Heading to Seattle next week. Just to hang out. I hear the weather is spectacular. And prices for Airbnb's are rock bottom. It's a good time to head west for a few days with friends. #
If I were going to try to launch a possible Facebook competitor, I would start with the core user experience of FB. No mystery what that is. It’s a browser-based discussion board. Designed a good ten years ago. So we know how to do better. BTW, I got a really good start on such a piece of software. Spent a full year working on it. Still works great. JS front-end, Node back-end.#
- Joy Reid's apology: "I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things, because they are completely alien to me."#
I think she's lying. It's just not believable. #- I think if Reid were honest she'd say -- yes it was jarring for me to see a man kissing a man. And go from there to a broader message of healing. It's hypocritical of us to put down other people for feeling this way. Maybe we can listen better, and accept that other people find jarring what we find normal and remember when it felt jarring for us, and not hold it against them, as we wouldn't want it to be held against us. Had Joy Reid said that, I would be cheering her. #
- Unless zombies did actually modify her blog post. 💥#
- Truth is it is still somewhat jarring to see two men walking in the park holding hands. But jarring is ok. In fact jarring is good. It means a limit you have, something that's holding you back, is breaking. Eventually jarring turns into unusual, which becomes nothing, just part of life in the big city.#
- I took a walk in the middle of writing this piece, and noticed a male couple in front of me, holding hands. Normally I wouldn't have noticed it, but now it's on my mind.#
- Get this -- 20 years ago it felt weird to me to hug another man. I got over it. But sometimes it still feels weird. It still feels more natural for me to hug a woman. #
- One more thing: Had she been a man, or not a journalist, I doubt if journalists and politicians would have been as accepting of her non-apology apology. #