@jwz @brianvan @Pinboard @tqbf https://t.co/9I2tZDnj1b

@jwz @Pinboard @tqbf I'm planning to change my phone number soon anyway. I'm overdue.

@migueldeicaza @jwz @Pinboard @tqbf I've started selecting "I'm unemployed" on the form these days

@Pinboard @tqbf the mails are fine. It's the texts I resent, because those are FAR harder to "unsubscribe" from. It's like 6+ taps, and then they just change the number they are texting from..

@NathanBowers he's super good in The Boys (Amazon) as well

@textfiles honestly stuff like this doesn't even deserve any air time at all TBH

doing our part to help address the great coin shortage of 2020 https://t.co/Wo1vGlJdCv

@BenPackard @siracusa shoot me your address via jatwood at codinghorror dot com and I'll get the stickers mailed out!

@AstroBurnham @siracusa shoot me your address via jatwood at codinghorror dot com and I'll get the stickers mailed to you!

Thank you for your support! 🙇‍♂️ I will be DM'ing everyone shortly to gather mailing addresses for the stickers

@Carnage4Life https://t.co/N0PuMh0f1m

@Carnage4Life they would crap several bricks, perhaps an entire chimney

@cabel @siracusa sweet gonna install this on Windows 10 brb

one last push together for two great slates! 👏 https://t.co/WhRhUzq4wl

@mirza Let us know if we can help with migrations!

@sullysyed @discourse that's documented at https://t.co/ZT2lmjQCPs

@sullysyed great to hear! In @discourse mute is a TL1 ability and ignore is a TL2 ability.

@seesharp @JoeBiden @SenKamalaHarris Square states need those fracking jobs

@Pinboard This is why it would be a real shame if people outside the USA were using a vpn to donate to the Slate. I mean that would clearly be wrong and unacceptable.

@__apf__ be like @mathowie and just go for the socks! 🧦

@jlericson see https://t.co/1R75Depb6T

mechanical keyboard fidget toy https://t.co/UUiYkiKGOD

@kwiens Maybe an iPad but a Mac Mini is not useful to me

@migueldeicaza @stevesi it would make more sense if Android had a viable tablet (read: large screen) market. But it sadly does not. Believe me, I'm not happy about it either -- had to switch my mom from Android tablet to iPad because there was nothing to buy her! (she still has Pixel phone)

@migueldeicaza @stevesi It doesn't make sense, as there are basically zero viable Android tablets right now. On a phone, sure.

@migueldeicaza @stevesi If your argument was for the iPad and iPad apps it would make a lot more sense. But android apps on a large screen? They *suck*.

@migueldeicaza @stevesi Dealing with non-native emulation is friction (plus Android has zero tablet support). The browser is the lowest friction solution, so it will always win. And it's getting better every second of every day.

@kwiens daddy needs his A14 fix

@migueldeicaza @stevesi All of those run fine in the browser, and will continue to run even better in the browser over time.

@Supermathie @CoreyEdward2 Olives are great!!

@SecretDeveloper Pantry for sure

@lizardbill too soon

@Pinboard no worries, 538 is gonna run the stats

@rynonl that's the fun part!

@mdawdy I really try not to go too far down this rabbit hole 🐰

@Pinboard Putin knows what's up https://t.co/8lrPww95Jn

@deadprogrammer @michaelpryor I have pepper spray!

@michaelpryor I mined all the wirecutter lists mostly, they have 3 or 4

@dana_myrocket I have mostly learned that by the time we need this stuff we are sooooo screwed

@Pinboard https://t.co/PkJ6H3SFDE

@randfish @DinaPomeranz well yeah but that's just the usual electoral college bullshit, only the battleground states matter (for the presidential race). Which is also why the best strategy is to give $ down ticket where it actually matters.

@randfish @DinaPomeranz We are absolutely in a historically unprecedented time in many different dimensions. Rely on "predictions" at your peril; take action instead. That's, in fact, what I'm saying.

@randfish @DinaPomeranz That is not at all what I'm saying, not even a little bit. I'm saying, behave as if every race is 50/50, and do everything you can to win. There are far too many variables out there right now for "predictions" to be meaningful. Never had a president like this one, active misinfo.

@DinaPomeranz they're not implying that the probablity was wrong. They're saying that *it doesn't matter*; you have to behave as if every race is 50/50, without complacency, and fight tooth and nail until the end. (Also of note that this 76% was among the *LOWEST* of all the polls!)

@DinaPomeranz @stevesperandeo I think the existing models are wholly inadequate for a COVID world (can people even go to vote), plus voter suppression, plus SCOTUS gutting the voting rights act, plus unprecedented sources of active misinformation from the actual president, plus.. social media dominating

@DinaPomeranz @stevesperandeo nor do the polls account for active voter suppression, SCOTUS gutting the voting rights act, etcetera... much less Trump's "poll watchers" public statements

@DinaPomeranz @stevesperandeo I think complacency based on the polls is a very real risk. View every race as a 50/50 tossup.

@DinaPomeranz @stevesperandeo I saw a recent article that said more than 1/4 of people now get their news from YouTube, for example. https://t.co/HyDvoJ9VCp

@DinaPomeranz @stevesperandeo the past is not the present nor the future. Facebook (and other newly popular social media giants) have a profound influence these old methodologies aren't capturing, and perhaps cannot capture. Smartphones were relatively rare until 2014, at best.

@DinaPomeranz @stevesperandeo A good example of this is polls where they call people. Who the hell answers phone calls these days? Artifact of a dead era.

@DinaPomeranz @stevesperandeo When it comes to *politics*, I just don't believe in the models any more, no matter how "fancy" they may be. In an era of facebook et al, they have lost their power to preduct anything. The world is changing too fast.

@DinaPomeranz My larger point is that nobody can be complacent, ever again. From my perspective every poll is no better than 50%, they have zero value. Act accordingly.

@DinaPomeranz Nothing. But even a 90% chance of winning is not enough for me at this point. Too many confounding variables not captured in any way by the polls / modelling. You remember the 99% percent chance guy who said he'd eat a bug if Trump won, right?

@DinaPomeranz @stevesperandeo I definitely do not take a raincoat with 1 in 4 chance of rain. Maybe 2 in 4 or higher.

@stevesperandeo @DinaPomeranz maybe. with all the mail in ballots and covid this is unlike any recent election. Predictions seem like a very risky busines.

@DinaPomeranz what I learned from 2016 is that polls are bullshit. What happens in the actual vote is all that matters, and we have no idea; anything is possible.

@Pinboard probably better than this guy https://t.co/906OSGdDqX

@DinaPomeranz they gave clinton a ~76% chance of winning as I recall.

@damienkatz @actblue Do you feel great? https://t.co/9AoBb2AwXq

RNGesus has spoken. @tjschuck 🥇 and @nathanjw 🥈 are the winners. I will slide into your DMs now.

OK! RNGesus is currently on deck and warming up, but HOLY 🐄 y'all were so generous in this one, we raised almost $10k for the Slate! 😲 Thank you all so much 🤗 https://t.co/hole1amuLy

@galo2099 that is a question for @pinboard, I don't know

@ahknight 🙏

@pomeranian99 @MorrisPelzel why can't there be a third group? My philosophy is, if it's important it will bubble back up naturally, so I never keep tabs open for very long. One and done. If it matters, it will come back on its own. If it doesn't, well.. good.

OK let's close this up! Thank you for the generosity in these donations 🙇‍♂️ -- gonna construct the magical spreadsheet and have RNGesus take the wheel

@sptonjohn @kwuchu Come with us if you want to live @discourse https://t.co/FfXnRb6zsb

@alexfalkenberg yeah, you're getting blocked. Have a nice day.

@alexfalkenberg @noirscape_ ya'll need to chill out. We need to have a common goal for now: no more Trump. It's an existential threat to democracy. The other goals can wait for a bit, we'll get there.

@dpenton aw where's the fun in that 😘

@shog9 @rossipedia @JasonPunyon Isn't this mostly a call to reform the electoral college? That's in progress with the state compacts.. https://t.co/raD1iaUH01

@alexfalkenberg it doesn't really matter -- if Trump wins, that's game over for the forseeable future as far as democracy in the USA. We're leaving the US if that happens, but I am hopeful it will not.

@heyaudy buuut since others are being so very generous, I'll go ahead and give you two entries here 🍻

@migueldeicaza also, donate to win cool stuff! https://t.co/mk9LXsg6DZ

Keep those donations coming! It's a critical time, the FEC quarter ends tomorrow, and so much is at stake here. 💪 To sweeten the pot I will add a second prize, another 4gb/64gb Pi 4 in the same case. 🥈

@heyaudy I'd prefer to keep it in increments of $20, thank you for the donation!

We'll also try this, as an experiment: every $20 is one entry, so the more you donate, the more entries you get. Will close it up in about 30 hours.

@kevindente @betsyphd I still remember your "what is happening" tweet from Nov 3 2016 :(

@billjohnston @bchasen15 @onepeloton @jowyang congrats!! How often were you on the peloton and for how long?

@DereckCurry If I want to “make a statement” I can just post on social media for free...

@taglius Ah yes, hamburger was prounounced "hang-uh-bur" and we say that a lot. Milk was "nucka nuck". 🤣

Gonna use these cards https://t.co/bM1S6f6Qe3 https://t.co/DuJ4tYES5C

(I'm only kidding, some salads aren't too bad. And I do like a good vinaigrette!)

(note that @mryanprice won in a previous iteration and kindly donated, but opted out of selection.)

Congratulations @empduck -- and thank you to everyone who donated. Together we raised over $5400 for the slate!🤗 https://t.co/EsB5mRoA4o

ok, contest closed! Thank you so much for all the donations. Will tally results and randomly pick a winner soon! 🎲

one hour left! 🤗

Ok this closes up in 4 hours! If you want to be eligible, get those donations in!

@kevinmontrose https://t.co/eE5Kudz3J0

@mattblaze you seem like a perfectly nice person to me

@mmasnick @seesharp never ever heard of this, for some reason. But I am also notoriously anti-breakfast

@seesharp wtf is a Belvita?

@kevindente would pay for all of these

@OlafKortluke @saaspnr @discourse @Mattermost we use @mattermost and it has worked well for us! Chat is our short-term memory, Discourse is our long-term memory.

@groovegenerator @discourse probably low hundreds. "Regular" Discourse is designed for larger audiences scaling to potentially hundreds of thousands of people.

@saaspnr @discourse more like a lightweight async teamwork tool, minimum process, maximum efficiency. It's designed to be used in tandem with chat. Chat is your short-term memory, Discourse is your long-term memory.

@doktor_che @discourse I think 5 people is the realistic minimum for it to work.