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Tracy Chou
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founder & ceo @blockpartyapp.com: helping you deep clean your socials and live a better online life

harvard bkc affiliate. cofounder project include. early eng at pinterest, quora, usds. stanford bs ee and ms cs. 2022 time woman of the year.
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · Feb 6
new op-ed on fortune: as an early diversity in tech activist, i reflect on dei in an era where doing dei work or merely voicing support for equity and inclusion can be cause for being fired, harassed, and doxxed.

fortune.com/2025/02/06/d...
'DEI' might be a blip in history—but the value of diversity and inclusion will persist
With diversity, equity, and inclusion under attack, those already in the room should stay there, writes Tracy Chou.
fortune.com
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rbreich.bsky.social
I’m receiving an increasing number of messages from some of you who are concerned about me. Please don’t be. I’m not going to stop speaking out. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/please-dont-worry-about-me
Please don’t worry about me
Friends,
robertreich.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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robpike.io
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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for all the promise of ai it comes with a lot of slop being forced upon people and wasting everyone’s time simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/...
How Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop “act of kindness”
Rob Pike (that Rob Pike) is furious. Here’s a Bluesky link for if you have an account there and a link to it in my thread viewer if you don’t. …
simonwillison.net
December 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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cait.bsky.social
joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this
Cybertruck Owners Only Joe Sawyer • 19h • O ... X Had an issue stopping my Cybertruck from a low speed the other day and had to make a choice to crash it or risk going tumbling down a mountain to probable death. Sucks to see, but it held up well and only a few minor scrapes and bruises. Still going over every choice made and trying to understand why it would not stop and was gaining speed from 5 mph to 12+ while on the brakes. ABS was probably hurting more than helping on this 26° downhill angle. Hoping to be able to talk to someone at Tesla as I have the crash recorder data already. [cybertruck upside down like the shitty little brick it is
December 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more
December 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
triketora.com
at safeway on christmas day and these are the times i am filled with wonder at capitalism and american supermarket abundance
December 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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edmorrish.bsky.social
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry

merry christmas xx
A real Good Samaritan
One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
triketora.com
i have a new level of loathing for vcs for not only ghost you after a pitch but also still add you to their newsletter so you get all their marketing shit. unprofessional cowards
December 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
triketora.com
what is the secret to getting candle wax out of the menorah every night
December 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
I mean, we don't know if Karoline Leavitt still has that groomer today now that the photos are published. Well, what can I say? That's the makeup that she puts on, those are the injections she gave herself. If they show up in a photo, what do you want me to say? I don't know if it says something about the world we live in, the age of Photoshop, the age of AI filters on your Instagram, but the fact that the internet is freaking out because they're seeing real photos and not retouched ones says something to me. Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that's on the cutting room floor? I don't think there's anything I missed that I wish I'd gotten. I'll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, "Should I smile or not smile?" and I said, "How would you want to be portrayed?" We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, "You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people." And I looked at him and I said, "You know, you do, too."
December 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
triketora.com
where is the bluesky commentary on this vanity fair photoshoot genius
December 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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notdred.bsky.social
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
A bear in the wild, smiling and posing coyly
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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merriam-webster.com
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
Here are a few reasons off the top of my head why creators don’t LOVE AI:
1. It has been used to create videos of them saying inappropriate things
2. It has been used to sexually harass them
3. It has been used to scam their fans
4. It directly competes with their business and devalues their work
December 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.

The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.

They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.

Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air

Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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mims.bsky.social
Wow. This is an absolutely terrifying read. We now live in an age when a single company can, through what appears to be plain old bureaucracy, can more or less brick your entire digital life.
hey.paris Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison @hey.paris · 17d
posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely?

hey.paris/posts/appleid/
December 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
triketora.com
honestly i'd be ok if they banned users over 16 from social media too! we can all go touch grass
December 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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parkermolloy.com
*screams* www.instagram.com/reel/DRd2ldW...
December 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
This is fascinating, as an example of where an AI tool, used properly and carefully, can help people understand things. This is why I get annoyed at the people who insist that there are no positive uses of AI tools. Yes, many use it poorly. But used well, it can be very useful.
December 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
triketora.com
i am a top 0.1% user on strava in lifetime activities 👀
December 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
triketora.com
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ “The pita bread was warm and toasty, unlike my ex wife’s heart.”
December 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
triketora.com
my granola crunched is hysterical but it is 100% unshareable lol
December 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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shannonvallor.bsky.social
Master Shake from Aqua Teen Hunger Force cartoon saying ‘you look at this tweet and tell me there is a god’
December 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM