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Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:46PM (#31871354)
Good.
Many large accounts are empirically reporting sizable changes in their following, changes that track with their political views. The tweet in question has a lot of data to show but doesn't provide an explanation for the changes.

Thoughts?

Ask HN: Product Managers, what tools do you use to track non-dev focused work?

My team uses GitLab for repos + project management, but I find myself unsatisfied with it for larger product initiatives + vision, i.e. sketching emerging ideas or things like design initiatives, documentation, GTM roadmap, etc.What are your go-to tools for tracking and managing the non-dev side of your work?I've used an amalgam of tools in the past (Sheets + Asana + Confluence + Trello) but...

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Re:FBI confirms it obtained NSO’s Pegasus spyware on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @04:03PM (#30184037)
"We bought it but never used it." Hard to believe that one.
Full blog post here: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/private-i...

Some interesting bits:

"When we are notified by individuals depicted, or by an authorized representative, that they did not consent to having their private image or video shared, we will remove it. This policy is not applicable to media featuring public figures or individuals when media and accompanying Tweet text are shared in the public interest or add value to public discourse."

"We will always try to assess the context in which the content is shared and, in such cases, we may allow the images or videos to remain on the service. For instance, we would take into consideration whether the image is publicly available and/or is being covered by mainstream/traditional media (newspapers, TV channels, online news sites), or if a particular image and the accompanying tweet text adds value to the public discourse, is being shared in public interest, or is relevant to the community."

Ask HN: What to look for when selling enterprise tech to public schools?

I'm working with a company that has historically worked well in the enterprise space but is exploring creating a vertical in the public school space. They are not EdTech, but more backend/IT infrastructure. We're doing some market research about procurement processes, RFPs, MSPs, etc so figured I'd ask here.Have you built non-EdTech software and sold it to public schools? If so, any insights...

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