Laurie Voss

Data scientist at Netlify. Previously: co-founded npm, awe.sm, started lgbtq.technology. Married to @heyjovo. 🇹🇹🇬🇧🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈

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2024-03-06 19:59:32

I made my first donation to the Biden campaign today because the options are depressing but one is clearly worse than the other and that's how it goes.

2023-10-16 16:30:44

There are *ads* in the *start bar* in Windows 11, in an operating system I paid for. Whose joke of enshittification is this?

2023-10-01 16:52:25

The truth about US immigration law is that the US economy relies on immigration, and making migrants legally powerless benefits employers, so nothing is done to crack down on employers and everything is done to leave migrants even more scared and powerless. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/magazine/economy-illegal-immigration.html

2023-10-01 16:48:02

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@npub1grx…uxfe @npub1ugl…wx5l I don't think Bluesky is a cash grab if only because Jack already has more cash than he knows what to do with.

2023-09-08 16:40:00

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@npub1jpp…u59l I'm even more cynical and I believe they knew they were hiring into a boom, but they needed a bunch of stuff done, and that they could fire those people when the boom was over, and all protestations to the contrary are crocodile tears.

2023-09-08 16:24:14

Like 6 months from now there's going to be nothing to watch on the streaming services and they'll shed millions of customers and billions in market cap and they'll act like there was no possible way they could have predicted that fighting with their unions would have that effect.

2023-08-19 00:11:33

San Franciscans: this is Wily. She is loose in San Francisco after escaping her dog sitter. We are not in town. If you see her, please call animal control. Please boost if you are in SF.
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2023-08-18 23:01:45

Your reminder that when Musk says something wildly surprising he's usually just making it up and it will never happen, and also that you should stop paying attention to him and to Xitter in general.

2023-08-14 02:50:22

Instagram just gave me an ad for a cemetery plot. On top of the ad for making a will last week I'm beginning to think Meta knows something I don't.

2023-08-13 16:55:04

In the future, everyone will play a character in the MCU for 15 minutes.

2023-08-12 18:54:52

It is very important when driving long distance to acknowledge cows, sheep and other domestic herds by saying "cows" etc when you see them. I don't make the rules.

2023-08-08 18:50:09

Hey folks, I have left Netlify and am beginning to look at what's next for me. Things I enjoy doing:
• building prototypes
• teaching
• writing, especially technical writing
• architectural synthesis (what should the system look like)
• organizational problem-solving (what should the org look like)
• analysis (what does the data say we should do)
I'm especially interested in companies doing interesting things with LLMs. If you think there's an opportunity I should hear about, let me know.

2023-08-08 16:30:02

Sometimes I set myself reminders about important purchasing decisions
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2023-08-07 22:41:44

I am using Google Docs and it has turned on a feature called Smart Compose which randomly suggests additional words to complete your sentences and I cannot imagine a feature more hostile to being able to actually write, do the people who build this product not actually write things?

2023-08-02 01:22:05

What do you call stock photography of spaghetti bolognese?
'getti images

2023-07-31 17:23:27

Nothing says "we take trust and safely seriously" like suing people who point out that you don't. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/technology/twitter-x-center-for-countering-digital-hate.html

2023-06-26 15:09:57

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All around the world and even, perhaps especially the US, fascism is on the rise. It's against queer people, especially trans people, but it's by no means restricted to us. Anti-asian attacks, anti-semitic attacks, and of course the ever-present tide of anti-Blackness are all on the rise. It's hard not to feel overwhelmed and hopeless about the whole situation.

2023-06-26 15:07:17

It's June, which means I traditionally write a little thread about Pride and being queer and optimism and hope but this year I've been really struggling with it.

2023-04-03 15:23:06

Trains are great.