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Tracy Chou

@triketora.com
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founder @blockpartyapp.com, acq by deleteme. harvard bkc affiliate. cofounder project include. early eng at pinterest, quora, usds. stanford bs ee and ms cs. 2022 time woman of the year.

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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 18/05/2026
extremely overused words in the sf lexicon right now legible load bearing agency taste permanent underclass generational wealth
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Stanford Technology Ventures Program @stanfordstvp.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
In this ETL episode, @triketora.com - CEO of @blockpartyapp.com, acquired by @joindeleteme.bsky.social, shares how early experiences inspired her to found a mission-driven company & balance mission and profitability. 🎧 Listen where you get your podcasts, or watch on YouTube! bit.ly/3PaNaBK
This is an image promoting the "Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders" series by Stanford. It features an individual looking to the side against a light background. Text on the red panel lists the speaker: Tracy Chou, Founder & CEO of Block Party, with the event date, April 29, 2026.
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 05/04/2026
if you have founded, led, and/or worked for a mission-driven startup: what did you experience as the pros and cons?
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Elon tried to kill Blockparty, and it came back even stronger. Or at least strong in a new way. Also: Hell yes we cited them in that brief!
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Jason Lee Guthrie @jasonleeguthrie.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Spent most of the morning on @blockpartyapp.com clearing out previous social media. Plan is to delete everything except for a shell Facebook to use for Marketplace and @bsky.app. I can feel my mental health improving by the hour…
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 25/03/2026
A professional update, as it were! @blockpartyapp.com has been acquired by @joindeleteme.bsky.social!
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 24/03/2026
went for a run without my fitbit and it’s like it never happened
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zeet (irrigation engineer) @zeet.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 10/03/2026
brett, kindly fuck off ty
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 06/03/2026
my impressions of google as a consumer vs as a vendor are diametrically opposed
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Mark @tolecover.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 10/02/2026
journalism is not dead www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
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What it was like to be a bush at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance
The bushes on the field during the halftime show became a meme after the internet found out they were actually human performers.
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 08/02/2026
how bad is the traffic in the bay area going to be tomorrow
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 05/02/2026
apparently epstein was on quora so the quora weekly digest emails are in his inbox… if you were a big contributor to quora way back when you might find your name in the files
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 04/02/2026
does anyone still use onemedical? is the service completely shit now or am i just unlucky? my pcp never follows up on things she’s supposed to, never responds to messages, i can’t get a response from admin team either, etc. i kinda need healthcare over here and it’s just impossible ☹️
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 23/01/2026
the air quality in sf has been crappy for a week now, finally it’s dropped into the green and i am exuberantly house burping
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 21/01/2026
failed ai outbounding 💀
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 06/01/2026
is there a bluesky labeler for misinformation yet? this is one of the canonical examples of where middleware (as enabled by a protocol such as the one bluesky is built on) should be helpful…
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age of AI www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...
The whistleblower, for his part, worked to amp up the pressure. He told me he had shared the document with other reporters, putting me into a competitive crunch. He asked when I thought I would publish. I asked him if he could point me to any current or former coworkers of his who could help me understand the document better. “Not really,” he said.

By this point, alarm bells were starting to ring. I wondered if the employee badge the whistleblower had shared with me might have been AI-generated. While AI systems are notoriously unreliable at identifying their own outputs, Google Gemini can detect SynthID watermarks embedded in images that it produces. I uploaded the badge to Gemini and asked if Gemini had made it. “Most or all of this image was edited or generated with Google AI,” it said.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Thinking idly about how there was a time in the past where the Grok CSAM scandal would lead to a huge exodus off X to Bluesky and elsewhere but how now everyone who cared about such things has already left
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I’m receiving an increasing number of messages from some of you who are concerned about me. Please don’t be. I’m not going to stop speaking out. Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/please-d…
robertreich.substack.com
Please don’t worry about me
Friends,
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rob pike @robpike.io · 25/12/2025
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)

IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 27/12/2025
for all the promise of ai it comes with a lot of slop being forced upon people and wasting everyone’s time simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/...
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How Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop “act of kindness”
Rob Pike (that Rob Pike) is furious. Here’s a Bluesky link for if you have an account there and a link to it in my thread viewer if you don’t. …
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this
Cybertruck Owners Only
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Had an issue stopping my Cybertruck from a low speed the other day and had to make a choice to crash it or risk going tumbling down a mountain to probable death. Sucks to see, but it held up well and only a few minor scrapes and bruises.
Still going over every choice made and trying to understand why it would not stop and was gaining speed from 5 mph to 12+ while on the brakes. ABS was probably hurting more than helping on this 26° downhill angle. Hoping to be able to talk to someone at Tesla as I have the crash recorder data already.

[cybertruck upside down like the shitty little brick it is
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 25/12/2025
at safeway on christmas day and these are the times i am filled with wonder at capitalism and american supermarket abundance
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 25/12/2025
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx
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A real Good Samaritan
One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 22/12/2025
i have a new level of loathing for vcs for not only ghost you after a pitch but also still add you to their newsletter so you get all their marketing shit. unprofessional cowards
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 22/12/2025
what is the secret to getting candle wax out of the menorah every night
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/12/2025
he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
I mean, we don't know if Karoline Leavitt still has that groomer today now that the photos are published.

Well, what can I say? That's the makeup that she puts on, those are the injections she gave herself. If they show up in a photo, what do you want me to say? I don't know if it says something about the world we live in, the age of Photoshop, the age of AI filters on your Instagram, but the fact that the internet is freaking out because they're seeing real photos and not retouched ones says something to me.Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that's on the cutting room floor?

I don't think there's anything I missed that I wish I'd gotten. I'll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, "Should I smile or not smile?" and I said, "How would you want to be portrayed?" We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, "You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people." And I looked at him and I said, "You know, you do, too."
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 17/12/2025
where is the bluesky commentary on this vanity fair photoshoot genius
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor?
I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
A bear in the wild, smiling and posing coyly
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Here are a few reasons off the top of my head why creators don’t LOVE AI: 1. It has been used to create videos of them saying inappropriate things 2. It has been used to sexually harass them 3. It has been used to scam their fans 4. It directly competes with their business and devalues their work
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Wow. This is an absolutely terrifying read. We now live in an age when a single company can, through what appears to be plain old bureaucracy, can more or less brick your entire digital life.
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 12/12/2025
honestly i'd be ok if they banned users over 16 from social media too! we can all go touch grass
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 10/12/2025
This is fascinating, as an example of where an AI tool, used properly and carefully, can help people understand things. This is why I get annoyed at the people who insist that there are no positive uses of AI tools. Yes, many use it poorly. But used well, it can be very useful.
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 10/12/2025
i am a top 0.1% user on strava in lifetime activities 👀
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 06/12/2025
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ “The pita bread was warm and toasty, unlike my ex wife’s heart.”
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 05/12/2025
my granola crunched is hysterical but it is 100% unshareable lol
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Master Shake from Aqua Teen Hunger Force cartoon saying ‘you look at this tweet and tell me there is a god’
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 04/12/2025
incredible writing
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