Erica Heinz

Letter of Recommendation: Phyllis Rose’s ‘Parallel Lives’ (Published 2018)

Here is a great review of the book. It's so good www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/m...

Still gaping at the Victorian zing of writer Jane Carlyle, who wrote detailed diaries about what a bad husband her brilliant and famous philosopher husband Thomas Carlyle was, knowing their papers would be published together posthumously. (Read Parallel Lives by Phyllis Rose for more A+ gossip.)

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spent my afternoon making a short little web game for New Yorkers called "Don't Rank Cuomo"... it has 10 levels. it's very realistic and challenging. can YOU don't rank Cuomo? play in browser (free): radiatoryang.itch.io/cuomo

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.

Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle

The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.

(around an image of a map of No Kings events) NO KINGS JUNE 14 - NATIONWIDE DAY OF DEFIANCE nokings.org

ONE WEEK UNTIL NO KINGS DAY!

At this time next Saturday, we will be taking to the streets across the country. While Trump wastes millions on a birthday parade in DC, we’re showing up everywhere else to say NO KINGS.

There are nearly 2,000 events planned. Join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

MI8 was too melodramatic (they could have cut the first 30 minutes of nostalgic blather about the first 7) but the stunts were nauseating and worth seeing 🫣

student: i don't know what I'm supposed to do for this project.

me: neither do i.

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student: but... but... but you’re the...

me: welcome to art school.

#art

What so ridiculous about working out is that you have to keep doing it. I’ve played so many sports and done so many practices, I feel like I should just get to relax for like 20 years and still be fit.

Think in 4D A memorable new model for product experience design, presented in a full-color hardcover book including over 500 illustrations and 40 exercises to help students, professionals, and leaders level up.

Found a better printer for my book so I knocked another $10 off! It'll be the textbook for my UX/UI Essentials class at SVA's masters in product design in the fall, let me know if you're interested in the class plan (TLDR: read the book backwards)
4dthinking.studio/ux-book

The recent court documents showed that Google's internal testing demonstrated that significantly worse search results would not harm their business operations. This apparent immunity to quality concerns stems from the company's dominant market position, which the recent federal court ruling addressed. "Since Google doesn't have any real competition, it can make the best information hard to find, forcing users to stay on Google for longer and interact with more ads," Papadimitriou said. "This is dangerous for consumers, most of whom think the best results appear first." The strategy appears to be working from a business perspective. The study suggests that poor organic search results actually benefit Google's bottom line in two ways: they make paid advertisements more valuable to users seeking accurate information, and they force users to refine their searches multiple times, exposing them to more advertising in the process.

For everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.

Do public libraries help mitigate crime? Evidence from Kansas City, MO - Journal of Cultural Economics We examine the relationship between public libraries and local crime rates. Previous studies have looked at different factors that could account for changes in crime, but few have focused on cultural ...

Wanna reduce crime?

Open more libraries.

"we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults."

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Any #config people still in SF? I’ll be there til Sunday morning!

That man can wine! 😂

Can I start billing my client for my insomnia? Or tiktok?

At this point I'm honestly just calling my reps and bluntly saying you're old between the two of us I'm the one more likely to survive an ecoli infection. Maybe do something about this.

Right? I’m looking around like what just happened, am I hallucinating? I miss the chance to go hang out on a roof or at a fancy spot and clink some glasses.

The hardest thing about remote work is that there’s no celebration, no change of scenery for big milestones. It’s just “good job everybody” :emoji: :emoji: :gif: and then on to more work.

I like the random honorifics you see in dropdowns sometimes. Honorable. Captain. Excellency!

This whole thread is worth your time. The NYT article is not.

I’ve made a small recurring monthly donation to @runforsomething.net going on 5 years. If you want to see progressives grow a bench of young, diverse & effective leaders, follow my lead. Great investment in our future.

Demanding Increased Funding for NYC's Public Libraries​ Our public libraries have been underfunded for too long. Write a letter telling all mayoral candidates that our libraries deserve at least half of 1% of the annual city expense budget (0.5%) in th...

Send a letter to NYC Mayoral candidates demanding increased funding for NYC public libraries. It takes 2 minutes. [for NYC residents]
actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

For those of you in New York, I’ll be at Word Up community book store tomorrow night (Wednesday) at 7. Come by, and let’s discuss how the news media helped bring us to this authoritarian moment.

NYC: Save the date.

April 19th. 12pm. Bryant Park.

40+ cosponsors. 1 protest.

People over profit.

Liberation for all.

The question you should be asking yourself isn't "why are stupid people in charge?" It's "who is susceptible to this messaging and why is it working?"

You guys, they're not stupid

They're doing propaganda

When they lie through their teeth, they are doing propaganda

Do you think the people behind Big Brother in 1984 were stupid? Big Brother says lots of nonsensical shit.

It's called
p r o p a g a n d a

Extra! Extra! April 6 👏🏼👏🏼 What a week!!

If you need some good news @chopwoodcarrywater.bsky.social has a great list of wins this week chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com/p/extra-extr...

Yesterday was incredible. The official count is in — 5.2 million people joined the #HandsOff protest nationwide. So many are asking: what’s next? Mark your calendars: 4/19 is the next nationwide day of protest.