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@saronyitbarek Incredible! 🙌

That’s like 1/5 of Canada’s population. 🤯

Good video from @nathanallotey.

His idea of “passive segregation” perfectly describes how the tech/bootstrapping community has treated Black voices up until now.

We’ve been passively aware that there’s a problem, but haven’t actively done anything.

@TallGamer I rarely play games, so I bought it!

@TallGamer have you seen this yet? 🤯

That's an incredible bundle of games for $5:
https://itch.io/b/520/bundle-for-racial-justice-and-equality

@Abadesi @hustlecrewlive I wanted to let you know that your presentation today was *the best* virtual event I've ever attended. 🙌

You clearly knew your stuff and did a great job engaging with participants throughout.

I've mentioned it to three people already today; really well done. 💯

"I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was "meant" to remain oblivious." – Peggy McIntosh

In almost every episode of @SceneOnRadio's "Seeing White" series @catchatweetdown references a concept I haven't heard about.

In ep12, he briefly mentions Peggy McIntosh's "Knapsack of Privilege:"

https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf

@brent_bellamy Great piece. Especially like this point. 👍

@_swanson Nice! And they’re hosting on @TransistorFM, which is also built in Rails. 🙌

@vitabenes I’ve always bootstrapped, where answering a proven market demand is key.

"Does scratching your own itch count?"

Only if there are many people like you, visibly hungry for the same solution.

@yetunde_sola When are you going to record your next episode?

@FullOfCaffeine Only if there are many people like you, visibly hungry for the same solution.

A business should always respond to an existing, demonstrated demand.

The biggest mistake founders make is doing the opposite. 😉

@leogdion @TransistorFM About 90% of our users still require WYSIWYG.

Also, can't allow all HTML, because:
a) folks don't realize the HTML limitations of show notes
b) we don't want folks injecting scripts

@JustinWolfers My question now is: what does this mean?

What does this mean for our personal finances?
What does this mean for small business owners?

How should we be reacting?

It's been a while since I've asked about WYSIWYG editors... 😜

Currently, we're using Trix at @TransistorFM, but we'd love to be able to support markdown.

What we *don't* want is a really big bloated editor.

Podcast show notes are super simple: <p><strong><em><a>

Ideas?

@jspector Interesting! What’s the source for this?

@cpollo01 @Keyfermath 🙌 nice work

@arvidkahl So good. 👍

RT @Abadesi: 💥LAUNCH DAY for @hustlecrewlive membership: learn how to be anti-racist & pro-Black at work

💥 Access weekly case studies & m…

@yetunde_sola I just listened to the first episode of your podcast! I'm enjoying it. 👍

https://overcast.fm/+QvBeklVp4

RT @mrskimyadawson: If Seattle cops think getting hit with a half empty water bottle justifies violently attacking the entire crowd they sh…

@abolishICE___ @toddlibby It’s a podcast series called “Seeing White.”

https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/

@kwuchu All that thermal stuff is so stressful. Building a PC with my 14 year-old son, and applying thermal paste and all that gave us so much anxiety

RT @b0rk: I just started reading Ibram X Kendi's "Stamped From The Beginning" and it has an idea that's really new to me -- it's not that r…

RT @sarahcpr: How to bunker

RT @LauraAMoran: This piece made me squirm and that’s how I know it is excellent. We should be grateful for voices like @vmochama rn but it…

@chadkoh Wow.

RT @polotek: Let's talk about this. It is an increasingly common sentiment. That black people are getting "more" opportunities than white p…

It’s OK to question the existing structures. It’s OK to evaluate alternatives. It’s OK to try other approaches.

Naturally, completely removing all police overnight is probably not wise.

However, we *should* invest in alternatives to the police and test their efficacy.

@isterin @dbchhbr @SamHarrisOrg It’s OK to question the existing structures. It’s OK to evaluate alternatives. It’s OK to try other approaches.

Naturally, completely removing all police overnight is probably not wise.

Investing in alternatives to police is a good way to test their efficacy.

@dbchhbr @DematteoDuke @SamHarrisOrg Defunding the police is a spectrum.

Some folks want it defunded completely (a perspective we should consider). Others are calling for gradually reducing police budgets and investing in other forms of social work.

https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1268527517213749248

@DematteoDuke @dbchhbr @SamHarrisOrg "Sticking with the status quo (the police) no matter how bad it gets” seems to be more of purity mob.

It’s OK to question the existing structures. It’s OK to evaluate alternatives. It’s OK to try other approaches.

The Community Safety Officer program has been running since 2015, is well trained, and interfaces with the community without weapons or charges.

It is now being expanded throughout the Yukon:

https://www.yukon-news.com/news/community-safety-officer-program-could-be-on-the-brink-of-expansion-in-the-yukon-coordinator-says/

@isterin @dbchhbr @SamHarrisOrg The Community Safety Officer program has been running since 2015, is well trained, and interfaces with the community without weapons or charges.

It is now being expanded throughout the Yukon:

https://www.yukon-news.com/news/community-safety-officer-program-could-be-on-the-brink-of-expansion-in-the-yukon-coordinator-says/

RT @sandela: Unfuckingbelieveable. The whole Canadian media establishment needs to just stop ffs

@dbchhbr @SamHarrisOrg There are viable alternatives already being tested:

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1269296012243243008

@dbchhbr @SamHarrisOrg The evidence we've seen in the past weeks is overwhelming. Police brutality is on display every day.

It's OK for us to evaluate alternatives (like defunding the police).

https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1268527517213749248

RT @saronyitbarek: If you're looking to start a podcast, what questions do you have? What do you want to know?

RT @ericabuddington: A delivery driver for @Caviar was detained in NYC last night.

He yells, “It tells me on the app that I can show you…

RT @bdougieYO: If you identify as black and have enabled @GitHub Sponsors, reply with a link to your profile. I would love to sponsor the w…

RT @earthlingworks: Good. Why was this ever ok to begin with? Unfortunately still ok everywhere else:

Community Safety Officers.

A made-in-Canada alternative to traditional policing.

“No guns. Can’t lay charges. Longtime citizens of the community.”

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-four-officers-no-weapons-no-charges-a-yukon-first-nations-solution/

@Carnage4Life This made-in-Canada solution is an example of how defunding the police could work:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-four-officers-no-weapons-no-charges-a-yukon-first-nations-solution/

RT @operaqueenie: As I go deeper into learning about people, the more I understand the importance of having modeled behaviors and solid lea…

RT @RachRodgersEsq: Along with a few trusted entrepreneurs & experts, I’m hosting a town hall to discuss creating lasting change in the sma…

@jonbuda Happy birthday Jon! ❤️ you.

@SeanWebflow 👋 former product manager, and current founder of a small SaaS company.

My DMs are open.

RT @SeanWebflow: Does anyone know of any engineering and/or product managers who are willing to mentor black and brown folks?

Feel free to…

We have a long way to go.

@matteing 👋

Here’s the original tweet:

https://twitter.com/housegop/status/1268603674822979585?s=21 https://twitter.com/HouseGOP/status/1268603674822979585

This tweet goes beyond hypocrisy.

The irony is so dense, so blatant, it doesn’t seem real.

It’s pure, disgusting ignorance.

@mike_julian @TransistorFM We’re working on the API this month!

Initial version should be ready by the end of June. 👍

RT @TheValuesVC: This is my @BLCKVC story:
(details)

🇨🇦 Lived in dt Toronto for 4 years, never talked to police ONCE

🇺🇸 This happened to…

2016, Michael Che standup special.

As relevant as ever.

https://youtu.be/2Q5ctljPg20

RT @siracusa: Keep your eye on the two cops that have a brief flash of humanity and bend or turn to help the guy bleeding from his head ont…

@zkahn 👍 These are being generated in @DescriptApp

RT @MKBHD: Reflecting on the Color of My Skin

https://youtu.be/o-_WXXVye3Y

RT @bryanl: The important question is not, "what are you going to do now?", but instead, "what are you going to be doing in two months or t…

@andresmax @natekontny @justinkan One thing that helped me, in the beginning, was using this list:
https://justinjackson.ca/nobooze

@natekontny @justinkan 🙌

RT @SheryllCashin: Police are more likely to use violent force in a majority-black neighborhood than in majority-white space, especially if…

@burgessdryan @benmvp Who is the artist?

RT @OmayraIssa: In the last 24 hours, I have received dozens of accounts of racial profiling by police from Black and Indigenous youth acro…

RT @elamin88: Imagine if we spent more money properly housing people, giving them better access to jobs through transportation, and better…

RT @elamin88: If you want to see what your city values, look at these breakdowns. See that housing + transportation + libraries combined st…

RT @elamin88: It is not radical to ask if your city should be spending less on policing and more on other services. In Toronto, policing is…

@BrukPhillip I’m still learning about this myself, but a few ideas:

1. I’ve spoken at enough conferences. It’s time to recommend others and give them the opportunity.

2. Hiring and investing in POC.

3. Voting against discriminatory systems.

4. Living in integrated neighborhoods.

@femkesvs Hadn't heard of @blackhealthcan. Just donated!

@productions_rfa @Cayman_Grant @TransistorFM Happy to help you get started with Transistor.

Here's a quick demo:
https://youtu.be/hUugNVgsXvk

In a 1966 doc, Ernie Chambers responds to a minister:

"Why are you talking to me? You guys pulled the strings that closed schools. You guys draw the boundaries. So it's up to you to talk to your brothers and persuade them that they have a responsibility."
https://twitter.com/DaySpace/status/1266501747343863819

This tweet by @BerniceKing shook me. If I'm not willing to trade places with Black people, First Nations people, Hispanic people what does that say about the society I live in?

My inaction is just protecting my white privilege.

https://twitter.com/BerniceKing/status/1266730015196090368

This video by @RachRodgersEsq really woke me up. She showed me how my "safe silence" was harmful.

"Being an ally means getting uncomfortable. It means risking your status and your reputation."

https://www.instagram.com/p/CA1Ez5qHL6o/

@davidpco Transistor is just me and Jon right now, and we're both taking time off to take action. We're also looking at how we can structure the company to be more equitable (hiring, funding creators).

“This is not just something for you to ‘react to’ this month because ‘you’re a good person and what’s happening is so sad.’ If you truly begin to understand how deep and systemic this is, you’ll do the work.” – @akutamatata333

https://link.medium.com/UoTuxyji16

RT @janelleallen: Good morning, family. Keep fighting! ✊🏾

RT @BerniceKing: The work is offline.
The work is online.
The work includes presence.
The work includes absence.
The work is virtual.
The w…

RT @BerniceKing: I’m hopeful.

@Stabadie I have! This just seemed to blatant: to arrest a reporter like this.

The violence is reprehensible. But silencing the press like this really shook me too.

Complete disbelief. This CNN reporter, and his crew, WERE ARRESTED during a live broadcast in Minn.

The free press, and their right to speak truth to power, is what keeps institutions accountable.

"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press." - Thomas Jefferson, 1786 https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1266315061221613569

@vancolour @Stockwell_Day WTF!

There are so many other voices the CBC could have amplified:

- @sandela
- @vmochama
- @KathleenNB
- @policingblack

RT @thEMANacho: Dear white people,
For days you’ve asked me what you can do to help. I’ve finally found an answer.

Let your guard down and…

"Eyes are being opened. These are children who were treated as if they had just robbed a bank or shot up a church."

Powerful words from @chrisstewartesq (lawyer for one of the Atlanta students) at the press conference today.

If it wasn’t for civilian video, this assault by police would have never come to light.

Nobody would have known; nobody would have cared.

It makes me furious.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1267147449577148423 https://twitter.com/Brittm_tv/status/1267147449577148423

Look at these two kids. SIX OFFICERS pulled them over. No warrant. Just profiling. These kids were not armed. They're college students at Spellman and Morehouse.

This video is horrifying.

Two college kids are driving home. They're stopped by police (without cause), had their windows broken, forcibly pulled from the car, and one was tasered.

Imagine these were your kids.

End police brutality! End racism!

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/02/us/atlanta-police-charged-protest/index.html

@chrislema Your piece was powerful for me.

I referenced it inside the @megamaker community, and on my site.

Thanks for writing it. ✊

https://justinjackson.ca/black-lives-matter

RT @RachRodgersEsq: Dear white entrepreneurs: turn off your ads. Today is not the day.

Oh my god.

It sounds like it was written today.

But it was written by James Baldwin in 1966.

“This arrogant autonomy, which is guaranteed the police, creates a situation which is as close to anarchy as it already, visibly, is close to martial law.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/report-occupied-territory/

RT @AsiaMatos: Useful coping strategies:

- calm the mind with meditation
- ground yourself through connection to body (exercise)
- unload…

“Protest is never supposed to create peace for perpetrators. It’s confronting the issue: murder with impunity at the hands of publicly funded police forces.” – @AkilahObviously

@smithtimmytim I hadn’t heard this show before! Thanks for sharing it.

RT @janelleallen: Black people are not okay right now. Don't ask us to help you understand. Don't ask us to speak for you. Don't expect us…

RT @TransistorFM: Black lives matter.

We haven't done enough.

http://Transistor.fm is a platform that serves the Black community, and…

RT @BerniceKing: What do we do to correct these systems and structures that have been in place for more than 400 years?

[more from my inte…

@mcdickenson I’ve got this on my list! Thanks.

RT @venikunche: Business leaders - Please don't be silent. Here are some ways you can support the Black community.

Thank you to @ErinLTho…

RT @levarburton: My focus is the underlying cause. I am so sick and tired of Black people being held to such a different standard by white…