More talk—plus action. Vera Chan's a pop-cult technologist wading into data, tech & random acts. #binders
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7 Nov 2022
This is why you shouldn't grocery-shop when you're hungry. Or buy a social media network when you're a narcissist.
The case for why Elon Musk’s management style won’t work at Twitter wsj.com/articles/why-elon-mu… via @WSJ
20 Sep 2022
Easing back into #conference travel and finding that airport lighting exposes stains on the company hoody that WFH lighting does not… and machine washing apparently ignores. #ONA22 onward
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20 Sep 2022
Further travails/travels in the professional conference acclimation project: I charged three laptops in advance … then left the charger behind. Cheers to staggered travel with teammates with spares. #ONA22 onward.
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20 Sep 2022
Bought iced tea at the airport (OAK now has more local proprietors, which is splendid.) I asked for cleaning liquid for a sticky table. The mildly astonished barista dampened paper towels. Maybe the #pandemic is over. (Still got a booster to prep for #ONA22) #conferencetravel
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24 Mar 2022
It’s been 35 years since Daisy Heath vanished from her family’s home in rural Washington. Find out how a small newspaper is raising awareness about this and other unsolved disappearances of Indigenous women.
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4 Dec 2021
Exploring the literary imagination in a @SecondLife interview: That's so meta. @AbbyVandiver & I will be avatars on Mystery Hour with @conpsweeney noon PT Monday Dec. 6 to talk MIDNIGHT HOUR from @crookedlanebks @CrimeWoC #writinglife #Metaverse #books
verahcchan.com/at-a-metavers…
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24 Nov 2021
Looking forward to a MIDNIGHT HOUR virtual reading at @GreenAppleBooks today 6pm PT. Six of 20 crime anthology writers will be there ( myself, in my fiction debut). Register greenapplebooks.com/event/vi…
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9 Nov 2021
An amazing organization who made this possible. Thanks @kellyekell Walter Mosley @GigiPandian. Congrats @AbbyVandiver and @crookedlanebks for making this possible for all of us
9 Nov 2021
Happy Release Day to MIDNIGHT HOUR, a short story collection of crime fiction from 20 acclaimed authors of color, edited by @AbbyVandiver! crimewritersofcolor.com/book…
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9 Nov 2021
Proud to be part of a #mystery anthology both compelling and #diverse. It’s my #fictiondebut: If you see #midnighthour on shelves (most likely B&N), would you share pics? Thank you! #WritingCommunity #writinglife #writerslift @crookedlanebks @WomenofBinders
14 Sep 2021
"Full of varied voices, this volume is must reading for mystery aficionados." @PublishersWkly starred review ⭐️
MIDNIGHT HOUR, edited by @AbbyVandiver is on sale November 9, 2021
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24 Jul 2021
Congrats to @News_Kat, who as a female news publisher still ranks among a rare breed. More about her mission here msft.it/6010VS9oe
23 Jul 2021
Proud of passing the three-year mark for @baynewsmatters, which meant building a nonprofit news operation, sustaining the legacy Bay City News and creating a new business model for local news. Oh yeah, and during a pandemic.
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7 May 2021
A known story amongst the Asian community: How Cambodian refugees who escaped the horrific genocide dominated the donut scene -- but now high rents & artisanal whims may force some out. "Why Donuts Chinese Food = A Very Californian Combination" kqed.org/news/11871915/why-d…
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2 May 2021
“They were a guerilla disease fighting operation,” says Michael Lewis about “the Wolverines,” a group of seven doctors that, early in the pandemic, urged states to implement safety measures because they believed the federal government was failing to do so. cbsn.ws/3nHjE4m
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3 May 2021
RT @wwnorton: Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that…
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20 Apr 2021
This hints at how immigrant hide so many things you wouldn’t think need hiding and live a secret life in plain sight. This is why @Bourdain was a giant: He could always piece what others might see as broken shards into a mosaic of living. npr.org/2021/04/20/988549801…