“Apps genius” - Colleen. I used to work on making Twitter a bit healthier, then that all went to hell. Now I make puns, @plinky.app, and teach @ build.ms.
Born and raised New Yorker, trying to do a little good and be the friend you made along the way. 🍕🐱⚾️
Joe Fabisevich
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I'm still thinking about how Japan solved the problem of trash on the streets with one simple hack: don't have trash cans. Now you have to throw stuff out in your own home, which means you don't do things in public that would generate trash, and everyone has cleaner streets. Truly mind blowing shit.
✅ First Citi Bike ride of the year
Back in New York and happy to report that it is once again* hoodie season.
* At least today it is
Another thing I'm already sick of after being back in America for 12 hours is every cash register asking me if I'd like to leave a tip. We're not even talking about service, it's a cherry coke that I got from the fridge myself. Please spare me the three screens negging me for an extra 38 cents.
It's impossible to have any serious discussion about AI on Mastodon because the second someone sees a headline about AI that validates their priors they shut off their brain and accept it as gospel. Rather than doing any fact checking or critical thinking Mastodon decides we're literally cooked.
I’ll be emerging from my goblin cave where I’ve been coding very 🔜 to share some 🆕 feature announcements. Please 🐻 with me in the meantime though.
Reading Derek Thompson's piece on gambling and prediction markets was unsurprisingly depressing. (https://www.derekthompson.org/p/we-havent-seen-the-worst-of-what)
What really stuck out to me was this depressing chart, for how directly it captures America's widespread cynicism and loss of belief in
Been back in America for 30 minutes and god how I already miss the unbelievably clean public toilets. Things can be so much better, it really doesn't have to be this way when you have people that care. 😭
It’s hard to know what I’ll miss most about Japan, but quite possibly it’s all the cats.
