Eyas
@eyas.sh
Tech, Politics, & Justice • Arab Software Engineer in NYC • 👶 Amman, Jordan • 🏠 Brooklyn, NY • 🏢 Google Maps • 🇯🇴🗽 • he/him
We're not there anymore. Most of those folks have aged out of the customer base. So redirecting to the website or suggesting automated tasks that could be accomplished in the website does little other than waste customers' time
July 28, 2023 at 4:02 PM
We're not there anymore. Most of those folks have aged out of the customer base. So redirecting to the website or suggesting automated tasks that could be accomplished in the website does little other than waste customers' time
There was this "in between" phase where people not comfortable with the Internet still used the phone for support tasks that could be automated away.
July 28, 2023 at 4:01 PM
There was this "in between" phase where people not comfortable with the Internet still used the phone for support tasks that could be automated away.
Yeah I think people mostly squirm because with so much FUD around the subway that people confuse "subway isn't good and should do better" with a "public transit is a failure" or "I'm better off with my current car lifestyle than on the NYC subway"
July 23, 2023 at 3:53 AM
Yeah I think people mostly squirm because with so much FUD around the subway that people confuse "subway isn't good and should do better" with a "public transit is a failure" or "I'm better off with my current car lifestyle than on the NYC subway"
My current taken is probably similar enough to my thinking in 2017:
The Rainbow Platform
There are red lines where I will absolutely use a litmus test to condemn someone who is "betraying" conservative ideas. But past that, we must allow for a wide range of progressivism of view.
The Rainbow Platform
There are red lines where I will absolutely use a litmus test to condemn someone who is "betraying" conservative ideas. But past that, we must allow for a wide range of progressivism of view.
The Rainbow Platform
A model for better platforms for political parties
eyassh.medium.com
July 19, 2023 at 12:57 PM
My current taken is probably similar enough to my thinking in 2017:
The Rainbow Platform
There are red lines where I will absolutely use a litmus test to condemn someone who is "betraying" conservative ideas. But past that, we must allow for a wide range of progressivism of view.
The Rainbow Platform
There are red lines where I will absolutely use a litmus test to condemn someone who is "betraying" conservative ideas. But past that, we must allow for a wide range of progressivism of view.
By 2016 this had fully solidified. By the time Trump won it was clearly this Incremental-Radical dichotomy can be both symbiotic but also toxic.
https://eyassh.medium.com/healing-the-left-left-divide-in-america-b46aa89d7465
https://eyassh.medium.com/healing-the-left-left-divide-in-america-b46aa89d7465
Healing the Left-Left Divide in America
Before the left, right, and center heal their differences, the left needs to move past confusion and blame
eyassh.medium.com
July 19, 2023 at 12:54 PM
By 2016 this had fully solidified. By the time Trump won it was clearly this Incremental-Radical dichotomy can be both symbiotic but also toxic.
https://eyassh.medium.com/healing-the-left-left-divide-in-america-b46aa89d7465
https://eyassh.medium.com/healing-the-left-left-divide-in-america-b46aa89d7465
Then in 2015 during the Dem primary, BLM activists interrupted a Bernie event and took the stage. a lot of Bernie people were even horrified about how they were "hurting themselves" by protesting Bernie.
That's probably when it really solidified for me.
First by writing this out:
That's probably when it really solidified for me.
First by writing this out:
The Evolution of Bernie Sanders on Race
Bernie Sanders flip-flopped too, and that’s okay. People keep mentioning Hillary Clinton’s shifting on issues as a mark against her, but as she explains, this
blog.eyas.sh
July 19, 2023 at 12:52 PM
Then in 2015 during the Dem primary, BLM activists interrupted a Bernie event and took the stage. a lot of Bernie people were even horrified about how they were "hurting themselves" by protesting Bernie.
That's probably when it really solidified for me.
First by writing this out:
That's probably when it really solidified for me.
First by writing this out:
Seeing the patterns of Black, Feminist, and LGBT activists, I was starting to see it as a more symbiotic dance between getting meaningful things done and shifting the Overton window.
So I wasn't so much shifting to the radical side as much as feeling that dichotomy itself WAS how progress is done.
So I wasn't so much shifting to the radical side as much as feeling that dichotomy itself WAS how progress is done.
July 19, 2023 at 12:47 PM
Seeing the patterns of Black, Feminist, and LGBT activists, I was starting to see it as a more symbiotic dance between getting meaningful things done and shifting the Overton window.
So I wasn't so much shifting to the radical side as much as feeling that dichotomy itself WAS how progress is done.
So I wasn't so much shifting to the radical side as much as feeling that dichotomy itself WAS how progress is done.
There was always this tension between "incremental progress" activists and "radical" activists. Up till then, I had almost always sided with the incremental progress side, feeling that the radical side is too naive.
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July 19, 2023 at 12:46 PM
There was always this tension between "incremental progress" activists and "radical" activists. Up till then, I had almost always sided with the incremental progress side, feeling that the radical side is too naive.
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