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Olimpio on Lens Protocol
A tweet by @olimpiocrypto about Lens Protocol — the decentralized social graph built on Polygon. Saved in June 2022 when Lens was launching and the Web3 social space was generating significant developer interest.
Photofeeler: Profile Photo Testing
Photofeeler gets unbiased ratings on profile photos from real people — shows how your LinkedIn, dating, or social photos score on competence, likability, and influence before you commit to using them.
laarc — Lisp-Oriented Hacker News Alternative
laarc was a Hacker News-style link aggregator built in Arc (Paul Graham's Lisp dialect) and oriented toward Lisp, functional programming, and programming language theory. The site has since shut down or pivoted.
Kevin Novak Uber Data Science Talk — Tweet
GeekdomSF tweet promoting Kevin Novak's data science talk at Uber — captured as context for the associated YouTube video of the same event.
@ryantroyford Tweet
Personal tweet from @ryantroyford — saved without content, likely a data visualization or side project screenshot given the context of other saves from this period.
The IV Doc
The IV Doc — an on-demand intravenous drip service for rehydration, saved in response to a joke tweet. A cultural artifact of the 2014 San Francisco startup-and-excess moment.
Personal Tweet — Willy Wonka Reference
Personal tweet from Ryan Orban to Rachel Binx, referencing a Willy Wonka comparison — saved from Pinboard, likely context from a conversation thread.
Dog GIF
A dog GIF saved from Giphy, shared with Rachel Binx and Fulgent EFT as a 'current status' reaction. Ephemeral humor from July 2014.
Zipfian Academy SF Data Science Meetup at CrowdFlower
Tweet from Zipfian Academy showing standing-room-only attendance at an SF Data Science meetup hosted at CrowdFlower — a snapshot of the data science community gathering in San Francisco mid-2014.
Math Dance
An imgur image captioned 'Oldie, but a goodie. Math dance!' — a humorous mathematics meme saved from the data science community's social feed.
"Data Visualization Be Like" — Rachel Binx Tweet
Rachel Binx's 'data visualization be like' tweet — a humorous jab at data viz complexity or pretension, circulated in the data science Twitter community in mid-2014.
"Data Hacking" Tweet from SF Data Science Meetup
Ryan Orban's tweet coining 'data hacking' as a new buzzword from Kevin Novak's talk at the SF Data Science meetup with Chartio and Uber.
"Current Status" Tweet — May 2014
Ryan Orban's 'current status' tweet from May 2014, likely shared during the Zipfian Academy bootcamp period.
SciencePorn Tweet
A SciencePorn tweet saved from Pinboard — likely a striking science image or infographic. Content unrecoverable from the original tweet.
@adailyventure Zipfian Academy Tweet
Tweet from @adailyventure about Zipfian Academy, awarded 'best tweet of the day' — a social artifact from the early Zipfian community.
Brian Mount — Happy Zeroeth Birthday, Luisa
Personal social media post — congratulating Brian Mount on the birth of his daughter Luisa. A personal bookmark with no knowledge graph significance.
Why Go Out?
Sheila Heti's short essay for Brick Magazine on why one goes out into the world — the tension between the pull of solitude and creative work versus the need for contact, accident, and friction with other people. A precise articulation of a creative person's ambivalence about social life.
Digsby: unified IM, email, and social networks
Digsby is a unified client for instant messaging, email, and social networks — one app covering AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, and more. Briefly popular in 2009 as social fragmentation got bad enough to demand aggregators.