
Supersonic Git Mansplains to Facebook
11/28/18 • 112 min
Some flight in the news, laws managed by git source control – and how awesome collaboration can be using git. A large discussion: does Facebook’s benefit outweigh its drawbacks and how can we make social networks better for society or do they just represent who we are. The geeks chat about Geek Speak being Therapy for Mansplaining.
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Some flight in the news, laws managed by git source control – and how awesome collaboration can be using git. A large discussion: does Facebook’s benefit outweigh its drawbacks and how can we make social networks better for society or do they just represent who we are. The geeks chat about Geek Speak being Therapy for Mansplaining.
- New experimental Lockheed supersonic jet starts production
- First ever plane with no moving parts takes flight
- How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request | Ars Technica
- GitHub - lyle/geekspeak.org: This codebase running geekspeak.org
- Succeeding in Computer Science Requires More Than Theoretical Education
- Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis - The New York Times
- Am I Mansplaining
Recently in my facebook feed…
- A Look Inside the Tactics of Definers, Facebook’s Attack Dog - The New York Times
- Study: It only takes a few seconds for bots to spread misinformation
- Facebook dumps news at 5 pm ET before Thanksgiving that it did ask Definers to go after Soros
- The Geeks on Faceook
- Parliament seizes cache of Facebook internal papers | Technology | The Guardian
- Micro.blog + Mastodon
- NASA does it again by landing safely on Mars—something no one else has done
- Instances of AI doing what creators specify, not what they mean
- Ivanka Trump's use of personal email a focus of Democrats in next Congress
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