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The Pre-Mortem: Transforming a Skeptical Design System Team You can’t ship a healthy system with an unhealthy team. Before we push components, we should put our oxygen masks on and run a pre-mortem – imagining total failure, naming every cause, and turning it ...

"The pre-mortem was exactly what the [design system] team needed to move forward. It allowed them to voice their concerns in a psychologically safe and supportive environment."

I invited @guysegal.com to share a simple yet powerful tool to plan for success: zeroheight.com/blog/the-pre...

Helsinki Goes a Full Year Without a Traffic Death Thanks to Better Planned Streets, Lower Speed Limits Over time, a focus on street safety led to lower speed limits along more and more city lanes, from 30 mph to 18 mph.

Finland’s capital Helsinki goes a FULL YEAR WITHOUT A TRAFFIC DEATH! Interesting, Cape Town, SA, one of the cities in Africa with the LOWEST TRAFFIC fatality rates has about 500 deaths a year. Lagos, Nigeria, which has among the HIGHTEST TRAFFIC DEATHS on the continent reports about 1,200 a year.

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A judge won’t let a woman remain anonymous in another Tony Buzbee lawsuit against Diddy.

The order notes Buzbee’s declaration is “substantively identical to declarations filed on the same day in other Doe v. Combs cases in this District involving different plaintiffs and facts.”

I created a “Women in Tech” Starter Pack! Highly recommend to follow these incredibly talented women. 💖✨

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(Feel free to suggest edits, of course!)

Tory Lanez Block List(Block his fans).

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STAN BLOCK LIST AND PAGES:

Manosphere , Alphas, Incels

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Black Twitter

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Black Feminist & Black Women Studies Scholars

Black Film Writers

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Black Artist part 2:

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Black Artists:

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I put together a starter pack for Black media and cultural studies scholars. Contact me to be added.

BlackSky starter pack. go.bsky.app/2FtgiTK

Picture of various Blacksky Tech people in a starter pack.

Testing out this starter pack thing by making one for Black Tech peeps.

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I hope more advertisers leave Twitter

A 13-year-old with autism got arrested after his backpack sparked fear. Only his stuffed bunny was inside. Disability rights advocates said kids like Ty should not be getting arrested under Tennessee’s school threats law.

Ty, a 13-year-old with autism and an intellectual disability, put a bunny in his backpack to show his friends.

Scared his toy would be confiscated, he told his teacher the school would “blow up” if anyone looked inside his bag.

He was arrested and charged with a felony — @propublica.org

Despite Trump’s Win, School Vouchers Were Again Rejected by Majorities of Voters In several Republican-led states, popular sentiment on the voucher issue has been overridden by the efforts of special interest groups and powerful governors who have enacted sweeping voucher programs...

Despite Trump’s win in the presidential race, school vouchers were again soundly rejected by significant majorities of Americans

unpopular opinion: i think women are better writers because they empathise with the struggles of both genders. men are generally apathetic towards women’s plights and so cannot write for women or about women which is 51% of the global demographic.

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,209,136, DEJIDOPE ‪@dejidope.bsky.social‬, joined on Nov 28, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,209,136!

a sheet of cards featuring a reverse mermaid(fish with legs), made on a riso graph with orange and green inks

a card featuring a reverse mermaid(fish with legs), made on a riso graph with orange and green inks

this summer is all about me and reverse mermaids and risograph machines

New Drug Provides Total Protection From H.I.V. in Trial of Young African Women An injection given just twice a year could herald a breakthrough in protecting the population that has the highest infection rates.

Big: Results from a large clinical trial in Africa showed that a twice-yearly injection of a new antiviral drug gave young women total protection from HIV

Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit The company is selling assets, laying off remaining employees.

Hyperloop One, the futuristic transit company building tube-encased lines to zip passengers and freight from city to city at airplane-like speeds, is reportedly shutting down

The company raised more than $450 million since its founding in 2014

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