@HillaryClinton ("Hillary Clinton") wrote:
So many favorite thinkers among this group of instructors. Do take some time to learn from them on @Masterclass this month.
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Uncover the history of America you didn’t learn in school with Black History, Black Freedom, and Black Love. During Black History Month, this unprecedented three-part class is available for free on http://MasterClass.com, @IMDbTV and on @PrimeVideo for all U.S. Prime members.
@maddow ("Rachel Maddow MSNBC") wrote:
"I’ve been disheartened to see so little accountability for what I experienced and other abuses of power that took place during that time. I worry about what that means for future whistleblowers, regardless of issue, who also want to do the right thing."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2022/02/02/alexander-vindman-lawsuit-trump-administration-january-6/9305023002/
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@gtconway3d ("George Conway") wrote:
Florida news update: local cheapskate makes generous donation to local potential witness
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@kpolantz ("Katelyn Polantz") wrote:
Trump's PAC gave $1 million to Mark Meadows' non-profit weeks after House formed January 6 committee
Via @ericbradner: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/politics/trump-pac-mark-meadows-january-6-investigation/index.html
@LoveSujunggong ("6.0 봄") wrote:
낙서 오랜만에 했는데 완성할지는 모룸.. 바빠
#28DaysOfBlackCosplay Dolores Madrigal ❤️
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@zilmer ("Priidu Zilmer") wrote:
Oh man, the cinemagraphs were the shit. Also… see attached.
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@olivereitalu ("Oliver Reitalu") replied to a tweet by @olivereitalu:
In 2012 @zilmer came up with the greatest teaser landingpage of all time. Going through my old files, the Calibre typeface doesn’t link to the html anymore, but this was glorious.
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CNN president Jeff Zucker abruptly resigns
Photo by Jason Koerner/Getty Images
CNN president Jeff Zucker, a leading proponent of forthcoming streaming service CNN Plus, has resigned from the company following the discovery of a consensual relationship with another high-ranking executive.
The relationship, which was not disclosed internally when it began, was discovered as part of an investigation into conduct by former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo. Cuomo was fired from the network in December following a probe into his own involvement in the handling of sexual harassment allegations against his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Zucker reportedly had a consensual relationship with EVP and chief marketing officer Allison Gollust, who will remain in her position at the company, the New York Times reported....
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@ElsieKFisher ("🗯") wrote:
HAPPY TWOS DAY EVERYBODY
@maddow ("Rachel Maddow MSNBC") wrote:
Finally.
Republican senators holding up *this* nomination of all nominations -- it's just inexplicable.
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@deborahlipstadt ("Deborah E. Lipstadt") wrote:
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee just confirmed that I will have a hearing regarding my nomination as Special Envoy next Tuesday 2/8. I am grateful and pleased.
Zagg Protect is the case maker’s version of phone insurance
You can get older phones covered too.
Zagg, a company known for its cases and screen protectors, is now offering its own phone protection plan to compete with the likes of AppleCare, SquareTrade, and Asurion. The company is pitching its Zagg Protect service as a lower-cost and more flexible alternative to other plans — it’s $100 a year, the deductible for incidents is only $49, and you don’t have to decide if you want it while you’re buying a new phone. Zagg says any phone running iOS 11 or newer or that runs Android and has access to Chrome browser version 68 or newer is eligible, as long as it’s in working condition when you sign up.
The plan seems focused on repairing, instead of replacing your device — according to Zagg’s website, the plan will pay up to $500 per...
@bascule ("Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹") replied to a tweet by @bascule:
Robert Malone in particular argues that the vaccinated are all delusional and suffering from mind control due to mass hypnosis, and that any day now Fauci is going to tell us that vaccines are making things worse, despite overwhelming medical evidence to the contrary.
@AOC ("Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez") replied to a tweet by @AOC:
Cancel vacation. Vote on weekends. Vote for hours. Vote last minute. Call votes when Senators are courting billionaires at fundraisers. They may get apoplectic, but it’s nothing compared to the people they’re forcing to sleep without heat in winter, or losing the right to vote.
@bascule ("Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹") replied to a tweet by @bascule:
The most disingenuous defense of Joe Rogan is that his fans aren't tuning into the show for medical advice.
They are. They believe they're listening to medical experts being silenced due to non-mainstream opinions.
But they're just quacks peddling pseudoscience.
@Oatmeal ("The Oatmeal") replied to a tweet by @Oatmeal:
ICYMI https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elanlee/hand-to-hand-wombat?ref=aem10v
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@vv1lder ("emily wilder") replied to a tweet by @vv1lder:
to anyone this was actually a helpful tip for, i’m so sorry lol
@Oatmeal ("The Oatmeal") wrote:
One of the reasons @gameofkittens is so good at Kickstarter is because we back a buttload of other campaigns. If you want to know an audience, start by being a part of that audience.
P.S. THANK YOU to everyone who backed our new game. We're off to an amazing start.
@bascule ("Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹") replied to a tweet by @bascule:
Far from inventing mRNA vaccines, Robert Malone together with others did a handful of experiments injecting DNA and RNA into the cells of mice in the '80s.
He's since gone on to be one of the most prominent peddlers of vaccine misinformation.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/robert-malone-vaccine-inventor-vaccine-skeptic/619734/
@RobDenBleyker ("Rob DenBleyker") wrote:
another climate change whistleblower "accidentally" dies, sure ok
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@nypost ("New York Post") wrote:
NJ's weather-predictor Milltown Mel dies just before Groundhog Day https://trib.al/9R4iNog
@bascule ("Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹") wrote:
When I started speaking out against Joe Rogan, fans came back at me saying that the alleged vaccine misinformation was just a contrarian take from the medical consensus coming from a medical expert who invented mRNA vaccines.
Of course that's all lies
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/01/24/robert-malone-vaccine-misinformation-rogan-mandates/
Halo Infinite Spartans Fly Around Like Titanfall Players With This Grappling Hook Technique
Since Halo Infinite’s launch, players have used the grappling hook in both the campaign and multiplayer to pull off all kinds of feats. From using the tool in a no-damage run to clipping out of the story mode’s first level, the grappleshot has been one of the standout additions to 343 Industries’ latest first-person…
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@EyePatchWolf ("Eyepatch Wolf") wrote:
uh, @TeamYouTube your looking at a large swath of your creators disappearing soon
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@SuedeBlade ("SUEDE") wrote:
Every single Youtuber that uses anime clips in any capacity could be gone tomorrow. I'm not joking.
#Shoprogambit
#Geoblocking4All
https://youtu.be/v6uH71BdMBA
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
So maybe I should ask you all. What is the thing I could do that might be helpful in terms of shining a light on crypto/NFTs?
@AOC ("Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez") wrote:
Actually he should continue to make their lives as difficult as possible and treat them the way they treat, say, public housing residents. Or parents who rely on CTC. When they improve, maybe process can improve too.
Why should we make the lives of obstructionists easier?
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@Zachary_Cohen ("Zach C. Cohen") wrote:
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema confronted Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on the Senate floor last night about the chamber’s slow voting process, per @StevenTDennis.
“Could we have some discipline in the votes, ever? You’re in charge!” https://www.bgov.com/core/news_articles/R6OF82DWLU6C
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
That said, I've been thinking a lot about where my energy goes on here. Engaging directly with crypto advocates is a waste of time. They have no intention of having the conversation that needs to be had. And trying to make them do it is making me into a mean person.
@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") wrote:
Funny how the rhetoric is never "protect our city" when cops kill innocent civilians (i.e. people who didn't sign up to put their lives on the line)
@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") wrote:
The date is now Wednesday, March 704th, 2020. . https://jwz.org/b/yjwP
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@mlafeldt ("Mathias Lafeldt") wrote:
Lost and Founder is one of the finest books on startups ever written. The storytelling is just amazing. I found myself nodding and highlighting all the time. Highly recommended! 👌
@AOC ("Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez") wrote:
Yeah it’s bad 😬
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@slpng_giants ("Sleeping Giants") wrote:
Got retweeted by @aoc today and you honestly cannot believe the sheer volume of hate, misogyny, vitriol, memes and utter garbage that has piled into our mentions. It’s seriously overwhelming.
Regardless of who you are, this should not happen. @twittersafety is not nailing it.
Mr. Mime's Animations Have Stolen Pokémon Legends Arceus Players' Hearts
Most wild Pokémon are incredibly standoffish in Pokémon Legends: Arceus. When trying to catch them, I’m used to having to sneak up to them in the tall grass, or pelt them with food until they look somewhere else. They’ll often run away or attack trainers if provoked. Mr. Mime, on the other hand, wants to give you a…
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
They actively try to shut down and discredit any scrutiny and critique. It's actually that choice that makes me judge them so harshly. When you choose to lend your reputation and credibility to something you *know* is harmful, that's when you become the problem.
Gulp.
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@marcelsalathe ("Marcel Salathé") wrote:
Millions of programmers are breaking out in a sweat reading this headline...
(I wouldn't worry. You + AI > AI) https://twitter.com/DeepMind/status/1488907829276725252
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
I wanna be clear about what my issue is here. If crypto people want to live in a scammy ecosystem and ignore their complicity, that's a choice they can make. But that's not all they do. They actively come out to try to get others to shut up about the harm they know is happening.
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
When you care about scams, you do something about the scams. You don't point out how scams are everywhere so it must be fine. That's what you say when you definitely *don't* care about the scams. I don't know why this is so hard to grasp.
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
This is where we come to understand that crypto people are not actually interested in whether their defense makes sense. We had legislation preventing lots of scam phone calls. The reason they resurged is because those policies were rescinded or weakened.
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@tvachon ("travis 🌿") replied to a tweet by @tvachon:
@polotek I get scam phone calls all day long. I'm told many older folks are defrauded regularly by them. Should we shut down telephones? Phone service is a complete disaster, no?
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@EricIdle ("Eric Idle") wrote:
Yes.
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@Pod_Dylan ("Pod Dylan") wrote:
I rewatched THE RUTLES last night. Is this the same guy who wrote the liner notes to TRAVELING WILBURYS VOL. 3? @EricIdle
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emacsomancer@types.pl ("'(B . Slade)") wrote:
Does anyone have experience using BigBlueButton for hosting the virtual component of a conference?
Recommendation for BigBlueButton hosting providers?
#BigBlueButton #Conferences #Academia
Boosts welcome.
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
There is no news source that crypto people feel is reputable enough to report negatively on them.
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@tvachon ("travis 🌿") replied to a tweet by @tvachon:
@polotek Also VICE of all news sources. FFS.
@DOStatus ("DigitalOcean Status") wrote:
Investigating: Our Engineering team is currently investigating an issue impacting web sties which are deployed on App Platform. During this time, some users may notice their App Platform-hosted sites redirecting to an unfamiliar addre… https://stspg.io/dxfycc9p73kf?u=jv2qk2dhlpb0
Firefox’s anti-tracking feature adds per-account VPN for more privacy
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Mozilla is combining its Multi-Account Containers add-on with its VPN service, which lets you keep your online personas — such as your work and personal browsing histories — separate.
Multi-Account Containers has been available as a Firefox add-on since 2017. It works to “contain” your different online lives into separate tabs that you can label with colors, icons, or names. The containers just don’t hold your browsing histories — they also store cookies and tracking information, which means you can sign into different accounts on the same site just by clicking over to another container.
But using the add-on with Mozilla VPN comes with a distinct advantage (well, at least in my option): the ability to hide your location across...
@mr_modular ("Allen Nemo") retweeted:
@editingemily ("emily freeman") wrote:
The New Jersey version of Punxsutawney Phil died.
THE GROUNDHOG DIED.
If that’s not an omen, I don’t know what is.
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") retweeted:
@TomChivers ("Tom Chivers") wrote:
Just learnt that there’s a colony of scorpions in London’s docklands that came there on an Italian ship 200 years ago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euscorpius_flavicaudis
@AnnTelnaes ("Ann Telnaes") wrote:
Opinion | Senator Cruz’s dog whistle
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/02/senator-cruzs-dog-whistle/?tid=ss_tw
Very cool
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Todays announcement is a partnership: @FerrousSystems @AdaCoreCompany are combining their experience in memory-safe systems programming to bring @rustlang into safety critical project through the Ferrocene project. Read our announcement here: https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/ferrous-systems-adacore-joining-forces/
@AOC ("Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez") wrote:
.@CongressmanRaja, @JoeNeguse and I have worked to ban members of Congress from trading individual stock for YEARS.
Lots of stories about the attempts to sink it - but now, thanks to increased public pressure + attention, we may have a shot.
Keep up the pressure 💪🏽 it’s working
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@YahooFinance ("Yahoo Finance") wrote:
“It’s not really a mystery to me why it’s difficult to pass,” @AOC says about the push to ban stock trading in Congress. “I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a majority of members of Congress hold and trade individual stock.”
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EA's Boss Went From Calling NFTs The 'Future' To Running Away From Them
Just three months ago, Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson called NFTs an important part of “the future of our industry.” Now he’s doing everything he can to downplay their significance. The move by the publisher of FIFA and Madden comes as the NFT backlash hits new heights, including at EA where Kotaku has learned that…
@BrichibiTweets ("Bri Prepping For The 2020 Trilogy Finale 🎉🎉🎉") wrote:
I know I mentioned the annoying “it doesn’t happen anymore” takes but like can I take a moment to thank you all for the love this piece is actually getting? Cuz this many likes in less than 24 hours means a lot 🥺🥺🥺
Honestly it’s such a scam
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@bybystarlight ("⭐️Kai⭐️ this little piggy makes comics⭐️") replied to a tweet by @bybystarlight:
You’re told to work yourself to the bone to have a retirement, but then when you retire you get sick because you spent your life working yourself to the bone, and then your retirement is threatened because you got sick.
why tho??? 🙃
cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
I see northern hemisphere folk making plans for the spring and summer, and I think that's great. And I know I should do the same, but in the back of my mind I am haunted by memories of the heat dome and wildfires.
@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") wrote:
Neoliberal John Snow. The father of epidemiology, but neoliberal. Addressing preventable disease through deregulation and individualism. Broad street businesses were complaining so I reinstalled the pump handle. There is no parliamentary solution to... https://jwz.org/b/yjwL
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AmyZenunim@cybre.space ("★ Amy Star ★") wrote:
cancer cells in the human body be like "the problem with the other cells is that they lack ambition, they should develop a growth mindset and invest in other parts of the body"
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") replied to a tweet by @meakoopa:
(as a big loser myself, this brings me very great comfort)
@KamalaHarris ("Kamala Harris") wrote:
We will work together to ensure that all Americans who are eligible to vote have access to the ballot.
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@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:
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@supraliminality ("k") replied to a tweet by @meakoopa:
@meakoopa wait, THE THING was poorly received? i never knew that... kind of crazy given that nowadays everyone (myself included) seems to consider it an all-time great sci-fi horror.
Apple’s Face ID with a Mask works so well, it might end password purgatory
Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, Apple has made Face ID useful again in iOS 15.4 by finally adding the ability to use the face unlock feature while wearing a face mask.
I’ve been testing out the new iOS 15.4 beta for a few days, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how well Face ID works with a mask — in addition to simply enjoying being able to use my iPhone the way it was originally intended to work, instead of mashing in a six-digit passcode a dozen times whenever I leave the house.
The Face ID vs. Touch ID / fingerprint sensor debate had been a conversation long before COVID-19 and the new norm of almost constantly wearing a face mask when out in public settings or traveling on buses, trains, or planes. But while masks...
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") replied to a tweet by @meakoopa:
(we rewatched it in anticipation of playing THE THING board game tonight and I am VERY EXCITED)
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:
this week was reading Carpenter’s mournful remarks about how poorly received THE THING was, a film he was very justly proud of but whose poor reception badly damaged his career and changed the shape of what kind of movies and budgets he got from then on. He deserves every flower.
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@ATRightMovies ("All The Right Movies") wrote:
Martin Scorsese praising John Carpenter is a wonderful read.
Biden relaunches cancer-fighting ‘moonshot’
Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images
Continuing work started when he was vice president, President Joe Biden announced today the White House is relaunching a cancer “moonshot” — aiming to “end cancer as we know it today.”
The ambitious effort has two main goals: to reduce the cancer death rate by 50 percent over the next 25 years and to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families. Biden’s son, Beau, died in 2015 at age 46 from brain cancer.
The White House announcement points to a few strategies to meet those goals, like diagnosing cancer sooner. President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will encourage people to get regular cancer screenings, the White House will push for more access to home screenings, and federal agencies will work to develop tests that...
Recently @caarlos0 and I were talking about #golang's Cobra package and both realized how awesome it is, but also how unmanageable its dependency chain has become.
One thing led to another and we decided to do something about this, so here it is...
Coral, a friendly Cobra fork with nearly all its features, but only 4 dependencies 🐍
Read more about it here:
https://github.com/muesli/coral
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") retweeted:
@PartyHkt ("morganism") wrote:
My favorite thing about learning what the Bible says is that Jesus has a bunch of brothers who are like “dude u r being a lil manic, maybe uhm let’s go home for a while” and some are like “hey if u think ur gods son so much go tell everyone” and this is the two types of sibling
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
There are a lot of numbers here showing how much of the activity around NFTs is fraudulent. Spoiler... it's a lot.
Crypto people keep telling me the scammery is only a "small fraction" of the community. https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgdvnd/the-nft-ecosystem-is-a-complete-disaster
Tesla owners report dozens of instances of ‘phantom braking’
Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge
Tesla vehicles are inexplicably slamming on their brakes for no reason, frightening owners and eliciting over 100 complaints to the federal government in the last three months alone, according to The Washington Post.
It’s been a persistent issue for the automaker. Last October, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that the company was forced to “roll back” version 10.3 of its Full Self-Driving beta software because of issues with forward collision warnings and phantom braking.
But since then, the number of complaints about Tesla’s braking has spiked. According to The Washington Post’s analysis, reports from Tesla owners about phantom braking to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) rose to 107 complaints in the past...
@bascule ("Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹") wrote:
New Röyksopp (featuring Goldfrapp)!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljnxZypkjn0
@bradfitz ("Brad Fitzpatrick") replied to a tweet by @bradfitz:
I've never seen "ip route" show 124,096 lines of output before. 😂
Whee.... 200 microsecond ping to 8.8.8.8.
Vizio’s 65-inch P-Series 4K TV with HDMI 2.1 is $300 off
Image: Vizio
Hump Day is better when it’s paired with excellent deals, and excellent deals are all the better when one of them is a great TV for a new low price.
There’s a great deal on Vizio’s P-Series of 2021 TVs that fits nicely with anyone seeking a match for the latest consoles. The P-Series Quantum supports many of the sought-after specs that a PS5 or Xbox Series X owner should look for, including HDMI 2.1, HDR, and a variable refresh rate with 120Hz at 1080p and 60Hz at 4K. When it comes to streaming TV shows and movies, there’s built-in Chromecast and Apple AirPlay 2 compatibility. These TVs come in 65 inches, 75 inches, and a massive 85 inches. Right now, you can get the 65-inch P65Q9-J model for just $899 on Amazon, knocking $300 off. The 7...
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@HeavenlyGrandpa ("cass city ✨ Los Angeles 2/26") wrote:
a little drawing for today
How one company took over the NFT trade
Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images
The NFT gold rush made OpenSea into a $13 billion company — but can it stay on top?
@bascule ("Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹") replied to a tweet by @bascule:
Rockin' in the Free World is a dark, dark song about the ills of American society in the same vein as Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A, which these idiots seem to be confusing with something like Lee Greenwood's God Bless The U.S.A.
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@Ryan_Ken_Acts ("Ryan Ken (they/them)") wrote:
My grandfather said when he was younger a white person could just shout any name at a Black person & you were expected to respond & help them with whatever they needed. To this day, my family sees nicknames or shortened names given without permission as profound disrespect.
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@joeybear85 ("Joseph Hernandez (he/him)") wrote:
People that assume nicknames for people you've never met, why do you do that?
@teller ("Siim Teller") retweeted:
@mlafeldt ("Mathias Lafeldt") wrote:
Lost and Founder is one of the finest books on startups ever written. The storytelling is just amazing. I found myself nodding and highlighting all the time. Highly recommended! 👌
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@NikkiFried ("Nikki Fried") wrote:
"Speaking of the worst people in public office..."
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@RachelAppel ("Rachel Appel") replied to a tweet by @RachelAppel:
BTW our 2022.1 EAP is out! Woot! 🎉 https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/nextversion/
@RachelAppel ("Rachel Appel") wrote:
You know what's great about Rider (and any JetBrains IDE)? I never have to worry about having multiple versions installed side by side. Including Early Access Program [EAP] versions and nightly builds. No VMs and no containers needed. It just works. 🔥
@bascule ("Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹") replied to a tweet by @bascule:
Here's another idiot who's never listened to the lyrics of Rockin' in the Free World trying to make the same own goal of a point, but who also claims "I say that as a huge Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young fan"
https://www.foxnews.com/media/joe-rogan-hits-the-right-note-after-neil-young-attack-spotify-plays-defense
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@EricBoehlert ("Eric Boehlert") wrote:
it’s astonishingly bad
it’s entire story abt US “faltering efforts to vaccinate” not *one word* abt GOP being pro-pandemic and Fox telling viewers vaccine could kill them
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@EricKleefeld ("Eric Kleefeld") wrote:
This NYT article seems to be doing its level best to *not* explain why the U.S. has “has failed to vaccinate as many people” and has a higher death rate.
Closest it gets is talking about “distrust,” but not the right-wing politics and media sowing it all. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/02/01/science/covid-deaths-united-states.html
@bascule ("Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹") replied to a tweet by @bascule:
Here's another idiot who's never listened to the lyrics of Rockin' in the Free World trying to make the same own goal of a point, but who also claims "I say that as a huge Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young fan"
https://www.foxnews.com/media/joe-rogan-hits-the-right-note-after-neil-young-attack-spotify-plays-defense
@HillaryClinton ("Hillary Clinton") wrote:
Growing up in Baltimore’s inner city, @Andre_DeShields told me, "We were not encouraged to think that we could have a slice of the vaunted American pie."
In this week’s episode of You & Me Both, he tells the story of how he made it to Broadway and beyond. https://link.chtbl.com/YAMB0302
@fakedansavage ("Dan Savage") replied to a tweet by @fakedansavage:
I want "The Rampaging Pigs of the San Francisco Bay Area" on a t-shirt.
@fakedansavage ("Dan Savage") wrote:
This story isn't about what I thought it was about.
http://nytimes.com/2022/02/01/us/pigs-san-francisco-california.html
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@tressiemcphd ("Tressie McMillan Cottom") replied to a tweet by @tressiemcphd:
At the risk of being all “I’m old,” Joe Rogan is just Morton Downey Jr on new drugs. The issue is platform and the everyday politics of people who absolutely want to be lied to about a world they are afraid of.
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") retweeted:
@tressiemcphd ("Tressie McMillan Cottom") wrote:
This line right here: “There are limits to what we can do to prevent people from lying to people who want to be lied to.”
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@joshtpm ("Josh Marshall") wrote:
Enough About Joe Rogan https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/enough-about-joe-rogan/sharetoken/6ZXgt6LWHoWg via @TPM
@BarackObama ("Barack Obama") wrote:
For anyone who cares about voting rights, @EricHolder’s new book is essential reading. It tells the story of our long, sometimes frustrating, but ultimately hopeful journey towards a more perfect union—and offers great advice for the road ahead.
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@EricHolder ("Eric Holder") wrote:
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Exciting announcement: For the past year, I’ve been working with @SammyKoppelman on a book about the most important issue facing our country: The attack on our right to vote.
It’s out May 10th—and today, you can preorder it: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705040/our-unfinished-march-by-eric-holder-with-sam-koppelman/
DeepMind says its new AI coding engine is as good as an average human programmer
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DeepMind has created an AI system named AlphaCode that it says “writes computer programs at a competitive level.” The Alphabet subsidiary tested its system against coding challenges used in human competitions and found that its program achieved an “estimated rank” placing it within the top 54 percent of human coders. The result is a significant step forward for autonomous coding, says DeepMind, though AlphaCode’s skills are not necessarily representative of the sort of programming tasks faced by the average coder.
Oriol Vinyals, principal research scientist at DeepMind, told The Verge over email that the research was still in the early stages but that the results brought the company closer to creating a flexible problem-solving AI — a...
@bylgja_babylons ("Bylgjan🐝") wrote:
A short story of me getting my picture taken with my pal Mabel
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@RottenInDenmark ("Michael Hobbes") wrote:
Simply one of the funniest fucking things I have ever seen
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Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended by The View following her controversial comments about the Holocaust when she said 'it was not about race'
@Baddiel tells @susannareid100 and @adilray that Goldberg's comments reveal 'a lot about the confusions people have around anti-semitism'
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The best deals on Nintendo Switch games right now
The most colorful shooter in recent memory,Splatoon 2, is one of the many Nintendo Switch titles currently on sale. | Image: Nintendo
The overwhelming popularity of the Nintendo Switch means there’s no shortage of games in its library. If there’s a game that's capable of working with the Switch hardware, odds are it's already available or will be soon. Thankfully, having a massive library of games also means there are regular price breaks on a variety of titles, from first-gen offerings like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey, to remasters like Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1+2.
If you’re looking for deals on Nintendo Switch games, we’ve rounded some of our favorites below. The Nintendo eShop is typically the best place to find deals on digital downloads, especially if you prefer the indie variety, but there are some exceptions where retailers will...
Star Wars has a Luke Skywalker problem
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The Book of Boba Fett — much like all of Disney’s current and future Star Wars shows — has a Luke Skywalker problem. And it’s one that no amount of expensive CGI technology can solve.
Spoilers for The Book of Boba Fett, episode six ahead
The issue goes something like this: Luke is, obviously, a hugely important character to Star Wars as a franchise. Star Wars’ current plan for its future is heavily focused on Disney Plus TV shows set in the post-Return of the Jedi era, like The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, set five years after Return of the Jedi, where Luke is roughly 28 years old.
Mark Hamill — who is still portraying Skywalker — is 70, meaning that a vast array of de-aging technology and body doubles are needed to allow the...
@KamalaHarris ("Kamala Harris") wrote:
Over these last two years, many of our nation’s governors have been presented with the greatest challenges, but did not relent.
They are leaders who do not throw up their hands, but they roll up their sleeves for their state.
Dying Light 2: The Kotaku Review
The idea of being excited about yet another zombie video game in this, the year of our lord two-thousand and twenty-two, might seem ridiculous to some. Even I, a die-hard fan of the undead, understand how tired people are of zombies. They really are everywhere, from Back 4 Blood to Project Zomboid. But_Dying Light 2_…
NFT money laundering is a small but growing sector, says Chainalysis report
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Money laundering through the buying and selling of NFTs is a small but growing sector of criminal activity, according to a Chainalysis report released Wednesday.
The report found a small but growing portion of activity on NFT marketplaces that could be attributed to money laundering, which quantified this amount by tracking value sent to NFT marketplaces from cryptocurrency addresses known to be associated with scams, theft, malware operators, and accounts under legal sanctions. In total the amount tracked was small — around $1.4 million in Q4 2021 — but had grown significantly from the beginning of the year.
“All of this activity represents a drop in the bucket compared to the $8.6 billion worth of cryptocurrency-based money...
@ewarren ("Elizabeth Warren") wrote:
If a young person comes from a family that can’t write a big check, they often get pushed deep into debt for continuing their education after high school. The system widens the divide between them & those who come from money. That’s no way to build a future. #CancelStudentDebt
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InternetEh@dads.cool ("Sid🎨") wrote:
birthing is hard
And dying is mean
So get yourself
a little loving
In betweenHappy birthday to Langston Hughes