Richard Chen
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Richard Chen
@richardchen.com
Tech Lead at OmniCom Health
Dumped Amazon years ago & haven't looked back, tonnes of superior vendors for all its wares
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July 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
AI slop with alt-science is the best news ever for ad sales which are super-majority of all social media's revenues
June 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
YouTube TV is the new linear tv, but is it going to meet the same fate?
June 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
YouTube's hit the magical 1:1 for time in ads to time in video, all without paying much for the creators' labor
YouTube is trying its hardest to piss everyone off as much as possible.

Really? Cracking down on ad blockers? Articula five-second buffering if they detect an ad-blocker? Using AI to show you ads when you're most engaged? 30-second unskippable ads?!?!

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June 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Eliminating dark money lobbying in campaigns is the solution
I’ve been reporting on health insurance denials for more than a year. Last fall, I stumbled across a lawsuit that, with interviews, revealed one insurers’ playbook of secret lists, special deals and lowball payments. 👇
April 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
holdover is a politically nice term for squatter
March 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Many citizen-to-billionaire wealth transfers like crypto, tariffs, gov fees, layoffs, slashed payments create immense non-public wealth schemes which create more alt-health, shill scams
March 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Indeed not everyone is a Beltway insider reliant on polling and graduated big law to work in corporate lobbying with day job reliant on legislative influence
March 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Happy those bumpkins most in need of weather shall be deprived, good luck becoming removed from the map
February 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Everyday I wonder how badly did Musk's dad abuse him? Impregnating his sister didn't help but wasn't the beginning or end
Grok doesn't think Elon Musk is a very good dad.

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February 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Only ways to be excited about SalesForce is either to not be its developer or a developer only interested in billable hours magnitudes greater than any other tech stack
February 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Key to levity from domestic distress is global citizenship
February 18, 2025 at 6:49 AM
The discount flags, product listing format/UI is indistinguishable whether $AMZN or $BABA
February 18, 2025 at 6:49 AM
It's all about grift, not the temporary distractions 200x/d, solution is to undo the grift by the very public naming that fed systems were designed to do
Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.
February 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Why I quit Christianity
February 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
What else would happen given billionaires skirt law, enjoyed criminality for decades prior thus their amassed riches?
February 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
When law enforcement loses the public trust, look to @thatdaneshguy.bsky.social @idavox.bsky.social for the justice, keep not just hope but trust in how hate has consequences
February 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Messaging older friends is the only feature which keeps my ancient Facebook account alive; happily left Twitter as its messaging was unnecessary to reach those about whom I care
February 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Don’t be distracted by culture wars from their core real reason for eliminating gov: personal greed
February 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Record keep the departure of Christians from White Christian Nationalism as telling of their true faith
February 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Like the UN (whose related orgs the US exited today), Big Dems only make statements but have no tangible actions thus further losing the public trust while pressing fundraising emails hecticly
February 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Reposted by Richard Chen
The electoral college is DEI for red states.
February 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The decline accelerates, America can only blame itself, though it'll take everyone down in its frustration
"I think when you revert to protectionism, you're on the way downhill. You have given up; you're not going to expand your markets. You're not going to be a world power. That's the beginning of the end. That's utter foolishness."
—frmer US Treasury Sec & Sen Finance Chair Lloyd Bentsen, in 1992
February 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM