Bill Brown

@billbrown

Family man, developer at YAM Management, previously GoDaddy, former dev manager, historian, Objectivist, and amateur psychologist.

Phoenix, AZ
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    4 Sep 2014

    My birthday card from my kids. They get me -

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  2. Aug 25

    This is spot on.

    Robert Mueller is determined to sniff out any wrongdoing he can find—on one side, writes via
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  3. Aug 24

    Almost ate at Ramen Hood but balked at the $11 ramen. Steal from rich (hipsters) and give to the poor (restaurateurs). Too on the nose!

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  4. Aug 24

    So true. And it doesn’t hurt for small groups either.

    Two key elements of aligning large groups of people a) a simple message and maybe more b) repetition. Every time I thought I was repeating myself ad nauseam, I found it wasn't enough and I should have done more.
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  5. Retweeted
    Aug 10

    People are great at recognizing the 1 hour meeting that could have been a 5 minute email, and *awful* at recognizing the 6 week email thread that could have been a 15 minute meeting.

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  6. Aug 24

    If the right abandons Twitter, then it’ll end up like universities: no exposure to dissent. Better to stay and make Twitter kick us off one by one.

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  7. Aug 24

    This is so impressive, especially when you stop and think about the actual work it’s doing: statistical analysis of pixels in a video -

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    Everybody Dance Now! Exciting new work on conditional video synthesis from Berkeley.
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  8. Retweeted
    Aug 22

    The list of countries, which do not regulate targeted mutagenesis by genome editing under GMO legislation grows: Japan 🇯🇵 USA 🇺🇸 Canada 🇨🇦 Argentina 🇦🇷 Brazil 🇧🇷 Chile 🇨🇱 Israel 🇮🇱 Australia 🇦🇺 is likely next. Only the EU🇪🇺 ignores scientific consensus.

    Japan: "There are few risks associated with genome editing and...stricter regulations are unthinkable" via
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  9. Aug 23

    This is a good thread if only for OneTab -

    what are three things that you would recommend to other people that may not have heard of them? mine are the chrome extension onetab, the mac app devonthink, and the coconut sesame clusters from trader joe's.
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  10. Aug 21

    She is far more Trumpian than and I am disappointed that endorsed her. If she wins primary, Sinema wins general.

    2:20
    Kelli Ward tonight on bus tour inclusion of Cernovich, who has said "diversity" is "white genocide": Ward: "Attaching those things to me is ridiculous" NBC: "But you’re inviting him on your bus-" Ward: "We need to have a hook to get you guys interested in seeing the bus tour..."
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  11. Retweeted
    Aug 18

    Feels quite to surreal to watch the right wing argue for a Fairness Doctrine in technology, the repeal of which allowed the current right wing to exist at all.

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  12. Aug 15

    BRUTAL!

    On your first day at the new job, squash every commit from the repo into a single commit with message "Legacy code" and force-push to master.
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  13. Retweeted
    Aug 15

    There is no question that inadvertently, we humans have turned around a trend in CO2 that would have ended all or nearly all life on Earth.

    Replying to @Volger68 @ockhams @EcoSenseNow
    Without the evolution of man and our ability to replenish atmospheric levels of🌱CO₂🌱the future was inevitable.
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  14. Aug 13

    This is trenchant analysis of what will surely be known as Musk’s Folly. He even notes the irony of fossil-fuel supplier ownership of Tesla.

    I left on August 10 with no question that a special edition of this newsletter could be sent, and that it was just a matter of getting the process moving.
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  15. Aug 7

    It's unfortunate that Apple, Spotify, Twitter, Facebook, and such are stifling dissenting opinions (and even more unfortunate that they're doing so under the guise of "hate speech") but it's their property and it isn't a free speech issue.

    Twitter (or Facebook) is not “the public square.” It is a social media platform created by private individuals and businesses using their own capital. If we don’t stand for property rights and the freedom to associate, we’re no different in principle from the progressive left.
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  16. Aug 6

    Is it better if you meet with someone who met with representatives of a foreign government? And then that someone got the intelligence community involved to get further information? That seems much worse than a meeting that didn’t even result in getting any information.

    An observation from he who wrote the book: IMPEACHMENT: A Citizen's Guide.
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  17. Aug 6

    Once you see it, you can't not see it.

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  18. Jul 30

    Mesmerizing! There are also versions with Benny Hill and Police Squad soundtracks in the replies. (They add a lot!)

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    Bless this doggo who stole a GoPro
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  19. Retweeted
    Jul 23

    The dollar store carries some weird things...

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    Jul 23

    Counterpoint: these masters of planning couldn't even supply people with a decent pair of shoes. One's ability to credit Russian apparatchiks with mystical powers appears to be in inverse proportion to contact with the society they built for themselves.

    34 years ago, a KGB defector shares 4 stage psychological warfare strategy– predicting modern America: 1. Demoralization (15-20 yrs). 2. Destabilization (2-5 yrs), 3. Crisis (6 weeks). 4. Normalization (new normal)
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  21. Jul 20

    I am wholly against forced solarization of our energy, like I'd be opposed to any forced energy choices. If solar makes economic sense, it will prevail. Energy is too important to muck with.

    HUGE news from AZGOP! CA’s Tom Steyer’s attempt to impose crippling taxes and energy rates on AZ fell short of the valid signatures needed to make the Nov ballot. His circulators missed by more than half, collecting only 106,441 valid signatures.
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