Tess Rinearson @_tessr Twitter profile

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

3 years

my integration tests @ me

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

5 years

important update from feeding time at the Osaka Aquarium

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

5 years

more goodness from this aquatic Good Boy

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

4 years

let’s see what completely relatable advice the New York Times has on this one

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

7 years

"The standard Seattle Nazi is a white male under 30 who either works in tech or is going to school to work in tech."

We Snuck into Seattle's Super Secret White Nationalist Convention

These guys mostly work in tech.

www.thestranger.com

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

2 years

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve joined Twitter, to lead a new team focused on crypto, blockchains, and other decentralized technologies—including and going beyond cryptocurrencies.✨

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

5 years

“oh, the engineering manager has decided to start programming again”

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

9 years

Found in a 1995 book of "useless" japanese inventions: the selfie stick. http://t.co/FI49ysDp2i

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

4 years

my mom asked me if I use a password manager. me, pleased she's asking: "yeah, I use 1password." mom: "really? I thought you're not supposed to do that." me: "really? where did you read that?" [5 minutes later] me: "wait, one password is the NAME OF THE PASSWORD MANAGER"

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

9 years

twitter dot com, where people think they're brands and brands think they're people

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

3 years

OH, on technical interviews: “if I saw a live-ass engineer at my company hand-rolling a linked list I’d parachute right the fuck on in to figure out why they’ve gone all historical re-enactment on company time”

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

6 years

he's new to san francisco

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

4 years

I AM DECEASED.

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

2 years

it is actually just so wild that these buildings used to exist in San Francisco the Palace of Fine Arts is just the tiniest taste of what's left from the 1915 expo

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

7 years

I tried to explain how bitcoin and blockchains work, using emoji:

Bitcoin Explained with Emoji

Part 1: Making Money

medium.com

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

9 years

how to remember tar flags 🎏 tar -xzf 👈 eXtract Ze Files! tar -czf 👈 Compress Ze Files!

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

5 years

I don't get it when "technical" people are snobby about non-technical work. Like, have you DONE non-technical work? It's hard. People are hard. Sometimes they change their minds, given the same set of inputs. If your computer did that you'd throw it out a window and call it day

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

3 years

this literally happened to me last week. my fully-vaxxed ass was halfway through some pad thai when I realized it didn’t taste like anything—like literally anything at all—so I dropped my fork and RAN several blocks to the nearest late night testing site

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

3 years

Is this a phishing attempt? Goes to "" and asks for username and pw (if so, it nearly got me!) /cc @github

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

7 years

someone needs to tell silicon valley what "work-life balance" means

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

4 years

just played Among Us (which is, fundamentally, a game about byzantine fault tolerance) with a group of distributed systems engineers who damn near ruined the whole thing by inventing a heartbeat protocol

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

8 years

gender in the age of twitter

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

7 years

OH HELL NO my local whole foods is full of computers and has run out of avocados

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

3 years

@patagucci_girl startup advice: only hire eunuchs until you find product market fit

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

7 years

is this a git manual, or a guide to dating in san francisco?

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

5 years

just saw a woman tell her dog that he was the best dog ever, 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘰𝘨

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

4 years

found yet another way to abuse zoom

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

7 years

Lamenting over timezone programming led me to this 1857 chart, and suddenly timezones seem GREAT. (At noon in DC, it was 12:08 in Philly!)

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

8 years

engineers will be engineers

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

7 years

Bezos: "Alexa, buy me something from Whole Foods" Alexa: "Sure, Jeff, buying you 5000 identi̙c̢͔͍͔a̸͎̟l̩͕̼͈ tw͇̲̙̘̗e̩̭̪̤͓̙͟t̠̞͓͙̥̖̻͜es̸͕̻͎͚

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

5 years

what the real “pro-life” political agenda would look like: - paid parental leave - universal healthcare - public preschool + college - living minimum wage - functional public transit + safe bike infrastructure - police reform - gun control - environmental protections

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

4 years

live in new york, but leave before it makes you hard; live in san francisco, but leave before it makes you an associate in venture capital

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

7 years

It's now fashionable for male investors to denounce harassment. But let's judge them by their actions/investments, not by their Medium posts

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

3 years

Pennsylvania officials are really out here using the same phrase that software engineers use for release dates

The New York Times

@nytimes

3 years

Pennsylvania “definitely could” be announced by the end of the day, the state’s top election official said on Thursday. Follow #Election2020 results live here:

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

4 years

this week’s twitter discourse is making me think of a friend who joined a startup and, by all accounts, worked longer hours than just about anyone else at the company. the company is now worth 2 billion dollars. he got laid off

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

3 years

there are two kinds of people in the world: 1) people who treat their birthday like a national holiday, and 2) people who are embarrassed to have a birthday at all

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

10 years

This is the Stack Overflow profile of a Victoria's Secret model: http://t.co/RoOadKtOJO See ya later, stereotypes

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

3 years

you know what? today I want to hear all the stories about young women who’ve helped startups succeed. (you can brag on yourself, or on someone you know.)

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

9 years

dear silicon valley, please disrupt: - racism - systemic discrimination - the patriarchy please do not disrupt: - local businesses thx.

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

6 years

PROBLEM: holding a white sign with a message in a photo makes you vulnerable to photoshop trolls SOLUTION: before they take the picture, hash the message and write the hash across your forehead in sharpie

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

8 years

I decided the $ meant it was a command prompt

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

3 years

oh my god

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

4 years

25 pages into “Principles” and so far Ray Dalio has: - married a woman who barely speaks english - punched his boss in the face - brought the chicken mcnugget to market - named his first-born after a breed of cattle and this book is 500 pages long

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

4 years

people are WFH and posting insta stories of their partners with captions like, "my new coworker! 😍😍😍" which is very sweet and all that but personally, I have laid my extra-clicky mechanical keyboard across the dining table in a display of dominance

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

8 years

next time a conf "can't find any women speakers," remind them of the lineup filled solely with women named Katie

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

7 years

i am in a lyft line with a man wearing snapchat spectacles who is talking about the "aesthetic" of his .af domain name

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

4 years

cars in cities.

Hunter Horsley

@HHorsley

4 years

What are things that are common today, but in 40 years will be looked back on as crazy? e.g. the way society today looks back on ubiquitous cigarette smoking in the past.

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

3 years

what do we want? concurrency control! now! when do we want it?

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

7 years

admiring the rack

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

9 years

Some very innovative garbage collection techniques are being pioneered in #golang . #gophercon http://t.co/QrgPkBcgjZ

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

7 years

mfw they ask if I want to add an egg to my ramen

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

9 years

what do you call a spooky condition? a boooolean

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

10 years

You don't have to be a nerd to write code. Computers don't care.

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

5 years

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

7 years

for long journeys, google maps gives the walking icon a little backpack and walking stick

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

4 years

honestly, as someone building a small crypto company, the Coinbase post just makes me feel glum. I've spent years building crypto teams that are diverse and morally motivated, because I believed that it was both the right thing for business, and just the right thing, period.

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

2 years

want to help shape the future of crypto at Twitter? I'm looking for an experienced crypto PM to join the team! btw - not mentioned explicitly, but this person will really be my thought-partner in exploring all the opportunities for crypto x twitter 😎

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

3 years

...I’m finding myself walking this back a tad as I remember that my team helps maintain a binary tree library

GitHub - cosmos/iavl: Merkleized IAVL+ Tree implementation in Go

Merkleized IAVL+ Tree implementation in Go. Contribute to cosmos/iavl development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

6 years

hot take: the new yorkers who are upset about the bagel emoji are actually upset about the steady and inexorable shift of economic and cultural power from NY to California

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

7 years

1. If u hold down the clap at the end of a Medium series it increments indefinitely 2. Bananas are capacitive

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

2 years

As I build out the team, we’ll be working to figure out what crypto can do for Twitter, as well as what Twitter can do for crypto. Twitter truly “gets” crypto (hello bitcoin tipping & NFTs!) but there’s so much more to explore here.

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

7 years

Another highlight from this article: a plan to move into power in tech companies & "pay lip service to diversity" while hiring more racists

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

10 years

why do Canadians make good REST clients? because they're so good at curling ok bye

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

2 years

Twitter Crypto will underpin all of this work, and serve as a “center of excellence” for all things blockchain at Twitter. We’ll be hiring for roles in engineering and product. If this sounds exciting, please get in touch! My DMs, as always, are open. ✨

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

7 years

in San Francisco, work-life balance means going to eat dinner at someone else's office

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

1 year

new job who dis (✨🔴_🔴✨)

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

6 years

I had to take a video call from the bathtub so my teammates also got into bathtubs and let me tell you, this is what solidarity looks like

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

8 years

the stages of grief: 1. denial 2. preparation 3. commitment 4. acceptance ...wait no that's paxos, those are the stages of paxos

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

8 years

this is the greatest repository name/description I've ever seen. #gopherfest

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

6 years

my IDIOT idiot boyfriend has taken a picture of me looking grumpy and FRAMED IT on his WALL

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

4 years

I am completely confident that, within a generation or two, people will think of cars much in the same way that they currently think of guns: inappropriate for city living, a hallmark of a bygone era, and a marker of American identity that some people will cling viciously to

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

3 years

hello friends! I have covid. I caught it at an indoor dinner where everyone was vaxxed and almost everyone was tested. I am basically fine but this has been a good reminder that no precaution is foolproof!

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

3 years

the test was negative, of course, a fact that was corroborated by my ability to smell other things (like, say, coffee beans) as well as my ability to sprint for several blocks straight

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

2 years

gm frens! thank you for the support and enormous response to Twitter Crypto yesterday. my DMs and mentions are melting down rn but I'll do my best to read and/or get back to everyone over the next few days. 💙

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

2 years

Incredibly excited to watch the @MinaProtocol ecosystem build the leading zero-knowledge dev platform: 🪶 Easiest way to program ZK smart contracts 🪶 Incredibly active and global community (check that chart!) 🪶 Commitment to accessibility through both tech and culture

Mina Protocol (httpz) 🪶

@MinaProtocol

2 years

Let’s BUIDL, #MinaCommunity .👷 The Mina Ecosystem has raised $92 Million dollars in a raise led by @FTX_Official and Three Arrows Capital to bolster the growth of developers in the community. Read more here ➡️

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

5 years

It's funny, on a flight between SFO and NYC, I can't tell who's from SF and who's from NYC. And on a flight between SF and Seattle, I can't tell who's from SF and who's from Seattle. But on a flight between NYC and Seattle, I can DEFINITELY tell.

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

4 years

I’ll be honest: I’m starting to feel nervous that the concerns that I see Tech Twitter raising about the Chinese government will eventually evolve into socially sanctioned animosity towards Chinese people and people of Chinese descent

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

4 years

my new passport has a dozen stamps in an absolutely perfect orderly grid, which I realize, is probably because it's only ever been stamped in Germany and Japan

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

2 years

And, of course, we’ll be working closely with the @bluesky team to help shape the future of decentralized social media (and to make sure that Twitter stays on the cutting edge of this new landscape, too!).

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

8 years

two's compliment, by far the friendliest way to represent integers

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

3 years

my go programmer boyfriend is upset with me because he told me he was full after lunch and I said “that’s because your esophagus is an unbuffered channel”

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

1 year

🫡💙

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

8 years

This is the ideal make body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

4 years

this was only resolved after she incredulously asked if I used the same password for my bank and my email

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

10 years

No no, this is not raw cookie dough, this is *cookie tartare*

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

4 years

my Italian colleague shared his prepping strategy with us today 😂

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

6 years

bad start

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

6 years

it shouldn’t be surprising that women in crypto are reluctant to talk about that experience, and are more eager to talk about -what they actually do- after all, we are all about the 😎 proof of work 😎

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

3 years

if you want to: ✅ work on an open source Go project ✅ on a remote-first team w/flexible hours ✅ at a market or above-market salary ✅ in an engineer-led company w/minimal meetings ✅ and 25 days/year of PTO hit me up. do I have the job for you!

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

7 years

Women.

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

2 years

the year is 2022 and everyone is talking about multichain, L2 scaling, zk proofs, MEV, DAO tools, token-gated experiences, decentralized ID, music NFTs, web3 in 5 years, we’ll be laughing at a lot of the stuff on this list… and we’ll be taking some of it for granted

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

6 years

Slack was being funky yesterday too, sending messages out of order and stuff We could prevent this by making each message contain a hash of the previous mes

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

4 years

I haven’t seen “crypto twitter” talking much about the protests or police brutality. This is genuinely surprising, given that one of the oft-cited tenets of the technology is resisting state violence and censorship!

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

2 years

First, we’ll be exploring how we can support the growing interest among creators to use decentralized apps to manage virtual goods and currencies, and to support their work and communities.

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

4 years

OH: “my github sponsorship hasn’t gone the way I hoped it would, so I’m thinking of switching to onlyfans”

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

2 years

millennials really put participation trophies on a blockchain and called them POAPs

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Tess Rinearson

@_tessr

6 years

Bitcoin is fundamentally about making very expensive tradeoffs in order to avoid trusting other humans, ever. The energy used by proof of work is the most literal and acute example.

Eric Holthaus

@EricHolthaus

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Uhhh... about bitcoin... it's actually ruining the planet. The bitcoin computer network currently uses as much electricity as Denmark. In 18 months, it will use as much as the entire United States. Something's gotta give. This simply can’t continue.

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@_tessr

4 years

so who is going to write the guide for tech workers on how to move to a new city responsibly while minimizing gentrifying impact

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