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Hello, Troy dads!

Please join us for a dad circle March 11 around 8:30pm. Thanks Andrew for hosting in February, next time we'll go back to Christian's yard in Lansingburgh, (snip). Let us know if you can't make March 11th and we can figure out another night. Also, if you're interested in hosting the April edition, let me know!

Nothing too formal, but hoping to get together and talk about our woes and glories at our varied stages of parenting and maintaining the human relationships that go along with it.

If you can't make it, don't want to make it, or need to be late (after bedtime), that's totally fine. No pressure whatsoever, but each dad has their own perspective and we all have different age kiddos, so more perspectives the better.

We don't have a strict format, but we do some sharing and updating that is done without imbibing, and then breaking into a more casual hangout. While we would appreciate just hanging with y'all in any format, we are also hopeful to actually make this more of a DIY therapeut

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Social Network contact data

I downloaded my account data archive from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Mastodon, and Flickr. The files below should give you a sense for what kind of contact details get included in each export. Basically I'm wondering to what degree you can look at a list of contacts and use it to keep in touch outside of that service.

If you see a note that says "We can make this file beautiful and searchable ..." that is something that GitHub added because the CSV files are not technically valid.

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api_keys:
    your_list: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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Hi J—,

Thanks for taking an interest in me. I have a young daughter who's turning 3 in a couple weeks. Your project threatens her future on a warming planet. This is not abstract or theoretical to me, receiving this email is equivalent to getting recruited by a fossil fuel company.

If I thought there were some way I could talk you out of what you're doing I would try, but I have seen the discussions online and I know it's impossible to reason people out of a gold rush mentality. Please take me off your mailing list and please really take a minute to think about the impact of your work.

Dan

On Jan 24, 2022, at 1:07 PM, J— <[snip]> wrote:

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const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
const fs = require('fs');

if (process.argv.length < 3) {
	console.log('Usage: node txt2pdf.js [file]');
	process.exit(1);
}

const input = process.argv[2];
const output = `${input}.pdf`;

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#!/bin/bash

# Checks for updates to https://am-i-eligible.covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov/
# If a change is found, it emails a list of addresses and tweets about the update.
#
# Adapted from: https://gist.github.com/dphiffer/678a5e06330f6f33dfc4ed9d0bfe9edb
# Twitter bot: https://twitter.com/nysvaccine
# Edit/print this flyer: https://twitter.com/nysvaccine
#
# This version expects `t` to be installed (gem install t), which adds Ruby as a

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#!/bin/bash

# see also: https://kvz.io/bash-best-practices.html
set -o errexit
set -o pipefail
set -o nounset

# A script to monitor updates to this web page:
# https://am-i-eligible.covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov/
#

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Hi F—,

Thank you for contacting me. I know there are lots of engineers who would be really happy to work at Facebook.

I would like to explain briefly why I don't count myself among them, in the hopes that this might send a signal that Facebook's reckless business practices do incur costs that can be hard to fully account for.

• Less than three weeks ago Facebook was in the business of selling advertisements against a "pseudoscience" category, during a global pandemic. (Full disclosure: I work at The Markup.)
  https://themarkup.org/coronavirus/2020/04/23/want-to-find-a-misinformed-public-facebooks-already-done-it
• In 2019 Facebook settled a case of racial discrimination where job, housing, and credit advertisements could be targeted in a way that discriminated against protected groups. (Full disclosure: at my last job I worked at ACLU.)
  https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/facebook-agrees-sweeping-reforms-curb-discriminatory-ad-targeting-practices

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OMG cookies 😱

On March 6, 2020 Jerome Paulos tweeted a screenshot to @themarkup informing us that our website had a cookie on it. This is bad because we've tried hard avoid using any tracking, and as of today themarkup.org does not serve any cookies.

Where'd the cookie come from?

As my colleague Simon Fondrie-Teitler responded:

Oh, thanks for catching this! I'm guessing those are Stripe-related cookies. If you go to the donate page, enter a number, and click "donate" the stripe javascript does load a couple cookies. See https://themarkup.org/donations/ for more info.