Saw mainstream news coverage about the killing of the CEO of United Healthcare on TikTok and I think political and industry leaders might want to read the comments and think hard about them
— Tobita Chow (@tobitac)
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We need separate systems, one for actually learning without financial pressure, and one for joining the workforce - before anyone brings up College/Uni as the solution, they can be if transformed but as of right now there are too many in Uni doing so to get a job.
When you have a system organized around the morality of work and not working ostracizes you from society, health care, shelter, food security, etc, what do you expect?My wish is the next 20 years brings a post scarcity society where wage slaving for a corporation so your family doesn’t die if they get cancer isn’t so much a moral imperative.
We should also dramatically realign the education system to value real learning, personal and community growth, and a culture of learning rather than just daycare (not that childcare for parents isn’t tremendously important, believe me), funding zillions of BS college admin positions, job training for corporations that are to cheap to train their own employees, and grades (as we know them. Grades have so much nonsense loaded on top of them
Jacqueline (DJ Horse Jeans) on Twitter
Between the Iheartradio fake podcast listeners story, Facebook getting publications to pivot to video with fake data, and now this story about WB HBO max cooking the books… kinda feels like our entire attention economy is built like a ponzi scheme and all this shit is made up— Jacqueline (DJ Horse Jeans) (@Horse_Jeans) September 28, 2022
arne ness on Twitter / X
more generally, there is a deceitful suggestion that the critique of productivism or even industrialization is inherently reactionary or 'primitivist'. i understand it to be a critique of the abstraction of nature into value, a process which notably did not cease under AES— arne ness (@arne__ness) March 12, 2024
Brian Goldstone on X: "Carole and her kids were sent home, and she was taken off the waitlist for a donor match. Her doctors have promised to appeal @Cigna's decision next week. In the meantime, there is concern about the cancer spreading. If that happens, a transplant will no longer be an option." / X
Carole, a cancer patient and single parent, was denied a previously approved double lung transplant by Cigna right before the surgery, causing public outrage and leading to a promised appeal by her doctors alongside a social media campaign urging Cigna to reverse their decision.
Dr. Lucky Tran on X
Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at $1,390 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce.
That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful.
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Bill D'Alessandro on Twitter
“Damn. This is the most unreal (and yet depressingly so real) story of unintended consequences I've ever read. "Why Do Employers Provide Health Care in the First Place?" Some excerpts... https://t.co/q1DFnfXvzl”
Greg Jenner on Twitter
History degrees are superbly transferable - you learn how to write, how to argue, how to critique, how to reframe, how to read, how to be empathetic to other perspectives, and how to understand why the world is as it is. It is not a “fluffy” subject pic.twitter.com/d9PSj1lYRm— Greg Jenner (@greg_jenner) June 16, 2023
Jen Bartel on Twitter
Efficiency and tech advancement could be prioritized if we had a societal structure that didn’t require people to work in order to obtain access to basic resources required to stay alive such as healthcare, housing, and food. We prioritize jobs bc we lack a social safety net. https://t.co/UjqxrC1LXE— Jen Bartel (@heyjenbartel) June 21, 2023
wendy xu 🤖 preorder INFINITY PARTICLE! on Twitter
you know what? nobody was going into comics expecting to make boatloads of money. but people are allowed to have dreams, ambitions, & to be a little starry eyed at the beginning. those are human emotions. fuck out of here with your little "well that's just capitalism" smug shit https://t.co/omXEA0Jrfn— wendy xu 🤖 preorder INFINITY PARTICLE! (@AngrygirLcomics) June 11, 2023
Pat Bergstresser on Twitter
If your company’s OKRs are primarily business outcome oriented, how do you get UX improvements prioritized that don’t move a business metric?— Pat Bergstresser (@PatThePM) June 3, 2023
yammi on Twitter
wow so gorgeous pic.twitter.com/K8eZgU4xPo— yammi (@sighyam) June 2, 2023
luke on Twitter
Wish more media companies thought like this. “This is our little business—we just need to have these margins, pay our employees, and that’s it." https://t.co/RpaoOkfFIG pic.twitter.com/FO9kb7awuy— luke (@lukeoneil47) May 30, 2023
Fletcher on Twitter
Streaming platforms are actively making themselves worse because they have hit the max amount of customers they'll get and their shareholders want infinite growth which isn't possible so in the short term they are gutting themselves to save money by removing shows to avoid— Fletcher (@marshonstupi) May 24, 2023
Brendan Hodges on Twitter
This line is thought is terrifying. education becoming debt-exploding prep for a job that likely won’t use your degree anyway is one of the worst things to ever happen. The liberal arts expand the mind, deepen our appreciation of culture, and train us for how to see and live life https://t.co/PWvbE5Zmec— Brendan Hodges (@metaplexmovies) May 21, 2023
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Eric Hu on Twitter
“(digital) product design one of the most inward looking parts of the design industry it’s nuts. many won’t even bother look at other sectors of graphic design let alone games”
Cameron Moll on Twitter
“I have zero context how or why this lovely, delicate animation was approved by leadership. But I'm 98% certain it wasn't pitched with business impact jargon.
Instead someone probably advocated hard for delight — or simply showed leadership what sheer delight feels like.”
Peter Yang on Twitter
An engineer and ex-founder wrote a long post on Google's culture.This line stands out to me: pic.twitter.com/iDqPeGvhka— Peter Yang (@petergyang) February 14, 2023
Bonnie Kate Wolf on Twitter
Maybe for some designers, but for the best of the best, we are artists. We are innovating, solving problems, and making art. If you go into design to make money for someone else's business, you are missing out on the art of design. https://t.co/A4uTz0nPVk— Bonnie Kate Wolf (@bonniekatewolf) January 31, 2023
Adam H. Johnson on Twitter
to save some nickels Hertz mindlessly reported 1000s of cars stolen a year and got dozens of people arrested and jailed. Their punishment is to settle a lawsuit, none of the Hertz execs responsible for ruining lives and getting people kidnapped and caged will see a day in prison https://t.co/jwlKu7dZcv— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) December 6, 2022
Steve Krenzel on Twitter
With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter.🧵— Steve Krenzel (@stevekrenzel) November 7, 2022
Cabel on Twitter
It is really sad to me that Apple needs to start taking Casino Game Ad Money in order to make their line go up for the shareholders. When Steve introduced iAds and the whole pitch was, "These ads aren't garbage, you'll like these ads." This department shouldn't exist at all, imho https://t.co/VHOeryW5Ro— Cabel (@cabel) October 25, 2022
Sebastiaan de With on Twitter
“I know it’s not as easily quantifiable, but Apple is utterly annihilating brand value, trust and goodwill with these ads. How is the revenue possibly worth it?
As a developer, this sucks. As a user, it sucks. As someone who cares about Apple products it’s just profoundly sad.”
Hope hippy on Twitter
Capitalistic Vampires in Suits (They're bad. They own Aetna health insurance as of 2019 and therefore can control their own costs/profits at will. They're playing ball with themselves, setting the prices and negotiating with themselves for pay off)— Hope hippy (@hopekelpie) October 24, 2022
Andy Allen on Twitter
The sad part here is, whether we like it or not, we’ve all been lumped into “average” by merely having the option btwn 2 choices. There is no OS for the design-oriented person or the minimalist or the tinkerer. None of us are “average” and thus all let down in our own way.— Andy Allen (@asallen) October 17, 2022
Carrie Goldberg on Twitter
Last Friday, CBS cancelled a segment about our clients suing Amazon for selling suicide kits to their now deceased kids. CBS’ cowardice gave me renewed clarity about how urgent this litigation is. 🧵@naomi_leeds 1/— Carrie Goldberg (@cagoldberglaw) October 6, 2022
Sho Kuwamoto on Twitter
I’ve been thinking a lot about how @figma does product work. And what makes Figma “Figma”?This, in turn, made me realize I never followed up on my previous thread about roadmap prioritization.So here goes….https://t.co/WqInVKd1xj— Sho Kuwamoto (@skuwamoto) September 23, 2022
Chris Murphy on Twitter
4/ What I found in my meetings is a view of innovation and increased connectivity as a near universal net good. Feels like a bit of a innovation hamster wheel. Not enough leaders seriously asking - does the innovation actually increase citizens' happiness?— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) September 19, 2022