Prestidigitation, double shuffling, honey-fugling, hornswaggling, & skullduggery. @wikimedia & @iftf, previously @18f, @gsa_tts, & @codeforamerica.
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Lane Becker retweeted
24 Mar 2023
Mom asked, "I wonder when cherries bloom in Japan?" So I found 1200 years of data online and made her a plot.
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14 Mar 2023
Come join us at this!
13 Mar 2023
Are you at #SXSW? Join Creative Commons and the Wiki Community Tue 14 March at our #open house party to talk about #BetterSharing for a #BetterInternet and all things OPEN, hosted by @HacksHackers. Shoutout to @nounsdao for supporting this gathering! loom.ly/LycmKF4
ALT A black Creative Commons icon and wordmark over the text: A SXSW House Party. This event sponsored by Nouns next to their yellow pixel art icon with orange glasses over eyes looking to the side.
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21 Jan 2023
Tech folks! My team at the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Enterprise — the for-profit arm of our non-profit Foundation — is hiring! Senior Software Engineer, Wikimedia Enterprise: lnkd.in/gFtVh-TG We have an opening for an intermediate engineer as well.
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Lane Becker retweeted
17 Dec 2022
Tom Lehrer has put all his songs online (including lyrics & sheet music), and given away all rights to them. The site will only be up for a limited time. This is a very niche tweet that will make a small segment of people very happy. tomlehrersongs.com/
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15 Dec 2022
“An obliterating narcissism and sawed-off selfishness is latent in American culture like lead in contaminated water; in the absence of countervailing principles, it will naturally make its presence felt over time.” defector.com/the-eternal-mys…
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Lane Becker retweeted
14 Dec 2022
Local politics will always be fascinating to me and this election was the most interesting one in a LONG time. Because it marked, for the first time, a major shift from the Boomer-centric politics of Austin yore to the Millennial/Gen Z demographic. #austinpolitics
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Lane Becker retweeted
14 Dec 2022
Probably the biggest consequence of last night's Council elections is that the caucus of diehard supply side skeptics has been reduced to two.
There's now a veto-proof majority for a broader, more rapid approach to increasing the housing supply in Austin.
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10 Dec 2022
“Although the choices of those with privilege have created these systems, for some reason it seems to be the job of the marginalized to ‘fix’ them.” wired.com/story/large-langua…
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6 Dec 2022
“We don’t have to accept this housing denialism as part of our civil discourse. The sea levels are rising. Astronauts did land on the moon. And Austin does need more housing.” hydeparkermagazine.com/artic…
3 Dec 2022
Please don’t vote for Linda Guerrero. To still be arguing in 2022 that Austin doesn’t have a housing shortage is delusional. Let’s be done with that sad, desperate perspective on the city council and move on to actually solving our problems instead. kut.org/austin/2022-12-02/au…
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2 Dec 2022
“I’m not saying to convert to Judaism for the purpose of maintaining Jewish enemies, but it is worth considering.” mcsweeneys.net/articles/how-…
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Lane Becker retweeted
17 Nov 2022
I just heard someone call Texas the land of gun care and health control; never heard something more true.
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11 Nov 2022
“The Estate of Édouard Manet Wishes to Remind Museum Visitors That the Best Way to Prevent Climate Change Is to Throw Bucket After Bucket of Hot Sloppy Soup on the Eminently Mediocre Paintings of That Son of a Bitch Monet” mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-…
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8 Nov 2022
“The entire history of capitalism is a lesson that you can be very successful and also very terrible.” theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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Lane Becker retweeted
7 Nov 2022
That Time a Car Manufacturer Decided He Wanted to Own a Publisher in Order to Advance His Own Political Agenda
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5 Nov 2022
The Story of The Dearborn Independent
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7 Nov 2022
Last day to buy fancy nuts and chocolates at slightly inflated prices to support my lovely daughter Evabel's Girl Scout troop! gsnutsandmags.com/landing/3/…
3 Nov 2022
While I've got you here: Evabel is only $180 shy of her fundraising goal for her non-profit karate dojo. Only one day left to support! Can you help her get all the way? givegab.com/p2p/kickathon-20…
3 Nov 2022
Our daughter Evabel's Girl Scout troop is raising money by selling delicious nuts and candies (and magazines, too, if you're still into that paper magazine thing.) Grab some! I recommend the Dulce de Leche Owls and Butter Toasted Peanuts, but you do you. gsnutsandmags.com/landing/14…