https://xn--mp8hai.fm/statement
>In a strange way, this sort of became an anti-statement against what we’d all seen on tech Twitter. We’re a diverse, ragtag group of young technologists tired of the status quo tech industry, and thought that we could make the industry think a bit more about its actions. Despite calls-to-action like that “It’s Time to Build” essay we’ve all read, most of the industry (from product teams to VC) still stays obsessed with exclusive social apps that regularly ignore — or even silence — real needs faced by marginalized people all over the world, and exclude these folks from the building process. As an industry, we need to do better.
So is this 'team' building something real or offering an sustainable alternative? Being snippy on social media is an even more rampant way to do nothing while patting yourself on the back about progress.
Besides, there's rarely ever seems to be a shortage of navel gazing and satire written about Silicon Valley.
Yes? Promoting social equality imo is building something real. More real than hover cars and spaceships.
Read: real as impact on the world.
Example: https://www.news18.com/news/tech/mitron-not-indian-tiktok-bu...
Isn't this basically fraud? "Hey, give us money and we'll help you get something. Nope, just kidding, we gave your money to charity and that 'something' we promised doesn't exist."
This team mislead people to "support causes" and is now profiting off their newfound fame. I have nothing against non-profits getting more money, but...I'm not sure if I'm happy about this situation here. The ends really don't justify the means.
[0]: https://twitter.com/itsmezhi/status/1276617354013626368?s=20
[1]: https://twitter.com/itiseyemoutheye/status/12764265029435187...
[2]: https://twitter.com/itiseyemoutheye/status/12766503684207656...
———
I’m fascinated to observe that Firefox Nightly on Windows is, when using a font stack that doesn’t include Segoe UI Emoji (e.g. the headline of the Business Insider article, and the body of https://xn--mp8hai.fm/statement, but not the header of the statement), not emojifying the first U+1F441 EYE, but emojifying the second. I can’t think of any way this could not be a bug. (Update: found a report from about a year ago, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567178 .)
Chrome is not emojifying either, which is reasonable when its font fallbacks hit some other font that includes EYE first.
For best results on things like this, include U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 after each code point to say “emojify it if you possibly can”. (See also U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15, which says “render it in the old style without colour, please”.) Then you don’t need to worry about whether the font stack hard-codes system emoji fonts.
To be frank the actors come across as either insane narcissists or acting in cynical bad faith. They get to feel good about it and/or gain influence but actually helping anybody? They are doing their adversary's work for them while lauding themselves for it!
>Stop blaming twitter. Stop blaming black men. Just because you not getting chose.
Twitter, blm, exclusivity building hype from people who aren’t getting chosen to join. Honestly pretty eloquent.
Shouldn't that be "shown"? Or is it a pun?
The four big pillars are romanticism, which is focused on the past; realism is concerned with the present, modernism is focused on the future. And then postmodernism exists as some sort of combination of the three, combining elements of each in surprising ways -- sometimes a synthesis, other times a rejection.
Of course all my university education is in physical science so this is probably stupid and wrong.
[0]: Seriously, look at this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Librarian_(painting)
If you call that FOMO you are more desperate than you imagine (or probably cannot even imagine) and you will always be chasing something that cannot be caught.
Equality is not achieved by fighting FOMO, but by fighting inequality. Solution (imho) is not to battle 24/7/365, but by picking battles you can win. Yea a government can win far more battles should they want to, and your battle it to be poking them to do so.. but FOMO is irrelevant to the story, just a thing that adds to confusion and, eventually, inaction.
If only we could devise a way to get money from the wealthy to fund projects that benefit the non-wealthy instead of the billionaire-supported NGO class...
It's a platform for long form text based conversations between closed groups (that everyone can read).
