How to choose the right printer for your home office
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge
The need for a home / office printer has increased as more of us are working or schooling from home. You could be a parent who needs to print out workbooks for your child. Or you may find that it’s easier to make notes on a business report using a pen or pencil rather than a keyboard. Or you’ve suddenly discovered that a government office is demanding that you snail mail a form to them. Or you’re tired of trekking to your local office supply store for printing out occasional forms.
Whatever the reason, if you find yourself in need of a printer, it’s not difficult to find one. Printers have not changed a lot over the past few years; they’ve just become more efficient and less expensive. You will still be choosing between laser and inkjet...
Microsoft Teams’ Walkie Talkie feature now available to everyone
Microsoft is making its Walkie Talkie feature of Microsoft Teams generally available to all users of its communications app today. Walkie Talkie lets Microsoft Teams users turn smartphones or tablets into a walkie-talkie that works over cellular data or Wi-FI. It was originally announced two years ago, and has been in preview until today.
Microsoft has primarily pitched this at frontline workers, employees who are customer-facing and run day-to-day operations inside companies. The software maker is even teaming up with Zebra Technologies to add a dedicated push-to-talk button on a range of Zebra mobile devices. These devices are used widely by frontline workers, the employees that have helped steer the world through the ongoing pandemic.
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@telegram ("Telegram Messenger") wrote:
You can generate a QR Code for any user or chat that has a public http://t.me username – including bots, groups and channels. Tap the QR code icon in a profile or chat info page and customize it to print, post or share anywhere. #TelegramTips
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Keychron Q2 review: a great keyboard, now more compact
A great choice for the space constrained
Nuro’s new delivery robot will include external airbags for pedestrians
Nuro, the autonomous delivery company, announced its third-generation autonomous vehicle with a host of new improvements, including a bizarre-looking external airbag for pedestrians.
The company, which has a fleet of driverless delivery pods scurrying through the Southwest, says its new vehicle will have twice the cargo space as the second-generation R2 robot. It will also include modular inserts and new temperature-controlled compartments to keep food warm or cold, depending on the need.
twice the cargo space
Nuro, which is valued at $8.6 billion, was founded in 2016 by Dave Ferguson and Jiajun Zhu, two veterans of the Google self-driving car project that would go on to become Waymo. It is one of the few companies to be operating...
cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
Regarding LB*: Diamond chess has a good description here:
https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/diamond-chess
Apparently the Berlin variant has slightly altered beginning position and a shot rule. I boosted before I realized the Berlin variant has a shot rule. That's not something I wish to promote, but Diamond chess sounds like it could be fun to try.
Our 14 favorite gadgets and hacks for working at home
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge
From mesh networks to lap desks, here’s how The Verge’s staffers create their workspaces
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@Adamhill1212 ("Adam B. Hill, M.D.") wrote:
Had a colleague tell me, “To be clear, I’m not depressed. I’m reacting appropriately to the world around me”. Oof, felt that.
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diamondchess@tabletop.social ("Diamond Chess") wrote:
#introduction
Diamond Chess, the Berlin variant is almost like "normal" Chess, but the board is turned by 45° (white squares at the players side). The pieces are placed in the opposing corners, like shown in the illustration.
Players can't just reel off their trained openings, engines are useless.
The positioning of the board gives space for drinks and ashtray left and right of the players corner - very handy sitting at smaller bar-tables.
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Japanese Firefighter Gets In Trouble For YouTube Gaming Side Hustle
These days, side hustles are more common than ever. But one firefighter in Wakayama, Japan is being punished for his double life as a gaming YouTuber.
According to Mainichi and AFP, the 33-year-old firefighter uploading 314 videos between December 2020 to October 2021. The fire-fighting YouTuber typically played…
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Students are the smart ones. It's a teacher's responsibility to avoid beating the intelligence *out* of their brains.
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How to make your home office a more pleasant place to work
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge
This pandemic has more people working from home than ever before, but it’s not all lollipops and daffodils. While there may have been some early excitement about not commuting or being breathed on by Chet the Xerox Tech, an actual home office can be downright depressing and / or uncomfortable. I should know.
As someone who has freelanced for the great majority of the last decade, I’ve worked from home nearly that whole time — even when home was a camper van for more than five of those years. Yes, that was a tight space for a home office, but those constraints led me to refine my WFH game to keep my body healthy and my mind at least partially sane. Here are some of the tips (and items) that made the biggest difference for me.
Desk setup
I...
@AnnTelnaes ("Ann Telnaes") wrote:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering recommending Americans use N95 or KN95 masks to protect against the coronavirus.
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
Mehringdamm? No thanks, I would like Wenigeringdamm.
Logitech’s new stream light is an affordable, convenient alternative to Elgato
Logitech’s Litra Glow is a small LED light that’s designed to illuminate you while you’re sitting at your desk. It’s designed primarily with content creators like Twitch streamers or YouTubers in mind, but should work just as well for smartening you up on a Zoom call. In other words, it looks like a competitor to Elgato’s $129.99 Key Light Air, but at a more affordable $59.99 (€69) price point.
It’s not an identical accessory. Rather than having a large desk stand, the Litra Glow comes with a small mount to balance it on top of a monitor. It looks like it might be less versatile than the Key Light Air’s stand, but it could be more convenient if you want to reduce desk clutter. Power is provided via a USB-C port on its back.
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Lime launches its new electric bikes in Washington, DC as part of $50 million blitz
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Lime’s next-generation electric bikes are finally making their North American debut. Nearly a year after announcing its plans to spend $50 million on a major e-bike expansion, the San Francisco-based micromobility company says it will deploy the first wave of new bikes in Washington, DC, starting this week.
Lime says the new bikes are significantly improved over the ones currently in service, which the company inherited from Jump after acquiring the bike-share company from Uber in 2020. The $50 million investment will largely go toward designing, manufacturing, and assembling its next-generation bike, which start rolling out this year. The new model comes with a more powerful 350-watt motor and a swappable battery capable of up to 25...
@RachelAppel ("Rachel Appel") wrote:
Ah, shit. Having wrist pain and of course I can't find my wrist support band.
Belle Is A Spiritual Sequel To Summer Wars And A Modern Beauty And The Beast
While watching Belle, the latest feature from Mamoru Hosoda, two movies kept racing through my mind: Disney’s animated Beauty and the Beast and Hosoda’s own Summer Wars—and for good reason. Belle takes a classic fairy tale and filters it through the virtual world in which we live.
@RachelAppel ("Rachel Appel") wrote:
When someone asks if you've grown accustomed to German bureaucracy...
Maybe a little. 👀
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@RachelAppel ("Rachel Appel") replied to a tweet by @thebeebs:
@thebeebs -Make a todo app.
-Put the 7 items in todo app.
-Mark them as "complete" for testing purposes.
-Don't ever mark back as todo.
-You're good. Call it a day.
Wyze’s security camera pay-what-you-want subscription accepts $0
A Wyze security camera. | Image: Wyze
Wyze has officially launched a new pay-what-you-want subscription tier for its lineup of home security cameras called Cam Plus Lite. In a forum post, the company explains that Cam Plus Lite includes Person Detection, which alerts you when it detects a human being rather than just motion, as well as cloud recordings that are limited to 12 seconds in length, with a 5 minute cooldown period between them. Users can choose to pay as little as $0 a month for the new tier.
Wyze also says it’s removing the 32GB microSD card size limit on its cameras, and is adding new rewind and skip buttons to make it easier to scrub through locally-saved footage.
Regarding subscriptions, Wyze started experimenting with its pay-what-you-want model for its...
PCIe 6.0 is coming for the speedy SSDs and GPUs of the future
PCI Express 5.0 has only just started arriving on the consumer side, but the specification for PCIe 6.0 has just been finalized. The PCI Special Interest Group has published the final specs for PCIe 6.0, doubling the bandwidth over the 5.0 version up to a theoretical maximum bidirectional speed of 256GBps on an x16 slot (128GBps in a single direction).
The first super fast PCIe 5.0 SSDs appeared just before this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, promising read speeds of up to 14GBps. That was already twice what we’re used to seeing with PCIe 4.0 drives, and with the doubling PCIe 6.0 brings we’d expect to see SSDs offer up to 28GBps in the future.
Image: PCI Special Interest Group
PCIe 6.0 vs. existing PCIe...
The latest phishing scam to watch out for: fraudulent QR codes on parking meters
Photo by Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images
Police in several US cities are warning residents not to pay for their parking using QR codes stuck to parking meters. That’s because these codes have been placed there by scammers, who are using them to direct people to fraudulent sites that capture their payment details.
Warnings have been issued by law enforcement in Austin and San Antonio over the holiday period (we spotted the story via The Overspill newsletter). Police say they discovered a number of stickers with illicit codes appearing on parking meters, while a report by local news site Click2Houston shows how one of the fraudulent codes directed people to a site promising “quick pay parking.” (The site now appears to be offline.)
Police are advising anyone who inadvertently...
@dorrismccomics ("Alex Norris") wrote:
the people have spoken
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@dorrismccomics ("Alex Norris") wrote:
I’m going to relaunch my patreon soon- what would you most like to see?
@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:
@nurse_hangry ("The Hungry Nurse") wrote:
california says that if you were ever a nurse for halloween and still have the scrubs, your shift starts tomorrow at 0700 sharp. don’t be late.
@gcouprie ("Geoffroy Couprie") wrote:
Oooooh 🤩
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@BarbaraFantechi ("algebraic geometer BLM") wrote:
Hey everyone, it is done! My friend Lorenzo has completed YESTERDAY his Grimoire d'Algèbre Commutative, by a large margin the prettiest and most original book on the subject.
It's available for free in pdf format and soon also in print.
http://math.univ-lille1.fr/~ramero/teaching.html
Is this one of those parody accounts?
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@_HenryBolton ("Henry Bolton OBE 🇬🇧") wrote:
Because of ‘Partygate’ if Boris wants to lead his party beyond the next election, he must grip the borders, the NI Protocol and fishing now. I say he must, but will he? I doubt it. I don’t think he has the ability, energy, courage or advisers to do it.
@RachelAppel ("Rachel Appel") wrote:
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@HumanCompiler ("Erik Porter") wrote:
😂 Yuuuuuuuup. https://twitter.com/strobist/status/1480615272356716550
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@_brittanyv ("Brittany Van Horne") wrote:
Being a writer is all about someone delivering you the most heartbreaking news you’ve ever heard and replying “thanks for letting me know!”
@teller ("Siim Teller") retweeted:
@BrentToderian ("Brent Toderian") wrote:
5+ years ago, #Uber insisted that it would reduce traffic. Instead, Uber drivers cruise without passengers 40% of the time. Uber and Lyft no longer claim they reduce traffic, and now admit they increase congestion.
So much for “making cities better.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-ride-hail-utopia-that-got-stuck-in-traffic-11581742802
nikvo@esperanto.masto.host wrote:
en la hispana "por" signifas "pro" kaj "para" signifas "por". zamenhof elektis tiujn vortojn intence por konfuzi min
en la hispana "por" signifas "pro" kaj "para" signifas "por". zamenhof elektis tiujn vortojn intence por konfuzi min
@33mhz ("Bernie Mid-Off") wrote:
I'm gonna need you to whip this vote a little harder than that
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@POTUS ("President Biden") wrote:
The next few days, when these voting rights bills come to a vote, will mark a turning point in this nation. Will we choose democracy over autocracy? Every Senator will have to declare where they stand.
I ask every elected official in America – how do you want to be remembered?
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
At some point I realized that having your image put on money will never be any kind if honor. I’m not sure why we treat it that way.
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@reneeygraham ("Renée Graham 🏳️🌈") wrote:
Maya Angelou’s image is on the back of a coin that still features a slaveowner on the front. Huh.
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@web3isgreat ("web3 is going just great") replied to a tweet by @web3isgreat:
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@SolRarity_ ("SolRarity - NFT Rarity") wrote:
Today, @BigDaddyApeClub has stolen about $1m2 from thousands of honest people.
They are not begginers, and were apparently on their 3rd try
If like us, you want them to pay for what they did, you should start from our below investigation
👇
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@Needle_of_Arya ("🐝⚖️ Kenneth of House Pfizer💉💉💉 1st of His Name") wrote:
Me: please don't take your non-white friends to all-white places where they don't feel safe
A disturbingly large percentage of white Twitter: I'm *today* years old in finally understanding that not every place is safe for you
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@PinkRangerLB ("L. Silvertongue, The Tran Without Fear") wrote:
“You’re so resilient!” Thanks! My options were that or dead
@bradfitz ("Brad Fitzpatrick") wrote:
Finally got over enough of my Nix/NixOS hurdles to start converting real stuff to it. I don't know where I'm at on the learning curve but it feels good to be past the beginning at least.
Bunch of friendly Nix coworkers helps!
Hope it gets smoother. I really want to like it.
@bradfitz ("Brad Fitzpatrick") wrote:
Wordle 206 5/6
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Not my best work, but pretty!
@maddow ("Rachel Maddow MSNBC") retweeted:
@ashishkjha ("Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH") wrote:
With infections spiking, can be hard to see the light
But the peak of this wave is coming into view
Cases now falling in NYC, DC
MA wastewater shows big declinesYes, parts of US still rising. And hospitals have many tough weeks ahead
But nationally, wave will crest. And soon
@maddow ("Rachel Maddow MSNBC") retweeted:
@MaddowBlog ("Maddow Blog") wrote:
It is now from five states (up from yesterday's three) that we have obtained forged elector documents created by Republicans.
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@XiranJayZhao ("XIRAN Buntuber") wrote:
encanto was great bruno was my favorite character
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@meridachii ("Meridachii✨Art") wrote:
Malig Knight & Witch
#FE3H #Edelgard #Dorothea #BlackEagles
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@gghero_ ("gghero @ Commissions open | Description + pinned") wrote:
a quick doodle showcasing why casphardt is the best ship in fire emblem three houses for the nintendo switch released in 2019
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@web3isgreat ("web3 is going just great") wrote:
$6.8 million emptied from crypto exchange LCX
January 8, 2022
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=2022-01-08-0
@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:
@web3isgreat ("web3 is going just great") wrote:
Sports NFT platform Lympo loses $18.7 million to a breach
January 10, 2022
https://web3isgoinggreat.com?id=2022-01-10-0
@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:
@hoichikazeru ("浩ー風ル") wrote:
風花雪月初クリアしました！帝国ルート良かった！途中で多く仲間になれそうなキャラを自分の手で切るのは辛かったけど、最後一応幸せなエンドに向かいて良かった。神ゲーでした！
#風花雪月 #FE風花雪月 #FE3H #エデレス ＃エーデルガルド #FireEmblem #FireEmblemThreeHouses ＃Edeleth #イラスト
@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:
@banana_qote ("Sei 🪓🐻PAINdaemonium") wrote:
I just want him to be successful and happy 🥺🥺 #FFXIV
@volkadav ("Mike Jackson") retweeted:
@_TexasForever ("TEXAS FOREVER") wrote:
I 35
10 year challenge
@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:
@KamuiCosplay ("Kamui 📚") wrote:
How I made one my favorite Monster Hunter outfits: Zinogre! ⚡️
@monsterhunter @CapcomUSA_ #cosplay
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@kianamaiart ("Kiana Mai") wrote:
felix helping pepa out at work
@bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Due to Omicron, we ended up having our meeting online tonight for the first time in a long time; my Scoutmaster's Minute: https://youtu.be/BBH7uysKHAM
@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:
@tishtishart ("✨tishtish✨(in Inuyasha x FE3H hell)") wrote:
Enlightened One Byleth
#rkgk #FE3H #風花雪月 #FE風花雪月
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
Also the data in the database is actually your money.
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@davidfowl ("David Fowler 🇧🇧🇺🇸💉💉💉") wrote:
Make a public database
Let people upload arbitrary code to it
Let anyone execute that code
Run code in the database👀👀👀
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@EricBoehlert ("Eric Boehlert") wrote:
her son’s school was closed when Trump was President. now it’s open under Biden….and she’s mad at Dems re: school closings.
this is never going to make sense; https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/01/11/oakland-lefty-my-whole-life-school-closures-triggered-an-identity-crisis-526860
@33mhz ("Bernie Mid-Off") wrote:
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@isaiah_bb ("isi baehr-breen (its pronounced ‘izzy’)") wrote:
Ok what tv show or movie *most closely* resembled your high school experience
@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:
@timnitGebru ("Timnit Gebru") wrote:
Trend 1: Fired Ethical AI team co-lead, @mmitchell_ai.
Trend 2: Reached goal of ZERO full time Black women research scientists (had reached 2 which is too much so fired one & other one left after I made environment unbearable).
Trend 3: Continued to master art of gaslighting.
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@JeffDean ("Jeff Dean (@🏡)") wrote:
As in past years, I've spent part of the holiday break summarizing much of the work we've done in @GoogleResearch over the last year. On behalf of @Google's research community, I'm delighted to share this writeup (this year grouped into five themes).
https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/01/google-research-themes-from-2021-and.html
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@triniliciousd ("czarcasm") wrote:
Has Covid-19 forced you to wear a mask and glasses at the same time? You may be entitled to condensation.
This whole video, but specifically Shakira's hair in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3gbisdtJnA
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@ALONEINFECTION ("dandy") replied to a tweet by @ALONEINFECTION:
i cannot believe this
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@Catfish_Man ("David Smith") wrote:
If we can’t get tests, let’s at least get as many people as possible in safer masks:
I just donated
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@MaskOakland ("😷 Mask Oakland 😷 #BLM") wrote:
So yeah. It seems uh... people need N95s. Seething at how long it took the state to admit this, going all the way back to "Don't get n95s most people don't need them" in March 2020. Well. We have been doing N95 mutual aid since 2017 wildfires. We welcome your support.
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@LakotaMan1 ("Lakota Man") wrote:
Mourning the loss of Clyde Bellecourt, White Earth Ojibwe, one of the co-founders of the American Indian Movement (AIM) — journey well sir.
@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") wrote:
Is this an ad on the @reduct_rs site
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@theprincessxena ("Xe Iaso") wrote:
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@kyleshevlin ("Kyle Shevlin") wrote:
I know a bunch of you are already doing this/have done this, so I figure it's safe to ask y'all: Where does one go to start learning Rust? 🦀
@trixiemattel ("Trixie Mattel™") wrote:
What the fuck is happening
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@FilmUpdates ("Film Updates") wrote:
‘Emily In Paris’ has been renewed for seasons 3 and 4.
Did rustc write this tweet
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@USCPSC ("US Consumer Product Safety Commission") replied to a tweet by @USCPSC:
If you shout, "SAFETY!" very loudly while you do it, it's a lot more fun.
@volkadav ("Mike Jackson") retweeted:
@SanhoTree ("Sanho Tree") wrote:
Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35007072/ Raise your hand if you had “weed to the rescue” on your 2022 pandemic bingo card.😏
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@bIackzelda ("princess ♡") wrote:
POV Im your bookseller and I just found the last copy of the book you wanted
@DreamingInCode ("selectively adjacent symbols") wrote:
.@code #liveshare is pretty neat, but:
vsls-agent Y U LEAK SO MUCH MEMORY??!
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") retweeted:
@blaqueerflow ("Dr. Anansi Wilson JD/PhD") wrote:
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
― Assata Shakur
@ewarren ("Elizabeth Warren") wrote:
Congratulations on your election tonight, @LydiaMEdwards! You're going to be a champion for Massachusetts families in the State Senate, and I can't wait to see how you keep getting things done.
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@Delafina777 ("Jessica Price") replied to a tweet by @Delafina777:
anyway, I did not expect the outcome of this google rabbithole to be "the suspicious COVID testing site in Bellevue is owned by a company that also owns a neo-Nazi paramilitary company"
sorry 'bout burying that lede
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") retweeted:
@jonrog1 ("John Rogers") wrote:
“Say ‘meritocracy’ again. Say ‘meritocracy’ again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say ‘meritocracy’ one more goddam time.”
@mr_modular ("Allen Nemo") wrote:
The Golden Palace, the Golden Girls sequel is now on Hulu. Arrested Development fans like me will note that Mitch Hurwitz was involved!
@AnnTelnaes ("Ann Telnaes") retweeted:
@PostOpinions ("Washington Post Opinions") wrote:
Your for-profit health-care system at work, as drawn by @anntelnaes https://wapo.st/3HXOsGO
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@MoritzGerstung ("Moritz Gerstung") replied to a tweet by @MoritzGerstung:
The international pandemic response may therefore have to look not only at providing equitable access to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and financial support for public health systems — but also into HIV and SARS-CoV-2 antiviral therapies.
Nobody is safe until everyone is safe.
@bahamat ("Brian Bennett") retweeted:
@MoritzGerstung ("Moritz Gerstung") replied to a tweet by @MoritzGerstung:
The regional emergence of several SARS-CoV-2 variants with long branches and concerning mutations in Southern Africa suggests that its HIV epidemic is a driving factor.
This is a factor that the global pandemic response may have to acknowledge.
@bahamat ("Brian Bennett") retweeted:
@MoritzGerstung ("Moritz Gerstung") replied to a tweet by @MoritzGerstung:
Variants with long branches have repeatedly emerged in Southern Africa. They include B.1.351 (Beta), C.1.2, B.1.1.528 and now B.1.1.529.
The regional clustering and characteristics of variants suggests that there is a large reservoir of chronic infection.
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
I went looking for this thread because somebody asked what a pod was. Then I got to the end and read this. Fuck.
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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
Take care of yourselves. This won't be over soon.
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@scattermoon ("Elaine Scattermoon") wrote:
Sometimes trending topics combine in such a way to make your brain do a forced restart.
The Wordle clones have disappeared from the App Store
Earlier today, the App Store was overflowing with games ripping off a viral web app. | Illustration by William Joel / The Verge
Has Apple taken action against apps that cloned the popular web game Wordle? They have now disappeared from the App Store, after severalpublications (including The Verge) called out a flood of copycats so blatant as to be named “Wordle” and that featured the same gameplay and UI, each taking advantage of the fact that developer Josh Wardle didn’t create an Apple app of his own. While we’re still seeing a few clones on the App Store, they don’t use the Wordle name.
The clone apps had a spotlight shone on them today, when one developer started bragging about how many downloads his version of Wordle was getting. Following some intense backlash from the community, he set his account to private, but people had already started finding many...
Twitter Reacts To Call Of Duty's Weird Attack On Titan Crossover
PlayStation announced Call of Duty’s collaboration with the ever-popular anime series Attack on Titan and anime fans and gamers alike are roasting the hell out of them on Twitter.
@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") wrote:
The Phantasmic Makeup & Creature FX of Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Expecting much more digital work, new and old cast members were amazed at the amount of practical work implemented. Consequently, they were able to immerse themselves in the sets, makeups and https://jwz.org/b/yjvH
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@__smallpanda ("smallpanda 🌸 // Etsy Store") wrote:
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@AnnTelnaes ("Ann Telnaes") wrote:
Opinion | Your for-profit health-care system at work
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@markos ("Markos Moulitsas") wrote:
Let’s do this here. Why are we subsidizing the idiocy of the unvaxxed? https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/quebec-working-on-new-significant-health-tax-for-the-unvaccinated/wcm/3b7d9ee4-6c8e-4901-ab9d-32364e193cc7
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@veenadubal ("Veena Dubal") wrote:
This is how far the anti-union lobby has gone: "The pressure reached a boiling point...when a company that was one of the nation’s top violators of labor law, according to Bronfenbrenner’s research, sued her for libel."
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/26/2069938/-Inside-the-secretive-world-of-union-busting-Labor-focused-academics-targeted-for-their-research
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@NikkiFried ("Nikki Fried") wrote:
DeSantis didn’t crack 50% in 2018.
We did. And we’ll do it again.
currently listening to $100 speakers in a room with $1000 of treatment and honestly sounds better than $5000 speakers in a room with $0 of treatment lol
Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile say they’re not blocking Apple’s iCloud Private Relay
T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T — the three biggest US cellular carriers — have all confirmed to The Verge that they aren’t blocking Apple’s new iCloud Private Relay feature, following reports that some customers were having issueswith the VPN-like feature.
AT&T and Verizon straight-up say they’re not blocking the feature from functioning. Verizon spokesperson George L. Koroneos confirms that Private Relay works on both cellular and Fios internet connections, and AT&T spokesperson Seth Bloom says the carrier’s policy is not to block Private Relay.
T-Mobile’s situation is a little more complex: most customers shouldn’t have any issues with iCloud Private Relay. But those who use content filtering services (like the carrier’s Family...
@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") wrote:
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@puffyvolvo ("suspended for unicode crimes") wrote:
The App Store clones are here to profit off Wordle’s success
Copies of the popular web app have made it past App Review.
Wordle, the word-guessing puzzle game that’s taken over our Twitter timelines, doesn’t currently have an official app. That may come as a surprise to anyone who’s searched for it on the App Store, though — doing so will show you several blatant unofficial copies, which use the same name and mechanics as the original, which was made by Josh Wardle.
Most people who’ve been online recently will have had at least some exposure to Wordle if they haven’t been playing it themselves (The Guardian reports it has 2 million daily players). It’s a simple concept but done well: each day, you go to the Wordle website, where you’re given five chances to guess a five-letter word. The game gives you feedback about what letters you’ve put in the right...