and I were thinking about early-to-mid stage startups, where oftentimes the founders are relatively underpaid or even forgo a salary.
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What I love about Twitter is every time I get on this app y’all are big mad. Every day like you get paid for it. I know it must be tiring but I appreciate the consistency.
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@Tolu_Afo @patagucci_girl “let them enjoy office sex” this guy shouldn’t be allowed to manage childproof scissors, not to talk of human beings.
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Big shoutout to my mans @JoshuaOgundu on the TC feature. Hitting all the milestones we dreamed of when we were just grad school kids at SC!
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Imagine if the US government was run by designers and engineers instead of lawyers.
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If you say your body my choice around me I will send you to the hospital. idgaf. I will teach you the true meaning of that phrase.
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People who think college was about education missed the entire point of the whole thing.
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@ricburton I’m cracking jokes, this is Twitter. If you want to talk customers and business we’ll meet up in SF like civilized human beings. Otherwise please stop being off putting in my mentions.
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I think some people believe that when they hit a certain phase in their life (first job, having kids, reached a certain income) that they’ll become this ideal version of themselves. But you are the person you choose to be, every day.
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Vacationing as a parent must be wild. You’re pretty much taking your work with you to an exotic location.
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.@lastpositivist @OlufemiOTaiwo can y’all write a survey style book (or at least a Google Doc or something) introducing black philosophical concepts and topics for the everyday (black) person. I would pay serious money for all my friends and I to have something like this.
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Stopped a car break in on my street today. Most surreal thing. Apparently they work in pairs, one does the smash and grabbing, the other does the getaway driving. Wildest part was, dude was driving a BMW.
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This becomes immediately obvious when you see some of the crappy apartments people are paying $3K+ for in the Mission.
In America, we allocate housing by your ability to pay. Blocking new housing for rich people who can pay high prices just means that they’ll outbid the poor for existing homes. Stopping new construction doesn’t stop gentrification, it accelerates it. This is the lesson of SF.
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Infallibility was actually one of our universal negro solstice upgrades.
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“Who’s that black tech guy who’s always getting shit from other VCs but he’s speaking truth”.Me: @DelJohnsonVC.Them: yeah that’s the one.
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Shout out to @JoshuaOgundu, @inababi, @MilesNextDoor, @ishverduzco and all the other black and brown operators paving the way for others in this here tech industry. Y’all deserve more recognition than you get.
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People overevaluate themselves and it’s really sad. Why am I gonna spend $200+ on a first date with some brokey when I could get taken out by a bad bitch with a degree and conversational skills?.
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Harry Potter produced literally zero good memes and yet people expect me to gaf about the franchise.
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To put the Facebook comparison into perspective, there are 689,000 active Ethereum wallets. Facebook serves over 3.5 billion users, or ~5000x the number of users at 1/3 the cost.
Ethereum's emissions are three times bigger than huge centralized services like Facebook (serving billions of people on 7.2TWh/year). The corresponding emissions can be compared 2-3 coal plants, or 500 thousand people in the USA, or 4.2 million people in India.
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@FCTamakloe @MinoEhirim I don’t know you but social withdrawal is a common symptom of depression. Hope you’re doing alright
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@JoshuaOgundu Nah if I moved to Texas, got married, and my employer tried to force me to move back to the Bay, I’d just get a job at Facebook or another remote first company. I’m not sacrificing my marriage over a job.
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“Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Liam Kofi Bright”
"The point of theorizing about racial capitalism is to focus our attention on the broader forms of organization that are constitutive of social life under capitalism, beyond how it organizes work and production.".@lastpositivist and I in @DissentMag .
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@Frediculous Don’t sell them short they also want high school curriculum to include LLC formation.
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Reddit’s mobile site now aggressively tries to force you into the app. Probably the worst UX I’ve experienced on the web.
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@ldelbeccaro @trout_eth @davidu Right but now people like me who are not in the know can assess the article on its own merits and not those of the hive mind.
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Bay Area tech should be terrified of LA. Outside the startup ecosystem, LA is a far superior place for a young person.
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I think the diss tracks this week taught a lot of us that we’re not even really haters like that. We’re dislikers at best. There’s levels to this evidently.
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I was not impacted in the latest slate of Tech Layoffs, but here's a helpful tip for when you hear about mass layoffs in the news: Do not text your friend at the company and ask them whether they still have a job.
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So we’ve already decided Carnap is a black philosopher. @lastpositivist, what are your thoughts on reclaiming Heraclitus (known as the “Dark Philosopher”)?.
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Every smart and successful man I know is married to a woman who has their own career and makes a lot of money. This allows them to take bigger career risks like starting companies without the stress.
A career oriented woman should be the goal for any career oriented man. Outside of the pooling of financial resources, she can be a sounding board as well as more empathetic because she gets what you are dealing with.
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Had a conversation a while back about how people who move to the Bay to make money never stick around to invest back into the area. Outside Most folks dip once they have their bag. Us tech workers are big critics of SF’s decline, but spend no time interrogating our role in it.
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When white women talk about Covid inequality it’s about household chores/no cleaners. When black women talk about it, it’s our racist healthcare systems, our disproportionate infection rate, and ultimately death.
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This is in reaction to someone, unprompted, coming out as transphobic. It is illustrative of the internalized double standard of online conservatism, where they lament facing social repercussions for vocalizing antisocial sentiments. They always have to be a victim, it’s absurd.
Okay I'm fking biting. Yacine is everyone's friend and the knee jerk reaction on this issue is not a way to treat a friend. Ultimately I think this is why this issue is so divisive; no one wants to actually talk. Everyone pretends this is a solved problem and just wants to hurry.
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“Many of the things that we do every day link us with countless people who have come before us and—if we succeed in preventing the worst climate outcomes—countless people who will come after us. We can do the spiritual work to act from this knowledge right now.” - @OlufemiOTaiwo.
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YIMBYs: landlords and developers should have to compete with each other for tenants by offering better housing and lower prices. NIMBYs: tenants should compete with each other for scarce housing resources by having more money.The disagreement is on who is competing.
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@lastpositivist Can you name a single problem that American bombing HASN’T solved? And no, Vietnam, black activism, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and the rest of our recent memory doesn’t count.
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@EclecticRadical @The_Acumen They did not build more housing in SF, That you would confidently assert this despite the voluminous evidence to the contrary shows how much you know about what you’re talking about
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I see the same thing in tech. People telling you that you can’t succeed because you’re black. Keep that loser energy to yourself.
If you’re someone saying that Kamala can’t win because she is a woman of color, that’s a very limiting belief you have in women of color.
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