Tracy Chou

Tracy Chou

@triketora.bsky.social

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building block party to make the internet safer. new product PRIVACY PARTY available now on chrome web store!

cofounder project include, previously early engineer at pinterest and quora. stanford ee and cs. 2022 time woman of the year.

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white guy next to me has a tattoo of the chinese character for white (白) on his arm do we think - he thinks it says something inspirational? - he thinks being white is inspirational? - he got trolled by his tattoo artist?

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The project is complete. The feline has expressed her satisfaction.

I gutted an old CRT TV today. It's eventually gonna be a cat bed. 3

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I keep seeing people today say "these labeler implosions just prove that Bluesky needs a T&S team". Folks: Bluesky has a T&S team. @aaron.bsky.team runs it. They've gotten incredibly fast at handling issues. I've seen sub-5-minute responses on some of my reports.

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Kintsugi is the Japanese practice of mending broken pottery repair with visible “scars”. For a marketing campaign, Oreo sold tubes of their frosting so people could repair their broken Oreos in the same way. [kottke.org]

Oreo Kintsugikottke.org Kintsugi is the Japanese practice of mending broken pottery repair with visible “scars”. A creative agency working for Oreos came up with the clever idea of selling tubes of Oreo frosting so that people could repair th

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“Soon, ChatGPT will have doctorate-level intelligence.”

No notes, GPT. 10/10.

it’s important to know your selfie angles for today’s image-heavy social media environment

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a ruthless predator, alligators will sometimes use jazz hands to lure musical theatre people to their deaths

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ai startups tired: technical innovation wired: ethical innovation

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This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on. They've outlived dozens of ships.

please tell me again how you went to stanford, i didn’t hear it the first three times, i’m so impressed, you must be sooooo smart, it’s an honor just to be in your presence

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i’m sulking on the couch in a gorgeous luxury home in the hamptons, avoiding a group dinner at this founder networking event i’m here for, trying to figure out why i’m so upset about being treated like dirt. dirt that’s just a little bit annoying, something that you could ignore or maybe flick away

i need cody rigsby’s commentary on this justin timberlake story

amongst the many reasons why i am so sad that twitter has been destroyed is that it was a good way for me to meet people who care about what i have to say. brutally reminded of how in-person so much of the tech industry still treats me as just another dumb woman to ignore.

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“Do not use your phone to answer phone calls” is not advice as much as it’s a condemnation of regulatory inaction that has led a vital means of communication to ruin.

The first rule of avoiding scam calls is to never answer unknown numbers, and even some known ones. Curious? Bored? Worried it’s an emergency? Wait the extra minute it takes for the call to go to voice mail, then decide if it’s legitimate.

Sick of scams? Stop answering your phone.www.washingtonpost.com Phone scams are still hugely popular — and they depend entirely on people curious enough to answer.

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The way we’re all told to treat all this as normal. It’s fine that half your email is scams. It’s fine that you can’t answer your phone. It’s fine that every Instagram post is full of scam bait comments. It’s fine that people text you weird phishing links. Just adjust your behavior.

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damn, dude

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We have the technology to find precisely what existing thing you’re looking for on the Internet but instead here’s technology that finds nothing at all and makes up nonsense instead. That will be $100 billion and all the electricity please.

forgot how exhausting it is to debate tech bros who insist - diversity is important obv except not important enough to spend effort on - their all male team is diverse in other ways! - the problem is not w the company but rather the women who don’t apply - they only hire the best

i think we should stop giving our ai bots female names (alexa, siri) and give them names from the old white boys club (john, james, chad) in honor of how overconfident and annoying they are even when they’re completely wrong or making stuff up

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I legit love this woman’s “please bring me the sweet release of death” face

this has to be the least compelling pitch of all time

i’ve hit 53 books completed this year! (reading, no audiobooks.) 2+ books/week avg best so far - nonfiction THE SNOWBALL INVITATION TO A BANQUET I CONTAIN MULTITUDES best so far - fiction WHEN WE CEASE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD THE SHADOW OF THE WIND WE ARE CALLED TO RISE

do we feel like maybe an investment industry pushing growth at all costs are at fault here ($100m adderall distribution and health care fraud scheme by a telehealth startup founded by former fb designer & backed by craft ventures and offline ventures) www.justice.gov/opa/pr/found...

Founder/CEO and Clinical President of Digital Health Company Arrested for $100M Adderall Distribution and Health Care Fraud Schemewww.justice.gov The founder and CEO of a California-based digital health company and its clinical president were arrested today in connection with their alleged participation in a scheme to distribute Adderall over t...

human beats ai to win ai contest petapixel.com/2024/06/12/p...

Photographer Disqualified From AI Image Contest After Winning With Real Photopetapixel.com The photographers strike back.

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Behold: the most “so you hate waffles” post imaginable

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Wait, WHAT? This is a thing they could do? Fucking do it

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oh hey did y'all know that in 1858 when Charles Dickens was 45 he tried to have his wife institutionalized by falsely claiming she was insane & didn't love the ten children she had borne him, all so he could bang an 18 year old actress in his employ & this is has only really emerged since 2019

Letters reveal Charles Dickens tried to place his wife in an asylumwww.york.ac.uk Analysis of previously unseen letters has shed new light on Charles Dickens’s troubled relationship with his wife Catherine – revealing at one point he attempted to have her committed to a mental asyl...

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computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong tech CEOs: let's add it to every product

today i heard about a non-technical founder who’s making his engineers use gen ai bc he read a mckinsey report that ai is gonna make everything 30% more efficient so he wants to see those gainz and all i can say is lol if this is true