Brian MerchantOvjeren akaunt

@bcmerchant

automate it for the people. senior ed, books , . writing 'Blood in the Machine' for . wrote 'that iPhone book'. founder, Terraform

Los Angeles, CA
Vrijeme pridruživanja: kolovoz 2008.

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    Beyond thrilled to share the news of my next project today, again made possible by the fine folks at

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  2. Very excited to talk to and about technology culture today, a day on which it is widely agreed technology has had little discernible impact on our lives and/or democracy

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    I see the Iron Law of the 21st century is borne out yet again: there is no existing human process that cannot be made worse with an app

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    If you look at Acronym's "About" page today it says "we invested in Shadow" but if you look at the Wayback Machine from last month it's "we launched Shadow"

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  5. It’s an important point to underline, that making b2b tech like shitty election apps etc is very lucrative work, orchestrated more through networks of access than the open market—+ the results are likelier to be awful. And unless something goes wrong there’s little oversight

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  6. This is very true. The only reason that there is an app at all is probably because party officials were seduced by the prospect of using New Technology, and a contractor with ties + access leapt at (or exploited) the opportunity. Result is enterprise tech that improves nothing

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  7. one obvious narrative that should go mainstream after last night is that mayor pete is an absolute psychopath

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  9. I will acknowledge the reality show president, Russian hackers, + sham impeachment trials. But there is no way you can convince me the voting app in the most hotly contested election in years was built by ‘Shadow Inc’ without admitting we’re living in a d-list Tom Clancy novel

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  10. Just got out of a two-hour event without checking my phone. Think I’ll take a big sip of coffee, put on my favorite record, and check in on the state of democracy in 2020

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  11. I see the Iron Law of the 21st century is borne out yet again: there is no existing human process that cannot be made worse with an app

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  12. deleted the follow up tweet to this, which concerned a cloned chester cheetah fighting an out of work actor dressed up like mr clean in a stadium for our detached amusement and am regretting it horribly now

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    prije 18 sati

    I recently asked who was registered to vote in a class and every single student raised their hand. This could be a historic year for youth voter turnout. Especially with the right candidate.

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    world is divided into nation-states run by trillionaires, each gets a brand for sports franchise

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  15. Snickers attacked Amazon for abetting the surveillance state. Mr Peanut "died". Corporate social media accounts spend their days taking digs at each others' avatars. When will the brands finally be made flesh and be forced to do gladiatorial combat for our uncaring entertainment?

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  16. This is actually very cool, congrats to them — escaping the Herb *and* becoming employee owned, just about a best case scenario for any digital media company tbh

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  17. Seems like something Good might be happening? idk

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  18. Scientists say there are infinite possible universes. Here's our statistical model for what might after the Iowa caucuses in each of them.

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    Imagine writing the PR pitch for a wifi connected device, billing it as "the world’s first smart band that measures and tracks calorie intake, hydration and emotional levels … right through your skin," and not immediately realizing you're an antagonist in a cyberpunk novella

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  20. I was excited for the new “car-free” Market Street in SF but with buses and taxis still allowed it just feels like this weird (and dangerous) limbo where people try to walk across the street and cabs just honk at and terrify them?

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  21. tbh can’t stop thinking about the fact that a snickers super bowl ad directly criticized Amazon + the surveillance state + the excesses of digital capitalism but then suggested all we can possibly do about it is shrug + feed the world’s face with mass manufactured chocolate bars

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