William Thurston
@williamthurston.bsky.social
Principal Engineer at Google keeping Core systems reliable. Previously Meta & Netflix. Proud to say I founded & built Amazon EC2 Container Service. he/him
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1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
The Mystery of Food Deserts
They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:06 PM
1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
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I made a Black women in tech starter pack because I couldn’t find one and it annoyed me.
go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ
go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ
November 13, 2024 at 9:25 PM
I made a Black women in tech starter pack because I couldn’t find one and it annoyed me.
go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ
go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ
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the reason this guy runs the internet is basically nobody else is even capable of doing "your shoes were so fugly I called the FBI" and have it be a factual statement
November 23, 2024 at 5:56 PM
the reason this guy runs the internet is basically nobody else is even capable of doing "your shoes were so fugly I called the FBI" and have it be a factual statement
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Casey nailed it. Twitter took hold largely because of the creativity of third party devs. It’s that kind of energy that will make Bluesky and AT grow.
Our little Bluesky had an amazing weekend. How should it capitalize on that? I have four suggestions in my free column this week: https://www.platformer.news/p/blueskys-big-moment
May 2, 2023 at 4:29 AM
Casey nailed it. Twitter took hold largely because of the creativity of third party devs. It’s that kind of energy that will make Bluesky and AT grow.