Creator of Ruby on Rails, Founder & CTO at Basecamp & HEY, NYT best-selling author, and Le Mans 24h class-winning racing driver. No DMs, email: david@hey.com.

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As recently as 2 years ago, Obama DoJ vet Renata Hesse said "The reason why people use Google Search, generally, is because they like it better...are we gonna punish someone because they did a great job?" Hesse worked for Google alongside Ted Cruz in 2010. prospect.org/cabinet-watch/b…
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NEWS from @ryangrim and me: The prospect of Obama vets with ties to Big Tech running the antitrust division at the Justice Department has sent antimonopoly groups scrambling to push back. prospect.org/cabinet-watch/b…
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lol thinking about the editors at Daily Beast saying to themselves "yeah this is a great piece to put out on the MLK Day"
Other countries have domestic spy agencies to fight extremists at home. Does America need one, too? trib.al/LdhBi2F
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“We can’t ever give up. We must work passionately & unrelentingly for first-class citizenship. We must never let up our determination to remove every vestige of segregation & discrimination from our nation, but we shall not in the process relinquish our privilege to love.” #MLK
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This isn’t a first amendment issue because YouTube is a private company and so it has the right to Zzzzz....
OUTRAGEOUS... Now @YouTube @TeamYouTube just REMOVED @StatusCoup & @JonFarina's Livestream reporting from PEACEFUL Virginia gun rights rally bc "we think it violates our firearms policy." HOW ARE JOURNALISTS SUPPOSED TO CHRONICLE HISTORY IF YOUTUBE-AND OTHERS-ARE OUTLAWING IT?
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"Anti-war protesters and civil rights leaders were added to Hoover's list...These people were enemies of the state, and in particular MLK was an enemy of the state. And Hoover aimed to watch over them." As you root for and help the FBI, guess who its DC HQ is still named after?
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A left journalism outlet is having its straightforward, hard-news reporting removed by YouTube. It's as tho power shouldn't be concentrated in the hands of Big Tech, & we need actual governance instead... This tweet brought to you by Matt Stoller and the team at @EconLiberties.
YouTube just took us down mid-stream - you read that right - mailchi.mp/statuscoup.com/yo…
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The secret to scaling: designers who code, engineers who design, marketers who write SQL, PMs who write copy, customer support folks who open PRs, leaders who do support. The more skills overlap, the less people need to meet, the more gets shipped.
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