The Japanese Internet Reacts To Square Enix's Crypto Plans

On January 1, Square Enix CEO Yosuke Matsuda (pictured) decided to ring in the New Year with the company’s plans for things like blockchain and NFTs.

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@rantasmo retweeted:

@BraveArcanine ("Saltinx") wrote:

I think about this video a lot

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owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:

I can't read "cowboy" normally anymore because of fedi

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:

oh no

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@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:

4am and I can’t sleep so we’re keeping the noir classics going

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:

4am and I can’t sleep so we’re keeping the noir classics going

@Extrawurst ("Stephan D.") retweeted:

@rust_analyzer ("rust-analyzer") wrote:

Changelog #110

Featuring highlighting improvements, less noisy type hints for annotated constructors and some parser refactoring work.

https://rust-analyzer.github.io/thisweek/2022/01/03/changelog-110.html

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") retweeted:

@lolennui ("Amy") wrote:

thinking about how scared the founding fathers would be if they saw a Furby

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") replied to a tweet by @meakoopa:

“You can’t ‘help’ doing anything, can you? You’re like a leaf, blowing from one gutter to another.”

@joshbloch ("Joshua Bloch") wrote:

I love this one too. I see the red letters about 1/2" behind the blue ones (loosely speaking).

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@AkiyoshiKitaoka ("Akiyoshi Kitaoka") wrote:

For some observers, red letters appear to be in front of blue ones. For some observers, blue letters appear to be in front of red ones.

@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") wrote:

God bless you

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@chefjoseandres ("José Andrés") wrote:

Many of our @WCKitchen team did not celebrate New Year’s at home…They were in Brazil where huge floods devastated communities. This is Dario Meira, which was under water…Markets haven’t opened yet & nearest town is 45 mins away—so we are providing fresh meals! #ChefsForBrazil

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@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:

@leepers500 ("Dileep Rao🇺🇸") wrote:

We need to have a serious conversation about carrying racist assholes in our society. A hard conversation. We are sick of you. Sick of this soul crushing bigotry so freely vomited into our lives. It’s you we need to diminish.

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@NathanJRobinson ("Nathan J Robinson") wrote:

University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax, who insisted she was not a racist despite praising the superiority of "European" culture, now argues that the US needs "fewer Asians" and we need to be asking "how many" Asians are too many.

@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:

@DrEricDing ("Eric Feigl-Ding") wrote:

UK hospitals 🏥 seeing critical staff shortages + caseload. 📌Maybe whoever arrogantly pushed the “#Omicron is mild” / “no need to worry” should be fired. 📌Maybe whoever naively believed the “it’s mild” propaganda should reconsider how they were so dangerously duped.

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@ShaunLintern ("Shaun Lintern") wrote:

BREAKING: A very serious situation at hospitals across Lincolnshire tonight as @ULHT_News declares a 'critical incident' over "extreme and unprecedented" staff shortages. It says it is "unable to maintain safe staffing levels" leading to "compromised care" across its sites:

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:

7.

I'm pretty square. And half the ones I did I would rather have skipped.

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@Parkour_Lewis ("The Artist Formerly Known as Parker") wrote:

Just 3….😬

@daborsk ("Shawn Borsky") retweeted:

@docsquiddy ("doc (merry edition)") wrote:

the idea of digital ownership is literally a bad and stupid one that regresses our culture by inhibiting a post-scarcity society so some fucking losers can feel good about having something nobody else does

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@cdixon ("cdixon.eth") replied to a tweet by @cdixon:

NFTs add a new layer of value — digital ownership — that didn’t exist in a credible way before NFTs.

@daborsk ("Shawn Borsky") retweeted:

@thekenyeung ("Ken Yeung (kenyeung.eth)") wrote:

Alienware Concept Nyx offers a holistic view of gaming at home https://cnet.co/3Hum5jh via @CNET

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") retweeted:

@_Rawilcox ("#FreeKeithDavisJr.") wrote:

I don’t think notions of unity, redemption, forgiveness, and love should be applicable to the state.

These are values, sure. But, not for a regime that has no obligation to be in relation and community with people.

The state is not a moral system. It’s an anti-Black system.

@daborsk ("Shawn Borsky") wrote:

This is how my holiday game time went.

@daborsk ("Shawn Borsky") wrote:

Thanks, I hate it.
https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") retweeted:

@alexjkane ("Alex Kane") wrote:

*listens to joy division one time*

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@AmandaOeiWells ("Amanda Oei Wells 🐱") wrote:

The three Lords of Fódlan 👑 Whom will you choose? #fireemblemthreehouses #fe3h #fireemblem These are now available as prints! Link below✨

@volkadav ("Mike Jackson") retweeted:

@zhuowei ("Zhuowei Zhang") wrote:

Java has first-class functions: you first create a class, then you add functions

@volkadav ("Mike Jackson") wrote:

am i weird for looking forward to work tomorrow? i could use another week off after the extreme rollercoaster of '21 but ... it feels good to be useful, and i like my job :)

@volkadav ("Mike Jackson") retweeted:

@tmprowell ("Tatiana Prowell, MD") wrote:

When we say that uncontrolled spread of #omicron has impact on care for other things, this is what that looks like. When we say that “elective” surgeries are being cancelled, imagine being the parent here in this situation. Really imagine. Sit with it for 5 mins. #GetVaccinated

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@frye_maggie ("Maggie Frye") wrote:

Covid-related social disfunction really hit home tonight- a thread. This is my son Marcel. He’s 5 months old today. He has a congenital heart defect, called tetralogy of fallot, which requires life saving surgery in the first year of life- it’s recommended between 4-6 months.

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") retweeted:

@BarkyBoogz ("ᴍʏ sᴘᴀᴄᴇsʜɪᴘ? ᴛʜɪs ɪs ᴀ ᴅᴏᴅɢᴇ") wrote:

This video made me never wanna be around anyone ever again 😭😭😭

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@spockosbrain ("Spocko") replied to a tweet by @AliNouriPhD:

@AliNouriPhD Wow. I fought this video enlightening.

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@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:

THE STAKES HAVE NEVER BEEN HIGHER

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@KerriYund ("Kerri") replied to a tweet by @meakoopa:

@meakoopa @MarvelUnlimited Realizing I haven't read the War Scrolls one and racing to marvel unlimited so fast my legs blur together like a Looney Tunes character

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") retweeted:

@artinsociety ("Journal of Art in Society") wrote:

From our archive ~ Friedrich Nerly’s atmospheric Moonlight View of Piazza San Marco (1871). At R, about 150 years later, Hiroyuki Masuyama made a digital photo re-creating the same (almost unchanged) scene. Interesting to compare the two https://www.apollo-magazine.com/dispatches-from-the-moon/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20190701_pressrelease_JULY19_magazine&utm_campaign=Press%20releases

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:

eating a toblerone

@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:

@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") replied to a tweet by @mglerner:

@mglerner Sometimes I think I shoudl try to figure out how to get XScreenSaver onto Apple Watch, and then I remember that nobody needs to know what time it is that much and watches are for suckers.

@33mhz ("SIMD Crawford") retweeted:

@FroyoTam ("Froyo Tam 💽") wrote:

Going thru auction listings for plotter machines and came across GSP's Signmaker IVb (1983) system.

Outline fonts are loaded in ROM cartridges, from prominent foundries, including Friz Quadrata, Eurostile Bold Extended, Avant Garde, and more!

@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:

@HazelMonforton ("dr. hazel 🌟") wrote:

Remember that Douglas Adams bit where people decided leaves were currency so they burned down trees to create scarcity so the value of leaves went up? Thats NFTs.

@volkadav ("Mike Jackson") retweeted:

@kvlly ("Kelly Vaughn ☀️ kvlly.eth") wrote:

Good luck to everyone attempting to remember how to code tomorrow

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:

always curious what I’ll get up to

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@paddycarver ("Paddy") replied to a tweet by @meakoopa:

@meakoopa @MarvelUnlimited I think my favorite part of this screenshot full of admittedly excellent things is that you follow yourself on @MarvelUnlimited

@33mhz ("SIMD Crawford") retweeted:

@vg_history ("weirdo") wrote:

beep, magazine cover (july, 1987) http://www.gamesetwatch.com/magweasel/beep1.jpg

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") retweeted:

@twinkkaplan ("kendall says fuck pigs") wrote:

all my favorite comics in one place wow

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@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:

hey if you wanna read some of my comics they’re on the @MarvelUnlimited app! https://share.marvel.com/sharing/creator/drn:src:marvel:unison::prod:cf81673f-e25e-4631-817c-8d50c5243dad

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:

hey if you wanna read some of my comics they’re on the @MarvelUnlimited app! https://share.marvel.com/sharing/creator/drn:src:marvel:unison::prod:cf81673f-e25e-4631-817c-8d50c5243dad

@daborsk ("Shawn Borsky") retweeted:

@andybudd ("Andy Budd") wrote:

A typical website visit in 2022

1. Figure out how to decline all but essential cookies
2. Close the support widget asking if I need help
3. Stop the auto-playing video
4. Close the “subscribe to our newsletter” pop-up
5. Try and remember why I came here in the first place

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:

Her soul sold to the demons of Limbo, in the custody of Genosha’s magistrates, Madelyne Pryor dreams of the husband who abandoned her, and a lullaby sung by the woman who is her namesake.

And Maddie wakes up. And the inferno begins. https://youtu.be/cOYvtSppA9M

@joshbloch ("Joshua Bloch") replied to a tweet by @joshbloch:

For completeness, here's my dad (who died in 2003).

@joshbloch ("Joshua Bloch") replied to a tweet by @joshbloch:

And here is my dad's Camp Ritchie "diploma," which we found while cleaning out my parents' house.

Alienware’s Concept Nyx aims to let you cast your PC games to any screen you own

Contrary to this image, Concept Nyx squeezes both screens down in size to make the full playing space for each game viewable. | Dell

For CES 2022, Alienware is showing off its Concept Nyx, which imagines a future when loading and playing games on a variety of screens can happen as instantaneously as streaming music and TV shows. The idea is simple on its face (though undoubtedly complex underneath the veil): through the Nyx software, all of your PC games would be available to stream wirelessly to a variety of screens at home, regardless of where you bought them.

Imagine you’re playing Cyberpunk 2077 on your PC display, but you want to move over to the living room couch and play on a big TV. The idea is that you’d be able to tap a button in an app, and the game would wirelessly swap displays, letting you hog the TV all to yourself or have your game squeeze next to...

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@joshbloch ("Joshua Bloch") replied to a tweet by @joshbloch:

For completeness, here's my dad.

@DOStatus ("DigitalOcean Status") replied to a tweet by @DOStatus:

Resolved: Our engineering team has resolved the issue with Team account creation. If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience. https://stspg.io/mqnmh123gycf?u=xkcwc11vphdg

@joshbloch ("Joshua Bloch") replied to a tweet by @joshbloch:

And here is my dad's Camp Ritchie "diploma," which we found while cleaning out my parents house.

@joshbloch ("Joshua Bloch") wrote:

Tonight Sixty Minutes presented an expanded version of their Ritchie Boys report. You can watch it here.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/ritchie-boys-world-war-ii-60-minutes-video-2022-01-02/

nikvo@esperanto.masto.host wrote:

*rigardas la kalendaron* jep, ankoraŭ estas 2022

@arbarrro ("nikvo") wrote:

*rigardas la kalendaron* jep, ankoraŭ estas 2022

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@villtura ("Vill") wrote:

Starting off the new year with edelthea

#fe3h #threehouses

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") retweeted:

@babyboisenpai ("alfie") wrote:

HAPPY NEW YEAR

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@DOStatus ("DigitalOcean Status") replied to a tweet by @DOStatus:

Monitoring: Our engineering team has implemented a fix to resolve the issue with Team account creation and is monitoring the situation. We will post an update as soon as the issue is fully resolved. https://stspg.io/mqnmh123gycf?u=87glkkmn1m54

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") wrote:

[kind words] is such a cute and nice game I'm going to cry 😭😭😭

@bdurette ("Brandon DuRette") wrote:

Do yourself a favor and watch #TheRescueFilm. What a powerful story! Misfits with an arcane hobby became international heroes. Everyone has a purpose. What's yours? You may not know until you are called.

Well done @jimkchin!

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:

@DOStatus ("DigitalOcean Status") wrote:

Investigating: Our engineering team is investigating an issue with Team account creation.

At this time, users may experience a failure to create a new Team.

We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update once we have … https://stspg.io/mqnmh123gycf?u=yc8djh73n25p

@teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

“If the West is firm, the Kremlin concludes that it wants to destroy Russia; if the West offers concessions, the Kremlin concludes that it is weak and pressure should be increased.”

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@IlvesToomas ("toomas hendrik ilves") wrote:

An absolute stunner of an analysis of Russian threats and statements from Francoise Thom.

https://en.desk-russie.eu/2021/12/30/what-does-the-russian-ultimatum.html

@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:

@SaadOmer3 ("Saad B. Omer") wrote:

Ending isolation of COVID cases in five days without testing negative is the nose-out-of-mask of COVID-19 policies.

@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") wrote:

It's been nearly a month since I first saw this photo, and I can't stop thinking about how absolutely cursed it is. The more you look the worse it gets. Also. https://jwz.org/b/yjun

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") retweeted:

@ComicsintheGA ("ComicsintheGoldenAge") wrote:

Eartha Kitt as Catwoman.

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@WholesomeMeme ("WholesomeMemes") wrote:

Hey, I found the artist! @davidzinn_art. This street art is awesome

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") retweeted:

@ManuclearBomb ("ill manews is an ill guest") wrote:

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@oldbluecanoe ("Shakazaramesh") replied to a tweet by @lukeisamazing:

@lukeisamazing

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@felixsalmon ("Felix Salmon") wrote:

Doing a single bitcoin transaction has a larger carbon footprint than flying across the Atlantic.

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@DigiEconomist ("Digiconomist") replied to a tweet by @DigiEconomist:

The power consumed per Bitcoin transaction on average could power an average US household for more than 1.5 months.

The carbon footprint of just one Bitcoin transaction amounts to 658kg of CO2, which is equal to the carbon footprint of almost 1.5 million VISA transactions.

@joshbloch ("Joshua Bloch") wrote:

Another winner form Kitaoka-san. When I stare at the cross, the hearts vanish in ~ 3 seconds.

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@AkiyoshiKitaoka ("Akiyoshi Kitaoka") wrote:

Hearts appear to extinguish when observers fix their eyes on the cross.

@thekbknapp ("Kevin K. 🦀 👏") retweeted:

@CliRust ("Rust CLI Working Group") wrote:

Happy new year to all our followers and @rustlang fans. As part of new year we have a special long awaited gift for you. Here's clap 3.0: https://epage.github.io/blog/2021/12/clap3/

@daborsk ("Shawn Borsky") wrote:

Go. Go. Goooo now!
Play it. Its so good.

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@docsquiddy ("doc (merry edition)") wrote:

HEY! So, you guys know how the Epic Games Store does those CRAZY coupons that make it SUPER easy to pick up video games?

Well, right now--RIGHT NOW--you can acquire our game Adios for just EIGHT DOLLARS

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/adios-b378b4

explanation here:

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/coupons/holiday-sale

Samsung’s 2022 TV lineup has big software changes, smaller hardware upgrades

Image: Samsung

Samsung introduced its first TVs with Micro LED technology at CES 2021, and they wound up being perhaps the best sets that the company has produced yet — not counting the exorbitantly priced The Wall, that is. So this year, Samsung is opting for a different approach: it’s taking smaller strides in hardware and focusing more of its efforts on software refinement and new features.

Samsung’s 2022 TVs will continue to run the company’s Tizen OS, but they’ll now come with a totally revamped home screen that’s described as “a testament to our vision for the future of TVs.” The first part of the new user experience is what Samsung calls the Media Screen. This will “put all of your streaming service content into one, easy-to-browse place” with...

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Samsung’s new 2022 TVs bring Nvidia GeForce Now and Google Stadia gaming

The new “Samsung Gaming Hub” | Image: Samsung

Samsung is revealing a new lineup of smart TVs at CES 2022 today, including features as exotic as radio-wave powered remote controls and support for NFTs — and they also happen to be the first Samsung sets in a while to let you play triple-A video games from the cloud instead of just your Xbox, PlayStation or PC. After an vague tease in October, Samsung is now confirming that “select” 2022 models will explicitly come with Nvidia’s GeForce Now, Google Stadia, and the Utomik cloud gaming service as part of a new “Samsung Gaming Hub,” a user interface which Samsung’s intending to expand to additional services as well.

The Samsung Gaming Hub isn’t just for cloud gaming, either. Intriguingly, the company says that your HDMI-connected video...

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Samsung’s new TV remote uses radio waves from your router to stay charged

Image; Samsung

CES is always a moment when companies reiterate their dedication to environmental causes and trumpet their latest, more efficient products and packaging. After introducing a solar-powered Eco Remote for its 2021 TVs, Samsung is back again with a new version that comes with a pretty fascinating trick.

Like the previous Eco Remote, this one can be charged with solar energy, but Samsung has also added RF harvesting capabilities that let the remote preserve its charge by “collecting routers’ radio waves and converting them to energy.” Neat. You don’t see this in many gadgets — mostly because it’s really only practical for low-power devices. But remotes certainly fall into that category.

Aside from the new RF harvesting option, the Eco...

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Samsung promises ‘groundbreaking’ new TV feature: NFT support

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Staring at your non-fungible tokens on a smartphone or laptop screen is fine and all, but why not remind everyone who visits your home of the money you spent on digital art NFTs by showcasing them on your TV screen? Somehow we’re in a world where that’s about to become reality: Samsung says it’s planning extensive support for NFTs beginning with its 2022 TV lineup.

“With demand for NFTs on the rise, the need for a solution to today’s fragmented viewing and purchasing landscape has never been greater,” the company said in a press release. “In 2022, Samsung is introducing the world’s first TV screen-based NFT explorer and marketplace aggregator, a groundbreaking platform that lets you browse, purchase, and display your favorite art — all...

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Samsung’s latest Frame TVs have a matte screen that looks and feels more like real art

Image: Samsung

Samsung has managed to single-handedly define the category of “lifestyle TVs” — high-design TV sets that blend into the home more seamlessly than traditional TVs — with The Frame. I’ve got several friends, coworkers, and family members who have recently purchased some model in The Frame lineup. For them, the device’s stylish look, customizable bezels, and ability to showcase artwork or personal photos when the TV is “off” are more important than the latest picture quality or HDMI specs.

For 2022, the company is hoping to take The Frame to the next level and make its wall art parlor trick more convincing than ever before. Samsung says the latest models will have a matte, anti-reflective display with a “lifelike” texture that feels like...

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@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@ExodusGhost ("GhostExodus@Darknetdiaries ep 70") wrote:

Before you had Facebook, or Twitter, or any of those other things, this is what we used to do. I started in 1997.

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@TonyaA6 ("💛THEE💛Boosted💛Black💛Woman💛") wrote:

13 years. 💔 Rest in peace, Oscar.

@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:

@SDonziger ("Steven Donziger") wrote:

Attorney Ted Wells of @PaulWeissLLP defends Exxon against Indonesian villagers tortured and killed by the company's private army. He also sits on @Harvard's Board.

"Prominent" lawyers profit by helping the oil industry commit human rights abuses. Time to call them out.

@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:

@davidiserson ("David Iserson") wrote:

Keep reading the book about the roaring 20s all the way to the end.

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@elonmusk ("Elon Musk") wrote:

Let’s make the roaring 20’s happen!

@katya_zamo ("Katya") wrote:

This is exactly the kind of energy I’m bringing into 2022

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@KamalaHarris ("Kamala Harris") wrote:

In states across our nation, public transportation is not as fast or as frequent, as safe or as healthy as it can be—our Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will change that.

@daborsk ("Shawn Borsky") retweeted:

@blackmayo89 ("MMtheMayo") wrote:

2022 is the year of ''are there any #DragonAge 4 news yet???''

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I'm converting some C code, and I've found a nice example how Rust puts half of RTFM directly in types:

func(obj_t **result)

became

func(result: &mut MaybeUninit<Option<Box>>)

Both are exactly the same thing — literally ABI-compatible — but #Rust specifies:

* the outer pointer must not be null, and must point to valid memory.
* this memory won't be read, so it's fine if it's uninitialized.
* the function may write a pointer to a heap-allocated object that you must free, or null.

@travisthetechie ("Travis Smith") retweeted:

@Svintttt ("Saint 🇧🇸") wrote:

Hi twitter. I am a scrap metal artist I make and build robots by using scrap metal in all sizes. I’m looking to sell these so I’m in need of exposure and clients . A RT/Like can make that happen . My next customer can be on your TL.

@bradfitz ("Brad Fitzpatrick") wrote:

Snow's melting, yay! Two weeks without child care (hopefully) ends tomorrow! So excited to work again if my brain hasn't atrophied beyond repair! 🤞

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@joelle_emerson ("Joelle Emerson") retweeted:

@vaurorapub ("Valerie Aurora") wrote:

If 8.4% of asymptomatic people in SF have COVID, then statistically it only takes 8 people in a room to have a better than 50% chance that at least one person has COVID

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@Bob_Wachter ("Bob Wachter") wrote:

Brief @UCSFHospitals update – now seeing undeniable hospital surge, up to 45 hosp. pts (vs 20 last wk; Fig L). So tsunami of cases IS translating into some serious ones. Few new ICU pts, yet. Test positivity (R) stable at crazy-high levels.
Be super careful – it's raining Covid.

@travisthetechie ("Travis Smith") wrote:

My $14k infusion costs me $5 after insurance and the manufacture’s program. I’m then at out of pocket max for the rest of the year. Of course it means timing everything after my first infusion but not the worst as they are regular.

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@thecakelin ("C is for Cakelin 🍪") wrote:

*Obscure health insurance tip*

If you're on a specialty med like a biologic, they frequently have support cards.

If the insurance charges you enough for the med, you can use the support card to hit your deductible or max out of pocket. In January.

#NEISvoid

@alicegoldfuss ("mx claws") retweeted:

@tmprowell ("Tatiana Prowell, MD") wrote:

In case no one has told you, the odds your kids will be at school in person in 2-3 wks in the US approach zero in most areas, no matter what your BOE or Governor decide about opening. There won’t be enough people well to run buses, lunches, clean, or teach. Plan now as a family.

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@ElleArmageddon ("the apocalypse, but make it fashion. ✨") wrote:

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@Cpin42 ("Viktor Winetrout") wrote:

Yeah I stole your ape pics. What are you gonna do, draw some police

@alicegoldfuss ("mx claws") wrote:

Portland's test positivity rate was 14.7% *on 12/29*

this month's going to suck https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/oregon.health.authority.covid.19/viz/OregonCOVID-19Update/DailyDataUpdate

@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:

@DrRupaMarya ("Rupa Marya, MD") wrote:

In SF.

Red arrow: shut down schools, stop indoor dining, halt indoor gatherings.

Blue arrow: Indoor masking mandate, sort of.

Omicron spreads regardless of vaccination. Letting it spread, it will reach our most vulnerable. Our kids, our elders, our chronically ill.

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@tiri_art ("🏳️‍🌈Tiri🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Finished commission 💜💜💜 also it’s my birthday today 🥺🎂

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@svdate ("S.V. Dáte") wrote:

Yes, but the country’s REAL problem is the price of gas.

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@edokeefe ("Ed O'Keefe") replied to a tweet by @edokeefe:

SO, WHAT SHOULD DONALD TRUMP DO NOW? This is most fascinating — 12% of the country, and a fifth of Trump's 2020 voters, want him to fight to retake the presidency *right now* before the next election.

YouTuber figured out Asus Z690 Hero motherboards melted down due to backward capacitor

An Asus Z690 Hero motherboard with burnt up MOSFETs. | Image by Actually Hardcore Overclocking via YouTube

A YouTuber who goes by the name of Buildzoid on the Actually Hardware Overlocking channel has figured out that a backward capacitor on the Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Hero motherboard is causing it to melt down, according to a report by Tom’s Hardware. Asus has since acknowledged the issue in a post on its site and plans on issuing replacements to customers with affected motherboards.

Problems with the Z690 Hero motherboard started turning up on the Asus support forum, as well as onReddit, and the issues experienced by users are pretty much identical. As noted by Tom’s Hardware, users reported that their motherboards started smoking in the same spot: the two MOSFETs (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor) next to the DIMM slots...

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@trixiemattel ("Trixie Mattel™") wrote:

Understanding that running is not a personality trait yet refusing to self-correct is my own personal brand of heroin.

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@billyeichner ("billy eichner") wrote:

Boy oh boy, they don’t make ‘em like they used to, that’s for sure. ❤️

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@writtenbyirene ("irene") wrote:

Joan Rivers interviewing Betty White (1983)

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@falkoloeffler ("Falko Löffler") replied to a tweet by @falkoloeffler:

auge @Mavwarf :)

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@Cpin42 ("Viktor Winetrout") wrote:

Yeah I stole your ape pics. What are you gonna do, draw some police

AT&T, Verizon CEOs reject FAA request to delay 5G expansions scheduled to start January 5th

Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge

In an ongoing battle pitting the FAA and airlines against the FCC, Verizon, and AT&T over their planned launch of mid-band 5G service, the mobile carriers are declining a request by the FAA for a two-week delay.

Earlier this year, an FCC auction sold the two carriers rights to use so-called “C-band” frequencies at a price of nearly $70 billion. Verizon and AT&T are eager to roll it out so that in addition to offering ultra-fast 5G connectivity in specific areas using high-band millimeter-wave technology and much slower 5G over low-band frequencies, the new spectrum will provide in-between performance over much wider areas. T-Mobile currently uses mid-band spectrum that isn’t in the C-band.

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@trixiemattel ("Trixie Mattel™") wrote:

I don’t have an EGOT but I do have a FAGGOT. 🏆

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emasc, the OS with text editing capabilities for men

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@hephaestus5 ("Man, I hate Illinois Nazis") wrote:

"porn is causing society to degenerate"

meanwhile, at the birthplace of society:

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@QueenCommunism ("A Sexy Motorbike") wrote:

Need someone to treat me like I'm 8000 year old cave art from Tassili n'Ajjer

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@IanColdwater ("Ian Coldwater 📦💥") wrote:

my phone just tried to autocorrect "omfg" to "infosec" and honestly, fair

The Week In Games: A New Year, But Not Many New Games

Happy new year! I hope you had a safe and fun New Year’s Eve and Day and I hope 2022 is a better year for all of us than 2021 was. I mean, it can’t be worse right...?

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@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@amywestervelt ("Amy Westervelt") wrote:

“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”

Tons of Ursula K. LeGuin quotes for this moment in time. I’m heading into 2022 with this one

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@QuinnyPig ("Corey Quinn") wrote:

Quoth @awscloud when trying to convince people to take a job there: “we build in a conservative 15% growth in our stock to our target compensation number.”

@Amazon in 2021: stock increases by 4.64%. Inflation was 6.8%, SP500 was 28.7%.