I misspoke. I meant to say I “wouldn’t” be right here waiting for you.

My friend Cindy Li was so well loved and a deep part of so many people's lives. We said goodbye to her in Pittsburgh at a standing-room only service with laughter and tears. Here she is, remembered with love on the very medium she helped build: cindyisawesome.lawver.net

This, accompanied by her trademark "mom stare."

❤️❤️❤️

once read a tweet about how existential nyc ticketing systems are and it ruined refilling my metrocard forever

I'm Sima Parmer, MD. I'm a maternal fetal medicine specialist taking care of high risk pregnancies. We've been working harder and longer to see our patients. Pregnancy will continue regardless of the pandemic. The circle of life always continues which brings us hope. #HowWeFeel

We’re all looking for something we can do to stem the spread of COVID-19. Using the The How We Feel Project app is a way for everyone – whether you're sick or healthy – to provide info to health professionals so they can track its spread and respond. Learn more: portal.ct.gov/Office-of-the-…

Bridging the #covid19 testing gap? The CEO of Pinterest Ben Silbermann & CRISPR Pioneer Feng Zhang have created an app that tracks outbreaks. “It can give us an early warning system,” says Ben Silbermann. Users can anonymously report symptoms, it just takes 30 seconds.

Spontaneous cheers and applause all up and down my city block. Neighbors hugging each other, cheering. Today feels as good as I imagined it would. #OneTermTrump

This entire thread.

When Vikram Bhaskaran's father was diagnosed with a rare disease, he saw how patients need support outside of the doctor’s office–and that web searches and social media can be generic at best, and inaccurate at worst, inspiring him to start Vikram Bhaskaran with Arun Ranganathan and Rohan Ramakrishna MD

Congrats Hanson Wang and Ethan! What a useful use of LLMs.

Sharing an exciting new resource that I helped build, Roon (roon.com), a free platform helping people navigate dementia through thousands of short-form Q&A videos from 60+ dementia experts, caregivers, and more. Look, share, and let me know what you think!

I suspect the doomsday approach to net neutrality is going to backfire badly. Because if the sophisticated neutrality arguments are right, the actual harms are all going to be pretty much invisible to the end user. The visible effects will be stuff people like.

*sigh doing a fresh git pull be like:

Remember how my iPhone got stolen by bikers who snatched it from my hand last week? I have reason to believe that the thieves are now trying to get me to reveal my iCloud password to reset it using an ingenious scam. It's useless to them without the iCloud password (thread)