@rich_unger
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Engineer at Lyft. Formerly Twitter, sfdc, nuance. Husband of @pdsolberg. Lindy Hopper. Father of 2 young kids. He/him. @[email protected]
Seattle, WA
Joined September 2010
Teaching scientific notation at the dinner table: "if Elon Musk was worth $300 billion, and you picked up 30 cents on the sidewalk, say percentage of his wealth would you have?
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It's so bad at twitter now, the thought of Trump getting his account back no longer makes me feel anything.
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The continents can be arranged to look like a chicken
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His name is JARRETT HOBBS He was arrested for traffic violations 5 sheriffs’s deputies in Camden County, GA brutally attacked him, dragged him out of his cell and threw them against a wall They were angry that he was kicking his cell door This is evil #StopPoliceBrutality
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With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter. 🧵
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Problems with passbird? Can't change my password on web and trying to update 2FA settings on android freezes the app.
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Reading the twtr alum slack about how short staffed core services is now. I feel like I gotta get this out now before it's too late: you can find me on Mastodon at
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In the dot com crash, I was fresh out of school. I got lucky, and happened into an org and a manager who looked out for me (hi @MadhavanThiru !) If you're early in your career, look for the helpers. If you have organizational sway, be one.
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This is a really fun description of how moderation evolves at an org. I sign off on this as someone who was in Twitter's Trust and Safety engineering and anti-spam engineering teams a decade ago where we saw these changes close up
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I mean, we all know he was a beery swine.
If you gave me this screenshot with the last four words blanked out, I definitely wouldn’t be able to guess them
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If someone is talking politics and eating $28 of Taco Bell in one sitting then my immediate follow up question is what their thoughts are on Biden’s executive order on cannabis rescheduling
Fox Business contributor: “You want to know how bad inflation is? Yesterday, yes, I had a nice lunch at Taco Bell — cost me about $28 at Taco Bell for lunch.” Um, how is that even physically possible? (Also, don’t think I’ll take financial advice from this guy.)
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*cracks knuckles* I moved from Chicago to West Virginia, was supposed to be in WV for a year, stayed for the better part of a decade, and left in 2020 to move to Milwaukee. I have some thoughts.
"It’s no wonder Americans can’t afford houses: they’re all trying to live in the same five places." But outside those places, "cities like Tulsa are paying people to move in" with "a $10k incentive," and WV pays "$12,000 cash." @carmelelizabeth
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To the unsolicited Facebook recruiters: sorry I never email you back.
The intrinsic dangers of Facebook's decision to warehouse billions of tons of oily rags was obvious from the start, they just ignored them. https://t.co/rVqJsJFr7C
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The intrinsic dangers of Facebook's decision to warehouse billions of tons of oily rags was obvious from the start, they just ignored them. https://t.co/rVqJsJFr7C
locusmag.com
For 20 years, privacy advocates have been sounding the alarm about commercial online surveillance, the way that companies gather deep dossiers on us to help marketers target us with ads. This pitch…
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Louisiana is sending children to Angola Penitentiary. Louisiana still maintains a prison farm named Angola, literally a former plantation. Louisiana is still shipping children out of state to private youth detention centers in Mississippi & Alabama. https://t.co/tRQvRCaZ82
nola.com
Responding to the ongoing crisis at the Bridge City juvenile prison, Gov. John Bel Edwards said as soon as next month the state will temporarily move some — but not
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