@bethdean

Your friendly neighborhood lesbian satanist. Founded the Responsible Innovation & Ethics design team at Meta. @bethdean@mas.to

 San Francisco
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Joined June 2007
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I wrote about emotional intelligence in design for @facebookdesign and I would love to hear your thoughts! medium.com/@bethdean/emotion… – at Menlo Park, CA
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Today is my birthday, and I’ve given myself the gift of retirement. After 10 years, Friday was my last day at Meta. As to what’s next: as little as possible.
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Just paid off my last student loan at 41. It’s unconscionable we expect 18 year olds to sign up for 20+ years of debt to get a job and enter the workforce. We should forgive all student loans and make education free like a civilized country.
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Tech people who think the industry has a PR problem instead of an accountability problem are exactly why the general public believes careless unelected rich people should not get to wield vast unmitigated power over everyone’s daily lives.
Ed Zitron
@edzitron21 Mar 2023
In today's newsletter, I explain why everybody is so angry at tech - because the tech industry's contributions to society are becoming increasingly harder to see for the average person, and tech's loudest voices are increasingly noxious and reactionary. ez.substack.com/p/the-uncann…
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Weekend commence 🧝‍♀️ 🧙‍♂️ 🍁
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.@nytimes I’m disappointed you won’t listen to the trans community about your continued harmful coverage. Maybe you’ll listen to your subscribers.
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Instead of playing Hogwarts Legacy and enriching a transphobe, I donated to the Transgender Law Center today. Join me: transgenderlawcenter.org/don…
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San Francisco: Tech ruins everything Also San Francisco: Murder robots! sfgate.com/politics/article/…

After raucous meeting, San Francisco approves plan for lethal police robots

San Francisco's Board of Supervisors approved a controversial draft policy that would...

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Why don’t we shoot people out of cannons anymore I feel like that would solve a lot of our current problems
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I haven’t yet figured out where I’ll lurk if Twitter collapses but just in case: @bethdean@mas.to DM if we are mutuals and I’ll give you my email or Discord.
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.@teamcandor I never opted into your emails and I can tell you the last thing any Meta employee needs today is unsolicited layoff speculation in their inbox. Please be more thoughtful.
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Lots of love to all the Twitter folks today. You deserve so much better.
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Sigh
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Ernest Scared Stupid is a perfect Halloween movie. I will not be taking any questions at this time.
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Friends if you’re looking to get into climate work, it has never been easier!
Climate Draft@ClimateDraft20 Sep 2022
After nearly a year as an invite-only network, today we're excited to open up Climate Draft to everyone who wants to learn about climate tech and connect with top venture-backed startups decarbonizing the world! protocol.com/climate/climate…
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Will be revisiting this classic tonight
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Give me 10 seasons of Rings of Power immediately
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I’m glad for all the folks student loan forgiveness is going to help, but also $10k is a joke when our standard is for people spend their first 20yrs of adulthood 50-100k+ in student debt. College should be free.
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Today is my birthday and it would make me very happy to see you petting a dog. Here is mine.
Scratching the back of my dog’s ear. He’s a small scruffy grey terrier laying on his back and looking out the window behind him. He’s got an underbite and white patch on his belly and he’s laying on grey striped sheets and a terra cotta blanket.

ALT Scratching the back of my dog’s ear. He’s a small scruffy grey terrier laying on his back and looking out the window behind him. He’s got an underbite and white patch on his belly and he’s laying on grey striped sheets and a terra cotta blanket.

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When your house is nestled in the treetops sometimes you find an owl having dinner outside your bedroom window
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Trying out my new macro lens on a the keyboard I built today.
Close up shot of the top right corner of a black mechanical keyboard, with white on black keycaps. Photo is cropped to 3 brass artisan keycaps on the top row. The left cap depicts a library. The middle cap has a white and black enamel swirl inlay. The right cap has the Chinese symbol for prosperity.

ALT Close up shot of the top right corner of a black mechanical keyboard, with white on black keycaps. Photo is cropped to 3 brass artisan keycaps on the top row. The left cap depicts a library. The middle cap has a white and black enamel swirl inlay. The right cap has the Chinese symbol for prosperity.

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